The original is from '53.

It's unclear to me that anything Shatner does counts as "song."

Greatest Hits was the first album I owned. It was entirely premature. There was more/better yet to come.

One of the Back to Backs for the Talking Heads was also a back to back for the song. Shaw Colvin and Iron and Wine covered This Must Be The Place at numbers 386 and 387.
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There were previous back to backs for original artists Talking Heads and Grateful Dead have have two back to backs as original artist, as did Boffalongo once. #XPNCountdown

Very nice.

Not too many. She was a singer not a songwriter.
secondhandsongs.com/artist/1626/...

That's a great idea.

It's just that will all this Bob, it needs some "Bob"

Good catch. Didn't think Different Drum was a cover, but there was a release by The Greenbriar Boys in 66. Stone Poneys wasn't till 67.

There are so few Linda Ronstadt tracks that are not obvious covers, though they are almost always better than the originals.

It's kind of a fine point but "covers", at least for the #XPNCountdown and, I think, generally are recording a song that someone else released a recording of. Contrast recording a song someone else wrote. Audrey sang it in the recording, Henry wrote it. But she wasn't covering him.

697 Bette Midler Hello In There John Prine
606 Kurt Vile How Lucky (with John Prine) his is a re-recording of a John Prine song
592 Viagra Boys In Spite Of Ourselves (ft. Amy Taylor) John Prine & Iris Dement
548 Nanci Griffith Speed Of The Sound Of Lonliness John Prine
How do you score this? 3.5?

That is the catch. Do you vote for best, most favorite, or most likely to make the playlist by my one added vote? #XPNCountdown

Do check out Blaze Foley. Great Singer-Songwriter who died tragically and too young. The movie "Blaze is a good intro. He's the subject of Lucinda Williams' Drunken Angel /cc @ennasirk.bsky.social #XPNCountdown

Nice. One of the challenges of doing stuff with data for #XPNCountdown is having to react under the gun, which it counted. Even the older multi-week A-Zs were challenging.