Can You Guess The Cover Artists Who Took Famous Songs To The Next Level?
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Retry It’s hard to believe they were covers all along! Understandably, the first version of a song we hear would be the one that we mistake for the original. However, some of our favorite songs have much longer histories than we realize. And while it may be mind-blowing to find out about the forgotten originals, they only make our favorite versions more special because we find out what the cover artists built on. Enjoy your musical journey! You already knew about a few of these. You’ve dived deep enough into the history of music to know that Dolly Parton, Neil Diamond, and Tom Waits have written as many hits for other people as they have for themselves. But as you’ve seen, that doesn’t mean your assumptions about the music world have gone unchallenged. It turns out that more songs you know are covers than you realize, but that only makes the originals all the more interesting to discover. And odds are you’ve already started uncovering them out of curiosity. You’ve been around enough to know better. It’s pretty likely that you’ve heard a song on the radio and thought, “Yeah, I remember the original” a lot over the years. Whether you liked the original or the cover better, you find it hard not to shake your head when people mistakenly call the new version “so original.” There may be some new things under the Sun, but you have a good idea of how few in number they are. You are a music nerd extraordinaire and nothing can stop you! No matter how significantly a famous cover towers over its obscure original, you know all about both of them. We also wouldn’t be surprised if you knew all the backstories and interpersonal drama in the histories of these different versions of each song and completed this quiz to prove it. Well, rest assured that you’ve proven beyond the shadow of a doubt that nobody has anything more to teach you about this.Scroll down to continue on!
