Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site ctvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!ctvax!rob From: rob@ctvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Re: Covers Message-ID: <39000044@ctvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 17-Dec-84 00:24:00 EST Article-I.D.: ctvax.39000044 Posted: Mon Dec 17 00:24:00 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 11-Dec-84 07:34:16 EST References: <4000052@uokvax.UUCP> Lines: 33 Nf-ID: #R:uokvax:4000052:ctvax:39000044:000:1221 Nf-From: ctvax!rob Dec 9 23:24:00 1984 Re: Joan Jett's cover of Crimson and Clover: But did you know that her manager (and keyboards player on a recent tour when her guitarist got sick) was one of the Shondells!? ------------------- >... In fact, I can't think of >any remake of a classic song which I like better than the original. Oh boy! What a can of worms you've opened! For starters (from senile memory): Coverer Title Original Artist ------------------ ---------------------- ----------------- Jimi Hendrix "Johnny B. Goode" Chuck Berry " "The Killing Floor" The Electric Flag " "Wild Thing" The Troggs " "God Save the Queen" ? " "The Stars and Stripes" ? The Rolling Stones "Walking the Dog" Rufus Thomas Cream "Crossroads" Robert Johnson The Beatles "Money" ? Zoot Money and his Big Roll Band "Barefootin'" Robert Parker There must be hundreds of others, especially from the late sixties when the British bands were covering all the R&B classics. "Tire tracks across your back tell me you've had your fun!" Rob Spray ...convex!ctvax!rob