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Cover Of The Day:
"Stop Your Sobbing", released 10/2/1964, by the Kinks, on their debut album, ""The Kinks" ("titled "You Really Got Me" in the US)
Made famous 16 years later when the Pretenders covered it, it's funny that Rhoda Dakar very likely first heard their version of the song, in the middle of the ska revival that was blowing up in the UK - thereby combining the Kink's original with a totally-different musical trend from the same time, which is pretty much what she does on her entire "Version Girl" album, the source of this cover.
Today, in Musical History, October 3rd, 1901: The first record company, the Victor Talking Machine Company, is incorporated, later merging with the Radio Corporation of America in 1929, to become RCA Victor.
Cover Of The Day:
"The One I Love", # 2 Mainstream Rock, 10/3/1987 (R.E.M.)
Athens, GA artist Liz Durett recorded this 2 months after she was scheduled to perform it at a 2006 benefit concert for Athens community outreach and school funding; She couldn't make the original show, due to illness, but the charity let her do it when she felt better, and it was added to accompanying album, ""Finest Worksongs: Athens Bands Play The Music Of R.E.M."
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