Has Weird Al Yankovic ever released an entire cover song?
Beastie Boys
(Unless you want to be picky and count the live recording of “Bennie and the Jets” on the greatest hits album.)
I don’t think live albums count. But if they do, Queen did “Tutti Frutti” on one of their live albums.
Dave Matthews Band
They have played cover songs on tour which ended up on live CDs, but they never recorded a cover for an album.
Actually, they performed a medley of old rock and roll hits for YEARS and finally released it on the ‘live at Wembley’ album several years ago.
Let’s see if I can remember off the top of my head…
You’re So Square
Hello Mary Lou, Goodbye Heart
Tutti Frutti
Gimme Some Lovin’
In addition, over the years they’ve played ‘Jailhouse Rock’, ‘Saturday Night’s All Right For Fighting’, ‘Hey Big Spender’ (been doing that one since 1974), ‘Imagine’, and many others. They were famous for it.
Oh, and don’t forget that they did ‘New York, New York’ on the soundtrack for ‘The Highlander’.
As for this…
Nay, my young friend. The first single they ever released was a cover back before Peart joined up. It was ‘Not Fade Away/Can’t Fight It’. I’ve got a copy around here somewhere.
Depends on what you consider a recording, but early on Dire Straits used to perform a few covers, Chuck Berry’s Nadine being the most prominent to pop up on all sorts of bootlegs and semi-official live releases.
Zeppelin kinda had a problem with giving credit for covers of blues songs. In addition to You Shook Me (you gotta hear Muddy Waters’ version) and Whole Lotta Love, there’s How Many More Times, which was originally Howlin’ Wolf’s How Many More Years. They also took the riff from Wolf’s Killing Floor and put it in The Lemon Song - the title line of which is from a song by Robert Johnson.
ABBA almost made the list until they did a cover of “On Top of Old Smokey” as the B-side of “Summernight City”.
Yes, Bohemian Rhapsody, done polka-style!
I am not as huge of a Pink Floyd fan as others are, but I don’t think they have released a cover song.
Buddy Holly and the Crickets?
Nope. I’m pretty sure they released a cover of ‘Bo Diddley’ somewhere in there.
Also, Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies, which was the lyrics of the Hillbillies theme song over the tune of MfN.
Pink Floyd never have, to my knowledge (except in the early years covering Bo Diddly and the like, but I don’t think it was released).
Have The Who done any covers?
Yep and, if I remember correctly, they lost a case over “Boogie with Stu” and had to include song writing credit for Ritchie Valens.
One of my favorite Beatles songs is a cover. " A Taste of Honey."
So what have The Rolling Stones covered?
Off the top of my head I know that they covered “Love in Vain” by Robert Johnson.
I don’t think REM has ever done a cover, have they?
They also covered Robert Johnson’s ‘Travelling Riverside Blues’ for BBC Sessions, which was the origin of all this lemon squeezing business.
Technically, this isn’t recording a cover, but Zeppelin did live covers all the time, sometimes as standalone pieces, but usually as part of a ‘Whole Lotta Love’ or ‘How Many More Times’ medley.
Jimmy Page also admitted that he ripped off the main riff and the title for “Dazed and Confused” but I don’t remember who he swiped it from.
“Not Fade Away”, originally performed by Buddy Holly
I’d have to agree that there hasn’t been a Pink Floyd cover, even on their live CDs.