WatchMojoUK yes PP Arnold did not write the first cut is the deepest. As Cat Stevens wrote it. She is covering a Cat Stevens song even though she released it first.
The fact that you forgot about It Must Be Love by Madness was the most shocking for me. Haha!!! No but seriously the most surprising for me were She's the One and Tainted Love.
I'm glad you listed the originals of Twist and Shout and I Fought The Law. Not many that knew they were covers know the true original artists. Also the original Rockin All Over The World remains out of print.
Status Quo also had a major hit with "In The Army Now" ... which is also a cover. The original was by Bolland & Bolland, a couple of South African brothers working in Holland. They also wrote & produced "Rock Me Amadeus" for Falco.
Full cred to Dylan for getting a million from Adele's cover, there's a man who knows how to protect the rights to his music - unlike the Beatles with Michael Jackson.
Plus I can't believe she'd suggest he buy her a watch as though she'd done him some sort of favour... she should be thanking him for writing a song she's made a motza from... and also The Cure for writing Lovesong
George mate I find Adele's music slow, uninteresting and generally mum-picking-the-kids-up music, but you can't be serious about her voice?! There's no autotune on her voice, it's fuckin powerful.
He may have had some public school education where they study Latin. Status Quo is a Latin phrase but it's pronounced differently in Latin to the way it's pronounced in English.
There are a lot of Latin derived terms that are pronounced in English differently from in Latin. You wouldn't learn about that term in Latin lessons at public school. And there are other bizarre mispronunciations in this video (John Lennon as "John Lenin" for example). I wonder if it's an American faking a British accent.
All of these mistakes like Stat-us Quo and Creedance AND Clearwater point to the fact that either you've hired an American faking a British accent, or just someone who knows nothing about music. Or both. There are plenty of people who'd love to do the job he is doing. Sort it out.
@@kevinbrown-ge6sz Reminds me of that line in "Blues Brothers when a barmaid is asked what kind of music they like, and she says "All kinds! Country AND Western!"
"Dancing in the moonlight" recorded by Toploader, cover of Boffolongo from 1970. The song was also covered by King Harvest in 1973. Toploader's version sounds identical to King Harvests' version. Or "Girls just wanna have fun" by Robert Hazard, covered by Cyndi Lauper.
I thought almost everybody at least knew about The Isley Brother's version of Twist and shout that came before The Beatles version, even if they didn't know Top Notes performed it first...
I think when the Top Notes did it, there were still separate R & B radio stations in the US, also it's the only one (probably) that was around the time the"Twist" was a thing.
I remember when the movie Hope Floats was released in 1998, the Garth Brook's version of To Make You Feel My Love was hugely popular from that soundtrack. It's interesting to learn the history behind it.
warmswarm are you seriously getting butthurt over the kind of casual, throwaway comment you hear all the time in everyday conversation? Ok I'll rephrase my comment. I thought it was COMMON KNOWLEDGE. Sorry for my casual, imprecise language. I thought I was commenting on a RUclips video, not writing a philosophy thesis.
Credence "and" Clearwater Revival?????? LMFAO CCR Are Legends Just like Jimmy and Hendricks The rolling and stones Bob and Dylan AC and DC Pearl and Jam Red Hot Chilli and Peppers Chas and Dave.
Not only did I know that all these are covers, but I also know that they're all better than the originals. And Twist and Shout is one of MANY covers The Beatles recorded for their early albums...
Your spiel about the Beatles wasn't really correct there were 14 tracks on the first album and they wrote 8 of them so you were a little generous with the truth.
Always Something There to Remind Me by Naked Eyes. Couple people recorded it first. Same with Some Guys Have All the Luck...Persuaders, then Robert Palmer and Rod Stewart both did covers in the 80s.
Credence "and" Clearwater Revival?????? LMFAO CCR Are Legends Just like Jimmy and Hendricks The rolling and stones Bob and Dylan AC and DC Pearl and Jam Red Hot Chilli and Peppers Chas and Dave.
You missed steps in the 'House of the Rising Sun' Dave van Rank performed the arrangement that Dylan then recorded (much to van Rank's annoyance) while The Animals first exposure to it was a version of the van Rank/Dylan arrangement sung by Tom Jones on his TV show although Burdon knew the song from an earlier skiffle version. Burdon's vocals are closer to Jones than Dylan. As for van Rank he found a nice sense of schadenfreude when Dylan bemoaned The Animals stealing the song from him.
In comments for a vid full of mispronounciations, I think it's quite cute. You are of course quite correct, except it's Dave Van Ronk, he's not k.d. lang!
Walter Harriman no worries. Just a fluke really. I saw RUclips on PP Arnold the other day and it told the story. She is about 70 and still singing that song!!
Babe I'm Gonna Leave You --- is a folk song written by Anne Bredon (then known as Anne Johannsen) in the late 1950s. It was recorded by Joan Baez (credited and became widely popular as "traditional") and released on her 1962 album Joan Baez .
The funny thing with The Animals' House of the rising son is, that you hear the voice and you think there's a 7 foot mountain of man, and then you see that guy, who looks like a 17 year old mommys boy.
10, didn't know. 9, knew it. 8, Knew it. 7, didn't know. 6, knew it (Garth Brooks also did a great cover of this, before Adele). 5, knew it (heard the Bob Dylan version). 4, knew it (my dad is a big fan of the crickets). 3, knew it. 2, didn't know. 1, knew it, (a guy in my local pub plays the original often).
Why didt u mention that sofe cell "tented love" version at d end of the song swing right into the supremes "where did our love go" which add a nice touch to it.
What I realize from the video and the comments is that if you know it is a cover you think everyone knows it is a cover. Particularly if you were around when the original was released.
What about “Wishin’ and Hopin’”? Dusty Springfield covered a Dionne Warwick B-side that became a major hit on both sides of the Atlantic! Dionne was grateful as she didn’t think it was going to be a hit for her anyway and Dusty had the good sense not to cover one of her hits, unlike Cilla Black who earned Dionne’s unending wrath for beating her to the UK charts with “Anyone who Had a Heart” and “Alfie”. Dusty also lucked out since it began a long association with Bacharach and David!
Credence "and" Clearwater Revival?????? LMFAO CCR Are Legends Just like Jimmy and Hendricks The rolling and stones Bob and Dylan AC and DC Pearl and Jam Red Hot Chilli and Peppers Chas and Dave.
Shocked not to see Knockin' on heavens door by Bob Dylan on here as it has been covered by a multitude of artists including Guns 'n Roses. I believe Beyonce's if I Were a boy was written by a lady by the name of BC Jean.
That is not the point is that he wrote the tune and the words, he also owned the copyright. His record label asked him to allow PP Arnold to release the song. He said that was fine because he would get royalties from the sales. As he owned and wrote the song all the other releases are a cover of his song as he would receive royalties from their sales.
+Walter Harriman that isn't how it works bud. if this was the case, every time someone covered a say frank sinatra or some song like that, or an elvis Presley song, they're not actually covering them, because they had most of their songs written for them.
Almond. He worked in the cloakroom at The Warehouse nightclub in Leeds. It was the only alternative club in the city. It's still more alternative. Punk was finished by then and Soft Cell were part of the synth pop scene which was New Romantic. Not sure if you are from the UK or how old you are, so you may or may not know this stuff.
Speaking of soft cell, they put Gloria’s version on gta but there’s a brilliant playlist on Spotify named “kult fm but with soft cell as it’s just better”
Firstly, the Bobby Fueller Four...???!?? I though it was the Bobby Fuller Four, and secondly, am i alone in thinking I Fought the Law was originally penned by Sonny Curtis and the Crickets?
Creedence Clearwater Revival NOT Creedence and Clearwater Revival...AND Rockin' All Over The World was released on John Fogerty's solo album: John Fogerty. It was never done by CCR.
Ozzy Nelson and his orchestra wrote and performed Dream a little dream in 1931...which was covered in the sixties by the Mamas and Papas....why hasn't that made the list ?
There has to be more traditional- and folksongs that became hits. I can't think of any right now though. I try to remember that just because I like a certain song, doesn't make it the original. Many good (and bad) covers have been done over the years. :D
Traditional / folk songs that became hits (not exclusively British musicians, though): Scarborough Fair - Simon & Garfunkel Whiskey In The Jar - Thin Lizzy Mary Had A Little Lamb - Wings English Civil War - The Clash (based on When Johnny Comes Marching Home) Brown Girl In The Ring - Boney M Jerusalem - Emerson, Lake & Palmer The Irish Rover - The Pogues & The Dubliners
Not a British cover, but Simon and Garfunkel's Scarborough Fair is an arrangement old English folk song. Bob Dylan modified it even more as Girl From the North Country.
How about 10 US hits that were covers of British songs - My top choice Simon & Garfunkel: Scarborough Fair. An old English folk song that Simon & Garfunkel learned from Martin Carthy and Bob Dylan borrowed the melody to create Girl From The North Country (great duet with Johnny Cash which demonstrates beautiful what a bad singing voice Dylan has)
Justin Stephenson - in 2nd position, Roberta Flack's cover of the Ewan McColl song "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face". Down at 10th position, Metallica's cover of the Anti-Nowhere League's"So What?" Just seven more to find ...
Any of these really shock you?
WatchMojoUK yes PP Arnold did not write the first cut is the deepest. As Cat Stevens wrote it. She is covering a Cat Stevens song even though she released it first.
What really shocks me is that you called the band Credence AND Clearwater Revival. I'll chalk it up to a bad day.
I honestly didn't know "she's the one" was a cover. I'm not the music geek I thought I was.
No, I am not fan of these songs!
The fact that you forgot about It Must Be Love by Madness was the most shocking for me. Haha!!!
No but seriously the most surprising for me were She's the One and Tainted Love.
I'm glad you listed the originals of Twist and Shout and I Fought The Law. Not many that knew they were covers know the true original artists. Also the original Rockin All Over The World remains out of print.
Everyone knows twist and shout is a cover
True and if you want a really great live version listen to The Who, it's the best
I didn't know about the Robbie Williams and Adele songs. I like them better than the originals.
That was the only one I didn't know.
I'm not even a massive music fan and I knew all these were covers
@@truediva18 i don't think I've heard a Bob Dylan cover which isn't better then his.
Status Quo also had a major hit with "In The Army Now" ... which is also a cover. The original was by Bolland & Bolland, a couple of South African brothers working in Holland. They also wrote & produced "Rock Me Amadeus" for Falco.
George Harrison's Got My Mind Set On You was a cover of an old James Ray tune.
Darren Kelly Although Harrison Changed The Lyrics A Bit, Replacing "I Know What I've Got To Do" With The Song's Title
Yes, thanks for showing those nitwits some British Culture
What?
Full cred to Dylan for getting a million from Adele's cover, there's a man who knows how to protect the rights to his music - unlike the Beatles with Michael Jackson.
Plus I can't believe she'd suggest he buy her a watch as though she'd done him some sort of favour... she should be thanking him for writing a song she's made a motza from... and also The Cure for writing Lovesong
That Adele can't sing anyway, I wouldn't let her touch my songs. Fucking autotune doesn't help a bad off key singer.
+George Lackey what?
George mate I find Adele's music slow, uninteresting and generally mum-picking-the-kids-up music, but you can't be serious about her voice?! There's no autotune on her voice, it's fuckin powerful.
think she was joking
STAT-us Quo? The Bobby FUELer Four? Creedence AND Clearwater Revival? Great bands......right up there with Red Zeppelin and The Reeling Stones.
Don't forget the Battles
LMAO
And no Brit doesn't know how to pronounce Status Quo properly. I wonder how they get the people to do the voice overs for these videos.
He may have had some public school education where they study Latin. Status Quo is a Latin phrase but it's pronounced differently in Latin to the way it's pronounced in English.
There are a lot of Latin derived terms that are pronounced in English differently from in Latin. You wouldn't learn about that term in Latin lessons at public school. And there are other bizarre mispronunciations in this video (John Lennon as "John Lenin" for example). I wonder if it's an American faking a British accent.
Seeing the old beatles recordings always make me smile
Regardless of previous performances, The Animals owned House of the Rising Sun... absolutely owned it.
All of these mistakes like Stat-us Quo and Creedance AND Clearwater point to the fact that either you've hired an American faking a British accent, or just someone who knows nothing about music. Or both. There are plenty of people who'd love to do the job he is doing. Sort it out.
I'd go with someone who knows nothing about music - CCR are American legends in the music world.
No American would mispronounce Creedence Clearwater Revival.
@@PopeyeBjj86 Do you want a hug, kiddo? you're awfully angry.
@@kevinbrown-ge6sz Reminds me of that line in "Blues Brothers when a barmaid is asked what kind of music they like, and she says "All kinds! Country AND Western!"
"Dancing in the moonlight" recorded by Toploader, cover of Boffolongo from 1970. The song was also covered by King Harvest in 1973. Toploader's version sounds identical to King Harvests' version.
Or "Girls just wanna have fun" by Robert Hazard, covered by Cyndi Lauper.
I thought Bobby Fuller and Isley Brothers did the original versions, you learn something new everyday.
As most of these are well-known covers, I'd like to chuck Hendrix' version of All Along the Watchtower in as one of the finest covers ever.
Thank you another great picks! Love them!
Always enjoy the music videos, please keep them coming. Since its Friday I might let some red red wine go to my head soon.
Yes :) love it!
I thought you might have mentioned Rod Stewart single Sailing which is also a cover - originally by The Sutherland Brothers.
I thought almost everybody at least knew about The Isley Brother's version of Twist and shout that came before The Beatles version, even if they didn't know Top Notes performed it first...
Not to mention that I am sure everyone knows that Make you feel my love was around before Adele became famous...
I think when the Top Notes did it, there were still separate R & B radio stations in the US, also it's the only one (probably) that was around the time the"Twist" was a thing.
I always think of the Isley Brothers version - not the Beatles with that song.
@@cherylannabananna yep. Isley Brothers version is the best in my opinion, it's just got that classic soul in it 💯
I remember when the movie Hope Floats was released in 1998, the Garth Brook's version of To Make You Feel My Love was hugely popular from that soundtrack. It's interesting to learn the history behind it.
I thought everyone knew twist and shout was a cover
Was it not one of a number of rock n roll standards that many bands played at the time?
FaerieKim - What, so you know everyone in the world?
warmswarm are you seriously getting butthurt over the kind of casual, throwaway comment you hear all the time in everyday conversation? Ok I'll rephrase my comment. I thought it was COMMON KNOWLEDGE. Sorry for my casual, imprecise language. I thought I was commenting on a RUclips video, not writing a philosophy thesis.
FaerieKim - Ha, look who's getting butthurt now.
warmswarm not really
I thought "It must be love" by Madness (originally by Labi Siffre) would have been on this list.
I'm Belgian, and I love this British channel
It's not Credence AND Clearwater Revival, it's Credence Clearwater Revival.
The house of the rising sun made more sense as a woman`s song,
dylan sang it that way, but with that arrangement, but Eric made it his own.
It's not Credence "and" Clearwater Revival----there's no "and" in the band's name, hence CCR.
Credence "and" Clearwater Revival??????
LMFAO
CCR Are Legends
Just like
Jimmy and Hendricks
The rolling and stones
Bob and Dylan
AC and DC
Pearl and Jam
Red Hot Chilli and Peppers
Chas and Dave.
Boneo_The_ Muso ***Jimi Hendrix*** he’s a legend, you should know how to spell it
He cannot even pronounce Status Quo properly, so what can you expect.
@Lucas David
Sense of humour bypass? Deliberate misspelling, methinks.
C&CR 😂😂😂
Not only did I know that all these are covers, but I also know that they're all better than the originals.
And Twist and Shout is one of MANY covers The Beatles recorded for their early albums...
Everybody leaves out Always On My Mind.
Your spiel about the Beatles wasn't really correct there were 14 tracks on the first album and they wrote 8 of them so you were a little generous with the truth.
Yes, they were big fans of Holland Dozier Holland aswell. Well it shows.
Always Something There to Remind Me by Naked Eyes. Couple people recorded it first. Same with Some Guys Have All the Luck...Persuaders, then Robert Palmer and Rod Stewart both did covers in the 80s.
EXCUSE ME but there is no *and* in *Creedence Clearwater Revival* .
Shame on you!
Credence "and" Clearwater Revival??????
LMFAO
CCR Are Legends
Just like
Jimmy and Hendricks
The rolling and stones
Bob and Dylan
AC and DC
Pearl and Jam
Red Hot Chilli and Peppers
Chas and Dave.
Boneo_The_ Muso ***Jimi Hendrix*** he’s a legend, you should know how to spell it
IT
Jimi, wow my bad, wind ya neck in
The Animals' Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood was originally by Nina Simone
Although I like Santa Esmeralda's cover better than The Animals.
Good until #1. EVERYONE knows that wasn't originally by Soft Cell
Disliked for how you pronounced “Status” Quo. :-/
I'm more bothered by how he pronounced Fogerty.
:)
He's known to be an utter moron at pronunciation, I believe the channel has dropped subscribers because of it. He IS a tit, it must be said.
The way he’s pronouncing it is the Americanism 🙈 I can see why your annoyed
A British guy describing a British band like a clueless dipshit.Yeah, Lauren, annoyed is one word for it.
Andy don’t take this the wrong way, but aren’t you getting a little too angry at a guy on the internet?
You missed steps in the 'House of the Rising Sun' Dave van Rank performed the arrangement that Dylan then recorded (much to van Rank's annoyance) while The Animals first exposure to it was a version of the van Rank/Dylan arrangement sung by Tom Jones on his TV show although Burdon knew the song from an earlier skiffle version. Burdon's vocals are closer to Jones than Dylan.
As for van Rank he found a nice sense of schadenfreude when Dylan bemoaned The Animals stealing the song from him.
van ronk. not rank. just sayin
In comments for a vid full of mispronounciations, I think it's quite cute. You are of course quite correct, except it's Dave Van Ronk, he's not k.d. lang!
It's the autocorrect.
The pronunciation errors kill me. Bobby Fueler? John FOG-erty? Creedence AND Clearwater Revival?
Vicki Cole Don't forget the murdering of Status Quo either.
When Cat Stevens released the first cut is the deepest, was he covering himself?
Walter Harriman 🤔lol
Sort of. He sold the song to PP Arnold for about 30 quid and she recorded it about six months before he did.
I didn't know he sold the song. Thank you for letting me know.
Walter Harriman no worries. Just a fluke really. I saw RUclips on PP Arnold the other day and it told the story. She is about 70 and still singing that song!!
Cat Stevens is no kid anymore either. (I'm allowed to say that, because I'm not either.).....and Cat Stevens isn't Cat Stevens anymore.........
Bryan Ferry's album of Dylan covers ("Dylanesque") is sublime and has a gorgeous version of Feel my love. RECOMMEND HIGHLY
Babe I'm Gonna Leave You --- is a folk song written by Anne Bredon (then known as Anne Johannsen) in the late 1950s. It was recorded by Joan Baez (credited and became widely popular as "traditional") and released on her 1962 album Joan Baez .
The funny thing with The Animals' House of the rising son is, that you hear the voice and you think there's a 7 foot mountain of man, and then you see that guy, who looks like a 17 year old mommys boy.
It's probably better to go with 'you may not know' instead of 'you didn't know' as most people would have known at least some of these
How annoying is it when you work hard on something and somebody else gets the credit/ more attention for it 🙃
I knew that most of these were covers but not all. So I've learnt something new
As a Brit The fact you say STA-TUS QUO And Creedence AND Clearwater revival is embarassing
10, didn't know. 9, knew it. 8, Knew it. 7, didn't know. 6, knew it (Garth Brooks also did a great cover of this, before Adele). 5, knew it (heard the Bob Dylan version). 4, knew it (my dad is a big fan of the crickets). 3, knew it. 2, didn't know. 1, knew it, (a guy in my local pub plays the original often).
Dazed And Confused by Led Zeppelin (originally by Jake Holmes)
Well Led Zeppelin stole most of their songs. They were practically a covers band. 😂
@@eLJaybud you took the exact words from my mouth. Thank you!
Wild Thing - the Troggs
Morning Has Broken - Cat Stevens
Nellie The Elephant - Toy Dolls
... okay, maybe not that last one
STAYYYtus Quo not Stattuss Quo
I knew most of these. Anyone who listens to more than a couple of genres of music should know also
The Beatles may well have recorded Twist and Shout for an album but it was the Tremeloes who had the chart success with it being released as a single.
nice job on the wallinger archive- what was that, VHS? BBC not playing nice?
Stattus Quo! And I didn't know John Fogharty was in both Creedence AND Clearwater Revival.
Why didt u mention that sofe cell "tented love" version at d end of the song swing right into the supremes "where did our love go" which add a nice touch to it.
What I realize from the video and the comments is that if you know it is a cover you think everyone knows it is a cover. Particularly if you were around when the original was released.
What about “Wishin’ and Hopin’”? Dusty Springfield covered a Dionne Warwick B-side that became a major hit on both sides of the Atlantic! Dionne was grateful as she didn’t think it was going to be a hit for her anyway and Dusty had the good sense not to cover one of her hits, unlike Cilla Black who earned Dionne’s unending wrath for beating her to the UK charts with “Anyone who Had a Heart” and “Alfie”. Dusty also lucked out since it began a long association with Bacharach and David!
Only very young people would have not known that Twist and Shout was a cover, same for Adele make me feel your love
It is CCR not C & C R.
exactly man!
Credence "and" Clearwater Revival??????
LMFAO
CCR Are Legends
Just like
Jimmy and Hendricks
The rolling and stones
Bob and Dylan
AC and DC
Pearl and Jam
Red Hot Chilli and Peppers
Chas and Dave.
Boneo_The_ Muso ***Jimi Hendrix*** he’s a legend, you should know how to spell it
Jokes dude, lighten up
Fuck me< gramma police
Boneo_The_Muso So it's OK to say Rod Stuard?
Also The power of love by Gabrielle Alpine was originally performed by Frankie goes to Hollywood in December 1984.
I still prefer Robbie Williams version of 'She's The One' to the original.
manchester Lees the writer may not have liked his version, I bet he made a lot of money from it!
Shocked not to see Knockin' on heavens door by Bob Dylan on here as it has been covered by a multitude of artists including Guns 'n Roses. I believe Beyonce's if I Were a boy was written by a lady by the name of BC Jean.
This is a list of British artists who did covers so GnR don't count
Dave F Eric Clapton Covered Knockin On Heavens Door
For that matter Cocaine (also by Clapton) is another cover, originally by J.J. Cale.
@ Cale released it as a single in 1976 and it even charted in the U.S. top 100. It was on his album Troubadour. That was no demo.
@ Since Clapton's version did not get higher than no. 38 in the charts, it hardly qualifies as a "popular" cover.
that happy mondays cover ... twisted my melon man
Cat Stevens is the writer of the first cut is the deepest so Rod Stewart is covering a Cat Stevens song not a PP Arnold song.
he didn't perform it first though did he?
That is not the point is that he wrote the tune and the words, he also owned the copyright. His record label asked him to allow PP Arnold to release the song. He said that was fine because he would get royalties from the sales. As he owned and wrote the song all the other releases are a cover of his song as he would receive royalties from their sales.
+Walter Harriman that isn't how it works bud. if this was the case, every time someone covered a say frank sinatra or some song like that, or an elvis Presley song, they're not actually covering them, because they had most of their songs written for them.
A good point but wouldn't either the song be sold to the artist or royalties would be paid so they would be covering.
+Walter Harriman no, because in a list like this they count the artist who PERFORMED it first, not wrote it.
The guy from Soft Cell worked in the cloakroom at my local nightclub and was still working there the week before his song went to No 1.
Marc Almond? Or the other one?
Almond. He worked in the cloakroom at The Warehouse nightclub in Leeds. It was the only alternative club in the city. It's still more alternative. Punk was finished by then and Soft Cell were part of the synth pop scene which was New Romantic. Not sure if you are from the UK or how old you are, so you may or may not know this stuff.
Speaking of soft cell, they put Gloria’s version on gta but there’s a brilliant playlist on Spotify named “kult fm but with soft cell as it’s just better”
I only knew #5 and #1 - thanks for the lesson :)
I thought everyone knew the first cut is the deepest was a cover
I didn't know Twist n Shout was a cover! !!
John’s voice didn’t just go because he had a cold it was also because he had been singing for hours by that point
this guy is just reading a scrip. jhas no f-in idea what heas talking about ..
Mighty stuff!
Out of all covers . The Beatles twist and Shout is the best
Madness - Must Be Love? That was an awesome cover.
It Must Be Love- Madness is a cover song and I’m surprised is isn’t on the list tbh
Crazy Little Thing Called Love is originally by Elvis, not Queen. You could've mentioned that too
I did know they were covers (except the ones I'd never heard of).
Everybody knew that "Twist and Shout" was a cover.
Yeay I'm the first to view & like
BTW, Alanis morrisette did a cover of the first cut and it was a hit for her.
I didn't know either version of "first cut" (ironic title for this topic)... I first heard the song in the mid 90's from Sheryl Crow! 😂😂😂
What about Laura Brannigan "Self Control". This video could so easily have honorable mentions.
but everyone knows about twist and shout
I knew all but two of them were covers. A sign of age, I guess.
Tainted Love! Everyone knows that was a cover! Both versions very different though.
Rick Astley covered O'Chi Brown's "Whenever You Need Somebody" for his first album....
Why can’t he say status ? Stat-tus ... wtf state-tus...
No - it's how Americans speak
Thank you. That is right. It's the American pronounciation.
i usually say state-us
I guess that's the difference between American and British English.
Rachie doodle also can't say Creedence Clearwater Revival.. Unless there is a Creedence AND Clearwater Revival.😊
Firstly, the Bobby Fueller Four...???!??
I though it was the Bobby Fuller Four, and secondly, am i alone in thinking I Fought the Law was originally penned by Sonny Curtis and the Crickets?
Nope, I listen to the original alot.
Ok, but I knew every one on that list was a cover as do most people who love music 🤐🤐
Those were the days by Mary Hopkin is an English version of an old Russian folk song
Garth Brooks did a pretty good version of make you feel my love
Garth Brooks is an American, so he doesn't count for this list.
Make you feel my love was first covered by Garth Brooks for the movie Hope Floats.
I'd have put The Byrds' Mr Tambourine Man as oppose to Adele's make you feel my love
but weren't The Byrds American? I thought it was only hit covers by British artists on this list.
OH. Wrong again
Creedence Clearwater Revival NOT Creedence and Clearwater Revival...AND Rockin' All Over The World was released on John Fogerty's solo album: John Fogerty. It was never done by CCR.
Fogerty doesn’t mind people using his music...as long as they are not blood relatives. There’s a band that won’t reunite, lol.
How about The Damned's cover of "Alone Again Or"?
DO NOT MISPRONOUNCE THE MIGHTY QUO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ozzy Nelson and his orchestra wrote and performed Dream a little dream in 1931...which was covered in the sixties by the Mamas and Papas....why hasn't that made the list ?
There has to be more traditional- and folksongs that became hits. I can't think of any right now though. I try to remember that just because I like a certain song, doesn't make it the original. Many good (and bad) covers have been done over the years. :D
Traditional / folk songs that became hits (not exclusively British musicians, though):
Scarborough Fair - Simon & Garfunkel
Whiskey In The Jar - Thin Lizzy
Mary Had A Little Lamb - Wings
English Civil War - The Clash (based on When Johnny Comes Marching Home)
Brown Girl In The Ring - Boney M
Jerusalem - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
The Irish Rover - The Pogues & The Dubliners
Not a British cover, but Simon and Garfunkel's Scarborough Fair is an arrangement old English folk song. Bob Dylan modified it even more as Girl From the North Country.
Okay but the guy from the Tainted love music video is a whole snack
Why there are so many mispronounced band names?
FFS - 'samples' (agreed by original artiste) as opposed to 'covers' - get it right. If there's no lawsuit, there's no problem!
So Green Day covered a cover of a cover?? (I faught the law)
that song was covered by different bands pretty much every decade since it's release, so no. they covered the original just like the rest.
@@piciak yeah i know that was supposed to be a joke 👍👍
In the status quo video @10:09 the bass player in the background is a mechanized dummy as the guy was not available for the video shoot.
Thank goodness you posted - I thought I was delusional!
How about 10 US hits that were covers of British songs - My top choice Simon & Garfunkel: Scarborough Fair.
An old English folk song that Simon & Garfunkel learned from Martin Carthy and Bob Dylan borrowed the melody to create Girl From The North Country (great duet with Johnny Cash which demonstrates beautiful what a bad singing voice Dylan has)
Justin Stephenson
- in 2nd position, Roberta Flack's cover of the Ewan McColl song "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face". Down at 10th position, Metallica's cover of the Anti-Nowhere League's"So What?" Just seven more to find ...