SPIRIT IN THE SKY
Created on 15/11/2005Latest update on 05/11/2015
Artist: Norman Greenbaum
Author: Norman Greenbaum
Label: Reprise
Year: 1969
N°3 US, n°1 UK.
Covers:
- 1970:
Elton John [anonymous on lp 16 Chart Busting Pop Hits, released under his name in '94]
- 1983:
- 1985:
- 1986:
Doctor & The Medics [n°1 UK]
- 1991:
- 1995:
- 2003:
Gareth Gates [n°1 UK]
- 2005:
Goldfrapp [sample in Ooh La La; hit UK]
- 2005:
- 2011:
Borrowing the basic riff from Canned Heat's Fried Hockey Boogie ('68), which of course borrows from John Lee Hooker's Boogie Chillun ('48); see there.
