The original and the best

[bibblebub]

Forget the Happy Mondays, this is the original and best version of the song but no-one remembers it.

Any other pop songs for which inferior cover versions have been (arguably) bigger hits?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=056Qdo_cmCM&feature=related

He's Gonna Step On You Again

[piggynose]

yeh, theres no contest

[bibblebub]

thank you, 2-0 to Johnny Kongos

[dotty.]

Yeah Ronan Keating murdered garths 'If Tomorrow never Comes'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWfifoozJqQ&feature=related

[missnemesis]

I feel exactly the same about 'Hush' bibblebub. The Kula Shaka version wasn't a bad attempt but IMHO it doesn't touch Deep Purple's original.

http://www.youtube.co...+purple+original&aq=1

By the way.....that's 3-0 to Johnny Kongos

[dotty.]

I was 15 in 1971 and into Motown but I remember liking John Kongos

[bibblebub]

Yep this was also pretty good.

And it has to be the 1960s Hush by Deep Purple not the version 20 years later.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmCmSjHfQwI

Tokoloshe Man

[Buenchico]

Wet Wet Wet had a big hit with this, but it was nowhere near as good as the original.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EXRPxC-5bE