Songs You Thought Were Originally Done By One Band...

FT · **Posted:** Thu Nov 17, 2005 11:47 pm

I didn't discover "Love Hurts" by Nazareth was a cover of Gram Parsons' cover of Roy Orbison's original until last year. Made me feel REALLY stupid!

HideousLump · **Posted:** Fri Nov 18, 2005 12:32 am

I bought Uncle Tupelo's Anodyne after hearing this great song of theirs called "Effigy" on the No Alternative compilation. Was disappointed when Anodyne had nothing similar. Went back to No Alternative to see if I still thought it was a great song, and that's when I discovered it was a Creedence song.

I later found out my cousin had bought Anodyne under the exact same circumstances. So it runs in the family.

FT® Wrote:

I didn't discover "Love Hurts" by Nazareth was a cover of Gram Parsons' cover of Roy Orbison's original until last year. Made me feel REALLY stupid!

Yeah, I was really surprised to find out a few years ago that it was Orbison.

Elvis Fu · **Posted:** Fri Nov 18, 2005 12:37 am

FT® Wrote:

I didn't discover "Love Hurts" by Nazareth was a cover of Gram Parsons' cover of Roy Orbison's original until last year. Made me feel REALLY stupid!

Ditto.

HideousLump · **Posted:** Fri Nov 18, 2005 1:35 am

Sen. Turkey Skin LooGAR Wrote:

Uncle Monger Wrote:

I'm beginning to suspect, Good Senator, that despite your bluster you have the pole of a sawwhet.

no guru · **Posted:** Fri Nov 18, 2005 1:43 am

song you gotta go a ways back and then keep going down that ways some more to find the original:

House Of The Rising Sun

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

druucifer Wrote:

"poptodd, i also had a george thorogood experience, i heard the original "one bourbon one scotch one beer" pretty recently. much love for john lee hooker.

John Lee Hooker made it famous, but its not a John Lee Hooker original. It was actually written by Rudy Toombs. I don't know if Toombs ever recorded it or not. I have a version of it by Amos Milburn from 1953 which I think may have been the first recording of it.

Milburn was quite a monger:

AMG Wrote:

With the ascent of "Bad, Bad Whiskey" to the peak of the charts in 1950, Milburn embarked on a string of similarly boozy smashes: "Thinking and Drinking," "Let Me Go Home Whiskey," "One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer" (an inebriating round John Lee Hooker apparently enjoyed!), and "Good Good Whiskey" (his last hit in 1954). Alcoholism later brought the pianist down hard, giving these numbers a grimly ironic twist in retrospect.

I originally discovered him through a track "Down the Road A Piece" Keith Richards selected for an Uncut mix of artists that had influenced him.

np: The Saints "Nothing is Straight In My House"

shmoo · **Posted:** Fri Nov 18, 2005 2:20 am

druucifer Wrote:

poptodd, i also had a george thorogood experience, i heard the original "one bourbon one scotch one beer" pretty recently. much love for john lee hooker.

Hooker's version is also not the original.

EDIT: Beat me to it.

Billzebub · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 10:26 pm **Posts:** 6459

dr winston o'boogie Wrote:

np: The Saints "Nothing is Straight In My House"

How's this one treating you?

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

Gobblezebub Wrote:

dr winston o'boogie Wrote:

np: The Saints "Nothing is Straight In My House"

How's this one treating you?

First listen...I like it so far. Definitely one of the year's best. I'm not sure I'd rank it as high within the Saints' catalog as you do but its a keeper for sure.

Twilightkid · **Posted:** Fri Nov 18, 2005 2:34 am

manic monday by the bangles and nothing compares to you by sinead oconnor were wrtitten by prince.

greezy · **Posted:** Fri Nov 18, 2005 4:42 am

dr winston o'boogie Wrote:

druucifer Wrote:

"poptodd, i also had a george thorogood experience, i heard the original "one bourbon one scotch one beer" pretty recently. much love for john lee hooker.

John Lee Hooker made it famous, but its not a John Lee Hooker original. It was actually written by Rudy Toombs. I don't know if Toombs ever recorded it or not. I have a version of it by Amos Milburn from 1953 which I think may have been the first recording of it.

Milburn was quite a monger:

AMG Wrote:

With the ascent of "Bad, Bad Whiskey" to the peak of the charts in 1950, Milburn embarked on a string of similarly boozy smashes: "Thinking and Drinking," "Let Me Go Home Whiskey," "One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer" (an inebriating round John Lee Hooker apparently enjoyed!), and "Good Good Whiskey" (his last hit in 1954). Alcoholism later brought the pianist down hard, giving these numbers a grimly ironic twist in retrospect.

I originally discovered him through a track "Down the Road A Piece" Keith Richards selected for an Uncut mix of artists that had influenced him.

wow, well color me edumacated. do you have the mp3 of that? any chance you want to ysi it my way??

Ex Lion Tamer · **Posted:** Fri Nov 18, 2005 10:53 am

FT® Wrote:

I didn't discover "Love Hurts" by Nazareth was a cover of Gram Parsons' cover of Roy Orbison's original until last year. Made me feel REALLY stupid!

I have a Nzareth one too, didn't know that Joni Mitchell wrote "This Flight Tonight"

Also, The Feelies didn't write Real Good Time", The Stooges did.
The Fine Young Cannibals didn't write "Ever Fallen in Love", Buzzcocks did.
The Jam didn't write "David Watts", The Kinks did.
Always thought the Beatles wrote Twist & Shout

Sketch · **Posted:** Fri Nov 18, 2005 11:01 am

smafty Wrote:

I'm embarrassed to admit it but I thought that the Red Hot Chili Peppers originally did "Higher Ground".

... though I don't mind their version after hearing the original.

My dad knew it was a cover but forgot by whom.

seafoam · **Posted:** Fri Nov 18, 2005 11:03 am

frosted Wrote:

song you gotta go a ways back and then keep going down that ways some more to find the original:

House Of The Rising Sun

Yeah. I thought Shady Grove was an original by a local blues artist. I used to walk out thinking damn that's such a great song. I eventually befriended this bluesman and found it wasn't his song, but he and band owned a pretty damn good version of it.

shmoo · **Posted:** Fri Nov 18, 2005 11:50 am

Most of these I found out are covers years ago, but:

"I Love Rock 'n' Roll" Joan Jett (Arrows)
"Whole Lotta Love" Led Zeppelin (Muddy Waters "You Need Love")
"When The Levee Breaks" Led Zeppelin (Kanas Joe & Memphis Minnie)
"The Lemon Song" Led Zeppelin (Howlin' Wolf "Killing Floor", earlier Skip James "Hard Time Killing Floor Blues")

I could go all day with the Zep.

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Fri Nov 18, 2005 12:39 pm

druucifer Wrote:

a couple of otis redding tracks. of course, "respect," and, much more recently, "hard to handle." got to give props to aretha, but the black crowes can suck it.

don't you think they were more influenced by The Dead's version, which I always thought was the original.

druucifer Wrote:

. speaking of leadbelly, the original "black betty" isn't as good as the cover. lets hear it for ram jam.

I've never heard this, but I actually like the leadbelly version of what I originally thought was Creedence's own "Midnite Special" better, and I LURV the Creedence version.

Another Leadbelly one: Byrds' cover of "Take a Whiff on Me"

And hell, I always thought Sunday Morning Comin Down was a John Cash original when I heard it growing up.

Elvis Fu Wrote:

FT® Wrote:

I didn't discover "Love Hurts" by Nazareth was a cover of Gram Parsons' cover of Roy Orbison's original until last year. Made me feel REALLY stupid!

Ditto.

Hell, I didn't know Parsons did it until like 4-5 years ago, and found out JUST now that its an Orbison song.

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

druucifer Wrote:

dr winston o'boogie Wrote:

druucifer Wrote:

"poptodd, i also had a george thorogood experience, i heard the original "one bourbon one scotch one beer" pretty recently. much love for john lee hooker.

John Lee Hooker made it famous, but its not a John Lee Hooker original. It was actually written by Rudy Toombs. I don't know if Toombs ever recorded it or not. I have a version of it by Amos Milburn from 1953 which I think may have been the first recording of it.

Milburn was quite a monger:

AMG Wrote:

With the ascent of "Bad, Bad Whiskey" to the peak of the charts in 1950, Milburn embarked on a string of similarly boozy smashes: "Thinking and Drinking," "Let Me Go Home Whiskey," "One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer" (an inebriating round John Lee Hooker apparently enjoyed!), and "Good Good Whiskey" (his last hit in 1954). Alcoholism later brought the pianist down hard, giving these numbers a grimly ironic twist in retrospect.

I originally discovered him through a track "Down the Road A Piece" Keith Richards selected for an Uncut mix of artists that had influenced him.

wow, well color me edumacated. do you have the mp3 of that? any chance you want to ysi it my way??

here you go. I threw in Down the Road A Piece also.

shaMoxie · **Posted:** Fri Nov 18, 2005 12:48 pm

jewels santana Wrote:

Moxie Wrote:

Thought Ted Leo wrote Prince's 'Since (Yo)U Been Gone'.

is this a joke?
i'm bad with board sarcasm.

but speaking of prince, i thought Sinead wrote "nothing comares 2 U"

Sadly, it's the truth.

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Fri Nov 18, 2005 12:52 pm

dr winston o'boogie Wrote:

druucifer Wrote:

dr winston o'boogie Wrote:

druucifer Wrote:

"poptodd, i also had a george thorogood experience, i heard the original "one bourbon one scotch one beer" pretty recently. much love for john lee hooker.

John Lee Hooker made it famous, but its not a John Lee Hooker original. It was actually written by Rudy Toombs. I don't know if Toombs ever recorded it or not. I have a version of it by Amos Milburn from 1953 which I think may have been the first recording of it.

Milburn was quite a monger:

AMG Wrote:

With the ascent of "Bad, Bad Whiskey" to the peak of the charts in 1950, Milburn embarked on a string of similarly boozy smashes: "Thinking and Drinking," "Let Me Go Home Whiskey," "One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer" (an inebriating round John Lee Hooker apparently enjoyed!), and "Good Good Whiskey" (his last hit in 1954). Alcoholism later brought the pianist down hard, giving these numbers a grimly ironic twist in retrospect.

I originally discovered him through a track "Down the Road A Piece" Keith Richards selected for an Uncut mix of artists that had influenced him.

wow, well color me edumacated. do you have the mp3 of that? any chance you want to ysi it my way??

here you go. I threw in Down the Road A Piece also.

Thanks, I clicked that link, and now the ABI is at my door

This is some good shit, thx billy.

greezy · **Posted:** Fri Nov 18, 2005 1:17 pm

dr winston o'boogie Wrote:

druucifer Wrote:

dr winston o'boogie Wrote:

druucifer Wrote:

"poptodd, i also had a george thorogood experience, i heard the original "one bourbon one scotch one beer" pretty recently. much love for john lee hooker.

John Lee Hooker made it famous, but its not a John Lee Hooker original. It was actually written by Rudy Toombs. I don't know if Toombs ever recorded it or not. I have a version of it by Amos Milburn from 1953 which I think may have been the first recording of it.

Milburn was quite a monger:

AMG Wrote:

With the ascent of "Bad, Bad Whiskey" to the peak of the charts in 1950, Milburn embarked on a string of similarly boozy smashes: "Thinking and Drinking," "Let Me Go Home Whiskey," "One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer" (an inebriating round John Lee Hooker apparently enjoyed!), and "Good Good Whiskey" (his last hit in 1954). Alcoholism later brought the pianist down hard, giving these numbers a grimly ironic twist in retrospect.

I originally discovered him through a track "Down the Road A Piece" Keith Richards selected for an Uncut mix of artists that had influenced him.

wow, well color me edumacated. do you have the mp3 of that? any chance you want to ysi it my way??

here you go. I threw in Down the Road A Piece also.

thanks so much, this is some good shit!

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

Moxie Wrote:

jewels santana Wrote:

Moxie Wrote:

Thought Ted Leo wrote Prince's 'Since (Yo)U Been Gone'.

is this a joke?
i'm bad with board sarcasm.

but speaking of prince, i thought Sinead wrote "nothing comares 2 U"

Sadly, it's the truth.

are we talking about the Kelly Clarkson song? Prince didn't write that.

shaMoxie · **Posted:** Fri Nov 18, 2005 1:36 pm

jewels santana Wrote:

Moxie Wrote:

jewels santana Wrote:

Moxie Wrote:

Thought Ted Leo wrote Prince's 'Since (Yo)U Been Gone'.

is this a joke?
i'm bad with board sarcasm.

but speaking of prince, i thought Sinead wrote "nothing comares 2 U"

Sadly, it's the truth.

are we talking about the Kelly Clarkson song? Prince didn't write that.

Negatory, jewelz. T. Leo covered Prince's SUBG a few years back - I snagged it from a chase mix last year. Chase had the artist as some 'skinny fuck' so I had to google to make sure. Real moog-heavy and all-around sweet, but the vox are hard to make out. I played the mix at a friend's place when I first moved to MPLS, and dude said it was a Prince song. I was floored for a few moments then became a believer. I'll track it down and PM the ysi later if you want.

splates · **Posted:** Wed Nov 23, 2005 9:33 pm

I didnt realise Blondie's 'Hanging On The Telephone' was a cover till today

Dusty Chalk · **Posted:** Thu Nov 24, 2005 3:33 am

splates Wrote:

I didnt realise Blondie's 'Hanging On The Telephone' was a cover till today

It is?

splates · **Posted:** Thu Nov 24, 2005 3:36 am

Dusty Choke Wrote:

splates Wrote:

I didnt realise Blondie's 'Hanging On The Telephone' was a cover till today

It is?

Originally by The Nerves, who Blondie toured with early on apparently. Their version has a male singer too. You want me to up it?

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