Cover
Cover verb - To serve as a replacement usually for a time only.
Hit on
Both terms in one sentence
- A 2010 cover by indie electronic band Crystal Castles featuring Robert Smith of The Cure on vocals proved to be a sizable hit on American alternative radio.
Source: Covered Up -
In Chapter 8 alone, he gets covered in motor grease, gets hit on the head by a falling hammer, and has a partially plucked chicken cover his face and fill his mouth with dust and feathers—all in the same incident.
Source: Literature / Sprat Morrison - Carlisle's (the original) was a big hit on adult contemporary and pop radio but didn't enter the Billboard Hot 100 due a chart quirk involving a lack of physical single release; as a result, only the Raybon Brothers' cover made it into the Top 30 of the Billboard Hot 100.
Source: Covered Up
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