# Songs That The Stones Covered **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 21, 2010, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-the-stones-covered/564893 "2010-12-21T00:36:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mangosteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-the-stones-covered/564893/1 "2010-12-21T00:36:59Z")
The Stones do a fine version of _Fortune Teller_. Did they cover any other songs? ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-the-stones-covered/564893/2 "2010-12-21T00:47:47Z")
Going To A Go Go. Originally done by The Miracles before they were Smokey Robinson and The Miracles even though Smokey was in The Miracles. ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-the-stones-covered/564893/3 "2010-12-21T00:51:41Z")
It’s All Over Now (Bobby Womack) Gloria (Van Morrison) Like A Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan) Not Fade Away (Buddy Holly, though I don’t know if he co-wrote it with someone else) ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-the-stones-covered/564893/4 "2010-12-21T00:59:55Z")
Love in Vain – Robert Johnson ---
**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:** [December 21, 2010, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-the-stones-covered/564893/5 "2010-12-21T01:00:16Z")
“Hey Mona” - Bo Diddley ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-the-stones-covered/564893/6 "2010-12-21T01:07:06Z")
“You Gotta Move” - Mississippi Fred McDowell. ETA: Side 3 of [Love You Live](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_You_Live) has nothing but covers. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-the-stones-covered/564893/7 "2010-12-21T02:52:08Z")
**Just My Imagination** (originally by The Temptations) \*\* I Can’t Be Satisfied\*\* (Muddy Waters) ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-the-stones-covered/564893/8 "2010-12-21T02:57:33Z")
[http://www.coversproject.com/artist/rolling%20stones/](http://www.coversproject.com/artist/rolling%20stones/) The first section, bottom part is people who have covered them. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-the-stones-covered/564893/9 "2010-12-21T03:07:58Z")
They did _Route 66_. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-the-stones-covered/564893/10 "2010-12-21T04:52:28Z")
“Shake Your Hips” by Slim Harpo ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-the-stones-covered/564893/11 "2010-12-21T05:58:28Z")
Lots, especially in their earlier days. _The Stones_ [first album](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones_%28album%29) only contains one Jagger-Richard song, and one Nanker-Phelge (i.e., group composition). The other 10 songs are all covers. Five of their first 6 singles were covers or written for them (_I Wanna be Your Man_ written for them by Lennon & McCartney), and the only one that _was_ a Jagger-Richard song was not even released as a single in the U.K. (_Tell Me_ - which is also the one Jagger-Richard song on that first British album - great song though.) The early _Stones_ were basically a cover song band. Here is the [_Stones_ discography](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones_discography) on Wiki. Go through it, and, especially in the '60s, you will find lots and lots of covers. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-the-stones-covered/564893/12 "2010-12-21T12:47:07Z")
> [@Mangosteen](#): > > The Stones do a fine version of _Fortune Teller_. > > Did they cover any other songs? \*\*njtt \*\*offers a nice summary. If you are looking to get into the Stones - and I would strongly recommend it - then, yeah, please understand that they went through at least 3 distincts phases - - Early - started as a cover band; they didn’t know how to write songs and only started when their manager grabbed friends Keith and Mick and literally locked them in a room. - Middle - begun songwriting with 60’s pop songs - 19th Nervous Breakdown, Paint it, Black, Satisfaction, etc. Some covers, but really turned over to their own stuff. - Golden and beyond - from Let it Bleed and Beggars Banquent on, when Keith started writing songs in Open G tuning and moving the anchor from 60’s pop to older blues sources then their songwriting got more sophisticated and their covers became much more thematic and in their own voice. Stuff like Shake Your Hips off Exile just fit perfectly in their new approach to the music… ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-the-stones-covered/564893/13 "2010-12-21T13:32:18Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > _The Stones_ [first album](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones_%28album%29) only contains one Jagger-Richard song, and one Nanker-Phelge (i.e., group composition). Two Nanker-Phelges, actually, although “Little by Little” is such a blatant rip-off of Jimmy Reed’s “Shame Shame Shame” that it might as well be a cover. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-the-stones-covered/564893/14 "2010-12-21T14:14:23Z")
“The Harlem Shuffle” (Bob and Earl). ---
**Author:** ![Keith\_Berry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/22d042/32.png) [@Keith\_Berry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keith_Berry)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-the-stones-covered/564893/15 "2010-12-21T15:56:00Z")
They did a cool version of Muddy Water’s “Champagne And Reefer” on the _Shine A Light_ concert film, with Buddy Guy joining in to boot. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-the-stones-covered/564893/16 "2010-12-21T16:27:45Z")
“Just My Imagination” has been mentioned, but they did several Temptations covers. They’ve done their own verisons of “My Girl” and “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg.” ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-the-stones-covered/564893/17 "2010-12-21T17:44:16Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > They did _Route 66_. Supposedly the very first song the BBC played in FM stereo. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-the-stones-covered/564893/18 "2010-12-21T22:11:57Z")
“Ain’t Too Proud to Beg” ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-the-stones-covered/564893/19 "2010-12-21T23:02:02Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Love in Vain – Robert Johnson Also Stop Breaking Down. They didn’t credit Johnson on the first release of the album, and I saw Taj Mahal sing a song criticizing them for ripping off blues songs in general just after. ---
**Author:** ![C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C.Montgomery_Burns)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2010, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-the-stones-covered/564893/20 "2010-12-22T02:36:20Z")
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