Did you know that ______ is a cover song?

[Symarip]

Name a song that is often mistaken as an original when it's really a cover. Let's keep this to faithful reproductions. Stolen riffs like how Smells Like Teen Spirit kind of sounds like More Than a Feeling does not apply.

Youtube links are welcomed.

I'll start:

The Tide Is High - Blondie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTv8Mpw3xDE

Originally performed by The Parragons http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rwSPmT3ujU&feature=related

[taterguy]

1. Hanging on the Telephone by Blondie

Originally by some band I can't remember at the moment.

[meegbear]

2. Bette Davis Eyes ...

The song was written in 1974 by Donna Weiss and Jackie DeShannon and DeShannon recorded the song for her album New Arrangement. The song later became a world-wide Number 1 single for singer Kim Carnes in 1981.

It earned DeShannon the 1982 Grammy Award for Song of the Year, so in the end, she did get some credit.

[BurtWorm]

3. Tainted Love

presumed to have been an original from Soft Cell, was actually first performed by Gloria Jones in 1965.

Soft Cell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEh5pWjcWCg

Gloria Jones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSehtaY6k1U

[progressoid]

8. I didn't know that one!

THNX

[BurtWorm]

10. Here's Tainted Love as produced by Marc Bolan (T-Rex) in 1976

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Yx4yyft4aE&feature=related

Jones and Bolan were lovers. In fact, Jones was driving the car that crashed when Bolan was killed. I have no idea what that did to her head. She's unjustly overlooked as an artist in any case.

[greendog]

4. Walk Right In

earworm --->:evilgrin:

Cover by The Rooftop Singers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA0q_4CX9rI

Cover by Dr. Hook:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPj5O3AMGDA&feature=related

Original by Gus Cannon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdGR9duRZ78&feature=related

[Doc_Technical]

5. "Black Magic Woman"

Written by Peter Green and performed by
Fleetwood Mac.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ7l1Oxm40k

[redqueen]

6. The Green Manalishi With The Two-Prong Crown

Another FM song, covered by Judas Priest.

[BurtWorm]

7. Red Red Wine, which many probably think was written by UB40

is based on an old ska performance by Tony Tribe. But the song was originally written and recorded by Neil Diamond.



UB40
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg1iEBWxVeQ

Tony Tribe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovhuKZPNGSU

Neil Diamond
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ysxw7EON5xc

[Symarip]

9. It's more Skinhead Reggae

By 1966, Ska had dissolved in Jamaica. When Red Red Wine was covered by Tony Tribe, it was 1969 and a dawning of the Reggae era.