I don’t think this ones been mentioned, Status Quo’s cover of Rocking All Over The World is probably better know that John Fogerty’s original.
“Turn the Page” by Bob Seger and “Turn the Page” by Metallica are about equal in fame. (Bob Seger’s the original).
“Live and Let Die”, The GNR cover eclipsed the Wings version IMHO.
“Woodstock” was also covered in Britain by Mathews’ Southern Comfort, and was a #1 hit for them (in 1970, I think). Their version may not be the best remembered now, but at that time, in Britain, it was certainly the best known.
Ha! The hit version I remember was by Lulu, long before Nirvana. (David played the sax on Lulu’s version I believe.)
That’s because Manfred Mann turned it into a song about a feminine hygiene product. 
This was Bruce’s only number one hit as a writer; he has zero as a singer.
As for my contribution to the thread, I nominate “Theme from New York, New York” by Kander and Ebb. Originally performed by Liza, well known because of the Chairman of the Board.
Little Wing by Stevie Ray Vaughan got a lot more air play than Jimi Hendrix’s original in later years. Both superbly done by both of them in the studio and also live.
Your typo (manager v manger) cracked me up. I was similarly surprised when it was included in our hymnal until I saw that Cat Stevens didn’t write it. I’d never heard “Child in a Manger” so I just assumed “Morning Has Broken” was his creation.
Fleetwood Mac recorded “Landslide” first, but I think the Dixie Chick’s version was more famous.
Also, Elvis’ “Hound Dog” and “Suspicious Minds” (among many others) were covers.
The Beatles also covered Til There Was You, which was written in 1957 for the Broadway production of The Music Man.
How about “Blue Moon” first big recording was by Connie Boswell (one of the Boswell Sisters.)
But now associated more with the doowop version recorded by the Marcels.
Hmmm, maybe among country music fans. My wife thought it was a Dixie Chicks song. Smashing Pumpkins covered it several years earlier.
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I once had a very interesting talk with Rudy Isley about how he introduced “Twist and Shout” to John Lennon. The Isley Brothers did a British tour with the Beatles in 1962.
I damn near fell off my chair when I googled “Child in a Manager,” and found out “Morning is Broken” (which uses the same tune) is not a Cat Stevens original, having first been published in 1961.
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I wouldn’t be. We used to sing this back in Catholic School. I was surprised to hear Cat Stevens singing it later.
I’ve been a country music fan for over 30 years now and the Chicks are the reason why I hate the song.
God bless you always!!!
Holly
Eric Clapton covered it on Layla, which is one of the most famous albums in rock history and probably has been played, at least by individuals, more by itself than Vaughan’s entire output.
Same with the Dixie Chicks and “Landslide.” Comparing a single with an album cut is tough, but Fleetwood Mac gets played to death on rock stations and there are many more of those than the country stations the Dixie Chicks get played on.
Everybody covered Dylan in the 60’s, and made him their breakthrough to the charts. The Turtles first charting single was “It Ain’t Me, Babe.” The Byrds broke through with “Mr. Tambourine Man.” They planned for “All I Really Want to Do” to be their second single, but Cher did it at the same time and got her first solo hit out it. (Hers went to 15, the Byrds only to 40.) Hendrix’s only Top 40 song was “All Along the Watchtower.” This site lists dozens of pages of Dylan covers, some of them really odd.
Which reminds me that in 1969 the Hollies did a whole album of Dylan covers, Hollies Sing Dylan (US title: Words and Music by Bob Dylan). It was awful, in the extreme, but a lot of people (like me) bought because the concept sounded great. There were earlier examples of some orchestra doing instrumental covers of The Beatles, but that’s the first one of a rock artist doing a whole album of another rock artist.
I think. If I’m wrong, I’d like to know.
I know I’ll regret this, but…why?
^^^ Because the Chicks are one of my least favorite acts.
God bless you always!!!
Holly
Why the Dixie Chicks hate from someone we all know loves country music?
^^^ I don’t hate anyone and to me, they aren’t country because if they were, they wouldn’t have made such a spectacle of themselves ten years ago after everyone else gave their two cents just like they did.
God bless you always!!!
Holly
P.S. I already didn’t go for them because of their song named “Sin Wagon”, but then when they acted as if they were the only people who had the right to speak their minds, that pretty much made it has clear as glass to me that they aren’t even worth two cents. I don’t believe that I have to cheer for every act that is labeled country anyways. That is what is so great about America. We have the freedom to change the radio station when an act that isn’t our favorite is getting played. 
Not sure folk singers should really count, but the MTA song is an actual election song covered by the Kingston Trio (with the name changed so they weren’t singing in celebration of a gasp Socialist politician).
And I always wondered why we sang it in mass.
God bless the Dixie Chicks always!!!