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Covers?

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squigger said on October 22, 2003 06:32:

I’ve compiled a list of Roxette songs that I don’t have (due to their not being from main albums), and am curous about these two:

Hangin’ On The Telephone (live) - Cash! Boom! Bank! bootleg
Help (acoustic) - Unleashed bootleg

Are they covers by any chance? Any number of songs could be called Help, but Hangin’ On The Telephone is a rather distinctive title...

Thanks.

ally77 said on October 22, 2003 07:34:

Hangin On The Telphone was a Blondie cover.... and Help was a Beatles cover!

Vixzter said on October 22, 2003 16:12:

Hangin’ On The Telephone was sung on the CBB tour for the first few dates and then was replaced with ’Run To You’ which was the next single.

Help was recorded at Abbey Rd Studios acoustic session in ’95.

squigger said on October 23, 2003 03:10:

Thanks - two less tracks to hunt down...

Vixzter said on October 23, 2003 05:35:

I have them if you need them.

squigger said on October 24, 2003 03:51:

No thanks, I’m a purist - if it isn’t written by Per or Marie, then I don’t want to know about it (and if it was written by Per and performed by someone else, as in the cases of “Always Breaking My Heart” and “Love Doesn’t Live Here”, both performed by Belinda Carlisle, then I do). Plus I have a low opinion of covers in general...

Actually, thinking about that has jogged something - Per claimed in the booklet of DBUGTTC that “You Don’t Understand Me” was the first song written with somebody outside the band. So who was Hasse Huss (who co-wrote “So Far Away”)?

japeke said on October 24, 2003 22:14:

No, he calls it someone from ’the outside’, which means, that it isn’t a friend or someone he knows personally more or less. And that’s the case with desmond, he didn’t know him personally in any form. With the guy you name: Gessle knew this guy already when he wrote the track with him......

MiracleMan said on October 25, 2003 01:00:

Frida’s Threnody from Something Going On is a Per melody with lyrics by poet/humorist Dorothy Parker. . .

Speaking of covers, what about an album of covers? They were all the rage about ten years ago, but I’ve liked the few that I’ve heard Roxette do. Oh, Marie’s a rather good one, I’ve Never Loved A Man, etc.