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? asked in Entertainment & MusicMusicRock and Pop · 1 decade ago

Which famous Rock & Roller inexplicably recorded the following cover songs?

Song titles followed by artist that made the song famous:

"Let It Be Me" - Everly Brothers

"I Can't Help Falling In Love With You" - Elvis Presley

"Early Morning Rain" - Gordon Lightfoot

"Blue Moon" - The Marcels

"House of the Rising Sun" - The Animals

"The Boxer" - Simon & Garfunkel

"Gotta Travel On" - Bill Monroe

Bonus: Please name some other artists/bands and cover songs they recorded that they probably shouldn't have or, at least, you wouldn't have expected them to.

Update:

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Update 2:

@}-,-'-,- : I agree, (surprisingly) about Bon Jovi's covers mentioned. . .and especially like their cover of "With a Little Help From My Friends".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLwDHaRZYII

Update 3:

SRW: I saw/heard a couple of pretty bad versions (Rock and Roll) but this one I kind of liked. . .and it's nice seeing Stevie enjoying music again. I had'nt seen her since the endings of F.M. - sad! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQoHVx70vZc&feature...

Update 4:

k.w.: Laibach very interesting weirdness.

Cat Power - "Satisfaction" - WTH?

heroinmule: B.B. shouldn't'a done it!

A.S.: Elvis - doing "The Boxer" - lol!

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Bob Dylan.

    "House of the Rising Sun"-Frijid Pink..heavy guitar instead of organ;

    (Interesting aside.."House of...." as taught to Dylan by Dave Van Ronk...an old,old blues song, was originally about a Women's Prison,not a brothel.

    "Halleluah" (Cohen) ,a heavy rock version live by Dylan..good loud stuff.

    Any Beatles' songs by Laibach..deconstruction?..get your hand off it.

    "She Loves You"-- 'sung' in a German accent by Peter Sellers, with Lennon in the background yelling "YAH!"

    "Satisfaction" by Cat Power..so slow,it's..catatonic.

    "Mrs.Robinson" by The Lemonheads.

    *LW:have a listen to "The Covers Album"..she's given up the drink,and her voice is all the better for it.*

  • 1 decade ago

    LW! It's been so long! {{{HUG}}}

    I can honestly say that I have no idea, but if it is Bob Dylan then it seems fitting, since so many people have covered his songs!

    Wouldn't have expected :~

    'Can't Help Falling In Love' [Elvis] ~ Blackmore's Night

    A lot of people, including some of the band's fans, don't like it and think it doesn't fit with their style, but I love what they did with it :)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX18le4zI7U&fmt=18

    Shouldn't have done :~

    'Rock and Roll' [Led Zeppelin] ~ Stevie Nicks {live}

    If she had done it back in the early 1980s, it would have been amazing, but she only started putting it in her sets a couple of years ago, and her voice is no longer right for it :(

  • Jenny
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    OOO OOOO I know this!

    Bob Dylan!

    Bonus: Bon Jovi covered Mrs. Robinson, and Here Come the Sun and did a most excellent job!

    Edit: A shouldn't have: Aerosmith (and I love them) should never have covered The Doors' Love Me Two Times. That was horrid! And, Atreyu should have never covered You Give Love a Bad Name.

    A convert! yeahhh

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    THANK-YOU FOR ASKING this question! Mad international isn't written via Gary Jules. It grow to be written via Roland Orzabal of Tears for Fears and that they made it effective long until now the different dude. no longer in elementary terms that, yet Adam Lambert's cover is 10X extra helpful than Mr. Jules' cover. candy desires is likewise a Marilyn Manson cover of a Eurythmics music from the Eighteen Eighties. Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart wrote the music. you're So ineffective is likewise a Manson cover of a Carly Simon music that grow to be written via her and o.k. widespread, somewhat on account that Mick Jagger did back-united stateson it. i'm exterior of the States and that i be responsive to who Bob Dylan is and that i be responsive to he wrote Knockin' On Heaven's door. It grow to prevail whilst it got here out by using fact back then people weren't so elitist approximately what form of music they listened to and did no longer get shot down for liking diverse genres. GNR GET NO credit. authentic colours is a music written via songwriters Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly for Cyndi Lauper. Phil Collins coated it, yet did no longer write it.

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  • 1 decade ago

    listen to the Blood Brothers cover of Under Pressure

  • 1 decade ago

    I thought that was Elvis....

    But what do I know? lol I only saw he was in there already, after wards!

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