I thought the Elvis Presley version of this song was the original version but I looked it up and found out the original version is by someone named Mark James. It's from 1968. This was the case for "Born to Lose" too. I thought the original version was by Ray Charles but found out it was by someone else yesterday when I looked it up. So I'm already learning some new things because of this thread.
It's cool to hear this because I always kind of knew it existed but I've never heard it before. Or the other version you have up there. Really cool.
Thanks. I'm glad you liked it. I personally don't care for this original version. I think the Elvis version is much, much better and so is Bettye's version IMO.
Sorry, haven't got time to add YouTube videos, but I think the classic one for me is Jeff Buckley's cover of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah.
Or The Beatles doing Twist And Shout or Money.
A fun one, from the UK, is Dr & The Medics, with Spirit In The Sky.
And one that is good, is Smashing Pumpkins cover of The Cure's A Night Like This.
With James Iha on vocals. I really dig that one.
I read somewhere that Leonard cohen said that Jeff buckley’s version was the best that he ever heard including his own rendition. One of the great covers of all time
[quote="Fischman"]Here's four that jump out at me this morning, only the first of which is widely known:
I catch some heat for this, but continue to stand by it: I think Disturbed brought necessary tension-driven energy into The Sound of Silence and a song that never reached me in the past, suddenly did in a very big way.
Of course, the most famous version is by The Righteous Brothers. But the original hit version is by Les Baxter, His Chorus and Orchestra from February, 1955.
There was also a theatrical version before the hit version. It's by Todd Duncan and it's from January, 1955. I'll just post a link to it since the site is only allowing me to post one video per post.
This is another great cover by Bettye Swann. I absolutely love this one! It's a cover of The Isley Brothers hit "This Old Heart of Mine". I love how Bettye slows it down and turns it into a beautiful, soulful ballad. This is my favorite version of the song. It was recorded in 1975 but wasn't released until 2014 on a compilation of Bettye's Atlantic recordings. I don't know what Atlantic was thinking waiting so many years to release this great recording as well as Bettye's great cover of "Suspicious Minds".
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