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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?

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hoytis
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John Coltrane "My Favorite Things"

Nirvana "The Man Who Sold The World"

Talking Heads "Take Me To The River"

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slaw
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Cortez The Killer. Built to Spill

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cincyjim
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Dreams Allman Brothers Band

remake: Molly Hatchet 

kb54
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I've rarely read a post where I so strongly disagree with almost everyone!  The trend here seems to be a "prettier" version of songs, which completely lack the genuine quality of the original performer.  The outlier is All Along The Watchtower, where Jimi Hendrix really did create an equally valid version; I agree that's hard to argue with.  Another which comes to mind is Respect by Aretha Franklin.  Even Otis Redding had to agree that her version was much better!

kb54
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Oh, and My Way by Frank Sinatra- written by Paul Anka!

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