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When the original (or at least early) version of a song refuses to be permanently dislodged from the public mind by subsequent covers, even if the covers might be briefly more popular. (The cover belonging to a Dead Horse Genre is often a contributing factor.) Closely related to First Installment Wins. The opposite of Covered Up, although the "first and foremost" version might itself have Covered Up the real original. |
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A similar case happened with Boone's cover of "Ain't That a Shame", which was another massive hit for him and led many people at the time to mistake Pat Boone for a rock and roll artist. However, the original by Fats Domino stands today as the definitive version of the song. | |
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Alien Ant Farm had a popular cover of "Smooth Criminal" from Bad but it still can't push out Michael Jackson's take. | |
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A 2023 country version by Luke Combs made it to #2 on the Hot 100, outdoing the original by four places. | |
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Tracy Chapman's song "Fast Car" got EDM versions from UK act Jonas Blue and Dakota, as well as Swedish act Tobtok. They performed fairly well in 2016, but did nothing to replace Chapman's 1988 original. A 2023 country version by Luke Combs made it to #2 on the Hot 100, outdoing the original by four places. |
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The Dennis Linde song "What'll You Do About Me" has had several renditions over the years: McGuffey Lane cut it first, followed by Steve Earle in 1984, John Schneider, Randy Travis, The Forester Sisters, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and Doug Supernaw. Earle, The Forester Sisters, and Supernaw all released their versions as singles, with Supernaw's being the highest-peaking on the country charts at #16 in 1995. However, the song seems to be thought of mainly as Travis's, even though he never put it out as a single; this is likely due to his version being on his Always & Forever album, one of the most acclaimed country albums of The '80s. | |
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Guns N' Roses covers of "Live and Let Die" and (moreso) "Sympathy for the Devil" are significantly less well-known than the originals. | |
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In contrast with Soft Cell's aforementioned cover of Gloria Jones' "Tainted Love", their Siamese Twin Song cover of The Supremes' "Where Did Our Love Go?" has fallen into obscurity, with most radio stations nowadays just playing the regular standalone version of "Tainted Love". | |
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Apparently, John Mellencamp's "I Need a Lover" was initially less popular than the Pat Benatar cover of it. However, classic rock radio kept the original alive while the cover is barely remembered even by people who actually remember that time period. | |
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Journey first recorded the song "Open Arms" for the 1981 movie Heavy Metal. The song also appeared on their Escape album. Some covers, such as one by Mariah Carey, charted, but Journey's version is still the best known. | |
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Disturbed came close to the Top 40 with a cover of Simon & Garfunkel's "The Sound of Silence", but the original is still the definitive version. | |
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Many, many a musical theatre actor has covered the song "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables" from Les Misérables, which is popular as a standalone song. Nobody really cares; they're all busy listening to Michael Ball's version, he who first sang it in the original production in London in 1985. Ditto with "Love Changes Everything" from Aspects of Love, the little-known Andrew Lloyd Webber musical. |
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Pretty much all of The Who's collection of songs reign supreme over any and all covers, but special mention goes to their 1971 hit "Behind Blue Eyes" that Limp Bizkit covered in 2003, in which the cover version is more infamous than the original. | |
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Several artists have covered the megahit "Cars" (including most notably Fear Factory), but they all pale in comparison to Gary Numan's original 1979 version, the only version heard on the radio these days. | |
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Giorgio Moroder & Philip Oakey's "Together in Electric Dreams", the Breakaway Pop Hit of the 1984 film Electric Dreams, remains a classic today, while the 1996 Eurodance cover by Outta Control has since been forgotten. Same goes for Joan Osborne's "One Of Us". | |
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Gloria Estefan had a Top 10 hit in 1994 with her cover of Vicki Sue Robinson's "Turn the Beat Around". However, within a few years radio stations went back to playing Robinson's original version. | |
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"Yesterday" from Help! is statistically one of the most covered songs of all time...but seriously can you name any cover it without consulting The Other Wiki? On top of this, the first cover version, by British traditional pop singer Matt Monro (who was also produced by Beatles producer George Martin), was the song's first single release by any artist. Including The Beatles themselves.note The Beatles refused to allow the song a UK single release because it was unlike their previous work. The Fab Four didn't have as much control over their US distributor of Capitol Records, and "Yesterday" was released in the States shortly after Monro's version was released in the UK. The Beatles' original version wasn't released as a single in the UK until 1976, after the band's contract with EMI expired and the label was free to repackage the band's recordings as it wished. |
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The Cure's "Lovesong" has been covered by dozens of bands, including some major acts. None of these covers have been remembered or loved like the original, even when some of the covers (specifically 311 and Adele) have been quite successful. | |
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As well-loved an artist Tom Jones is in his own right, his 1988 cover of "Kiss" with The Art of Noise did nothing to replace Prince's original 1986 version. | |
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Dead or Alive's 1984 Synth-Pop classic "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" was briefly overshadowed by Flo Rida and Kesha's 2009 semi-cover "Right Round", which topped the Hot 100 and sold over 12 million certified digital downloads. However, most radio stations switched back to Dead or Alive's original within a year or two. | |
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His cover of "Pinball Wizard", by The Who, similarly charted higher than the original recording, and even displaced it in radio play for many years before classic rock radio rediscovered the original. | |
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No cover comes close to the original version of Kim Wilde's "Kids in America". Not The Bloodhound Gang's cover, not The Muffs' version from Clueless, not Len's version from Digimon: The Movie, not the American Juniors version, and not the No Secrets version from Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. | |
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The Pretenders' iconic ballad "I'll Stand by You" has been famously covered by Girls Aloud, Carrie Underwood (whose version was available on iTunes for a limited time only) and Shakira, but the Pretenders' original has proven to be the most enduring and still gets airplay to this day. | |
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Peter Schilling's 1983 hit "Major Tom (Coming Home)" has been covered by numerous artists over the years, including Mx Px, Shiny Toy Guns, Apoptygma Berzerk, and even William Shatner, but none have attained anywhere near the original version's popularity. | |
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Despite hundreds of covers, "La Vie en rose" remains Édith Piaf's signature song. | |
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Little Richard had a modest breakthrough success in 1955 with "Tutti Frutti", though when Pat Boone covered it up a year later, his version became an even bigger hit. Nowadays, Little Richard's original recording is the most well-known rendition. | |
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His cover of Don Williams' "It Must Be Love" in 2000 has done very little to displace the original on country music playlists, due in part to the original having already been a staple of "classic country" formats at the time. | |
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His take on Eddie Cochran's "Summertime Blues", while mildly popular in country music, still takes a backseat to most of the other renditions of the songs out there. | |
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Ugly Kid Joe's version of "Cat's in the Cradle" (retitled without the apostrophe) was a huge hit in 1993, but always stood in the shadow of Harry Chapin's 1974 original. | |
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Boyz II Men had many hits and their 1991 version of "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday" is more well-known than G. C. Cameron's original 1975 version from the Cooley High soundtrack. However, the same cannot be said about their 1997 cover of New Edition's 1988 mega-hit "Can You Stand the Rain", where it was to the point of many fans not even knowing that it existed. It only got further displaced after it was sung by the cast of The New Edition Story and interest in the original only grew stronger. | |
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While Cat Stevens' cover of Sam Cooke's "Another Saturday Night" bested the original on the Billboard pop chart (#6 to #10 respectively), it's Cooke's version that's far better remembered today. | |
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