Friday night music, the original is lesser known than the cover.

[newts]

View: https://youtu.be/TOnGaCdRaaY

 

[MartinQ]

Another Blondie one

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQXqkiKXiHc&app=desktop

 

[Supersuperleeds]

The original:

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




and the better known version (especially in America)

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxgMGk9JPVA

 

[newts]

A song about Salford. The Luke Kelly version is superb.

View: https://youtu.be/baFIaOGkN90

 

[Chris S]

The original version was about a scumbag, not a dog.


View: https://youtu.be/yoHDrzw-RPg

 

[Seevio]

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

 

[Seevio]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4vQ-eYgIy0

 

[Eziemnaik]

Original is untraceable?


View: https://youtu.be/r57J0jPyZRs


Nina>Aretha

 

[accountantpete]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdJGyf-iJE4

 

[MartinQ]

The pogues bring it up to date ...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLhzTWNodj4&app=desktop
and

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnFzCmAyOp8&app=desktop

 

[Chromatic]

The Go-Go's - Our Lips Are Sealed

 

[MichaelW2]

Before Juice Newton this was first recorded by Evie Sands


View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ynWT2_kcEvE

 

[winjim]

I don't know that the cover is actually that well known unless you're a bit of a grebo*, but considering that the lyrics were considered offensive in 1987, just bear in mind that the original was recorded and released in 1965.


View: https://youtu.be/ENXaPuGJBc0

*it was played every week at the Agincourt in Camberley, with its own dance routine and the whole club joining in and everything.

 

[MichaelW2]

Tommy James and the Shondells even did a version on stage with Joan Jet. Classy.


View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7tkXtMnSi64

 

[MichaelW2]

Soft Cell covered this so well but they started with great material.


View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OJKe2j9Wjh4