Coverville 1560: The Alex Chilton Cover Story [repost]

Coverville: The Cover Music Show (AAC Edition)

Brian Ibbott

Coverville, Cover, Music

4.9 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

For what would have been Alex Chilton’s 75th birthday, let’s look back at his career with The Box Tops and Big Star. (63 minutes)

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0:00.0	This episode of Coverville is brought to you by Rula.
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0:07.3	Find out more about them later on in this program.
0:09.6	This episode is also brought to you by ORAFra-Fraims.
0:12.8	Win Christmas.
0:14.0	Get ready to win Christmas with ORAFra-Fraims.
0:16.3	Find out more about them later on in this program as well.
0:20.8	Coming up on episode number 1,560, usually because I've got so many things going on at the end of December with countdowns and best ofs and things like that, I don't often get to birthdays that happen in late December.
0:36.2	And I'm going to change that today with this one right here.
0:38.9	Normally we don't get a chance to do a cover story for Alex Chilton, but today we are.
0:45.0	He would have turned 75 this month.
0:46.8	So let's do an Alex Chilton cover story featuring covers of the box tops and big star and
0:52.4	even covers by Alex himself.
0:54.2	All this and more coming up right now on Coverville.
1:10.0	The times are tough now. Just getting tougher Whole in and cover me Greetings from
1:11.6	Me
1:12.6	Greetings from
1:13.6	Come on, baby, cover me.
1:17.6	Well, I'm looking for
1:22.6	A little hoo-goo.
1:23.6	Come on in and cover me.
1:33.4	Greetings from Coverville for a Thursday morning.
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