Covers vs. originals

[WetWilly]

are they on youtube?

Not sure, you'd just have to search for 'em I suppose. Here's a link to their home page. http://www.gatorcountryrocks.com/home.htm

 

[0000]

i think I fount my new favorite covers but dead covers,

GD doin -not fade aways(buddy holly)
and GD doin -good lovin(rascals i think)

 

[rtbuck]

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These are some original songs that I discovered after hearing cover versions first(The covers are in parentheses) A few of the covers where I listed more than one artist I found after I heard the original

Let it Rock by Chuck Berry (Rolling Stones, Bob Seger)

Party Lights by Claudine Clark (the Waldos)

Showdown by Archie Bell & the Drells (NY Dolls)

It Wasn't Me by Chuck Berry (George Thorogood)

Alligator Wine by Screamin' Jay Hawkins (Jeff Buckley,Johnny Thunders)

Please Don't Touch by Johnny Kidd & the Pirates (Motorhead)

Mannish Boy by Muddy Waters (Rolling Stones)

Boom Boom Out Go the Lights by Little Walter (Pat Travers)

2000 Man by the Rolling Stones (Kiss)

Dear Dad by Chuck Berry (Dave Edmunds)

Some Kinda Fun by Chris Montez (Teenage Head)

Brand New Cadillac by Vince Taylor (Clash,Teenage Head)

I Can Tell by Bo Diddley (Johnny Thunders)

Tulane by Chuck Berry (Joan Jett,Steve Gibbons Band)

Train Kept a Rollin' by Tiny Bradshaw (Johnny Burnette Trio,Aerosmith,Stray Cats,Yardbirds,Motorhead)

Summertime Blues by Eddie Cochran (Robert Gordon,The Who,Stray Cats,Blue Cheer)

Seven Day Weekend by Gary US Bonds (The Waldos)

Somethin' Else by Eddie Cochran (Sid Vicious, Teenage Head)

Green Onions by Booker T & the Mg's (Johnny Thunders, the 5,6,7,8's, Jack
Mack & the Heart Attacks)

Twenty Flight Rock by Eddie Cochran (Robert Gordon, Rolling Stones, Stray Cats)

Stranded in the Jungle by the Cadets (NY Dolls)

I Ain't Got No Home by Clarence Frogman Henry (Sylvain Sylvain)
Nag by the Halos (Joan Jett)

Daddy Rollin' Stone by the Coasters (Johnny Thunders)

Shakin' All Over by Johnny Kidd & the Pirates (The Who,Alex Harvey,Dee Dee Ramone)

Pills by Bo Diddley (NY Dolls,Chesterfield Kings)

C'mon Everybody by Eddie Cochran (Sid Vicious, Stray Cats)

 

[Foxhound]

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Interesting list!

But have you never heard "Shakin' All Over" by the Guess Who(Chad Allen & the Expressions) which I believe was the biggest hit version?

 

[Flower]

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Great list Bucky!

"Ready for Love" by Mott the Hoople (Bad Company)

I always thought that this was a Bad Company original tune until someone "educated" me around six months ago .. I like the Bad Company cover better than the Mott the Hoople original.

 

[rtbuck]

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Interesting list!

But have you never heard "Shakin' All Over" by the Guess Who(Chad Allen & the Expressions) which I believe was the biggest hit version?

I've heard the Guess Who's version & love it. I was doing the list kind of half assed & mostly doing it off my mind. For Shaking All Over the first version I heard was the Who's version & then later found out it was a cover.

 

[rtbuck]

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Great list Bucky!

"Ready for Love" by Mott the Hoople (Bad Company)

I always thought that this was a Bad Company original tune until someone "educated" me around six months ago .. I like the Bad Company cover better than the Mott the Hoople original.

Good one Flower!
I thought that was a Bad Co.original also for quite a while & then I picked up the 'All the Young Dudes' record at a used record shop in the early 80's. It's very close but I actually prefer Mott the Hooples version probably for the guitar intro

 

[Flower]

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I Heard It Through the Grapevine ~ The Miracles (Marvin Gaye, Gladys Knight & the Pips,CCR)

I prefer CCR to any other version.


I Heard It Through The Grapevine

 

[rtbuck]

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I Heard It Through the Grapevine ~ The Miracles (Marvin Gaye, Gladys Knight & the Pips,CCR)

I prefer CCR to any other version.


I Heard It Through The Grapevine

Definitely agree CCR all the way(I do like the others but CCR's is just so cool).

I also love CCR's cover of Dale Hawkins Suzy Q

 

[Mr. Shadow]

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Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) lyrics
Well, show me the way
To the next whisky bar
Oh, don't ask why
Oh, don't ask why

Show me the way
To the next whisky bar
Oh, don't ask why
Oh, don't ask why

For if we don't find
The next whisky bar
I tell you we must die
I tell you we must die
I tell you, I tell you
I tell you we must die

Oh, moon of Alabama
We now must say goodbye
We've lost our good old mama
And must have whisky, oh, you know why

Oh, moon of Alabama
We now must say goodbye
We've lost our good old mama
And must have whisky, oh, you know why

Well, show me the way
To the next little girl
Oh, don't ask why
Oh, don't ask why

Show me the way
To the next little girl
Oh, don't ask why
Oh, don't ask why

For if we don't find
The next little girl
I tell you we must die
I tell you we must die
I tell you, I tell you
I tell you we must die

Oh, moon of Alabama
We now must say goodbye
We've lost our good old mama
And must have whisky, oh, you know why

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama_Song

The "Alabama Song" (also known as "Whisky Bar" or "Moon over Alabama" or "Moon of Alabama") was originally published in Bertolt Brecht's Hauspostille (1927). It was set to music by Kurt Weill for the 1927 "Songspiel" Mahagonny and used again in Weill's and Brecht's 1930 opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny.

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