The details are as close as the Straight Dope archive.
Well, you see? I did read it somewhere. I read it in The Straight Dope 
But still, my question seems unanswered. Is any release after the first considered a ‘cover’ or any release not performed by the writer a ‘cover’? Carole King, or the team of Goffin/King wrote “Will you still love me tomorrow?” in 1959 or 1960. It was first released in the 1960 by the Shirelles and was #1 for 3 weeks. In 1971, Carole King recorded and release her own version of the same song. So, who did the cover?
Good lord, someone else here knows about Big Daddy? **
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god, i love big daddy- i have several of there cd’s.
didja know they were also the benzedrine monks of santo domonica?
i love to put these cd’s on when people come over. after a while it sinks in what they are singing. i get some real strange looks.
I absolutely love the Beck cover of David Bowie’s Diamond Dogs.
For a seriously offbeat cover, there’s The Bobs (a fabulous comedy a capella group) with their version of **Helter Skelter **
And I really like ZZ Top’s version of Viva Las Vegas which indeed rocks. It also features a few snippets of The King.
Robert Plant singing with Rockpile did a version of Little Sister on one of the benefit albums (for Kampuchea, I believe) that was pretty decent.
Also have to mention two artists who substantially reinterpreted their own earlier work (in both cases by slowing down the tempo): **Eric Clapton -“Layla” ** and Neil Sedaka - "Breaking Up is Hard to Do"
Shhh, don’t tell Ogre I’m talking about Monte again, but:
Monte Montgomery’s cover of “Little Wing”
… a live version of which can be found here.
Ned’s Atomic Dustbin covering Bay City Rollers’ “Saturday Night”
Sepultura doing New Model Army’s “The Hunt”
Can’t believe I left this one out:
Workin’ in a Coal Mine- Devo