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Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
« on: August 08, 2023, 12:17:56 AM »
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You're No Good


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Delia Mae Warrick (Dee Dee Warwick), Dionne Warwick's sister   1963
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Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2023, 12:52:19 AM »
(There's) Always Something There To Remind Me


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


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


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Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
« Reply #2 on: August 08, 2023, 12:53:23 AM »
Sandie Shaw took the song to Number 1 in the UK later that year...


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Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
« Reply #3 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:)
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Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
« Reply #4 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...


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Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
« Reply #5 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...


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Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
« Reply #6 on: August 08, 2023, 03:47:31 AM »
Go Where You Wanna Go


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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...


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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.   :)

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Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
« Reply #7 on: August 08, 2023, 06:10:26 AM »
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Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
« Reply #8 on: August 08, 2023, 05:00:23 PM »
Staying on the Ronstadt train,,,,,

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I like the original better actually.

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Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
« Reply #9 on: August 08, 2023, 10:45:56 PM »
Girls Just Want To Have Fun


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Cyndi Lauper   1983



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Robert Hazard   1979



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Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
« Reply #10 on: August 08, 2023, 11:39:05 PM »
Got My Mind Set On You

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I've Got My Mind Set On You

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James Ray   1963
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« Reply #11 on: August 09, 2023, 03:01:35 AM »
Suzie Q

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Susie-Q

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Dale Hawkins   1957





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Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
« Reply #12 on: August 10, 2023, 02:05:10 AM »
It's All Over Now


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July 1964



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The Valentinos   January 1964
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« Reply #13 on: August 10, 2023, 02:14:24 AM »
Time Is On My Side


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1964



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Kai Winding   1963   Vocals by the Gospelaires - Dionne Warwick, Dee Dee Warwick & Cissy Houston
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Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
« Reply #14 on: August 11, 2023, 02:25:36 AM »
The Tide Is High


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1980



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The Paragons   1967   Jamaican Rocksteady
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Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
« Reply #15 on: August 11, 2023, 01:22:12 PM »
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The Tide Is High


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1980



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The Paragons   1967   Jamaican Rocksteady




I was today years old when I found out this Blondie song was a cover.
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« Reply #16 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...


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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...


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I love this music!





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Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
« Reply #17 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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« Reply #18 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

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UB40   1983



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Neil Diamond   1967
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« Reply #19 on: August 12, 2023, 01:27:18 AM »
Neil Diamond liked UB40's reggae version...


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1992


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