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Uncle Twitchy
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Post subject: Name an original song you like more than the more famous cover version. Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 4:33 pm |
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I much prefer the original Everly Brothers' version of "Love Hurts" to the Nazareth cover.
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David Baker
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Post subject: Name an original song you like more than the more famous cover version. Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 5:11 pm |
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Waiting for Tonight -- 3rd Party over J. Lo. How Do I Live -- Trisha Yearwood Over LeAnn Rimes Blue Bayou -- Roy Orbison over Linda Ronstadt The Best -- Bonnie Tyler over Tina Turner Hide Your Heart -- Bonnie Tyler over Kiss Save Up All Your Tears -- Bonnie Tyler over Cher (Bonnie Tyler's "Notes From America" was a real gold mine for other people. And I really like the later versions of all three of these, too)
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Dr. Chris Evil
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Post subject: Name an original song you like more than the more famous cover version. Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 8:13 pm |
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What's really embarrassing is finding out that a song you thought was originally by an artist is in fact a cover.
Case in point: I always thought Linda Ronstadt was the first person to sing "You're No Good," until I heard a '60s version by a soul singer whose name escapes me.
And you mean to say The Bay City Rollers weren't the original ones to have sung "Be My Baby?" Ronnie who??
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Post subject: Name an original song you like more than the more famous cover version. Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 9:26 pm |
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Dr. Chris Evil wrote: What's really embarrassing is finding out that a song you thought was originally by an artist is in fact a cover. What a great idea for another thread! 
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Post subject: Name an original song you like more than the more famous cover version. Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 9:35 pm |
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Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up - Jeff Simmons (with FZ on lead guitar) from 1969 is better than the FZ - Joe Garage's version
(co written by Simmons and Zappa - does this count???)
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Geff R.
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Post subject: Name an original song you like more than the more famous cover version. Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 10:21 pm |
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Joni Mitchell's Woodstock is much better the Matthews Southern Comfort's hit version (One of the few Ian Matthews covers I'm not fond of) & I also prefer it to the CSNY version.
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Post subject: Name an original song you like more than the more famous cover version. Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 10:36 pm |
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David Essex's "Rock On" has been done by "heart throb", Michael Damien. But his cover version pales in comparison IMHO.
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Post subject: Name an original song you like more than the more famous cover version. Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 10:57 pm |
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i will always love you is much better by dolly parton than whitney houston.
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Geff R.
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Post subject: Name an original song you like more than the more famous cover version. Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 11:05 pm |
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Jolene is much better by Paula Cole then by Dolly Parton! (Renny, Sorry, I couldn't resist, came to mind immediately after reading your post) 
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Dr. Chris Evil
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Post subject: Name an original song you like more than the more famous cover version. Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 11:11 pm |
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Ven wrote: Dr. Chris Evil wrote: What's really embarrassing is finding out that a song you thought was originally by an artist is in fact a cover. What a great idea for another thread!  Yeah, I hope someone comes up with that idea.
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Jon Tyler
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Post subject: Name an original song you like more than the more famous cover version. Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 12:20 am |
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This same topic sorta came about upstairs when one of the guys posted a video for the Crew-Cuts' version of "Sh-Boom" and I posted a video for the recording by the Chords (which I happen to prefer,)
That conversation brought to mind all of the great recordings by African American groups which were re-recorded by White groups (because it was so difficult to get "race records" played at that time.) The Gladiolas' original version of "Little Darlin" trumps the Diamonds' better known version IMHO. Fats Domino's version of "Ain't That A Shame" is better than Pat Boone's version.
Others on my list are:
Huey Smith's "Rockin Pneumonia" blows away Johnny Rivers' version. I like Irma Thomas's recording of "Time is On My Side" better than the one by the Stones. "Do Ya" (by the Move) is marginally better than the ELO version (although I do like both)
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Geff R.
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Post subject: Name an original song you like more than the more famous cover version. Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 12:28 am |
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Wendy Waldman's Heartbeat over Don Johnson's dreadful hit cover version. WW is SO underrated... Oddly the album with Heartbeat is her only LP never released on cd!
In a similar (but not nearly as extreme) vein, Karla Bonoff's Someone To Lay Down Beside Me over Linda Ronstadt's cover
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Post subject: Name an original song you like more than the more famous cover version. Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 12:35 am |
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Jon Tyler wrote: That conversation brought to mind all of the great recordings by African American groups which were re-recorded by White groups (because it was so difficult to get "race records" played at that time.) The Gladiolas' original version of "Little Darlin" trumps the Diamonds' better known version IMHO. Fats Domino's version of "Ain't That A Shame" is better than Pat Boone's version.
Speaking of Pat Boone, his version of "At My Front Door" (a.k.a. "Crazy Little Mama") pales next to the original by the El Dorados. Similarly, "Sincerely" by the Moonglows slays the white bread version by the McGuire Sisters. I quite like the original version of "New York Groove" by Hello, which was a Top 10 hit in the UK about 3 years before Ace Frehley covered it. This one's close to a draw in my book.
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Post subject: Name an original song you like more than the more famous cover version. Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 3:09 am |
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The Bee Gees' "If I Can't Have You" over Yvonne Elliman's #1 hit version Paul Revere & The Raiders' "Steppin' Stone" over the Monkees' version from about a year later Hall & Oates' "Every Time You Go Away" over Paul Young's Angie Aparo's "Cry" over Faith Hill's Let's Active's "Every Word Means No" over Smash Mouth's World Party's "She's The One" over Robbie Williams'
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Geff R.
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Post subject: Name an original song you like more than the more famous cover version. Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 3:37 am |
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Leon Russell & Rita Coolidge Superstar over the Carpenters (e-uw!)
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Post subject: Name an original song you like more than the more famous cover version. Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 4:26 am |
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Geff R. wrote: Leon Russell & Rita Coolidge Superstar over the Carpenters (e-uw!) Weren't Delaney & Bonnie the first to record "Superstar"?
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Post subject: Name an original song you like more than the more famous cover version. Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 8:19 am |
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GoogaMooga wrote: Geff R. wrote: Leon Russell & Rita Coolidge Superstar over the Carpenters (e-uw!) Weren't Delaney & Bonnie the first to record "Superstar"? That's what I thought. I was just gettting ready to post D&B's version over the Carpenters (which I like too) this morning. The other one that I think of for this catagory is Warren Zevon's "Hasten Down the Wind" over Linda Ronstadt's version but I'm not sure that Ronstadt's didn't come first. Would Warren be covering Linda then? 
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Post subject: Name an original song you like more than the more famous cover version. Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 10:35 pm |
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GoogaMooga wrote: Geff R. wrote: Leon Russell & Rita Coolidge Superstar over the Carpenters (e-uw!) Weren't Delaney & Bonnie the first to record "Superstar"? I was thinking Leon Russell because my understanding was that he wrote it. I'm not a D&B fan & am not aware of their version; you may be right. Here's an interesting article which if I'm reading it right says that Bonnie Bramlett has co-writing credit but that Rita Coolidge came up with the idea for the song. I THINK the article says that it was first performed by Coolidge on Mad Dogs & Englishmen, but truth is, everytime I reread this article I perceive it differently http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?id=826All Music Guide appears to state that Coolidge sang it on 1970's Mad Dogs & Englishmen & that D&B didn't record it until 1972's Together under the name "Groupie". In fact it appears that The Carpenters recorded it in 1971 before D&B. I wasn't aware that BB was officially the co-writer, but I still consider it a Leon Russell song which he performed with Coolidge on MD&E before anyone else.
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Post subject: Name an original song you like more than the more famous cover version. Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 12:18 am |
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Black Magic Woman--Fleetwood Mac over Santana. The Mac's original sounds more ominous.
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Post subject: Name an original song you like more than the more famous cover version. Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 1:26 am |
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Dr. Chris Evil wrote: What's really embarrassing is finding out that a song you thought was originally by an artist is in fact a cover.
Case in point: I always thought Linda Ronstadt was the first person to sing "You're No Good," until I heard a '60s version by a soul singer whose name escapes me.
Betty Everett did a version in 1963 IIRC. Maybe that is the one you are thinking of??
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Post subject: Name an original song you like more than the more famous cover version. Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 8:19 pm |
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I've always been deathly afraid that after all is said and done, fans are gonna think of Vanilla Fudge's "You Keep Me Hangin' On" as the definitive version, even though "The Sup's" original parked itself at #1 in '66. Still the greatest 2:41 in pop.
Kim Wilde, Rod Stewart, et al will not be considered. (smile)
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Post subject: Name an original song you like more than the more famous cover version. Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 12:58 am |
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