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Songs you didn't know were covers

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PhilU
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There was a thread about covers not long ago, but I was more interested in "little known original versions" (or unknown to you, at least).

What made me think about this was seeing the clip below on Rage (Aussie music video show that's somehow still going after 30 years). It's from an obscure Aussie band (obscure enough that I hadn't heard of them), about a year before Pat Benatar had a hit with it:
PhilU
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And, one more example - four years before Cyndi Lauper changed a few words and made it her own, there was this:
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Celine Dion's hit version of Jim Steinman's "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" was not the original. The first recording was by UK group Pandora's Box (after Steinman decided it was meant to be sung by a woman and refused to give it to his usual partner Meatloaf, though Loaf did finally get to record it in 2006). Dion's version was much better known though, so I long assumed Steinman wrote it for her.
Regnadkcin
Active Ink Slinger
Also from Cyndi Lauper's album She's So Unusual, is All through the Night by Jules Shear (Jules and the Polar Bears)
PhilU
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Reviving this somewhat-less-than-successful thread, since I heard this one from 1967 for the first time today, and kinda like it...
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Not the same title, but with a few words changed Crescent City Blues became Folsom Prison Blues.


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MadMartigan
Raised on Blackroot
Peter Gabriel’s “The Book of Love.”
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"I Drove All Night" has a complicated history. It was written for Roy Orbison's "Mystery Girl" but his recording of it didn't make the cut for the final tracklist. Cyndi Lauper then picked up the song and put out a version, which means her version came out before Orbison's. It was also arguably more successful, at least in terms of chart placement. I certainly thought it was hers at one point. Then Orbison's widow included his version on "King of Hearts" a posthumous album of unreleased material from late in his career and released it as the first single from that album. So which is the cover? The one recorded second or the one released second?

Of course, then Celine Dion came along and covered it a decade and a bit later than those two, and I know some who think it's a Dion song.

Anyhoo, regardless of who covered who, I love both the Lauper and Orbison versions but have to give a slight edge to Roy because I'm a huge fan.
farmerroger
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This is the original version of the song that wet wet wet made famous in the film four wedding and a funeral.

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