Suede's Facebook page have reminded us that it was on this day (September 4th) in 1995 that The Help Album was recorded, featuring Suede's excellent cover of Elvis Costello's Shipbuilding. (I hadn't realized Clive Langer of Deaf School and producer fame wrote the music to this!) Suede's version was my introduction to the song and I think I even like it better than the original:
Elvis Costello's original:
And Elvis live on Swedish TV 1983:
I also always liked Terry Hall & Salad's version of Dream A Little Dream from The Help Album:
David Shah & I covered this as well last year for a few Soft Close-Ups gigs. Free download of it here.
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