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Title: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: Hello Goodbye on August 08, 2023, 12:17:56 AM: Let's start with...

You're No Good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxgwjC3Rxi4# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxgwjC3Rxi4#)
1975

(https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273c63e1b617cffb7ec9776b9b4)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xUisVuPt8M# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xUisVuPt8M#)

Delia Mae Warrick (Dee Dee Warwick), Dionne Warwick's sister 1963
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: Hello Goodbye on August 08, 2023, 12:52:19 AM: (There's) Always Something There To Remind Me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVrELhxOFnM# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVrELhxOFnM#)
1982

Written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, Dionne Warwick recorded a demo in 1963 and was belatedly released in 1968...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56m63bsQvB8# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56m63bsQvB8#)

The song was first charted by Lou Johnson, whose version reached No. 49 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the summer of 1964...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYAMigvWNC0# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYAMigvWNC0#)
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: Hello Goodbye on August 08, 2023, 12:53:23 AM: Sandie Shaw took the song to Number 1 in the UK later that year...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx5otxLS3qc# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx5otxLS3qc#)
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: Normandie on August 08, 2023, 02:11:18 AM: Interesting, Barry.

I thought I spotted another one in your posts with the listing of "Promises, Promises" on the cover of Dionne's album. Naked Eyes has a song with the same title. But I gave a listen, and they're not the same song. Oh well! roll:)
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: Hello Goodbye on August 08, 2023, 02:30:15 AM: No, Kathy. They're not nearly the same song.

You really can't go wrong with a song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David. In the American Bandstand video I posted, Lou Johnson also sang Kentucky Bluebird. Written by Bacharach and David as A Message To Michael, Dionne Warwick recorded it in 1966...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MTDISNZQ0Y# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MTDISNZQ0Y#)
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: Hello Goodbye on August 08, 2023, 02:46:25 AM: As an aside, Dionne and Dee Dee Warwick sang gospel songs with their family in the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark New Jersey. Here they are together on Hullabaloo singing Children Go Where I Send Thee...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WOzIULY0Wg# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WOzIULY0Wg#)
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: Hello Goodbye on August 08, 2023, 03:47:31 AM: Go Where You Wanna Go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfA8uoW8rRU# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfA8uoW8rRU#)
The 5th Dimension 1967 Their first single to chart

But John Phillips wrote the song and The Mamas and The Papas recorded it in 1965...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSL1yWOhHoQ# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSL1yWOhHoQ#)

The 5th Dimension sang "with whomever." So what if whoever is a subject pronoun and John Phillips made a grammatical mistake in his lyrics. I like the original version better. :)
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: Moogmodule on August 08, 2023, 06:10:26 AM: Another Linda Ronstadt.

https://youtu.be/srpwqf2MWAw (https://youtu.be/srpwqf2MWAw)

Originally

https://youtu.be/_TbfQPRgcS8 (https://youtu.be/_TbfQPRgcS8)
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: tkitna on August 08, 2023, 05:00:23 PM: Staying on the Ronstadt train,,,,,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFaJ73ZTa28# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFaJ73ZTa28#)

I like the original better actually.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B32fMlmffdo# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B32fMlmffdo#)
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: Hello Goodbye on August 08, 2023, 10:45:56 PM: Girls Just Want To Have Fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIb6AZdTr-A# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIb6AZdTr-A#)
Cyndi Lauper 1983

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6R1AXTL8SY# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6R1AXTL8SY#)
Robert Hazard 1979
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: Hello Goodbye on August 08, 2023, 11:39:05 PM: Got My Mind Set On You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_71w4UA2Oxo# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_71w4UA2Oxo#)
1987

I've Got My Mind Set On You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q62hr85Rkbw# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q62hr85Rkbw#)
James Ray 1963
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: Hello Goodbye on August 09, 2023, 03:01:35 AM: Suzie Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYNPr6LPYDg# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYNPr6LPYDg#)

Susie-Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIJIvfR1mjU# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIJIvfR1mjU#)
Dale Hawkins 1957

(http://www.rhino.com/sites/g/files/g2000012691/files/styles/article_image/public/116jamesburton.jpg?itok=BGYZPYY6)

James Burton on guitar
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: Hello Goodbye on August 10, 2023, 02:05:10 AM: It's All Over Now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_VSxeICaBw# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_VSxeICaBw#)
July 1964

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSrRXcCAilE# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSrRXcCAilE#)
The Valentinos January 1964
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: Hello Goodbye on August 10, 2023, 02:14:24 AM: Time Is On My Side

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEj8lUx0gwY# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEj8lUx0gwY#)
1964

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcn5rvwwvhM# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcn5rvwwvhM#)
Kai Winding 1963 Vocals by the Gospelaires - Dionne Warwick, Dee Dee Warwick & Cissy Houston
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: Hello Goodbye on August 11, 2023, 02:25:36 AM: The Tide Is High

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAb8Q9X2xAc# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAb8Q9X2xAc#)
1980

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQXqkiKXiHc# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQXqkiKXiHc#)
The Paragons 1967 Jamaican Rocksteady
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: Moogmodule on August 11, 2023, 01:22:12 PM: Quote from: Hello Goodbye on August 11, 2023, 02:25:36 AM
The Tide Is High

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAb8Q9X2xAc#[/url] ([url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAb8Q9X2xAc#[/url])
1980

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQXqkiKXiHc#[/url] ([url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQXqkiKXiHc#[/url])
The Paragons 1967 Jamaican Rocksteady

I was today years old when I found out this Blondie song was a cover.
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: Hello Goodbye on August 11, 2023, 09:55:23 PM: Quote from: Moogmodule on August 11, 2023, 01:22:12 PM
I was today years old when I found out this Blondie song was a cover.

I'm sure you meant twenty years old, Moog. I first heard The Paragon's recording around 1972. Three years prior to that, Desmond Dekker and The Aces had a big hit here with The Israelites...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j93X9A2etn4# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j93X9A2etn4#)

Soon after that, The Harder They Come hit the movie theaters. I soon became a fan of rocksteady, ska and reggae, buying a number of LPs on the Trojan label with these great Jamaican bands. I used to take vacations in The Caribbean and heard a lot of local bands playing this music. Even Faul, I mean Paul, was a fan and thus his early take of Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp4DDkHXaOs# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp4DDkHXaOs#)

I love this music!
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: Moogmodule on August 11, 2023, 10:54:09 PM: Quote from: Hello Goodbye on August 11, 2023, 09:55:23 PM
I'm sure you meant twenty years old, Moog. I first heard The Paragon's recording around 1972. Three years prior to that, Desmond Dekker and The Aces had a big hit here with The Israelites...

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No I’d never heard that before your post. Cool. icon_good
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: Hello Goodbye on August 12, 2023, 01:08:25 AM: Quote from: Moogmodule on August 11, 2023, 10:54:09 PM
No I’d never heard that before your post. Cool. icon_good

Moog, I'm pretty sure you knew this...

Red Red Wine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQUmmNWr10M# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQUmmNWr10M#)
UB40 1983

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLhLjPgFR_c# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLhLjPgFR_c#)
Neil Diamond 1967
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: Hello Goodbye on August 12, 2023, 01:27:18 AM: Neil Diamond liked UB40's reggae version...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EDW4ScJ4l4# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EDW4ScJ4l4#)
1992

:)
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: Moogmodule on August 12, 2023, 07:58:48 AM: Oh yeah. Hot August Night was huge in Australia. One of the biggest selling albums of the 70s here. Until You Don’t Give Me Flowers pretty much the only Neil Diamond sings I heard were of it.
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: Hello Goodbye on August 12, 2023, 08:15:09 PM: Moog, here in the United States Neil Diamond's first big hit was Sweet Caroline in August 1969.

Continuing with Neil Diamond...

I'm A Believer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiQUnxNEDqk# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiQUnxNEDqk#)
The Monkees

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mYBSayCsH0# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mYBSayCsH0#)
Smash Mouth

And Neil Diamond's original...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDgK6nfvX_s# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDgK6nfvX_s#)
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: Hello Goodbye on August 13, 2023, 03:10:56 AM: A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGSgJuKgvpw# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGSgJuKgvpw#)
The Monkees 1969

Yes, you guessed it, Neil Diamond wrote it and performed it at the Bitter End in Greenwich Village New York, August 1967...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQRuIiJQtpY# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQRuIiJQtpY#)
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: Hello Goodbye on August 15, 2023, 02:13:50 AM: Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kARCZRpucbQ# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kARCZRpucbQ#)
The Monkees

Neil diamond wrote this song for them. I couldn't find an early performance but I'm sure he sang it at a club date. I'll let this 2005 performance suffice...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE4FmlcVyho# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE4FmlcVyho#)
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: In My Life on August 15, 2023, 05:52:58 AM: Chubby Checker got a lot of mileage out of “The Twist” but he wasn’t the first to record it. That was Hank Ballard and The Midnighters in 1958. It was released as a B side in early 1959. Hank is credited as the writer but as this article (https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-recording-preservation-board/documents/TheTwist.pdf) on the Library of Congress website explains, the song has a twisty history.

The way it sounded first
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmITFioCu_0# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmITFioCu_0#)

Ernest Evans was a safer alternative to the “racy” Hank Ballard when American Bandstand wanted to put the song in America’s living rooms. Here he is on August 8, 1960, performing as Chubby Checker. It still sounded a lot like Hank!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmR00cErBdw# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmR00cErBdw#)
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: Hello Goodbye on August 15, 2023, 08:45:32 PM: Quote from: In My Life on August 15, 2023, 05:52:58 AM
Hank is credited as the writer but as this article ([url]https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-recording-preservation-board/documents/TheTwist.pdf[/url]) on the Library of Congress website explains, the song has a twisty history.

I'll say it does! Hank Ballard ripped off that song...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJj0DazbpUM# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJj0DazbpUM#)
1955
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: nimrod on August 16, 2023, 12:21:51 AM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teBV0EoJJY8&pp=ygUpY2FsbGluZyBvY2N1cGFudHMgb2YgaW50ZXJwbGFuZXRhcnkgY3JhZnQ%3D# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teBV0EoJJY8&pp=ygUpY2FsbGluZyBvY2N1cGFudHMgb2YgaW50ZXJwbGFuZXRhcnkgY3JhZnQ%3D#)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ4IUjjVfng&pp=ygUpY2FsbGluZyBvY2N1cGFudHMgb2YgaW50ZXJwbGFuZXRhcnkgY3JhZnQ%3D# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ4IUjjVfng&pp=ygUpY2FsbGluZyBvY2N1cGFudHMgb2YgaW50ZXJwbGFuZXRhcnkgY3JhZnQ%3D#)
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: In My Life on August 16, 2023, 02:22:02 AM: ^^^

Kev, The Carpenters’ version of this song was the only one I knew until I heard of Klaatu here. ;D
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: Hello Goodbye on August 21, 2023, 01:39:35 AM: Doo Wah Diddy Diddy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooeRA8ZhcoQ# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooeRA8ZhcoQ#)
Manfred Mann 1964

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6igZmjSLQOk# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6igZmjSLQOk#)
The Exciters 1963

Written and recorded as a demo in 1963 by Ellie Greenwhich and Jeff Barry...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYXOMGFrBiU# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYXOMGFrBiU#)
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: Hello Goodbye on August 22, 2023, 01:01:32 AM: Quote from: Hello Goodbye on August 21, 2023, 01:39:35 AM

Written and recorded as a demo in 1963 by Ellie Greenwhich and Jeff Barry...

Early on, Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry often sang back up vocals for Neil Diamond...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nD7fYwnjK4# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nD7fYwnjK4#)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhsVKYj-vh8# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhsVKYj-vh8#)
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: Hello Goodbye on August 24, 2023, 11:57:26 PM: Quote from: Hello Goodbye on August 22, 2023, 01:01:32 AM
Early on, Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry often sang back up vocals for Neil Diamond...

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhsVKYj-vh8#[/url] ([url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhsVKYj-vh8#[/url])

In 1967 Neil Diamond got kids to do just what their parents did twenty-five years earlier...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGnkBFsH0NQ&t=248s# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGnkBFsH0NQ&t=248s#)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYTmJ5OvBIc# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYTmJ5OvBIc#)

icon_good
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: Hello Goodbye on August 25, 2023, 11:01:27 PM: Here are the winners of the 1967 American Bandstand Swing Dance Contest...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC1PCAn4-Po&t=179s# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC1PCAn4-Po&t=179s#)

icon_good icon_good
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: Normandie on October 03, 2023, 04:16:03 AM: Looks like there are a lot of covers out there, including by Tom Jones (pass!) and Jennifer Lopez (pass, again):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4-1ASpdT1Y# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4-1ASpdT1Y#)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LhkyyCvUHk# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LhkyyCvUHk#)
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: Normandie on October 03, 2023, 04:28:38 AM: Going in reverse order this time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZQxH_8raCI# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZQxH_8raCI#)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU6XckAxRrw# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU6XckAxRrw#)

This may be sacrilege to some, but I personally prefer the version by Doctor and the Medics.

I made it through this version until the vocals started <cringe>. I think Peter Frampton sounds great, so I had some hope, but when William Shatner started "singing" <cringe> . . . I didn't make it past 00:39. ha2ha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRpwHqVU1YA# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRpwHqVU1YA#)
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: Normandie on October 03, 2023, 07:00:20 AM: Quote from: Normandie on October 03, 2023, 04:28:38 AM
Going in reverse order this time:

I just realized that makes my post stray into off-topic areas. Apologies!
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: Hello Goodbye on October 03, 2023, 10:17:42 PM: Quote from: Normandie on October 03, 2023, 04:28:38 AM

I made it through this version until the vocals started <cringe>. I think Peter Frampton sounds great, so I had some hope, but when William Shatner started "singing" <cringe> . . . I didn't make it past 00:39. ha2ha

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRpwHqVU1YA#[/url] ([url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRpwHqVU1YA#[/url])

I enjoyed William Shatner's narration of Spirit in the Sky set to Peter Frampton's score...

(https://static1.colliderimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Shatner-in-Space-3-1.jpg)

(https://static1.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/william-shatner-space.jpg)

Live long and prosper, Captain.

(https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.DcEsfIFt_MMuY1mofu6f4QAAAA?pid=ImgDet&rs=1)
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: Hello Goodbye on November 04, 2023, 06:56:04 PM: Going Up The Country

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK_SntrRw6c# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK_SntrRw6c#)
Canned Heat 1969

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8NJ-MIfFHI# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8NJ-MIfFHI#)
Henry Thomas 1928
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: Moogmodule on November 04, 2023, 09:51:17 PM: Didn’t know that was a cover.
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: nimrod on November 04, 2023, 11:10:57 PM: Quote from: Moogmodule on November 04, 2023, 09:51:17 PM
Didn’t know that was a cover.

Neither did I icon_redface
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: Hello Goodbye on November 05, 2023, 02:18:39 AM: Kev and Moog, I learned about Henry Thomas when I started taking blues guitar lessons in 1972. During one of my lessons I played and sang Going Up The Country during a break. Ian Buchanan said "Those aren't the words." He played Going Up The Country (also called Bull Doze Blues) with the lyrics you just heard.

Henry Thomas also played the pan pipes on that recording as he did on this one...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LrMNbDP8Vg# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LrMNbDP8Vg#)

icon_good

Kev, did you get The Beat-Club on British television?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CovOqt-chU8# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CovOqt-chU8#)

(https://i.postimg.cc/J8SPfvrR/Beat-Club-Girl.jpg)

The girl introducing Canned Heat would be about 80 years old today!
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: nimrod on November 05, 2023, 02:48:18 AM: No I don't remember that Baz..
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: Hello Goodbye on November 05, 2023, 11:26:21 PM: We didn't get Beat-Club here in the US either, Kev.

We didn't get Top Of The Pops here either. At least now we have YouTube so we can see the artists that appeared on both shows.
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: Hello Goodbye on November 06, 2023, 06:24:00 AM: Bette Davis Eyes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyRosnwO_mg# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyRosnwO_mg#)
Kim Carnes 1981

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9R2tiCnI6c# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9R2tiCnI6c#)
Written and composed by Donna Weiss and Jackie DeShannon in 1974 and recorded by Jackie DeShannon that same year
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: Hello Goodbye on January 02, 2024, 11:49:06 PM: I'm Henry The VIII, I Am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFNoDsOmluA# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFNoDsOmluA#)
Herman's Hermits 1965

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkbE4URVcKY# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkbE4URVcKY#)
Harry Champion 1911
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: Normandie on January 04, 2024, 03:41:21 AM: ^^^^^

I had no idea that was a cover—and that the original was so old!
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: Hello Goodbye on January 04, 2024, 03:56:10 AM: ^

Herman's Hermits also covered Leaning on a Lamp-post...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEymZ3rXOmc# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEymZ3rXOmc#)
1937

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYFPd7VVvJQ# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYFPd7VVvJQ#)
1966

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKu3N6o5qvE# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKu3N6o5qvE#)
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: Hello Goodbye on January 04, 2024, 04:21:46 AM: I'm Into Something Good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qor9vtS3vCw# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qor9vtS3vCw#)

I'm Into Somethin' Good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M45K92SMcxA# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M45K92SMcxA#)
Earl-Jean McCrea (of The Cookies) Written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: Hello Goodbye on January 04, 2024, 04:41:13 AM: There's A Kind Of Hush

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfG4UO3ySms# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfG4UO3ySms#)
1967

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RoWfBSpzdk# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RoWfBSpzdk#)
The New Vaudeville Band 1966
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: Hello Goodbye on January 04, 2024, 05:05:19 AM: Y'all might remember The New Vaudeville Band...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmLqL6HlwNg# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmLqL6HlwNg#)

...which was covered by...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iie-0_DHJjg# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iie-0_DHJjg#)

...and...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKi42jNhLTk# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKi42jNhLTk#)

...and a few others.
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: Hello Goodbye on January 06, 2024, 04:41:27 AM: Get Together

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xGxQXmu7Os# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xGxQXmu7Os#)
The Youngbloods 1967

Let's Get Together

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibPM2HeM3Mw# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibPM2HeM3Mw#)
Chet Powers (Dino Valenti) 1963

Some will come and some will go but
We shall surely pass
When the one who left us here
Returns for us at last
We are but a moment's sunlight
Fading on the grass
C'mon people now,
Smile on your brother
Let me see you get together
Try and love one another right now

I'm fortunate to have come of age in those times.
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: Hello Goodbye on January 06, 2024, 07:43:29 AM: Crossroads

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HfkSzsyh1E# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HfkSzsyh1E#)
Cream 1968

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DES2KOq5SoE# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DES2KOq5SoE#)
Royal Albert Hall 2005

Cross Road Blues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtDlZdhHRCI# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtDlZdhHRCI#)
Robert Johnson 1936
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: Hello Goodbye on January 06, 2024, 08:07:20 AM: I'm So Glad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTZ4IYPy_cE# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTZ4IYPy_cE#)
Cream 1968

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTDQrgb7nhE# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTDQrgb7nhE#)
Skip James 1931
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: nimrod on January 07, 2024, 01:41:43 AM: Quote from: Hello Goodbye on January 06, 2024, 07:43:29 AM
Crossroads

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HfkSzsyh1E#[/url] ([url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HfkSzsyh1E#[/url])
Cream 1968

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DES2KOq5SoE#[/url] ([url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DES2KOq5SoE#[/url])
Royal Albert Hall 2005

Cross Road Blues

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtDlZdhHRCI#[/url] ([url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtDlZdhHRCI#[/url])
Robert Johnson 1936

Interesting Baz.
I've always maintained that Clapton never sounded as good when he switched to playing a fender strat. That first clip with the gibson sounds way way better, (compare the first solos on both tracks) he played gibsons all through his Mayall & Cream days and his playing always suited the gibson humbucker sound. Playing a strat he always sounds a bit limp to me.
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: Hello Goodbye on January 07, 2024, 03:41:44 AM: I agree, Kev. The Gibson ES-335 he's playing is semi-hollow. Coupled with its Humbuckers, you get that richer sound.
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: Hello Goodbye on January 07, 2024, 03:59:00 AM: (https://i.pinimg.com/originals/24/3b/ae/243bae86068a58405717d26d7937195d.png)
Title: Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
Post by: Normandie on January 19, 2024, 02:42:50 PM: I Want Candy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBN19FnT13Y# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBN19FnT13Y#)

Bow Wow Wow—1982

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drfiJ5YKBpM&t=28s# (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drfiJ5YKBpM&t=28s#)

The Strangeloves—1965