and didn't know it was a remake.

as i mentioned in that doggystyle post: "lodi dodi."

also, "at your best (you are love)" and "work to do" by the isley brothers.

there are probably a few others i'll come up with, but those are probably the most egregious examples.

Mary J - "I'm going down"
EWF - "Got to get you into my life"

i literally had no idea "havin' a party" was a remake (sam cooke) until a few months ago. same with "creepin" (stevie wonder) and "anyone who had a heart" (dionne warwick).

My dad used to call it "Luterized" or would say "You know he had to 'Luther' it up".....

the remakes were HUGE hits while the originals were album tracks. there's a difference between that and, say, not knowing patti labelle made "if you ask me to" first.

I had NO IDEA that was Marvin.

"Always and forever" - Yup.

"hey joe" was a cover as well, apparently.

yeah, i used to argue with my old college room mate about this one, swore it was a Jimi original...haha, I was wrong!

For years. I'm so ashamed.

i was like wtf, this shit sound old.
pretty sure that was right before i had any concept of sampling

i was looking through his collection one day at the time "get it up" was out and i saw that. tripped me out. good one. i had no clue on that either.

and never even realized that it was the same song for a while. I forgot about TLC's til I heard it at the end of some movie, n then I said "wait.............that's the same lyrics/melody as Morris huh?"

so for a while I kept looking at old Prince cassettes for the original

i didn't know it was a cover until
i read the liner notes.

also "It's Right As Rain", I knew the Bob James version first

They'll honestly swear up and down it was always Chaka's song.


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Yup, Luther does own this post..."House is not a Home" is one I THOUGHT Luther wrote but I was so damn wrong on that.

first heard the elucid and spec boogie version.

:-(

I first heard "Helter Skelter" with Mötley Crue as a kid and didn't even know it was a Beatles-song until MUCH later...

Cum on feel the noize I thought was a Quiet Riot original but is of course a Slade-song. I never checked for Slade growing up on the strength of their terrible hits "My oh my" and "Runaway".

Metallica's classic non-album B-side "Am I evil?" is a Diamond Head song but I didn't know until much later for some reason; I guess I was bad at checking credits when I was younger. Also, that song sounded totally metallica unlike many of their other covers...

Just like Sweet, Suzie Quatro or even T.rex to a certain extent. Basically, the british '70's glam-rock scene never truly crossed over to america (not that it needed to, Kiss and Alice Cooper held it down in the US with better records IMO-Marc Bolan/T.rex an obvious exception).

Basically, i doubt the regular american knows that it's a cover. For me, it was more ignorance since Slade actually were quite big in sweden...

not really embarassed, I was like 12 years old

THE original Hip Hop song, LOL. I'm not judging, it's just wild

- who's loving you (the miracles)
- standing in the shadows of love (the four tops)
- i know i'm losing you (the temptations)
- born to love you (the temptations)
- chained (marvin gaye)
- stand! (sly & the family stone)
- can you remember (the delfonics)
- lala means i love you (the delfonics)
- a fool for you (ray charles)
- shoobedoobedoodaday (stevie wonder)
- ready or not (here i come) (the delfonics)
- walk on (issac hayes)
- doctor my eyes (jackson browne; i actually just heard this for the first time today because of this post lol)
- ask the lonely (the four tops)
- i hear a symphony (the surpremes)

edited to add:
everybody is a star (sly & the family stone)

I had no idea that Todd Rundgren was the originator. I just thought it was an Isley Bros. joint

his song (w/Utopia), "Love Is The Answer" -- I knew one of the covers before I knew his song

my favorite version of that song was recorded by Keni Burke, but I heard that one after Utopia's.

whitney's remake.

Bodyguard soundtrack was heard first

but I didn't hear Smokey's til after

an ep when Homer and Marge got some Cadillac rental, and a button they pressed made the seats recline, pop up champagne and play D'Angelo

Most recently, "If this world were mine" which blew my damn mind because I NEVER knew Marvin did it.

Musiq Soulchild "Settle for my love" - I didn't know the homegirl Patrice did it first.

Aaliyah "At your best"

Maxwell "This woman's work"

Kelly Price "As we lay"

Whitney "I will always love you"

And plenty others.


Oh, "I'd rather fuck you" nwa - bootsy

Assumed it was a really amazing original. Little did I know it was based on an even stranger pre-existing tune.

yup

Isley Brothers:
hello it's me (heard the groove theory version first)
at your best (heard the aaliyah version first)
work to do (heard the vanessa williams version first)

Loose Ends:
Stay a little while (heard mariah carey's remake/remix first)

Stevie Wonder:
you and I (heard mariah carey's live version of it first)

Todd Rundgren's band Nazz is the original version. Rundgren also had his own solo version before the Isley version.

I was a Mariah fanatic, and I soaked up whatever artist's discography she covered from or even so much as cite as an influence.

nm

I had only heard Isaac Hayes' version, and when I learned that Dionne Warwick sang it originally I damn near had a heartache. Although Dionne's version is really really great, Isaac killed that shit in a manner that's hard to follow.

it's almost like it's 2 different songs entirely because isaac haye's take is so radically different from the original. hers is a pop ditty that's great (fantastic, really) to snap your fingers to. isaac haye's take is EPIC.

Not exactly classic, but Paul Young stunk up what was an incredible Hall and Oates song. That H&O version kills.

hell it was old as dirt when i first heard it, come to find out it's not really Jimmi's track.

I woulda been floored..

"Come Clean? That's an old Treacherous Three song! You ain't know?"

Strawberry Letter 23...I was damn near 25 years old before I found out that The Brothers Johnson remade it. Quincy should be shot for remaking it with Akon.

Long time OK lurker...first OK post.

>Strawberry Letter 23...I was damn near 25 years old before I
>found out that The Brothers Johnson remade it. Quincy should
>be shot for remaking it with Akon.
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>Long time OK lurker...first OK post.

I always though the song was weird.

"twist and shout"
"hound dog"
"all I do is think of you"
"at your best"
"hello, it's me"
"ooh baby I love your way"
"free bird"
"blowing in the wind"
"got to get you into my life"
"I feel 4 u"
"nothing compare's 2 u"






White Bronco.

al green and willie mitchell put a foot in that one. i heard the temps original and was like why would they try and remake this song?
how wrong I was.

respect,
bc

"my old boy from the Point but I'm from Southwest..."

"Are you really ready to carry some weight?,
Are you ready to design your fate?" -Kelvin Mercer

when i first heard the rose royce version i hardly heard the difference

*realizes how young some of you bastards are...walks back out*


I felt bad about "All Along The Watchtower" but some of the OTHER shit you guys are naming? Really? "Cruisin'" as re-recorded by D'Angelo? How old are some of you guys, 17?

FYI dj father time! lol

Never knew it was a Talk Talk cover til I heard it in Publix the other day.

I didnt know that keep your head up was all Roger and Zapp material of be alright and Mother's Finest did the original version of love changes....

because honestly there are tons of songs where i actually heard the sample first when i was younger then read some liner notes, then had the internet years later or heard it on the radio at some point

and one great example is that i never realized that was minnie ripertons voice on lyrics to go until i watched the documentary. . . #facepalm

Song already existed in a few iterations before her.

For Once In My Life which I thought was Stevie's until I saw him bring up Tony Bennett to sing it at MSG.

Erykah Badu's 4 Leaf Clover I thought was an original (which I like) until my big bro walked in on me playing it and got pissed off. He said she messed up the song.

I very much doubt there's ANYBODY who heard the Bob Dylan original first. For most people it's the Hendrix version they're familiar with, or if you're a lot younger, the ubiquitous cover version by the Dave Matthews Band.

"Never gonn give you up"- The Black Keys

-Yeah,i know *slaps self on the back of my head*

I heard Al B Sure's remake first. Still like Al's remake better than the OG.

Temptations:
Papa was a Rollin' Stone (Undisputed Truth)
Love Woke Me Up This Morning (Marvin & Tammi)

Supremes & Temptations:
I'm Gonna Make You Love Me (Dee Dee Sharp)
Sweet Inspiration (Sweet Inspirations - smh @ me)
I'll Try Something New (Miracles)

Jackson 5:
Who's Lovin' You (Miracles)
Born to Love You (Temptations)

Whitney Houston:
I Believe in You and Me (Four Tops)

Undisputed Truth:
Smiling Faces Sometimes (Temptations)

Aaliyah
At Your Best (You are Love) (Isley Brothers)

Beatles:
Twist & Shout (Top Notes/Isley Brothers)

Supremes:
Someday We'll be Together (Johnny & Jackey - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuJ_zWKPuzA. "Johnny" (Bristol) is the gruff sounding producer heard coaching Diana through her vocal on the so-called "Supremes" hit version)

Carl Carlton:
Everlasting Love (Robert Knight)

Diana Ross & Marvin Gaye:
You Are Everything (Stylistics)
Stop, Look, Listen (To You Heart) (Stylistics)

Marvin Gaye:
I Heard It Through the Grapevine (Gladys Knight & the Pips - well, there's was the first of three previous versions to come out).

I'm so ashamed!

*takes vinyl copy of "The Dock of the Bay" and slaps self with it*

week and was like WTF...I mean Chaka took it a year later and even named her album after it!!

edit: wow that version SUCKS compared to chaka's!

it waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better for sure.

....and some of them mofos i prefer that way still.

Then I discovered the magic that is New Order.