Star wrote:
The Beatles made Twist and Shout popular after it was first recorded by the Top Notes.
The Top Notes popish original got an injection of soul with the Dee Dee Sharp version. Then The Isley Brothers really piled on the soul so that by the time The Beatles lightened it up a bit in their version it still reeked of soul.
WWRD wrote:
The Zeppelin commentators are so full of shite. It's just one of those things they repeat over and over and over again and they think they sound cool, but they actually don't. What it really shows is that they are shallow and don't understand music through time.
Zep reworked, or interpreted old blues songs, mostly on I & II (but those albums are also full of 100% original tunes), something bands have been doing with blues for 75 years (House of the Rising Son is a great example of this). They don't take full writing credit for these, but they completely blew other versions through the roof, yet there's people out there that still think it's cutting edge to call them rip offs. Zep was a ridiculously original and ground breaking band over a 10 year period, pumping out an unsurpassed dearth of quality music.
As for this thread: The song I only recently found out was a cover, was the Hazy Shade of Winter, while I did not assume The Bangles had written it, I didn't know Simon & Garfunkel had done the original.
While I appreciate your devotion to LZ, I don't think you know what "dearth" means.
gnome de plume wrote:
WWRD wrote:Zep was a ridiculously unoriginal band pumping out an unsurpassed scarcity of quality music
While I appreciate your devotion to LZ, I don't think you know what "dearth" means.
Oh Oh Oh I know
Lotta Love by Nicolette Larson -- Neil Young song.
Here is a few that come immediately to mind that hasn't been mentioned.
Rolling Stones "Going to a go go"
Springsteen "Trapped"
Fun Boy 3 or Bananarama "Really saying something".
In the "huh?" category...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5aLNwOxPsjg
"It's My Life" Talk, Talk / No Doubt (I like the former best)
Holy carp, I can't believe this thread took off!!!
That's funny!!!
Ken Lee wrote:
Adopted from a Bulgarian folk song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPs7dJvW2X4
This one I never knew. I actually like this even better than the cover, which is one of my all time favorites. Thanks for contributing this.
Two Times Around wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjr5U7g6aiAJet Airliner covered by Steve Miller Band.
Original artist Paul Pena. I have read that Paul Pena lived on the royalties of that monster hit.
El Keniano wrote:
'Respect' by Aretha Franklin was originally recorded by Otis Redding.
I just learned this a couple of weeks ago. A lot of the others on this thread, I never heard of the cover.
I'll throw in Me and Bobbie McGee by Kris Kristofferson covered by Janis Joplin.
But they are using the same riff, although not as prominent, as used previously in Crossroads by Cream.
Just wow... wrote:
This one I never knew. I actually like this even better than the cover, which is one of my all time favorites. Thanks for contributing this.
Two Times Around wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjr5U7g6aiAJet Airliner covered by Steve Miller Band.
Original artist Paul Pena. I have read that Paul Pena lived on the royalties of that monster hit.
The Clash - Brand New Cadillac, written by Vince Taylor in 1950's.
The Jam - Big Bird, written by Eddie Floyd & Booker T. in 1960's
Redneck Mother, written by Ray Wylie Hubbard
Sooner or Later, performed by Pete Townsend
Written and originally performed by The English Beat
Bob Dylan wrote a touching, hopeful song to his son Jacob called Forever Young
Rob Stewart turned it into a bloated paean to mid life crisis.
Just wow... wrote:
But they are using the same riff, although not as prominent, as used previously in Crossroads by Cream. ..
well .. close .. that little 3 note pattern of the "Octave - b7 - Octave" is the same .. but that's the only part.
All the Young Dudes by Mott the Hoople was a David Bowie song.
Come and Get It by Badfinger was a Beatles song.
In both instances, the original composers gave the song to the respective bands as a favor, so it wasn't like they tried to make them hits themselves, but if you hear the originals, the covers are much better.
And Elton John covered Elton John's Candle in the Wind.
1tsamazing wrote:
All the Young Dudes by Mott the Hoople was a David Bowie song.
Come and Get It by Badfinger was a Beatles song.
In both instances, the original composers gave the song to the respective bands as a favor, so it wasn't like they tried to make them hits themselves, but if you hear the originals, the covers are much better.
The Beatles never released Come And Get It on any album while they were still together. The "original" version was a McCartney demo, later released on the Anthology albums in the late 90s. McCartney gave the song to Badfinger in 1969 rather than record it himself either singly or with the Beatles. I think when talking about cover versions, the original version needs to have actually been released on record before the cover.
I think it was Ernest Hemingway who wrote Islands in the Stream. But he did not finish it.
Ghetto Supastar by Pras, Mya, ODB was originally Islands in the Stream by Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton.
EugenetheCarefulAxeWielder wrote:
The Beatles never released Come And Get It on any album while they were still together. The "original" version was a McCartney demo, later released on the Anthology albums in the late 90s. McCartney gave the song to Badfinger in 1969 rather than record it himself either singly or with the Beatles. I think when talking about cover versions, the original version needs to have actually been released on record before the cover.
Agree the list of singer/songwriter or songwriter/performer is long and storied.
Writing stuff for others can be a primary focus for some others tend to write for themselves while others mix and match. NickAshford and ValerieSimpson fit into the latter group. Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry are another variation starting off writing for their trio ( Raindrops with Ellies sister Laura) and settled into a more write for others position both individually and as a team even after their divorce.
read below
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_written_by_Jeff_Barry_and_Ellie_Greenwich