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Iggy Pop

Funtime

1977 · via Blondie and 1 more

Iggy Pop’s 1977 recording of “Funtime” is the earliest release on file. Iggy Pop shares the writing credit with David Bowie. Also recorded by R.E.M. (released 1988), Blondie (released 2015) and Peter Murphy (released 1988), among 73 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz. It is on the album The Idiot (1977).

Iggy Pop – Funtime
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Blondie only had this one on a live radio tape, but the original belongs to Iggy Pop, who wrote it with Bowie. Follow him and you get two doors for the price of one.

Bowie's name is on Funtime, but Iggy Pop co-wrote it and sang it first, in 1977, and R.E.M. and Blondie both went back to it later. Put Iggy's original next to The Cars' take and you can hear exactly what they borrowed.

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Credited writers: David Bowie and Iggy Pop.

Earliest release on file: this one, 1977.

On the album The Idiot (1977).

Other recordings on file · first release year

73 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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Blondie tore through "Funtime" on a San Francisco radio broadcast. David Bowie co-wrote it, but which artist shares that credit and cut the first recording?Iggy Pop
a knot from Blondie · next: Iggy Pop
The Cars have a recording of Funtime, a song David Bowie co-wrote. Who shares that writing credit with Bowie and cut the very first recording?Iggy Pop
a knot from The Cars · next: Iggy Pop
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Facts from MusicBrainz and the Rabbit Hole Records crate. The counter notes are written by the clerk, an AI, from those facts only. General Admission 4 Us: start with an artist, leave with a rare cut.