Songs Goose covers, and who wrote them
Every cover in 394 Goose setlists from 2016 to 2025 (from setlist.fm), most-played first. The most-played: “ShamaLamma Ding Dong” (Otis Day & the Knights), “Turn On Your Love Light” (Bobby “Blue” Bland), “Baby Don't You Do It” (Marvin Gaye), “Disco Inferno” (The Trammps) and “The Way It Is” (Bruce Hornsby & the Range).
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| Song | Original artist | Shows |
|---|---|---|
| ShamaLamma Ding Dong | Otis Day & the Knights | 27 (2016-2025) |
| Turn On Your Love Light | Bobby “Blue” Bland | 25 (2016-2025) |
| Baby Don't You Do It | Marvin Gaye | 23 (2016-2025) |
| Disco Inferno | The Trammps | 21 (2018-2022) |
| The Way It Is | Bruce Hornsby & the Range | 20 (2018-2024) |
| Fish in the Sea | Fat Freddy’s Drop | 19 (2020-2025) |
| Atlas | The Wood Brothers | 18 (2017-2025) |
| Electric Avenue | Eddy Grant | 18 (2018-2025) |
| Green River | Creedence Clearwater Revival | 18 (2016-2025) |
| Pumped Up Kicks | Foster the People | 18 (2018-2025) |
| Crosseyed and Painless | Talking Heads | 17 (2016-2022) |
| Mas que nada | Jorge Ben Jor | 16 (2018-2025) |
| Me and My Uncle | John Phillips | 16 (2016-2025) |
| Escape (The Piña Colada Song) | Rupert Holmes | 14 (2017-2023) |
| Can't Get You Out of My Head | Kylie Minogue | 13 (2019-2025) |
| Danger Zone | Kenny Loggins | 13 (2017-2025) |
| Switchin' | Wes Montgomery | 13 (2017-2023) |
| Draconian Meter Maid | Swimmer | 12 (2024-2025) |
| Ghostbusters | Run‐D.M.C. | 12 (2018-2022) |
| No Rain | Blind Melon | 12 (2018-2025) |
| Inside Out | Spoon | 11 (2019-2025) |
| Make the Move | Kenny Loggins | 11 (2018-2025) |
| A Fifth of Beethoven | Walter Murphy | 10 (2019-2025) |
| Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard | Paul Simon | 10 (2018-2021) |
| Movin' Out (Anthony's Song) | Billy Joel | 10 (2019-2021) |
| The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show | The Band | 10 (2018-2024) |
| I'm Writing a Novel | Father John Misty | 9 (2020-2025) |
| In Your Eyes | Peter Gabriel | 9 (2020-2025) |
| Please Forgive Me | David Gray | 9 (2021-2025) |
| Bloodbuzz Ohio | The National | 8 (2022-2025) |
| Caution | Bob Marley & The Wailers | 8 (2018-2025) |
| Also sprach Zarathustra, op. 30 | Richard Strauss | 7 (2016-2020) |
| Hollywood Nights | Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band | 7 (2022-2025) |
| I Would Die 4 U | Prince | 7 (2023-2025) |
| Look Out Cleveland | The Band | 7 (2020-2024) |
| State of the Art (A.E.I.O.U.) | Jim James | 7 (2020-2025) |
| Tomorrow Never Knows | The Beatles | 7 (2019-2025) |
| Weird Fishes/Arpeggi | Radiohead | 7 (2019-2025) |
| AUATC | Bon Iver | 6 (2020-2025) |
| Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis | Tom Waits | 6 (2019-2025) |
| Dancing in the Moonlight | Boffalongo | 6 (2018-2021) |
| Get the Funk Out Ma Face | The Brothers Johnson | 6 (2019-2022) |
| I'm Alright | Kenny Loggins | 6 (2018-2022) |
| Nights in White Satin | The Moody Blues | 6 (2020-2025) |
| Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) | Kate Bush | 6 (2024-2025) |
| The Killing Moon | Echo & the Bunnymen | 6 (2020-2025) |
| What's Up? | 4 Non Blondes | 6 (2018-2023) |
| Whip It | DEVO | 6 (2021-2025) |
| You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) | Dead or Alive | 6 (2024-2025) |
| Don't Leave Me This Way | Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes | 5 (2024-2025) |
| Hot Hot Hot | The Merrymen | 5 (2018-2019) |
| Mustang Sally | Sir Mack Rice | 5 (2016-2021) |
| My Generation | The Who | 5 (2018-2022) |
| One More Day | The Wood Brothers | 5 (2016-2024) |
| Shout | The Isley Brothers | 5 (2016-2020) |
| Take On Me | a‐ha | 5 (2019-2024) |
| Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic | The Police | 4 (2019) |
| Hot Night | Laura Branigan | 4 (2018-2020) |
| I Wish | Stevie Wonder | 4 (2016-2019) |
| Let's Dance | David Bowie | 4 (2017) |
| Love Is a Battlefield | Pat Benatar | 4 (2020-2022) |
| Magic Carpet Ride | Steppenwolf | 4 (2021-2023) |
| Strokin' | Clarence Carter | 4 (2018-2021) |
| (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher | Jackie Wilson | 3 (2018-2020) |
| Atlantic City | Bruce Springsteen | 3 (2020-2024) |
| Cantaloupe Island | Herbie Hancock | 3 (2019-2024) |
| Everywhere | Michelle Branch | 3 (2018-2019) |
| Happy Birthday to You | Mildred J. Hill & Patty Hill | 3 (2020-2021) |
| His Latest Flame | Del Shannon | 3 (2020-2022) |
| Howard Johnson's Got His Ho-Jo Working | NRBQ | 3 (2020-2023) |
| It Burns Within | St. John's Revival | 3 (2020-2021) |
| Lady Marmalade | The Eleventh Hour | 3 (2019) |
| Linus and Lucy | Vince Guaraldi Trio | 3 (2019-2022) |
| Mad World | Tears for Fears | 3 (2020-2025) |
| Peaches en Regalia | Frank Zappa | 3 (2016-2019) |
| Praise You | Fatboy Slim | 3 (2018-2020) |
| Short People | Randy Newman | 3 (2019) |
| Trouble | Elvis Presley | 3 (2019-2023) |
| 2021 | Vampire Weekend | 2 (2021) |
| Achy Breaky Heart | The Marcy Brothers | 2 (2020-2024) |
| American Woman | The Guess Who | 2 (2021) |
| Amongster | Poliça | 2 (2025) |
| Arise | St. John's Revival | 2 (2022-2024) |
| Auld Lang Syne | Robert Burns | 2 (2017-2022) |
| Billie Jean | Michael Jackson | 2 (2019) |
| Carol of the Bells | Mykola Leontovych | 2 (2019-2022) |
| Christmas Must Be Tonight | The Band | 2 (2019-2022) |
| Circle of Life | Elton John | 2 (2017-2021) |
| Doctor My Eyes | Jackson Browne | 2 (2021) |
| Draggin' the Line | Tommy James | 2 (2021-2024) |
| Dramophone | Caravan Palace | 2 (2025) |
| Feel Like Makin' Love | Bad Company | 2 (2019) |
| Ghostbusters | Ray Parker Jr. | 2 (2018) |
| Gun Street Girl | Tom Waits | 2 (2020-2022) |
| I'm a Believer | Neil Diamond | 2 (2021) |
| Love Me Sexy | Jackie Moon | 2 (2019) |
| Maniac | Michael Sembello | 2 (2024) |
| Milestone 2 (Skux Life) | Moniker | 2 (2022-2024) |
| Rosa Lee McFall | Charlie Monroe | 2 (2019-2024) |
| Sco-Mule | Gov’t Mule | 2 (2019-2021) |
| Secret Agent Man | The Challengers | 2 (2019-2020) |
| Sirius | The Alan Parsons Project | 2 (2024) |
| Sleep Walk | Santo & Johnny | 2 (2019-2021) |
| Spain | Return to Forever | 2 (2022-2025) |
| True Love Waits | Radiohead | 2 (2024-2025) |
| Up on Cripple Creek | The Band | 2 (2016) |
| You and Whose Army? | Radiohead | 2 (2020-2021) |
| 99 Luftballons | Nena | 1 (2023) |
| A Tribute to Gold | Duke Herrington | 1 (2021) |
| All I Need | LP Giobbi | 1 (2023) |
| Bear | The Shouting Matches | 1 (2025) |
| Big Blue | Vampire Weekend | 1 (2023) |
| Born to Be Wild | Mars Bonfire | 1 (2022) |
| Burn the Witch | Radiohead | 1 (2025) |
| Burning Down the House | Talking Heads | 1 (2023) |
| Caravan | Duke Ellington and His Orchestra | 1 (2016) |
| Chocolate Town | Ween | 1 (2025) |
| Christmas Wrapping | The Waitresses | 1 (2019) |
| Circles | Post Malone | 1 (2023) |
| Cleaning Up the Town | The BusBoys | 1 (2018) |
| Don't Be Cruel | Otis Blackwell | 1 (2022) |
| Everybody Wants to Rule the World | Tears for Fears | 1 (2024) |
| Feliz Navidad | José Feliciano | 1 (2018) |
| Fire | The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 1 (2023) |
| Funky Bitch | Son Seals | 1 (2016) |
| Get Down Tonight | KC and the Sunshine Band | 1 (2024) |
| Head Over Heels | Tears for Fears | 1 (2020) |
| I Only Have Eyes for You | Harry Warren | 1 (2024) |
| I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles | Charles Hart & Elliott Shaw | 1 (2023) |
| I2I | Tevin Campbell | 1 (2024) |
| Innocent Son | Fleet Foxes | 1 (2021) |
| It's All Over Now, Baby Blue | Bob Dylan | 1 (2021) |
| It's My Life | Talk Talk | 1 (2022) |
| Jungle | Electric Light Orchestra | 1 (2023) |
| Jungle Boogie | Kool & the Gang | 1 (2023) |
| Kashmir | Led Zeppelin | 1 (2024) |
| Life Is a Carnival | The Band | 1 (2025) |
| Love and Happiness | Al Green | 1 (2019) |
| Lovely Day | Bill Withers | 1 (2020) |
| Main Title Theme (Ghostbusters) | Elmer Bernstein | 1 (2018) |
| Man in the Mirror | Michael Jackson | 1 (2023) |
| Master & a Hound | Gregory Alan Isakov | 1 (2025) |
| Mele Kalikimaka | Bing Crosby | 1 (2018) |
| Mirrors | Justin Timberlake | 1 (2023) |
| Never, Never Gonna Give You Up | Barry White | 1 (2019) |
| Night Moves | Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band | 1 (2019) |
| No California | Ilsey | 1 (2024) |
| Notorious | Duran Duran | 1 (2020) |
| On Our Own | Bobby Brown | 1 (2018) |
| Peach | Future Islands | 1 (2025) |
| Pigs (Three Different Ones) | Pink Floyd | 1 (2025) |
| Red Red Wine | Neil Diamond | 1 (2018) |
| Revival | The Allman Brothers Band | 1 (2017) |
| Run Through the Jungle | Creedence Clearwater Revival | 1 (2023) |
| Savin' The Day | Alessi | 1 (2018) |
| Sex on Fire | Kings of Leon | 1 (2023) |
| She Drives Me Crazy | Fine Young Cannibals | 1 (2017) |
| Shelter From the Storm | Bob Dylan | 1 (2020) |
| Slip Slidin' Away | Paul Simon | 1 (2024) |
| So Fresh, So Clean | OutKast | 1 (2022) |
| So I'm Growing Old on Magic Mountain | Father John Misty | 1 (2024) |
| Somebody's Watching Me | Rockwell | 1 (2025) |
| Soul Bossa Nova | Quincy Jones | 1 (2021) |
| Stand by Me | Ben E. King | 1 (2016) |
| Strange Overtones | Brian Eno & David Byrne | 1 (2025) |
| Stranger Things Theme | Survive | 1 (2024) |
| Sugar Mountain | Neil Young | 1 (2025) |
| Susie-Q | Dale Hawkins | 1 (2025) |
| Sweet Home Chicago | Robert Johnson | 1 (2019) |
| The Shape I'm In | The Band | 1 (2023) |
| This Year's Love | David Gray | 1 (2022) |
| Wake Up | Arcade Fire | 1 (2025) |
| War Pigs | Black Sabbath | 1 (2024) |
| Well, You Can Do It Without Me | Father John Misty | 1 (2020) |
| Why Can't We Be Friends? | War | 1 (2019) |
| Wild Mountain Thyme | Francis McPeake | 1 (2025) |
| Wild Summer Nights | John Cafferty | 1 (2023) |
| Wipe Out | The Surfaris | 1 (2024) |
Shows = how many of these 394 setlists include it, not every show Goose ever played. Each song links to the last setlist we saw it in. 10 songs from this week's and upcoming Covers puzzles are left off until they've been played.
Questions
What songs does Goose cover most?
In the 394 Goose setlists we looked at (2016-2025, from setlist.fm), the most-played covers are “ShamaLamma Ding Dong” (Otis Day & the Knights), “Turn On Your Love Light” (Bobby “Blue” Bland), “Baby Don't You Do It” (Marvin Gaye), “Disco Inferno” (The Trammps) and “The Way It Is” (Bruce Hornsby & the Range).
How many covers does Goose play?
Those 394 setlists include 188 different covers of songs by 152+ original artists.
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