Songs you were SURPRISED to discover were actual COVERS

[ButterTart]

 

[ButterTart]

 

[funky]

I know most people won't care about a Simply Red song but "Money's Too Tight To Mention" was their first ever / breakthrough single, and this had come out just a year earlier, I only discovered last year or so. It's a CRACKING 80s funk tune. Vocally, Hucknall didn't change much.

 

[funky]

Are you taking the piss now?

 

[funky]

I think most Madonna fans know about this now but I'll admit I only caught on many years later. Found out on moopy if I recall.

 

[ButterTart]

I think most Madonna fans know about this now but I'll admit I only caught on many years later. Found out on moopy if I recall.

I posted this because I've literally only just discovered this now and I'm stunned.

 

[Alla]

 

[funky]

I'm actually AGOG at the Beyonce one.

 

[AGinAg (37)]

I've said before an ex of a friend wrote that.

 

[ManicKangaroo]

 

[AGinAg (37)]

I've known this for a while, but Kylie wholly upgraded this

 

[funky]

noooooooooooooo

 

[Alla]

Bette Davis Eyes and Mickey are also big hits that were (surprisingly for me) covers but well known by most people now. But I didn't know for a while that this one wasn't by Robbie Williams

 

[AGinAg (37)]

Another I've known for a while, but didn't for a long time

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[Alla]

 

[funky]

Bette Davis Eyes and Mickey are also big hits that were (surprisingly for me) covers but well known by most people now.

I do not EVER want to hear anyone else doing Bette Davis Eyes.

 

[RJN]

HOLY SHIT

Weird that it was a country hit and then was covered by an r&b group 2 years later who also had a hit with it.

 

[Alla]

Funny that All-4-one next hit one year later, I can love you like that, was ALSO an original song by John Michael Montogomery.

 

[Marilyn]

It took me a while to find out that Thank You For Being A Friend was a hit single in its own right before being adopted as the Golden Girls theme:

 

[ButterTart]

It took me a while to find out that Thank You For Being A Friend was a hit single in its own right before being adopted as the Golden Girls theme:

The Yorkshire Ripper hoaxer used this song in the tapes he sent to the police, so to go from that to Estelle Getty was quite the journey.

 

[Ellie]

No WAY

 

[Sheena]

I don't think there is a single one yet I didn't already know about

 

[Sheena]

Oh hold on, I forgot it was two pages and yes, I had no idea "If I Were A Boy" was a cover

 

[Sheena]

This always makes me laugh that old "CHANGE A WORD, TAKE A THIRD" Marge got a writing credit for "Nothing Fails" when this was the EXACTLY THE SAME demo

 

[Cerro de Casa]

Speaking of....

 

[Sheena]

I didn't actually know (or had forgotten) about Girl Gone Wild.

Sounds much better with someone who can actually sing

 

[BoysForSeles]

These Madonna revelations are disappointing me. I think I don’t want to know.

 

[Cerro de Casa]

Sorry to hijack the topic but here's another one featuring SCHERZY SCHERZ

 

[Cerro de Casa]

These Madonna revelations are disappointing me. I think I don’t want to know.

It's ok hun, she has plenty of SOLE compositions like 'The Funny Song' and ''Hey You'

 

[Sheena]

Heartbeat I knew about and at least is a BIT different...

 

[BoysForSeles]

This wasn’t covered, it was completely plagiarised, you’ll know it once the verse starts.

 

[Sheena]

There is a big difference between DEMO being changed and a COVER/CARBON COPY

 

[Cerro de Casa]

 

[BoysForSeles]

 

[funky]

I’m sure I must have known this but OMG

 

[HerSereneHighnessAnniFrid]

Strictly lamb-interest only but this was a bit of a shock for me. I obviously know it was sampling/interpolating something but not to this extent (Mariah's Thank God I Found You remix btw)

This sample made one of my personal WORST MC songs into one of the BEST. TGIFY remix a billion times better than the original.

 

[.org]

Crikey. Is there any popular song that is actually the original?

Next I'll be hearing that Smack my bitch up was originally done by Enya!

 

[BoysForSeles]

Alcazar must’ve had a good listen to this.

 

[Pipo]

I discovered this about 10 years ago. Say You'll Be There (at least the instrumental, at the 12-second mark and the 1.27 mark). They even earned a credit on the actual song.

 

[Loufoque]

I discovered this about 10 years ago. Say You'll Be There (at least the instrumental, at the 12-second mark and the 1.27 mark). They even earned a credit on the actual song.

I mean, it's at the most an interpolation. The SG were not like Marge, just ripping songs off willy-nilly.