Forgotten Originals

prowla

Dizzy Miss Lizzy

prowla

I can't quit you babe.

prowla

Something for the Rush fans...

prowla

Apple band Badfinger

(Also featuring Steve Harris on bass.)

RandallFlagg

prowla said:

Apple band Badfinger

(Also featuring Steve Harris on bass.)

I bet Paul McCartney wishes he had written this song.

duotone

Made famous by George Harrison in 1987, but the original was sung by James Ray in 1962.

https://youtu.be/A1E6xvM7PeA

Reverend

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ6yYiOP4M0

one for the Metallica fans. 

Litterick

Litterick

earwighoney

Bobby Fuller Four

idiotwind

earwighoney said:

Bobby Fuller Four

That's actually a cover as well.  The original was The Crickets (post Buddy Holly) in 1960:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDUFBt8Ue0A

ICBM

Speaking of the Crickets... that reminded me that they did Real Wild Child before Iggy Pop, but even that isn't the original - this is. (Called The Wild One.)

digitalkettle

If you edit a post with a youtube link in it, the linky no worky no more ;-/

RandallFlagg

earwighoney said:

Bobby Fuller Four

I see your Bobby Fuller Four and raise you with The Crickets 1960 version

Recoded 3 months after Buddy Holly's death with Earl Sinks on vocals and Sonny Curtis (who wrote the song) on guitar:

Kilgore

The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.
The Roberta Flack recording is the most well known.
Original was written by Ewan MacColl for Peggy Seeger.

Kilgore

Unchained Melody - Todd Duncan.
OK this one is cheating a bit, it was recorded for a film soundtrack not a single/album track.

Fretwired

ICBM said:

They didn't actually write it either, but this is the first recorded version.

Billy Roberts in 1961 apparently ...

StageStruck

Denny Laine freaking out on the original version of a song that was a hit for Colin Blunstone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS5Hq7Ejdyk

Philly_Q

StageStruck said:

Denny Laine freaking out on the original version of a song that was a hit for Colin Blunstone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS5Hq7Ejdyk

I don't know the song, but what a video!

Nitefly

I do remember the song, but had no idea Denny Laine was the original. 

I recall he once had a band called Denny Laine's Balls - don't think they got much radio play!