Huh. This list includes three songs I wasn't even familiar with ("Ever Fallen In Love", "Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want", and "Wuthering Heights") and for most of the rest I am not familiar with any covers - the one major exception being "Hallelujah", which is one of my favorite songs and for which I am aware of a lot of covers... and a fair number of (sad) people who believe the original artist is Rufus Wainwright (I like his cover, but...)
Somebody needs to compile a comprehensive list of songs where the best-known version is a cover. Maybe somebody has already but my google-fu seems to be weak tonight. For example, the most popular version of "Blinded By The Light" is by Manfred Mann's Earth Band but the original artist is Bruce Springsteen.
2009-11-01 07:03 (UTC) [T+01:51:12]
03:03 (tober's time)
Somebody needs to compile a comprehensive list of songs where the best-known version is a cover. Maybe somebody has already but my google-fu seems to be weak tonight. For example, the most popular version of "Blinded By The Light" is by Manfred Mann's Earth Band but the original artist is Bruce Springsteen.