Friday night music, the original is lesser known than the cover.

[DRM]

View: https://youtu.be/ye2N_2ce3QE

Led Zeppelin this time

 

[DRM]

View: https://youtu.be/lK5zYI86wIw

covered by Them

 

[MichaelW2]

House of the Rising Sun probably the first recording . Another one by Leadbelly with his wife singing.

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y5tOpyipNJs

 

[MichaelW2]

Before The Troggs

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2ILsQjcZ3VQ


This is another much covered song by Chip Taylor

 

[Gasman]

Memorably covered by Sinead O'Connor

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NarDEEhOsM

 

[winjim]

Does anybody actually read these threads? That's at least half a dozen duplicates, and I think one triplicate, and we're only five pages in. Let's have some respect for the other contributors and a bit of imagination ourselves eh?

Anyway, covered by RHCP on BSSM...

View: https://youtu.be/4ehtcjrH7cs

 

[MichaelW2]

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8UJtGv-Exzw

 

[MichaelW2]

Memorably covered by Sinead O'Connor

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NarDEEhOsM

In that case we need a whole thread devoted to people who covered great songs by Prince.

 

[Gasman]

Annie Lennox did a good version but this is just as good.

View: https://youtu.be/AdNOCj_35Po

Beat me to it, except I would have said that the original makes me want to stick an ice pick through my eardrums!

 

[winjim]

Memorably covered by Sinead O'Connor

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NarDEEhOsM

Prince may have written and produced it but that's not the original version (live performance notwithstanding)

View: https://youtu.be/bmywGLVlwTg

 

[Beebo]

In that case we need a whole thread devoted to people who covered great songs by Prince.

Here you go then.

View: https://youtu.be/IluGjaWG5Bk

 

[Beebo]

Beat me to it, except I would have said that the original makes me want to stick an ice pick through my eardrums!

It a more basic tune without the Lennox fiddly bits. I like it as its gritty.

 

[Profpointy]

The original:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu_ozjAu_vM




and the better known version (especially in America)

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxgMGk9JPVA

I didn't even know anyone had done a cover of Slade's classix

 

[winjim]

Bring back the...
Who is the...
We want the...

View: https://youtu.be/EZC6Ot1MLP0

 

[Yellow Fang]