{"id":875,"date":"2007-09-20T09:44:07","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T13:44:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-09-20T09:44:07","modified_gmt":"2007-09-20T09:44:07","slug":"the-greatest-beatles-cover-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-greatest-beatles-cover-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"The Greatest Beatles Cover Ever?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/users\/frankenslade\/charlottedada.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"202\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_legend\">Good Charlotte<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Townsman dbuskirk<\/strong>, the man who turned Joe Strummer onto the Ethiopian DJ scene, recently was spotted behind the velvet ropes of Rock Town Hall&#8217;s inner sanctum, heard touting the wonders of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/RockTownHall\/CharlotteDada-DontLetMeDown.mp3\" title=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/RockTownHall\/CharlotteDada-DontLetMeDown.mp3\">this cover of The Beatles&#8217; &#8220;Don&#8217;t Let Me Down&#8221;, by Charlotte Dada<\/a><\/strong>. &#8220;This is the greatest Beatles cover ever!&#8221; proclaimed dbusirk to <strong>Links Linkerson<\/strong> and a few other visually impaired thought leaders in rock.<\/p>\n<p>According to dbuskirk, one of the Hall&#8217;s finest tastemakers, Dada was a vocalist from Ghana in the early &#8217;70s. This track is from a comp he&#8217;s never been able to find called, <em>Money No Be Sand<\/em>. As dbuskirk puts it, <strong>&#8220;It&#8217;s pretty jaw-droppingly gorgeous. What RTHer couldn&#8217;t throw themselves behind this version, with it&#8217;s junkyard band opening and gospelly vocal?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Can you resist this, Townspeople?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Charlotte Townsman dbuskirk, the man who turned Joe Strummer onto the Ethiopian DJ scene, recently was spotted behind the velvet ropes of Rock Town Hall&#8217;s inner sanctum, heard touting the wonders of this cover of The Beatles&#8217; &#8220;Don&#8217;t Let Me Down&#8221;, by Charlotte Dada. &#8220;This is the greatest Beatles cover ever!&#8221; proclaimed dbusirk to <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-greatest-beatles-cover-ever\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}