For IWD : Celebrating female originals of better known male covers.

[Kaka Tim]

Seeing as it international women's day - lets have the orginal versions of songs by women where the men have made better known covers.

Start with this by Dee Dee Warwick (Dion's sister) - far superior to the merseybeats anemic cover -

 

[Kaka Tim]

now this is not the original - but its the version that the stones based their version on. (and its ace)

 

[Kaka Tim]

many old mods will know the (pertty decent) verison by squires and the dire copy of it by the chords - but this is the unsurpassable original (and the best motown track all time IMHO) by the marvelettes

 

[SpookyFrank]

Later 'borrowed' by Led Zeppelin.

 

[Kaka Tim]

I didn't know till recently that she co-wrote and recorded the original with jagger and richards - i thought the version on sticky fingers was the original.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

A more recent one - a spiky pop tune sung by Karin Dreijer from the Knife, turned into advert-friendly Coldplayish dross by Jose Gonzalez.

 

[Kaka Tim]

Later 'borrowed' by Led Zeppelin.

shit yes - good call

 

[Kaka Tim]

i forgot probably the most (in)famous example!

 

[Ground Elder]

This was steadily climbing the charts and then the Moody Blues came along and fucked it up for Bessie

Was about to post Hound Dog Kaka Tim

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Two years before Jerry Lee Lewis (and featured on the Fallout 4 soundtrack)

 

[Kaka Tim]

Two years before Jerry Lee Lewis (and featured on the Fallout 4 soundtrack)

ace! i thought jerry lee was the original. thread done its job already!

 

[planetgeli]

 

[QueenOfGoths]

So did I!! The lyrics differ sightly and of course Jerry Lee Lewis' version has a much more rock n roll vibe.

It's been interesting listening to Jerry Lee Lewis' version as after many, many hours playing "Fallout 4" I'm now more familiar with the Big Maybelle version!

 

[Ground Elder]

 

[Pickman's model]

 

[Pickman's model]

Later a hit for the beatles iirc

 

[Sweet FA]

Excellent playlist; keep them coming

 

[JuanTwoThree]

Dionne Warwick's 'Walk on By' is far better than The Stranglers' but I don't know about less well known. Isaac Hayes's version is on a par with hers.

 

[SpookyFrank]

A more recent one - a spiky pop tune sung by Karin Dreijer from the Knife, turned into advert-friendly Coldplayish dross by Jose Gonzalez.

Love this, hate the plinky plink acoustic version.

 

[Kaka Tim]

not the original - but nina simone took johnny mathis laid back, mellow, forgettably beige original and transformed it into a something ... utterly sublime . Bowies version is very much an homage to nina simones - (but also fantastic).

 

[May Kasahara]

Magnificent, towering dancefloor heartache from Robyn, covered in a shit piano ballad style by some X Factor bloke.

 

[Kaka Tim]

dunno if the U2 version is better known - but fuck it - its not a patch on the fantastic original

 

[JuanTwoThree]

Patti Smith got there first with 'Because the Night'

"The song was originally recorded by Bruce Springsteen during sessions for his Darkness on the Edge of Town album. He was not satisfied with the song and later declared he already knew he wasn't going to finish it since it was "a[nother] love song"; the Patti Smith Group was working on Easter in the studio next door, with engineer/producer Jimmy Iovine working on both albums. Iovine gave Smith a tape of the song, she recast it, and it was included on Easter, becoming the first single released from that album"

Springsteen's live versions are no match for Patti Smith's

 

[JuanTwoThree]

now this is not the original - but its the version that the stones based their version on. (and its ace)

To paraphrase what Dionne Warwick said about Cilla Black, if Irma Thomas had broken wind at some point in the recording Jagger would have felt obliged to force one out at the same time.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Facts all wrong, ignore