"Wake Up Everybody" was covered

Cover version

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 in 1995 by British singer Sonia. It was produced by Steve Levine for fourth studio album Love Train - The Philly Album

Love Train - The Philly Album

Love Train – The Philly Album is the fourth studio album by British pop star Sonia. It was released in 1998 only as a promo, because Sonia was unhappy that her lead single from this album - "Wake Up Everybody" didn't enter the UK top 75, reaching #155. The album includes Motown covers...

(1998). The song was released as the album's first and final single. This single has two B-sides - "Show You the Way to Go

Show You the Way to Go

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" and "Nowhere Left to Hide". The first B-side appears on Sonia's fourth studio album. This single was the most unsuccessful single by Sonia (It reached #155 in UK). This was Sonia's last single until "Fool for Love" in 2009.

Track listings

CD & cassette

1. "Wake Up Everybody" - 3:38
2. "Show You the Way to Go" - 3:53
3. "Nowhere Left to Hide" - 3:29

2004 version

In 2004, a cover version was released to coincide with the 2004 presidential election. It features a collection of music stars who urge young people to go out and vote. The song was produced by Babyface, and features various prominent R&B singers and rappers. It was an airplay-only single. It reached #119 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs

Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs

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 Chart.

Artists

• Akon
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• Ashanti
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• Babyface
• Brandy
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• Claudette Ortiz
  Claudette Ortiz
  Claudette Ortiz is an American singer and model, most famous as the female in the R&B group City High.-Early life:Ortiz was born in Willingboro, New Jersey to Puerto Rican parents....
  
  
• Eve
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• Fabolous
  Fabolous
  John David Jackson , better known by his stage name Fabolous, is an American rapper of African American and Dominican descent. He grew up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. Part of his early popularity arose from his hit single "Can't Deny It" in 2001, from his debut...
  
  
• Faith Evans
  Faith Evans
  Faith Renée Evans is an American singer-songwriter, recording artist, record producer, actress and author. Born in Florida and raised in New Jersey, Evans relocated to Los Angeles during 1993 for a career with the music business. After working as a backing vocalist for Al B...
  
  
• Floetry
  Floetry
  Floetry was a British R&B duo comprising Marsha Ambrosius and Natalie Stewart . The group recorded two studio albums, one live album, and sold over 800,000 records worldwide. Formed in 1999, Floetry started on the performance poetry stage.In 2002, the duo released their first album entitled, Floetic...
  
  
• Jadakiss
  Jadakiss
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• Jaheim
  Jaheim
  Jaheim Hoagland is an American R&B singer and formerly a rapper performing under the mononymous name of Jaheim. He was signed by Naughty by Nature's Kaygee to Divine Mill Records in 2000, and released his debut album Ghetto Love in 2001. His second effort, Still Ghetto, was released a year later,...
  
  
• Jamie Foxx
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• Jon B
• Marques Houston
  Marques Houston
  Marques Barrett Houston is an American R&B singer, songwriter, rapper, and actor. A member of the R&B singing group Immature/IMx until 2002, he went solo in 2003. He is also the cousin of J-Boog, former member of the R&B/Hip-Hop group B2K....
  
  
• Mary J. Blige
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  Mary Jane Blige is an American singer-songwriter, record producer and occasional actress. She is a recipient of nine Grammy Awards and four American Music Awards, and has recorded eight multi-platinum albums. She is the only artist with Grammy Award wins in Pop, Rap, Gospel, and R&B. Blige has...
  
  
• Miri Ben-Ari
  Miri Ben-Ari
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• Missy Elliott
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• Monica
  Monica (singer)
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• Musiq Soulchild
• Omarion
  Omarion
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• Rev Run
• Wyclef Jean
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Other versions

• In 2001 UK producers Rae and Christian covered the song on their Sleepwalking album, with vocals by Bobby Womack
  Bobby Womack
  Robert Dwayne "Bobby" Womack is an American singer-songwriter and musician. An active recording artist since the early 1960s where he started his career as the lead singer of his family musical group The Valentinos and as Sam Cooke's backing guitarist, Womack's career has spanned more than 40...
  
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• The song was covered by American singer and actor Nick Scotti
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  Nick Scotti is an American actor, model and singer.Scotti left high school to travel the world for a career in modeling, moving to Japan at age 17 and France at age 19. In the process, he became a popular male model...
  
  . Released as the first single from his self-titled 1993 album, Scotti's version of the song reached #9 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play
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  The Hot Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly national survey of the songs that are most popular in U.S. dance clubs...
  
   chart in May of that year.
• In 2004, Blues singer Keb Mo also released the song "Wake up everybody" on his CD "Back By popular demand" which also contains covers like "Times they are a changing" by Bob Dylan and "Imagine" by John Lennon.
• In 2010, the song was covered by John Legend
  John Legend
  John Roger Stephens , better known by his stage name John Legend, is an American singer, musician, and actor. He is the recipient of nine Grammy Awards, and in 2007, he received the special Starlight award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame.Prior to the release of his debut album, Stephens' career...
  
   & The Roots
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  . Also featuring Common, and Melanie Fiona, it was the first single taken from their politically-themed album 'Wake Up!
  Wake Up! (John Legend and The Roots album)
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