Bigger Hit Than The Original (your album cover)

[Keef]

East Dulwich Angst Wrote:

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> Hurt - A big hit for Johnny Cash original by Nine Inch Nails

Tune!!!!!!!! Original being better.

[spadetownboy]

can,t believe no-one has mentioned tom waits yet.rods been there "downtown train", springsteen & bagatelle both have covered "jersey girl".

dexys also did a fairly good version of van the mans "jackie wilson said".

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

And Van the Man covered Jim Reeves "Have I told you lately that I love you" - not sure which I prefer.

And Donny Osmond had a bigger hit with Twelfth of Never than Jimmy Young.

[And never begin a sentence with and]

[spadetownboy]

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> And Van the Man covered Jim Reeves "Have I told

> you lately that I love you" - not sure which I

> prefer.

>

> And Donny Osmond had a bigger hit with Twelfth of

> Never than Jimmy Young.

>

>

rod covered "have i told you lately" as well.

[capt_birdseye]

Keef Wrote:

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> Handbags & Gladrags. The Stereophonics version was

> big, everyone says Rod Stewart's version was

> better (to me they sound much the same), what most

> people forget is that the first person to record

> it was Chris Farlowe.

Chris Farlowe also had a big hit with Out of Time, originally written and recorded by the Rolling Stones

[East Dulwich Angst]

I Fought The Law - Sonny Curtis and The Crickets / The Clash [also covered by the Bobby Fuller Four] but I like the Clash's version

[annaj]

This might make me reeeaally unpopular, but the Tori Amos cover of Smells Like Teen Spirit is just brilliant.

She's done great and very haunting cover of I Don't Like Mondays too.

And a couple of Chas & Dave songs

Sorry :-$

[atila the gooner]

Man who sold the world - hit for Bowie & Lulu, but Nirvana did it on MTV unpluged and it is a beautiful version, as is the whole set.

[Brendan]

Asset Wrote:

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> In re: Jimi Hendrix - 'All Along The Watchtower' a

> hit for Jimi not a hit for the writer - Bob Dylan.

He also covered

Hey Joe ? The Leaves

The Star Spangled Banner ? Which has apparently been a big hit in America since the 1800s. Although the original tune was taken from an English song about a Greek poet called To Anacreon in Heaven.

Gloria ? Van Morrison

Johnny B. Goode ? Chuck Berry (but who hasn?t)

Stepping Stone ? The Monkeys

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band ? The Beatles

Have I missed any?

[blinder999]

probably not a bigger hit than the original, but American indie band Cake's version of Gloria Gaynor's I Will Survive is great:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10C68Gzd5GM

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Hendrix covered a Cream song but I can't remember which offhand.

[atila the gooner]

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> Hendrix covered a Cream song but I can't remember

> which offhand.

I think it was sunshine of your love, but I'm not 100%

[dave]

A pedant writes...

Van Morrison wrote "Have I Told You Lately" himself - though Jim Reeves did cover an old C&W song called "Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?" long before.

Scary thing is that Van the Man reckoned it's about his relationship with God. Don't think Rod Stewart (or numerous wedding DJ's) ever got that.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Am collecting dunce's hat on way to corner. (Tis about 38 years since I heard the Jim Reeves version - the mind plays funny tricks)

[dave]

I need to get out more.

The Tide is High - Blondie (and later Atomic Mutton). Original was a B-side in the UK for The Paragons (yes, I did have to Wiki it).

Agree re: Tom Waits/Downtown Train. The cover is, em, much more accessible.

Definitive bigger-hit-cover version must be "My Way" by Paul Anka etc - does anyone think of him rather than Frank Sinatra (or maybe Elvis, or, em, Sid Vicious). Though honorable mentions must go to Step On (not originally the Happy Mondays), Don't Leave Me This Way (not originally The Communards).

Do complete reinterpretations count? If so, you have Always on My Mind (PSB version). Think it was probably a bigger hit for Elvis, though.

[atila the gooner]

Not sure if this tune was ever a hit for either artist, but "A Soldiers things" by Tom Waits (brilliant) and murdered by Paul Young (disgraceful). Just a footnote, none of my song/music related postings have been googled, wikipied'd, or gleaned from the net. I either own the tunes and songs I refer to or know about them from collecting music for nearly 40 years. Yes, I know it sounds smug but I do love music and sometimes can't help being a bit of an anorak.

[Brendan]

Route 66 - Recorded by Nat King Cole and Chuck Berry and most notably the Stones.

[dave]

Comfortably Numb - butchered by the Scissor Sisters, but I thought the Van Morrison/Roger Waters cover (as featured on the soundtrack of The Departed) was fantastic.

[East Dulwich Angst]

Respect - original by Otis Redding but a much bigger hit for Aretha Franklin

[SimonM]

>>Have I missed any?<<

Willllllddddddd Thinggggggg! :))

[Brendan]

Great now I've got Wild Thing stuck in my head.

[blinder999]

Iggy Pop's original 1977 version of China Girl from The Idiot - revisited by the great Dame David Bowie and sold millions

[atila the gooner]

Work to do - again another tune that I don't think was ever a hit, but I know of 3 terrific versions, Isley Brothers, Main Ingredient and the Average White Band.

[Jah Lush]

Talking of the Troggs' Wild Thing. Wet Wet Wet had a huge it of their Love Is All Around. The Troggs version is much much better though.

[Jah Lush]

blinder999 Wrote:

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> Iggy Pop's original 1977 version of China Girl

> from The Idiot - revisited by the great Dame David

> Bowie and sold millions

Well they did co-write the song together. I do agree though that Iggy's version is far superior.