Little April Shower - Renee Sandstrom

Heigh-ho, Disney cover song fans! Kurtis has once again given me the honor of presenting one of my favorite Disney song covers on his wonderful blog. I'm Brian Ibbott, host and producer of the Coverville Podcast and Radio Show, which you'll find at Coverville.com.

My choice this time around was a lot tougher. I wanted to pick something that Kurtis hadn't featured before, but was still cool and entertaining. Some of my favorite Disney covers have been featured recently, so I had to dig a lot deeper to find some uncharted territory.

The song comes from DISNEY CUTIES, a mostly-forgettable album which tried to combine the music of Disney with techno rhythms (gee, how could THAT not work). For the same reasons that combination fails on the other songs on the album, it succeeds well on the cover of Little April Shower, whose drips and drops bounce fluidly with the synthesizer plops, and whose vocals - though mainstream - balance well with the instrumentation, not distracting, but complementing.

It's not the most brilliant cover, by any means, but it's cool, it's entertaining, and it works!