Happy Birthday to Elvis Costello!

Singer Elvis Costello performs at "A Celebration of Paul Newman's Dream" to benefit "SeriousFun" an association of Hole in the Wall Camps at Avery Fisher Hall on Monday, April 2, 2012 in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)
by Benham Jones | 08/25/2025 | 5:00am

Elvis Costello (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)

Today we're wishing a happy 71st birthday to Elvis Costello. Give us your favorite tracks from Elvis, anything he's been involved in, and covers of his songs by others. We pumped it up after 9 a.m. -- here's what we played:

- Welcome to the Working Week
- Kidney Now (from "30 Rock")
- When That I Was and a Tiny Little Boy (Shakespeare sonnet)
- Allison (Everything but the Girl covering)
- Back on My Feet (Paul McCartney demo)
- I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself (Burt Bacharach cover, Live Session at West 54th St, 10/18/1998)

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