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?

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richopp Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 760 posts 07-05-2022 at 02:03pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete @xcool No huge argument from me, but both are wonderful. Here is another I just thought of--one of my all-time fav songs: ORIGINAL: Charles Brown--Please Come Home for Christmas (1960) REMAKE: EAGLES (1978), and NOT the "re-masterd" version (you have to pay someone to listen to the original version these days)...here is a live version: ALSO, used in one of the sexiest videos EVER: Bon Jovi version. No nudity, just pure sexy by 2 genetic-lottery winners on this planet... Oh, and it has a striking resemblance, but not all the tough guitar chords, of the Beatles' "Oh, Darlin' ", which is another of my all time favs... Cheers!
rafevw Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 70 posts 07-05-2022 at 03:22pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Lucinda William’s cover of “Ode To Billie Jo” on Mercury Rev’s, “Bobbie Gentry's The Delta Sweete Revisited” record. It’s raw and edgy. Richard Thompson’s “Season Of The Witch”. I love Donovan’s version: he sings it in a spooky way, a la The Doors’, “People Are Strange”. Richard Thompson just doesn’t have Donovan’s voice, but he shreds it in that very typical Thompsian way.
larsman Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 1,997 posts 07-05-2022 at 04:22pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete @pesky_wabbit - Before I even looked to see what the link went to, I was thinking, 'my favorite version of 'Walk On By' is by the Stranglers!!' Big Stranglers fan, here...
sunshdw Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 257 posts 07-05-2022 at 04:58pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Mumford & Sons - The Boxer Shine Down - Simple Man
2psyop Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 1,612 posts 07-05-2022 at 05:08pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Yuri Honing Trio "Walking on the Moon"