Songs That People Don't Know Are Covers

[Famous Mortimer]

And the Rubinoos in 1977

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIxvP--GjPg

The band that went on to achieve the highest accolade any band could manage - to do the theme song for "Revenge Of The Nerds".

[Pseudopath]

And speaking of Tina Turner, What's Love Got To Do With It was first recorded by Bucks Fizz!

See also Cher's Heart of Stone: https://youtu.be/eDtPNJFOFFQ

[buzby]

And speaking of Tina Turner, What's Love Got To Do With It was first recorded by Bucks Fizz!

Though the Fizz weren't the first to record New Beginning, having been released by Force 8 a year earlier (ignore the title of that video - Force 8 were a group s session musicians including a couple of ex-Dooleys). The track was offered to Polydor for release who turned it down, and through the Dooleys connection it was eventually put out by Priority Records. A year later it was chosen for Bucks Fizz as the first release on their new label Polydor. The producer of the original track, Mike S. Myers (who also co-wrote it with future TOTP theme tune writer Tony Gibber), co-produced the Fizz version with their usual producer Andy Hill.

[honeychile]

The first version of I Think We're Alone Now wasn't the famous one by 80s teen star Tiffany. It was two decades earlier, by "Tommy James and the Shondells".

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IkMFLUXTEwM

A different vibe when dung by a man I'll take the Tiffany version any day.

The Tommy James version is an absolute classic, borderline northern soul and so much more coherent than the Tiffany version, never mind the Girls Aloud abortion of a cover.

Sticking with northern soul, Kim Weston's (i believe original?) version of You hit me where it hurt me is an absolute hurricane of bass and percussion which demands high volume - so much better than Alice Clark's vile better-known looney tunes rendition. Go to any northern soul night any the cunts will spin the latter at the expense of the former, something which should merit a one-way trip to the ICC in The Hague.

Keeping to soul more broadly, fancy a listen to Diana Ross' Now that there's you? Well don't fucking bother when the cunt who wrote the thing, Valerie Simpson, had already recorded and sung it with 1000 times more feeling and grace.

[Brundle-Fly]

That'll be why it was mentioned on the first page.

Ah, yeah, sorry. Let me recompense?

Bad Manners 1980 debut single, Ne Ne Na Na Na Na Nu Nu ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfbe0TS-Iww

Naa, a Ne Ne Na Na Na Na No No

The 1958 cover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX8DsBpZJU4

[Marner and Me]

Madness - It Must Be Love.

[Dr Rock]

For All We Know

The Carpenters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exhiNToY3eI

Larry Meredith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhBm2Fh3pBY

The original was out of a film from 1970 that I've never heard of

[Dr Rock]

A Boy Named Sue. Originally recorded by Shel Silverstein. He wrote it too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZNZt5qVgvM

[Dr Rock]

Just heard this for the first time - the original recording of Bette Davis Eyes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAQsOJbs-yo

The Kim Carnes version swaps the original's

'She'll expose you, when she blows you
Off your feet with the crumbs that she throws you'

with the tamer

'She'll expose you, when she snows you
Hope you're pleased with the crumbs she throws you'

Now did you all know the Kim Carnes version was a cover or are there a lot of hats being fucked right now?

[popcorn]

Just heard this for the first time - the original recording of Bette Davis Eyes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAQsOJbs-yo

The Kim Carnes version has such little harmonic and melodic resemblance to this that Carnes could surely have saved a fucking packet just by writing some original lyrics.

[Satchmo Distel]

I didn't know that "Bye Bye Baby" was a Four Seasons song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46Vvwa04ZqY

[TheMonk]

Madness - It Must Be Love.

Agh did not know that. For some reason this has put me in a shit mood.

[DrGreggles]

I think I learned that pretty early on.
Probably due to relentlessly studying the sleeve notes of Complete Madness as a kid.

When Something Inside So Strong was released a few years later, I definitely already knew Labi Siffre as the writer of It Must Be Love - even though I'd never heard his version.

[Pseudopath]

Agh did not know that. For some reason this has put me in a shit mood.

Don't know why you'd feel that way. Labi Siffre is fucking great. You'll be disconsolate when you learn where Eminem sourced the sample for "My Name Is".

Did nobody else wonder why that random black dude took off his sunglasses and grinned at the camera near the end of the Madness video? Hmmm...wonder who that is?

[Smeraldina Rima]

Posts that people don't know are covers

Madness - It Must Be Love.

Agh did not know that. For some reason this has put me in a shit mood.

It Must Be Love

I wouldn't normally do this. To take attention away from what I've just done, the local ASDA has a rolling playlist which for example plays American Boy by Estelle at the close of every day. Lately I keep shopping at the time it plays Lilly Allen's 22 which always puts the verse of It Must Be Love back in my head.

[Better Midlands]

American Boy by Estelle

Speaking of which

[Brundle-Fly]

Agh did not know that. For some reason this has put me in a shit mood.

Nobody tells The Monk that One Step Beyond is a cover too.

[Jockice]

Nobody tells The Monk that One Step Beyond is a cover too.

~

That would just be Madness.

[pigamus]

If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next was originally by Barry Manilow.

[Twit 2]

Fucked with a knife - Tom Jones

[MidnightShambler]

The original 'Out Of Time' is by The Rolling Stones and off Aftermath, not by Chris Farlowe. His version, even though the lyrics are still as deeply unpleasant, has a soulful quality to it that makes it seem like it's an ode to a lost love, if you aren't paying attention to what he's saying.

But the Stones version is a sneering, horrible, contemptible record about a complete bitch who Jagger fucking hates and wishes nothing but ill-will toward. And it's much, much better for it.

I don't know how widely known it is that it's not a Farlowe original but I've lost count of the people I've played it to who are hat-fucked by it, so I'm guessing not very.