70 "So what are all the songs by other artists which R.E.M. has recorded?"
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This article is from the R.E.M. FAQ, by Ron Henry (rgh3@cornell.edu) with numerous contributions by others.
70 "So what are all the songs by other artists which R.E.M. has recorded?"
On official releases, the following songs have been covered:
Song Original Artist
(All I Have To Do Is) Dream Everly Brothers
Academy Fight Song Mission of Burma
The After Hours Velvet Underground
Arms of Love Robin Hitchcock
Baby, Baby The Vibrators
Christmas Time is Here The Vince Guaraldi Trio
Crazy Pylon
Dark Globe Syd Barrett
Deck the Halls (traditional)
Femme Fatale Velvet Underground
First We Take Manhattan Leonard Cohen
Funtime Iggy Pop/ David Bowie
(Ghost) Reindeer in the Sky,
(orig. "Ghost Riders...") The Outlaws
Ghostrider Suicide
Good King Wenceslas (traditional)
I Walked With a Zombie Roky Erikson
I Will Survive (perf. By Gloria Naylor)
King of the Road Roger Miller
Last Date Floyd Cramer
Love is All Around The Troggs
Moon River (by Henry Mancini) Jerry Butler
Only in America Leiber/Stoller/Mann/Weil,
perf. by Jay and the Americans
Pale Blue Eyes Velvet Underground
Parade of the Wooden Soldiers (Tchaikovsky, orig. "March of...")
See No Evil Television
Sex Bomb Flipper
Silver Bells (writer Jay Livingston/Ray Evans)
Skin Tight Ohio Players
Sponge Vic Chesnutt
Strange Wire
Summertime (writer Gershwin)
Superman The Clique
The Lion Sleeps Tonight (trad.; made popular by The Weavers)
There She Goes Again Velvet Underground
Tighten Up Archie Bell and the Drells
Tom's Diner Susanne Vega
Toyland (writer Glen MacDonough & Victor
Herbert)
Toys in the Attic Aerosmith
Wall of Death Richard Thompson
Where's Captain Kirk? Athletico Spizz
Wichita Lineman Jimmy Webb (perf. By Glen Campbell)
Of course, those with recordings of R.E.M.'s live shows know that the band
has performed covers of even more songs than this, a range that includes
tunes as diverse as Fleetwood Mac's "Tusk" and the Mamas and the Papas'
"California Dreaming"; browsing the Bootleg Discography will give you an
idea of some of these.
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