Signing off with the answer to the question "Como se dice 'Time Won't Let Me'?"
Answer: Con El Tiempo y un Ganchito, or the Outsiders as sung by Los Apson.
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Song # 732:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=pp4e...

So how bad was Tammy Faye Bakker's singing? Check out her decimation of Bill Withers' "Lean On Me" and decide for yourself.
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Song # 731:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=7nY1...

A numeric correction is needed for the #1001CoverSongs challenge -- it just occurred to me that in the tumult of last week, I never posted Song # 717 on Wednesday the 30th. Without further ado, here's the Serfmen staggering along on Ronnie Love's "Chills and Fever."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tyiu...

I acknowledge that it's 101 degrees right now and that sunset is a ways away, but I have "Blues in the Night" stuck in my head, so that'll be our midday cover. Here's the Johnny Mercer & Harold Arlen standard performed by Little Milton.
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Song # 730:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=DGMc...

The biggest claim to fame made by Carlo Mastrangelo (October 5, 1937 - April 4, 2016) would be his tenure in Dion & the Belmonts, but we shouldn't overlook his version of the Merry Macs' '40s pop ditty "Mairzy Doats."
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Song # 729:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvsn...

BOTD, 1948: Delroy Wilson (d. 1995). Here's his rocksteady version of the Temptations' "Get Ready."
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Song # 728:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9up...

Signing off with the Nomads' version of "I'm Five Years Ahead of My Time" (originally performed by the Third Bardo).
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Song # 727:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=6X11...

Remembering guitarist Larry Collins on the 82nd anniversary of his birth (he died in 2024). His career began with his big sister Lorrie at age 10; an early solo effort included this version of the TV show theme "The Rebel - Johnny Yuma."
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Song # 726:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=AsMq...

BOTD, 1902: Freeman Davis (d. 1974). Better known as Brother Bones in every corner of the Globetrotter world for his version of Sweet Georgia Brown. Check out his rendition of the 1850's pop tune "Listen to the Mockingbird."
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Song # 725:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ1O...

Signing off with an Eddie Cochran tune in honor of his birthday: his version of Ray Charles' "Hallelujah I Love Her So."
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Song # 724:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=9CDK...

Sax player Monk Higgins was born October 3, 1930, in Menifee, Arkansas, and died age 56 in L.A. Here's his take on the War tune, "Me and Baby Brother."
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Song # 723:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=T_Ju...

Signing off with a cover version I played tonight on KXLU: Ken Parker's "Jimmy Brown" (a renaming of the Browns' "The Three Bells," which was itself a reworking of the French song "Les Trois Cloches").
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Song # 722:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=aIUr...

BOTD 1934: Lord Tanamo (known to his parents as Joseph Gordon), died 2016. One of biggest hits was a ska version of the McHugh-Fields hit song "I'm In the Mood for Love."
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Song # 721:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZesU...

Signing off with the Turbonegro gang singing the Agent Orange classic, "Bloodstains."
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Song # 720:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=4EV0...

Ernie Uszniewicz was born 78 years ago today. Actually, it's more complicated than that; just know that the Brownsville Station guy recorded a slew of hilariously botched cover song LPs for Norton Records. Cub Koda died July 1, 2000.
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Song # 719:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=sIsQ...

Signing off with Danny Dean & the Homewreckers' version of the Love Cats (yes, the Cure song).
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Song # 718:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ds6s...

Signing off with the Make Up's rendition of the traditional African American spiritual "Wade In The Water."
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Song # 716:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=zcHZ...

BOTD, 1939: Tommy Boyce (d. 1994). Best known (with Bobby Hart) for co-writing mammoth Monkees hits like "Steppin' Stone" (which was 1st released by Paul Revere & the Raiders, and also the W.C. Fields Memorial Electric String Band.
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Song # 715:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=qEoK...

An afternoon cover courtesy of Gnarls Barkley, doing the Violent Femmes' "Gone Daddy Gone."
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Song # 714:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZbe...

Apologies for being 1 day late to Randy Bachman's 83rd birthday, but let's applaud the Guess Who / BTO mainstay for writing the classic "These Eyes," heard here sung reggae style by Stranger Cole (and retitled "Crying Every Night").
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Song # 713:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8kt...