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So here I am. Had a bottle of the Rhone Valley's best and started surfing Youtube for some tunes by the original artists that have been covered where the cover has become the best known version. So, the rules: post the original , not the cover. Got a few  Snowblind Freind The Pusher Pancho and Lefty After Midnight Lots more, but these just some samples. Get after it 
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First one that comes to my mind here is this one, Bill... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SfkFG_rVCI&feature=related(...yep, word is some white boy covered this one a few years later, and it and him became quite popular with the kids) 
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And, here's another one later done by the aforementioned "white boy" that I believe sold better than this original version... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79CJON8fv6c
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And, word is four young English mop-top kids did a version of this one and it did a little better business than this original version did too!... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhN-GhH5oxU
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Yeah! that's what I'm talkin' 'bout.
Always seems somewhat better with the author singing it.
That's actually the first version on Bobbie McGee that I ever heard. Janis just never quite hit it.
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And here's another: When the Levee Breaks Yep, Dwight. You got me thinking about the early Black blues origins of many of our "standards".
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Thanks a lot Bill , it's past 4:00 AM and I'm sittin here surfin YouTube listenin to all these originals . Wow !! Never heard some of them in their previous life . 
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I think of Steppenwolf when The Pusher is mentioned, like that version best too. PusherDeclaring total war on the Pusherman didn't work out so well.  Led Zepplin for When the Levee Breaks.
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Hoyt Axton was great. Lots of Linda Ronstadt's hit were Warren Zevon covers.
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Speaking of Linda, her first hit, Different Drum, was performed with the Stone Ponies and written by Mike Nesmith, who would later be part of The Monkees.
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I think Eric got more mileage than Bob did- www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXmhyc_QynESame with these - Lonestar/Marc Cohn - Walking in Memphis Rascal Flatts/Tom Cochran - Life is a highway
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Neil Young's "lotta Love" covered by Nicolette Larson. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU3u5UDjYeY
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Speaking of Linda, her first hit, Different Drum, was performed with the Stone Ponies and written by Mike Nesmith, who would later be part of The Monkees.
She is a great artist, who didn't she cover. Motown, big orchestra torch songs, Spanish standards, Neil Young et al late 70s hippy music, cross over western. 
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"Both Sides Now"
Written and performed by Joni Mitchell.
Recorded, and made popular by Judy Collins.
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I think of Steppenwolf when The Pusher is mentioned, like that version best too.Pusher
Declaring total war on the Pusherman didn't work out so well.
Led Zepplin for When the Levee Breaks.
Yeah Ian, that was the point of the thread; to listen to the original versions of some songs that aren't usually identified with the author.
Axton's original version of "The Pusher" that he wrote, for instance, has some differences from Steppenwolf's cover. A bit more explicit, and darker. Axton's curse comes from the heart, and sounds it.
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Jimi Hendrix did Mr.Dylan's "All along the Watchtower"
I heard Bob's version first[on "John Westly Hardin"] the Hendrix version was more famous but I like Dylan.
Same with "House of the rising Sun " [The Animals]
But again I like Mr.Dylans earlier [I think] version
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Speaking of Linda, her first hit, Different Drum, was performed with the Stone Ponies and written by Mike Nesmith, who would later be part of The Monkees.
She is a great artist, who didn't she cover. Motown, big orchestra torch songs, Spanish standards, Neil Young et al late 70s hippy music, cross over western.
I saw her in concert many years ago. She did the entire concert in a little red and white cheerleader outfit. I nearly died that night.
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The Beatles - With A Little Help From My Friends
Joe Cocker's version had way more soul
The Beatles - Taxman
Stevie Ray Vaughn's version was just cooler
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Possibly the greatest standard ever written by anyone was this one by the great Hoagy Carmichael... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IxmMT0wpaUAnd almost assuredly, the greatest cover of it ever done was this absolutely beautiful recording of it done by the great Nat King Cole... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPl6IDPTgRk&feature=related
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Hey Soren, if this original version of LOUIE LOUIE had been on the radio we wouldn't have been wondering to this day what the heck was said in that song. Nah, the mystery was more fun.
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Hey Soren, if this original version of LOUIE LOUIE had been on the radio we wouldn't have been wondering to this day what the heck was said in that song. Nah, the mystery was more fun.
Louie Louie has got to be the most covered song of all time, but, Black Flag's version is one of my favorites.
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Possibly the greatest standard ever written by anyone was this one by the great Hoagy Carmichael...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IxmMT0wpaU
And almost assuredly, the greatest cover of it ever done was this absolutely beautiful recording of it done by the great Nat King Cole...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPl6IDPTgRk&feature=related
When I was a student at Indiana there was a Greek restaurant at the edge of campus. It wasn't always a Greek restaurant. Many years earlier it had been a bookstore. There was still a grand piano in the corner. It was at that grand piano, a love lorn student named Hoagy Carmichael wrote the immortal 'Stardust' after having just been dumped by his girlfriend.
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Ever hear Sid Viscious cover Frank Sinatra's "I did it my way"? 
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Speaking of Stevie Ray Vaughn, he did a version of "Shortnin' Bread" that was AMAZING! However, I have no idea who wrote the original. 
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Hendrix's version of Hey Joe is better known than Billy Roberts' original version. There's an artist in Nashville named Chris Stapleton that has written songs that ended up hits for others, but not for him so much. Not sure why, I think he's badass. He used to have a bluegrass band called the SteelDrivers and now he's got a bluesy rock thing called the Jompson Brothers. And Adele is also making a hit out of one of the bluegrass songs about killing your wife. Better known than his - up to you if it's "better". SteelDrivers Adele
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I wanna put one of my favorites out there. A song I'm just Crazy about.
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I am reminded of the famous Rodgers & Hammerstein original "June is busting out all over", lyrically covered by Dean Martin with "June oughta buy another dress." I understand Dwight has the 45 in his collection Hey, it sometimes passes as humour jh
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Stevie Ray wouldn't have had a career if he hadn't done so many covers. I know this is a little off topic but there is not much that I like less than going to a a night club to here a band, and its the same old tired songs that I can hear on the local classic rock station.
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I wanna put one of my favorites out there. A song I'm just Crazy about.
That is the original. Patsy's is the better known cover.
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This is a really cool thread. I knew most of the songs listed were covers but didn't know the original versions. Cudos for posting the links.
Didn't buy into the hype, you can keep the change.
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I am reminded of the famous Rodgers & Hammerstein original "June is busting out all over", lyrically covered by Dean Martin with "June oughta buy another dress."
I understand Dwight has the 45 in his collection
Hey, it sometimes passes as humour
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