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Ellie Goulding- How Long Will I Love You originally by the warerboys
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Adele did a great cover of a Bob Dylan song.
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I thought that Don't Let It Go To Your Head by Jordin Sparks was an original track for quite a long time.
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All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix,
Just Like A Woman, With God On Our Side & If You Gotta Go Go Now - Manfred Mann, A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall - Bryan Ferry, Mr. Tamborine Man - The Bryds, It's All Over Now Baby Blue - Joan Baez, You're No Good - The Swinging Blue Jeans, All of the above were originals by Bob Dylan. "You're No Good" is a song written by Clint Ballard, Jr. which first charted for Betty Everett in 1963 and became a #1 hit in 1975 for Linda Ronstadt.
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Agree with all except
"You're No Good" is a song written by Clint Ballard, Jr. which first charted for Betty Everett in 1963 and became a #1 hit in 1975 for Linda Ronstadt. ![]() Yes, the Betty Everett version is great and Dionne's late sister Dee Dee Warwick also had a wonderful cut of it which is the original. |
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That didn't click with me because I'm not aware of The Swinging Blue Jeans.
Yes, the Betty Everett version is great and Dionne's late sister Dee Dee Warwick also had a wonderful cut of it which is the original. |
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Spotted on my YouTube subscriptions today:
-> New Boy Band sing Leona Lewis' Run. -> New Girl Group sing Lily Allen's Somewhere Only We Know. So I guess neither Snow Patrol nor Keane (respectively) had hits WITH THEIR OWN SONGS now, because they didn't make higher than the cover version. |
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I believe most people know that Alexandra Burke's version of "Hallelujah" was a cover. But I bet they didn't know that it wasn't first done by Jeff Buckley, but by Leonard Cohen.
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All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix,
Just Like A Woman, With God On Our Side & If You Gotta Go Go Now - Manfred Mann, A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall - Bryan Ferry, Mr. Tamborine Man - The Bryds, It's All Over Now Baby Blue - Joan Baez, You're No Good - The Swinging Blue Jeans, All of the above were originals by Bob Dylan. This Wheels On Fire - Julie Christie Knocking on Heavens Door- gnr a long long list |
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Agree with all except
"You're No Good" is a song written by Clint Ballard, Jr. which first charted for Betty Everett in 1963 and became a #1 hit in 1975 for Linda Ronstadt. ![]() Dylan did a song on his first album called Youre No Good but it wasnt the clint ballard song that The Swinging Blue Jeans did.It was a different song entire ly and was written by Jesse Fuller |
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Rod Stewart's 'Forever Young' is really Bob Dylan's 'Forever Young' dressed up a little.
The Verve's 'Bittersweet Symphony' is a cover of Adam Oldham's cover of the Stones's 'The Last Time' I suspect Bowie's version of 'Sorrow' is better known than The Merseys version which is a cover of the original by The McCoys. Is Ace Frehley's version of 'New York Groove' better known than Hello's version. (also a Russ Ballard song) Led Zeppelin's 'When the Levee Breaks' was originally by Kansas Joe McCoy. Zeppelin have also been accused of a degree of plagiarism as well. I always thought that John Stewart had done a version of 'DayDream Believer' before The Monkees but I don't think that is right. |
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As were
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I always thought that John Stewart had done a version of 'DayDream Believer' before The Monkees but I don't think that is right. |
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did she?.... was it released? it certainly wasnt a hit, that honour goes to julie driscoll, brian auger and the trinity. that was a hit and the best known version.
according to wiki, the monkees released the original version. it doesnt mention a john stewart version. |
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Sailing by Rod Stewart is actually a cover that was done by http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poDjuRlaNAg Sutherland Brothers 1972 3 years before Rod made it a big hit
And then there was this one which was sampled for 'At The River' by Groove Armada http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT2ao0rcxoA |
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Oh really? I didn't know that.
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They probably would as Cohen wrote it
I guess it just depends how much musical knowledge you have, and how aware you are of who writes which songs, etc.
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Not all that many folk realise that China Girl by David Bowie is a cover. Iggy Pop recorded the original. Okay, Iggy Pop and Bowie fans'll know it, but a lot of casual music fans don't.
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Venus by Bananarama was originally a hit for Shocking Blue.
Silhouettes by Herman's Hermits was originally a hit for The Diamonds. |
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Anyone mention yet Dancing In the Moonlight by Toploader which was originally done by King Harvest in the early 70's
also Painter Man by Boney M was originally done by the under-rated British 60's band The Creation (Alan McGee named Creation records after them) |
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Not all that many folk realise that China Girl by David Bowie is a cover. Iggy Pop recorded the original. Okay, Iggy Pop and Bowie fans'll know it, but a lot of casual music fans don't.
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also Painter Man by Boney M was originally done by the under-rated British 60's band The Creation (Alan McGee named Creation records after them)
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a great underrated act agreed!
![]() Also Jeff Beck's Hi Ho Silver Lining was originally done by another under-rated British band called The Attack also Really Saying Something by Bananarama/Fun Boy Three was originally done in the 60's by The Velvelettes, the original is much better |
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In that song they did the violin bow o the guitar before Jimmy Page did
Also Jeff Beck's Hi Ho Silver Lining was originally done by another under-rated British band called The Attack also Really Saying Something by Bananarama/Fun Boy Three was originally done in the 60's by The Velvelettes, the original is much better talking of the banana bints... 'venus' was mentioned, also they covered another one hit wonder from 1970, 'na na hey hey kiss him goodbye' was a cover of steam's hit from that year. |
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I admire Beck as a guitar player but less so as a musician.
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I admire Beck as a guitar player but less so as a musician.
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