what’s a song cover that you think is better than the original?


The first ones to come to mind are Whitney’s version of I Will Always Love You and Allen Stone’s Georgia On My Mind but I would love to hear other contributions as well! I feel like there are a lot of songs where a covered version gets more popular than the original and people end up not realizing that it is a cover (ex. i had a friend that genuinely believed the Jonas Brothers wrote Year 3000). so, what‘a a song that was written by one artist but (figuratively) owned by another?

kazana

Looks like mostly modern rockers here:  how about Wimoweh, first produced in modern times (that I'm aware of by Solomon Linda), and more famously covered by the Weavers:

 

 

Numerous covers by the Grateful Dead, including It's All Over Now Baby Blue. By Bob Dylan.

"What Do you Want the Girl to Do" - Lowell George

"Mercy Mercy Me" - Special EFX

"Respect" - Adeva