By deep I mean with the most obscure original. I am not talking ‘all along the watch tower’ but things like Fever Ray’s cover of Vashti Bunyan’s song Here before

Fever Ray is relatively well known while Bunyan had very limited success

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probably The Association’s cover of “Windy” by Ruthann Friedman (which she wrote about a guy, btw)

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Who’s tripping down the streets of the city

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Stille Volk’s cover of Iron Maiden’s To Tame A Land:

Stille Volk - Adoumestica Una Terro

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This would be a perfect fit if it went the other way. Big band covering obscure band

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“Torn,” by Natalie Imbruglia (1997) was originally written by Ednaswap and recorded in 1995—which, imo, is better. However, even though they wrote it, it was first recorded in 1993 by danish band, Lis Sørensen, who titled it “Brændt,” which means “Burned.”

Bonus! “The State I’m In” a song from Ednaswap’s first album, was covered by Sinéad O’Connor for her 2000 album Faith and Courage.

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Wild! I didn’t know that wasn’t done by Sinead

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The Louis Prima Orchestra’s cover of “Whatta Ya Gonna Do?”, by Sunny Skylar. One of my favorite songs, a perfect blend of New Orleans and New York in the 40s. The link above is the only version I can find on the internet, which is instrumental. The version on the record I have has vocals and is cleaner. I hope somebody works to preserve Louis Prima’s catalog from the 40s digitally, there’s so much old music at risk of being lost!

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Gloria Jones originally performed Tainted Love in the ‘60s. It didn’t hit until Soft Cell covered it in ‘81.

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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

Tainted Love

Soft Cell covered it

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Holy shit. Mind blown

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Wow, this is why I’m here.

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