ETVKK Sings the Hits

ETVKK Sings The Hits (known outside the El Kadsreian Islands as  Kids for Character!) is a 2004 covers album released by El TV Kadsre Records and Second Beat Records, featuring the characters from ETVKK's series singing covers of a variety of songs. It is the follow-up to ETVKK Sings the Blues.

"One Bad Apple" (performed by Franklin characters Jack Rabbit and Rabbit) was released as a single by El Kadsreian Melody in El Kadsre and BMG in Canada. It charted at #40 on the El Kadsreian Top 100 and at #10 on the Canadian Singles Chart.

Tracklist

 * 1) "Counting the Beat" (Stiggs/Judd/Hillman) - as Matthias and  as Cornflower
 * 2) "Shake It Up" (Ocasek) - as Rainbow Brite with backing vocals and interjections from The Characters
 * 3) "Around the World (La La La La La)" (Potekhin/Zhukov/Christensen/Könemann) -  as Cornflower, Klea Staggers singing as Sagwa Miao,  as Fern Walters, and  as Janin
 * 4) "Yo Little Brother" (Godwin/Josephs) - Klea Staggers singing as Sagwa Miao
 * 5) "Maniac" (Matkosky/Sembello) - Jacie Brisby singing as Charley Bones/Zapman with speaking parts by Emma Taylor-Isherwood as Mona Parker/Mona the Vampire
 * 6) "Magic" (Ocasek) - as Matthias, Montana Wigley singing as Darren, and  as Sagwa Miao
 * 7) "One Bad Apple" (Jackson; rap - Chisolm) - as Jack Rabbit and Mitchell Eisner as Rabbit
 * 8) "Mr. Blue Sky" (Lynne) - as Rainbow Brite and Montana Wigley singing as Darren with backing vocals and interjections from The Characters
 * 9) "You Might Think" (Ocasek) - The Chuckle Brothers
 * 10) "The Birth of the Odyssey (Monkey Magic)" (Yoshino/Narahashi/Takekawa) - Klea Staggers singing as Sagwa Miao, Harrison Chad as Boots the Monkey, Thor Bishopric as The Monkey King, and Martin Berger as Mango
 * 11) "It's Not the Night" (Ocasek) - Sheila Rupnik singing as Peanut Otter and as Matthias with backing vocals by The Characters
 * 12) "Hot Stuff" (Bellotte/Faltermeyer/Forsey) - Sonja Ball as Beauty Stem with backing vocals by as Rainbow Brite,  as Cornflower and Klea Staggers singing as Sagwa Miao
 * 13) "Owner of a Lonely Heart" (Rabin/Anderson/Squire/Horn) - The Characters
 * 14) "Turn to Stone" (Lynne) - as Bear with backing vocals by  as Matthias and Jack Rabbit, Klea Staggers singing as Sagwa Miao, Martin Berger as Montgomery Moose and Mango, Amanda Craughwell as Eckhart Fielding, Harrison Chad as Boots the Monkey, Sheila Rupnik singing as Peanut Otter,  as Rainbow Brite, Montana Wigley singing as Darren, and the Chuckle Brothers
 * 15) "Come On Eileen" (Rowland/Paterson/Adams) - The Presenters and Characters

Personnel

 * Holger Østerberg - guitar ("Magic", "The Birth of the Odyssey (Monkey Magic)", "Turn to Stone")
 * Åsmund "Bloodslayer" Stokkeland - guitar ("Owner of a Lonely Heart")
 * - guitar ("Owner of a Lonely Heart", "One Bad Apple", "Hot Stuff")
 * Ulrik Warholm - guitar
 * Jake Conway - guitar ("Shake It Up")
 * Jóhann Traustason - rhythm guitar
 * Carl Skoglund - rhythm guitar
 * Helene Solås - acoustic guitar ("Turn to Stone")
 * Philip Mannsåker - bass
 * Rita Wisløff - bass
 * Felix Tellefsen - keyboards
 * Karen Skoglund - keyboards
 * Ralph Koht - keyboards
 * Jake Conway - keyboards
 * Ludvig Froseth - keyboards
 * Matias Valla - drums
 * Marius Rask - drums
 * Kick Horns - horn section
 * , - orchestral elements

Staff

 * Engineering by:
 * Irnes Skoglund, Carl Skoglund, Jonas Foss, Karel Rommedahl, Øyvind Esmark - Heart Beat Studios, Oslo, Norway
 * Dave Fountaine, Max Fountaine, Louis Balogh - Songplex Studios, El Kadsre City, El Kadsre
 * Michael Keire - Threshold Recording Studios, Hamilton, Ontario
 * Justin Douglas, François Lalonde - Studio Piccolo, Montréal, Québec
 * André Rafael - AR Studios, Rio de Janerio, Brazil