How about "Mr sandman, bring me a dream. *bum bum bum bum* make HER the cutest, that i've ever seen"/
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Replying to @Plutoburns
I actually learned "cover" has a racist history from the guy who wrote Day the Music Died
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
Some rock purist asked him if he was upset by some whippersnapper "covering" it and he said first no and second >
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
> that "cover" explicitly referred to white artists performing songs by black audiences back before stations integrated
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @Plutoburns
the practice being racist doesn't make the term racist though
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it's not like that's the only time anyone ever did a cover, the practice is as old as music
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I think he might be referring to the false etymology that it refers to having a white man on the album cover
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but that's not where it comes from
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @Plutoburns
in the early days w looser copyright it just meant the record companies trying to all get a song "under our cover"
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what we'd now call "label"
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if a song was a hit they'd all immediately have their own version of it
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