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Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
« Reply #20 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.
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Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
« Reply #21 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


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The Monkees


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Smash Mouth


And Neil Diamond's original...

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Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
« Reply #22 on: August 13, 2023, 03:10:56 AM »
A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You


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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...


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Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
« Reply #23 on: August 15, 2023, 02:13:50 AM »
Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow)


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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...


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Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
« Reply #24 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 on the Library of Congress website explains, the song has a twisty history.

The way it sounded first
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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!

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Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
« Reply #25 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 on the Library of Congress website explains, the song has a twisty history.


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


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Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
« Reply #26 on: August 16, 2023, 12:21:51 AM »
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Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
« Reply #27 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
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Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
« Reply #28 on: August 21, 2023, 01:39:35 AM »
Doo Wah Diddy Diddy


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Manfred Mann   1964



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The Exciters   1963




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


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Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
« Reply #29 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...


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Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
« Reply #30 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...


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


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Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
« Reply #31 on: August 25, 2023, 11:01:27 PM »
Here are the winners of the 1967 American Bandstand Swing Dance Contest...


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Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
« Reply #32 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):

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Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
« Reply #33 on: October 03, 2023, 04:28:38 AM »

Going in reverse order this time:

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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

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Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
« Reply #34 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!

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Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
« Reply #35 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

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








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Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
« Reply #36 on: November 04, 2023, 06:56:04 PM »
Going Up The Country


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Canned Heat   1969



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Henry Thomas   1928


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Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
« Reply #37 on: November 04, 2023, 09:51:17 PM »
Didn’t know that was a cover.
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Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
« Reply #38 on: November 04, 2023, 11:10:57 PM »
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Didn’t know that was a cover.

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Re: Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers
« Reply #39 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...


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The girl introducing Canned Heat would be about 80 years old today!
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