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
Summertime – Janis Joplin (Big Brother)
For You – Manfred Mann
Well Alright – Blind Faith
Red Red Wine – UB40
You Don't Miss Your Water – Red, Red Meat
Cherry Oh Baby – Rolling Stones
Angel – Shaggy, cover of Angel of the Morning
Black Betty – Ram Jam
Black Betty – Odetta
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
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)
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
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
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
Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Country Gentlemen
Doug Kershaw
Bill Monroe
“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?
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