ELVIS COSTELLO Kojak Variety (War-ner Bros.) On this oddball selection of
covers, only a few cuts (e.g., Dyl-an's "I Threw It All Away") make sense
for Costello's bristly idiosyncratic vocalizing. Despite being a great
songwriter, he's never going to outsing Little Richard, as his geeky
version of "Bama Lama Bama Loo" makes clear. B- --Dimitri Ehrlich