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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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captelee
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Linda Ronstadt - Tumbling Dice...no one here should need to be told who wrote that originally.

andy8400
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Santana - "She’s Not There"

Anything Eva Cassidy sings.

Heart "Down On Me" - (Blows Janis away... sorry!).

chuke076
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Here are the first three that come to mind:


Manfred Mann - Blinded by the Light (Bruce Springsteen)

John Mayer Trio (Live) - Wait ‘til Tomorrow (Hendrix)

Alana Davis - 32 Flavors (Ani DiFranco)

chuke076
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Here are the first three that come to mind:


Manfred Mann - Blinded by the Light (Bruce Springsteen)

John Mayer Trio (Live) - Wait ‘til Tomorrow (Hendrix)

Alana Davis - 32 Flavors (Ani DiFranco)

hifijones
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I've always preferred Gladys Knight & The Pips take on "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" to the better-known versions by CCR and Marvin Gaye. More funk-ified.

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