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Post by the Scribe on Apr 12, 2020 12:11:34 GMT
I created this Spotify playlist of Linda songs next to their original versions by the original artists. I think you''ll find it interesting --just to read even if you don't listen. 59 originals. 58 Linda versions. NB two songs are not really covers -- I cheated a tiny bit. See if you can figure out which ones. I tried to pick the earliest original versions but in some cases, I'm still not completely sure. Would love to hear any corrections. And please follow the playlist if you like: |
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Post by the Scribe on Apr 12, 2020 12:15:27 GMT
I created this Spotify playlist of Linda songs next to their original versions by the original artists. I think you''ll find it interesting --just to read even if you don't listen. 59 originals. 58 Linda versions. NB two songs are not really covers -- I cheated a tiny bit. See if you can figure out which ones. I tried to pick the earliest original versions but in some cases, I'm still not completely sure. Would love to hear any corrections. And please follow the playlist if you like: I Believe in You by Don Williams- different song Ones that are not covers- Faithless Love Heart Like a Wheel Long Long Time How Do I Make You It might be close, but I would think, from Tennessee, that Dolly Parton has sold more records than Tina Turner. Tina did have that one huge album in the 1980s that might push her slightly ahead of Dolly. What about Justin Timberlake? And would we consider Different Drum a cover song? Sure it had been recorded previously, but it was not a hit and was not well known. Of course, the meaning of cover version has changed over the years. It originally was a version rushed out to release to best another concurrent version in the marketplace (Pat Boone vs Fats Domino). Now, it pretty much means any subsequent version of a song other than the original. In Linda's case, sometimes her original recordings are called cover versions, even though hers was released first and the songwriter later recorded the song. In that case, wouldn't the original songwriter actually have the cover version? For example, Someone To Lay Down Beside Me, a Linda original recorded the following year by the songwriter Karla Bonoff, who realistically speaking, got that record deal because of her success writing those three songs for Linda. Also, Faithless Love, recorded in 1974 by Linda Ronstadt, followed in 1975 by J D Souther's version. |
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