Yeah, I had no idea.
The good news is, I love both.
Huh. I’m exactly the opposite. TIL that TMBG covered Cub. To be fair, I don’t think I listened to their work beyond Flood, so I would have missed it. I’m jealous you got to see Cub! I didn’t really learn about them until after they had already broken up.
I thought I already posted this one, but I searched and didn’t find it. Did anyone else have this album? I did. I also had the 8-Track. Actually, I “have” the album and the 8-Track. Remember this song?
“Love Hurts” by Nazareth
Here is the original.
“Love Hurts” by The Everly Brothers
I had labored for decades under the misconception that the original recording was by Roy Orbison, having first learned that the Nazareth version was a cover sometime in the 1980s, when I heard Orbison’s version.
But, you’re right: the Everly Brothers were apparently the first to record it, in 1960 (though they never released it as a single); Orbison recorded it in 1961, and released it as the B-side to “Running Scared.”
That falls into the “Holyfuck!” file. Wow!
Wild huh?
Written by Boudleaux Bryant, one of the Everlys’ most frequent songwriters.
Interesting. I’m going to see what other songs him and his wife Felice Bryant wrote.
kenobi-Roy Orbison had the first hit version.
I first heard “Love Hurts” in the Nazareth version, but now my favorite cover is by Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris.
I also like The Everlys’ original very much.
Shop Around Captain & Tennille
I think it was their breakout hit that lead to a tv show.
I discovered Motown many years later and learned it is a cover.
btw, I still have Shop Around on my phone. It’s the only Captain and Tennille hit that I still enjoy.
I also have the original in my Motown Hits compilation.
Until the recent death of singer/songwriter Sonny Curtis, I never knew that the Bobby Fuller Four version of “I Fought the Law” wasn’t the original. The original version by Sonny Curtis (and the Crickets) is pretty good too, but the BF4 version still rocks me after all these years.
Bobby Fuller’s version could more accurately be called “I Fought the Mob,” considering his mysterious death.
I never knew this! Like many people my age I learned the song from the Clash, but soon knew that it was a cover of the Bobby Fuller Four. But I didn’t know that it even went farther back. I just listened to the Sonny Curtis version, and it’s an interesting take.
I also thought the Bobby Fuller Four version, released in 1965, was the original.
The version the Crickets released in 1960, when Sonny Curtis took Buddy Holly’s place, was more like the Bobby Fuller Four version. The Crickets released it on an album and later a B-side on one of their singles. I wonder why the song received very little airplay.
Great song.
I knew this for a specific reason. The lyric to one of the versions I first knew features the agonizing line:
Love is like a stove, burns you when it’s hot
Clunk or what? (Some versions wisely change that to “Flame”)
So I tracked down the original, only to find that has “Stove” too - and therefore, I must presume that’s how the sainted Boudleaux wrote it. It’s a strange planet.
And yeah, I’m with @EinsteinsHund re favorite version (But, goddamn, they use “Stove” too!)
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I’m with you, I also always cringe at the “stove” line in an otherwise almost perfect song with so many good versions.
agreed: you could easily replace the “stove” with something more romantical …
(a burnt down candle in a smelly outhouse)