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

Johannes Brahms' Variations on a theme by Haydn.

Sergei Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini.

I haven't gone through all the responses in this string but....

Elton John: Lucy In The Sky
Sinead O'Connor: Nothing Compares to U
Tom Jones/Art of Noise: Kiss
Eva Cassidy: Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Joe Cocker: With a Little Help from My Friends
Jimi Hendrix: All Along the Watchtower
Aretha: Respect
Patti Davis: Because The Night

Of course tons more, but I'd have been remiss if I didn't stick my two cents into this thread!   -Wayne