# Cover songs that should exist, but don't. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 17, 2013, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-that-should-exist-but-dont/647559 "2013-01-17T22:55:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac8455/32.png) [@James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/James_Otto_Sweet_Heart)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-that-should-exist-but-dont/647559/61 "2013-01-28T15:21:25Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > But do you think he could do the song justice? To me James can do any song justice. 🙂 🙂 🙂 God bless you and him always!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 Holly ---
**Author:** ![GreenElf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@GreenElf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenElf)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-that-should-exist-but-dont/647559/62 "2013-01-28T15:23:06Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Neil Young covering America’s “Horse With No Name.” Neil Young sang that, didn’t he? Didn’t he?! :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-that-should-exist-but-dont/647559/63 "2013-01-28T15:33:19Z")
I want to hear Howlin’ Wolf cover Hendrix’s Spanish Castle Magic. ---
**Author:** ![Beastly\_Rotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Beastly\_Rotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastly_Rotter)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-that-should-exist-but-dont/647559/64 "2013-01-28T19:52:13Z")
> [@James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](#): > > It would be up to him. I don’t know if James knows that song. I just know that I don’t. The gist is that Pablo Picasso never got called an asshole. ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-that-should-exist-but-dont/647559/65 "2013-01-28T20:02:38Z")
I don’t have a specific artist, but I always wanted to hear a same-sex version of “A Whole New World” from Aladdin - so instead of soprano & tenor, it would be tenor & baritone or soprano & alto. And the arrangement that’s in the movie, rather than the schmaltzfest that is the Celine Dione/Peabo Bryson “commercial” version. ---
**Author:** ![Musky\_Moon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90db22/32.png) [@Musky\_Moon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musky_Moon)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-that-should-exist-but-dont/647559/66 "2013-01-28T20:53:31Z")
I always wanted to hear a hard rock version of “The Letter” by the Boxtops. ---
**Author:** ![James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac8455/32.png) [@James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/James_Otto_Sweet_Heart)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-that-should-exist-but-dont/647559/67 "2013-01-28T21:03:47Z")
> [@Beastly\_Rotter](#): > > The gist is that Pablo Picasso never got called an asshole. Okay. But of course James has to know the song in order to cover it. God bless you and him always!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 Holly ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-that-should-exist-but-dont/647559/68 "2013-01-28T21:07:33Z")
> [@Musky\_Moon](#): > > I always wanted to hear a hard rock version of “The Letter” by the Boxtops. I don’t think you’ll get a harder cover than [Joe Cocker](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RnjWLVyMps)’s. ---
**Author:** ![Beastly\_Rotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Beastly\_Rotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastly_Rotter)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-that-should-exist-but-dont/647559/69 "2013-01-29T06:09:11Z")
> [@James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](#): > > Okay. But of course James has to know the song in order to cover it. > > God bless you and him always!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 > > Holly Well, he was only five foot three but girls could not resist his stare. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-that-should-exist-but-dont/647559/70 "2013-01-29T06:27:25Z")
> [@C.Montgomery\_Burns](#): > > Roy Orbison is long dead, but he would have done a good cover of Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress). Perhaps he could do a cover of The Long Black Veil instead. I could dig it. Nifty thread idea. Unexpected covers are often the best–see, e.g., Edge of Sanity’s fairly orthodox take on [Invisible Sun](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlByiBIqhQo) or Jill Tracy’s [(Variations on) Paint it Black](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gecrRAd731w). ETA: Gah! I was trying to think of a thing, and now I have. Unexpected covers are often the best: Who would expect this cover of Bad Religion’s “[Better Off Dead](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-Sx23b88sI)” from doom metallers [Anathema](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tthY_hZKZAA)? Same music, same lyrics… completely different emotion. ---
**Author:** ![James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac8455/32.png) [@James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/James_Otto_Sweet_Heart)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-that-should-exist-but-dont/647559/71 "2013-01-29T08:55:25Z")
> [@Beastly\_Rotter](#): > > Well, he was only five foot three but girls could not resist his stare. James is six foot five so what do you mean by this? God bless you and him always!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 Holly [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-songs-that-should-exist-but-dont/647559.md?page=3)