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?

[jm2422]

Absolutely great cover pick. People forget how great a guitar player that Peter Green was. Everybody knows Santana is.

[MaVolta]

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@jm2422wrote:
Absolutely great cover pick. People forget how great a guitar player that Peter Green was. Everybody knows Santana is.

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I read a lot of comments on youtube by deep-seated, die-hard, blues fans who know the Green version. A lot of them think that Santana went too far with his arrangement, doing Green a great injustice.

On the other hand, Santana plays it the way he would have written it, and I think that is why a lot of folks like me think that it's a Santana song. And of course, Santana had the hit that's still playing around the world. 

[l483260l]

IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE CREDIT BOTH THE COMPOSER & THE MUSICIAN WHO MADE IT A HIT.

[l483260l]

AM NOT FAMILIAR WITH PETER GREEN- GLAD YOU BROUGHT HIM UP.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJniaSjtCFs&list=RDb7uRxbl0Jzk&index=9 SANTANA ALSO DID A GREAT COVER OF "THE HEALER"- (W/JOHN LEE HOOKER) BLUES CLASSIC!

[MaVolta]

White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane classic covered by Pink on Jimmy Kimmel Show.

[l483260l]

THAT'S ALSO A COLOR IN LYRICS/BAND NAME TO THE 2ND POWER. WELL DONE!

[l483260l]

GREAT COVER!

[jm2422]

Great rendition, I'm sure Grace Slick, Jorma, Jack, and the rest would be very pleased.

[dl73698250]

Many covers of this song.  I prefer Merrilee Rush's  Angel Of The Morning

[dl73698250]

I don't know if this counts. Simon & Garfunkel wrote this for another band and they never really played it themselvs:

Cyrcle; Red Rubber Ball

[MaVolta]

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@dl73698250 wrote:

I don't know if this counts. Simon & Garfunkel wrote this for another band and they never really played it themselvs:

Cyrcle; Red Rubber Ball

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Correct, Paul Simon wrote the song with Bruce Woodley of The Seekers, but S&G never recorded it. They did sing it in concert where it was recorded and later added to a compilation album (Old Friends). This is from the 1967 concert at Lincoln Center.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy0ja70jz8E

[MaVolta]

Red Rubber Ball - The Seekers version (this is a good one, too)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouh6YgoH100

[dl73698250]

The End Of The World was done by so many people; I don't know the original. But I like the Herman's Hermits version.

[l483260l]

ANOTHER GREAT COVER OF A DISCO ANTHEM- THIS VERSION BY CAKE ALWAYS CRACKS ME UP! ENJOY:
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=yu+tube+i+will+survive+covers&view=detail&mid=FB998E844DF385320...
I WONDER WHO'S COVERED "DON'T LEAVE ME THIS WAY" BY THELMA HOUSTON.

[Cirice]

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@l483260l wrote:
ANOTHER GREAT COVER OF A DISCO ANTHEM- THIS VERSION BY CAKE ALWAYS CRACKS ME UP! ENJOY:
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=yu+tube+i+will+survive+covers&view=detail&mid=FB998E844DF385320...
I WONDER WHO'S COVERED "DON'T LEAVE ME THIS WAY" BY THELMA HOUSTON.

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I've always liked Cake's version of I Will Survive

The Communards covered Don't Leave Me This Way but I actually like Thelma Houston's version better.

[Cirice]

Here's one of my favorite Zeppelin songs covered by one of my favorite singers...

Thank You - Chris Cornell

[l483260l]

SPEAKING OF SIMON & GARFUNKEL- LOVE THE ORIGINAL, BUT THIS COVER IS HAUNTING & UNFORGETTABLE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Dg-g7t2l4

[l483260l]

THIS MADE ME THINK OF ANOTHER GREAT S& G COVER BY THE LEMONHEADS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIu6tkLrqfc

[dl73698250]

When Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton did the Bee Gees' song Islands in the Stream as a duet, they really knocked it out of the park.

[l483260l]

DOLLY'S VERSION OF "I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU" ECLIPSED THAT OF WHITNEY HOUSTON,. PERHAPS IT CAME FIRST?

[nyadrn]

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@l483260lwrote:
DOLLY'S VERSION OF "I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU" ECLIPSED THAT OF WHITNEY HOUSTON,. PERHAPS IT CAME FIRST?

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I don't feel either version is better than the other... they are so different they are different songs.  Love them both.

[jm2422]

Dolly Parton is the author. She used to sing it every week to close her TV show. Whitney's beautiful rendition happened years later for the movie "The Bodyguard" which she starred in.

[l483260l]

I REMEMBERED DOLLY'S VERSION IN "LAST LTTTLE WHOREHOUSE"- INCREDIBLE,AS WAS HER PORTRAYAL OF ___(THE MADAM?).

[nyadrn]

The Fabulous Norah Jones

[nyadrn]

Amy Winehouse     another great cover  RIP Amy

[millineutron]

Not sure who is covering who, since Carole King originally wrote (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman for Aretha to record, and both of their versions are great in their own styles. But if you haven't seen this video of Aretha paying tribute to Carole at the Kennedy Center in 2015, you've gotta check it out: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XHsnZT7Z2yQ

[l483260l]

THANKS FOR SHARING THIS-STUNNING & IT LED ME VIA OBAMAS' BET TV SPECIAL TO RE-DISCOVERING ONE OF MY OLD FAVORITES:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqqAnjY2Rmo
AL GREEN PERFORMS THIS WONDERFUL THEME SONG TO LIFE, IF YOU ARE SO LUCKY!

[dl73698250]

Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 did some very good covers of  1)Burt Bacharach's The Look Of Love 2)Beatles' Fool On The Hill, and 3)Simon & Garfunkel's Scarborough Fair

[dl73698250]

Kim Karnes did an excellent version of Smokey Robinson & Miracles' song More Love More Joy.