SONG TO THE SIREN

Created on 16/04/2001
Latest update on 02/11/2022

Artist: Tim Buckley
Author: Tim Buckley/Larry Beckett
Label: Rhino
Year: 1968

On the very last Monkees TV show, recorded in November '67, later on his Morning Glory Anthology. Also an early version on Works In Progress (1999). His first official version was on his 1970 Elektra album Starsailor.

Covers:

1969:

Pat Boone [first vinyl release on lp Departure]

1983:

This Mortal Coil [vocal by Elizabeth Fraser (Cocteau Twins); indie classic; later also in film Lost Highway]

1991:

Laurie Freelove

1996:

Sally Oldfield

1998:

The King

2001:

Susheela Raman

2002:

Robert Plant

2002:

Lost Witness [in Did I Dream; hit UK]

2005:

Czars

2005:

Engineers [on tribute album]

2007:

James Yorkston

2009:

John Frusciante

2010:

Sinéad O'Connor

2010:

Bryan Ferry

2012:

George Michael

2014:

Jan Rot [as Tot De Sirene]

The Dust Brothers song from '92 is something different.

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