mkarns
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Post by mkarns on Jan 18, 2023 2:27:25 GMT -5
Reba McEntire's "Fancy" is more known than Bobbie Gentry's original. The same may be true of Reba's rendition of "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia", originally a hit for Vicki Lawrence. |
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Post by Au$tin on Feb 7, 2023 22:59:36 GMT -5
Well, here's one I literally just learned was a cover. "1985" is not originally a Bowling for Soup song. It's by some band called SR-71, a band who probably most don't even know. Meanwhile the Bowling for Soup version gave that band their first major mainstream hit and currently has over 200 million streams on Spotify.
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Post by johnm1120 on Feb 8, 2023 1:57:01 GMT -5
Ace of Base - Don't Turn Around
All-4-One - I Swear
Allison Krauss - When You Say Nothing At All
Annie Lennox - No More I Love Yous
Bette Midler - From a Distance
Bette Midler - Wind Beneath My Wings
Beyonce - If I Were A Boy
Celine Dion - All By Myself
Celine Dion - I Drove All Night
Celine Dion - If You Asked Me To
Celine Dion - It's All Coming Back to Me Now
Celine Dion - The Power of Love
Christina Aguilera - I Turn to You
Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Want to Have Fun
Glenn Medeiros - Nothing's Gonna Change my Love For You
Gloria Estefan - Turn the Beat Around
Linda Ronstadt - Blue Bayou
Linda Ronstadt - It's So Easy
Linda Ronstadt - When Will I Be Loved
Linda Ronstadt - You're No Good
Linda Ronstadt & Aaron Neville - Don't Know Much
(Pretty much almost any Linda song qualifies)
Mariah Carey - Without You
Mya - My First Night with You
Naked Eyes - Always Something There to Remind Me
Pussycat Dolls - Don't Cha
Whitney Houston - Greatest Love of All
Whitney Houston - I Believe in You & Me
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Steps - Tragedy
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Post by SabrinaFan on Feb 8, 2023 15:00:34 GMT -5
I'm the queen of not knowing songs are covers. In fact, I didn't know like half the songs listed here were covers until reading this thread lol.
UB-40 "Red Red Wine" is one that I recently just learned was a cover of Neil Diamond.
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Post by NeRD on Feb 8, 2023 20:46:20 GMT -5
Aren't a lot of these examples just final versions of demos? How do you distinguish the two? Demos never being "officially" released?
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Post by Relaxing Cup on Feb 9, 2023 9:16:01 GMT -5
Monique- “Angel of Mine”
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Post by johnm1120 on Feb 13, 2023 14:38:31 GMT -5
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Post by jimijoop on Apr 21, 2023 0:56:21 GMT -5
James Arthur - Impossible (Shontelle)
Callum Scott - Dancing on my own (Robyn)
Jamelia - Superstar (Christine Milton)
Maneskin - Beggin (The Four Seasons)
Ronan Keating - If Tomorrow Never Comes (Garth Brooks)
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