Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia - The Bridge: Cover Queens and The Boy Wonder
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2019
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Host Chris Molanphy reflects on the previous full length episode of the show, and invites one Slate Plus member to play some music trivia related to an upcoming episode. This month, Molanphy is joined at the mic by T. J. Raphael, senior producer of the Slate Podcast Network. Together, they discuss some of the best cover songs of all time from the likes of Aretha Franklin, Jimi Hendrix, and more.
After a break, Molanphy is joined by one listener for some music trivia related to the next full-length episode of Hit Parade, which is all about Stevie Wonder. How does it all work? The contestant is asked three trivia questions, and the player also has the opportunity to turn the tables—they get a chance to try to stump Molanphy, a music journalist for the past 25 years, with one trivia question of their own.
If you’d like to be a contestant on an upcoming show, sign up for a Slate Plus membership here, and then enter as a contestant here. You can also enter to play if you’re already a Slate Plus member.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening, ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:04.1 | Rollin, rolling, rolling, rolling, rolling, rolling. |
| 0:11.0 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:12.5 | This is Chris Malanfi, host of Hit Parade, Slate's podcast of Pop Chart History. |
| 0:17.7 | Welcome to The Bridge. |
| 0:19.2 | Big wheel, keep on turning, dirty, round there, deep on dirty, burning, top chart history. Welcome to The Bridge. That's Ike and Tina Turner's classic song. |
| 0:39.3 | We just played you the part where the song bridges from a slow vamp to a killer rave up, one of the most famous tempo changes in rock |
| 0:46.0 | history. And that, of course, is Ms. Tina Turner, bridging you from nice and easy to nice and rough. |
| 0:53.2 | And as always, these mini episodes bridge our full-length |
| 0:56.3 | monthly episodes and give us a chance to catch up with our listeners and enjoy some trivia. This |
| 1:01.7 | month, as always, I'm delighted to be joined by the colleague who helps me take it to the bridge, |
| 1:06.5 | Slate Podcast Senior Producer, T.J. Rafael. Hey, T.J. Hi, Chris. How's it going? Good. Thanks so much for having me on. |
| 1:13.1 | Always a pleasure. I'm so glad that you just played that Tina Turner song because I, I mean, I'm a huge proud Mary fan in general. You know, got me thinking about how much credence music has been covered by other artists. And then also the concept of when does a cover sort of |
| 1:31.3 | outpace the original you know become so well known that we kind of forget the original or maybe it |
| 1:38.6 | overshadows the original i think the first time that i heard proudoud Mary was the Ikenna version. |
| 1:47.2 | I don't think it was actually the Credence version when I was a kid. |
| 1:57.5 | So can you talk about, you know, some of your favorite covers or some artists that, you know, their song was covered and now it kind of belongs in some ways to a different artist? |
| 2:01.0 | You know, some of my favorite covers are the ones where the cover is truly transformational and you're right. Then it kind of belongs to the other artist. I believe you and I |
| 2:05.8 | talked about one of these when we did our tribute to Aretha Franklin last summer. I often reach for |
| 2:11.7 | it as my favorite cover of all time. It's kind of the most famous cover of all time because so many |
| 2:16.6 | people barely realize |
| 2:17.8 | it is a cover. Her number one hit, Respect, is a song by Otis Redding. It was recorded first by |
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