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Wink Wink
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Post by Wink Wink »

Well you will all of heard Sherly Crows cover of 'The First Cut Is The Deepest' which has also been done by Cat Stevens & Rod Stewart but does any one know which song has had the most covers done?

Has anyone got a fav cover or some real shockers?

I heard a cover of a song the other day & the performer had totally murdered it!! It was so bad I've forgotten what the song was!

Quite like Sherly's & Rod's versions of 'First Cut...' but not so sure about Cat's!
steve56
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Post by steve56 »

pp arnold had the hit with cut in 67 around the spring time,i heard cheryls version today not bad.
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Post by steve56 »

my way has been covered the most im sure,there was a omnibus feature on it some time ago.
woodgnome
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Post by woodgnome »

"fly me to the moon" by blossom dearie.

a slice of grade 'a' sinatra swing, remodelled into a meltingly tremulous torch song. the sort of radical yet unpretentious reworking that justifies doing a cover job in the first place.

unlike most efforts, which tend to be a product either of artistic egotism, marketing cynicism, or a complete lack of imagination.
Guilbert
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Post by Guilbert »

Actually it is 'Yesterday' (Beatles/McCartney) that has had the most recordings of any song.

And Cat Stevens wrote 'The first cut is the depest'.

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Post by Deuce Bigolo »

For mine it would either be

Stairway to Heaven or

Georgia

Just a guess mind you

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mart
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Post by mart »

I have heard that "Without You" originally sung by Nilsson(1972), written by Pete Ham and Tom Evans (half of Badfinger) was one of the most covered.

Mart

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Post by Pervert »

And a damned fine tune it was too before loopy Mariah Carey got her larynx round it.

For more unusual cover versions, try listening to the slowed down Aztec Camera version of Van Halen's Jump, Deacon Blue's take on Teardrop Explode's Trampoline, or some of the recent various artistes' tribute to everyone's favourite "music to slash your wrists to" wordsmith Leonard Cohen.
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The Last Word
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Rod-awful

Post by The Last Word »

Come to think of it, R. Stewart himself seems to have spent a large part of his career cheerfully garotting innocent songs using nothing but his vocal cords. Highlights include a version of Ruby Tuesday too awful for words and a version of Shotgun Wedding that put a shotgun firmly in mind.

The best cover I've heard is Ring of Fire by Wall of Voodoo.

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