Original vs Cover with DJ Crystal Clear

ANNNND WE ARE BACK! Mea Culpa for being late, but things have been crazy here in NYC…but that’s okay, because this episode is jam packed with covers that will make you scratch your head! Including songs by William Shatner, Pulp, Nina Simone, Soundgarden, Nada Surf and more! My engineer, Dr. Paul Bertolino and I dig into it all, with a lot of laughs for you to enjoy!

Hey everyone, WE ARE BACK with another episode that’s chock full of surprises, trivia, and laughs. Dr. Bertolino and I chop it up about songs by Fleetwood Mac, Prince, Gwen McCrae, and Paul’s favorite band…The Clash! (If you’re a regular listener, you know that’s a lie, lol)

Hey everyone WE. ARE. BACK. and with the first very special themed episode — ALL BEATLES!!! Thanks right, ALL SIX SONGS ARE BY THE FAB FOUR! With covers by The Melvins, The Four Tops, Ella Fitzgerald, and more! Listen to my engineer, Dr. Paul Bertolino and talk shop about John, Paul, George, and Ringo.And be sure to listen to the VERY END of this episode a full-circle moment!!! **And please Keep your suggestions coming, send them to DJCrystalClear@me.com, and please leave a fab review on iTunes!

Hey everyone! WE ARE BACK with another collection of originals and cover versions of them - this episode is pretty chill, until song number 6, so ease your seat back and let songs by Fleetwood Mac, Robert Hazzard, John Cale, Olivia Newton John, Tears For Fears, and more, wash over you! HEADS-UP…due to circumstances beyond our control, there are some odd pops and clicks and fuzz in this broadcast, but we plow through, so stick with us UNTIL THE VERY END for an extra laugh that’s provided by my awesome engineer, Dr. Paul Bertolino!!! Enjoy, leave a fab review, and please tell your friends!

WhoooooWHEEEEE WE ARE BAAACK! It’s the first show of 2022, recorded at the end of 2021 - and my engineer, Dr. Paul Bertolino and I have a lot of laughs, and a lot of wild originals and even wilder covers by - Fleetwood Mac, Iggy Pop, Little Willie John, The Stylistics, Ben Folds 5, The Cowsills and more! Listen, enjoy, subscribe if you haven’t already - and please tell your friends!!

Hey everyone, WE’RE BACK! Dig the scene while Dr. Bertolino and I talk a lot about some wacky originals and covers by Nouvelle Vague, The Who, Duran Duran, Queen, The Miracles, Generation X and more! ***(this episode corrected the glitch) ENJOY! And stay tuned for episode 27!

WELCOME TO ROCKTOBER 2021! HEY EVERYONE, FALL IS HERE, AND WE ARE BAAAAACK with a doozy! Listen to my wonderful producer, Dr. Paul Bertolino and I dig deep into songs by The Beach Boys, No Doubt, Luther Vandross, Them, The Vitamin String Band, Leela James, and more!

ANNNNND WE ARE BACK!

That’s right kids, it’s EPISODE 24!

Listen while my AWESOME engineer Dr. Bertolino chop it up while talking about songs by…
The Beatles, Bo Diddley, The New York Dolls, Boys II Men, The Rolling Stones, Cherrelle, Devo, and more!

SPECIAL SHOUT-OUTS to our friends John Varriano and Mary Edwards!

Enjoy, and we’ll be back soon with Episode 25!

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ANNNNND WE ARE BACK!

That’s right kids, it’s EPISODE 21…THE MISSING EPISODE!

Due to circumstances beyond our control, the recording went *poof* into the ether…

My engineer, Dr. Paul Bertolino and I discuss songs by Grand Funk Railroad, Wilson Pickett, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Smokey Robinson, The Rolling Stones, Angelique Kidjo and more!

Enjoy, and we’ll be back soon with Episode 24!

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HEYYYYY, I’M BAAAACK with episode 23 - and it is filled with lots of laughs exchanged with my gear engineer, Dr. Paul Bertolino. We talk about original and cover songs from The Ronettes, Siouxsie And The Banshees, Gloria Gaynor, Rod Stewart, Amy Winehouse, Iggy Pop, Janet Jackson, and more!

AWWWWRIGHT, I’M BACK with another great episode where I tortured my wonderful engineer, Dr. Bertolino with a mostly “BIG ‘80s” songs by Bananarama, The Brains, Cameo, Prince - along with Sam Cooke, and P.P. Arnold, and a myriad of great...and crappy covers. 🥳Yesterday, June 4th was my birthday, but this is my gift to you “Cover Lovers” out there in music land. ENJOY!

Hey! Welcome to episode 20 (3 of season 3) and in this episode, Dr. Paul Bertolino and I chop it up about songs from Jermaine Jackson, Alice Cooper, Jack Lee, Wall Of Voodoo, Bobbie Gentry, and The Spinners! I hope you enjoy it🤩 If you have any suggestions, please message me at DJCrystalClear on Instagram😃 And if you want to buy ad space, hit me up! And here’s a BIG-UPS to Dan Bukszpan and Robert Aragon for their fab suggestions!

Hey everyone, I’M BACK with episode 2 of season 3! My fab engineer (and sole proprietor of As It Should Be Studios) Dr. Bertolino and I will be talking about original songs by Depeche Mode, The O’Jays, Memphis Minnie, The Guess Who, Neil Diamond, and The Dave Clark 5 - along with some very interesting covers! Enjoy, tell your friends, and please leave glowing reviews❤️ I’ll be back soon with episode 20! Love, Crystal

It’s the COVID-19 EPISODE! AAAAAAAAND WE’RE BACK! It’s funny, I posted the last episode on March 23rd, during the beginning of the pandemic of 2020...and shit is still weird and in some ways, gotten worse. In this episode, my ace engineer, Dr. Paul Bertolino and I listen to a kooky variety of songs, and some interesting covers. I hope you find this episode a respite from this crazy world. Stay tuned for episode 17! Love, Crystal

Whew, I think that my engineer, Dr. Paul Bertolino and I were kinda woozy because living here in NYC sometimes just flat out kicks your ass! But that didn’t stop us from dissecting the covers of songs you love...some of which you probably haven’t heard...and a few I know you absolutely hate!

Heyyyy, it’s Lucky 13 happening right about now! In this episode, my engineer, Dr. Paul Bertolino and I talk about Classic Motown, Disco, Bowie, Sam Cooke, The Beatles, AND fall down a few rabbit holes of discovery that you’re sure to enjoy. Please send a request (DJCrystalClear@me.com) tell your friends to listen in, and dig it!

🥳HAPPY NEW YEAR🥳 Welcome to the first episode of the year 2020👌🏾Here’s to things getting better...because last year WAS A DOOZY🤪that I mostly want to forget. ANYWAY, in this episode, my engineer Dr. Paul Bertolino and I talk about some very interesting songs and their equally interesting covers, and they run the gamut from Evie Sands to Donovan! Oh, and here is a heads-up for Pixies fans...sorry, not sorry!

Awwwww YEAAHHH! Sit back and DIG as my fab engineer Dr. Paul Bertolino and I marvel at my selections here...there’s a Punk Rock song, a Prince song, a Sly Stone song, a song that is about “The Twinkie Defense”, and lots of interesting factoids about a kooky Disco song that’s related to Milli Vanilli, and what MFSB stands for! Oh...and a song by Iggy Pop that I GUARANTEE you’ve NEVER heard before! This will probably be the last episode of 2019, so enjoy, listen to the previous 10 episodes, tell your friends about it - and stay tuned for more great songs and their wacky covers in 2020❤️Love, Crystal

YOU’RE ON THE REQUEST LINE! In this episode, the first 2 songs I discuss with my Engineer, Dr. Paul Bertolino, are REQUESTS from two of my many listeners out there in Podcast land😃 Kim Dee from Texas, and Nate Alfaro from California! Also in this, episode, a movie theme, some old ‘70s Soul, and and a song that may or may not qualify as a “real” cover. DIG IT!

MEA CULPA for the crazy long delay...I live in NYC, where life gets in the way more often than not...this episode was recorded in August, and here we are, two weeks from Halloween 🎃 ANYWAY, in this episode, I talk about 6 originals, a few of them were HUGE HITS in their day (and the first one, RIGHT OUT OF THE GATE, HAS 5 COVERS!) along with commentary from my faithful Engineer, Dr. Paul Bertolino.🎧 I PROMISE to work harder at sticking to my bi-monthly schedule, please stay with me, and please tell your friends!❤️

Join me and my Producer, Dr. Paul Bertolino as we dissect some of the best original songs, and their cover counterparts. ❤️Featuring shout-outs to my peeps - F*BOMB, Super Morgan, Mike SOS, Shandi Sullivan, Rick Conti, John Brodeur, Jeremiah Moss, and my Tower Sunset Homies - Gary Helsinger, Bill Tutton, and Jim Laspesa.❤️Mea Culpa for being late - life is CRAZY here in NYC

DO NOT BE ALARMED BY THE THEME MUSIC! Way back in January 2019, I was a special guest on my friend and engineer, Paul Bertolino’s podcast - “As It Should Be”. You’ve heard me talk about it and tell you to subscribe to it (and you should do that right now if you already done so, because his podcast is great!) - This is his 7th episode, a “pilot episode” for me if you will. It’s a little rough around the edges - it was cold and I had the sniffles and cleared my throat too much, I wanted to make sure I remembered everything...hey, it was my first time, so gimmie a break!😉 Enjoy as my podcast cherry gets popped!

In this episode, The Violent Femmes are oddly prominent...much to the chagrin of my engineer Dr. Paul Bertolino! There are some choice songs this time around, so dig it - and please leave comments or ask questions❤️

This episode has one of theeeeee CRAZIEST🤪 covers ever - you GOTTA promise me that you’ll listen to the whole thing on your own!

Crystal explains to Dr. Bertolino how her gallbladder attempted to assassinate her, then presents some classic hits, and their cover versions. Good stuff!

ORIGINAL vs COVER - EPISODE 4 - Dr. Paul Bertolino hangs with me as I lay waste to lots of lame covers! Lots of musical genres, lots of eye rolling, and my post anesthesia fog fucks up my memory box. Fun times!

Annnnnnnnnnd, I’m BACK! In this episode I’m talking about a lot of songs from the ‘80s (MTV staples) and how annoying they were. Also chiming in to help me out with some facts and info, my beloved Engineer, Dr. Paul Bertolino (check out his great, weekly podcast, “As It Should Be). See you in a couple weeks (My podcast is bi-weekly) ENJOY!

Paul Bertolino (fresh from his “As It Should Be” Podcast) mixes it up with me, while presenting some of his favorite covers. As always, we both learn a thing or two from each other, have some laughs, and have a grand time in his As It Should Be studio in Crooklyn, NY. We talk about some interesting covers you may not know about, by Cheap Trick, Barbara Lynn, Nina Simone, and more! DIG IT❤️

HOORAY! I’m finally doing an audio version of my former column called Original vs Cover that ran for two years on the now defunct website, The Z Review. I do a compare and contrast of original songs, and interesting cover versions, and then I choose my favorite! You will hear snippets of each version and decide which you like better. Apologies for the sniffling, I was just getting over a malaise. IN THIS EPISODE; 1 - Fell In Love With A Girl 2 - Keep Me Hangin’ On 3 - Stop Your Sobbing 4 - When You Were Mine 5 - I Love Rock And Roll 6 - Take Me To The River