Friday night is... cover versions as good as or better than originals?

[DaveReading]

 

[iandg]

 

[iandg]

Suppose this is a cover too

 

[slowmotion]

A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall, Bryan Ferry.
[media]
]View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPYoUQjttak[/media]

 

[Cletus Van Damme]

Suppose this is a cover too

I don't know why that is a cover. But it's awesome all the same, love the late Filthy Phil and Lemmy. Don't know if Fast Eddie is still with us. ..

 

[Slow But Determined]

A
View: https://youtu.be/NeVRaxHtwuk

Spot of reggae anyone?

 

[iandg]

I don't know why that is a cover. But it's awesome all the same, love the late Filthy Phil and Lemmy. Don't know if Fast Eddie is still with us. ..

'cause Lemmy wrote it for, and it was originally recorded by, Hawkwind (Fast Eddie died last year)

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Which reminded me of


View: https://youtu.be/TDCkNGazQUI

 

[bruce1530]

Don’t know if this one counts, but in 1969, The Marmalade recorded “Reflections of my Life”


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTeI65yrhGw



In 2014, 45 years later, lead singer Dean Ford re-recorded it.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn9bAvWS4RU

 

[Slow But Determined]

Two for the price of one from Little Eva Harris


View: https://youtu.be/cRqY9XZcLNY

 

[bruce1530]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0NxhFn0szc

 

[Slow But Determined]

Another two for the price of one from Tom Clay


View: https://youtu.be/y36L2EIYlMQ

 

[classic33]

Kenny Rogers - The Gambler - Kenny Rogers - The Gambler (

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7hx4gdlfamo


Original
"The Gambler" - Bobby Bare

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FSx3H9rcmeA

 

[Seevio]

[rant] I'm seeing buggerall covers that are even as good as the original let alone better. For example, there's no evidence so far that you can do a straight cover of the Beatles and make it better unless it's one of Ringo's songs. The same applies to Queen, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and from the evidence in this thread, Elton John. If you need to cover these artists and make it worthwhile you need to do something different. [/rant]

 

[ColinJ]

Well, I certainly liked the way that Robert Wyatt 'Monkeed' around with I'm a Believer...



NB It is amazing to think that ...

... there were strong arguments with the producer of Top of the Pops surrounding Wyatt's performance of "I'm a Believer", on the grounds that his use of a wheelchair "was not suitable for family viewing", the producer wanting Wyatt to appear on a normal chair. Wyatt won the day and "lost his rag but not the wheelchair".

We sometimes forget how much things have changed in the past 40 or 50 years!