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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
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larsman
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The Animals' version of 'House of the Rising Son' kind of redefined it like Hendrix did with 'Watchtower'....

rwwear
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Bananarama's remake of Shocking Blue's Venus.

 

sokogear
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Can't believe nobody has mentioned Linda Ronstadt or Boz Scaggs. Desperado stands out. For Boz, it's Lend me a Dime and On the Beach. Bonnie Raitt up there also - My Opening Farewell.

trevanian
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Ok, here is my contribution. the Mike Patton version of this guy is the best. 

orenstein
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coming from a huge Beatles fan (Happy 82nd Ringo!)......

 

Got to Get You Into My Life by Earth Wind and Fire

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