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If you've been reading this blog for a while, you may remember my
fondness for cover songs. And if by some chance you share that
fondness, you too may be a regular listener to the biweekly
Coverville
podcast.
Which sometimes comes up with real surprises, as it did in a year end
top 40 countdown that included a wonderful rendition of
Mahna
Mahna, made famous by
Jim
Henson and his Muppets but rendered here by the remarkable
Cake.
Interestingly, may I even say startlingly, Coverville host Brian
Ibbott explained that Mahna Mahna wasn't a Muppet original;
it actually got its start on the sountrack to an Italian porn film in
the 60s! There's something deeply subversive about porn themes being
fed to children. Or not. But taken on its face, Cake's
version is sublime. As is
Sarah
McLachlan's take on
The
Rainbow Connection, a song that really did start out life
with the Muppets and not some Eurotrash skin flick. Unless there's
something else they aren't telling me...
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