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

@painter24 - I'm so with you on the merits of Graham Nash. Nothing against the guy - I loved him in the Hollies and he's a fine photographer, but his CSN(Y) songs, to me, are about the most insipid things I've ever heard (and back then, I listened to a lot more insipid music than I do now! 🤣). Might as well listen to Air Supply or something! Crosby and Stills had some great ones, though.... 

Jamie Cullum - Frontin’ 

my Jazz reference song from my Jazz Reference album. 
verve 2004.

 

 

Happy Listening!

....and now for something entirely different:

 

...and fun to watch those do what you wouldn't dare.... ;)

Someone other than myself may have already noticed this (including Trent Reznor) but I'll mention it anyway - Johnny Cash made Hurt his own.