songs that have been covered?

Question

anyone know of a site that lists the original artist of a song and also who sang the cover version.
thanks

tried google i got nowhere
i am looking for luther vandross songs

dreamlover is the main song i wanted to know if anybody sang before it's so nice i wondered did luther wirte it himself or was it a cover

Answer 1

The "All Music Guide" will list all the artists who recorded a particular song. You might be able to figure out who recorded a song first from that.

If you post another question and state which particular song you want to know about, I might be able to help you more. I' m pretty knowledgable about older music.

Answer 2

Hi,

I talk about cover versions a lot on my blog, Sample as that, but don't claim to be encyclopaedic.
There's a website called The Covers Project which is trying to do this, and probably does it better than anyone else.
The-Breaks is the best place for finding out where samples have come from.

Answer 3

I dont know of a site but you could try typing the name of the song in 2 google and see what comes up

Answer 4

If you have iTunes you could try looking up the song in their music shop. It should give you every artist who has produced a version of it (if the have it in stock) and also list the composer.

Answer 5

Dream lover was written and sang by Bobby Darrin can't remember year.

Answer 6

Urm, yeah-If you use Windows Media Player, it should come up with the original composer in the bar, so type him/her/it into google and it should come up with some stuff telling u what band he was in

Answer 7

are you thinking of dream lover by bobby Darrin