Favorite cover?

+1 on picks by bdp24 & gasnsteering. I forgot how good the Guess Who & Frigid Pink covers were.

++1 on repeluso's pick of Baby It's You by Smith.  That song should have been a huge hit. I always found it interesting that the Beatles stopped doing cover songs shortly after this came out. That was probably because their songwriting was getting too good to be doing covers anymore. But, the fact remains that the Beatles wimpy cover of Baby It's You is embarrassing when compared to the Joplinesque @** kicking version by Smith.

If you're in the mood to get your heart broken, check out Kim Richey's cover of "Mexico" (CAKE) on YouTube.

The Who’s cover of Eddie Cochran’s “Summertime Blues.”

Bob Dylan’s House of the Rising Sun. Funny story from Dave Van Runk,

”Then, one evening in 1962, I was sitting at my usual table in the back of the Kettle of Fish, and Dylan came slouching in. He had been up at the Columbia studios with John Hammond, doing his first album. He was being very mysterioso about the whole thing, and nobody I knew had been to any of the sessions except Suze, his lady. I pumped him for information, but he was vague. Everything was going fine and, "Hey, would it be okay for me to record your arrangement of 'House of the Rising Sun?'" Oh, shit. "Jeez, Bobby, I'm going into the studio to do that myself in a few weeks. Can't it wait until your next album?" A long pause. "Uh-oh". I did not like the sound of that. "What exactly do you mean, 'Uh-oh'?" "Well", he said sheepishly, "I've already recorded it".[13]”

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Credits at end of movie 'Cadillac Records' say that Willie Dixon sued Led Zep and was awarded $1 million. Didn't say what song they didn't pay for.

It's a darn good movie.