Coverville 1570: Cover Stories for Otis Blackwell and MGMT

Coverville: The Cover Music Show (AAC Edition)

Brian Ibbott

Music, Cover, Coverville

4.8 • 797 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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You might not know his name, but you definitely know his music – Otis Blackwell, who wrote or co-wrote so many of the songs you know and love from the 50s and 60s, would have turned 95 this month. And I’ve never done a cover story for MGMT, so let’s do those together! (66 minutes)

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0:00.0	this episode of cover of was brought to you by factor find out in this episode how you can get
0:05.3	50% off and free breakfast for a year coming up on episode number one thousand five hundred and
0:12.7	seventy it's time to pay tribute to another songwriter a songwriter who you might know
0:17.5	might not know by name but you certainly know his work you're going to to be reintroduced to all of his songs later on in the show.
0:25.0	That singer-song, I'm sorry, that song, well, actually he is a singer-songwriter.
0:28.7	He does do some singing himself.
0:30.9	He is Otis Blackwell.
0:33.0	He passed away back in the early 2000s, but he would have been 95 this month.
0:39.0	And so we're going to listen to covers of some of his most popular songs.
0:42.6	And because we got a little extra time, some covers of and by MGMT.
0:48.0	All this and more coming up right now on Coverville.
0:59.5	Thank you. Coverville. The times are tough now.
1:01.8	Just getting tougher.
1:03.8	Whole world is rough.
1:05.0	It's just getting a rougher.
1:07.1	Cover me.
1:09.5	Come on, baby, cover me.
1:14.6	Well, I'm looking for a little hoover.
1:17.7	Come on in and cover me.
1:24.1	Greetings from Coverville for a Thursday morning.
1:26.6	It is Thursday, February 19th, 2026. My name is Brian
1:30.1	and welcome to another edition of Coverville. Today, the music of Otis Blackwell, a songwriter,
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