2007-02-22 23:00:40 · 14 answers · asked by purplerain 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
Paul McCartney's "Yesterday" is often called the most covered song in popular music history; some allege there are over three thousand different versions, although no evidence has been provided. The Beatles' "Come Together" has also been covered numerous times. George Gershwin's "Summertime" (from Porgy and Bess) has had an estimated 2,600 versions recorded[citation needed], Irving Berlin's "White Christmas" (from the film Holiday Inn) is well known for having been covered numerous times.
Other songs which have been released many times as cover versions include "Blue Monday" (New Order), "White Christmas" (Bing Crosby) "Louie Louie" (Richard Berry), "Sunny" (Bobby Hebb), "Fever" (Otis Blackwell),"Across the Universe" (The Beatles),"Baby It's You" (The Shirelles) "By The Time I Get To Phoenix" (Jimmy Webb), "Helter Skelter" (The Beatles), "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" (Bob Dylan), "Twist And Shout" (Isley Brothers) "We Will Rock You" (Queen), "Besame Mucho" (Consuelo Velázquez), "Free Bird" (Lynyrd Skynyrd), "When I Fall In Love" (Doris Day) "Love Will Tear Us Apart" (Joy Division),"Stardust" (Bing Crosby) "Garota de Ipanema", "No Woman No Cry" (Bob Marley & the Wailers), "Dirty Old Town" (Ewan MacColl), "I Fought the Law" (Sonny Curtis), "How Deep Is Your Love" (The Bee Gees), "Something" (The Beatles) and many of the less recent works of Bob Dylan (such as "Knocking on Heaven's Door" and "All Along the Watchtower") "Paranoid" (Black Sabbath) and Leonard Cohen (as of December 5, 2004, there were at least 940 published cover versions of Cohen songs [3]). The Australian television program The Money or the Gun featured for every episode a new cover of Stairway to Heaven, played in versions ranging from a Wagnerian opera to a Beatles melody
2007-02-22 23:32:29 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, bands cover songs live. But they should be careful to give credit to the real creator of the song. Examples of band coverings are Breaking Benjamin covers Deftones Change, or Disturbed Fade to Black cover.
2016-05-24 01:43:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Daydream Believer by the Monkees
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Living on a Prayer by Bon Jovi
2007-02-22 23:09:53 · answer #3 · answered by Carrie S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd.
2007-02-22 23:32:59 · answer #4 · answered by Candi Apples 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've heard a few people doing Friday I'm in Love by The Cure
2007-02-22 23:06:16 · answer #5 · answered by fresh_prince_of_bel_fast 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Brown eyed girl - Van Morrison
2007-02-23 10:22:52 · answer #6 · answered by michdiaja 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Must be Unchained Melody
2007-02-22 23:14:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yesterday,(Beatles)
2007-02-22 23:14:38 · answer #8 · answered by wozza.lad 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where ever you will go by The Calling
2007-02-22 23:06:20 · answer #9 · answered by Free_man 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
SMOOTH CRIMINAL
r u ok annie, u ve bit hit by a smooth criminal
it was sunday was a black day
2007-02-22 23:15:05 · answer #10 · answered by adam 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋