auntblabby wrote:
not strictly a cover version [the term originally meant white versions of black hits] but i liked ringo starr's cover of buck owen's hit "act naturally."
johnny cash's version [a term i like better] of "rusty cage." brazil '66's version of "fool on the hill." the stone's version of bobby womack's "it's all over now." the turtle's version of "it ain't me, babe." p-p&m's version of john denver's "leaving on a jet plane." patsy cline's version of willie nelson's "crazy." jerry reed's version of dick feller's "lord mr. ford." deep purple's version of neil diamond's "kentucky woman."
the funniest one was "the portsmith sinfonia plays the classics" in which a very drunk-sounding orchestra butchers classical warhorses such as "also sprach zarathustra" and several others.
too many others to list here.
...Pardon my pedantery (Sp??)/pissass-ness , AB , but I think the term " cover " was originally a racially neutral music business term referring to competitive/(an) etra version(s) of a song , it was the emotions/finger-pointing over , especially , the 50s Pat Boone/Diamonds , et al , white remakes of black hits that I guess led to the term being exclusively applied to it .
I think a couple of the examples you cited , too , especially country music-oriented ones , at least at the time , were rather more " professional songwriter " examples , not quite " covers " in the later-days understanding of it .
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? Correcting you and all that , even if I'm an Aspie and supposed to do things like dryly correct people , " little professor syndrome " and all that

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