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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?

kazana
chocaholic
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Patricia Barber - A Taste of Honey. Audiophile heaven!  Check it out. 

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sylwedydd
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Jealous Guy by John Lennon as done by Roxy Music  incredible arrangement aand singing by Bryan Ferry, and as the same song as done by Lou Reed at the John Lennon tribute concert. Raw emotion

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jnovak
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I'd rather be cool  and say Eva Cassidy but I'm going with John Denver's cover of "Angel From Montgomery". He does a great job on it. Joe

ghasley
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Counting Crows: “Big Yellow Taxi” and I happen to love Joni Mitchell but on some songs, I find myself appreciating her voice in the same way that I enjoy the performance of the spring pageant where my kid has the lead.

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danager
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Angel From Montgomery

Buddy Miller & Friends (with Brandi Carlile & The Lone Bellow)

My favorite version

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