what cover versions are better than the original

Hey Gordus......the album and band was named DETROIT, not The Detroit Wheels.......do not mess with us real rock and rollers.........it was a one off album with a local all star band in the mid to late seventies ....do you REALLY think a guy who knows his rock and roll history and lived it would mistake a band called DETROIT for The Detroit Wheels??????

p.s. this also applies to you too Mt10425!!!

A bit off topic perhaps, but Cheap Trick's Live at Budokan "covers" of their own songs clobber the studio versions, which is unusual in that most live versions don't appeal to me as much as the studio.

Gov't Mule's live version of Humble Pie's 30 days in the hole is pretty tasty

Great cover- "Tecumsah Valley" written/recorded by Townes van Zant, as recorded by Nancy Griffith and Arlo Guthrie.

Great- "People Get Ready", written by Curtis Mayfield as covered by The Persuasions.

Most embarrassing cover (almost the same as worst) by an otherwise great artist- Joan Baez's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". Love her voice, but she got the lyrics wrong, twice!!!

Worst AND Most embarrassing cover by an over the hill "actor"- Anything recorded by William Shatner!!!

"Blinded By The Light" by Manfred Mann's Earth Band is FAR better than Springsteen's version (even though "Greetings From Asbury Park" was his best album). For the most part, I can't handle Bruce - and I'm in the heart of Jersey!