Tori Amos Cover Song Chart

by: Greg Burrell (gregb@netcom.com)

updated: 8/15/95
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Artist             Recorded   Performed       Song                    Notes
                                Live          Title
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Elton John             no       yes     A Candle In The Wind
Joni Mitchell          yes      yes     A Case Of You
Bill Withers           no       yes     Ain't No Sunshine
John Newton            no       yes     Amazing Grace
K. Bates/J. Ward       no       yes     America The Beautiful
Don Maclean            no       yes     American Pie                       (10)
Rolling Stones         yes      yes     Angie
Bad Company            no       yes     Bad Company
Irish traditional      no       yes     Danny Boy
Led Zeppelin           yes      no      Down By The Seaside                (1)
Leonard Cohen          yes      yes     Famous Blue Raincoat               (2)
Paul Simon             no       yes     For Emily, Wherever I May Find Her
Bruce Springsteen      no       yes     Growing Up
The Beatles            no       yes     Here, There and Everywhere
traditional            yes      yes     Home On The Range
Nine Inch Nails        no       yes     Hurt                               (9)
Jimi Hendrix           yes      no      If 6 Was 9
Bruce Springsteen      no       yes     I'm On Fire
Camilla Wharton        yes      no      Its A Happy Day                    (3)
John Lennon            no       yes     Imagine
Roberta Flack          no       yes     Killing Me Softly
Fleetwood Mac          no       yes     Landslide
traditional            yes      yes     Little Drummer Boy
R.E.M.                 yes      no      Losing My Religion                 (6)
The Cure               no       yes     Lovesong
Rickie Lee Jones       no       yes     On Saturday Afternoons in 1963
Prince                 no       yes     Purple Rain
Anita Ward             yes      yes     Ring My Bell
David Essex            no       yes     Rock On                            (5)
Shel Silverstein       yes      no      Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout         (8)
Les Brown              no       yes     Sentimental Journey
The Beatles            no       yes     She's Leaving Home                
Nirvana                yes      yes     Smells Like Teen Spirit
Billie Holliday        yes      no      Strange Fruit
George Gershwin        no       yes     Summertime
Lynyrd Skynrd          no       yes     Sweet Home Alabama                 (7)
Led Zeppelin           yes      yes     Thank You
Carly Simon            no       yes     The Boys In The Trees
Led Zeppelin           no       yes     The Lemon Song
Elton John             no       yes     Tiny Dancer
J. Segal/M. Fischer    no       yes     When Sunny Gets Blue
Led Zeppelin           no       yes     Whole Lotta Love                   (11)
Tag Team               no       yes     Whoomp! There It Is                (4)
The Beatles            no       yes     With A Little Help From My Friends
The Police             no       yes     Wrapped Around Your Finger        

NOTES:
        1.  "Down By The Seaside" is a duet with Robert Plant on the
            Led Zeppelin tribute album titled "Encomium".
        2.  The recorded version of "Famous Blue Raincoat" is on the
	    Leonard Cohen tribute album scheduled for release Sept 25, 1995.
        3.  The song "It's A Happy Day" was written by Camilla Wharton
            and sung by Tori when she was a teenager.  It was done as
            a demo and never commercially released. 
        4.  Tori's version of "Whoomp! There It Is" was done as a
            joke improv at a radio station appearance.  It bears no
            resemblance to the original song.
        5.  Tori did one and a half verses of "Rock On" as an intro to
            "Girl".  This was at an NY concert during the 
            "Little Earthquakes" tour.
        6.  "Losing My Religion" is on the soundtrack for the movie
            "Higher Learning".  
        7.  Tori sang one chorus of "Sweet Home Alabama" during an
            interview at KROQ radio.
        8.  Not really a song but Tori reads this children's poem over
            background music on a KZON Radio charity cassette.
        9.  During the 11/5/94 Hamilton, Ontario concert Tori was
            talking about Trent Reznor.  She played about a minute
            of "Hurt".
	10. Tori has never done a complete version of "American Pie".
	    Rather, she just does a couple of verses as an intro to
	    "Smells Like Teen Spirit".  She does this as a tribute
	    to the late Kurt Cobain.
	11. In concert Tori would do part of "Whole Lotta Love" and
	    then go directly into "Thank You".
        
GENERAL COMMENTS
        1.  This list includes covers from recordings, radio station
            appearances, and both the "Little Earthquakes" and
            "Under The Pink" tours.
	2.  For the most part I've listed the original artist as
	    being the person with whom the original song is generally
	    identified.  For example, though Roberta Flack isn't the
	    first artist to do "Killing Me Softly", she was the first
	    artist to have a hit with the song and many people would
	    identify it with her.  Some songs such as "Amazing Grace"
	    or "When Sunny Gets Blue" are so widely done that I've
	    just listed the writers' names under the artists column.

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