Uncovered - the original version

Not sure if anyone has done this one yet.

Blondie's 'Hanging On The Telephone' is not the original - which was written and recorded a couple of years earlier by The Nerves


This video contains both back to back.

This was the first track I ever heard by ...And You Will Know By The Trail Of Dead. It struck me as weirdly and coolly original.



So it was a bit of a surprise to find out it was a cover of Guided By Voices maybe a decade later.



Trail Of Dead wins for mine.

I shouldn't be surprised that what I thought was the Moody Blues first hit (1967?) was a cover of Bessie Banks 1963 original Go Now
Original

Cover

Holy crap! I Got You by James Brown is a cover!

Well sort of. James Brown wrote it but the first recording (in 1962) was by his band with Yvonne Fair on vocals - with a slightly differen title "I Found You"

Kenny Rogers did the third recording of "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town"! In 1969
Johnny Darrell had the first charting recording in 1967
But Waylon Jennings had the first recording in 1966. Weirdly the song's write, Mel Tillis, didn't record his own version until 1967, after Johnny Darrell's version got to no.9 on the US country charts
Johnny Darrell 1967:


Waylon Jennings 1966:

Jeff Simmons came up on random with this song/album title "Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up" - which until now I had assumed was a Frank Zappa original (from Joe's Garage Act 1)



Of course Simmons was a member of the Mothers and Zappa played guitar on the recording.
Zappa's (quite different) version:

I guess Americans of a certain age know this, but I didn't. Barbara-Ann is not a Beach Boys original, The Regents recorded it in 1961 (with a sax solo).



I kinda miss the ashtray solo

I just heard what I throught was the original, but it turns out it was the second version of what I'd though was a Salt n Pepa original

Lynda Lyndell's original 'What A Man' (she retreated from the music biz for 25 years after threats from the KKK for working with black musicians)



The Laurel Lee version I just heard



The version I thought was an original