# Where the well known version of a song is a cover

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 3, 2013, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-well-known-version-of-a-song-is-a-cover/651895 "2013-03-03T05:18:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2013, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-well-known-version-of-a-song-is-a-cover/651895/9 "2013-03-03T06:20:03Z")

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I listen to a weekly radio show called “Crap from the Past,” hosted by Ron “Boogiemonster” Gerber at a community-run station in Minneapolis. He bills it as a graduate-level course in pop music, because he plays all sorts of obscurities. He devoted a couple episodes to this very topic. Here are those episodes (complete with playlists):

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