Original vs. Cover

[Ingomike]

That's the original isn't it? Clapton did the cover.

Another one of those is JJ Cale did After Midnight first also if I recall correctly…

 

[Ingomike]

If they did not write it isn't that a cover?

 

[actaeon277]

If they did not write it isn't that a cover?

A lot of groups have sung a song written by someone else.
Lionel Ritchie wrote "Lady", but it was sung by Kenny Rogers.

It's is not a cover. Kenny Rogers was the first singer.

 

[Haven]

Deep Purple, Hush. Written by Joe South for Billy Joe Royal. A year after Billy Joe Royal records it, Deep Purple would cover it and it would be the most well known version.

 

[smokingman]

Richard Cheese covers "Down with the Sickness" original by Disturbed*language warning makes me laugh though.

 

[tv1217]

They used to say when Lemmy(of Motorhead) covered your song, it's no longer your song.

Well, that didn't pan out on this one




On a related note

 

[hoosierdaddy1976]

They used to say when Lemmy(of Motorhead) covered your song, it's no longer your song.

Well, that didn't pan out on this one




On a related note

Another good Sabbath cover

 

[hoosierdaddy1976]

Another cover done by Johnny Cash

And the original, for those not familiar

 

[hoosierdaddy1976]

 

[indyjohn]

Greg Allman





The version I remember. I saw them perform this song in Indianapolis at the Circle Theater in early 1979. I was 16.
Molly Hatchet - Sung by Danny Joe Brown

 

[KLB]

Twisted Pine's cover of Dreams by the Cranberries

 

[bwframe]

 

[HoughMade]

I have a hard time saying these are better than John Denver, but they are great covers of my favorite JD song of the moment.

 

[HoughMade]

We all know David Lee Roth's version...but I kow where he got the arrangement of this song that has been recorded dozens of times. The scatting is even the same.

 

[semperfi211]

Dobie Gray sang it well. I love this live Waylon version of drift away.

 

[Timjoebillybob]

I don't know how long it took me to learn that All Along the Watchtower was originally a Bob Dylan song. The Jimi Hendrix version is so iconic I had assumed it was the original.

Same here. I knew it once upon a time and forgot it again until you mentioned it.

 

[BigRed]

A song covered

 

[BigRed]

Another song covered.

 

[BigRed]

Buddy Holly still gets covered.

 

[BigRed]