Erasure cover other artists

[Pughie]

Erasure covering other artists,I’ve not chosen the ABBA-Esque covers or any from Other People’s Songs,or any non-original songs from Snow Globe.

Erasure Covers
Blondie
Dreaming (live on radio)


Atomic (live)


Heart Of Glass (live)


Heart Of Glass (BBC Radio 1 Session Version)


Rapture (live)


Eurythmics
Love Is A Stranger (live)


ABBA
Gimme Gimme Gimme (live)


Cerrone
Supernature


In The Hall Of The Mountain King by Greig


Tina Turner
River Deep Mountain High


Ennio Morricone


Gina X
No GDM


Evelyn Thomas
Hi NRG


The Supremes
Baby Love


Tomorrow’s World (TV Theme)


The Barry Gray Orchestra
Joe 90 (TV Theme Tune)


Depeche Mode
Just Can’t Get Enough


Ella Fitzgerald
Too Darn Hot


Perry Como
Magic Moments


Elvis
Wooden Heart


Tammy Wynette
Stand By Your Man


Judy Garland
Somewhere Over The Rainbow


Ave Maria


Three Blind Mice


Rock A Bye Baby


It’s been pointed out to me that Vince also had worked on Camp Christmas with the song arrangements,so I’m also adding it to this list,as well as the Andy Bell covers thread.

Camp Christmas
You’ll have to watch the show through to get all the Andy songs.

UK’s Channel 4 created a TV special titled Camp Christmas, featuring some nice classic Christmas songs: “My Favorite Things”, " Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas". Enjoy a camp Christmas with Andy Bell, Melissa Etheridge, Stephen Fry, Julian Clary, Sir Ian Mclennan, Justin Fashanu, Quentin Crisp, East 17, Bob Downe, Lily Savage, Lea Delaria, Pam St Clement, Martina Navratilova and more!

[Pughie]

Erasure sung & recorded this song live on the Acoustic Tour in 2006,it’s a cover of a song written by Elizabeth Straton who herself released it on her album Blue Canoe in 2010.

Erasure ‘Against My View’

[Pughie]

Stand By Your Man added,have I missed anymore?

[kwerty]

Stand By Your Man added,have I missed anymore?

Over the Rainbow?

[Pughie]

Stand By Your Man added,have I missed anymore?

Over the Rainbow?

Done

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Ave Maria?

[Cesar]

The Fractured Fairytales project? Rock-A-Bye-Baby, Three Blind Mice...

Edit: There's also 'My Foolish Heart' from the 'Buried Treasure' EIS CD.

César

[Cesar]

Please allow me to add some background.

Heart of Glass (BBC Radio 1 Session)

Heart Of Glass
(BBC Radio 1 Session, 1994, unreleased)

Three years before Erasure included this track in their set list for the "Tiny Tour", they performed this song on UK BBC Radio 1.

The track, one of Andy's all-time favourites, was played on "Collins & Maconie's Hit Parade" on the 19th May 1994 and was recorded at Vince's home studio, 37B, at the same time as the version of "Because You're So Sweet" which appeared on the b-side of "I Love Saturday".

Introduced by Vince, who says they chose to cover the song "because the chords are easy", it is another light-hearted, bouncy arrangement, under produced but with excellent falsetto vocals from Andy.

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Magic Moments

Magic Moments*
(on Lord of Illusions Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, 1995, The Fine Line / Mute; IONIC 13CD)

Erasure were asked by Clive Barker to contribute to the soundtrack to this gruesome and derivative horror movie and their cover version of "Magic Moments" (a Bacharach and David hit for Perry Como) works beautifully as a cheerful counterpoint to the brooding visuals.

The song, produced as a 'warm up' to the "Erasure" album, contains many wonderful touches; Andy's sinister reverberating vocals on the bridge, Vince's plinky-plonk accompaniment and Andy's 'dum-dum' bassline on the coda.

It is a perfectly concise and bright rendition and one of Erasure's most delightful cover versions.

The track was resurrected to appear as a bonus track on the US edition of "Cowboy" in 1997 and was almost released as a single in the autumn of that year, with Maverick producing a small number of 1-track promotional CD singles. "Magic Moments" would have been an odd choice of track to represent Erasure's musical oeuvre, but as an example of the breadth of their musical sensibilities it is unrivalled.

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Just Can't Get Enough

"While we're down our cover version alley we've got this song here and this song is for Daniel Miller of Mute Records, who started the whole thing off with the help of this song, Vince's very first song."

A roar from the crowd greeted the famously distinctive synth intro of Just Can't Get Enough. Reading from a lyric sheet, Andy made the song his own whilst Vince's upbeat and bouncy arrangement updated this classic Depeche Mode track for the 1990's. As the song ended with block harmonies and a cute synth coda, Erasure received their loudest ovation of the night

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[Cesar]

Over The Rainbow

Over The Rainbow
("The Tank, The Swan & The Balloon" video, 1993, BMG/MuteFilm; 74321-12250-3)

Not the bonus track from the "Chorus" CD single of the same name, but the rather more famous Judy Garland song from The Wizard Of Oz.

The only official release of this track is on this (now deleted) video of the "Phantasmagorical Entertainment" tour, although the track has turned up on innumerable concert bootlegs.

Andy gives a heartfelt performance of the song against a tinkly, minimalist synthesiser backdrop, wearing the almost obligatory ruby slippers.

[Note: Now available on DVD]

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Stand By Your Man

Stand By Your Man
(The Tank, The Swan & The Balloon video, 1993, BMG/MuteFilm; 74321-12250-3)

Like "Over The Rainbow", this track is only available in the live version performed at the Manchester Apollo on the 6th August 1992, featuring Andy as a bare cheeked Rhinestone cowboy and Vince as a bizarre pink Mae West.

The accompaniment is camp and jaunty, the song an example of Erasure at their most self-effacingly ridiculous.

[Note: Now available on DVD]

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[Pughie]

The Fractured Fairytales project? Rock-A-Bye-Baby, Three Blind Mice...

Edit: There's also 'My Foolish Heart' from the 'Buried Treasure' EIS CD.

César

I did think of this one,but I think that’s an Andy solo track,even though it was released on an Erasure release.