OT: You Like the Cover More Than the Original Song

[Aluminny69]

Similar Title, different song, fully orchestrated. Will knock your socks off!

 

[nwhoopfan]

Okay, I'll do at least one song with a male vocalist. This was kinda crazy, I didn't even know it was a cover until probably 30 years after I first heard it. I do like the original once I heard it, a very different version of Fleetwood Mac than the one I thought I knew. But gotta love the twin guitar attack of Priest.

 

[Bigboote]

Poor Dolly. Seems we all like the covers better than her versions.

Shows you what a gret somgwriter she is. If everyone wants to sing your songs, some of them will just sound better.

 

[Scud49]

Pancho and Lefty - originally written and done by Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson.

Emmy Lou's version knocks it out of the park for me:

 

[Kaizen]

"That's What Friends Are For" is a song written by Burt Bacharach and Carole Bayer Sager. Warner Bros. It was first recorded in 1982 by Rod Stewart for the soundtrack of the film Night Shift, but it is better known for the 1985 cover version by Dionne Warwick, Elton John, Gladys Knight, and Stevie Wonder.​

 

[Aluminny69]

Kai Winding was the first to record the Jerry Ragavoy-penned "Time Is on My Side" in 1963. A year later, it was covered by Irma Thomas, the "Soul Queen of New Orleans" as the B-side of "Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand)." Shortly afterward, the Rolling Stones cut it, borrowing many elements from Thomas' rendition, and released it as a single. It became their first Top 10 hit in the U.S.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Pancho and Lefty - originally written and done by Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson.

Nope. Townes Van Zandt, one of the greatest American songwriters.

 

[64Zcode]

Originally 'Hey Little Girl' by Syndicate Of Sound
Christina and Divinyls put an edge on it as 'Hey Little Boy'

 

[nwhoopfan]

Sorry Lou Reed, gotta go with the voice of Margo Timmins.

 

[nwhoopfan]

I'm gonna pick on Bob Dylan. Probably many of his songs sound better when someone else sings it. Here's one. Original lyrics by the Old 97s, but it's the same tune (Desolation Row). Done with permission.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Here's another. This has been covered many times. I like her rendition the best. This is a bit different than a studio version she recorded, both are lovely.

 

[Kaizen]

A taste of honey - Sukiyaki over Kyu Sakamoto​

 

[Scud49]

One More for My Baby, One More For the Road. Written and recorded back in the 1940's, and since then it's been recorded by perhaps 50 artists, including Frank Sinatra.

This version by Charles Brown just drips of a smokey late night bar, and contemplating "One More for the road"....

 

[nwhoopfan]

Does this count as a cover? Tina S - Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata

I think it counts. If you're gonna do that, I'm gonna do this.

 

[Scud49]

Magnolia - originally done by the late, great, JJ Cale.

This Chris Smither acoustic rendition is superb:

 

[Kaizen]

[The King's Speech] - 12 - Speaking Unto Nations (Beethoven Symphony No. 7 - II)​

 

[VA Huskie]

Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah was beautiful in its original and covered by many. My favorite cover is by k.d. Lang. got to see her sing it live and she brought down the house.

Unfortunately I don’t know how to upload the song. Are there directions somewhere?

 

[ConnManFan]

Pretty blasphemous as the original has 1.9 billion views on Youtube.

 

[bantamlaker]

The Beatles were fans of Buddy Holly and did an excellent cover of his Words of Love

 

[Scud49]

Nope. Townes Van Zandt, one of the greatest American songwriters.

Oops - my bad, I read the wrong line in the bio.

 

[Fastbreak]

Grand Funk Railroad version of the Animals "Inside Looking Out"

 

[ec33]

Another Cowboy Junkies cover. Raises the Neil Young song to another level.

 

[Martin]

I just can’t follow Joni Mitchell’s vocal delivery here but Nazareth wow what a cool version.

 

[rvwsleep]

I just can’t follow Joni Mitchell’s vocal delivery here but Nazareth wow what a cool version.

What ? I guess that's what makes horse races.
Here's the original, from the Blue album.

 

[uconnfan68]

This is my favorite version of Hoochie Coochie man. Written by Willie Dixon, made famous by Muddy Waters, very ably rendered by Steppenwolf.

Allman Brothers “Idelwild South” album had that cover also. Another favorite album.