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Covers that were better than the original

A fun thread to resurrect!

Respect, Eleanor Rigby, and I Say A Little Prayer by Aretha Franklin (originally by Otis Redding/The Beatles/Dionne Warwick)
And I Love Him by Esther Phillips (originally by The Beatles)
Scarborough Fair by Marianne Faithfull (traditional)
Make You Feel My Love by Adele (originally by Bob Dylan)
It's Oh So Quiet by Björk (originally by Betty Hutton)
The Tide Is High by Blondie (originally by The Paragons)
Walking In Memphis by Cher (originally by Marc Cohn)
Who Wants To Live Forever by Dune (originally by Queen) -> I realise it's sacrilege to say this, but I'm unapologetic! :mrgreen:
La Vie En Rose by Grace Jones (originally by Edith Piaf)
Pancho & Lefty by Emmylou Harris (originally by Townes Van Zandt)
Inside And Out by Feist (originally by The Bee Gees)
Strange Fruit by Nine Simone (originally by Billie Holiday)
Hurt by Johnny Cash (originally by Nine Inch Nails)
Seemann by Nina Hagen & Apocalyptica (originally by Rammstein)
Dear Prudence by Siouxsie & The banshees (originally by The Beatles)
 
Give A Little Bit by the Goo Goo Dolls (Supertramp)
And this by Joan as Police Woman (Britney Spears):
 
So which songs do you think were covered better by other artists?

Just to get it out of the way, Sinead O'Connor singing 'Nothing Compares to You' by Prince.

 
I love these guys - The Fendertones


And these guys. Seriously, nobody can be better than Queen and Freddy Mercury, but Pentatonix do a pretty damned good job.

 
Laura Branigan's "Dim All the Lights." And she added the fun of drag queens long before they became "in!"
 
Rock & Roll covers of chart songs. Brutally underrated band:

Then there's this:
 
The original is by The Beatles.

 
Oh, we're doing Britney?!
One of my favorites, by Joan As Police Woman:

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Oh, we're doing Britney?!
One of my favorites, by Joan As Police Woman:
 
EQUAL TO THE ORIGINAL: "I Only Want To Be With You" Dusty Springfield (1964) versus Bay City Rollers (middle 1970s). BEST song for both of these artists.

EXCEEDS THE ORIGINAL: "When Will I Be Loved?" Everly Brothers (early 1960's) versus Linda Ronstadt (middle 1970s).

IS FAR WORSE THAN THE ORIGINAL: "Maybellene" by Chuck Berry (1955) versus Johnny Rivers (1964).
........AND: "Tutti Frutti" by Little Richard versus Pat Boone (both 1955). Gag, gag, ptooey, puke, Pat Boone's version was just vile...for those unaware, it was VERY common for white-bread artists to expropriate hit songs originally done by black people, as quickly as possible after the original black version came out, to make them more "acceptable" to the white rock and roll audiences!! "Shake, Rattle and Roll" is another famous example...Joe Turner had it in 1954, and Bill Haley and the Comets came out with their version quickly, along with "cleaning up some questionable lyrics." (Of the two SR&R, I like both versions similarly.)

EQUAL TO THE ORIGINAL: "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" by The Tokens (1961) versus Tight Fit (middle 1980s).

EXCEEDS THE ORIGINAL: "Do Ya" by The Move (late 1960s) versus ELO - Electric Light Orchestra (1973?). In other words, since The Move basically became ELO, they improved their own song!
 
NEARLY EQUALS THE ORIGINAL: "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" by Gladys Knight and the Pips, and Marvin Gaye - less than two years apart in the late 1960s. I like the original only slightly better, they're both great. (One of Marvin Gaye's biggest hits...in fact perhaps his #1 biggest.)

[Was Marvin Gaye? "I don't know, and Tammi will never Terrell."]

BETTER THAN THE ORIGINAL: "Stairway to Heaven" by Neil Sedaka (1960), and Led Zeppelin (middle 1970s).****

"Unchained Melody" by Al Hibbler (and a few other artists, in 1955) versus the Righteous Brothers (1965).

Anything done by The Ventures, though, all bets are off...their instrumental versions of other hit songs, whether better or NOT better than the originals, are ALWAYS cool. That group is FAR more appreciated in Japan than here, though they were from Tacoma or somewhere like that. If course they did a lot of their own material, too - the cover versions were mostly later in their career. If you want to hear them at their best, find "The Savage" or "007-11" at least those are MY personal favorites and neither was even close to being a hit. In the day I heard "007-11" only ONCE EVER on the radio, a tiny radio station in Fostoria, Ohio played it...

****INSTANT POLL TIME: DID YOU NOTICE, OR DID YOU NOT NOTICE, THAT THIS IS A BOGUS ENTRY?
 

Cat Steven´s The First Cut Is the Deepest sung by Rod Steward sounds better than Cat Steven´s own version... wasn´t aware of P.P.Arnold´s (original) version before today.
 
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