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

[Richard A Thackeray]

The b-side to the Dancing In The Dark single
Later a top-10 for Natalie Cole

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD5Vythvxig

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Anything by Elvis was done better before.

Okay, recorded in (I think) 1979, but I think it out Presleys Elvis, with the production

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQC7yJF7Fz0

 

[DRM]

View: https://youtu.be/hFE2SnliiV0


and the cover version

View: https://youtu.be/G_1LP3Z6pW4

 

[winjim]

I think she did 'I saw her [him] standing there' as well but the original of that is probably better known.

View: https://youtu.be/IkMFLUXTEwM

 

[DRM]

View: https://youtu.be/kEVJIdZ90JM

The original by Love

View: https://youtu.be/9PUEYYmZzG0

The cover, saw UFO do this at Leeds in the 1980’s

 

[DRM]

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

The thing is with a lot of these old blues songs, the original versions will be lost in the mists of time, they will have been Passed down orally and chopped and changed about, with links to traditional songs from Britain and Ireland

 

[srw]

A couple of international borrowings.

 

[accountantpete]

"New s**t has come to light" as The Dude said recently (gws).

Covered by Kenny Rogers in the film The Big Lebowski :

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYQW0NOyZpc

 

[bitsandbobs]

You beat me to it. I first hear of Big Mamma Thornton on the radio where they interviewed one of the songwriters. His writing partner told him him that "Hound Dog" was in the charts. Surprised he said "with Big Mamma Thornton?" Turned out it was the Elvis version but as the guy said "I was a bit disappointed, but after a couple of visits to the bank I got used to it"

I bought Big Mamma's compilation CD that day - she's much better blues singer than Elvis

Well Elvis wasn't a blues singer!

 

[raleighnut]

View: https://youtu.be/JDvAQl2sKU4

 

[raleighnut]

I was at a Peter Green 'Splinter Group' gig when during the interval I overheard a woman ask her friend "Why did he play a Santana song?"

View: https://youtu.be/7eANGHVQS9Q

 

[slowfen]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ST9TZBb9v8

 

[slowfen]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC7obNtXLYU


First recording

 

[MichaelW2]

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=425GpjTSlS4

Not an original song by The Saturdays as many believe.

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

 

[MartinQ]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci4EQDD4CqA&app=desktop