A bit of bump. I didn't realise 'Word Up!' by Korn was a cover until lately. It's actually by Cameo back in 1986. I swear I never knew that before.

A bit of bump. I didn't realise 'Word Up!' by Korn was a cover until lately. It's actually by Cameo back in 1986. I swear I never knew that before.

I never knew Korn released "Word Up" anyway :o :o

I never knew Korn released "Word Up" anyway :o :o

I wonder if he meant Gun?

 

And for anyone who didn't know it was originally recorded by Cameo, then they obviously didn't see Cameo's TOTP appearance back in 1986 - it's one of those jaw dropping moments you can't forget! It was all about THAT codpiece! :lol:

 

Just checked - apparently Korn did record it!

I wonder if he meant Gun?

No. I didn't even know that version (not even Melanie GB's version!) until I searched the song on Wikipedia. Definitely shows how little is my knowledge for older music. :lol: Oh, and I'm also aware of that country version in the VO5 advert!

Edited July 6, 201212 yr by FM11

Sylvia - Y Viva Espana - 1974

 

Original was by Samantha as Eviva Espana in 1971 but was in Flemish

 

Here's the original

Holly Valance - Kiss Kiss

 

Here's the original -- Tarkan - Simarik

Edited February 18, 201510 yr by poppet15

I have just found out that "Touch Me (All Night Long)" by Cathy Dennis from 1991 was a cover version.

 

I've recently watched "A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge" from 1985 and heard the above song performed by Fonda Rae. (#49 single in 1984)

 

 

Fonda Rae - Touch Me

Edited July 17, 201311 yr by MTV79

Holly Valance - Kiss Kiss

 

Here's the original -- Tarkan - Simarik

Much prefer Holly's version :D

Now this one really surprised me. I knew that "No Matter What" had not been written for Boyzone, as it was written by Jim Steinman and Andrew Lloyd Webber for the musical Whistle Down The Wind (I once performed another song from that musical, "When Children Rule The World", for a Youth Theatre Group when I was a child, but that's another (more boring) story). But what I didn't know is that their first artist to record the song was in fact Meat Loaf. Jim Steinman famously wrote and produced the bulk of Mr Aday's good material, so he produced a version for a Meat Loaf Greatest Hits album in 1997, before Boyzone's version became a massive hit. Although oddly enough, reissued versions of the same GH album omit the song.

 

 

Thanks to my dad for pointing this out to me.

It was first performed by the cast of Whistle Down The Wind in December 1996. According to Wikipedia Meatloaf recorded it but wasnt released until his Very Best Of in 1998 after boyzones version.

Oh dear, does this mean we can expect a Boyzone version of Bat Out Of Hell? :cry:

Swinging Blue Jeans - Hippy Hippy Shake (1963) -- original by Chan Romero (1959)

 

Young at Heart was the first track I bought! A trip down to Woolies after the VW advert 😉

 

Favourite cover? Elvis Presely - Blue Suede Shoes (Carl Perkins).

This is supposed to be songs you didn't know were covers until recently.

 

With regards to Elvis Presley, one I discovered recently is "Are You Lonesome Tonight" which dates back to about 1927, has verses and no silly talking bit about the world's a stage.

 

 

 

Original of Jamelia "Superstar", # 1 in Denmark for 7 weeks period.

 

Edited June 10, 201510 yr by Broken Heart

Relight My Fire by Take That & Lulu was a cover version

The original was by Dan Hartman in 1980

 

Smoke - Living Next Door To Alice

Original by New World in 1972

 

In 1995 a naughty version under the title Alice, Who The X Is Alice by Gompie was a massive hit in mainland Europe and made UK #18.

Edited June 18, 201510 yr by poppet15

Elvis Presley - Hound Dog (originally written for Big Mama Thornton)

Frank Sinatra - New York, New York (originally written for Liza Minnelli)

Blue Swede - Hooked on a Feeling (I'm pretty sure this is a cover of a cover of a cover of a cover or something, but it was originally by B. J. Thomas)

Baha Men - Who Let the Dogs Out? (originally "Doggie" by Anslem Douglas, which was actually about sex)

Metallica - Turn the Page (originally by Bob Seger)

 

Also, not sure if these count, but I was surprised to find that the lyrics to Carmina Burana and the final movement of Beethoven's Ninth were taken from poems.

Tina Charles I Love To Love (Sydney Thompson & Orchestra, 1966 and a more recent version recorded by its co-writer as Napoleon Jones in 1975)

 

 

 

Edited August 5, 20159 yr by fiesta

Siouxsie And The Banshees covered a Bob Dylan song called This Wheel's On Fire for their covers album Through The Looking Glass (1987)

Edited January 4, 20169 yr by lovejoy