Cover or Original?

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Glacier wrote:Cat Stevens has NEVER performed Cats in the Cradle. NEVER!!!!

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Glacier wrote:a cappella version.

Cocaine...

Jackson Browne original

Or remake....


ORIGINAL!!! pre rehab had more soul.


Stevie Wonder



Stevie Ray Vaughan

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Stevie Wonder hands down.

Original - Sam Cooke


Cover - John Lennon
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That's a tough one! I will go with John Lennon.

Mercury Blues (originally titled "Mercury Boogie"):

Original by K.C. Douglas



Cover by Jackson Browne and David Lindley



Cover by the Allan Jackson (the most popular version, though my least favourite version)



Albert Järvinen Band - Pave Maijanen



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Original


Cover




I know which one gets my vote.
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Cher

Original


Cover
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oneh2obabe wrote:Cher


Yep. No contest as far as I'm concerned. Miley may be popular these days, but Cher at 67yrs old, served that young lady with her rendition. LOL
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Cover I think, though I had no idea it was a cover. So Roger Whittaker did it first? O.o

Original: Ed Sheeran



or Cover: Jun Sung Ahn and Peter Hollens

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grammafreddy wrote:definitely Righteous Brothers.

Can't stand Janis Joplin.


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Oh teMah, that's a tough call I like them both.
Ok
how about this without cheating, who came first.


Or

Or
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Is the first one the oldest? I think I recognize the 3rd, like the second one best.

Okay -
Original: Imagine Dragons - Radioactive


or Cover: Linsday Stirling and Pentatonix
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I'm going to say original.

Original:



Cover:



Cover 2:

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First cover.


Which version of Long Black Veil is best?

Original (Lefty Frizzell)...

Cover (The Chieftains with Mick Jagger) - first version I heard


Cover2 (Dave Matthews)


Cover3 (The Band)
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Original


Very well performed cover by Heart
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Both great performances but much as I love Heart, it's tough to one up Led Zeppelin with an original as iconic as Stairway to Heaven.
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