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A specific form of Older Than They Think, in which the Cover Version of a song becomes so iconic that people forget it was a cover at all. The cover becomes the definitive version of the song, while the original fades into obscurity to the point where the cover artist may be incorrectly credited for writing it. To a certain extent, this is generational — if you hear a song before the cover is even recorded, you're less likely to be confused. (It doesn't count if the new version is in a different language.)
This can become a Fandom-Enraging Misconception for fans of the original artist, and sometimes even for the original artist themselves (as the David Bowie quote above demonstrates).
Nowadays, "covers" are used to describe any band performing a not-originally-written song. However, when bands writing all their own songs was a less common practice, covering referred specifically to doing a version of a song in a style similar to that of another artist.
With the advent of the Internet, it is possible for covers to overshadow the original version thanks to metrics such as YouTube view counts, or if they come up more often in search results.
Parody Displacement is similar, but happens when an entirely revised and rewritten version of a song by a different artist becomes more prominent than the original. Somewhat related is Breakaway Pop Hit, where an iconic song (or cover) composed specifically for a film overshadows its film. Compare Sampled Up and Eclipsed by the Remix, and contrast with First and Foremost. See also Revival by Commercialization and Misattributed Song. See also Adaptation Displacement, in which later entries of a franchise are better-known than the original entry that spawned the franchise.
If you were thinking of the other meaning of "covers", you might be looking for Modesty Bedsheet. Also not related to any Cover Tropes, nor to Revealing Cover Up.
For the opposite of this trope, see First and Foremost.
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Weird version: in Brazil, the success of The Elite Squad brought much attention to the opening theme, a 90s song called "Rap das Armas". Yet somehow people mostly played a cover which was not in the film (which even was remixed by European DJs and became a hit in the Netherlands and Scandinavia).
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Rod Stewart also covered Waits' "Tom Traubert's Blues (Waltzing Matilda)" (from Small Change) for his Unplugged album.
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An alarming number of people think "Proud Mary" is a song by Tina Turner rather than original band Creedence Clearwater Revival, from their album Bayou Country. It doesn't help much that John Fogerty has basically said she can keep it (his oily manager screwed him out the rights to all of Creedence's music, so his lack of attachment to the song is understandable). Happily, the combination of Fogerty eventually regaining the royalties from his work with CCR and the band becoming Vindicated by History means that even if it isn't quite First and Foremost, the original recording of "Proud Mary" is certainly not forgotten, either.
Creedence themselves, meanwhile, did covers of the obscure blues numbers "Midnight Special" and "Suzie Q" that are far better known than the source songs.
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"Thank You For Being You" is best known for its appearance on not one, but two Mister Rogers' Neighborhood tribute albums: 2005's Songs From The Neighborhood, which featured Amy Grant, BJ Thomas, Donna Summer and others, and 2019's Thank You, Mister Rogers: Music & Memories, which had among its roster Kellie Pickler, Vanessa Williams and Tom Bergeron. The song was originally written for the Canadian-produced, PBS Kids-aired series The Noddy Shop as the song the puppets sang to show Noah how much they loved him in the season 1 finale, "Noah's Leaving". Aside from the Title Drop, only two verses from the original song are kept in the Mister Rogers version ("Words could never measure, a gift would be too small/But more than any treasure, we love you most of all"). Interestingly enough, Dennis Scott also wrote the original Noddy Shop version of the song.
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Metallica made numerous covers and many of those Covered Up the original, most notably:
"Breadfan" and "Crash Course In Brain Surgery" originally by Budgie
"Am I Evil", "Helpless", and "The Prince" originally by Diamond Head
"So What?" originally by Anti-Nowhere League
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"Stars", which younger audiences (specifically Bojack Horseman fans, thanks to its usage in the season 3 finale) associate with Nina Simone, was originally written and performed by Janis Ian (no, not that one).
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Most people seem to associate the song "Only Hope" with A Walk to Remember where Mandy Moore sings it, and some even credit her as writing it. Even those who notice that the song was written by a guy named Jonathan Foreman generally don't know that Jon Foreman is the lead singer of Switchfoot, the band which first performed the song.
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If you type "Hot Cherie" in the search box for Google or YouTube, you will inevitably find the Hardline song first. This was a cover of a song by Streetheart. The song was covered by Danny Spanos as well, which is also more popular than Streetheart's version, but still not as popular as Hardline's.
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Kathy Mattea:
Both "Love at the Five and Dime" and "Goin' Gone" were originally recorded by Nanci Griffith.
"Come from the Heart" and "Standing Knee Deep in a River (Dying of Thirst)" were both originally recorded by Don Williams.
"Lonesome Standard Time" was originally recorded by Larry Cordle.
"Untold Stories" and "Walk the Way the Wind Blows" were both originally recorded by Hot Rize.
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"Skinnamarink" is a traditional children's song that's best known for its' cover by Canadian children's group Sharon, Lois and Bram. The connection between the song and the group was so strong that their second TV show, as well as a skating rink in Canada, were both named after the song.
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Most people aren't aware that the Candy Mountain song from Charlie the Unicorn is actually to the tune of a song called "Clarinet Polka" that dates back all the way to the 19th century.
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"Love Has Fallen Down on Me", originally by Rotary Connection, made famous by Chaka Khan (and that version itself made famous by 27 Dresses), using a note-for-note rearrangement of the original by Charles Stepney.
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The Bacharach/David composition "Always Something There to Remind Me" is often associated with its well known cover by 80s new wave duo Naked Eyes, but it was recorded quite a few times, initially by Dionne Warwick in 1963 (that version went unreleased, and she re-recorded a slightly better known version in 1967). In 1964, a re-recording was a UK #1 hit for Sandie Shaw.
Inverted by the Naked Eyes version: a Top 10 hit in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, but barely noticed in Britain.
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"Somebody" was originally cut by Mark Wills.
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"Whipped Cream", which Toussaint wrote and recorded with his band The Stokes in 1964 (partly to capitalize on "Java"'s success), became the title track of Herb Alpert's hugely popular Whipped Cream & Other Delights album the next year, in a note-for-note cover.
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"Walking in the Air" was first performed by Peter Auty in the movie adaptation of The Snowman. A few years later, Aled Jones shot to fame with a cover of the song, which became the definitive version. Later still, Nightwish covered it for their album Oceanborn, causing many Nightwish fans to believe that their version was the original.
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While "What's Up?" by 4 Non Blondes is still known to an extent by fans of late-20th century music, most people know it these days for the He-Man and the Masters of the Universe parody done by Slackcircus entitled "Fabulous Secret Powers".
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Nirvana's MTV Unplugged in New York live album is also subject to this, as many people are apparently unaware that many of the songs are covers of anything from David Bowie tunes to old Christian standards...despite the fact that Kurt Cobain says so on the album itself.
"Jesus Doesn't Want Me for a Sunbeam"; Kurt Cobain jokingly introduces it a "rendition of an old Christian song, I think [...] but we do it the Vaselines way". It's not. It's an original song by the Vaselines that parodies an old Christian song called "I'll Be a Sunbeam".
Nirvana also covered up Devo's "Turn Around" - the fact that the original was a rare b-side to begin with probably doesn't help (although it's available on iTunes now).
Nirvana were prone to covering a lot of songs by the same artist. Examples include The Wipers' "Return of the Rat" and "D-7" as well as The Vaselines' "Molly's Lips", "Son of a Gun" (both available on Incesticide, and the above mentioned "Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam". In an interesting take, Nirvana covered folk songs most famously played by Lead Belly but changed the titles to match the chorus ("In The Pines" became "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" and "He Never Said A Mumbling Word" became "They Hung Him On A Cross"). Nirvana's first single was also a cover being the song "Love Buzz" originally performed by Shocking Blue in 1969.
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"Nothing Compares 2 U" was made famous by Sinéad O'Connor.
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"Popopopopose" was originally from the children's show Inai Inai Baa!, but the cover by J-Pop act GReeeeN is more well-known than the original song.
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Most people are familiar with "In the Street" as the theme song for That '70s Show. If they are aware it's a Real Song Theme Tune at all, it's likely because they noticed it being credited to Cheap Trick in the end credits, or have their full version on a Cheap Trick greatest hits album or a That 70s Show companion album. In fact it was first performed by cult Power Pop band Big Star in 1972, two years before Cheap Trick formed. Because Cheap Trick is the more well known of the two Seventies bands, people tend to assume it's an early Cheap Trick song, when in fact its cover was specifically recorded for the show.
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For a long time, "Little Boxes" was thought of by many people as a Pete Seeger song, until Weeds brought Malvina Reynolds' original back into the public eye.
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"Little Sister", originally by Elvis Presley.
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"The Girls of Rock and Roll" first appeared in the movie The Malibu Bikini Shop, but people might have stronger memories of The Chipmunk Adventure version, performed by the Chipmunks and the Chipettes.
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"Leaving on a Jet Plane" was written and performed by John Denver, but it didn't become famous until it was covered by Peter, Paul and Mary; Chantal Kreviazuk also recorded a modestly popular version (featured on the Armageddon (1998) soundtrack). Most people also probably want to avoid associating John Denver with planes...
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The Simpsons provides an instrumental example with the leitmotif for Sideshow Bob. Although Bob did not have any theme music in his first few appearances, the episode "Cape Feare" provided him with a slightly altered version of the main theme of Cape Fear as part of the episode's parody of the iconic film. The show continued to use the music in most of Bob's subsequent appearances. Over time, as The Simpsons continued to stay in the spotlight while Cape Fear faded into obscurity, many younger fans would know the song only as "Sideshow Bob's theme", not realizing that it was a homage to an older piece.
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Neil Diamond started out as a songwriter so a lot of his music has been recorded by other singers:
"Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon" has been covered numerous times, but was only covered up at the release of Pulp Fiction, which featured Urge Overkill's rendition. Still, Neil Diamond's original is not entirely forgotten.
The first and definitive version of "I'm a Believer" was released by The Monkees (Diamond actually recorded his own version first but it wasn't released until later). The same was the case for three other Monkees hits: "Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow)", "Love to Love" and "A Little Bit Me, a Little Bit You". "I'm a Believer" has since been covered by Smash Mouth (for the movie Shrek, giving the song a significant Revival by Commercialization in the process) and Weezer.
"Red Red Wine" first covered by Tony Tribe and then in The '80s by UB40, with UB40's version regaining popularity nearly 20 years after it was released. Neil Diamond later recorded a new version inspired by UB40's cover.
"Solitary Man" was Diamond's first hit (#55 pop) in 1966. It's been covered by Jay and the Americans, Chris Isaak, T.G. Sheppard (#14 country, #100 pop in 1976), Johnny Cash, and H.I.M.
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X-Factor winner Matt Cardle’s "When We Collide" was a retitled cover of Scottish Band Biffy Clyro’s song “Many of Horror�, that managed to eclipse it in sales and became Cardle’s signature song. Meanwhile, many will probably only know “Many of Horror� for being played in the credits for Transformers: Dark of the Moon.
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"Hard to Handle" is originally an Otis Redding song. And he made it famous. But The Black Crowes thoroughly covered it up.
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"The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" is nowadays all but entirely known as "The Looney Tunes theme", but it was originally a 1937 jazz song recorded by Russ Morgan.
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Fans of My Little Pony are mostly unaware that the G3 Sing and Dance Pinkie Pie toy's "Come Along" song actually came from the ending credits of a movie based on another Hasbro property, Candy Land: The Great Lollipop Adventure.
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"Without You" is possibly Harry Nilsson's greatest hit. Mariah Carey also famously performed it. Most people have probably never heard the original version by Badfinger. Of course, Nilsson dramatically re-arranged the song (the original is barely recognizable as the same tune); nearly every cover of the song since then (including Carey's version) is based on the Nilsson version.
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Laura Nyro:
"And When I Die" by Blood, Sweat & Tears... after having been originally recorded by Peter, Paul and Mary.
"Eli's Coming" by Three Dog Night.
"Wedding Bell Blues" by The 5th Dimension.
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"The Gael" was commissioned for the historical Loss Nech Monster Centre by Scottish musician Dougie MacLean. Nowadays, it's best known as the theme from The Last of the Mohicans, as composed by Trevor Jones.
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Hatsune Miku:
Slightly more extreme example: As noted above, Miku's cover of "Ievan Polkka" is better-known than both Loituma's cover and the cover it's covering, Holly Dolly's "Dolly Song (Ieva's Polkka)" as both feature similar instrumentals (though Holly's is slightly more upbeat) and the lyrics are a very particular section of the original.
Due to Memetic Mutation, many people know Miku's version of "Oblivion" better than the original by Grimes, mostly because of that type of weird music video that Ctrl Ult Delete usually does.
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John Michael Montgomery:
Boyzone's had a gold single in the UK with their version of "I Love the Way You Love Me".
All-4-One covered up both "I Swear" and "I Can Love You Like That".
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The Animals didn't write "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood". It was first performed by Nina Simone. Even the Animals version has been forgotten by some fans of the later Santa Esmeralda cover, especially after Kill Bill.
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Edwin Starr's cover of "War" is better-known than The Temptations' original.
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One of Cracked's 6 Famous Songs Written by the Last Person You'd Expect is "Islands in the Stream". The Bee Gees were on the decline as recording artists at the time, but Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton's careers weren't.
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Karla Bonoff wrote several songs that Linda Ronstadt recorded. After discovering that she had included some of them on an album of her own, some outraged fans wondered how this Karla Somebody had the nerve to rip off Ronstadt.
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"Wild Night" was originally written and performed by Van Morrison and was a minor hit in 1971. The 1994 version by John Mellencamp and Meshell Ndegeocello was a Top 10 hit.
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"Monkey" by Harry Belafonte is more well-known from its' cover version from the first episode of Animaniacs by Dr. Scratchnsniff.
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The Judds covered one of their earliest songs, "Water Of Love".
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"O Death" is an American folk song from the early 20th century. People know of it from a variety of covers. Nowadays it is associated with Supernatural and Until Dawn.
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Think of the song "Iko Iko". You're probably thinking either of The Belle Stars' version used in Rain Man, the Dr. John version, or the Grateful Dead. Or Cyndi Lauper. Or maybe even the 1965 version recorded by The Dixie Cups which most people believe was "the original". They are all pre-dated by a 1953 recording by James "Sugar Boy" Crawford, who himself adapted a bunch of Mardi Gras parade chants into a song that he called "Jock-a-mo". The Dixie Cups' version came when the singers were on a break during recording and just started singing it—one band members' grandmother was a fan of the Crawford song—and didn't know that the producers were recording them.
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You may recall "I've Told Every Little Star" in Linda Scott's 1961 hit version, especially if you're of a certain generation or have seen Mulholland Dr.. This cover version is very different from its original use as the theme song of the Kern & Hammerstein musical Music in the Air.
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Covered Up / int_46009ec4
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The Guess Who's "American Woman" might have been overshadowed by the Lenny Kravitz version - even if the movie where that cover comes from briefly features the original, which is also on the playlist of Guitar Hero: World Tour.
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1.0
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Covered Up / int_464d969d
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Covered Up
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The classic "Sing (a song)" from Sesame Street. One of Joe Raposo's compositions, in many markets (particularly in Asia), the Carpenters' cover is more popular or more fondly remembered than the multiple performances the song has had on the show.
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1.0
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Covered Up / int_46518682
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Covered Up
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"Rock Around the Clock", forever associated with Bill Haley & His Comets, was not recorded by them first. That honor went to Sonny Dae and his Knights, whose version was released in early 1954. While Haley and his group did perform it live as early as 1953, their producer at their then-label Essex refused to record the song, forcing them to wait until they signed with Decca Records in 1954 to record it (though rumors of a 1953 demo persist despite denials by Haley and his bandmates).
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Covered Up / int_493397e3
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Covered Up
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"Knockin' on Heaven's Door", which some thought was originally by Guns N' Roses. Or Eric Clapton.
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1.0
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Covered Up / int_4a510504
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Covered Up
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Ramones covered "I Don't Wanna Grow Up", originally on Waits' Bone Machine, and Waits has since covered two of their songs.
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1.0
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Covered Up / int_4adb6310
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Covered Up
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"Black Magic Woman" (from Abraxas) was originally a Fleetwood Mac song. Peter Green himself told Carlos Santana he wanted to hear him and his band play it. It ended up becoming the big hit for Santana that Fleetwood Mac would have loved to have.
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1.0
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Covered Up / int_4bdb43f0
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Covered Up
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Nirvana were prone to covering a lot of songs by the same artist. Examples include The Wipers' "Return of the Rat" and "D-7" as well as The Vaselines' "Molly's Lips", "Son of a Gun" (both available on Incesticide, and the above mentioned "Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam". In an interesting take, Nirvana covered folk songs most famously played by Lead Belly but changed the titles to match the chorus ("In The Pines" became "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" and "He Never Said A Mumbling Word" became "They Hung Him On A Cross"). Nirvana's first single was also a cover being the song "Love Buzz" originally performed by Shocking Blue in 1969.
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Covered Up / int_4d45400d
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"Mad World" was famously covered by Gary Jules for Donnie Darko.
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"Till There Was You" from The Music Man.
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1.0
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Covered Up / int_5018e5dd
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Covered Up
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Anna Naklab's cover of "Supergirl" is more popular than the original by Reamonn.
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1.0
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Covered Up / int_5104c795
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Covered Up
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"Set the Night to Music" is best known as a US top-10 duet by Roberta Flack with Maxi Priest in 1991. Not many people know now that it was first recorded four years earlier by Starship.
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Covered Up / int_513b0109
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Covered Up
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"Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart" was a big international hit for Marc Almond and Gene Pitney in 1988. However, the song was originally recorded by David & Jonathan, then by Pitney himself, in 1967. The song was subsequently covered by artists ranging from Cilla Black and Vicky Leandros to Nick Cave.
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Covered Up / int_514a6627
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Covered Up
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Allen Toussaint
Better known as a producer and songwriter, the New Orleans legend has had three of his songs as a performer Covered Up:
"Java", recorded as Al Tousan in 1958, became a Top 10 hit for Al Hirt in 1964.
"Whipped Cream", which Toussaint wrote and recorded with his band The Stokes in 1964 (partly to capitalize on "Java"'s success), became the title track of Herb Alpert's hugely popular Whipped Cream & Other Delights album the next year, in a note-for-note cover.
The title track of Toussaint's 1975 album Southern Nights became a #1 hit for Glen Campbell two years later (in a radically different arrangement).
Interestingly, Hirt's "Java" and Alpert's "Whipped Cream" are both better known now for being used by others: "Java" in a Muppet sketch, "Whipped Cream" on The Dating Game.
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Covered Up / int_5260de79
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Covered Up
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"Why Don't You Do Right?" was not created for Who Framed Roger Rabbit. It dates back to 1936, with a famous version by Peggy Lee dating to 1950. Not only did the film become the most recognizable use of the song, it also singlehandedly changed the song's style. It was originally a bouncy standard, but the Roger Rabbit version re-interpreted the song as a slow, sultry number sung by sex-symbol toon Jessica Rabbit to introduce the character. Likely due to the impact of the scene and Jessica as a whole, modern covers of the song tend to universally sing it in the sexy way Jessica debuted.
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Covered Up / int_5286ec36
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Covered Up
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Grand Theft Auto: the "Master Sounds" radio station from San Andreas is apparently a conscious attempt by the developers to reverse this trend — it plays only songs which later became vastly more famous when they were covered or sampled by more popular artists.
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1.0
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Covered Up / int_5425ce75
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Covered Up
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"Jingo" by Babatunde Olatunji (originally from Drums of Passion)
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1.0
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Covered Up / int_547cbebd
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Covered Up
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The song "Stay" by Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs, although a top-charting record and featured in Dirty Dancing, is often better known nowadays for the (considerably longer) Jackson Browne cover. To confuse the issue, "The Load Out", which segues into the cover of "Stay", actually was written by Jackson Browne, but they're played together so often that people don't even realized they're technically two separate songs.
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Covered Up
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"Feeling Good" is probably most well known as a Nina Simone song, at least by those who don't think it's a Muse song (Muse's version is based on Nina's). Neither wrote nor originally performed the song, however. It was written by composers Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse, and originates from a musical called The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd. The first person to perform the song was Cy Grant, on stage in 1964, and the first to record it was Gilbert Price on the original cast recording album of the musical.
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Covered Up / int_56b91f38
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Covered Up
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Most people are more familiar with the Blue Swede version of "Hooked on a Feeling"—you know, the one with the "ooga chaka"s—than the earlier performance by B.J. Thomas. It was made even more well-known as the "Dancing Baby" song, featured in Ally McBeal. Blue Swede itself borrowed "ooga chaka" from an earlier version by Jonathan King. Averted with Blue Swede's other hit, "Never My Love", still mostly "associated" with The Association.
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Covered Up / int_56cb92c3
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Carl Orff's Carmina Burana is an interesting case which could arguably be considered this. The collection of 12th century poems, songs, and stories which Orff arranged as a symphonic cantata had little in the way of musical notation, and the notation which was used was so old that modern musical scholars aren't certain just how they would have been performed. As a result, Orff was free to arrange the music however he liked, and while he did make some attempt to work out the original arrangements, for the most part the 1936 work was an entirely original score.
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Some people don't know that "Family Man" by Hall & Oates is a cover of Mike Oldfield. May be a bit justified since Oldfield isn't well known in the U.S. aside from "Tubular Bells."
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Covered Up / int_5b8d82c2
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Covered Up
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Pitch Perfect's "Cup Song" (better known by the title "When I'm Gone"), is a partial cover of an old Carter Family (of which June is an offspring) song called "Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone".
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1.0
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Covered Up / int_5ce9e127
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Covered Up
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Whitesnake actually covered themselves with the song "Here I Go Again". They released the original as a European-only single in 1982 and it peaked at #34 in the UK. In 1987, at the urging of their record label, they re-recorded a more polished and up-tempo version of the song and put it out as a single again. This "cover version" shot to #9 in the UK and #1 in the United States, and became the version that everyone knows and radio stations still play - the original has been largely forgotten by everyone but hardcore Whitesnake fans.
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Covered Up / int_5dfe9572
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Covered Up
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"This Wheels on Fire"...borderline case. While it's probably widely known it's by Bob Dylan & The Band, the version you most probably remember is the title melody of Absolutely Fabulous, by Brian Auger. (Which again isn't the version by Brian Auger&Trinity which climbed highest in the charts...Siouxsie and the Banshees, anyone?)
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Covered Up / int_5e35857a
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Covered Up
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"Eve of Destruction" was written for (and originally recorded by) The Turtles, but it was Barry McGuire's version that became a hit.
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Covered Up
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Heart's "Alone" was originally recorded in 1983 by its songwriters, Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly, under the name i-Ten.
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Covered Up
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Bananarama's "Look on the Floor" covers the chorus of the 80s Italo Disco song "Hypnotic Tango" by My Mine.
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Covered Up / int_6ec887a3
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Covered Up
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The Goo Goo Dolls' 1995 hit "Long Way Down" is probably better known nowadays through its 2005 cover by metalcore band Haste the Day.
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1.0
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Covered Up
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Some people think that "Pressure Drop" is a Specials original. Slightly better informed people think that they were covering The Clash. In fact, the original is by Toots and the Maytals (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas players may be more familiar with the original).
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1.0
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Covered Up / int_72a1ac51
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Covered Up
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Gloria Gaynor's famous disco number "I Am What I Am" is so popular that most people forget that it was originally from the Broadway musical about gay pride called La Cage aux folles. Leading to a lot of Fan Dumb from people complaining about "How the gays stole this song for their pride parades".
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Covered Up
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Nirvana's song "Love Buzz" (from their album Bleach (Album)) is a Gender Flipped cover version of a 1969 song by Dutch psychedelic band Shocking Blue (released on their album At Home) whose other hit, "Venus", was covered up by Bananarama. Hearing the original version of "Love Buzz" for the first time can be surprising because the song actually has multiple verses, whereas Nirvana turned it into a Single Stanza Song - one source has it that covering it was the idea of Nirvana's bassist Krist Novoselic, who liked the prominent bass riff; Kurt Cobain went along with it reluctantly and only bothered to memorize a small portion of the lyrics.
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The most iconic song from Victorious is arguably "Take a Hint", which is sung by Victoria Justice and Elizabeth Gillies. However, most fans aren't aware that it is a cover of a song originally by Maghan Kabir. The cover is far better known than the original.
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"Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon" has been covered numerous times, but was only covered up at the release of Pulp Fiction, which featured Urge Overkill's rendition. Still, Neil Diamond's original is not entirely forgotten.
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"Hot Night" was originally performed by Laura Branigan on the Ghostbusters (1984) soundtrack. Younger generations, especially synthwave fans, are more likely to be familiar with Roxi Drive's 2020 cover.
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"Ai No Corrida" is usually thought of as a Quincy Jones song, but he was actually covering an unsuccessful solo single by Chas Jankel of Ian Dury and The Blockheads.
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"Rivers of Babylon" was performed by The Melodians before it became a hit for Boney M.
Modern-day listeners probably know the version by Sublime best. However, the lyrics are an expanded version of Psalm 137 with Rastafarian elements (such as "King Alpha").
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"Sheep may safely graze" is the most famous movement of Bach's secular Hunting Cantata. In fact, the rest of the cantata remains obscure outside the realm of Bach fans and music scholars, while "Sheep may safely graze" is almost universally known. Even the original version of the movement is obscure, with its many arrangements taking the spotlight. Link to original "Sheep may safely graze"
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"How Do I Live" is a weird case. When it was first written for the movie Con Air, composer Diane Warren initially gave it to LeAnn Rimes (15 at the time) and her version was poised to be the soundtrack's lead single. But the filmmakers insisted that Rimes was "too poppy" to sell a song about heartbreak, and they had the song rerecorded with another country singer, Trisha Yearwood (whose version was featured in the movie), while the song's creative team rushed Rimes' version to radio. Both versions became hits at the same time, however Yearwood's version was eventually withdrawn from radio after about a year because the execs thought it would eat her album sales. Rimes' version, however, remains one of her biggest hits, with one of the longest chart runs in music history.
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"Don't Cha", by the Pussycat Dolls? Also a cover — of a song first recorded by Tori Alamaze, one year before the Pussycat Dolls performed it.
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Donovan's psychedelic standard "Season of the Witch" is still pretty well-known, at least if you're over 45, but younger generations are more likely to remember one of its more than 50 cover versions, particularly since Lana Del Rey covered it.
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The 1978 album Dr. Heckle & Mr. Jive by England Dan & John Ford Coley is notable for containing a Covered Up song (their version of "Love Is The Answer", originally written by Todd Rundgren and recorded by his band Utopia, was a Top 10 hit in the US) and two songs that went on to be Covered Up by other artists ("Broken-Hearted Me" by Anne Murray, "What's Forever For?" by Michael Martin Murphey).
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The Grammy for Song of the Year for 1986 went to Burt Bacharach and Carol Bayer Sager as writers of "That's What Friends Are For", performed by Dionne and Friends, a one-off collaboration between Dionne Warwick, Elton John, Gladys Knight, and Stevie Wonder. Dionne and Friends picked up their own Grammy for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals. Few realize that this version is a cover of a song recorded four years earlier by Rod Stewart for the movie Night Shift.
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"It Ain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)" is an old jazz number first done by Jimmie Lunceford in 1939 and later by the likes of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong (usually under the title "'Tain't What You Do..."), but most people today only know the version by The Fun Boy Three with Bananarama.
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A more recent example would be "Bad Apple!!" - odds to evens you were thinking more of the Alstroemeria Records remix.
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The Eagles covered "Ol' '55". All Elite Wrestling fans, however, likely know the original better, since it was used in the promotion's tribute show that followed the December 2020 passing of Mr. Brodie Lee.
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"Bring the Pain" is a song by Method Man, a member of the Wu-Tang Clan; however, many Mindless Self Indulgence fans are far more familiar with the band's cover of the song from Tight.
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Even before it was used in an episode of The Office (US), the version of "Nobody But Me" as recorded by the Human Beinz had already been a Top 10 hit while the original by the Isley Brothers went nowhere.
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Written by Diane Warren, Edwin McCain's version of "I Could Not Ask for More" released in 1999 to significant radio play, but it has been almost completely forgotten in the wake of the country cover, released the very next year, by Sara Evans. She even took the song to a higher position on the Billboard Hot 100 than he did, and McCain is today remembered pretty much only for his first hit "I'll Be".
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"Heartbroke Every Day": Later a Top 20 single in 1996 for Lonestar.
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"One Step Beyond" from One Step Beyond Album, originally by Prince Buster.
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"La Bamba", made famous by Ritchie Valens, was originally a Mexican (more precisely, Veracruz) wedding dance song, and its first extant recording (by "El Jarocho" - Alvaro Hernández Ortiz) predates Valens' by almost 20 years. The video of the Los Lobos cover of "La Bamba" (which they in turn did for the soundtrack to the Ritchie Valens biopic) ends with the band starting to play the traditional song on acoustic guitars. It's kinda nifty.
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The live cover by George Michael is also well known.
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The Rolling Stones have done many covers of blues and R&B songs over the years:
"You Better Move On", originally by Arthur Alexander.
"Not Fade Away" - originally by Buddy Holly.
"It's All Over Now" - originally by the Bobby Womack & the Valentinos.
"Little Red Rooster" - originally by Howlin' Wolf.
"Love In Vain" - originally by Robert Johnson.
"You Gotta Move" - originally by Mississippi Fred McDowell.
"Shake Your Hips" - originally by Slim Harpo.
"Ain't Too Proud to Beg" and "Just My Imagination" - originally by the Temptations.
"Harlem Shuffle" - originally by Bob & Earl.
"Time Is on My Side" - Composed by Jerry Ragovoy in 1963 as an instrumental number for jazz trombonist Kai Winding (who had recent success with his cover of "More", the theme from Mondo Cane); the lyrics were added by Jimmy Norman for a cover by Irma Thomas in early 1964, which formed the basis of The Rolling Stones' version.
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Quite a few Brits think the theme from Death in Paradise is an original composition. Even people who know it's a preexisting song called "You're Wondering Now" have no idea who originally performed it, usually crediting it to either the Skatalites, the Specials or Amy Winehouse. In reality, it was originally recorded in 1964 by obscure duo Andy & Joey; here's their version.
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Gerhard's "Bom" was originally called "Boum" and sung by Charles Trenet. Trenet's version is used in Skyfall at one point, to the enjoyment of Swedish moviegoers who never knew that there was a French version.
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Rainbow Islands uses Somewhere Over The Rainbow as its main theme. Clever. Similarly, its sequel Parasol Stars uses the Lambada as the boss BGM!
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The original theme for Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon, "Moonlight Densetsu", is a cover of "Sayonara ha Dance no Ato ni" from the '60s. The second theme avoided this trope by being written by Naoko Takeuchi herself.
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Madness:
"One Step Beyond" from One Step Beyond Album, originally by Prince Buster.
To a lesser extent, "It Must Be Love" by Labi Siffre. More people know it as a Madness song, but the original still gets its share of airplay.
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Buffy Sainte-Marie recorded the first version of the Protest Song "Universal Soldier", which most people identify with the cover by Donovan.
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"Angel of Mine", at least in the US, is best known as a Monica song. Few Americans know that it was originally by the British girl group Eternal.
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Some country fans recognize the song "When You Say Nothing at All" as a beautiful song by Alison Krauss & Union Station, and are surprised to learn that its first release was on a tribute to the late Keith Whitley, who both wrote and sang it in the '80s, when country wasn't cool.
Most Europeans will never have heard of Alison Krauss but will have encountered Ronan Keating's version of the song, included on the "Notting Hill" soundtrack.
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The story is actually ridiculously sad. Linda and the Morning Birds, by law in South Africa at the time, couldn't receive royalties for their music, and received a "petty cash voucher" instead. When Pete Seeger brought the song to America, he didn't check to ensure that Linda received the royalties he was due, and again, Linda was left with a tiny cash sum. He eventually died impoverished and it was 15 years before a stone was placed on his grave. In 2000, it was estimated that, had he received what he was due, he and his heirs would have earned upwards of $15 million just from its use in The Lion King (1994). Eventually his heirs did reach a settlement with the record company, with the money placed in a trust.
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After hearing Vitas's performance of "Il Dulce Suono", a listener declared that she didn't like his rendition of the opera from The Fifth Element and that you can't perform Sarah Brightman's music without screwing it up. (A common fan mistake: Brightman was not in The Fifth Element.) The music piece comes from the opera Lucia de Lammermoor, which debuted in 1835.
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"Somewhere Over the Rainbow", from The Wizard of Oz is not a perfect example. The famous version by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole is easily the most well-known arrangement aside from the version done for the movie (by Judy Garland). If you see someone singing / playing that song nowadays, there's a 50% chance that it's usually done in the style of the Kamakawiwo'ole arrangement, i.e. done with a guitar (or a ukulele) and sung softly with "ooooh's" in it (and/or mashed up with "What A Wonderful World").
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Unless you've never once watched Groundhog Day, it's hard to imagine "Pennsylvania Polka" by anyone other than Frankie Yankovic with back vocals. It was first recorded for the film "Give Out, Sisters" (1942) by The Andrews Sisters.
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"She's Not There" was originally by The Zombies.
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And, ironically, most of the money that Nick's made from music came neither from his solo career, nor from Elvis' hit, but from a lesser-known cover of the song by the relatively-obscure Curtis Stigers... because it happened to be on the soundtrack to The Bodyguard.
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Many will associate the song "Cotton-Eye Joe" with Rednex, and believe that they were its writers. It's actually a cover of an old country folk song that pre-dates The American Civil War.
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A cover of "Downtown Train" (originally recorded for Waits' Rain Dogs album) by Rod Stewart in 1989 made it to #3 on the American pop charts, making it the highest charting version of a Waits song ever (Waits himself has no charting singles). Bob Seger also recorded a cover that same year, but was not released until 2011 because Stewart's became a big hit.
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Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson's duet "Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" was a top-15 country hit for its writer, Ed Bruce, three years before the Waylon/Willie version.
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Some famous works by Johann Sebastian Bach are usually known only by their covers by other composers and performers.
The Air on the G String is actually the Air from Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major. Violinist August Wilhelmj transposed and rewrote the Air in C Major in order to play it solely on the G string of the violin. Most recordings now list the work as the Air on the G String, even if the recording is of the original Orchestral Suite version.
"Sheep may safely graze" is the most famous movement of Bach's secular Hunting Cantata. In fact, the rest of the cantata remains obscure outside the realm of Bach fans and music scholars, while "Sheep may safely graze" is almost universally known. Even the original version of the movement is obscure, with its many arrangements taking the spotlight. Link to original "Sheep may safely graze"
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring is among Bach's most famous works. What many people don't know is that the lyrics are not translated from Bach's originals. That's right, originals. The melody for Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring actually comes from the sixth and tenth movements of the cantata Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben (Heart and Mouth and Deed and Life). The lyrics to Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring were actually written by Robert Bridges, who based his lyrics on the same hymn that Bach based the originals on. The piano transcription of the melody, by Myra Hess, also eclipses Bach's originals in mainstream fame. To top all this off, the melodies of the two original movements in question are themselves arrangements of a Lutheran chorale which Bach himself Covered Up.
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Phoenix, for its intro, uses that Spanish-guitar classical piece "Romance de Amor". For the second and subsequent waves, the intro is Beethoven's "Für Elise".
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When people unfamiliar with Japanese culture hear the song Inu no Omawari-san (the policeman dog), they tend to call it the opening theme of Frogger. Said song has actually been around longer than the game, being a traditional Japanese nursery rhyme.
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Elvis Costello's "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding?" was written and first performed by Costello's producer, Nick Lowe, while part of the band Brinsley Schwarz.
And, ironically, most of the money that Nick's made from music came neither from his solo career, nor from Elvis' hit, but from a lesser-known cover of the song by the relatively-obscure Curtis Stigers... because it happened to be on the soundtrack to The Bodyguard.
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"What Would You Do?" was a song by City High before Bastille made a slower, more somber cover years later.
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"I Pray for You" by Big & Rich is a curious example. Before this version, it was recorded on solo albums by Big & Rich's members, Big Kenny and John Rich (Rich's version was even a single). However, neither version was commercially available until after Big & Rich's version.
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"Believe" by Folder 5 (the second opening to One Piece) is better known than the song it's a Translated Cover Version of, Eurobeat artist Lolita's "Dreamin' Of You".
Later, Folder 5 would do another cover of a Lolita song, this time "Baby One Baby Two" as "Ready" for the One Piece short Jango's Dance Carnival. "Ready" would also end up eclipsing "Baby One Baby Two" in popularity.
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"China Girl" is best known for David Bowie's 1983 hit version from Let's Dance, but it was first performed by Iggy Pop (and co-written with Bowie) in 1977 on his album The Idiot. The covering up was ultimately pretty beneficial to the original artist, which may have been the point: Iggy Pop was nearing bankruptcy at the time, and receiving substantial royalties for the Bowie version helped him out financially.
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"Cat's Eye" by Anri is the opening song from the anime series Cat's Eye from 1983. Younger people may be more familiar with the cover from 2000 by E-Rotic, with the lyrics rewritten in English, especially because this cover was included in several BEMANI games (including DanceDanceRevolution 4th Mix Plus and 5th Mix, Dance Maniax 2nd Mix, and Dance Dance Revolution Music Fit). Likewise, several other popular DDR songs are translated cover versions of J-Pop songs, such as Bambee's "17", Jenny's "Do You Remember Me?", and Judy Crystal's "God of Romance (Romansu no Kamisama)".
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"Basketball" is a rap song originally performed by Kurtis Blow. However, people are more familiar with the cover performed by Lil' Bow Wow for the Like Mike soundtrack.
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"Louie Louie" was not written by the Kingsmen. Nor was it improved or rescued from obscurity by them. It was written and recorded in 1956 by Rick Berry and the Pharaohs, and was very popular in the rock and roll community around Seattle and Tacoma (and in those communities, the Kingsmen's version wasn't even the most popular - it was the one by the soon-to-be-famous Paul Revere and the Raiders). All the Kingsmen did was to make it visible to the white youth market across the US, and slur the vocals so much that the lyrics could not be understood, making it sound naughty and subversive.
The slurring was unintentional: They recorded the song using one microphone mounted on the ceiling, Jack Ely's voice was shot from taking part in an all-night Louie-Louieathon (and he was wearing braces at the time) and, while aware that they had to record in one take, the band didn't know that the tape was running and thought they were doing a rehearsal play through. The FBI actually investigated the "obscene" lyrics with the aid of analysts and linguists and, after 18 months, declared it "unintelligible at any speed", proving themselves unable to determine the authorship of a published song! And while they questioned a number of people in the course of the investigation, for some reason Jack Ely was never brought in and asked to repeat what he had sung. (Nor, apparently, did they notice the actual profanity that a member of the band shouts after missing a cue 53 seconds in.)
More than likely because The Kingsmen were reluctant to admit that they'd forced Ely to quit the band, but were still using his vocals anyway during "live" performances.
In, ah, certain circles, the tune is much more famous in the form of "Pharaoh, Pharaoh, whooooa baby, let my people go ..." Many churchgoing children are surprised to first hear "Louie, Louie".
Which is just ironic considering who wrote it.
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"Heart of Asia", a 1999 trance anthem by Watergate, is actually a cover of the theme tune from the 1983 Anglo-Japanese war film Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto.
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"Baby Don't Go" (with Sheryl Crow), originally by Sonny & Cher.
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"Beggin'" by Madcon in 2007, and later again by MÃ¥neskin in 2017 (though the latter version wouldn't become a hit until 2021, when their victory at that year's Eurovision Song Contest gave their discography a large boost in popularity).
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Five of the songs on the Queen of the Damned soundtrack were written and recorded by Jonathan Davis of Korn. Due to contract troubles, all five songs were covered for the official soundtrack, by the likes of Wayne Static, David Draiman, Marilyn Manson, Chester Bennington and Jay Gordon. Unless you've seen the movie (especially the music videos included as extras), most people think that the covers are in fact the original versions of the songs. And considering how hard it is to get a hold of the original versions, since they were never officially released, this doesn't look like it will change any time soon.
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"Akaneiro" by John Zeroness is a cover of the song he wrote for Tsukiuta's September representative Yoru, "Koganeiro". It fixes the original's Lyrical Dissonance, as well as changing the title in a way that might allude to Ship Tease between Yoru and his partner, August representative You.
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Touhou Project is a frequent offender, most notably with the tenth game's "Fall of Fall ~ Autumnal Waterfall", a cover of "Blue ni Naiteru" by Anzen Chitai.
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"Sky High" by Jigsaw is better known through either the Eurodance version by Newton, or DJ Miko's version, which was featured in the DanceDanceRevolution series.
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Diana Ross' 1984 song "It's Your Move", famous for being Sampled Up by Macintosh Plus in the vaporwave track "420/The Computing of Lisa Frank", is itself a cover of a Doug Parkinson song released a year earlier.
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Fear Factory:
"Dog Day Sunrise" was not originally a song created by the band for their Demanufacture album. It was originally a song by Industrial Metal band Head of David. Obsolete bonus track "0~0" also counts as it was originally made by another obscure band known as "Wiseblood".
Speaking of Obsolete, the album features a cover of Gary Numan's iconic song "Cars". The cover featured Numan himself on it in a duet with frontman Burton C. Bell. However, the original is the only song Numan is really known for and is considered a One-Hit Wonder. The Fear Factory cover was responsible for breaking the band into the mainstream and is one of their most iconic songs along with "Replica", "Demanufacture", and "Linchpin". It is also the version that is often used in commercials and video game soundtracks, notably fitting in Test Drive 5 and Gran Turismo 2.
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Shenandoah:
"The Church on Cumberland Road" was originally cut by Dennis Robbins.
"Heaven Bound (I'm Ready)" is a cover of The Oak Ridge Boys.
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The Jackson 5 had a big US hit with "Never Can Say Goodbye" in 1971. Most other places, the song is more famous as the 1974 Breakthrough Hit for Gloria Gaynor.
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Nightwish's "Over the Hills and Far Away", not to be confused with the 18th century or Led Zeppelin ones, is a cover of an earlier one by Gary Moore.
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"Tsubasa wo Kudasai", the insert song played at the end of Evangelion 2.0, is a Japanese folks' song from the 70s. A lot of people mistakenly assume it was taken from K-On!
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Most people don't realize that the main theme of Lemmings is actually a chiptune rendition of a public-domain song, "March of the Mods".
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Manfred Mann also covered "For You" by Springsteen. And "Spirit in the Night" as well (although unlike "Blinded by the Light", those songs are today First and Foremost Springsteen's). Manfred Mann really liked covering Bruce's songs.
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"Turn the Beat Around" by Vicky Sue Robinson, although its original charted slightly higher on the Hot 100, is better known to post-disco generations from Gloria Estefan's 1994 cover for the film The Specialist'.
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The arcade game Bomb Jack uses the first ending theme of "Spoon Obaasan" (based on the classic book "Mrs. Pepperpot") was used as the first level theme. The second level theme is "Lady Madonna", one of the Beatles' number one hits.
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"Just One Person" was written for the Peanuts stage adaptation, Snoopy! However, it is now completely associated with Jim Henson, considering it was used as the eulogy song for him both at his funeral and the television tribute to him which declared that the genius' legacy would continue.
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Brantley Gilbert also wrote and recorded Jason's mega-hit "My Kinda Party".
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The original version of "I Can't Stand the Rain" is not Seal's from 2008. Nor Tina Turner's from 1985. Nor did Tina cover Eruption's 1978 disco version. It's the one recorded by Ann Peebles in 1973.
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"Last Christmas" has been covered so many times by so many artists it would probably be better off listed as a "traditional" song. Its original artists were Wham!, who had a huge hit with it in the UK in 1984. Nowadays it's more common for people to think of it as being from a female POV, despite the original being sung by a man. The original has, however, slowly started to regain pop culture prominence in the years following George Michael's death.
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Savage Garden sung "Truly, Madly, Deeply" first but many younger fans attribute it to Cascada.
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The most instantly recognizable version of "Unchained Melody" today is the Phil Spector-produced one by the Righteous Brothers (helped along by oldies radio and the film Ghost), but not only was it not the original, it was not even the first version of the song to become a hit — Les Baxter, Al Hibbler, and Roy Hamilton had all recorded top-ten hit versions of "Unchained Melody" in the US, and the British singer-turned-broadcaster Sir Jimmy Young had a #1 cover of it in the UK. LeAnn Rimes also had a Top 10 country hit with it in the late 90s. Also, the original version (for the movie Unchained) was Oscar-nominated for Best Song a full ten years before the Righteous Brothers recorded it.
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"I Can't Turn You Loose" is more well known as the chase theme to The Blues Brothers. There are people who don't realize that the song has lyrics (or that the Blues Brothers song is actually a medley of "I Can't Turn You Loose" and "Time is Tight" by Booker T. & the M.G.'s).
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"Friends in Low Places" was first recorded by Mark Chesnutt (though Brooks did the demo for the song, the last demo tape he'd ever have to make).
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Gary Allan's "Best I Ever Had" was first recorded by Vertical Horizon. Despite virtually no non-country music airplay, it outpeaked the original on the Hot 100 (51 vs. 58).
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"Landslide", written by Stevie Nicks and first performed by Fleetwood Mac, is often thought by younger listeners as a Dixie Chicks song.
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Speaking of Obsolete, the album features a cover of Gary Numan's iconic song "Cars". The cover featured Numan himself on it in a duet with frontman Burton C. Bell. However, the original is the only song Numan is really known for and is considered a One-Hit Wonder. The Fear Factory cover was responsible for breaking the band into the mainstream and is one of their most iconic songs along with "Replica", "Demanufacture", and "Linchpin". It is also the version that is often used in commercials and video game soundtracks, notably fitting in Test Drive 5 and Gran Turismo 2.
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Those in the South may be familiar with Old Crow Medicine Show's original version of "Wagon Wheel", but most people probably got their first mainstream exposure to it through Darius Rucker's cover in 2013 (although a few other covers existed in between). Still, the song has sold more than a million digital copies, which means it's not totally obscure.
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The cover of "You'll Never Walk Alone" by Gerry and the Pacemakers is far more well known than the original show tune from the musical Carousel. When Liverpool FC first used the song as a football anthem (as well as when other clubs later followed suit), the cover version was used instead of the original.
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Volare is of course a much-covered tune that most people associate with Dean Martin. The song's original title, though, was Nel blu dipinto di blu and was sung by Domenico Modugno (whose version topped the American charts, incidentally, 12 places higher than Dino's version). The original version also placed 3rd in the Eurovision Song Contest.
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"Not In Love" was originally performed by 80s new wave band Platinum Blonde. A 2010 cover by indie electronic band Crystal Castles featuring Robert Smith of The Cure on vocals proved to be a sizable hit on American alternative radio.
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For some people, Bryan Adams' "Heaven" was eclipsed by the Eurodance cover made in 2001, by DJ Sammy, Yanou, and Dutch singer Do. For comparison, the original was a #1 in the U.S. and the cover topped the UK charts (while reaching #8 in the US as well).
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Most people know the song "Sweet Victory" as 'that song' in the SpongeBob SquarePants episode 'Band Geeks'. Few people actually know it's actually a real, obscure song by David Glen Eisley, formerly of '80s one-hit wonder Giuffria.
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"Black and White" was originally performed by Pete Seeger in 1956, followed by Sammy Davis Jr., its co-author Earl Robinson, the Maytones and Greyhound. Three Dog Night's version was a cover of the Greyhound version.
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"Honky-Tonk Man", originally by Johnny Horton.
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"Jersey Girl" was originally written for Waits' Heartattack and Vine, but most people know the Bruce Springsteen cover.
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"The Pusher" and "Snowblind Friend" by Steppenwolf.
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"Say That We're Sweethearts Again" is from the 1946 film Meet the People, and sung by Virginia O'Brien, but more modern audiences know it as being sung by Harley Quinn in the 'Batman: The Animated Series episode "Harlequinade".
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Blondie's "The Tide Is High" is a gender-flipped cover of a classic 1967 rocksteady song by the Jamaican band The Paragons. It's been covered since and accredited to Debbie Harry in one of the newer versions.
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"Streets of Bakersfield" was originally recorded by Buck Owens in 1973. The song was released under the name "Dwight & Buck" in 1988, and the duet reached #1 on the country chart.
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"Only Love Can Break Your Heart" by Neil Young, covered by St. Etienne.
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The theme tune to Star Fleet (a Japanese 1980s sci-fi TV show originally called 'X-Bomber' and redubbed for UK transmission with a new theme song) was Covered Up when Brian May of Queen recorded it with some friends, including Eddie Van Halen and released as a mini-album called "Star Fleet Project". Consequently it's often thought that Brian May wrote the song, despite him stating clearly on the sleevenotes to the record that it was originally by Paul Bliss.
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"Kiss" by Tom Jones was an epic one.
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Both Johnny Russell and Tom T. Hall (whose version is a duet with Earl Scruggs) released "Song of the South", barely scraping the charts with it before Alabama's version went to #1.
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A year before Pat Benatar recorded "Shadows of the Night", lesser-known vocalist Helen Schneider produced the song originally. Schneider's version though has different lyrics, and a much different "theme" than Benatar's, which is mostly a song about a couple facing the world; Schneider's version seems to be about the fear of becoming your parents.
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Cameo's 1986 funk standard "Word Up!" has been covered so many times people often can't even agree which cover they think is the original, be it the perky take by girlband Little Mix in 2014, the rock version by Korn in 2004 (or by Gun in 1994), or even the utterly bonkers Country & Western take by German band The Boss Hoss in 2005, which gained recognition after it appeared in Kingsman: The Golden Circle.
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Darius's Zone A cave theme, "Captain Neo", is a cover of the attract demo theme from Metal Soldier Isaac II, a free-roaming shooter released a year before by Taito, the same developers behind the Darius series. Most people who have heard the song associate it far more strongly with Darius than with MSI.
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"Up Where We Belong", written for An Officer and a Gentleman by Buffy Sainte-Marie.
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Cartoons' cover of "Witch Doctor" is starting to become more recognisable than the original by David Seville, to the point where they are often mixed up for each over. This may be the case.
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Martina McBride:
"My Baby Loves Me" was released in Canada by Patricia Conroy one year prior to Martina's version.
"Safe in the Arms of Love". Originally recorded by Gail Davies' side project Wild Choir in 1986, followed by Baillie & the Boys in 1989 and Kennedy Rosenote Mary Ann Kennedy and Pam Rose, who wrote the song with Pat Bunch in 1994. Then in 1995, Martina McBride released a successful version in the US, while Michelle Wright did likewise in Canada.
"Swingin' Doors" was originally released by Molly & the Heymakers in 1992.
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Thanks to The Wire, the Blind Boys of Alabama's version of "Way Down in the Hole" is now at least as famous as the Waits original...and it might even be better. The Waits version was used as the theme in Season 2, but the Blind Boys' was the theme in Season 1 and also played over a montage at the end of the final episode.
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Very few people know that two songs on Black Sabbath's first album, "Warning" and "Evil Woman", are covers of respectively The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation and Crow, never mind that the latter song hit the top 20 on the charts.
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"I Want You to Want Me", originally by Cheap Trick, has been covered many times, but the one that probably qualifies for this the most would be Dwight Yoakam's country version, due to the genre change working so well that someone who heard Yoakam's version first would be hard-pressed to believe that it was a rock song first.
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The main gameplay theme in Gyruss may sound pretty cool, but you may be surprised to know that it's an electronic rendition of a classical composition called "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" by Johann Sebastian Bach (and classical music typically isn't thought of as "cool"...). And wouldn't you know it, musicologists are now predominantly of the opinion that even this wasn't an original composition, but Bach's transcription from a version for string instrument by an unknown author. The "Toccata and Fugue" (well, the toccata part, anyway) is the most well known organ piece out there, and has been appropriated in this way ever since cinemas got organs.
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"Sailing" is probably best known to younger generations as an *NSYNC song. Older generations (plus Yacht Rock addicts) are more likely to remember the 1980 original, which gave its writer and performer Christopher Cross a US #1 hit and three Grammy Awards (plus a leg up on a fourth Grammy). Here's a performance in 1999 of the song featuring Cross and the boys.
Another song called "Sailing" (no relation to the Christopher Cross song) that is best remembered as a hit for Rod Stewart in 1975—particularly in the UK—was written by Gavin Sutherland and originally recorded by he and his brother Iain, as the duo The Sutherland Brothers, in 1972.
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"My Way" is the cover of "Comme d'Habitude" (As Usual) by French singer Claude François although the English lyrics (written by Paul Anka, who would also record it later) are completely different.note The original is about a married man falling out of love but trying to keep up appearances.
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Placebo's "Running Up That Hill" and Maxwell's "This Woman's Work" have both managed to eclipse the original versions by Kate Bush in the U.S. In turn, Meg Myers' megahit cover of "Running Up That Hill" has likely outshined both the original and the Placebo version. Though this is now becoming a subverted example after Stranger Things season 4 used the original Kate Bush track, "Running up that Hill", causing the original to eclipse both Placebo and Meg Meyers covers, with Kate Bush's "Running Up that Hill" topping the charts worldwide, and the music video for the original topping over 100 million views on Youtube, far outpacing either of the covers. Bush's original "This Woman's Work" also gained more popularity after being used in Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale. Only time will tell if the Kate Bush of "This Woman's Work" will eclipse the popularity of Maxwell's version.
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The rodeo tune "The Fever" is a full-on re-lyricized cover of the Aerosmith song "Fever". Steven Tyler and Joe Perry are given credit for the music.
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"Crazy Little Thing Called Love", originally by Queen.
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Spoon's "Don't You Evah," the second single from Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, is a cover of "Don't You Ever" by The Natural History, which appeared on an album that came out several months after Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga note the Natural History's third album was recorded in 2004, but Executive Meddling held the release back until 2007, two years after the group themselves broke up. Spoon were kind enough to includide the original on the EP single release of "Don't You Evah", however.
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Homestuck has an extensive library of songs and a lot of leitmotifs, so this has happened a few times.
The most obvious example is Black, which most don't realise is actually a cover of Liquid Negrocity.
More confusingly, for the album Alternia there was a bonus song included called AlterniaBound. Later, on an album named AlterniaBound, this song was covered as Alternia, a song which went on to become much, much more famous than the original.
The track "MeGaLoVania" was Toby Fox's self-cover of a song of the same name (sans the other 4 capitals) from The Halloween Hack. As Homestuck was wildly popular at the time and Toby's music for it then more widely known than his previous notoriety in the EarthBound community, the association stuck. Eventually, it too was covered by its use in Undertale (written in all caps this time), with the association going to Sans more than the character's own theme.
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No, "Women in Uniform" is not an Iron Maiden original. The Australian band Skyhooks wrote and recorded this song first.
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"Thank You For Being a Friend" was a hit for Andrew Gold in 1978. However, the song is better remembered as the theme tune to The Golden Girls, which used a cover version sung by Cynthia Fee.
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"Cleveland Rocks" by The Presidents of the United States of America (for The Drew Carey Show).
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"Bring Your Daughter...To The Slaughter" was originally a solo Bruce Dickinson track for the soundtrack of A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child. He re-recorded it with Iron Maiden the following year.
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The Space Jam soundtrack features examples from both ends: Seal covered up "Fly Like An Eagle" (Steve Miller Band; still the better-known version today, at least in North America), while All For One's "I Turn To You" only became well-known after a version by Christina Aguilera (which is still more associated with her than them).
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"EZ DO DANCE" is much better known as Prizmmy's theme for Pretty Rhythm: Rainbow Live than as TRF's 1993 hit. Eventually both versions got covered up by King of Prism's versions, with newer audiences considering it to be the spinoff's own theme rather than a Call-Back to its inspiration.
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The version of "Lady Marmalade" recorded for Moulin Rouge! definitely fits. Even if you know that Labelle had the original hit version, that one still counts, since it was written by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons producer Bob Crewe and future One-Hit Wonder ("I Like Dreamin' ") Kenny Nolan and first recorded as a 1974 album track by the short-lived Disco group The Eleventh Hour.
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"The Candy Man" was originally performed by Aubrey Woods in the film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, but for a time the song was more famous for Sammy Davis Jr.'s cover. Davis actually could have sung the song in the film - he expressed interest in the role of the candy store owner, but was turned down. The original version became better known than the Davis' cover as time went on because changing musical tastes meant the film continued to be broadcast long after Davis' version stopped receiving airplay.
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"I've Done Everything for You", covered by Rick Springfield in 1982, was written by a pre-Van Halen Sammy Hagar in 1980.
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"Got the Time" is generally associated with the 1990 thrash mental version by Anthrax but was written and first recorded by Joe Jackson in 1978.
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"She's the One", best known as a #1 UK single for Robbie Williams in 1999, but originally recorded by World Party on their 1997 album Egyptology. Robbie Williams' version is so close to the original that World Party singer/songwriter Karl Wallinger has remarked "The only difference between my version and Robbie's is that I know who 'she' is."
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One of James Taylor's best hits, "Handyman", released in 1977, was originally written by singer Jimmy Jones and songwriter Otis Blackwell back in 1959. He got two number one hits off of covers, as well: "You've Got a Friend" (originally by Carole King) and "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)" (originally by Marvin Gaye).
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"There Is a God" by Lee Ann Womack
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And a later generation found the song due to it being featured in a third-season episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, performed by British group The Sundays.
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"Fly Me to the Moon" was originally a cabaret song in waltz time called "In Other Words". For Sinatra and the Count Basie Orchestra's version from "It Might as Well be Swing", Quincy Jones changed the time signature and gave it a swing rhythm. People would end up associating Sinatra's version of the song with Neon Genesis Evangelion, and later Bayonetta.
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"Leave My Kitten Alone", a Beatles for Sale outtake eventually released on The Beatles Anthology 1, was originally done by Little Willie John.
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The "extra life" theme in Mr. Do! is in fact the theme from Astro Boy.
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Another song called "Sailing" (no relation to the Christopher Cross song) that is best remembered as a hit for Rod Stewart in 1975—particularly in the UK—was written by Gavin Sutherland and originally recorded by he and his brother Iain, as the duo The Sutherland Brothers, in 1972.
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"Moonlight Shadow" originated on the Mike Oldfield album Crises, with vocals by Maggie Reilly. The group MISSING HEART did a dance cover of it for DanceDanceRevolution, and it's this version (due in part to being popular in the AMV community) that most people will think of when asked.
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A debatable example is "Long Tall Sally" by Little Richard.
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"Come from the Heart" and "Standing Knee Deep in a River (Dying of Thirst)" were both originally recorded by Don Williams.
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Eddie Cochran was one of the great pioneers of rock. During his tragically short career he had several hits, many of which have been Covered Up by others. Cochran even used to be erroneously described on this very page as a "one-hit wonder".
"C'mon Everybody" by Led Zeppelin and Sid Vicious amongst many others, but the version best known in the UK is probably the John Lydon version.
"Somethin' Else", Led Zeppelin and Sid Vicious again — amongst many others, again.
"Summertime Blues" by Alan Jackson (see also the by covering musician list). Those who aren't country music fans will probably be more familiar with The Who's version, or even the Blue Cheer version.
"Three Steps to Heaven" by Showaddywaddy.
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Another complicated Stones case is "As Tears Go By", which was composed by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards alongside producer Andrew Loog Oldham, who then lent it to Marianne Faithfull, with the band's version only coming out a year later.
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Danielle Brisebois co-wrote and performed "Just Missed the Train" for her 1994 debut album, but the song is usually associated with American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson.
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Not everyone may know that the "theme" from Spy Hunter (1983) is in fact the Peter Gunn theme. Indeed, for the Playstation 2 remake, the rock band Saliva did a "cover version" of "The Spy Hunter Theme" using their own new lyrics.
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"If You Leave Me Now" (not to be confused with the Chicago ballad), recorded in the late 90s by Stevie B. and Alexia Phillips (not to be confused with the Italian singer Alexia), was originally by Filipina singer Jaya (who started obscure back in 1989). Ironically, Stevie B. also co-wrote and did the backup vocals in the original.
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When people think of the song "How Soon Is Now?", they're more likely nowadays to think of the theme song to Charmed, which was performed by Love Spit Love. The original version is by The Smiths, originally released as a B-side to their 1984 single "William, It Was Really Nothing" and later featured on their compilation album Hatful of Hollow and on US, Canadian, Australian, and Warner UK editions of the group's second album Meat Is Murder. Love Spit Love's cover was recorded specifically for Charmed. Nowadays, while Charmed is still a classic, "How Soon Is Now?" Is now best remembered as by the Smiths.
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Everybody and their uncle have probably heard Josh Groban singing "You Raise Me Up" (or if you're from Britain or Ireland, Westlife). Probably far fewer know that it was composed and performed by the Irish-Norwegian duo Secret Garden.
And the tune is a reworking of the Irish classic "Danny Boy" (or the Londonderry Air, for those Irish who don't care for those lyrics.)
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"It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday" is one of Boyz II Men's signature tunes. Few of the group's fans would know of the 1975 original by G.C. Cameron. And nearly all of them only because of the song's presence on the Cooley High soundtrack.
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Cat Stevens:
"Father and Son" by Boyzone.
"The First Cut Is The Deepest" by oh, so many.
"Wild World" by Jimmy Cliff, and in some circles by Marc Cohn.
"Here Comes my Baby" by Sons of Admirals (at least in the Youtube community)
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"Time Is on My Side" - Composed by Jerry Ragovoy in 1963 as an instrumental number for jazz trombonist Kai Winding (who had recent success with his cover of "More", the theme from Mondo Cane); the lyrics were added by Jimmy Norman for a cover by Irma Thomas in early 1964, which formed the basis of The Rolling Stones' version.
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DragonForce's "Strike of the Ninja" is a version of "Feel the Fire" by DragonForce side project Shadow Warriors.
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"Tainted Love", often thought of as a song about AIDS, first came out in 1964. Ed Cobb wrote and Gloria Jones sang the original version. (Thank you, The Other Wiki!) Soft Cell, of course, immortalized the song, with Marilyn Manson's cover likely the second best known.
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"Stripped" was covered by Rammstein and Scooter.
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Interestingly, Hirt's "Java" and Alpert's "Whipped Cream" are both better known now for being used by others: "Java" in a Muppet sketch, "Whipped Cream" on The Dating Game.
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