Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site mhuxr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxr!mfs From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Covers Message-ID: <159@mhuxr.UUCP> Date: Tue, 11-Dec-84 10:25:02 EST Article-I.D.: mhuxr.159 Posted: Tue Dec 11 10:25:02 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 12-Dec-84 04:12:54 EST References: <4000052@uokvax.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 16 > > Question: When one artist writes a song, another artist records the song, > and then the writer records a version later, is the writers version > considered a cover? I believe this has happened with some Bruce > Springsteen and Bob Dylan material. > > > > ..!ctvax!uokvax!cdelliot A cover is a song recorded by someone other than the person who composed it, regardless of whether the composer has recorded and issued it already. Some covers are so great that they become associated with the person who covered, rather than the writer. The Byrds' "Mr Tambourine Man", Aretha Franklin's "Respect", Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" are three disparate examples that come to my mind.