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?

kazana07-02-2022 12:56pm

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chowkwan Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 167 posts 07-14-2022 at 07:10pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Cover of a cover. The cover. The original.
chowkwan Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 167 posts 07-14-2022 at 07:18pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete The cover including great guitar solo. The original with the originator and the cover artist.
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chowkwan Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 167 posts 07-14-2022 at 07:55pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Johannes Brahms' Variations on a theme by Haydn. Sergei Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini.
waynesworldfl Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 9 posts 07-15-2022 at 01:06pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete I haven't gone through all the responses in this string but.... Elton John: Lucy In The Sky Sinead O'Connor: Nothing Compares to U Tom Jones/Art of Noise: Kiss Eva Cassidy: Somewhere Over the Rainbow Joe Cocker: With a Little Help from My Friends Jimi Hendrix: All Along the Watchtower Aretha: Respect Patti Davis: Because The Night Of course tons more, but I'd have been remiss if I didn't stick my two cents into this thread! -Wayne