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#3933153 - 04/01/14 07:12 PM Songs that you didn't know were covers at first....  
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What are some songs that you had no idea were covers when you first heard them? The song that first comes to my mind is "Susie Q". For years I thought that was an original song by Creedence Clearwater Revival until one day I was reading some stuff online and discovered that the song was written and recorded by a previous artist. The other song is "All Along the Watchtower". I didn't even know that was a Dylan song until I was in college. lol


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#3933157 - 04/01/14 07:27 PM Re: Songs that you didn't know were covers at first.... [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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I must admit I believed that "The man who sold the world" was genuinely from Nirvana ...when I learned it was composed by David Bowie I eventually understood why I was considering it being undoubtly the best of all Nirvana songs biggrin!

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#3933198 - 04/01/14 08:53 PM Re: Songs that you didn't know were covers at first.... [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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#3933215 - 04/01/14 09:26 PM Re: Songs that you didn't know were covers at first.... [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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I always thought Imagine was a John Lennon tune. Turns out a guy named Jesus wrote it a LONG time ago! Fun fact.

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When I first got into the Grateful Dead, half my favorites were Dylan, "Traditional", Holly, Berry, or some other arrangement of cover work. Proabably still true.

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Train kept a rollin by Areosmith


Here's the 1951 original version






The Yardbirds with Jeff Beck did a cover of it for the movie "Blow Up" in 1966. They couldn't get copyright sign off so they changed the lyrics and it's called "Stroll on". (pretty good version IMO)




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Peter, Paul & Mary's cover of Bob Dylan's, "Blowin' in the Wind".

If a rearrangement counts, Cream's, "Crossroads" was first Robert Johnson's "Crossroads Blues" (circa 1930's).

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Originally Posted By: CyBerkut
Peter, Paul & Mary's cover of Bob Dylan's, "Blowin' in the Wind".

If a rearrangement counts, Cream's, "Crossroads" was first Robert Johnson's "Crossroads Blues" (circa 1930's).


A WHOLE lot of "British Blues" were covers. The Beatles did a few covers too....and the Stones


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My memory is bad. But I remember "You are my sunshine" either the Mitchell or Cash version.. probably Anne Murray. Supposedly all three were covers for the original.

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Santana's version of "Black Magic Woman," Elvis' "Hound Dog" and Manfred Mann's "Blinded By The Light" immediately come to my mind.


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Summertime was not a Janis Joplin tune but its totally different from the original. A lot of rockabilly songs have been covered too (too many to list) that I thought were originals but were really Gene Vincent, Carl Perkins or etc....


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Speaking of Janis Joplin...



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I didn't realised that Love Buzz off Nirvana's Bleach album was a cover of the song by Shocking Blue. Gotta say the cover is a lot better than the original.


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As for covers of Blondie tracks, the less said the better.

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Originally Posted By: Clydewinder
Speaking of Janis Joplin...


Written and presumably first performed by Kris Kristofferson, though.

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Originally Posted By: Force10
Train kept a rollin by Areosmith

aerosmith? I thought it was Van Halen who did the cover
in about 1980. Anyway...

Quote:

Here's the 1951 original version




The Yardbirds with Jeff Beck did a cover of it for the movie "Blow Up" in 1966. They couldn't get copyright sign off so they changed the lyrics and it's called "Stroll on". (pretty good version IMO)




Yes, but they weren't just lifting Tiny Bradshaw, this was
an amalgamation. So get a load of this from 1956, and
recall as well Fleetwood Mac's Hi Ho Silver from Kiln House:





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I'm afraid for most of the songs mentioned here,
I clearly remember the first version on its
release, as well as the much later covers. Beyond
that, very few songs I didn't have some idea of the
source, many I suspected but didn't know the exact
origin.

Particularly the R&B things from Motown-wannabe labels.
Two I was pretty sure came from there but didn't hear
a confirmation for a few decades were



which came from here (an Isaac Hayes tune but he never
recorded it that I can discover):



Not surprising the original never penetrated my neck o'
the woods, it's a much weaker production than Cold Blood.

and this one



which came from here:



Written by Al Green, but buried as an album cut, the label chose
to release the Syl Johnson single, which didn't make it into my
region, though the Al Green version would have, I'm sure...

So, finally, this claims to be the original version of this song,
and it is certainly the best, sung by the writer, but I'm sure I heard
a creaky old version from the '60s done by his previous local
Toronto band on a radio station back in prehistoric times, however,
not even his Wikipedia page acknowledges that, so perhaps I just
got it confused with one of the covers, by 3 Dog Night, not the Rod
Stewart one, neither of which came close to this one, by one of my all
time favourite bands. And you may have thought one of the covers was
the original, so it sort of fits this thread, but it also just needs
to be heard:




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