When Whitney Houston had mega success covering Dolly Parton's song, "I Will Always Love You" - reporters asked Dolly if she was bothered by Whitney taking credit for it. Dolly said, "She can say whatever she likes as long as I keep getting the checks - $6 million so far !"
@coolbreeze2.0-mortemadfasc133 жыл бұрын
🤣
@alwest44723 жыл бұрын
She’s a g
@babysluss683 жыл бұрын
Dolly needs her hairspray and bleach lol, 6 mill though yowch
@carolinewilson40603 жыл бұрын
Newfie here.
@JoanRudith3 жыл бұрын
People WANTED Whitney to cover songs they wrote. Cuz she turned them into monster hits!! And if you’re the writer.....you want that!! That’s residual income forever!
@snuassauns3 жыл бұрын
Some people are great composers; Some people are great performers; Some people are great at both.
@MetaFootballTV3 жыл бұрын
Prince.
@BeExcellent13 жыл бұрын
Some people are great posers, Some people are fake closures, Some people are paid paid by both!
@ilzesmith17533 жыл бұрын
My kids, all excited: "Mom! You must hear this new song, it is awesome." Me, singing along and getting a kick out of the confusion on their faces, then I play them the original or another version and sometimes they actually prefer the original.
@kerryn67143 жыл бұрын
I remember doing that as a kid in both the 70's and '80's. Every time my mum strolled out singing the words to what I thought was a brand new song, my jaw hit the ground! My mum must of had fun with us kids. She's been gone for about 2 1/2 yrs & I miss her everyday. All you guys who still have a Mum or Mom you love, tell her. Tell her everytime you can & hug her for me.
@ilzesmith17533 жыл бұрын
@@kerryn6714 Love to hear there are other likeminded families. We grew up with music, my kids grew up with music and the deeper meanings behind songs.
@VelkanAngels3 жыл бұрын
For real, I used to think Popcorn was an 80's song/melody. Then I hummed it at my grandmother's one time and she hummed along. Turns out it's older than water, lol.
@ilzesmith17533 жыл бұрын
@@VelkanAngels Some things the 80's made better though. I prefer the 80's techno version on this one.
@kassandrajeffery70353 жыл бұрын
Back when Shrek first came out I got the soundtrack. When the Proclaimers' I'm On My Way started playing, Mum thought we were listening to her cassette. (Which we'd listened to occasionally by then)
@timebandito42783 жыл бұрын
Elvis and Whitney did a lot of cover versions, while Neil Diamond had a lot of people cover HIS songs
@MetaFootballTV3 жыл бұрын
Elvis the ( cover) King
@davidhunt36893 жыл бұрын
Neil Diamond needed covering as he couldn't sing.
@davidhunt36893 жыл бұрын
@@MetaFootballTV No he made them his.
@MetaFootballTV3 жыл бұрын
@@davidhunt3689 Haha. I couldn't care less what you say. They were other people's songs that HE sang.
@davidhunt36893 жыл бұрын
@@MetaFootballTV That he sang better. Do you have any idea how many singers don't write their material. Lets look at those that write masterpieces and can't sing for shit. Bob Dylan Willie Nelson Neil Dismond Kris Kristofferson And on n on n on
3 жыл бұрын
There's nothing wrong with covers, the authors do enjoy their songs' royalties.
@jenniferkasowicz94633 жыл бұрын
Respect... everyone attributes to Aretha, but Otis Redding’s version is SOOO good.
@garryiglesias40743 жыл бұрын
Otis was a GREAT singer... Gone too soon... "Sitting in the morning sun..."
@kitoyobeni13 жыл бұрын
One of my all time favorite singers. He put his entire body and soul into every note, such a powerhouse!
@WalterGreenIII3 жыл бұрын
Otis did a lot of great shiy...
@codywalsh20753 жыл бұрын
@YOU BE ILLIN' then sit down
@codywalsh20753 жыл бұрын
@YOU BE ILLIN' stay pressed you weirdo
@iseeyou7363 жыл бұрын
Songs are written to be sung. Thank goodness each person puts their own spin on it. Some are more popular than others, but beauty is in the eye(ear) of the beholder🤗
@JayveeTVReacts3 жыл бұрын
Yeah true although some sounded the exact same
@JeshuaSquirrel3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, sometimes the cover can reinterpret the meaning of the song. For example, Aretha Franklin's cover of "Respect" reinterpreted the song from a misogynist expectation of his woman into an anthem for women power. Another example is Johnny Cash's cover of "Hurt". After really listening to Cash's version, Trent Reznor said "It's not my song anymore."
@babysluss683 жыл бұрын
He did a great cover and it felt more raw to me, the emotion in his voice just wow
@natree90882 жыл бұрын
Johnny Cash replaced 'Crown of sh*t' with 'Crown of thorns', in reference to his faith I guess. In any case, a very different version from the original but also probably the one I like better.
@bethshadid20873 жыл бұрын
The thing about Blue Suede Shoes is fascinating. Elvis recorded it at same time as Carl Perkins. He decided since he had so many hits he let Carl's version go first and waited to release his version.....so technically they did it simultaneously 🤷
@juancarloscabreramenendez76283 жыл бұрын
Elvis re-recorded this song for the movie G. I. Blues (1960).
@isaiahmiller7943 жыл бұрын
Most Elvis songs are covers
@ikewp9013 жыл бұрын
@@isaiahmiller794 He did a lot of covers, and he also had a lot written for him!
@Charsept3 жыл бұрын
"I Will Always Love You", arguably Whitney Houston's biggest song, was also a cover. Originally sung by Dolly Parton.
@samsprrr3548 Жыл бұрын
Written by dolly Parton.
@jasonpatterson80913 жыл бұрын
Respect by Otis Redding is a particular favorite of mine. I had a college professor who loved Aretha Franklin's version and thought it was the original, written as a feminist anthem. When I pointed out that it was written by a man and originally meant to be from the point of view of a hard working man whose wife doesn't respect him, she about blew a gasket. (I love Aretha Franklin's version too, mind you.)
@marymarin32773 жыл бұрын
Most artists sell their rights for other artists to cover their songs and make profits. After all it's their song!👍♥️
@d.kyrstede35563 жыл бұрын
Please continue with Part 2 and 3 of the 33 songs you did not know were covers.
@JayveeTVReacts3 жыл бұрын
I gotcha
@arthurfears94643 жыл бұрын
@@JayveeTVReacts Those were fun and more important than that,true history.I get tired of hearing people say that somebody stole somebodies Song!Really,no one makes more money on a Recording than the Song Publishers!
@lamusiclover22643 жыл бұрын
In the 50s, many cover versions of songs became big hits for White singers, whereas the originals were often done by Black singers, who sometimes had more difficulty getting air play at the time
@virginiapudelko62803 жыл бұрын
HAHAHAHA! That look when you discovered that Unchained Melody was a cover!
@mattmurdock28683 жыл бұрын
It all comes down to the song. It's a great song when people want to cover it.
@AeroPortJoga3 жыл бұрын
They showed only 2 songs sung by Whitney Houston in this compilation and yet her biggest hit "I will always love you" was also a cover, a Dolly Parton song!
@Siansonea3 жыл бұрын
The Carpenters also famously covered several other songs besides "(They Long To Be) Close To You", their first really big hit. "Ticket To Ride", "Superstar", "For All We Know", "A Song For You", "Hurting Each Other", and "Solitaire" were all covers, among many others.
@wendydouglas4253 жыл бұрын
Loved that! I knew some but there were a whole lot I didn’t!! Yes, I’d love to see more!
@JayveeTVReacts3 жыл бұрын
Gotcha
@jasondaniels6403 жыл бұрын
Cos Bruce Springsteen is the Boss... Lol
@denisemeredith24363 жыл бұрын
A song that isnt featured in this vlog is First Cut is the Deepest which was written and performed by Cat Stevens and then covered by P.P. Arnold and it was covered again by Rod Stewart.
@tchaikca3 жыл бұрын
Also covered by Sheryl Crow! (I like the pp Arnold the best!)
@gingersnap_20233 жыл бұрын
Are we not going to talk about how "Me and Bobby McGee" was actually written and preformed by Kris Kristopherson and not Roger Miller lol
@wnsafford18543 жыл бұрын
The "original" is the 1st version recorded & released. Roger Miller released it in July 1969. Even though he wrote it, & even if he did live performances of it earlier, Kris didn't record/release his till 1970, so his is considered a cover.
@phishcatt3 жыл бұрын
George Benson is such a legend.
@MsAppassionata3 жыл бұрын
I actually prefer his version of The Greatest Love Of All. He’s done some wonderful stuff.
@juliusnepos60133 жыл бұрын
Yeah
@nmernst3 жыл бұрын
George Harrison quite literally sat on the music for I Got My Mind Set On You for 30 years. He originally thought the Beatles would cover, but Lennon and McCartney were such a music writing machine it didn't happen. Turned out to be Harrison's top solo hit. Awesome 👍 thanks for sharing.
@mustangdebbie563 жыл бұрын
And then Weird Al did the parody This Song's Just Six Words Long. Probably why Paul and John didn't want to do it, such a repetitive song, when you analyze it.
@ollewall3 жыл бұрын
@@mustangdebbie56 To be fair it's less repetitive than most of the Beatles hits before 1965.
@mustangdebbie563 жыл бұрын
@@ollewall Lol, maybe. Just for fun I counted how many times the line "she loves you" is said in that song: 6 times in the chorus 12 times total. For "I got my mind set on you": 12 times in the chorus plus 2 more in the bridge. However if you count "set on you" in the whole song. It is used 32 times (8 of those are in the outro). This is according to Genius Lyrics site.
@happyhawaii07113 жыл бұрын
Never heard of James Ray. Sad and tragic life story. I love his version of "I got my mind set on you".
@Skrubb_Lord3 жыл бұрын
Respectfully there is a difference between ripping off and doing a cover.
@taoist323 жыл бұрын
I Want Candy. Covered by Bow Wow Wow in 1982, original by The Strangeloves 1965. Girls Just Want To Have Fun. Cover by Cyndi Lauper in 1983 and originally done by Robert Hazard in 1979. So many songs have been covered over the years, sometimes it’s difficult to find the original artist.
@RicoBurghFan3 жыл бұрын
Manfred Mann actually did three Springsteen covers on the same album, the ones you mentioned and also Spirit In The Night. All of them were awesome.
@sfbayareagirl3 жыл бұрын
Fun! I knew most of theses, but I’m old, lol. Love George Be son. Check out Natural Boy, which I believe is a cover, originally done by Nat Ming Cole. But I love be son’s voice.
@MrFelis13 жыл бұрын
See also: Kylie Minogue - The Locomotion is a cover version of Little Eva, and David Hasselhoff did a Cover version of Marc Seaberg - Looking for Freedom.
@Serai33 жыл бұрын
David Hasselhoff also did an epic cover of "Hooked on a Feeling".
@SierraSierraFoxtrot3 жыл бұрын
Come on you have to live in a cave not to know the original. I didn't even know Kylie did a cover.
@randychampion1843 жыл бұрын
Grand Funk also reached number one in 1974. i think, with their version of the Locomotion
@thiscaintb4real9893 жыл бұрын
Also Steve Miller band covered Locomotion.
@jurgenvandenbergh50823 жыл бұрын
Funny how it all connects. If Billy Ray Cyrus never covered 'Achy Breaky Heart' and got a worldwide hit with it, his daughter probably never would have gotten the part as Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus wouldn't have come in like a Wrecking Ball 😉
@susanlawens37763 жыл бұрын
Weird that they mentioned all the "You Raised Me Up" versions and didn't mention that the whole melody is lifted from "Danny Boy", lyrics written in 1913, which is a version of "Londonderry Air" which was found in a book published by the Society for the Preservation and Publication of the Melodies of Ireland in the 1855 book "The Ancient Music of Ireland", and that song is ancient, as the title suggests.
@taoist323 жыл бұрын
Many songs are from culturally diverse folk songs and poems.
@minkhollow3 жыл бұрын
The one that got me in the '90s kid was learning "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" was *not* a They Might Be Giants original. (In my defense, I was four when Flood came out, and it fits their brand perfectly.)
@kirstygunn91493 жыл бұрын
Fun fact Glenn Medeiros be came a teacher and then a principal back on his home Island of Honolulu in Hawaii.
@ScottPothan3 жыл бұрын
I’d totally forgotten Richard Chamberlain the biggest tv actor in the planet on the early 60’s was the original Close to You artist. He even outlived the Carpenters bless him millions of women (and men) obsessed over him.
@XaviClot2 жыл бұрын
Big Mama Thorton was an absolute force of the Nature. It's compulsory to listen her songs!!!! Strong beautiful blues at its maximum!!!
@richchappell3 жыл бұрын
One of the more interesting covers is "Tainted Love", originally by Gloria Jones released in 1965, covered by Soft Cell in 1981, then by Marilyn Manson in 2001. I'm actually a huge fan of cover songs, particularly punk or rock covers of non-punk or non-rock songs. Compare "Turn Down for What" by DJ Snake and Lil Jon with the cover by Upon a Burning Body and Ice-T; or Taylor Swift's "Blank Space" by I Prevail. Also, a band called Our Last Night posts cover versions of songs on a weekly basis. Alex Melton does a great job of covering songs in different styles (and even sub-genres, like what if Angels and Airwaves wrote "Ocean Avenue" by Yellowcard).
@jennhurl3 жыл бұрын
I saw Chris Cornell's cover of "Billie Jean" last night. At first I was afraid to listen because it just seemed like "MJ, no way". Jay, I literally had goosebumps. Incredible. Chris definitely did his thing.
@sarahzentexas3 жыл бұрын
AMAZING COVER!
@MsAppassionata3 жыл бұрын
Thanks. I’ll have to check that one out.
@kathyjam24823 жыл бұрын
Wow some of these I had no clue were covers.
@chucku003 жыл бұрын
Elvis' "Can't help falling in love" is a cover/adaptation of "Plaisir d'amour", a classical French love song written in 1784 by Jean-Paul-Égide Martini and recorded first by Rina Ketty in 1939.
@JonS01073 жыл бұрын
It was so much different in the 1950s and even into the early 60s when even songs were segregated. With the same songs, artists like Elvis and The Beatles were credited with revolutionizing rock and roll while they received first class tickets to appear on The Ed Sullivan Show, while true fathers of rock and roll, like Chuck Berry and Jackie Wilson received very little white radio and television play time. There is a great piece written in 1973 for Harpers magazine called Ripping Off Black Music, by Margo Jefferson (which is still available on line).
@StephenBrown3 жыл бұрын
Probably mentioned before but Fine Young Cannibals also did a cover of Suspicious Minds
@grobinson75073 жыл бұрын
I love this!!! I always like to know who sang it first and than see how much they changed.
@scottdobson12763 жыл бұрын
The thing to remember is almost all of the originals were also the song writers, so when the cover comes out the composer gets paid.
@msminmichigan3 жыл бұрын
I feel like up until the late 90's covers were more common. Also, covers as a single seemed to be more common then too. I mean covers are still a thing today but not as often and I can't think of one that has been a single in about 15-20 years. Johnny Cash's cover of Nine Inch Nails' Hurt is the last cover I can think of that was a hit single.
@14charmedone3 жыл бұрын
Some of these songs are my dad's favorite songs so farm he loves it. My mom liked it as well. I love it as well. Cher is my favorite
@sonyawasmer23443 жыл бұрын
Linda Ronstadt has a phenomenal voice, but she did mostly covers.
@lamusiclover22643 жыл бұрын
But her covers became totally her own, so much so that her versions are often considered the standard, rather than the originals
@sonyawasmer23443 жыл бұрын
@@lamusiclover2264 Yep.
@86forever3 жыл бұрын
The Eagles actually took her on tour w/ them as they were in their first years of stardom.. when Linda's star was rising too ... they had their song "Desperado" and they were doing it on tour but people weren't liking it so they gave it to Linda to sing and it blew up everyone loved the song, so it became both theirs and hers as it was on both their albums ..... The Eagles sang it on theirs and Linda on hers.
@sasukesarutobi38623 жыл бұрын
Cover versions were quite common in the 50s and 60s, and labels would have songwriting teams producing songs that were given to several artists who would put out their versions and compete in the charts. Here in the UK, there was often a rush to record new songs arriving from the US (Liverpool being a major port contributed to it being such an important place for new music in the UK in the 1950s and 60s).
@earlcaswell59753 жыл бұрын
There were thousands of covers of the Beatles song, Yesterday.
@MsAppassionata3 жыл бұрын
They covered a lot of other people’s material in their early years too.
@1sTEfFaniE13 жыл бұрын
@@MsAppassionata when I found out "Till there was you" was a cover I was so shocked, it was always one of my favorite Beatles songs!
@kerryn67143 жыл бұрын
Here's something everyone ought to remember; many of the hits from the 50's & 60's were from white artists singing the songs the African American artists couldn't get played on the radio. Thankfully artists like Elvis, The Beatles & The Rolling Stones acknowledged where there inspiration came from. Some people are still a little bitter about this, even today. I can't blame them. I'm just grateful for all the fantastic music regardless of where it originated. As long as everyone is acknowledged & recognised, then it's cool imho. Cheers Jay, this was one of your best uploads ✌️🇦🇺🙃
@evieaddy95803 жыл бұрын
The 50s and 60s is where motown started.
@jenniferkasowicz94633 жыл бұрын
As someone who loves the history and influences within music, I loved this. It’s awesome how art inspires art. “Hound Dog” was my biggest surprise-wow!
@AutumnExplore3 жыл бұрын
The music business has always been a songwriters' business (sheet music originally); hold the copyright, retain publishing right, encourage many different performers to record your work - collect royalties.
@amlgandolfo3 жыл бұрын
I didn’t know Richard Chamberlain was a singer! 😯
@Siansonea3 жыл бұрын
Was he though?
@bbsmith19803 жыл бұрын
Now a days too, artist do not do full covers, but sample song from 10-50 years ago.
@Marcus-Oh-really-yes3 жыл бұрын
Many of these original songs were not radio hits for the original artists, or were just album tracks that not too much of the public had heard of ... so it was the cover versions that brought some of these great songs to a larger pop audience. Dolly Parton had a No. 1 country hit with "I Will Always Love You" in 1974, but it didn't cross over to the pop charts. Dolly was laughing all the way to the bank when she started getting the songwriting royalties for Whitney Houston's massive No. 1 pop cover from 1992. :-)
@wesalker34793 жыл бұрын
Sometimes, the cover soars and the OG is OK with that. Just ask Trent Reznor !
@nathanpapp4323 жыл бұрын
Im sure hes happy with the money it made him. The original version is still better.
@vic70ria3 жыл бұрын
His generosity with it was so wholesome. Obviously the NIN has experience and pain. But Johnny Cash’s had just pushed it to its full depth
@boybblue3 жыл бұрын
Dodie Stevens sings the answer to "are you lonesome tonight", as "Yes I'm lonesome tonight"
@Krista28823 жыл бұрын
some of these are in the same year or only a year apart, and it makes me wonder if the record label gave the song to one singer/group and it didn't do well, so then they gave it to another group/singer and it had success.
@JayveeTVReacts3 жыл бұрын
It might be
@Twinkle-re2eb3 жыл бұрын
In UK x factor took a Biffy Clyro song that was also out and gave it as they winners song - many of horror. Worth a listen jay!
@CallistaZM3 жыл бұрын
oh my gosh yes you have to check out Big Mama Thorton holy cow, she was incredible. Also im very surprised they didn't include "I Will Always Love You" on here. Maybe it's on part 2.
@varell42553 жыл бұрын
Legendary timeless songs...we don't see a lot of them anymore
@coolbreeze2.0-mortemadfasc133 жыл бұрын
lol Far more forgettable songs now.
@kimberlinibambini19883 жыл бұрын
Can’t wait for part 2- and wouldn’t be surprised if there are many parts- YES! You just asked as I was typing- I’d love to see them all- I know Prince wrote “Nothing Compares to you”- (LOVE PRINCE💜RIP) I However, I gotta know if the group The Family gets mentioned for doing it too- a guy made a mix tape dedicated to me 😊in the 80’s and The Family singing it was on there-first time hearing it- Sooo ready for the next parts- I found a lot of these interesting too! ✌️
@JayveeTVReacts3 жыл бұрын
Yeah I’ll definitely do more
@ArdenRadani3 жыл бұрын
Fine Young Cannibals also covered “Suspicious Minds”.
@kevinminne14603 жыл бұрын
Wow! All that great music from the 60’s 70’s and 80’s! 🎸👍🏽
@JayveeTVReacts3 жыл бұрын
20’s 30’s 40’s 50’s 90’s and 2000’ too. There’s good music from every decade
@kevinminne14603 жыл бұрын
@@JayveeTVReacts that’s true but most of it comes from.... 🤣🎸👍🏽
@mildredpierce45062 жыл бұрын
10:03 I've always known Richard Chamberlain as an actor. I was surprised to learn that he was a singer as well.
@iuile3 жыл бұрын
I grew up knowing about Elvis before I watched any of the films but wow my mind automatically goes to "that's the Lilo and Stitch soundtrack!!" whenever i hear him sing
@aaroncoffman883 жыл бұрын
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and it speaks of the quality of the song when another artist wants to cover it.
@wolfme40303 жыл бұрын
I partially believe there is also a generational thing as well. There is around 20 years between Dolly Parton writing/singing "I Will Always Love You" to Whitney Houston releasing it for the Bodyguard soundtrack.
@cherokeemammyof42053 жыл бұрын
Whitney Houston's song I will always love you (1992) is a cover Original by Dolly Parton. (1973)
@stelladevers53343 жыл бұрын
Black artist back in the day had a hard time breaking through The stations wouldn’t play them or put their pictures on album covers because of the color of their skin somethings are just not right. There’s a lot of them were thankful for the covers because it made their song known and copyright monies they got was OK
@evieaddy95803 жыл бұрын
It's called motown...
@Drescher19843 жыл бұрын
A song most people don't know is a cover is Cindy Lauper's "Girls just want to have fun"
@garyr.313 жыл бұрын
Yea, that's in part 2
@nethrelm3 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: My step dad (deceased) is the person who rewrote Hound Dog into the version Elvis recorded (though my step dad recorded it first). About half the lyrics were changed and the tempo was increased from the Big Momma Thornton original. Her version was considered too raunchy for radio/TV back then.
@kandigloss64382 жыл бұрын
Manfred Mann's Earth Band actually did three covers of Bruce Springsteen songs, apparently they were mainstays of their live shows they wanted to put them on their albums. Also, since you seemed a bit surprised by the number of covers some artists did, a lot of music from the 50s and 60s were either covers or songs written my some one other than the artist, it wasn't really until the late 60s where a lot of singers and bands started writing their own stuff and even then there were still a lot of bands that played primarily covers.
@colingregory74643 жыл бұрын
I suspect the original artists don't mind as long as they get the writing royalties (I believe writers get more than artists and remixers even less)
@vilmaniel76183 жыл бұрын
I think it also depends on the time, sometime songs and sounds just aren't ready for the time but they are later. Remember alot of songs from the past had a lot of race and appropriate for the time.
@richdiddens40593 жыл бұрын
They blew it on Wind Beneath My Wings. Secret Garden is also a cover. It was the theme song for the movie Beaches released in December 1988 and won Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year in 1990.
@chef_artist13743 жыл бұрын
THIS.....was awesome. Thank you for doing this. Very eye opening. That Santana cover blew me away. I'm sure I heard both... but still was convinced it was Santana. Keep up the good reaction videos. Glad I Subbed.
@SakuraShirakawa3 жыл бұрын
Keep in mind, especially on the covers that seem to happen close to the original, that a group that doesn't become successful will sell or license their song to another singer. Sometimes the actual songwriter or even the label might own the song as well and let different talent sing it.
@soundofnellody2623 жыл бұрын
I had no idea that "you are always on my mind" was a cover by Elvis. I thought he sang the original and the Pet Shop Boys did the cover to this elvis song. And Bobby McGee.. I was so sure it was written for Janis Joplin.
@RP.1233 жыл бұрын
Music is about timing, marketing and most importantly the singer’s interpretation of the song. Aretha was famous for covering songs and making it her own
@duckpodcast25123 жыл бұрын
"It's not looking good for Manfred Mann..." HA!
@jamesoblivion3 жыл бұрын
Proud Mary, recorded by Tina Turner both with and without Ike, was originally a Creedence Clearwater Revival song.
@marybowesobrien71853 жыл бұрын
I’ve seen some of your uploads and I find them fun so you have a new subscriber from Ireland 🇮🇪.. 💚✨✨🤣 keep doing what your doing ..such a lovely young man ..👍
@saemikneu3 жыл бұрын
My biggest suprises ever: * "My Way" sung by Frank Sinatra * "Torn" sung by Natalie Imbruglia in 1998, originally by band Ednawapp * "Bailando" sung by Loona (originally by Paradiso) * "Nothing compares 2 u" sung by Sinead O'Connor, originally by the Family/Prince Elvis merely did own songs or songs written for him.
@skullleader2203 жыл бұрын
Sometimes the song writers sell the songs to multiple artists
@duckducknight3 жыл бұрын
The Achy Breaky also was a dance.
@MrSwanley3 жыл бұрын
I think it needs to be borne in mind that until the 20th century, i.e. the era of sound recording, the idea of a cover version would have been alien. Composers wrote songs and created sheet music. Singers of all levels would perform the song for local audiences. As long as the publisher (of the sheet music) had been paid, there was nothing suspect about this. Right into the 1960s it was common for the same song to be in the charts several times by different artists. I understand that The Beatles were largely responsible for creating the perception that if you were REALLY talented then you wrote all your own songs.
@LizJasonHEA3 жыл бұрын
I think the thing that's missing is this discussion is talking about who wrote the song. You'd be surprised to find out how many artists do not write their own songs. They have to either borrow songs from other writers or do covers to help fill an album. and in the old days albums were how they got paid before the digital era. That's the way the whole country music industry works. There are record companies here, I'm from nashville, who hire songwriters to do nothing but turn out hit songs for their artists. My uncle co-wrote songs that were big hits back in the '60s for artists like Ricky Nelso, TN Ernie Ford, Ray Stevens and Patsy Ckune. His family still gets royalties off of those songs.
@sossamon013 жыл бұрын
Love your reactions! Also, love that ELO and MJ are posted behind ya!
@joannparker19773 жыл бұрын
OMG!!!! You HAVE to explore all the covers Led Zepplin did. Most of them are the hard blues songs. One is “When the Levee Breaks” was originally done by Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie in 1929. There are other covers they did from around that time. You must include them!
@lilianacuk54403 жыл бұрын
I would love to see more. Thank you JV
@JayveeTVReacts3 жыл бұрын
No problem my pleasure
@sarahzentexas3 жыл бұрын
Whitney Houston and Elvis both CO-wrote a few songs, but allllllll the rest were covers. Fun fact.
@SafferPOV3 жыл бұрын
Many artists and bands weren't/aren't songwriters and mainly do covers. One of the most popular cover artists was Joe Cocker. Other covers happens when a mainstream artist or band takes a niche song (R&B, Gospel, Country, etc.) and create a cross-over hit
@americanmutt90893 жыл бұрын
Manfred Mann covered 3 Springsteen songs number 3 was Spirits in the Night. IMO Manfred Mann's covers were better than Bruce's originals.
@howardjenkins52683 жыл бұрын
Is it a cover if you wrote and composed the song, but we're so angry at how the singer did it you had to show how it should be.
@Ladylike793 жыл бұрын
My mind is blown. With the exception of a few I had no idea that so many of these songs were covers!
@jehosephine3 жыл бұрын
Many of the originasl were in 1927 and the 60's and the covers were much later. Some of us golden oldies remember the originals in the 60's. LOL.
@Spauny3 жыл бұрын
Dolly Parton said it best when someone asked her how she felt about Whitney Houston and I will Always love you. She said, "I'm crying all the way to the bank."
@donafuller15903 жыл бұрын
Elvis Presley also did " Words" by the Bee Gees!
@anabellelei85403 жыл бұрын
Jacques Brel Is Brilliant! So many have covered him, Bowie, Scott Walker, Nina Simone!
@jimmymac45593 жыл бұрын
Probably my favorite cover is “The Sun Always Shines on TV” by Susperia originally done by A-ha. It’s so well done and such a great song
@thephantom88373 жыл бұрын
Bro, Bruce was a legend of the 60s. It was just hella common for his songs to have mad covers, and a lot of bands that weaved their way through the 70s were bands that started out singing requests out house parties and local pubs/bars. Having the Boss in your repertoire was just the norm.
@taz4543 жыл бұрын
Elvis is iconic, the voice, the look...but he never wrote a song in his life
@juancarloscabreramenendez76283 жыл бұрын
Sinatra and many great music stars did not write their hits either.