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• Bill Stocker from Lake Helen, FlWhat about the Janis Joplin version. That one is my personal favorite.
• HobeThe Bygones - Plastic Jesus A full version definitely not religious and it maybe closer to what the song was intended to be. I don’t know they do a good job of a more modern version.
  
  A youtube clip of the two. They both play it solo I believe, but this is right on the money if you ask me. When they play it as the Bygones. https://youtu.be/PFhy8SSoVdk
• Bigmamma from SocalWas not written by Ernie (Eddy [sic]) Marrs. It was written by Ed Rush and George Cromarty in 1957 as a spoof commercial.
• Al Cooper from OhioI remember Don Imus singing a modified version of this when he was on WHK in Cleveland. I’m sure he took it to New York also.
• Gloria from East CoastI remember the first few lyrics of this song playing on the radio when I was a young girl. I think it was WABC. Sure do miss those days.
• Just Me from West CoastI drive a Japanese import. Does that mean I need a plastic Amaterasu on my dashboard?
• Nicki Minaj from Area 51This song SLAAAAAAAYS
• Anonymous from AnonThis is the best song I have ever heard. I am going to sing this at my school's talent show. Nothing more compelling than a good folk song and my wicked banjo skills.
• Jay from CanadaWhy did you have to say 50 eggs Luke?
• Toms Too Old from Columbus, GaI was with a college friend when we met a guy my friend(a real folks song nut) introduced as the man that wrote "Plastic Jesus" this was in Little 5points in Atlanta. This was in 1967. His name wasn't Eddy Mars
• Tim from 18944Gail holiday and the honky tonk revue, do a good version
• Jan from Port Townsend, WaEddy Mars is a character in the movie THE BIG SLEEP, and other sources do seem to back up Nat, of Atlanta GA, in his statement that the singer's name is ERNIE Marrs. And a round of applause for IceCherry, of Kingston, PA, for the joke about that famous writing team of TRAD and ANON, who have been turning out a lot of great work for quite a while, bless 'em.
  Jan, Port Townsend, WA
• Nat from Atlanta, GaAnd I never recall him ever claiming to have written Plastic Jesus. Ernie's claim to fame was that he could recall every lyric to any folk song you could name, including all the dirty lyrics. I never saw the man anything but completely drunk. He was some piece of work.
• Nat from Atlanta, GaActually, his name was "Ernie". That's my father and sister you hear singing with him.
• Icecherry from Kingston, PaI have yet to hear any other version of this song. I have seen "cool hand luke", but it's been awhile since I cannot remember this song as performed in the movie. I would like to get the best version of the song, to me, a version that is easy to listen to, as billy Idol's version or the "jackass" version I probably would not like. I printed out the lyrics to the song, and listed at the top under "artist" is TRAD AND ANON. I have yet to come across anything done by them, however as I am writing this, I am still looking. Anybody have any info on Trad and Anon's version?
• The Last Dj from Hell.a., CaPaul Newman rocked this song in "Cool Hand Luke" and all he had was a banjo. Plus the propeller from the fan was going which made for great distortion as well as distraction. You feel his pain when he sings his melancholy tribute to his departed mother. And while it is not flawless, the imperfection most notable when he stops to take a breath or to hold back tears adds a distinctive character to the song.
• Ekristheh from Halath, United StatesI don't know just what to do now that I've got that plastic Cthulhu crouchin' on the dashboard of my car -- I don't need no cross nor pentacles now that I've got that thing with tentacles crouchin' on the dashboard of my car.
• Mike from Mountlake Terrace, WaLuke sings this as -
  "Well, I don't care if it rains or freezes, long as I got my plastic Jesus, sittin' on the dashboard of my car.
  Comes in colors, pink and pleasant, glows in the dark cause it's irridescent
  Take it with you when you travel far.
  Get yourself a sweet Madonna, dressed in rhinestones sittin' on a pedestal of abalone shell
  Goin' ninety, I ain't scary [sic - 'wary'], 'cause I've got the Virgin Mary, assurin' me that I won't go to Hell.
  Get yourself a sweet Madonna, dressed in rhinestones sittin' on a pedestal of abalone shell
  Goin' ninety, I ain't scary, 'cause I've got the Virgin Mary, assurin' me that I won't go to Hell."
  In the film Cool Hand Luke
  
  
• Jamie from Chicago, IlThis was also covered by Jello Biafra (with Mojo Nixon) on their album "Prairie Home Invasion."
• Sam from Philippi, WvBilly Idol also did a cover of the song "Plastic Jesus" on his 2005 album "Devil's PLayground." It's by far one of the most incumbusing versions as it includes the classic Goldcoast Singers verses as well as some generally accepted add-ins.

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