GREAT COVERS OF YOUR FAVORITE SONGS

[nyadrn]

For many an original song that they love cannot and will not ever be duplicated by a cover, but there are many songs that have been done equally (debatebly) well by others..

So do you have favorites?

What are your favorite covers of favorite songs?

[MaVolta]

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@rj72135989 wrote:

Simon and Garfunkle "Hazy Shade of Winter" covered by The Bangles

https://youtu.be/TxrwImCJCqk

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Thank you for posting this, I really enjoyed listening to it. It's a really good cover, and a group I had not heard before. 

[nyadrn]

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Original  CCR

[Epster]

Limp Bizkit  Behind Blue Eyes

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The Smithereens  Time Won't Let Me

[krbiwa]

This one is okay but the original, sung by Sonny Geraci for The Outsiders, is perfection.

[rc42098618]

All Along The Watchtower written by Bob Dylan (I hate his music). Jimi Hendrix did an awesome cover.

[nyadrn]

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@rc42098618 wrote:

All Along The Watchtower written by Bob Dylan (I hate his music). Jimi Hendrix did an awesome cover.

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So you mean you hate his singing?   

[jm2422]

I'll grant you Robert Zimmerman can't sing a lick. But, he may the one of the greatest song writers of our generation.
I could give a list, but it it be too long too list of the great songs he's written, it's kind of scary. Most of them recorded, like Jimi, by other artists.

[l483260l]

WHEN IT COMES TO COVERS, WE SHOULD PAY HOMAGE TO THE ORIGINAL GREAT BLUES ARTISTS- JOHN LEE HOOKER, MUDDY WATERS, HOWLIN 'WOLF, ETC. 7 THE ROCKERS WHO INTRODUCED US TO THEIR MUSIC. MY CURRENT FAVORITE COMPILATION CD IS "GOD DON'T NEVER CHANGE" COVERS OF BLIND WILLIE JOHNSON SONGS BY TOM WAITS, LUCINDA WILLIAMS, TEDESCHI-TRUCKS, SINEAD O'CONNOR, ETC.

[jm2422]

AMEN, without the blues artists, The Stones, Clapton, Beck, Elvis, Zepellin,
Fleetwood Mac, and a whole lot more wouldn't have had anything to sing about.

[l483260l]

MY FAVORITE WAS THE ANIMALS, ESP. THIS ONE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FCBg3GmzQM WE HAD NO IDEA IT WAS A BLUES CLASSIC- JUST GOOD TO LEARN TO SLOW DANCE TO !

[nyadrn]

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@l483260lwrote:
MY FAVORITE WAS THE ANIMALS, ESP. THIS ONE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FCBg3GmzQM WE HAD NO IDEA IT WAS A BLUES CLASSIC- JUST GOOD TO LEARN TO SLOW DANCE TO !

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This is indeed a classic.. the powerful voice of Eric Burdon and that wonderful song!! Love it.

[l483260l]

A CLASSIC BLUES SONG ALSO COVERED BY A ROCK BAND( THE DOORS). THE ORIGINAL BY HOWLIN' WOLF;-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVIA1n5ng4Y JOHN LEE HOOKER ALSO RECORDED IT.

[nyadrn]

The Clash   I Fought the Law

[l483260l]

WAS THE ORIGINAL BOBBY DARIN?

[l483260l]

HE'S ONE OF THOSE AGELESS ROCKERS- SAW HIM LIVE(& FREE!) IN DOWNTOWN FORT WORTH AT MAIN ST. ARTS FESTIVAL IN 1995 OR SO!

[nyadrn]

RADIOHEAD COVERING CARLY SIMON

[l483260l]

A LOT OF PEOPLE CANNOT TOLERATE TOM WAITS' GRAVELLY VOICE, BUT HE TOO, IS ONE OF OUR GREATEST SONGWRITERS- COVERED BY SPRINGSTEEN, THE EAGLES, ROD STEWART, ETC.

[l483260l]

REMINDS ME OF THE INCREDIBLE JOB STEVIE RAY VAUGHN DID ON BOTH "VOODOO CHILE" & ON "LITTLE WING".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF2ZqlPNuqU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An4uDegHB8s

[jm2422]

Gold-Stevie was true guitar monster. That was truly a great pick.

[Epster]

John Mayer   Call Me The Breeze

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Miley Cyrus These Boots Are Made For Walkin'

[ww031876]

Not even close to Nancy Sinatra original.

[MaVolta]

Brown-Eyed Girl - Van Morrison cover by Bruce Springsteen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2E7ee-g4p0

[MaVolta]

Fields of Gold - Sting Cover by Mary Black

[Cirice]

Cover of Classical Gas (Mason Williams) by Sungha Jung at age 13

[ww031876]

Jim Crosce(sic) better .

[Epster]

Sons of Britches  You Are My Sunshine (yodeling!)

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The Chipmunks Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)