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Elmore's songs tended to be based on popular blues themes so how much original thought was ever in his version I don't know.
[Just looking at Wiki for the song which does suggest SRV based his on the King version ]
Elouise not the Dammed
Money not the Beatles
Tainted Love not Soft Cell
Popcorn not Hot Butter
I remember being a lad (prob about 10 or 11 years old, a few years before I picked up a guitar) and came across a song called Stairway to Heaven and was amazed and obsessed with it, would listen to it over and over again on headphones. One evening a family friend asked what I was listening to and was amazed that it wasn't Led Zeppelin and then turned me onto the original version, which I had no idea about!
I can't even recall who the version I was listening to was by, it was a fairly faithful recreation by a semi-famous band I recall, but just can't place it. Any ideas?
That song that Gary Jules did for Donnie Darko. Turns out it was some crap 80's band called Tears for Fears who wrote it. Before my time.
https://youtu.be/pluMxKU74Uw
Actually began life as...
https://youtu.be/dp4-hosv0Us
This was news to me. Absolutely love the CC version.
I was quite a fan of World Party and Karl Wallinger back then (after his stint in the Waterboys). I remember Robbie getting a Brit (or somesuch award) for that song and thanking a whole load of people....except the guy who wrote it!
Still Karl did very well out of the royalty cheques, so I guess he's not that bitter.
Valerie - recorded by the Zutons and covered later by Amy Winehouse.
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