Results: I Heard The Following Remakes Before The Original Versons Of These Songs. Have You Heard Them At All?

The song inspiring this poll is "Good Vibrations,." Upon my most recent exposure to The Beach Boys' original 1966 rendition, I recalled that I first heard Todd Rundgren's 1976 remake. Thinking about Rundgren's recording, I think it may be be best admired as the recreation of what, I believe, is a genuinely innovative composition and recording more than it can be heard as an attempt to add anything new to The Beach Boys' original. Agree?

Hearing that aforementioned Beach Boys song reminded me that I first heard The Troggs' 1965 hit, "Wild Thing," as recorded by short-lived English band Fancy in 1974. However, when I first heard Fancy's remake, I, as a tween, interpreted the lead vocals as coming from a high-voiced make singer, not (quite comely, in my estimation) lady. Have you ever misheard a singer and first thought s/he's the sex s/he isn't?

Here's returning to The Beach Boys' catalog, as I'm night certain it's Johnny Rivers' 1975 hit iteration of "Help Me, Rhonda" I heard before its originators' original recording from a decade prior. Rivers, I perceive, gets dismissed by some writers because so many of hits are remakes of other acts' songs. but I don't think that discounts his artistry. Whether in music or any other medium, can you think of anyone else at least as well known for their interpretations of others' work as their own?

Honestly, I could well have heard Bob Dylan's original recording of his own "All Along The Watchtower" (from his 1968 John Wesley Harding album), but my overwhelming memory of the song comes from The Jimi Hendrix Experience's remake from later in '68. It was the band's most successful U.S. pop-charting single, but they a were more successful singles act in the U.K., where they first gained notoriety Since the non-Hendrix members of the band were native Britons, would you consider the Experience a U.S. or U.K. band?

I'm more certain about first having heard Anne Murray's 1974 take on The Beatles "You Won't See Me," from their 1965 Rubber Soul album, before I'd heard the original work. Murray double-dipped, after a fashion, for this single release, as her "You Won't..." was promoted to pop radio while the commercial single's flip side, "He Thinks I Still Care," a gender-reversed remake of a 1962 George Jones oldie, was pitched to country stations. Can you think of another single containing songs geared to different audiences (which isn't to say they can't overlap)?