Bigger Hit Than The Original (your album cover)

[East Dulwich Angst]

Blinded By The Light - A big Manfred Mann hit originally by Springbean

[blinder999]

> Well they did co-write the song together. I do

> agree though that Iggy's version is far superior.

true - not strictly a cover. I like both versions, but yeah the Iggy version wins for me too.

[dave]

> true - not strictly a cover.

Same might be said of Nothing Compares 2U. The tiny purple one's version of his own song pales next to Sinead O'Connor.

[BJL]

A few more:

Sugar Billy Garner Super Duper Love (covered by Joss Stone)

Five Royales Think (covered by James Brown)

Joe Haywood Warm And Tender Love (covered by Percy Sledge)

Hank Ballard The Twist (covered by Chubby Checker)

Little Willie John Fever (covered by Peggy Lee)

Boogaloo & his Gallant Crew Clothes Line (covered by The Coasters as Shopping For Clothes)

The Top Notes Twist And Shout (covered by the Isley Brothers and others)

Lloyd Terrell Birth Control (stol, I mean "covered" by the Specials as Too Much, Too Young)

Chris Kenner Land Of 1,000 Dances (covered by Wilson Pickett)

Sir Mack Rice Mustang Sally (covered by Wilson Pickett)

Otis Clay The Only Way Is Up (covered by Yazz)

Cissy Houston Midnight Train To Georgia (covered by Gladys Knight & The Pips)

Bobby Marchan Get Down With It (covered by Slade as Get Down And Get With It)

[SimonM]

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

Slightly off topic but there was a really weird cover of this in the 60's by an artiste calling himself "Senator Bobby", who performed the whole opus in the style of a Bobby Kennedy speech....:))

[East Dulwich Angst]

After seeing Ringo on Jonathan Ross's show

Ob La Di Ob La Da - The Beatles bigger hit for Marmalade.

[Keef]

atila the gooner Wrote:

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

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

It was indeed. It was a live performance on top of the pops or something like that, Lulu was hosting. He said "this is for cream" before starting the riff... Cool!

One of my fave songs ever is Wild Horses by the Rolling Stones. It was covered by The Sundays who did a very different and really beautiful version.

[SimonM]

>>It was indeed. It was a live performance on top of the pops or something like that, Lulu was hosting. He said "this is >>for cream" before starting the riff... Cool!

Yes. BBC4 showed this very clip last Wednesday night on that hour-long programme of 60's music

[SeanMacGabhann]

Annaj

Big fan of Tori Amos's cover versions too. I had the Teen Spirit cover back in the day on a "cassingle" but haven't heard for years

Her Strange Little Girls album regularly throws up little gems - my favourites being:

Enjoy The Silence (Depeche Mode)

Real Men (Joe Jackson)

and as a b side she did "After All" from Bowie's The Man Who Sold The World album

The Iggy original of China Girl beats Bowie's rerecording hands down (although I love the extended Stevie Ray Vaughan solos on the album) but Bowie has done some excellent live versions subsequently (and some piss poor ones too to be fair)

That original and stuff

[macker]

That would be a me too on all the Tori covers.