“spearmint” isn’t a commercial product name
True - but I think the average person at the time would relate “spearmint” to the gum’s brand name rather than to the flavoring product of nature. The BBC could be picky at times.
“Black Hole Sun” performed by Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme
So you weren’t familiar with the original Soundgarden huge hit written by lead singer Chris Cornell?
Until a few years ago I had no idea that “Step On” by the Happy Mondays was a cover of an oldie called “He’s Gonna Step on You Again” by (the unknown to me) John Kongos.
I did not know The Doobie Brothers was a cover. What A Fool Believes.
I didn’t know this one either. Heart and Soul not Huey Lewis but Exile.
Hopefully, I’m not repeating someone else.
The Bus Boys have the best version of Heart and Soul of them all. Much better than Lewis’
link? please
Never mind found it. Good, But I must still go with Huey.
Sez wikipedia:
" What a Fool Believes " is a song written by Michael McDonald and Kenny Loggins. The best-known version was recorded by The Doobie Brothers (with McDonald singing lead vocals) for their 1978 album Minute by Minute . Debuting at number 73 on January 20, 1979, the single reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on April 14, 1979 for one week.[6] The song received Grammy Awards in 1980 for both Song of the Year and Record of the Year.
Not exactly a cover…co-written, both recorded it.
Huh…interesting.
The 1963 original It’s All Right by Curtis Mayfield and The Impressions.
The one I knew.
We watched Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and heard the familiar strains of Hush, but it was by Deep Purple.
We thought it was originally by Gotthard.
And even Deep Purple’s version is a cover.
Most know the Dave Edmunds version, and some think Fats Domino was the original, but it was actually Smiley Lewis
Thank you for fighting my ignorance! (And what a great original.)
j
I never realized the Terry Jacks version of Seasons In The Sun wasn’t an original.
Jacques Brel’s 1961 original Le Moribund.
Likewise - Terry Jack’s other hit - “If You Go Away”, and the Jacques Brel original “Ne Me Quitte Pas” - also from 1961.
Terry Jacks’ version was not even the first English version. The Kingston Trio recorded one in 1964.
A real genre-bender: the lyric “Hush, I though I heard her calling my name” appears to have been lifted from “Death Letter”, a song by legendary Delta blues singer Son House. I’m not saying that such a short phrase would consitutute infringement. I just think it’s bizarre that those two songs have anything in common.
FWIW I always thought the opening melody of “Hush” was a duple-meter version of the melody in the Beatles’ “A Day in the Life” (at the end of Paul’s middle part, after the words “Somebody spoke and I went into a dream”). Same lyrics too. 
I pointed this out in a thread about five years ago, and was surprised few others had noticed it— especially since Deep Purple plays it at half-tempo near the end of the song (i.e., similar speed to the Beatles song). I asked Dopers which was composed first — the consensus was they were composed independently, circa Christmas 1966, so it’s a coincidence.
“Lyrics” - ha! They’re both singing about sodium. 