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Location: CA | Yeah, I know, it's happy birthday. Next is either Elenor Rigby or Yesterday, depending on the lists on Google. There are lots of Beatles in the top 10. Of course, songs like Auld Lang Syne and Amazing Grace are right up there.
But one that amazed me tonight was Johnny B. Goode might. Saw Chuck do it on YouTube and started perusing all the other bands that have performed it. Here's a list up to about page 10, when my mousin' finger wore out:
Jimi Hendrix
Beatles
CCR
Elvis
Green Day
Sex Pistols
Keith Richards
Johnny Winter
Marty McFly (ok,ok)
ACDC
Cheap Trick
Springsteen
Judas Priest
Peter Tosh
Mahogany Rush
James Burton
Ramones
Twisted Sister
George Thorogood
Tom Jones
Brian Wilson
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Location: Nashville TN. | I think a better question is what song charted the most times by different artist??
No doubt J B. Goode is one of the all time great songs. |
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| I was listening to the Johnny Winter version of Johnny B Good from "Live And" today in my truck. Best ever IMO.
The same album has a version of Jumpin Jack Flash which blows the Rolling Stones attempt right out of the water.
Pretty good stuff for a 3 piece live performance.
Slide intro to "It's My Own Fault" is seamless and "Good Mornin Little School Girl" kicks ass.
I saw him play that stuff during the early 70s at Maple Leaf Gardens from front and center maybe 5 rows back. Great concert; he did about 5 encores. No one wanted to leave - they were taking the stage apart and the lights down off the scaffolding but he kept coming back out.
One of the great bluesmen and a continuation of the line which includes Robert Johnston, Hopkins, Howlin Wolf, BB King etc.
Guys like Clapton are just not in the same game IMO. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by Joe Rotax:
I was listening to the Johnny Winter version. . . of Jumpin Jack Flash which blows the Rolling Stones attempt right out of the water. With all due respect, I'd not classify The Stone's "version" of JJF as an, "attempt". . . . even if, you like Winter's attempt better than the Original.
. . . I feel better now. |
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| Originally posted by Oddball:
But one that amazed me tonight was Johnny B. Goode might. Saw Chuck do it on YouTube and started perusing all the other bands that have performed it. Here's a list Gotta be more than that, and I suspect it's probably the winner. EVERYbody does JBG in their live acts from garage bands to headliners at one point or another. And, I would suspect, almost no one actually rehearses it. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Moody will love this ... GENTLE ON MY MIND is actually the song that has charted Top 100 pop or country by the most different artists. SEVEN.
Hartford, Campbell, Elvis, Patti Page, Aretha Franklin, Trini Lopez and Dean Martin.
The most amazing thing to me, it charted Top 100 by four different artists IN THE SAME FREAKING YEAR - Campbell, Martin, Page, Franklin.
DING !!! |
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Location: Ballston Lake, N.Y. | "Jumpin Jack Flash" live on the Stones "Get Yer Ya Yas Out". Tasty. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Ya-Ya. |
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| In know I am getting pretty sick of playing and hearing others play Wish You Were Here. Too bad too it is a great song. |
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Location: Phoenix | I'd have a hard time believing Eleanor Rigby or Yesterday was the "most covered song of all time", I don't care what Google says.
Ever hear a bar band cover either of these? Never ever. Maybe there's a ton of easy-listening artists who included them in their albums, like the guy with the pan flute--Zamfir? was that his name?
Johny B. Goode certainly would qualify as a top contender for that spot. Honky Tonk Women or Sweet Home Alabama if you just want to talk about bar band covers. |
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| Mustang Sally.......Brown Eyed Girl |
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Location: Phoenix | Let me look at our set list for tonight...yep, Mustang Sally...yep, Brown Eyed Girl....yep, Sweet Home Alabama....
How about Twist and Shout, that gets played a lot....lemme see...that's on our set list too. |
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Location: CA | Joe Rotax — You're the first one I've ever come across who invoked Johnny Winter's "Live And" album. I concur completely that his medly of JBG, whole lotta shakin, Good Golly Miss Molly (and maybe one other?) was incredible. It STILL rocks even now and that album came out in what, the mid-70s?
Losov — absolutely right that JBG is probably the least-rehearsed song of all time. Ha ha ha. Good one.
Other nominations are also good — Gentle, Mustang Sally, Brown Eyed Girl for SURE. Maybe House of the Rising Sun is in there.
What about instrumentals? Doesn't 'Wipe Out' have to be the all-time most covered guitar song in the history of songs? And guitars? |
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Location: Chicago | I'm with Joe: Best Flash ever. In my top 3 rock albums is the studio "Johnny Winter And" ("Prodigal Son" "Out on a Limb" "Rock n' Roll Hoochie Coo" "I Guess I'll Go Away" etc) Absolute Classic:
What I\'m talkin\' about... |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | The best version of JBG is Kal David's |
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Location: Tennessee | Unless of course you want to put Peter Tosh into the mix. ;)
As far as Yesterday goes, it has been acknowledged as the most covered song for a lot of years. Bar bands? Of course ... in fact there was a particular instance from many years ago that I still remember quite well. Imagine if you will: "Now ladies and gentlemen, for the first bride and groom dance, I give you mr. and mrs. bobbo ... " And everyone sing along to these meaningful words as I dance with Kimby-D! Yesterday, all my troubles seem so far away, now it looks as though they're here to stay, oh I believe in yesterday. Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to me, there's a shadow hanging over me, oh yesterday came suddenly. Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play, now I need a place to hide away, oh I believe in yesterday. I hated that song even before that. I have NO idea what the band was thinking. Forunately, we just laughed our whole way through the song and didn;t let the bad juju get us down. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Knockin\' On Heaven\'s Door
I don't know about Recorded covers... But everybody does this song. Myself included.
Check-out the Leningrad Cowboys version! Influenced by GnR and Pink Floyd :eek: |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | House of the Rising Sun and Feeling Alright certainly got/get their share... |
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| Leningrad Cowboys = great cover band..lol
I didn't know they were still around. I guess you've seen the film - pretty hilarious stuff. |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | ....what? No Louie Louie? |
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Location: Whitecourt, Ab | A couple of "Wilds": Born to be Wild & Wild Thang |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Have to agree with Louie Louie .... |
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Location: Bellingham, WA, USA | Originally posted by Northcountry:
In know I am getting pretty sick of playing and hearing others play Wish You Were Here. Too bad too it is a great song. Just started learning this over the weekend.... |
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Location: Indiana | I can remember ,when I was High School, that a local radio station that broadcasted from a university (Butler, I believe) p[layed "Hey Joe" for 2 hours. No commercials and no repeats. The ones I remember the most were the Leaves, Hendrix, Johnny Rivers and Louis Armstrong. |
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Location: New York | What about Rollin' on the River??? |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Duh, "Happy Birthday to You". |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | BTW- AOL owns "Happy Birthday" :eek: |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | The song most 'covered' in live performance is actually a little known Chinese Folk Ballad. Some more irritating musicians, most notably lead players, have been known to stop performing with their band in order to play short passages of the piece on their own.
In English it is called : Tue-Ning
composed by 11th Century artist called Musee Shan |
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Location: New York | Come on fill, no link to this? |
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The Most Covered Song Ever