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?

[nyadrn]

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@l483260l wrote:
HERE'S AN OUTLIER COVER: TOM WAITS- "SEA OF LOVE" NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART!
https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-pty-pty_packages&hsimp=yhs-pty_packages&hspart=pty&...

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This was great. I never saw this before.  Tom Waite is always unique and entertaining.  Thanks for sharing. !!

[nyadrn]

https://youtu.be/64_qnMmpqdg

Wish You Were Here.  Velvet Revolver

gotta love it. 

[MaVolta]

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@nyadrn wrote:

https://youtu.be/64_qnMmpqdg

Wish You Were Here.  Velvet Revolver

gotta love it. 

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Nice cover! 

[l483260l]

SOMEHOW, THIS REMINDED ME OF THIS COVER OF THE FAMOUS DISCO ANTHEM "I WILL SURVIVE" BY GLORIA GAYNOR:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9rCUQjmkxU

[MaVolta]

American Woman - Kelly Clarkson, World Television Premiere performance at 2018 CMT Awards. 

[nyadrn]

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@MaVolta wrote:

American Woman - Kelly Clarkson, World Television Premiere performance at 2018 CMT Awards. 

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Really different version  from a woman.  Great energy. Thanks!!

[jm2422]

The lady can just flat out sing!! Love me some Kelly.

[jm2422]

Kid's got an interesting angle with the skateboard. Some guitar playing ability as well. I still prefer Jimi Hendrix covering Bob Dylan. Still the penultimate version.

[MaVolta]

Okay, here's one that y'all may not know is a cover song. I didn't either until I saw it on an AXS-TV program called Hits That Were Covers. A lot of music professionals didn't know it was a cover either. This one got the no. 1 ranking on the show.

Black Magic Woman - Santana (1970 cover)

So here's the original - Fleetwood Mac with Peter Green (Green wrote it) 1968

[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.