30 Comments on No, These Aren’t Remakes, These Are the Original Songs
Let’s hope they all got a fair take of the royalties from the successful covers.
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If you hadn’t included TL I would have. That is one hot record!
I also like James Ray. The Beatles were going to do another song he recorded but Freddie and the Dreamers beat them to it. That was one of the (many) reasons they stopped making covers.
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I swear I remember hearing that version of Tainted Love when I was a little tike, but I can’t remember where. Maybe my older sister had a 45 of it.
Right this very minute on youtube there are people arguing on original versions of songs that, “they stole this from JayZ!” lol
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Gloria Jones was Marc Bolan of T-Rex’s girlfriend. Northern Soul. as a dj, although the Soft Cell remake was genius, i was soooo sick of having to play it every frigging night for years that i started playing the Gloria Jones version.
I was recently blown away that my mother-in-law had a tape of the song performed probably at some dance she and my F-I-L must have attended. The band performed it in the original beat as the above recording, and I thought it humorous because the only version I knew was JJ’s version.
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I came.
What. Music excites me.
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Lux Interior, RIP, was the lead singer of the Cramps. Jello Biafra was the lead singer of the Dead Kennedys
Read em and weep. Meat did it first and best, manilow mangled it but got a hit. No justice.
Cant seem to do links on this phone. Check them out on utubeit.
Let’s hope they all got a fair take of the royalties from the successful covers.
If you hadn’t included TL I would have. That is one hot record!
I also like James Ray. The Beatles were going to do another song he recorded but Freddie and the Dreamers beat them to it. That was one of the (many) reasons they stopped making covers.
I swear I remember hearing that version of Tainted Love when I was a little tike, but I can’t remember where. Maybe my older sister had a 45 of it.
more …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AlHRoWnCoE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtDlZdhHRCI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cmmap4L8-oM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3LJ_PjExzg
Honorary mention?
https://youtu.be/T3M3Igjnbhs?t=41s
Right this very minute on youtube there are people arguing on original versions of songs that, “they stole this from JayZ!” lol
Gloria Jones was Marc Bolan of T-Rex’s girlfriend. Northern Soul. as a dj, although the Soft Cell remake was genius, i was soooo sick of having to play it every frigging night for years that i started playing the Gloria Jones version.
https://youtu.be/emy5mA8Ixtc
@MJA ~ lmao … JayZ stole practically everything he did … not an original thought in his brain
I like several of those better than the versions I’m familiar with. Great thread.
OK, I got one for you. Rush (one of my favorite bands) Working Man.
https://youtu.be/iIGKlicb8n0
Tell me one of them doesn’t listen to Haggard
https://youtu.be/6EwK0NsKdDY
OK. I saw no attribution for the first song, Girls just wanna have fun. But it sounded like Luxe Interior from the Dead Kennedys.
Am I close? Sounded a bit like Holiday in Cambodia.
Looked it up and I was wrong. Robert Hazard.
Sounded Dead Kennedyesqe to me.
@Brad ~ speaking of Merle …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPYVsDYeg3U
… groovin’ to the Skynyrd version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Jq_CslrO94
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
I think I was 19 or 20 when I heard this and he had me hooked. Best move Reagan ever made as Governor of Cali is pardoning the Hag.
https://youtu.be/UKuc4nfJByc
Roger Miller original Me and Bobby McGee.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uZvsxe1CD-c
I was recently blown away that my mother-in-law had a tape of the song performed probably at some dance she and my F-I-L must have attended. The band performed it in the original beat as the above recording, and I thought it humorous because the only version I knew was JJ’s version.
I came.
What. Music excites me.
Lux Interior, RIP, was the lead singer of the Cramps. Jello Biafra was the lead singer of the Dead Kennedys
https://youtu.be/XT72CgEJQNQ
Burr, and that’s exactly why you were Band from Tower Records 30 years ago.
Well, then there is this list …
http://www.shsmedia.com/originals.html
Swinging Blue Jeans beat Linda to it.
https://youtu.be/NvEDAuO-Row
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My favorite version of In The Pines
https://youtu.be/682Y3J00kqU
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Hungary’s Beatles The Illes. Jim Babjak of The Smithereens turned me on to these guys.
https://youtu.be/EqKWYivRAME
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Read em and weep. Meat did it first and best, manilow mangled it but got a hit. No justice.
Cant seem to do links on this phone. Check them out on utubeit.
David Crosby doing Get Together in 64
https://youtu.be/RSL_ErrCE5k
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Dillard & Clark doing Gene’s song before the Eagles.
https://youtu.be/CyTw1-N96U0
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https://youtu.be/y335E8mfBAU
https://youtu.be/TmMk9tsCjsc
https://youtu.be/Zd9Z55-g24Q
Have you seen the garbage offered on Itunes lately? “explicit ” language warnings everywhere. I haven’t found anything to download there in years.