Been a big fan of RED since their inception, been to a ton of their shows, buy all their albums as soon as they are available.

Their album Gone came out in 2017 and is a great album. While Unstoppable is not their best track I do like it.


I was at the range yesterday working on some skills and was between courses of fire loading mags and heard some lyrics I was familiar with but was a female singing and a very different style. Thought to myself wow pretty cool someone covered RED which kind of surprised me as they aren’t really mainstream you would say.
Well turns out RED is the one who covered the song by someone called Sia. Never heard of her and seems kind of strange from the video. Not sure I’ll ever quite hear the song the same again.

As a matter of fact, I learned yesterday that Don't You Evah by Spoon is a cover of Don't You Ever by The Natural History.

I've heard the cover a hundred times on the radio and had no idea.

Bible by Ghost.

Bang a Gong

I didn’t know Power Station’s version was a cover.

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Bang a Gong

I didn’t know Power Station’s version was a cover.

Yuh young whippersnapper!

Lanie Gardners rendition of Dreams by Fleetwood Mac and Stevie Nicks is a classic cover.

I forgot how to embed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...channel=LanieGardner

Jim

Almost every hit by Quiet Riot when they came out. Slade was the original band who sang/wrote the songs.

It's rare that I'll not know a song is a cover, but I'll admit, I only found out about 6 months ago that Natalie Imbruglia's "Torn" was a cover

Red Sun Rising - Uninvited




It's actually a cover from Alanis Morisette:

Early on I never knew several Led Zeppelin songs were old blues covers.

When Cheap Trick's song "California Man" started to get a lot of FM airplay in the 70s, everyone loved the record. It was a few years before I realized that it was a cover song.

I was surprised when I found out that Manfred Mann's Earth Band's versions of "Blinded by the Light" and "Spirit in the Night" were covers.

I didn’t know September Gurls by the Bangles was originally by Big Star.

This radio station I listen to plays this fun segment every morning called “First Song First” and they play the original and then the far more well known cover version that is famous and everyone assumes is an original.

I think the most surprising one to me was “Midnight Train To Georgia” by Gladys Knight and The Pips. Was originally sung by an artist named Jim Weatherly titled "Midnight Plane to Houston”.

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Early on I never knew several Led Zeppelin songs were old blues covers.

One of them from the 1920’s or 1930’s!

The bizzaro world in which Johnny Cash covered NIN.
It took me a while to put that one together.

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Almost every hit by Quiet Riot when they came out. Slade was the original band who sang/wrote the songs.

At which point Slade came out with another hit in “Run Runaway”. I surely didn’t know that Quiet Riot was doing covers in those pre-Internet days.

Tennessee Flat Top Box performed by Rosanne Cash.

Originally written and performed by her father, Johnny Cash.

According to Wikipedia: "When she recorded the song, she was unaware that her father wrote it, and assumed that it was in the public domain."

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Originally posted by 6guns:
Early on I never knew several Led Zeppelin songs were old blues covers.

One of them from the 1920’s or 1930’s!

Well Led Zeppelin wasn’t really known for giving credit to the original artists.

J.J Cale’s Cocaine by Eric Clapton and Peter Green/Fleetwood Mac Black Magic Woman by Santana come to mind.

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Green Manalishi by Judas Priest was a cover of a Fleetwood Mac song