ORIGINALS

[memory man]

Howsabout posting a famous song in the original format!

I'll begin with.

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

[Dominic]

I grew up to the Damned's version of Eloise, which is fab.

But this is fab too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAQjTgI8R5I

I appreciate that some of you won't have heard the Damned's version, and only know the original, but there you go...

This is The Damned' version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO4DMK6Qd7M

[memory man]

Here's another.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7Xy8XLKwec

[memory man]

And another.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTK-U7f8pgg

[Dominic]

Prince Buster - Madness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZC6Ot1MLP0

[Dominic]

Hey this one's good. It has the original Prince Buster Version and Madness's version on the same song:

One Step Beyonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3DAHAPLaVI

[memory man]

An Elvis classic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frsBq9MCNVg

[Dominic]

Tainted Love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJKe2j9Wjh4

[memory man]

Dazed and Confused (covered by Led Zep )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTsvs-pAGDc

[Devil]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rveEkv4ZM8k

I remember this quite well, as the first song that I had heard in a different language from English. The original version was quite a hit when I was a teenager (before the word teenager existed!).

[Devil]

The first hit that I recall was "A Tisket A Tasket" which I have just found out was sung by Ella Fitzgerald. I certainly heard it many times before the 39 to 45 war. I don't think there is an actual recording of the original.

Another one I remember well was "Run, Rabbit, Run, Run, Run"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1SX8r5y1qw

which was much parodied a couple of years later into "Run, Hitler, Run, Run, Run"

[memory man]

For Devil..........

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

[Dominic]

Orginal version of Space Oddity:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRMZ_5WYmCg

[memory man]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfsHTufW1z4

[Dominic]

Sorry, but how is "Boy Meets Girl" an original? Rather, what I mean is, who has since covered it?

[Dominic]

Earliest version I could find (covered by everyone from Johnny Cash to the Muppets):

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

Odd how a song about somebody getting dumped is considered a lullaby or a romantic song.

[Dominic]

Me and Bobby McGee (Covered by Janis Joplin)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOoMREvsV9E

[Dominic]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY75PasD6lA

Covered by Elvis, Pet Shop Boys and 100s of others.

[Oxfordboy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP8qXnnn4tc


This may surprise some...

[memory man]

Brilliant Oxfordboy.

I appreciate you posting that.

Well done.