====== Covers Ideas ====== === 1. Covers that change the melody or just don't sound like the original === == == //Wild Side of Life// -- Charlie Feathers == == //Groovin'// -- Aretha Franklin == == //People Get Ready// -- Aretha Franklin == == //It Was a Very Good Year// -- Shirley Bassey == == //Pride of Man// -- Quicksilver === 2. Covers where there is something (melodic, instrumental part) added that wasn't in the original === == == //Summertime// -- Janis Joplin (Big Brother) == == //For You// -- Manfred Mann == == //Well Alright// -- Blind Faith === 3. Cover of a cover -- sometimes seems like the third artist doesn't know the song is itself a cover === == == //Red Red Wine// -- UB40 == == //You Don't Miss Your Water// -- Red, Red Meat == == //Cherry Oh Baby// -- Rolling Stones === 4. Covers of lame songs by people who don't seem to grasp that they're lame === == == //Angel// -- Shaggy, cover of Angel of the Morning == == === 5. People don't know or might be surprised that it's a cover === === === //Black Betty// -- Ram Jam //Black Betty// -- Odetta === 6. Self-covers: Early versions === === === //Questions// -- Steve Stills //Suite: Judy Blue Eyes// -- Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young === === //I Am a Child// -- Neil Young //Sugar Mountain// -- Neil Young == == "Questions" and "I Am a Child" are Buffalo Springfield, from alb Last Time Around === === //Long May You Run// -- Neil Young //Harvest// -- Neil Young (I probably mean "Harvest Moon" here?) === === //Ivory// -- Bob Seger System //Hollywood Knights// -- Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band == == 'Ivory': 'You were born with a face / That would let you get your way' 'Hollywood Knights': 'She had been born with a face / That wouldn't let her get away / He saw that face and he lost all control' === === //Tobacco Road// -- Jefferson Airplane //Cruisin'// -- Jefferson Starship == == Melody is similar, but particularly rhythmic similarity. This is an original, self-rip-off, of a cover === 7. Self-covers: Rewrites and retreads === === === //Old Man Down the Road// -- John Fogerty //Run through the Jungle// -- Creedence Clearwater Revival == == The famous example === === //Don't Go// -- Yaz //No Disco// -- Depeche Mode == == The Vince Clarke connection === === //Soul Survivor// -- Rolling Stones (Exile) //Moonlight Mile// -- Rolling Stones (Sticky Fingers) === 8. Gratuitous covers: Needless, obvious covers that just shouldn't have been done === Almost any cover that has charted since sometime beginning around the late '70s. To state an arbitrary beginning, let's say Captain & Tennille's cover of //Shop Around//, Miracles === 9. Criminal covers: Same as Gratuitous covers, but where someone actually might get hurt === == == //Starting All Over Again// -- Hall & Oates == == Covering Mel & Tim. Mel & Tim had only two hits. Their other one ('Backfield in Motion') on radio very once in awhile. Mel & Tim's 'Starting' very limited play on Adult Contemporary into '90s (too mellow for Oldies). Hall & Oates's gratuitous, obvious cover supplants plays of M&T version; then, because H&O version mediocre, neither version survives on radio === 10. Covers where the new interpretation grasps a subtlety in the original lyrics === == == //Walk on By// -- Isaac Hayes == == Hayes sings 'broken in two' instead of 'broken and blue.' == == Understandable. "Broken in two" is a common phrase. Hayes says the opposite of what Lameasses Misusing a Common Phrase say. "Broken and blue" comes too close to the common phrase. Hayes is correcting Bachrach & David's error == == //Tainted Love// -- Gloria Jones == == The "if I don't I'll pack my things and go" gets garbled, this time in the original; Marc Almond (not Mark-Almond), straightens it out in the Soft Cell cover ====== Three versions of 'Orange Blossom Special' that speed up at the end ====== == == Will the Circle Be Unbroken == == Country Gentlemen == == Doug Kershaw === Other versions of 'Orange Blossom Special' === == == Bill Monroe ====== Covers-like similarities in bluegrass ====== "Little Maggie" shares verses with "Darlin' Corey"; there are musical similarities The Melody of "Battle of New Orleans," Johnny Horton (Jimmie Driftwood, songwriter) is the fiddle tune "Eighth of January"; is this fiddle tune Civil-War era? ====== "Pappa's Billy Goat" swallowed the "Turkey in the Straw" ====== Fiddlin' John Carson's Pappa has a section where the melody morphs into "Turkey in the Straw" and adds some words for it, in case one would want to do a vocal version of Turkey in the Straw Lately vocal versions of "Whiskey Before Breakfast" and "Dixie" are being performed. I assume that these were almost exclusively instrumentals for decades