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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
chuke076
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Here are the first three that come to mind:


Manfred Mann - Blinded by the Light (Bruce Springsteen)

John Mayer Trio (Live) - Wait ‘til Tomorrow (Hendrix)

Alana Davis - 32 Flavors (Ani DiFranco)

hifijones
115 posts
 

I've always preferred Gladys Knight & The Pips take on "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" to the better-known versions by CCR and Marvin Gaye. More funk-ified.

wyoboy
233 posts
 

Almost forgot

Lynyrd Skynrd's version of JJ Cale's "They Call Me the Breeze"

spin4cards
37 posts
 

I've never gone out of my way to find covers but I happen to catch Gary US Bond's cover of the Beatles "It's Only Love" the other day. I usually cringe when I hear most Beatle covers but I was pleasantly surprised at how bad this version wasn't.

It was much better than my English that's for sure!

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team212
248 posts
 

Graham Bonnet's version of Dylan's "Its all over now Baby Blue"

Julie Driscoll Brian Auger & Trinity - Dylan's Wheels On Fire 

Flying Pickets rendering of Yahoo's "Only You"

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