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From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Covers
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Date: Tue, 11-Dec-84 10:25:02 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 11 10:25:02 1984
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> 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.
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> 				..!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.