Van Morrison’s 1977 song certainly contains some of the 1930 Mississippi Sheiks song.
Category: Music covers
Covers: Let Me In
songwriter: Yvonne Baker
The Sensations recorded the 1961 original version of “Let Me In”
It was covered by Bonnie Raitt in 1973.
The original version is used in a current (December 2018) Cadillac commercial which is what got me to post this.
Covers: Back Door Santa
The original version of “Back Door Santa” was by Clarence Carter in 1968.
songwriters: Clarence Carter and Marcus Daniel.
Covers: I Want to Take You Higher
Tina Turner’s birthday reminded me of “I Want to Take You Higher”. The great original version was by Sly and the Family Stone from 1969. Ike and Tina Turner covered it in 1970. The Ike and Tina version hit #34 on Billboard while the Sly single hit #38 in 1970.
If you didn’t see Sly and the Family Stone in their prime, you missed one of the best bands of the era. I saw them in 1969 and 1971 and they were much better than their records. They were so loud, they made the built-in hockey rink wall in the Philadelphia Spectrum vibrate. They were great in the film Woodstock too.
This is the album version which is longer than the single:
The 45 version:
Look at the amazing dancing by Tina and the Ikettes before the song:
Covers: You Don’t Miss Your Water
songwriter: William Bell
Bell recorded the original version of “You Don’t Miss Your Water” in 1961 for Stax Records. Covers include Otis Redding (1965), King Curtis (1967), The Byrds (1968), Taj Mahal (1968), Otis Clay (1968) Percy Sledge, Johnny Adams (1998) and a live version by Sturgill Simpson from 2017.
The Byrds (Gram Parsons vocal)
William Bell at the White House
Covers: The Loco-Motion
“The Loco-Motion” was written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King and originally recorded by their babysitter, Little Eva in 1962. It has been a US Top 5 hit three times. The other hit recording were by Grand Funk Railroad (1974) and Kylie Minogue.
Covers: Another Night with the Boys
The version of this Goffin-King song I am most familiar with was by the Persuasions (1971).
It appears the original was by the Drifters (1962) or the version by co-author Carole King (1962). There’s a cover by Big Dee Irwin and Little Eva from 1963.
