Covers you didn't know were covers?

[Kermit power]

Girls just wanna have fun by Cyndi Lauper was absolutely guaranteed to figure on the playlists at every one of our teenage parties in the Eighties.

I've only just found out it's a cover of a completely obscure 1979 album track by some bloke called Robert Hazard, who I'd never heard of!

Anyone else got any famous covers which they always thought were original songs?

[President Merkin]

In to say Step on before anyone else does.

[blue_haddock]

Wet Wet Wet's love is all around us was a cover of a Troggs song from about 30 years previous.

and i prefer the troggs version.

[Voldemort]

It was many years before I found out 'Hanging on the Telephone' was not an original Blondie song

[vixen1700]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFKivXvtbS0&pp...

Went through the entire '80s through to the early 2010s not realising that No Escape by Chelsea was a cover of a song by The Seeds.

[Lost Soul]

Kermit power said:

Girls just wanna have fun by Cyndi Lauper was absolutely guaranteed to figure on the playlists at every one of our teenage parties in the Eighties.

I've only just found out it's a cover of a completely obscure 1979 album track by some bloke called Robert Hazard, who I'd never heard of!

Anyone else got any famous covers which they always thought were original songs?

See also I Drove All Night by Cyndi Lauper, was originally Roy Orbison but wasn't released until after his death so technically a cover version

[Scabutz]

For years I didnt know "I will always love you 2 was a cover. Written by Dolly Parton originally. Story goes she wrote that and Jolene on the same day, freak.

[Rh14n]

Scabutz said:

For years I didnt know "I will always love you 2 was a cover. Written by Dolly Parton originally. Story goes she wrote that and Jolene on the same day, freak.

And Dolly's version is a million times better than the warbling and waily Whitney! (For a surprisingly great cover of Jolene - see Miley Cyrus)

[Mr Pointy]

Scabutz said:

For years I didnt know "I will always love you" was a cover. Written by Dolly Parton originally. Story goes she wrote that and Jolene on the same day, freak.

I like the story that Col Tom Parker wanted to rip her off for the writing royalties if Elvis were to sing it so she had the sense to tell him to go away & made a fortune from it.

[Kuwahara]

Take Thats Could it be Magic was a cover of Barry Manilows of the same ….

Which was a cover of Chopin’s prelude 28 or at least a sample…

[Scabutz]

Rh14n said:

And Dolly's version is a million times better than the warbling and waily Whitney! (For a surprisingly great cover of Jolene - see Miley Cyrus)

I did chance upon Miley's version of Joleen once on YouTube and it is very good.

[Countdown]

"Because the Night" by Patti Smith, much better than the Springsteen original.

[Super Sonic]

Eurythmics' 'Love is a Stranger'

[Muzzer79]

'Nothing compares 2 U' by Sinead O'Connor

Took me some time to find out that it was originally written and recorded by Prince.

[craig1912]

Countdown said:

"Because the Night" by Patti Smith, much better than the Springsteen original.

There wasn’t a Springsteen original- Springsteen wrote the song and recorded a version for Darkness on the Edge of Town but it never made the album. So the song was never a cover.

[craig1912]

Never realised Adele’s “Make me feel my love” was a Dylan cover. In fact you could argue it’s Bully Joel cover because he released it a month before Bob Dylan (although Dylan wrote it).

Edited by craig1912 on Thursday 8th June 15:23

[boyse7en]

Super Sonic said:

Eurythmics' 'Love is a Stranger'

Who is that a cover of? My version says it was written by Annie Lennox and David A Stewart

[Zumbruk]

Rh14n said:

And Dolly's version is a million times better than the warbling and waily Whitney! (For a surprisingly great cover of Jolene - see Miley Cyrus)

Good, innit?

[craig1912]

boyse7en said:

Who is that a cover of? My version says it was written by Annie Lennox and David A Stewart

yep they wrote it and release it first, so it is not a cover

[Rh14n]

Zumbruk said:

Rh14n said:

And Dolly's version is a million times better than the warbling and waily Whitney! (For a surprisingly great cover of Jolene - see Miley Cyrus)

Good, innit?

Excellent! Just looks and sounds so easy.