33 Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers (Part 5)
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Date: 2024-03-04
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GKnSeattle
Great to see a new addition. I hope more are on the way. Trying not to repeat what I have seen in other comments, here's some possible candidates for possible future editions:
Don't Know Why Nora Jones--(original) Jesse Harris & the Ferdinandos
An Old Fashioned Love Song Three Dog Night-- Paul Williams
Smoke Get In Your Eyes The Platters-- Gertrude Niesen
Twilight Time The Platters-- The Three Suns
Walking After Midnight Patsy Cline-- Lynn Howard & Accents
Sweet Dreams (of You) Patsy Cline-- Don Gibson
Get Here Oleta Adams-- Brenda Russel
No Lookin' Back Michael McDonald-- Kenny Loggins
Danny's Song Anne Murray also Loggins and Messina-- Gator Creek
I Just Fall in Love Again Anne Murray-- Carpenters
It's Gonna Take a Miracle Deneice Williams-- The Royalettes
Up Up and Away The 5th Dimension-- The Sunshine Company
One Last Bell to Answer The 5th Dimension-- Keely Smith
All I Wanna Do is Make Love to You Heart-- Dobie Gray
Whole Lot of Shakin' Going On Jerry Lee Lewis-- Big Maybelle
French Kissin' in the USA Debbie Harry-- Carol Chapman
Lotta Love Nicolette Larson-- Neil Young
I Only Have Eyes for You The Flamingos-- Dick Powell
Friends Bette Midler-- Buzzy Linhart
I Heard it Through the Grapevine Marvin Gaye-- Gladys Knight and the Pips
We're All Alone Rita Coolidge-- Boz Scaggs
Everybody's Talkin' Nilsson-- Fred Neil
Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson-- Ed Bruce
I'm Into Something Good Herman's Hermits-- Earl-Jean
Henry the Vlll, I Am Herman's Hermits-- Harry Champion
There's a Kind of Hush Herman's Hermits-- The New Vaudeville Band
Brother Louie Stories-- Hot Chocolate
and I have noticed you like to group some together in your videos, so some variation of this might be cool:
Don't Make Me Over Sybil-- Dionne Warwick
Wishin' and Hopin'' Dusty Springfield-- Dionne Warwick
No One in the World Anita Baker-- Dionne Warwick
I Know I'll Never Love This Way Again Dionne Warwick-- Cheryl Ladd
I'll Never Fall in Love Again Dionne Warwick-- Jerry Orbach and Jill O'Hara
(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me Naked Eyes also Dionne Warwick-- Lou Johnson
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Great to see a new addition. I hope more are on the way. Trying not to repeat what I have seen in other comments, here's some possible candidates for possible future editions:
Don't Know Why Nora Jones--(original) Jesse Harris & the Ferdinandos
An Old Fashioned Love Song Three Dog Night-- Paul Williams
Smoke Get In Your Eyes The Platters-- Gertrude Niesen
Twilight Time The Platters-- The Three Suns
Walking After Midnight Patsy Cline-- Lynn Howard & Accents
Sweet Dreams (of You) Patsy Cline-- Don Gibson
Get Here Oleta Adams-- Brenda Russel
No Lookin' Back Michael McDonald-- Kenny Loggins
Danny's Song Anne Murray also Loggins and Messina-- Gator Creek
I Just Fall in Love Again Anne Murray-- Carpenters
It's Gonna Take a Miracle Deneice Williams-- The Royalettes
Up Up and Away The 5th Dimension-- The Sunshine Company
One Last Bell to Answer The 5th Dimension-- Keely Smith
All I Wanna Do is Make Love to You Heart-- Dobie Gray
Whole Lot of Shakin' Going On Jerry Lee Lewis-- Big Maybelle
French Kissin' in the USA Debbie Harry-- Carol Chapman
Lotta Love Nicolette Larson-- Neil Young
I Only Have Eyes for You The Flamingos-- Dick Powell
Friends Bette Midler-- Buzzy Linhart
I Heard it Through the Grapevine Marvin Gaye-- Gladys Knight and the Pips
We're All Alone Rita Coolidge-- Boz Scaggs
Everybody's Talkin' Nilsson-- Fred Neil
Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson-- Ed Bruce
I'm Into Something Good Herman's Hermits-- Earl-Jean
Henry the Vlll, I Am Herman's Hermits-- Harry Champion
There's a Kind of Hush Herman's Hermits-- The New Vaudeville Band
Brother Louie Stories-- Hot Chocolate
and I have noticed you like to group some together in your videos, so some variation of this might be cool:
Don't Make Me Over Sybil-- Dionne Warwick
Wishin' and Hopin'' Dusty Springfield-- Dionne Warwick
No One in the World Anita Baker-- Dionne Warwick
I Know I'll Never Love This Way Again Dionne Warwick-- Cheryl Ladd
I'll Never Fall in Love Again Dionne Warwick-- Jerry Orbach and Jill O'Hara
(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me Naked Eyes also Dionne Warwick-- Lou Johnson
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DiscoveryNet
Correction: GENERAL- If the lyrics are changed it's an adaptation, not a cover.
26. SPECIFIC- Only the chorus has the same melody, it's a RE-WRITE. (according to wikipedia) The melody of You Give Love a Bad Name was originally written for Bonnie Tyler under the title If You Were a Woman (And I Was a Man) with different lyrics commissioned by its producer Jim Steinman. Dissatisfied with its success in the US and the UK (which he attributed to reticence on the part of her label in promoting it, Desmond Child re-wrote the song with Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora.
Maybe you can do seperate ADAPTATION and RE-WRITE lists, I'd look fwd to: I love your videos. I started cleaning my music archive's covers after I found your playlist
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Correction: GENERAL- If the lyrics are changed it's an adaptation, not a cover.
26. SPECIFIC- Only the chorus has the same melody, it's a RE-WRITE. (according to wikipedia) The melody of You Give Love a Bad Name was originally written for Bonnie Tyler under the title If You Were a Woman (And I Was a Man) with different lyrics commissioned by its producer Jim Steinman. Dissatisfied with its success in the US and the UK (which he attributed to reticence on the part of her label in promoting it, Desmond Child re-wrote the song with Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora.
Maybe you can do seperate ADAPTATION and RE-WRITE lists, I'd look fwd to: I love your videos. I started cleaning my music archive's covers after I found your playlist
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DiscoveryNet
Correction 9. a. Cy Grant only performed it live in 1964. It's almost impossible to track live performances because most shows weren't recorded or are lost. So this list follows FIRST RECORDINGS I assume.
b. According to secondhandsongs the first recording is: Anthony Newley, January 1965. Just 2 months prior to Nina Simone's hit. (Well, the speed of picking a song and being first must have been like duells in the wild west back then. How I miss that productivity and raw versions away from the overproduction trap)
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Correction 9. a. Cy Grant only performed it live in 1964. It's almost impossible to track live performances because most shows weren't recorded or are lost. So this list follows FIRST RECORDINGS I assume.
b. According to secondhandsongs the first recording is: Anthony Newley, January 1965. Just 2 months prior to Nina Simone's hit. (Well, the speed of picking a song and being first must have been like duells in the wild west back then. How I miss that productivity and raw versions away from the overproduction trap)
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kvernon1
With all of the remakes performed by The Carpenters, I was surprised this video didn't include their version of Please Mr. Postman, a #1 song from 1975. It was previously covered by The Beatles in 1963, and the original was performed by The Marvelettes in 1961. According to my research, the Marvelettes' version also hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, and was the very first #1 song ever recorded on the famous Motown label (source: Wikipedia.
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With all of the remakes performed by The Carpenters, I was surprised this video didn't include their version of Please Mr. Postman, a #1 song from 1975. It was previously covered by The Beatles in 1963, and the original was performed by The Marvelettes in 1961. According to my research, the Marvelettes' version also hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, and was the very first #1 song ever recorded on the famous Motown label (source: Wikipedia.
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patrickchaney
I’ve noticed there’s at least one artist in most of these videos that have more than one cover. Elvis, Whitney Houston, The Carpenters hearing how the covers differ from the original version is a fascinating look at how covers as a concept can shine a new light on a song in either direction (some covers are better, some originals are better.
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I’ve noticed there’s at least one artist in most of these videos that have more than one cover. Elvis, Whitney Houston, The Carpenters hearing how the covers differ from the original version is a fascinating look at how covers as a concept can shine a new light on a song in either direction (some covers are better, some originals are better.
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somersetfan1
Can't remember if I've replied to one of these before, but my 2 for a part 6 would be Heart of Stone - Bucks Fizz and Cher (love the cover); Didn't Know I Was Looking For Love (Until I Found You) - Everything But The Girl and Karen Ramirez, the original is one of my all time favourites, written for the movie Vanilla Sky, but never a hit.
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Can't remember if I've replied to one of these before, but my 2 for a part 6 would be Heart of Stone - Bucks Fizz and Cher (love the cover); Didn't Know I Was Looking For Love (Until I Found You) - Everything But The Girl and Karen Ramirez, the original is one of my all time favourites, written for the movie Vanilla Sky, but never a hit.
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user-wf7sh4pl3k
My favorite cover songs are She's So High(Kurt Nilsen ver, With A Little Help From My Friends(Joe Cocker ver, Without You(Air Supply ver) and When I Need You(Julio Iglesias ver. And my favorite original song is Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You(George Benson. Your videos are always very great. Thank you so much.
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My favorite cover songs are She's So High(Kurt Nilsen ver, With A Little Help From My Friends(Joe Cocker ver, Without You(Air Supply ver) and When I Need You(Julio Iglesias ver. And my favorite original song is Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You(George Benson. Your videos are always very great. Thank you so much.
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DavidJCane
One you might consider for the Part 6, if you make it: Dream a Little Dream of Me. The best known version is by The Mamas and the Papas from 1968, but actually first recorded in 1931 by Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra. Also recorded by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong and literally hundreds of others.
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One you might consider for the Part 6, if you make it: Dream a Little Dream of Me. The best known version is by The Mamas and the Papas from 1968, but actually first recorded in 1931 by Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra. Also recorded by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong and literally hundreds of others.
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lamarjohnson4023
If you can come out with the 'Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers' videos, how about coming out with 'Singers and Musical Acts with Most Of Their Hit Songs Were Covers'Like Luther Vandross, Donny Osmond, Linda Ronstadt, others. Not to put there singers of gospel, Celtic, classical(opera, etc.
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If you can come out with the 'Songs You Didn't Know Were Covers' videos, how about coming out with 'Singers and Musical Acts with Most Of Their Hit Songs Were Covers'Like Luther Vandross, Donny Osmond, Linda Ronstadt, others. Not to put there singers of gospel, Celtic, classical(opera, etc.
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Somebody_Different
Im suggesting Sandra - Heartbeat, which is a cover of Steve Hall - Heartbeat (that's emotion.
Peter Ries (Steve Hall, who can be seen in most Sandra's live performances in the 80s, lent the song to Michael Cretu, which later the resulted in the Sandra's version.
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Im suggesting Sandra - Heartbeat, which is a cover of Steve Hall - Heartbeat (that's emotion.
Peter Ries (Steve Hall, who can be seen in most Sandra's live performances in the 80s, lent the song to Michael Cretu, which later the resulted in the Sandra's version.
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danielyang8749
Part 6
How Am I Supposed To Live Without You
Cover Version: Michael Bolton (1990)
Original Version: Laura Branigan (1983)
Everything I Own
Cover Version: Boy George (1987)
Cover Version: Ken Boothe (1974)
Original Version: Bread (1972)
Thanks
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Part 6
How Am I Supposed To Live Without You
Cover Version: Michael Bolton (1990)
Original Version: Laura Branigan (1983)
Everything I Own
Cover Version: Boy George (1987)
Cover Version: Ken Boothe (1974)
Original Version: Bread (1972)
Thanks
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pcno2832
0: 17 Well, I'll never be a fan of You light up my life, but just from this clip you can tell that the original (from the movie) is much better. Kasy Cysik sings as if she really means it while Debbie Boone sings as if she's really trying to sound as if she means it.
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0: 17 Well, I'll never be a fan of You light up my life, but just from this clip you can tell that the original (from the movie) is much better. Kasy Cysik sings as if she really means it while Debbie Boone sings as if she's really trying to sound as if she means it.
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barbaradavis393
Great songs all around. Must have been tough to pick them out. I was hoping for Linda Ronstadt's cover of A Different Drum by Michael Nesmith. Also Elvis' It's Now or Never is based on an old Italian song, O Sole Mio written around 1898.
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Great songs all around. Must have been tough to pick them out. I was hoping for Linda Ronstadt's cover of A Different Drum by Michael Nesmith. Also Elvis' It's Now or Never is based on an old Italian song, O Sole Mio written around 1898.
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rhyta5042
These are great, one correction I would suggest. Tina Turner did a version of I can't stand the Rain in the 80's, so it has 3 versions.
Same with Never Can Say Goodbye, original was Issac Hayes before Jackson 5 and Gloria Gaynor.
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These are great, one correction I would suggest. Tina Turner did a version of I can't stand the Rain in the 80's, so it has 3 versions.
Same with Never Can Say Goodbye, original was Issac Hayes before Jackson 5 and Gloria Gaynor.
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nostartia
I just discovered your videos and yes, the title is not an overstatement. I was born in 1980 and I wonder. How long have we been listening to the same music over an over again Speechless at some personal discoveries. Great videos!
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I just discovered your videos and yes, the title is not an overstatement. I was born in 1980 and I wonder. How long have we been listening to the same music over an over again Speechless at some personal discoveries. Great videos!
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BSimms
I’ve learned 3 things from these videos. 1. If Elvis does a song, that’s his and no one can sing it better. 2. Music from the 50s-80s is the best. And 3. Rod Stewart is actually pretty good
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I’ve learned 3 things from these videos. 1. If Elvis does a song, that’s his and no one can sing it better. 2. Music from the 50s-80s is the best. And 3. Rod Stewart is actually pretty good
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thelife. hypnotic
In the next video you should do Istanbul (Not Constantinople) if you haven’t already. I was shocked when I found out They Might Be Giants’ version wasn’t the original.
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In the next video you should do Istanbul (Not Constantinople) if you haven’t already. I was shocked when I found out They Might Be Giants’ version wasn’t the original.
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Merlewhitefire
I really don't know if You Give Love A Bad Name and If You Were A Woman qualifies as a cover, the tunes are similar but not identical and the lyrics are completely different.
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I really don't know if You Give Love A Bad Name and If You Were A Woman qualifies as a cover, the tunes are similar but not identical and the lyrics are completely different.
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the-best-music
Really liking these kind of videos. A suggestion if you make another follow up: Venus. Cover by Bananarama (1986, original by Shocking Blue (1969.
Keep up the good work
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Really liking these kind of videos. A suggestion if you make another follow up: Venus. Cover by Bananarama (1986, original by Shocking Blue (1969.
Keep up the good work
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GiordanDiodato
apparently Frankie Valli is very popular to cover
also I disagree with You Give Love A Bad Name. It seems more like it just happens that the two songs sound alike.
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apparently Frankie Valli is very popular to cover
also I disagree with You Give Love A Bad Name. It seems more like it just happens that the two songs sound alike.
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reydalupan8460
How about Da Do Ron Ron which has a lot of versions, I. e.: by Shaun Cassidy (1976); Carpenters (1973); all in 1963 by Frank Alamo, the Searchers, and the Crystals
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How about Da Do Ron Ron which has a lot of versions, I. e.: by Shaun Cassidy (1976); Carpenters (1973); all in 1963 by Frank Alamo, the Searchers, and the Crystals
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SaraMarie41
You should do a list of songs that have been covered and choose the best of the best.
Of course I'm talking along songs and never knew have been covered.
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You should do a list of songs that have been covered and choose the best of the best.
Of course I'm talking along songs and never knew have been covered.
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p4ngolin
6: 43 ah so the song about Istanbul (not constantinople) was a cover too i thought it was a completely separate song cos i never heard it side by side somehow
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6: 43 ah so the song about Istanbul (not constantinople) was a cover too i thought it was a completely separate song cos i never heard it side by side somehow
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ANDROLOMA
You know you're old when you remember when these songs were popular on the radio. I'd say they were the good old days, but they actually sucked.
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You know you're old when you remember when these songs were popular on the radio. I'd say they were the good old days, but they actually sucked.
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danielyang8749
PART 6
Love me for a reason Cover version By Boyzone (1994)
, Osmond (1974) and Original Version realase Johnny Bristol (1974)
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PART 6
Love me for a reason Cover version By Boyzone (1994)
, Osmond (1974) and Original Version realase Johnny Bristol (1974)
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coyoteartist
Thing about The Carpenters is once they did the song, the original might as well be some other song. Rod Stewart can be like that too.
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Thing about The Carpenters is once they did the song, the original might as well be some other song. Rod Stewart can be like that too.
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williamjones7163
I never knew the Carpenters covered so many songs. I thought they were all originals. I'm crushed. They still sang them very well.
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I never knew the Carpenters covered so many songs. I thought they were all originals. I'm crushed. They still sang them very well.
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jacobwiles8911
I remember beggin pacifically the madcon version I had no idea it was cover and I didn’t know it was covered again 10 years later
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I remember beggin pacifically the madcon version I had no idea it was cover and I didn’t know it was covered again 10 years later
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juliusnepos6013
I have a slight feeling another video from this series is coming soon since the interval for the past videos had been 14 months
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I have a slight feeling another video from this series is coming soon since the interval for the past videos had been 14 months
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LaurenEveCreates
I like it very much. The second song, which is You Light Up My Life, is also done by my idol, LeAnn Rimes.
Signed, Angela
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I like it very much. The second song, which is You Light Up My Life, is also done by my idol, LeAnn Rimes.
Signed, Angela
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bronxscratcher4924
Do You Want to Touch Me
Cover version: Joan Jett and the Blackhearts (1980)
Original version: Gary Glitter (1973)
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Do You Want to Touch Me
Cover version: Joan Jett and the Blackhearts (1980)
Original version: Gary Glitter (1973)
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RedPyramid-lf4sb
Dual fun facts:
1: LeAnn Rimes also covered You Light Up My Life
And 2: Gloria Gaynor also covered Substitute.
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Dual fun facts:
1: LeAnn Rimes also covered You Light Up My Life
And 2: Gloria Gaynor also covered Substitute.
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TrevelyanLyrics
wow, I'm surprised how the song La Bamba by Los Lobos (Cover) and by Ritchie Valens (Original) couldn't be on the list
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wow, I'm surprised how the song La Bamba by Los Lobos (Cover) and by Ritchie Valens (Original) couldn't be on the list
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the-best-music
You give love a bad name is not really a cover maybe the same tune but Bon Jovi and Bonnie Tyler have a different line
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You give love a bad name is not really a cover maybe the same tune but Bon Jovi and Bonnie Tyler have a different line
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richln9682
When you recognise some of the originals but have never heard the covers, you know you're approaching your sell-by date.
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When you recognise some of the originals but have never heard the covers, you know you're approaching your sell-by date.
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