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Originals
Posted by Charlie Gordon on 10 June 2011 - 9:40am.
Who knew that Albert Hammond's was the original version? And it's better than the Hollies cover.
Any other originals that you didn't know about?
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Here's A Spotify Playlist
Originals that are less famous than the covers
http://open.spotify.com/user/auxbla/playlist/4Hskeb9Z6GhBLic1BiHji4
Heard this for the first time
just this year.
Two years before Jerry Lee, here's Big Maybelle with the 1955 original of Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On.
The Dude
According to wikipedia, that was produced by a young Quincy Jones.
Johnny Rivers - By The Time I Get To Phoenix
Johnny Rivers, who effectively "discovered" and launched Jimmy Webb, also did the original of the Four Tops' "Do What You Gotta Do". I prefer the Tops take on it, but I prefer JR's "Phoenix"
The wonderful Doris Troy
wrote and recorded the original Just One Look. Criminally overlooked artist.
not as good
but who knew ?
Unusually for a Motown hit
The 1966 original version of the '68 Four Tops' smash Walk Away Renee was by white boys The Left Banke.
I think it's much better.
The 5 Royales
recorded this back in 1957, nine years before the Mamas & Papas covered it.
Never knew these were covers until fairly recently
Jimmy Webb - Galveston
Bruce Woolley & The Camera Club - Video Killed The Radio Star
Nothing to contribute
Just wanted to say thanks everybody this is the kind of thread I really treasure. Keep 'em coming!
For 30 years
I thought the original of Cream's Sitting On Top Of The World was by Howlin Wolf.
Then I discovered The Mississippi Sheiks: