Thank you, friends! New day, new cover.
@dr_mitch has done us proud with a bit more Dylan, and @CanadaJim has done a brilliant job with a song that I never realised was written for Ewan MacColl.
Even though I say so myself, this is a really interesting theme!
Come on everyone else, what have you got?
I'll give you a couple to be going on with:
Twist and Shout will forever be thought of as a Beatles song (it took AAAAGES to find a copy of this that wasn't remastered and autotuned!)
But was originally a Phil Spector recording by the Top Notes:
Or maybe Lou Bega's Mambo No.5 which seemed to be everywhere in the late nineties:
Which was Perez Prado's 1949 Mambo 5:
Here's another nineties song, Torn from Natalie Imbruglia:
This is the original by Ednaswap (listen to those little chromatic walkdowns! Much more interesting song):
Although by the time the writers Scott Cutler and Ann Preven had formed a band and recorded it, it had already been performed and released as a single in Denmark by Lis Sørensen!
Blinded by the light was a massive hit for Manfred Mann:
but was originally a Bruce Springsteen song
Tainted love by Soft Cell:
Original by Gloria Jones nearly twenty years earlier:
Come on guys, what have you got!
Oh, and the prize is a unique luthier built ukulele from my collection, posted anywhere in the world. I might do a video with it later.
