UNDER THE COVERS: Everybody is doing remakes...

UNDER THE COVERS: Everybody is doing remakes these days. Just look at the singles charts--Club Nouveau had a big hit with Bill Withers’ “Lean on Me.” Bananarama did Shocking Blue’s “Venus.” Kim Wilde took a shot at the Supremes’ “You Keep Me Hanging On.” Right now, Pseudo Echo have a hit with Lipps Inc.’s “Funkytown.” (Siouxsie & the Banshees’s recent album was all covers.) So it’s no surprise that the upcoming sound track to “Back to the Beach,” due out July 31 on Columbia Records, is virtually all remakes--and some strange ones to boot. They include new versions of “Wipe Out” by Herbie Hancock (with Dweezil Zappa on guitar), “California Sun” by film co-star Frankie Avalon, “Woolly Bully” by Dave Edmunds, “Pipeline” featuring the dueling guitars of Stevie Ray Vaughn and Dick Dale, and (we’ve saved the best for last) “Surfin’ Bird,” a 1963 hit for the Trashmen that has been revived by none other than Pee-wee Herman.