E's unreleased Cover EP

release date: scheduled for 1992 / 1993
label: Polydor

tracklisting:
01 Angel [Madonna]
02 The Great Pretender [The Platters]
03 Friends [Elton John]
04 Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter [Herman's Hermits]

In an interview published in the June 26, 1992 issue of BAM magazine E was in high spirits. His debut album A Man Called (E) had been praised by critics and fans alike and with a tour as a support act for Tori Amos coming up, he must have felt like he was on top of the world. "I'm really sucked into the next record", E said. "I'm always writing new songs and recording them. I've also been recording some B-sides for future singles in San Francisco at a studio called 'Studio D', which is a great studio. There's also a possibility that I will do an EP of cover tunes in between this album and my next one. I'm currently working on a Madonna song called 'Angel' - I do it as a kind of sad, country-blues song. And then I'm also recording 'Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter', which was a hit in the mid-'60s for Herman's Hermits."

Up at Studio D, a place known for working with - amongst many others - Faith No More, Mother Love Bone, Soundgarden, Santana and Aretha Franklin, E had been working with engineer Joel Jaffe. It's unclear if E did actually record these covers as possible B-sides at Studio D, or that he recorded yet unknown songs at the studio and did the recording of those covers at home in his 'Chateau E'. Fact is that the cover EP never saw the light of day. In December 1993 his second album Broken Toy Shop was released and soon after E's deal with Polydor folded. That wasn't the end of the songs though.

The first to see the light of day was The Great Pretender, which popped up in 1994 on a PolyGram Labels Group promotional cd called Cream Of Cuts. About that same time E compiled a cassette called Ultra Rare Trax for friends and fans (more on that one in the 'demo (and other) tapes' section of this site) and along with live-tracks and other fun stuff to listen to, he put both Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter and Angel on the tape. The latter resurfaced in 1998 when it showed up on a Scandinavian PolyGram promotional compilation called Chartbusters 20-i-Toppar. The cover of Elton John's Friends found it's way to yet another PolyGram compilation; 18 Original Hits By 18 Unoriginal Artists.