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Elvis Costello

(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes

1977 · via Elvis Costello

Elvis Costello wrote “(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes” and put out the earliest release of it on file, in 1977. Also recorded by Hem (released 2002), among 40 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz. It is on the album My Aim Is True (1977).

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Hem picked up Red Shoes in 2002, so you get to hear Costello's song in someone else's hands. Play theirs, then put his own cut back on and see what each one holds onto.

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Credited writer: Elvis Costello.

Earliest release on file: this one, 1977.

On the album My Aim Is True (1977).

Other recordings on file · first release year

40 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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Elvis Costello wrote and first recorded "(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes." Which act later took his song and cut a version of their own?Hem
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