It's a list of well known songs that were actually covers. At first I thought this would be a list of songs remade in the 90s and later that, in general, I was aware were covers. But it's not that at all. It's songs from the 70s and 80s that I had no idea were covers. In many cases the well known band was a one-hit wonder with the song so really they were talentless one-hit wonders.
Here's some of the stand outs.
- Quiet Riot - Cum On Feel the Noize (originally by Slade)
- Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes (Jackie DeShannon)
- Toni Basil - Mickey (Racey)
- Eric Clapton - Cocaine (J.J. Cale)
- Barry Manilow - I Write The Songs (Captain and Tennille)
- Blinded By the Light - Manfred Mann's Earth Band (Bruce Springsteen!)
- You Better Run - Pat Benatar (The Young Rascals)
- Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - Cindi Lauper (Robert Hazard)
- Everybody's Talking - Harry Nilsson (Fred Neil, blown away by this one)
- Mandy - Barry Manilow (Scott English)
- The Tide Is High - Blondie (The Paragons)
- Family Man - Hall & Oates (Mike Oldfield!!! From Tubular Bells fame)
- Killing Me Softly With His Song - Roberta Flack (Lori Lieberman!!)
- Dazed & Confused - Led Zeppelin (Jake Holmes)
- Black Magic Woman - Santana (Fleetwood Mac!!??)
- Obession - Animotion (Michael Des Barres)
- Gloria - Laura Branigan (Umberto Tozzi)
- Angel of the Morning - Juice Newton (Evie Sands)
- Heart & Soul - Huey Lewis & The News (Exile)
The last one has to be heard just for the MASSIVE (and I mean MASSIVE) cow bell at 1:05
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