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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
95dyna
15 posts
 

Patricia Barber Nardis (Miles Davis)

Stones Love in Vain (Rob't Johnson)

Leo Kotke Pamela Brown (Tom T Hall)

Led Zepelin When The Levee Breaks (Memphis Minnie)

Simple Twist of Fate Sarah Jarosz (Dylan)

Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands Joan Baez (Dylan)

These last two are the only Dylan covers worthy of note IMHO.

 

95dyna
15 posts
 

How could I forget Arlo Guthrie's cover of Steve Goodman's City of New Orleans!

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jfd11
113 posts
 

+Whatever number for JA version of 'Wooden Ships". I never get tired of hearing Grace Slick when she lets go and soars in a great song.

streamwork
10 posts
 

Tina Turner: Proud Mary

drbond
420 posts
 

Looks like mostly modern rockers here:  how about Wimoweh, first produced in modern times (that I'm aware of by Solomon Linda), and more famously covered by the Weavers:

 

 

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