34 Songs You Didn't Know Are Covers
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Published 2024-07-17
It's easy to not realise that a famous song is actually not the original version. So today we are going to look at 34 songs where the most well-known version isn't actually the original.
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All Comments (21)
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It's crazy how often I see "All Along the Watchtower" referred to as a Jimi Hendrix song, by people apparently unaware of Bob Dylan
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When I learned that 'It Must Be Love' and 'Something Inside So Strong' were made by the same person I was floored. Labbi Siffre is one of the greatest musicians of his time and really isn't talked about enough
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Slight correction: “I Fought the Law” was written by Sonny Curtis of The Crickets and recorded after Buddy Holly’s death.
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"The First Cut Is the Deepest" was a hit for Rod Stewart, then Sheryl Crow, but was originally done by its writer, Cat Stevens.
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feels like half of these are covers of classic r&b and soul numbers
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"Tainted Love" by Soft Cell was originally recorded by Gloria Jones. Gloria was also romantically involved and had a child with Marc Bolen of T. Rex. She was driving the car that crashed and fatally injured Marc in 1977.
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I didn't even know "I put a spell on you" was covered. the Screamin' Jay Hawkins original is so iconic!
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this whole video is just a big "well ackshually" and i love it
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I think you came up with the word "outshadowed" (a cross between "overshadowed" and "outshone"?), which I've never heard before. We'll have to see whether it catches on and anyone covers it.
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As someone who is often fed up with today's remake/cover culture (especially with the songs coming out only 2-3 years later), it's very calming to realize it has essentially always been that way. I didn't know that covers came out so soon after the original in the past.
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There's a crazy back story about the writing of Dancing in the Moonlight
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"Unchained Melody" was originally recorded as a song track for the 1955 movie "Unchained". Recorded by Todd Duncan, an African-American opera singer, the version we are all most familiar with is the 1965 cover by the Righteous Brothers.
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one of my favourite cover songs is "The Door's: Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar)." It was actually a cover of The German opera song written in 1929 by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht.
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Never even knew Santana sang any version of "She's Not There". No one's thought of except the Zombies with that song. Now let's talk about 'Til There Was You, Money, Chains,
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Barbara Ann was a cover?!?! That one blew my mind.
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"Midnight Train to Georgia" is a cover of the obscure "Midnight Plane to Houston" recorded a year or so earlier.
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Guy Chambers who was in World Party produced the Robbie Williams version of ‘She’s the One’ and used musicians from World Party to record the cover. So it’s not surprising it sounds similar. Williams has repeatedly claimed he wrote the song, upsetting Karl Wallinger, the actual writer, who was recovering from a brain aneurysm when the cover version became a hit.
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The instrumental half of "Black Magic Woman" is "Gypsy Queen", originally by Hungarian jazz guitarist Gabor Szabo. His work is well worth checking into.
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“Without You“ is another candidate for a song where people think they know the original but in fact not even that is the original. And for a recent one, I was surprised that Beyoncé’s “If I were a Boy” was a cover.
