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As I listen to music when travelling and on YouTube looking for specific songs I often run across songs that I never new had been performed by other artists. Some were very surprising to me. Of course hundreds were re-recorded by others.
I'm posting some that are really surprising to me and I'm starting with a song called I'll Be There. The version I knew best was by Gerry and The Pacemakers.
Okay, here is the song that I was talking about here in post #141 in another thread. But first of all, I was surprised when I found out that this was a cover song.
I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know · Euge Groove (my favorite version)
But how deep does the rabbit hole go? Because now I'm finding out that Blood, Sweat & Tears' founder wrote this song and they did the original version back in 1967.
"I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know" Blood, Sweat & Tears
Although in listening to this song, I do remember it... however, I think that Luther did such a different version of this song and made it his own... that I don't think that I recognized Luther's version as being a cover of the Carpenter's when it came out
Regarding William Taylor's commentary on post #5 (good post-BTW!)
The composer of that song is Al Kooper, who a few years previous co-founded the band Blues Project-which put out several lp's on Verve Forecast, a subdivision of MGM Records. He left that band to form Blood Sweat and Tears, that song appears on their very first lp "Child Is Father To The Man", released in 1968. That is Al on vocals. Sadly, Kooper didn't stick around because the band wanted a stronger vocalist-and got one in David Clayton Thomas. The 1968 lp didn't get a lot of promotion from Columbia Records for some reason. It's an lp that is well worth seeking out!
My contribution on this thread are 2 newer versions of the classic Roy Orbison tune--"Crying." In 1967 Jay and the Americans did a version of it as did Don McLean in 1980. Both are great!
Elton John's Sacrifice is a masterpiece! And his best song by a wide margin, IMO. Bland and pointless describes the other unknown (for good reason) version you reference.
Elton John's Sacrifice is a masterpiece! And his best song by a wide margin, IMO. Bland and pointless describes the other unknown (for good reason) version you reference.
Obviously, we seek very different things in music. I'm not even blaming Elton John for the lifelessness of his song; it's the anonymous late 80's/early 90's synth drenched production that kills it; it robs it of any of the life John (when he's on) can bring to a song. This recording could have been by any late 80's crooner; while his best work has always had his own distinctive handprints on it. And the O'Connor version is a pretty well-known cover, not "unknown" at all, and included on a platinum-selling album. Idiosyncratic and lush arrangement, convincing vocal not buried in studio gloss... even Elton John has called it one of the best covers of any of his songs. Not that I listen to anything Elton John says, but on this we agree.
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I can't believe what I'm reading here. 
