After planning a mini reunion with two of my favorite Düsseldorfers in August, I properly celebrated by playing German Graffiti Vol. 1, and then halfway remembered I’ve been meaning to post about one of the songs on there for a long time, but never got around to it.
“Aus” by Peggy Peters (aka Tina Rainford, real name Christa Zalewski, however no relation to Diddy or Prince.) was released in 1964 as the B-side for “Ich setzte alles auf eine Karte”. It is said to be a German cover of Lulu’s “Shout”, but it honestly took me a while to hear the resemblance. And even now that I do, I feel the word “cover” doesn’t really apply. Or maybe it does and what I consider to be covers, are actually nothing more than uninspired copies… Semantics Schmantics!
Cover or approximation, you can be the judge:
