"Blowin' in the Wind" by you know who
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q79aTYc7x7U
And by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDQz4FzFrS4
I have the Lester Stirling version on a compilation LP.
Video for lester sterling blowing in the wind▶ 3:15
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcPnu9WwCmo
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Horns cut to Max Romeo's Blowing In The Wind from the Bunny Lee/Calnek/ Carib-Dis-Co ...
this one contains a much larger amount of Amphetamine than the Shirelles original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wac5CM6WK9s&app=desktop
Speaking of the Shirelles, here's "Putty in Your Hands"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctArbat6QlI
The Yardbirds, making it sound like "Money"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-ceSpqXG1U
And The Detroit Cobras, mixing the two (and mixed really hot)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z01kgL8WBIk
Fitting for the day.
Sunday Morning - The Velvet Underground https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qK82JvRY5s
Sunday Morning - The Queers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehd740H3Pgc
Bring it on Home to Me - Sam Cooke - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZB4jcPmFGo
Bring it on Home to Me - Dave Mason - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koid4AEurKo
Bring it on Home to Me - The Animals - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piwWpCSo0-0
Bring it on Home to Me (Second Half) - The Zombies - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcqGIVl51v4
Man I love the Zombies.
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This Charming Man - The Smiths - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJRP3LRcUFg
This Charming Man - Death Cab for Cutie - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC5EaOcgx90
This Charming Man -The Stars - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9WEeKYID4I
Tidal Waves - Farmer John (1966) (high schoolers from Michigan)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWtvv6mQNLA
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band - Diddy Wah Diddy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4LnTqEsWa0
Apt to this thread,
Tomorrow (Friday 6th November) on BBC4 it's 'covers' night.
9pm .... sings Dylan - artists covering Bob,
10pm Better Than The Original, The Joy of the Cover Version
A 'serial offender' when it comes to cover versions Richie Havens...
Richie Havens - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3CRmPTpfOw
Richie Havens - Tupelo Honey and Just Like A Woman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTXK1kztE1E
Richie Havens - Here Comes The Sun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV_IRGzIBS0&list=PL0P-lEyq5nJhOhJKEpk-oF6ebMqlva6TP
Richie Havens - Fire And Rain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib2Ypk_uC-o&index=10&list=PL0P-lEyq5nJhOhJKEpk-oF6ebMqlva6TP
Robyn Hitchcock, who makes no secret of his affinity for the Beatles, the Byrds, and Syd Barrett, doing the latter's "Bike"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9Ot8k5Kejg
And the original Pink Floyd version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bCIGHat8Rc
^ ooh a bit o' Mr Hitchcock is always welcome.
He can occasionally be found enjoying a coffee along Chiswick High Road, with a thick maine of silver hair and usually sporting a fine line in chelsea boot variants
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Minnie the Moocher, by Cab Calloway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mq4UT4VnbE
And the same by "Jeeves and Wooster"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf0nW_vfk1Q
Grace Jones - Love Is The Drug
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdJiIP3KQfo
Roxy Music - Love Is The Drug ( mr Ferry rocking some great millitary khaki's)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n3OepDn5GU
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"Bad Boy," Larry Williams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQRbeunfbDE
And The Beatles' version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_LZqpTnoWk
You are Always on my Mind.
Elvis > Nelson > Pet Shop Boys.
Grateful Dead -Viola Lee Blues (1967) (edited version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTFxsdPFBM4
The famous Yale anthem, The Whiffenpoof Song, here misspelled and mistreated by The Godz.
Lester Bangs wrote about The Godz in a piece called "Do the Godz Speak Esperanto?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgBQi3qMCaM