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Title: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original Part II
Post by: jmyrlefuller on April 27, 2016, 11:37:58 am: On a sillier note, this piece was originally by Paul Craft. Ray Stevens, however, made it his own. "It's Me Again, Margaret!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU1F2RrmMlc
Title: Re: Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original version Part II
Post by: Wingnut on April 29, 2016, 10:52:26 pm: Ken Hensley - Stealin (A Uriah Heep'er covering Uriah)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIMf03mw-wQ
Title: Re: Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original version Part II
Post by: oldmomster on April 30, 2016, 07:35:56 pm: Postal Service Released it. I like the Iron and Wine version concentrating on the lovely words.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGcCdZ0Uatg
Title: Re: Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original version Part II
Post by: pookie18 on May 19, 2016, 06:38:42 pm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LS3k1XraXw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC_-v3fG-0o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im9XuJJXylw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qoY93CkwlA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaHPgTdF1g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHsSkI81Sgk
Title: Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original Part II
Post by: pookie18 on May 19, 2016, 07:13:46 pm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYj9J4UH8ck

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1OYZ1PZtV0
Title: Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original Part II
Post by: Hoodat on May 19, 2016, 07:37:41 pm: Dancing in the Streets - Van Halen

Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix

The Letter - Joe Cocker

Louie Louie - The Kingsmen

I Thank You - Bonnie Raitt, ZZ Top

Promised Land - Johnny Rivers, Grateful Dead
Title: Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original Part II
Post by: pookie18 on May 19, 2016, 07:43:57 pm: Quote from: Hoodat on May 19, 2016, 07:37:41 pm
Dancing in the Streets - Van Halen

Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix

The Letter - Joe Cocker

Louie Louie - The Kingsmen

I Thank You - Bonnie Raitt, ZZ Top

Promised Land - Johnny Rivers, Grateful Dead

I still prefer Martha & The Vandellas over Van Halen & The Box Tops over Joe Cocker...agree with Richard Berry's Louie Louie...
Title: Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original Part II
Post by: Wingnut on May 19, 2016, 09:01:25 pm: Quote from: Hoodat on May 19, 2016, 07:37:41 pm
Dancing in the Streets - Van Halen

Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix

The Letter - Joe Cocker

Louie Louie - The Kingsmen

I Thank You - Bonnie Raitt, ZZ Top

Promised Land - Johnny Rivers, Grateful Dead

Watchtower Hendrix ... Check.

The Letter. Box Tops by far way better!
Title: Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original Part II
Post by: jmyrlefuller on May 20, 2016, 01:55:57 am: (I like Arlo, don't get me wrong, but this is one Willie polishes smooth as buttah)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XyRdJr4LSc

Then there's this one. Originally by the Tempos, the Happenings made it infectiously catchy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDWXm_73Jws
Title: Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original Part II
Post by: jmyrlefuller on May 20, 2016, 01:59:32 am: Now here's one that was so good that its original author, Neil Sedaka, re-recorded it in this guy's style and made it a hit.

Here's Lenny Welch's take on "Breaking Up is Hard to Do."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIGTpKhqAFc
Title: Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original Part II
Post by: TomSea on May 20, 2016, 03:52:48 pm: Tremeloes had a top 40 hit, very well known, with a song Cat Stevens wrote. I don't know who released the song on vinyl first but becoming acquainted with Stevens' version years after it was recorded I find they are both enjoyable.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t1NyxX1YyA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGlR6oFjC3A

There must be a lot of covers and originals and I just can't think of many others or I can think of them but they are somewhat obscure.
Title: Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original Part II
Post by: TomSea on May 20, 2016, 03:56:15 pm: Quote from: jmyrlefuller on May 20, 2016, 01:55:57 am
(I like Arlo, don't get me wrong, but this is one Willie polishes smooth as buttah)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XyRdJr4LSc

Then there's this one. Originally by the Tempos, the Happenings made it infectiously catchy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDWXm_73Jws

What is interesting is the story behind the song, "City of New Orleans", written by a Steve Goodman who suffered from leukemia his whole life I believe, dying at 36. The song is just amazing as well as the story behind the song... yet, most of us would not know who even wrote it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_New_Orleans_(song)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Goodman
Title: Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original Part II
Post by: TomSea on May 20, 2016, 04:00:27 pm: Gordon Lightfoot wrote the great song, "In the early morning rain", maybe he was like John Denver (Leaving on a jet plane), they were songwriters before they were recording artists. Willie Nelson may fall into that category as well (Crazy Arms by Willie Nelson was sung by Patsy Cline, I think I have my history down, also 4 walls I think is written by Willie).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCTZI9h4IjY

Recorded by many people including Lightfoot himself, Peter Paul and Mary and Gene Watson among others.
Title: Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original Part II
Post by: TomSea on May 20, 2016, 04:02:40 pm: Quote from: Hoodat on May 19, 2016, 07:37:41 pm
Dancing in the Streets - Van Halen

Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix

The Letter - Joe Cocker

Louie Louie - The Kingsmen

I Thank You - Bonnie Raitt, ZZ Top

Promised Land - Johnny Rivers, Grateful Dead

Maybelline - Johnny Rivers, of course, Chuck Berry originally, Rivers version is very good too.

Johnny B. Goode - many artists, Johnny Winter's is very good.
Title: Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original Part II
Post by: Wingnut on May 20, 2016, 04:05:29 pm: California Sun
Joe Jones (1961) Rivieras (1964)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jipr0Jgr14s
Title: Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original Part II
Post by: jmyrlefuller on May 20, 2016, 09:42:12 pm: Quote from: TomSea on May 20, 2016, 03:56:15 pm
What is interesting is the story behind the song, "City of New Orleans", written by a Steve Goodman who suffered from leukemia his whole life I believe, dying at 36. The song is just amazing as well as the story behind the song... yet, most of us would not know who even wrote it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_New_Orleans_(song)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Goodman
Yes, Steve Goodman, also the "good friend of" David Allan Coe's who penned "the perfect country and western song." I'll put that one in today's thread.
Title: Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original Part II
Post by: GrouchoTex on May 20, 2016, 09:43:24 pm: Santana-She's not There
Title: Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original Part II
Post by: pookie18 on May 20, 2016, 09:51:10 pm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzQ8GDBA8Is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoHDrzw-RPg
Title: Re: Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original version Part II
Post by: Wingnut on May 20, 2016, 10:06:53 pm: Quote from: pookie18 on May 19, 2016, 06:38:42 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LS3k1XraXw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC_-v3fG-0o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaHPgTdF1g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHsSkI81Sgk

Hard to call the best on lil Darlin but I think I liked the 5 Royals better
Title: Re: Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original version Part II
Post by: pookie18 on May 20, 2016, 10:17:43 pm: Quote from: Wingnut on May 20, 2016, 10:06:53 pm
Hard to call the best on lil Darlin but I think I liked the 5 Royals better

Well, at least you chose The Five Royals over The Mamas & The Papas (though a pretty good version too)
Title: Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original Part II
Post by: pookie18 on May 29, 2016, 08:31:42 pm: This one's a harder choice for me since the Kathy Young cover version got so much more airplay. Despite that I slightly favor the original by The Rivileers...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Fri2I16x88

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aeqRWMjLKQ
Title: Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original Part II
Post by: TomSea on May 29, 2016, 11:53:57 pm: Chuck Berry wrote and performed it, good. Buddy Holly did the version many know and that's probably a classic. Waylon Jennings and many others have done "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" but Sir Paul McCartney gave it a Zydeco spin and to me, that's my favorite.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oZnRcU-Xg0
Title: Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original Part II
Post by: TomSea on May 29, 2016, 11:56:56 pm: Quote from: pookie18 on May 29, 2016, 08:31:42 pm
This one's a harder choice for me since the Kathy Young cover version got so much more airplay. Despite that I slightly favor the original by The Rivileers...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Fri2I16x88

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aeqRWMjLKQ

I enjoy seeing the videos at youtube of KY singing this one live and relatively recently but the Rivileers version is very good too.
Title: Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original Part II
Post by: GrouchoTex on May 29, 2016, 11:58:09 pm: Quote from: TomSea on May 29, 2016, 11:53:57 pm
Chuck Berry wrote and performed it, good. Buddy Holly did the version many know and that's probably a classic. Waylon Jennings and many others have done "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" but Sir Paul McCartney gave it a Zydeco spin and to me, that's my favorite.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oZnRcU-Xg0

I did like Robert Cray's cover of it in the Chuck Berry movie.
Title: Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original Part II
Post by: pookie18 on May 30, 2016, 12:08:38 am: Quote from: TomSea on May 29, 2016, 11:53:57 pm
Chuck Berry wrote and performed it, good. Buddy Holly did the version many know and that's probably a classic. Waylon Jennings and many others have done "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" but Sir Paul McCartney gave it a Zydeco spin and to me, that's my favorite.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oZnRcU-Xg0

I'd only heard Berry's version.
Title: Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original Part II
Post by: TomSea on May 30, 2016, 12:36:07 am: Here's a fun one, a little known Australian group recorded the well known "Double Shot of My Baby's Love" (Swinging Medallions and they do a version with Springsteen on youtube, so apparently he likes it, that video is in one of the Carolinas by the way, he said he'd boycott NC which I disagree with but oh well).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYKP8cPwe4Y

Springsteen and the Swinging Medallions if one wants to really see it in South Carolina it looks like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiV0IRpXhBA
Title: Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original Part II
Post by: Sanguine on May 30, 2016, 01:48:38 am: Good: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGED47FKXE4

Great: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQB45Vk62ps
Title: Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original Part II
Post by: jmyrlefuller on June 01, 2016, 12:15:05 am: Quote from: TomSea on May 30, 2016, 12:36:07 am
Here's a fun one, a little known Australian group recorded the well known "Double Shot of My Baby's Love" (Swinging Medallions and they do a version with Springsteen on youtube, so apparently he likes it, that video is in one of the Carolinas by the way, he said he'd boycott NC which I disagree with but oh well).
Fun fact about the Cockroaches: two of their members, Anthony Field (lead singer) and Jeff Fatt (the drummer) had a bit more success with their next band...

...a little worldwide children's entertainment phenomenon known as The Wiggles.
Title: Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original Part II
Post by: Hoodat on June 02, 2016, 02:26:24 am: ICE CREAM MAN

John Brin:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELjj5HBwTu4

Van Halen:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2RKWJD5ops
Title: Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original Part II
Post by: Hoodat on June 02, 2016, 02:32:03 am: I'm not sure who did the original of this, but nobody does it better than SRV.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6lq0sRon0k

(btw, what is the syntax for getting the youtube screen to show in the post?)
Title: Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original Part II
Post by: Sanguine on June 02, 2016, 02:49:09 am: Quote from: Hoodat on June 02, 2016, 02:32:03 am
I'm not sure who did the original of this, but nobody does it better than SRV.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6lq0sRon0k

(btw, what is the syntax for getting the youtube screen to show in the post?)

Take the "s" out of the https. That's it.
Title: Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original Part II
Post by: uglybiker on June 02, 2016, 03:10:27 am: And for your convenience, TWO remakes in ONE!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8oGz0mxwks
Title: Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original Part II
Post by: chae on June 02, 2016, 03:22:49 am: Hurt, originally done by nine inch nails, covered by Johnny Cash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt1Pwfnh5pc&list=RDvt1Pwfnh5pc

Tainted love -covered by Marilyn Manson
and I'm not going to post the link, it's got bare boobs in it, and it's not hard to find on you tube. Interesting fact, the guy Manson shoves out of the doorway is the current Captain America.
Title: Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original Part II
Post by: TomSea on June 02, 2016, 03:25:26 am: Quote from: uglybiker on June 02, 2016, 03:10:27 am
And for your convenience, TWO remakes in ONE!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8oGz0mxwks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNylJ4SGzDE

A few people do this; I don't know who originally came up with the idea.
Title: Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original Part II
Post by: Poser on June 02, 2016, 03:33:59 am: Money (That's what I want) The Babys did it best, Barrett Strong did it first. Many others including The Trashmen, Stones, Beatles, great White and Levon Helm did it well
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mq7xss9ud44 (http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mq7xss9ud44)
Title: Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original Part II
Post by: TomSea on June 02, 2016, 03:36:47 am: Poser: If one takes the s out of https, the video shows up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq7xss9ud44&app=desktop
Title: Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original Part II
Post by: Wingnut on June 02, 2016, 02:05:39 pm: Quote from: Sanguine on June 02, 2016, 02:49:09 am

Take the "s" out of the https. That's it.

Or..remove everything before the www. :beer:

But at a certain point we hit the dreaded "(Embedding disabled, limit reached)" and we start a part 3!!!!

Link to Part 3:

http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php?topic=209924.new#new
Title: Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original Part II
Post by: Poser on June 02, 2016, 04:50:43 pm: Quote from: TomSea on June 02, 2016, 03:36:47 am
Poser: If one takes the s out of https, the video shows up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq7xss9ud44&app=desktop

I took it out and neither yours nor mine shows the page.

MOD NOTE: at a certain point we hit the dreaded "(Embedding disabled, limit reached)" and we started a part 3!!!!

Link to Part 3:

http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php?topic=209924.new#new
Title: Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original Part II
Post by: Sanguine on June 02, 2016, 05:20:28 pm: Quote from: Poser on June 02, 2016, 04:50:43 pm
I took it out and neither yours nor mine shows the page.

His did show up but yours didn't because you posted the mobile version: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mq7xss9ud44

Instead of this: http://youtube.com/watch?v=mq7xss9ud44
Title: Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original Part II
Post by: Wingnut on June 02, 2016, 06:26:49 pm: The Youtube preview is disabled on this page and on Part I..... Try doing the youtube embedding and future posting on part III of this thread.

That is all.
Title: Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original Part II
Post by: TomSea on June 05, 2016, 11:57:29 pm: Different tastes everyone has; the Canadian group (if I missed that in the other thread), The Band wrote "The Night They Drove Ol' Dixie Down" but I really like the Joan Baez version and she of course, had a hit with it.

One can look for them oneself.
Title: Re: Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original Part II
Post by: Sighlass on June 06, 2016, 01:21:30 am: Moved to Thread III....