Your favorite cover songs

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The day Jimi Hendrix delayed the BBC news by overunning on the Lulu show:

and the full-length live version:

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Chris Cornell covers John Lennon’s “Watching the Wheels”

:watch:ing The :wheel:s

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Sheryl Crow Covers Jackson 5’s “I Want You Back”

:eye: want :sheep: :back:

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Lake Street Dive cover The Kinks’ " Lola"

and :boy:s will :honeybee: :girl:s

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RIP the A. V. Club’s Undercover series and its videos. Audio of this great cover is still available at least.

EDIT: Still available on DailyMotion of all things. The performance in the video is half the fun.

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Joan Jett covers Sonny Curtis’ “Love Is All Around”

:cat: meow

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Casi Joy and Woody James cover Johnny Cash and June Carter’s “Jackson”

hotter than a :hot_pepper: sprout

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Did not know that was a cover!
One of my all-time favourite songs.

Must dash off now to search that.

ETA: Dandy Livingstone!
Cheers @Mindysan33

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Neither did I, but @robertmckenna alerted me to that in the song stuck in your head thread…

Yep! Here it is, with a recent video:

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Noice!

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I showed a documentary about skinheads in my class this week, so I’ve had some ska stuck in my head since then! My brain all week…

stop beat GIF

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On the Ska theme, I had no idea Amy Winehouse was so into it as well.
Here’s the orig:

Then the Special AKA ( I didn’t realise it was a cover back then):

And then this fantastic fun live version from Amy Winehouse:

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We could have a whole ska cover versions thread.

With only Skatelites songs!

And it would be banging.

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Right, sorry all, went down a rabbit hole.
Back now with eyes opened.

Back in the day this was another of my faves:

Turns out it was another cover:

And, this I never knew, Amy did an entire SKA EP:

Lastly, treat yourself:

(What a lovely rabbit hole)

ETA: “You’re Wondering Now” - isn’t that the theme from “Death In Paradise”?

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I’ve heard a lot worse ideas…

go on, do it