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GREAT COVERS OF YOUR FAVORITE SONGS

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?

 

 

Life's a Journey, not a Destination" Aerosmith
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 I'D AGREE- A GREAT  COVER OF A TIMELESS SONG!

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@rj72135989 wrote:

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

 

https://youtu.be/TxrwImCJCqk


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. 

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Original  CCR

 

 

Life's a Journey, not a Destination" Aerosmith
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Limp Bizkit  Behind Blue Eyes

 

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The Smithereens  Time Won't Let Me

 

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This one is okay but the original, sung by Sonny Geraci for The Outsiders, is perfection.
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All Along The Watchtower written by Bob Dylan (I hate his music). Jimi Hendrix did an awesome cover.

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@rc42098618 wrote:

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


So you mean you hate his singing?   

 

 

Life's a Journey, not a Destination" Aerosmith
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 !
SUPERGIRL, NO REALLY I MEAN IT! HER REAL NAME & MINE ARE THE SAME( FIRST 2 NAMES ARE)
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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 !

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

 

 

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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.
SUPERGIRL, NO REALLY I MEAN IT! HER REAL NAME & MINE ARE THE SAME( FIRST 2 NAMES ARE)
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The Clash   I Fought the Law

 

Life's a Journey, not a Destination" Aerosmith
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WAS THE ORIGINAL BOBBY DARIN?
SUPERGIRL, NO REALLY I MEAN IT! HER REAL NAME & MINE ARE THE SAME( FIRST 2 NAMES ARE)
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HE'S ONE OF THOSE AGELESS ROCKERS- SAW HIM LIVE(& FREE!) IN DOWNTOWN FORT WORTH AT MAIN ST. ARTS FESTIVAL IN 1995 OR SO!
SUPERGIRL, NO REALLY I MEAN IT! HER REAL NAME & MINE ARE THE SAME( FIRST 2 NAMES ARE)
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RADIOHEAD COVERING CARLY SIMON

Life's a Journey, not a Destination" Aerosmith
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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.
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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

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Gold-Stevie was true guitar monster. That was truly a great pick.
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John Mayer   Call Me The Breeze

 

 

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Miley Cyrus These Boots Are Made For Walkin'

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Not even close to Nancy Sinatra original.

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Brown-Eyed Girl - Van Morrison cover by Bruce Springsteen

 

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

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” - Jimi Hendrix
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Fields of Gold - Sting Cover by Mary Black

 

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” - Jimi Hendrix
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Cover of Classical Gas (Mason Williams) by Sungha Jung at age 13

 

 

 

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Life's a Journey, not a Destination" Aerosmith
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Jim Crosce(sic) better .
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Sons of Britches  You Are My Sunshine (yodeling!)

 

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