Great Cover Tunes: CCR - I Heard It Through The Grapevine.

[bluesbassman]

Here's the full version for you purists.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93S_l0qZrXA

Here's the abridged version for a quick fix!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZe9OtFNt_8

[miscsoc]

1. this cover is magnificent

"hoid it through the grapevine"

just love everything about it

whatever swirly effect they have on the bass guitar, and the vocal, and the meandering solo bit, and oh yeah the DRUMS there are the best bit, a sort of pounding ritualistic thump thing. The bits where it goes all thuddy over the riff in between verses

[bluesbassman]

10. Glad you liked it. CCR had a real knack...

for taking good tunes and making them their own. Case in point:

Suzie Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJe5sMBpnNY

Dale Hawkins' 1956 tune was covered competently by many artists, but CCR's version is hands down my favorite. RIP Dale (1936-2010).

[miscsoc]

11. i didn't even know that was a cover

been listening to the creedence vers. for years. i'll have a look at the original.

[tXr]

2. also CCR's "Good Golly Miss Molly".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZKMKsoHWI0

Close to, if not better than the original, IMO.

[miscsoc]

6. better!

going to watch creedence vids til i lapse into unconsciousness

[miscsoc]

3. how about this: i put a spell on you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R6nmKjcSeU&feature=related

the original is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orNpH6iyokI&feature=related

screamin' jay hawkins (i think so, anyway) but it's not as good. still awesome

[S n o w b a l l]

4. Good cover....

CCR takes me back.....way back. :) Good times, good memories.

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

Steppenwolf

:hi:

[miscsoc]

7. mr tambourine man by teh byrds

way better than dylan

actually the original is pretty mediocre

edit: oh wait this was meant to be an original post, not a reply to the above one. anyway

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

[miscsoc]

5. r.e.m. - crazy (pylon originally)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cji3ufEupyg

i'm not sure about this one, i like the original as well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPvknVx-J5k

[miscsoc]

8. bruce springsteen - twist and shout

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDlo-h-Mq1s

well, you have to see it live. saw him at hampden in glasgow, when he did this the experience was near religious

[GReedDiamond]

9. Spooky Tooth...I Am The Walrus...

...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIi4EmHAhio

[miscsoc]

12. better than the original

in that i agree with john lennon, according to the youtube page

[Sebastian Doyle]

13. Sex Pistols - Johnny B. Goode/Road Runner

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrTKGFEE2Mk :evilgrin:

[Bluzmann57]

14. Z.Z. Top's "LaGrange"

Ok so it technically isn't a cover but in reality, it's "Boogie Chillen" by the Boogie man himself, Mr. John Lee Hooker.

[Sebastian Doyle]

15. The Knack - A Hard Day's Night

If you're going to be accused of "trying to be The Beatles", why the Hell not do a Beatles cover?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ-GHxulq_E

From their legendary Carnegie Hall performance, which still has not been released on DVD, BluRay, or any other 21st century format.

R.I.P. Doug Fieger & Bruce Gary :(

[abq e streeter]

16. Covering Creedence: Al Wilson doing Lodi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsjJeBpsU-o

[miscsoc]

22. thanks for that one

would never have come across it otherwise.

[abq e streeter]

17. That'll Be The Day...covered by a group called The Quarrymen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8eqtpLxFO0&playnext_from=TL&videos=Gj22PbvOfH0

a little rough, but these boys sound like they got some potential...

[abq e streeter]

18. Best cover of Bruce ever--Levon Helm singing Atlantic City

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3Cz3iuNJXc&playnext_from=TL&videos=vHbAEjWUdQw

[miscsoc]

21. quite like this

still prefer the original, but that version is nice on its own merits

[abq e streeter]

19. A few more great covers.. including Dylan doing Rick Nelson's Lonesome Town

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ripuYsuFKr4&feature=related Alice Cooper doing Rolf Harris's Sun Arise

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2cFzW7Gues&playnext_from=TL&videos=oevkMvrz8mY The GREAT Del Shannon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udz2n-4TU2o Dylan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye3ecDYxOkg&feature=related Tokin' with Lawrence Welk; no explanation necessary... nor possible

[abq e streeter]

20. just one more--took 43 years, but at last, The E Street band and The Swingin' Medallions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVzk-aVUjw0&feature=related