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PostPosted: 12/12/12 11:11 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote

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Original by Fred Neil in 1966

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Original by The Clique in 1969

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Original by Gloria Jones in 1964

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PostPosted: 12/12/12 11:32 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote

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Original by The Undisputed Truth in 1971

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PostPosted: 12/12/12 11:34 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote

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Original by Erma Franklin in 1967

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Reportedly when Franklin heard Joplin's cover she didn't even recognize it as the same song



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Original by The Family in 1985

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Original by Mark James in 1968

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Original by The Arrows in 1976

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Original by Richard Berry and the Pharoahs in 1957

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Original by Daniel Johnston in 1981

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PostPosted: 12/28/12 12:59 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote

To me a great cover is something that takes a song and makes it different from the original...that makes it their own that can stand alone next to the original. Or even better.

Some Examples (Not already mentioned here of which there are some doozies Smile ):

Sonic Youth's dark cover of the Carpenter's Superstar

Dynamite Hack's FOLK cover of Easy E's Boys In the Hood

Black Crowes' version of Hard to Handle (one of my fave songs PERIOD)

Cardigan's Lounge act cover of Black Sabbath's Iron Man

Willie Nelson Covering the Scientist (And somehow made that song darker than the original)

The Ramones' cover of Surfin Bird (They made one of the worst songs ever written into something with a melody...that is why they're hall of fame quality folks LOL)

That's column A, Column B deals with songs that were overpopped and lost much of their meaning in the original or hit versions. Their covers reclaimed their essence and made BOTH versions more enjoyable.

Some Examples:

Gary Jules' Cover of Mad World by Tears for Fears

Placebo's Cover of Running up that Hill by Kate Bush

and a more mainstream example

Barenaked Ladies' cover of Bruce Cockburn's Lovers in a Dangerous time, a song that always hits me emotionally when things get poltically FD up...well written but the original was too 80s fied



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PostPosted: 03/14/13 4:48 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

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PostPosted: 08/20/13 6:03 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote

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Original:

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PostPosted: 08/20/13 7:29 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote

An Oldie. the locomotion by grand funk vs little eva



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PostPosted: 08/31/13 6:46 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

Jeff Buckley's cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah". One of those songs where the cover has become the version you think of first, whenever it is mentioned.

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PostPosted: 09/28/13 12:00 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

From the "I bet you didn't know this was a cover" department:

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIb6AZdTr-A

A song originally written by and for a man!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aLNwOxPsjg



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PostPosted: 10/02/13 8:33 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

Everyone knows and loves this song from 1997

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV1XWJN3nJo

It was first recorded by Danish artist Lis Sorensen in 1993

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO5syjCX0xs

The first English recording was by a band called Ednaswap in 1995

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFUl3CNuzpE



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PostPosted: 04/29/14 8:05 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

Everyone knows 1985's Holding Back the Years by Simply Red:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG07WSu7Q9w

What you probably didn't know is that it's a cover of a song from 1982 by punk band Frantic Elevators

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeQb_V2W-JA



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PostPosted: 05/11/14 10:01 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote

Since I mentioned The Supremes version of Someday We'll Be Together, it seemed like a good time to note that it is a cover.

The original was by Johnny and Jackey in 1961

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXGz8i0I2L0

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PostPosted: 05/11/14 10:57 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote

The best cover ever, imo:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0WG-ZUUOsg



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PostPosted: 06/17/14 8:02 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

Another one you probably didn't know was a cover, from 1987

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BQLE_RrTSU

Originally recorded by Franke and the Knockouts in 1981. Franke Previte wrote the song.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RquN0kdR9qE

They used the Franke and the Knockouts version when filming Dirty Dancing but ultimately failed to get the rights and had to have Medley and Warnes record it. Patrick Swayze reportedly preferred the original.



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PostPosted: 06/18/14 9:49 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote

pilight wrote:
Another one you probably didn't know was a cover, from 1987

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BQLE_RrTSU

Originally recorded by Franke and the Knockouts in 1981. Franke Previte wrote the song.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RquN0kdR9qE

They used the Franke and the Knockouts version when filming Dirty Dancing but ultimately failed to get the rights and had to have Medley and Warnes record it. Patrick Swayze reportedly preferred the original.


Sort of, but not exactly. Previte indeed wrote the song, but he wrote it specifically for the movie. He recorded a demo of it, but the producers didn't plan to use his version. That demo was then later recorded on a reissue of that Franke and Knockouts 1981 album - it didn't appear on the original because it hadn't be written yet.

Had the song been written and released earlier - it would not have been eligible for the Best Original Song Academy Award that it won for 1987.


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In honor of the death of Paul Revere (of the Raiders) over the weekend, let's note that the band's biggest hit, Indian Reservation, was a cover.

I posted the Raiders hit 1971 version in Revere's RIP thread here:

http://boards.rebkell.net/viewtopic.php?t=82078

The original was by an actual Native American, Marvin Rainwater, in 1959


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIpRJlWV0AM



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Elvis' last top 10 hit...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf2VYAtqRe0

...was a cover

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVPS0ETuUYE

Arthur Alexander's version does not have the "Hunk-a Hunk-a Burning Love" outro



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PostPosted: 04/24/17 2:21 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

One of my favorite recent covers is Clapton's rendition of Little Wing on his Live in San Diego album (with Derek Trucks and Doyle Bramhall II).

This Hendrix piece is obviously oft-covered, but another one of my favorite (and different than usual) renditions of Little Wing is by The Corrs. If you heard this without knowing its origin, I doubt you would associate it with Jimi Hendrix.

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