cover of EMR - Richard Hawley

[charlene]

http://www.nme.com/news/katy-perry/42257

Jan 23, 2009

Death Cab For Cutie news, reviews, video and tour dates

Death Cab For Cutie are covering The Cure's - Godlike Geniuses at the 2009 Shockwave NME Awards - 'Lovesong' and Katy Perry is remaking Sam Sparro's 'Black And Gold' for a forthcoming Valentine's Day-themed compilation.

Starbucks Entertainment is set to release 'Sweetheart: Our Favorite Artists Sing Their Favorite Love Songs' on January 30 in the US.

The second instalment of this series also includes Richard Hawley covering Gordon Lightfoot, New Pornographers' frontman AC Newman's take on A-Ha's 'Take On Me', and a remake of Screamin' Jay Hawkins' 'I Put A Spell On You' by She & Him, which features Death Cab For Cutie frontman's new fiancé Zooey Deschanel.

The album tracklisting is:

Death Cab for Cutie - 'Lovesong' (Cure cover)
Katy Perry - 'Black and Gold' (Sam Sparro cover)
DeVotchKa - 'Hot Burrito #1 (I'm Your Toy)' (Flying Burrito Brothers cover)
Department of Eagles - 'Love Me' (Elvis Presley cover)
Jessica Lea Mayfield - 'Words of Love' (Buddy Holly cover)
Ben Bridwell - 'Your Love Is Forever' (George Harrison cover)
Kate Tucker - 'I'm on Fire' (Bruce Springsteen cover)
Rogue Wave - 'Maps' (Yeah Yeah Yeahs cover)
A.C. Newman - 'Take on Me' (a-ha cover)
Jem - 'Yellow' (Coldplay cover)
Richard Hawley - 'Early Morning Rain' (Gordon Lightfoot cover)
Daniel Martin Moore - 'I Hear Music' (Billie Holiday cover)
She & Him - 'I Put a Spell on You' (Screamin' Jay Hawkins cover)
Lila Downs - 'My One and Only Love' (Frank Sinatra cover)

http://www.myspace.com/richardhawley
http://www.richardhawley.co.uk/

[Jesse Joe]

I was ask to post this video by the infamous icepick 141 !

Maybe it was posted before ??

YouTube - McVeigh's Irish Rovers EMR

[charlene]

if you need to check something there's a SEARCH section hilited in orange letters..

[Jesse Joe]

Cool ! And it works very good... thanks Char.

[jj]

Originally Posted by charlene

if you need to check something there's a SEARCH section hilited in orange letters..

for sure, you could spend all day searching corfid or the newsgroup for great tidbits...i get annoyed typing in that scrambled letter and number stuff though!...for other fun, go check out the yahoo 70th birthday greetings and anecdotes from old friends....i saw one where a former highschool date of gord's posted, fun stuff...i hope that link doesn't get deleted