What do you mean Westlife have done original songs? :blink:

 

Yes they have, although they didn't write them. There was a songwriting team in Sweden who wrote a lot of their songs especially for them.

 

Just to pick one: please research if you can find anyone who recorded "Flying Without Wings" before they did.

 

Edited June 26, 201312 yr by Earl Purple

"Artist not writing the song" is not the same as "cover version".

 

By the way, David Bowie's "China Girl" was not the first recording of the song although he did co-write it. Iggy Pop, with whom he co-wrote the song, recorded it before him. But it's difficult to classify a song as a cover if it's one of the writers performing it.

 

Meat Loaf's "Bat Out Of Hell II (Back Into Hell)" album contained only 4 original songs. "I'd Do Anything For Love" and "Objects In The Rear View Mirror" which were 2 of the 3 singles were both among the originals. Many of the others appeared on Jim Steinman's album "Bad For Good" which was originally intended as the follow-up to Bat Out Of Hell but Meat Loaf had vocal problems at the time and couldn't record the songs. Jim Steinman wrote a new set of songs instead which became "Dead Ringer" and gave the songs to session musicians to sing (Rock N Roll Dreams Come Through was a minor hit in 1981, credited to Jim Steinman, but he didn't sing on it, Rory Dodd did the vocals). A couple of the other songs were on the 1989 album "Original Sin", credited to Pandora's Box (but also a bunch of session musicians put together by Jim Steinman, including 4 different female singers, one of them being Ellen Foley who had recorded the female vocals on Paradise By The Dashboard Light). (Good Girls Go To Heaven and It Just Won't Quit were originally on that album, as well, of course, as It's All Coming Back To Me Now).

 

 

 

Always on my mind was actually originally by Brenda Lee, though Elvis was the first to have a hit with it.

I'm surprised no one's mentioned these two yet:

 

'Jump' and 'I'll Stand by You' for Girls Aloud (The Pointer Sisters/Pretenders respectively). I certainly hadn't heard of 'Jump' until they covered it and it was at the time their biggest single in terms of sales since 'Sound of the Underground'. And 'I'll Stand By You' kinda goes without saying - it was a number 1 and it was for Children in Need. I think 'Jump' is probably the best of the covers they released though.

I'm surprised no one's mentioned these two yet:

 

'Jump' and 'I'll Stand by You' for Girls Aloud (The Pointer Sisters/Pretenders respectively). I certainly hadn't heard of 'Jump' until they covered it and it was at the time their biggest single in terms of sales since 'Sound of the Underground'. And 'I'll Stand By You' kinda goes without saying - it was a number 1 and it was for Children in Need. I think 'Jump' is probably the best of the covers they released though.

I'd say the majority of people would at least know 'Jump' and 'I'll Stand By You' are covers, I personally hear The Pointer Sisters' version of the former more often than Girls Aloud's one.

 

'See The Day' is the track by Girls Aloud that i'd say is definitely least known as being a cover (particularly if they were born after the original was released - like myself), I've never heard Dee C. Lee's version and only know about it due to the Wikipedia article.

I'd say the majority of people would at least know 'Jump' and 'I'll Stand By You' are covers, I personally hear The Pointer Sisters' version of the former more often than Girls Aloud's one.

 

'See The Day' is the track by Girls Aloud that i'd say is definitely least known as being a cover (particularly if they were born after the original was released - like myself), I've never heard Dee C. Lee's version and only know about it due to the Wikipedia article.

 

suddenly I feel old....

 

Since they were hits I've never heard any of the Girls Aloud covers anywhere except on my Hits CD. Radio one doesnt play anything older than a year or two anymore, so yes much more likely to hear the originals I'd say, on adverts, films etc. I don't count commercial radio, maybe they play them but we dont have much of that round these 'ere parrrts.

www.whosampled.com is a very useful website, it also also some details about cover versions and remixes there too.

 

Yea this website is awesome, Ive looked so much stuff. Its just crazy how many new pop songs are pretty much remixes of old songs even though the artists claim theyre just "sampled". For example Beyonce - Crazy in love whosampled.com/sample/view/25/Beyonc%C3%A9%20feat.%20Jay-Z-Crazy%20in%20Love_Chi-Lites-Are%20You%20My%20Woman%3F%20(Tell%20Me%20So)/ :angry:

 

Nothing wrong with remixing old songs but it annoyes me no one knows that its not Beyonces song! Credit to the original artist!

Nothing wrong with remixing old songs but it annoyes me no one knows that its not Beyonces song! Credit to the original artist!

You say that as if you knew 'Crazy in Love' was a "cover" before you saw it on that website.

Just been on the TotP repeat (though I was going to mention it anyway) - 'Substitute' by Clout. Mind you, most people on Buzzjack probably don't even know that version of it. [/feeling old]

Both Aswad & Ace Of Base's versions of "Don't Turn Around" are better known than Tina Turner's original.

Good spot. OTOH, Tina Turner's version of 'The Best' is more famous that Bonnie Tyler's.

Yea this website is awesome, Ive looked so much stuff. Its just crazy how many new pop songs are pretty much remixes of old songs even though the artists claim theyre just "sampled". For example Beyonce - Crazy in love whosampled.com/sample/view/25/Beyonc%C3%A9%20feat.%20Jay-Z-Crazy%20in%20Love_Chi-Lites-Are%20You%20My%20Woman%3F%20(Tell%20Me%20So)/ :angry:

 

Nothing wrong with remixing old songs but it annoyes me no one knows that its not Beyonces song! Credit to the original artist!

 

It's pretty well-known that Crazy in Love uses a sample lol.

 

And if you have to credit every sample in every song, it would get a bit ridiculous with some songs.

UB40's "Red Red Wine" is a cover too.

Britney Spears - You Oughta Know

Yeah, no. Outside of the few rubbishgais who idolise Britney to the extent that they even know she recorded it, it's probably second only to Ironic as the most recognisable song from one of the biggest albums of the 1990s.

 

-x-

 

I'd imagine most people don't know Madonna - Ray of Light is a cover, albeit one that is totally unrecognisable from the original (Curtiss & Maldoon - Sepheryn).

I'd imagine most people don't know Madonna - Ray of Light is a cover, albeit one that is totally unrecognisable from the original (Curtiss & Maldoon - Sepheryn).

 

Same with "Don't Tell Me". It's a "cover" of Madonna's good friend and "DTM" cowriter Joe Henry's "Stop".

Status Quo - Rockin' All Over The World

 

Few know of the John Fogerty original

 

I bet even fewer know that Quo's Wild Side Of Life is actually a cover version. Hank Thompson had the original in the 50's which inspired answer song "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels," by Kitty Wells, based on the same melody.

Edited June 29, 201312 yr by Common Sense