# Songs you didn't know were remakes

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-didnt-know-were-remakes/689244>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 25, 2014, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-didnt-know-were-remakes/689244 "2014-05-25T21:20:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-didnt-know-were-remakes/689244/141 "2014-06-19T12:45:36Z")

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> [@cochrane](#):
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> I didn’t know “Once Bitten, Twice Shy” by Great White was a remake. It was my introduction to Ian Hunter.

Who did it at least twice as well. Nah, make that ten times as well.

It was years before I found out that “Queen Of Hearts” was recorded in a rocking version by Dave Edmunds, before the countryoid Juice Newton version.

Edmunds also did it ten times better.

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**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-didnt-know-were-remakes/689244/142 "2014-06-19T14:16:00Z")

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> [@astorian](#):
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> “Black Magic Woman” was a cover of an old song by the bluesy, Sixties edition of Fleetwood Mac.

Santana’s whole way of playing guitar was a “cover” of the bluesy, Sixties edition of Fleetwood Mac.

I always took it that his cover of “Black Magic Woman” was his way of acknowledging the huge debt he owed them (well, to Peter Green, specifically).

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**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-didnt-know-were-remakes/689244/143 "2014-06-19T14:18:22Z")

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> [@Derleth](#):
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> Another somewhat odd one: [“Me and Bobby McGee”](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_and_Bobby_McGee), as made famous by Janis Joplin, was written by Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster and was originally performed by Roger Miller.

The Grateful Dead did it too.

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-didnt-know-were-remakes/689244/144 "2014-06-19T14:21:34Z")

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> [@Rodgers01](#):
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> Passed out? Why?

Cause for about 30 years I thought it was an original Cat Stevens song, written by Cat Stevens. It blew my mind that the tune is from a 19th century Christmas song.

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**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-didnt-know-were-remakes/689244/145 "2014-06-19T18:36:44Z")

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I was not aware that The Brothers Johnson hit, [Strawberry Letter 23, from 1977](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0bdLdTJdKI), was actually a cover of[Shuggie Otis’ original](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHe_15fJeCA) of the song from 1971.

I actually like Shuggie’s version better.

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