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.
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.
I got my wife with one of these just last night. She heard Joan Baez singing "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" on the radio. I told her how I always liked that song, but I liked The Band's original version better. She was like "No, it's Joan Baez's song...I have the album." Nope, sorry hun.
Black Crowes did a memorable cover of an Otis Redding tune that I thought was an original.
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#3933381 - 04/02/1412:31 PMRe: Songs that you didn't know were covers at first....
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Blue Moon. I thought it was a Marcels song until I saw Cybil Shepherd singing the original version on Moonlighting. I then looked it up (which was harder in the pre-internet 80's than it is now!) and found it was a Rodgers and Hart song from 1934, almost 30 years earlier!
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#3933589 - 04/02/1407:57 PMRe: Songs that you didn't know were covers at first....
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You Really Got Me originally by The Kinks then covered by Van Halen
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#3933594 - 04/02/1408:09 PMRe: Songs that you didn't know were covers at first....
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Originally Posted By: letterboy1
You Really Got Me originally by The Kinks then covered by Van Halen
Both versions kick ass. That's right, didn't VH also do a cover of "Pretty Woman"?
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#3933613 - 04/02/1409:06 PMRe: Songs that you didn't know were covers at first....
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Many groups started out with a cover or two as their hits.
Just thought of another one, Blue Suede Shoes. I had thought it was an Elvis song for years. I was in college before I heard the original Perkins version.
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#3933876 - 04/03/1401:43 PMRe: Songs that you didn't know were covers at first....
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Originally Posted By: Jedi Master
Many groups started out with a cover or two as their hits.
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Yup, like Tiffany. In fact her only 2 hits were covers.
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#3934117 - 04/03/1408:38 PMRe: Songs that you didn't know were covers at first....
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One of my favourite tracks by the Black Crowes 'Oh Sweet Nuthin' turned out to be a cover of a Velvet Underground original. Personally I prefer the Crowes version.