Originals More Known For The Cover Version(s)

[Zzzptm]

Here's an Isley Bros. song that The Beatles ran to town with. The Bros. were very happy that The Beatles liked their song enough to perform it, resulting in cross-interest between one fanbase and the other.

Must have been (and probably still is!) a hell of a payday for the Isly Bros!

Indeed.

And if you go through The Beatles' BBC sessions and match them up with originals and play them back to back, it's quite an interesting musical landscape.

[Axefiend]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LhkyyCvUHk

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9zWw0Ru28w

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

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVPS0ETuUYE

You could throw almost any "Elvis" tune on this thread since, he never wrote any of his own tunes!

[Jack the Stripper]

Judas Priest's cover is probably my favourite cover by anyone

[Axefiend]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j81Vx-0uM0k

Also "Call Me The Breeze" and "Cocaine", as well as many others.

[Zzzptm]

Not always you can catch a band doing its own covers, but Whitesnake is one of those bands.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S83G_GW6Kr0

[Axefiend]

^^^ Indeed! Purple covered themselves too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hypGtXxz5Sc

Not a patch on the original IMO.

[Axefiend]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZxN9iQM7OY

[Scott]

Never actually heard the original (so I assume this is the right recording), and I'm not much of a Quo fan either but I think their cover is definitely more well known than the original.

This one is self explanatory. The Priest cover would no doubt be more well known in metal circles, but the original is no slouch.

[Axefiend]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AT_Pbtyid0

[Zzzptm]

True, the Purple revisited both "Bloodsucker" and "Hush". Maybe it's something that's in the water they drink?

I was waiting for "Green Manalishi" to pop up, love the Fleetwood Mac version and the Judas Priest version equally.

But I do like the Joan Jett version of that song best.

Now for my addition to the thread, let's see here...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGvux7w1Ea4

Don't recognize it? Maybe because the later version was called "Hotel California" and had different lyrics. The Eagles opened for Tull on a US tour and Anderson figures the song must have gotten stuck in their heads. He was rather pleasantly surprised to recognize his old work in "Hotel California". But, yeah, there's a very interesting similarity in the two songs.

[Billy Underdog]

Gotta post the obvious one...

And i'm a Guns fan...

I heard both of these before the originals, and what i love about Knockin' is the backstory to why they played it. But it's gotta be live with the reggae part.

[Billy Underdog]

Ok, so maybe not more known, but as a huge Bowie fan, this've never been amongst my faves. This version, though...