Original Songs and Cover Songs

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Reminiscing - Little River Band 1978

Cover
Reminiscing - Barry Manilow 1996

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I Don’t Want To Talk About It - Crazy Horse 1971

Cover
I don’t want to talk about it - Rod Stewart 1975

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Midnight Plane To Houston - Jim Weatherly 1972

Cover
The song was originally written and performed by Jim Weatherly under the title “Midnight Plane to Houston,” - “It was based on a conversation I had with somebody… about taking a midnight plane to Houston,” Weatherly recalls. "I wrote it as a kind of a country song. Then we sent the song to a guy named Sonny Limbo in Atlanta and he wanted to cut it with Cissy Houston, he asked if I minded if he changed the title to “Midnight Train to Georgia”. And I said, 'I don’t mind. Just don’t change the rest of the song.
Cissy Houston - Midnight Train To Georgia 1973

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I never knew that.
Gladys and her pips do a good version too.

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925

Original
You don’t own me - Leslie Gore 1963

Cover
You don’t own me - Elaine Paige 1991

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Most songs have a story behind them that we, the people know nothing about, unless we delve deeper.

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Jessie J is the best female singer in the world.

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Original
These Boots Are Made for Walkin’ - Nancy Sinatra 1965

Cover
These Boots Are Made for Walkin’ - The Beau Brummels 1966

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930

Original
Bette Davis Eyes - Jackie DeShannon 1974

Cover
Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes 1981

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Prefer the cover.

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Original
Jolene - Dolly Parton 1973

Cover
A rare cover that, dare I say, improves on an already superb song.
The depth of feeling, the inflection, the grief portrayed is astounding.
Jolene - The White Stripes 2004

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Original
You’re No Good - Dee Dee Warwick 1963

Cover
You’re no good - Linda Ronstadt 1973

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Black Betty James “Iron Head” Baker, recorded in the field by US musicologists John and Alan Lomax in December 1933, performed a cappella by the convict James “Iron Head” Baker and a group at Central State Farm, Sugar Land, Texas (a State prison farm).

Black Betty - Ram Jam 1977

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Original
The first cut is the deepest - P P Arnold 1967

Cover
The first cut is the deepest - Linda Ronstadt 1973

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Original and written by them

Cover

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Hooked on a feeling - B. J. Thomas 1968

Cover
David Hasselhoff - Hooked On A Feeling 1999

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