Forgotten Originals

ICBM

The Marianne Faithfull version is better known, but this is the first... although written by Shel Silverstein, not the band. The best thing they ever did.

koneguitarist

More Shel Silverstein 
https://youtu.be/KZNZt5qVgvM

alwqys loved original version of Albert Lee’s Country Boy With Heads Hands and Feet featuring Chas Hodges from Chas and Dave . Love the drumming. Very Jerry Reed inspired guitar for the time. 

https://youtu.be/WjSN6V6CpXM

koneguitarist

Burning Love by Writer Dennis Linde 
https://youtu.be/B-x-LP4ZasY

koneguitarist

https://youtu.be/fEUP5yjIOB8

koneguitarist

Not sure how many know JD Souther but wrote with various members of the Eagles and partially credited for the formation of them by recommending each member to his girlfriend Linda Ronstadt. 

This is How Long 
https://youtu.be/jBvy_dxQqTo

Kilgore

The Carpenters - Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft.

EricTheWeary

https://youtu.be/eYhlfvvjvbY

Written by Bruce Johnston of the Beach Boys this is the original recording. Almost certainly known here as a Barry Manilow choon or at a pinch by the David Cassidy version. Possibly ironic to be known for it’s cover version given the title, although the song originally had a religious meaning ( that God has given us all creativity). 

Kilgore

Wild Thing.

Written by Chip Taylor(real name James Voight, brother of John and uncle of Angelina Jolie)

Recorded by The Troggs and Hendrix. Original recording by Jordan Christopher & The Wild Ones.

 

Cranky

The Searchers, "Needles and Pins".  Good cover by The Ramones, of course.

Cranky

Queen, "Stone Cold Crazy," sneaky "first metal song" candidate?  Later covered by Metallica.

KKJale

Bow Wow Wow's I Want Candy. The Strangeloves, 1965.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiiD8KeAFew&feature=emb_title

RandallFlagg

Cranky said:

The Searchers, "Needles and Pins".  Good cover by The Ramones, of course.

The Searchers is the only version of Needles and Pins I've heard. It's not a forgotten original for me!

Cranky

RandallFlagg said:

Cranky said:

The Searchers, "Needles and Pins".  Good cover by The Ramones, of course.

The Searchers is the only version of Needles and Pins I've heard. It's not a forgotten original for me!

Funny, I never knew the Ramones' version was a cover until about a year ago.

phil_b

RandallFlagg said:

Cranky said:

The Searchers, "Needles and Pins".  Good cover by The Ramones, of course.

The Searchers is the only version of Needles and Pins I've heard. It's not a forgotten original for me!

yep this is a classic and definitely not forgotten

RandallFlagg

Cranky said:

RandallFlagg said:

Cranky said:

The Searchers, "Needles and Pins".  Good cover by The Ramones, of course.

The Searchers is the only version of Needles and Pins I've heard. It's not a forgotten original for me!

Funny, I never knew the Ramones' version was a cover until about a year ago.

Well, never mind The Ramones or The Searchers, the real forgotten original is by Jackie DeShannon from 1963:

Philly_Q

RandallFlagg said:

Cranky said:

RandallFlagg said:

Cranky said:

The Searchers, "Needles and Pins".  Good cover by The Ramones, of course.

The Searchers is the only version of Needles and Pins I've heard. It's not a forgotten original for me!

Funny, I never knew the Ramones' version was a cover until about a year ago.

Well, never mind The Ramones or The Searchers, the real forgotten original is by Jackie DeShannon from 1963:

@RandallFlagg I'm surprised you don't remember the Smokie version, it was a reasonably big hit in 1977.

fields5069

KKJale

Two years before the Hollies' version, by one of its writers...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMe2fKB2DEM

hollywoodrox

phil_b said:

RandallFlagg said:

Cranky said:

The Searchers, "Needles and Pins".  Good cover by The Ramones, of course.

The Searchers is the only version of Needles and Pins I've heard. It's not a forgotten original for me!

yep this is a classic and definitely not forgotten

I’m sure smokie or someone like them did a cover too

Cranky

So there's a difference between "forgotten originals" and "originals I never heard before due to circumstances of birth."

Whichever it is, there's also Dusty Springfield's "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself," covered later by The White Stripes.



And The Black Keys' entire Chulahoma album, covering a bunch of long lost Junior Kimbrough stuff.