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OT: You Like the Cover More Than the Original Song

I was gonna stay away from Dylan covers, but the floodgates have opened. Hendrix's version of All Along the Watch Tower has already appeared; he also did Like a Rolling Stone at Monterey. As great as Dylan's version is, Jimi's just blows me away. The guitar work underneath both the talking and vocals is, as you might expect, amazing.

 
Bigboote said:
I was gonna stay away from Dylan covers, but the floodgates have opened. Hendrix's version of All Along the Watch Tower has already appeared; he also did Like a Rolling Stone at Monterey. As great as Dylan's version is, Jimi's just blows me away. The guitar work underneath both the talking and vocals is, as you might expect, amazing.

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The Stones also covered it, with Keith saying “thank you Bob” at the end.
 
Thee Bee Gees wrote Heartbreaker for Dionne Warwick & Islands in the Stream for Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers. They never recorded them themselves, but covered a medley version of theses songs in their One for All Tour in 1989.

 
Tom Waits - Big Joe and Phantom 309. Original was by Red Sovine.

Well, he tossed me a dime as he put her in low
And said: "Have yourself a cup on old Big Joe."
When Joe and his rig roared out in the night
In nothin' flat, he was clean out of sight.


 
Although I really enjoyed Cyndi Lauper signing Time after Time, Miles Davis’ take on it is heaven. Sometimes while listening to Miles I can forget the words to the song and just marvel at each note played.

 
SVCBeercats said:
Janis Joplin, ‘Me and Bobby McGee’ Country pop singer Roger Miller was the originally voice behind this tune but it was a release from Janis, just after her death, that topped the charts – hers was the second posthumous release to do that (the first was Otis Redding’s ‘(Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay’).
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Original/ Writer... Kris Kristofferson
 
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MSGRET said:
Pink - Me and Bobby McGee the 2003 version

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Pink has a great voice, it does resemble Janis' voice, but I like Janis' voice better still. I think Janis' voice has a wider range, and in Me & Bobby McGee that range is more fully shown- from gritty/raspy to sweet melodic- at least for me, it just is displayed better. But one huge advantage to Janis' version is that is comes complete with the entire band's performance, and Holding Company did a phenomenal job with the music. The backing guitars and organ etc really give the song the 3 dimensional magnificence that completes it and makes it so iconic.
 
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Some cover song good news and some bad news. First, the good news. Led Zeppelin covered the great blues song "When the Levee Breaks," and the song is a killer. The bad news: they credited themselves with writing it, but they hadn't. The song was written in 1929 by a black blues couple, Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy.

 
Here's the original Buddy Holly and the Crickets version of "Not Fade Away." (A few years ago, a friend of mine actually took a pilgrimage to the field on Iowa where Holly died in a plane crash. Also died aboard: Richie Valens and the Big Bopper. Waylon Jennings was also supposed to be aboard, but he traded his seat to another).

 
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Lakeside just crushed this remake. Probably the most underrated remake of all time.

 
Jackcatscal said:
Some cover song good news and some bad news. First, the good news. Led Zeppelin covered the great blues song "When the Levee Breaks," and the song is a killer. The bad news: they credited themselves with writing it, but they hadn't. The song was written in 1929 by a black blues couple, Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy.

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Led Zeppelin did a lot of that. It's certainly possible that they thought something like When the Levee Breaks was a folk song, but after they got caught a couple of times, they really needed someone to check their music before copyrighting it. LZ is not alone in that, of course, but they made loads of money, making it worth writers' whiles to sue them.
 
Bigboote said:
Led Zeppelin did a lot of that. It's certainly possible that they thought something like When the Levee Breaks was a folk song, but after they got caught a couple of times, they really needed someone to check their music before copyrighting it. LZ is not alone in that, of course, but they made loads of money, making it worth writers' whiles to sue them.
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If you believe Wikipedia, Zeppelin's taking credit for the song was not an oversight: "When considering material for the group to record, singer Robert Plant suggested the Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie song. Jimmy Page commented that while Plant's lyrics identified with the original, he developed a new guitar riff that set it apart."

IMHO, it was just crass to take credit for the song.
 
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Bigboote said:
Led Zeppelin did a lot of that. It's certainly possible that they thought something like When the Levee Breaks was a folk song, but after they got caught a couple of times, they really needed someone to check their music before copyrighting it. LZ is not alone in that, of course, but they made loads of money, making it worth writers' whiles to sue them.
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Its funny how so many bands cover this song they cover it heavy, in the LZ style and not in the original style.
Bigboote said:
Led Zeppelin did a lot of that. It's certainly possible that they thought something like When the Levee Breaks was a folk song, but after they got caught a couple of times, they really needed someone to check their music before copyrighting it. LZ is not alone in that, of course, but they made loads of money, making it worth writers' whiles to sue them.
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My fave song. Some interesting versions to hunt down: Zepparella, Down, WASP, Judge, Roadsaw, Great White, Beth Hart.
 
Jackcatscal said:
Some cover song good news and some bad news. First, the good news. Led Zeppelin covered the great blues song "When the Levee Breaks," and the song is a killer. The bad news: they credited themselves with writing it, but they hadn't. The song was written in 1929 by a black blues couple, Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy.

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I thought it was their label that did the credit and not Led Zeppelin. Did it change later after it was brought to the labels attention or was the label trying to stay out of a lawsuit?
 
TerpWomenFan said:


Originally done by Glen Campbell.
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Actually it was written by Jimmy Webb and originally recorded by Johnny Miller in 1965. Glenn reinterpreted it with a country vibe on his album with the same name.
 
I still think the Beatles cover of Twist and Shout is one of the best covers. I never noticed the song when it was released by the Top Notes nor the cover by the Isley Brothers. The lip sync of it in Ferris Bueller was my musical highlight of that movie:
 
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