The Beatles Bible - Topic: covers that you thought were originals

Linde on covers that you thought were originals

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 10:05:04 +0000

Torn by Nathalie Imbruglia. Yesterday I learned it was originally by some band I've already forgotten the name of.

Into the Sky with Diamonds on covers that you thought were originals

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 03:38:44 +0000

Searchers' "Love Potion #9" "Putting on the Ritz" from the 80s (the Gary Cooper reference should have been a tip off)

Jimi Hendrix's "Star Spangled Banner"

Gerell on covers that you thought were originals

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 03:14:03 +0000

(BUMP?)

Twist and Shout was the first thing that came into my mind, the Beatles made the song like their own. Most people I come across with, think that Till There Was You was a Beatle song as well.

Camarasaur8 on covers that you thought were originals

Sat, 17 Nov 2012 23:24:21 +0000

Jimi Hendrix's "All Along the Watchtower" and "Wild Thing".

Von Bontee on covers that you thought were originals

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:01:35 +0000

I'll never forget listening to the radio one night in 1980 and hearing an unfamiliar, more primitive-sounding version of Aerosmith's "Come Together", which I knew from it's hit version of two years earlier. I called the radio station to find out who it was and was truly shocked to learn it was the Beatles, and the song was an original of theirs from years earlier. At the time I associated the Beatles with jangly guitars and harmonies and melodies.

billyshears on covers that you thought were originals

Sat, 10 Nov 2012 04:56:16 +0000

There are two songs that come to mind. The first version of Lucy in the Sky I ever heard was by Elton John and was surprised to find out it was by the Beatles. The other was a country song called Everytime You Walk in the Room and found it had been done in the sixties by the Searchers.