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what’s a song cover that you think is better than the original?

The first ones to come to mind are Whitney’s version of I Will Always Love You and Allen Stone’s Georgia On My Mind but I would love to hear other contributions as well! I feel like there are a lot of songs where a covered version gets more popular than the original and people end up not realizing that it is a cover (ex. i had a friend that genuinely believed the Jonas Brothers wrote Year 3000). so, what‘a a song that was written by one artist but (figuratively) owned by another?

kazana
richopp
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Just thought of another one--again, kind of HERESY as NILSON is amazing, but HEART's version of "WITHOUT YOU" on their great, but not well-known (contract-fulfillment) album MAGAZINE is amazing.

Listening on Maggies will blow you away, especially with ARC tube gear driving them.

Cheers!

richopp
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@bubba_buoy Yep, and Jeff Healey's version of Dylan's WHEN THE NIGHT COMES FALLING is pretty amazing as well.  So was Jeff, RIP.

 

Cheers!

richopp
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And speaking of Jeff...pretty good stuff here...two major players...and he did WATCHTOWER as well...

 

 

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jastralfu
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First thing that popped into my head was Metallica “Turn The Page”.

Some others:

Bonnie Raitt “Angel From Montgomery”

Manfred Mann “Blinded By The Light”

RATM “Ghost Of Tom Joad”

moonwatcher
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Amber Rubarth's version of REM's "Losing My Religion".

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