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.