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originals that are less famous than their covers

ibenhoe

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ibenhoe @ 2004-11-22 11:54:47 UTC

(at least for young people today)


I'll give a few examples, if you have your own suggestions, please add...


the Who - Behind blue eyes

Dusty Springfield - i just don't know what to do with myself

Tears for fears - mad world

Salvation

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Salvation @ 2004-12-23 13:20:40 UTC

The Delphonics - Ready or Not (Here I come)

Minnie Ripperton - Inside My Love (was sampled Jean-Jeacques Smoothie - Two People)

Toto - I won't hold you back (sampled by Roger Sanchez - Another Chance )

Gloria Jones - Tainted Love (covered by Soft Cell)

Jimmy 'Bo' Horne - Let me be your lover (sampled by Stereo Mc's - Connected)

Ain't Talking 'bout Love - Van Halen (sampled by Apollo 440)

Kashmir - Led Zeppelin(used by Puff Daddy for Godzilla film )

Big Yellow Taxi - Joni (Janet Jackson & Counting Crows)

American Women - The Guess Who(coverd by Lenny Kravitz)

Diane - Hüsker Dü (covered by Therapy?

Torn - Ednaswap (Covered by natalie imbruglia )

Tony Lee - Reach up : werd slim geroofd door de heren van Phats & Small met Turn Around

Herbie Hancock - Cantaloop Island (covered by US3)

Grant Green-Sookie Sookie. (sampled by US3)

Chic - Soup for me (sampeld by Mojo - Lady )

Change - The Glow of Love (turned into succes story by Janet Jackson - It's all For You )

Gwen Mcrae - All This Love That I'm giving (Cassius - Feeling For You )

Ain't that just the way - Barbie Benton. (became famous by Lutricia McNeal)

You're so Vain - Carly Simon (covered by Janet Jackson - Son Of A Gun)

Ma quale idea (Pino d'Angio) (cover by Madison Avenue (Don't call me baby)

The way it is (Bruce Hornsby & The Range) - 2Pac (No changes)

Every breath you take (The Police) - Puff Daddy & Faith Evans

Eye of the tiger (Survivor) - Destiny's Child (Bootylicious)

Weekend (Earth & Fire) - Scooter

I can't go for that (Hall & Oates) - Simply Red

Life in a northern town (Dream Academy) - Dario G (Sunchyme)




Filip

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Filip @ 2005-03-16 16:53:16 UTC

Some covers are better known than the originals because they have been translated into another language.

For example: Almost everybody thinks My Way is a Frank Sinatra song, but the original is Comme d'habbitude by Claude François

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miachelsea

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miachelsea @ 2005-03-25 03:00:20 UTC

hey i am trying to find out informaion on why artist do covers i need some facts and figures bout how many people agree with covering songs and what is the purpose of these songs , is it because artists arnt able to write their own songs any more or are they trying to bring back memories in which givin a different effect to the song for the audience ..... please reply

cheesydancer

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cheesydancer @ 2005-04-10 10:13:36 UTC

How about every recent cover is more famous to young people than any cover over 10 years ago? My reasoning - TV and radio only seem to play songs that are less than 1 year old. Have you ever listened to Radio 1? Every two/three hours the Dj changes and the same songs are played again. How is a young person to hear music from before their time? I only hear music from my fathers generation when he plays it.


You should really ask Simon Cowell this question - all his bands ever seem to do is cover songs (Gareth Gates/Will Young/Here Say? (remember them?)/Robson and Jerome). It's very cynical marketing and is rarely done for the sake of music itself.

If it is a cover song and it is in the charts - 4 times out of 5 it sounds very similar to the original, and this is a ploy on your sub-conscious. It sounds familiar - you may have heard the song before once or twice without paying too much attention - it sounds like an old friend (if that makes sense?).


Incidentally, it is very rare for an awful and unsuccessful song to be covered.


Sorry, if that sounds all a bit vague or like a rant I'm having trouble putting my thoughts into words. Remember - The King never wrote a single song, yet he was very talented. I love it when a song is re-interpreted, but I can't stand it when it sounds the same and is released as a single.

Vivi

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Vivi @ 2005-05-19 20:48:29 UTC

"New York groove"

Hello (original artist)

Kiss (bigger hit version)


"Come feel the noize"

Slade (original artist)

Quiet Riot (Bigger hit version)


"I love rock n roll"

Arrows (original artist)

Joan Jett (biggest hit version)


"Stone Soul Picnic"

Laura Nyro (original artist)

5th Dimension (biggest hit version)


Some of you may be British and might disagree with the entires above. This list is based on international sales and recognition. I know Hello and Slade were hit groups regionally in the UK and Europe, but the USA is a far bigger market in terms of sales.



Jarno

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Jarno @ 2005-05-21 10:39:44 UTC

I'll think that in 50's and 60's it was much more premitted make a cover from song that was still on charts. Example would be artist like Everly brothers, Roy Orbison and Platters. Now it must be least five year old song before any bigger artist would record it, if it was on charts by the original artist.

AKMoose

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AKMoose @ 2005-07-04 13:55:19 UTC

I think the Jimi Hendrix Experience version of "All Along the Watchtower" is a great example of this. It's considered one of the great classic rock songs, and on the radio all the time, which cannot be said of Dylan's. Additionally, Dylan began performing it closer to Jimi's recording than his own after the cover came out.

cypher_soundz

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cypher_soundz @ 2005-07-16 08:15:03 UTC

@Filip i can't believe my way was not originaly by frank! Surprised


Any more like this?


Regards

cyph

rvdtol

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rvdtol @ 2005-08-14 19:26:00 UTC

As all the dutch people think it is a song of Herman Brood written before he jumped of the Hilton in Amsterdam. :-\

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Miles Smiles

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Miles Smiles @ 2005-08-18 19:30:07 UTC

8) Bob Dylans 'Seven Days' by Ronnie Wood for a starter maybe...

haunted

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haunted @ 2005-09-28 03:57:51 UTC

Since when did American Woman-Guess WHo and Every breathe you take-Police becomes less famous than the cover versions. How old is everybody on this thing 20 years old,.

Jarno

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Jarno @ 2005-09-30 15:59:11 UTC

You're right ...


i'm also too old to this because i know songs below by the original artist.


Eye of the tiger - Survivor

You're so Vain - Carly Simon

Come feel the noize - Slade


I don't know how this can be in here?

enslavedbynature

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enslavedbynature @ 2005-10-18 19:45:33 UTC

"how does it feel" blue monday covered by Orgy. "In the Air Tonight" Phill Collins covered by NonPoint. "Maniac"plowed & "Stars"hum covered by evergreen terrace, and "down With the Sickness" covered by Disturbed, or maybe these are just famous to me?

A Lot of the time I think covers arent more "famous" but just more popular at the moment. After all things usually get better with practice

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marsoman

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marsoman @ 2005-10-19 22:21:47 UTC

Hello!


Oops -i don't know some of the covers mentioned here...

Seems to be an obviuos sign that i am old.


"Every breath you take" from Puffy? "Eye of the tiger" by Destiny's Child? And who is "NonPoint"...?


But i know two or three covers to add:


"Hazy shade of winter" from Simon & Furuncle, covered by The Bangles


"Cats in the cradle" from Harry Chapin, covered by Ugly Kid Joe


"Knocking On Heaven's Door" from Bob Dylan -at least in the early 90s the G'n'R-version was much more famous (just like "Live and let die").


And i still remember the endless discussions about the origin of "Mighty Quinn/Quinn the eskimo": Dylan? Manfred Mann? Or is it a traditional after all?


regards

marsoman

johney_no_5

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johney_no_5 @ 2006-05-10 05:07:52 UTC

wow, you guys seriously think that ugly kid joe is more popular then harry chapin or limp biskit then the who!?


how about:


'long black veil'

orginally by lefty frizzell and covered by 5 other artists before johnny cash made it popular.


'black betty'

orginally by leadbelly performed 38 years prior to ram jam picking it up in '77


'everybody's gotta learn sometimes'

orginally by the korgis as a one hit wonder in the early 80s made popular by beck in the movie eternal sunshine


'police & thieves'

orginally by junior murvin NOT the clash


'hey joe'

orginally by the leaves and named 'hey joe, where are you going' NOT by jimi hendrix


'wild horses'

orginally by flying borrito brothers NOT rolling stones

oktober

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oktober @ 2006-06-28 23:31:36 UTC

I Put a Spell on You - Nina Simone (1965)


Originally written and recorded by Screamin' Jay Hawkins in 1949 as a ballad for the Grand

label. Later session producer Arnold Maxon suggested Hawkins make his performance just

as spooky as the title when he rerecorded it in 1956 for the label Okeh.


The song has also been recorded by Creedence Clearwater Revival, Natacha Atlas, The Animals,

Manfred Mann, Them, Arthur Brown, Leon Russell and a little known electronica band called Sonique.


Depending on your age, Screamin' Jay Hawkins may be in your vinyl collection. I had never heard of

him before tracking him down after hearing it first done by CCR. I loved it so much I have been on a

mission to hear as many artists renditions as possible.


If you ask me, Screamin' Jay and Nina Simone still rule the roost on it.



- oktober -

Vic Trola

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Vic Trola @ 2006-10-08 03:10:03 UTC

Witchitai-to

Original: Jim Pepper (1969)

Cover: Brewer and Shipley (1970)

(Still waiting to appear in dbase. Witchitai-to made B&S famous and vice versa.)


City of New Orleans

Original: Steve Goodman

Covers: Arlo Guthrie, Willy Nelson, et al.

(Goodman's original just doesn't get the air play of Arlo or Willy or others.)


Killing Me Softly

Original: Lori Lieberman

Covers: Roberta Flack and dozens more

(Flack's version is almost certainly the most well known.)


Turn! Turn! Turn!

Original: Pete Seeger (1962)

Covers: The Byrds (1965) and others

(The Byrds "rockified" folk and this was a big hit.  Seeger is so prolific that it doesn't

seem to matter if some of his originals get lost in the shuffle.)


(Various)

Original: (Various)

Covers: "Turnabout is fair play." Pete Seeger probably made a lot of other folks' folk songs more

famous than the originals


(Various)

Original: (Various)

Covers: secondhandsongs lists 128 covers by Elvis Presley.  Opinions might vary, but I'll estimate that, maybe,

100 are more famous than the originals.


Similar searching on other famous artists' covers might reveal similarly long lists.  (Barbra Streisand?)


There's got to be an easier way to search the dbase for "artists with the most covers".  Just "sort by

number of covers"?  Elvis = 128; Streisand = 60-something; ...


Maybe Bastien or someone else can post a list (or does it already exist someplace?)?

inkyman

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inkyman @ 2006-10-26 01:38:24 UTC

Since when did American Woman-Guess WHo and Every breathe you take-Police becomes less famous than the cover versions. How old is everybody on this thing 20 years old,.


I'm only 24, but I have to agree with this person.

Jim Colyer

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Jim Colyer @ 2006-10-26 21:05:23 UTC

Chubby Checker's "The Twist" was written and recorded by Hank Ballard.

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