originals that are less famous than their covers

Not fair, Aux. I don't have Spotify or Facebook; can I get the list somewhere else, like right here maybe?

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Jealous Guy, original by John Lennon and cover by Roxy Music

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Some covers are better known than the originals because they have been translated into another language.

For example: Almost everybody thinks My Way is a Frank Sinatra song, but the original is Comme d'habbitude by Claude François

Yesssssssss in mexico in the sixties hundreds of american originals remain unknown to us because all que Heard was the spanich cover without a mention of the original that not even was famous in the USA, you want examples???, this is only a Little list

Original -Cover

Tell her bye Bonnie guitar - dile adiós angelica maria

ABC of love junior and his friends - el ABC del amor Pablito junior

shake a take Jerry martin - Tequila con limón los juiors

4 aces of love skee brothers - 4 ases del amor los locos del ritmo

ponchinelo frankie avalon - payasito enrique guzman

wheels Johnny Duncan - ruedas Fabricio

etc, etc

In that time it was very hard to discover the original

Here's my take on things-- some of these WERE hits and I agree that you have to be very young to not know it (Carly Simon, The police, etc.) On the other hand, there ARE songs that were really and truly never hits (or minor hits) by the original recording artist, e.g. Tainted love. There are albums/cd with titles like, songs recorded by an artist before they were made famous by another artist (I'm not kiddiing check amazon).

Age does make a big difference-- when the movie and act Blues Brothers came out (for those who remember it), all my young friends and relatives thought those songs were NEW!!

Last, how much one knows sometimes is sign of how much they know and love music and /or what kind of music. I was quite surprised (and I had to look it up to see if he was right) when my dear friend and once schoolmate, knew who wrote, I put a spell on you'!! (He was in a band)

I find a lot of surpises here on SHS-- the very first and biggest was finding out about "Try a little tenderness" which I grew up thinking/knowiing it as an Otis Redding song.

Yes, there are many covers in Spanish that were big hits in Mexico AND the states, form the 50, 60, and even the British gorups, but I recently discovered (as someone mentioned) that there are Sp hits in mexico of unknown (maybe b sides) songs in us sometimes even unknown artists. Cedits are /were a problem especiall with the transalations. There is a cover in Spanish of Till there was you crediting Mcartney and Lennon (ha ha)

Regarding why artists do covers (aside from "cover artists" who do ONLY of mostly covers)" some songs are SO great that a singer just HAS to sing it. I've got a list (albeit mentally) of songs that I think, if I were a singer, I'd just have to sing this one. Beside, don't you oftne hear a song and think, I'd lov to hear so and so sing this one.

Which brings me to another reason I love SHS: Often I wil see a cover of a song I really like by an artist I really like that I did not know of and go directly to youtube to hear it. Many times it's not there, so I ask for someone to upload it.

I find songs that are famous in English, but are originally Spanish songs and most/many people do not know.

Where would we be w/o covers?