Cover versions no one asked for … and didn’t know they needed

If we’re talking olds who jumped in to cover 1960s (future) classics, I’ve always been partial to Tony Bennett’s cover of Stevie Wonder’s Ma Cherie Amour.

Chrissie Hynde’s take on The Beach Boys’ Caroline No.

Eccentric and borderline eerie, but wonderful.

I love Peggy. That's nice but you should listen to her version of Bridge over Troubled Waters.

Eldergay jazz vocalist Andy Bey’s version of Nick Drake’s River Man is beautiful and haunting.

Thread closed.

The Pretenders do The Kinks’ I Go to Sleep.

Dreamlike..

Nina Persson's (from the Cardigans) cover of "The Bluest Eyes in Texas". I think it's lovely.

Johnny Cash sings Sting’s I Hung My Head as if it were written just for him.

It’s the opposite of Folsom Prison Blues: the story of a senseless murder, but this time he’s bleeding guilt and remorse.

"Train in Vain", Annie Lennox. And I LOVED the original, it's my favorite Clash song.

Op stop creating the same themed posts over and over. They sucked the first time.

Miley Cyrus absolutely butchering Talking Heads' "Psycho Killer."

In fact, that whole compilation album is one awful Talking Heads cover after another.

R11: “ They sucked the first time.”

lol!

Johnny Cash’s cover of Hurt

Moon River Moz

Posts nobody asked for…. OP

Mrs. Miller. These Boots are Meant for Walking

Almost all of the hits by Carpenters.

Katrina and the Waves. We Gotta Get Outta This Place.

Fione Apple's cover of The Beatles' Across the Universe is perfection.

Lana’s cover of doin time was sublime.

Elizabeth Frasier’s cover of Tim Buckley’s Song to the Siren kind of destroys me in a good way. Haunting

One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong (Leonard Cohen) by Harvey Milk. Cause what that song needed were the gritty, ugly, painful vocals

Sonic Youth covering The Carpenters

I don’t know much about Peggy Lee but I have admired her voice since hearing her sing the theme song to Johnny Guitar.

Nancy Sinatra’s surprisingly moving, mournful interpretation of Neil Sedaka’s The Hungry Years.

Big Black cover of Kraftwerk's model

Twofer from Luther Vandross covering both The Carpenters and Stevie Wonder/Aretha Franklin in a medley.

Hole's version of "Gold Dust Woman" is absolutely phenomenal (and produced by none other than Ric Ocasek of The Cars).

I generally hate Hole but you are correct. It's a great cover.

R11 so you bumped this thread, and gave it more attention - got it.

The Supremes saluting The Carpenters, 1970.

The Divine Sarah Vaughan's rendition of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."

OP, no one can possibly do Something more beautiful than George Harrison and his fellow Beatles. Impossible.

We needed everybody and anybody’s cover of Manilow’s Could This Be The Magic. Donna Summer, of course; even Take That’s multiple cover variations.

Better than the original even

Peggy Lee was incredible. The Beatles loved her. She almost had a Beatles reunion when two of them showed up in the studio to play on her cover of Hard Day's Night.

It's MISS Peggy Lee to you, commoners!

Here's a good primer on Miss Lee