# Songs you didn't know were remakes

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**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")\
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**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2014, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-didnt-know-were-remakes/689244/51 "2014-05-27T00:49:44Z")

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Here’s what I posted the last two times this topic arose:

> [@Where the well known version of a song is a cover](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-well-known-version-of-a-song-is-a-cover/651895/9):
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> I listen to a weekly radio show called “Crap from the Past,” hosted by Ron “Boogiemonster” Gerber at a community-run station in Minneapolis. He bills it as a graduate-level course in pop music, because he plays all sorts of obscurities. He devoted a couple episodes to this very topic. Here are those episodes (complete with playlists):  
> [Crap From The Past - January 30, 2004: Gosh! I didn't know that was a remake! : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive](http://www.archive.org/details/cftp-2004-01-30)  
> [http://www.archive.org/details/cftp-2005-01-28](http://www.archive.org/details/cftp-2005-01-28)

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