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Favourite cover versions of songs...

I’ve Got You Under My Skin by Gloria Gaynor


I just came up with a brilliant idea for a drag performance of this song where I’m wearing an outfit that looks like a huge pile of flabby skin and I keep pulling out random items from within the skin folds like a toy dog and cat to a baby and a cell phone.
 
Jumpinbare said:
Covers are pure evil. The song has been done. It's just not right with different voices, rythms, instruments, or what have you. Good impersonators, OK. Hard to get dead artists to perform, so if you want an experience beyond listening to the correct performance of a song on a recording, then good impersonators fill a valuable role.
But that's just my opinion. Everyone else is welcome to be wrong if they want. ;)
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Not true at all. Sometimes a cover ends up being much better than the original that even the original artist acknowledges that the cover is brilliant. Take Johnny Cash’s cover of Hurt for example. Trent Reznor heard Johnny’s version and was completely blown away with it and said that it wasn’t even his song anymore. Trent said that Johnny took his song in a completely different direction than what he had in mind and that it was even better than what he could do with it. And Nothing Compares 2 U easily belongs to Sinéad O’Conner even though Prince had recorded it first. Same with Prince and I Feel For You before Chaka Khan recorded her version of the song.
 
More cover songs that were massive hits: Celine Dion’s The Power of Love, Dionne Warwick and Friends’ That’s What Friends Are For, Elton John’s Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds, Righteous Brothers’ Unchained Melody (twice!), Eruption’s I Can’t Stand the Rain, George Harrison’s Got My Mind Set on You.
 
Didn’t know how much to keep the ball rolling in the current profile post string but looks like I’ll drop my second video here:

 
This guy made a version of "Don't Stand So Close to Me" by The Police, as if The Beach Boys did it. It's really hilarious:

 
Juliane Werding, Sonne auf der Haut (German version of Wouldn't It Be Good)

Alternatively, here's a more conventional version by Danny Hutton Hitters:

And one by Barbara Dickson:
 
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The singing is kind of jokey, but I still like this one:


Rahsaan Roland Kirk - "Ma Cherie Amour" (Original by Stevie Wonder)
 
The 80's duo Naked Eyes covered a Sandie Shaw song, and made it into a catchy synthpop hit in the US, although it stalled in the UK.

 
Love "99 Luftballoons" by Kaledia. First seen it in the movie "Atomic Blonde' and really loved it. I ended up buying the soundtrack on CD since I loved it so much!

 
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