The Uncovering

Below are fifteen songs. Next to each song is the name of a band who covered the song. Your task, without looking it up anywhere, is to name the person/band who wrote (or played) the original.

Some are old; some are new; all are borrowed; few are blue.

  1. Take Me To The River - Talking Heads Al Green - [Bobby L]
  2. Between The Bars - Madeleine Peyroux Elliot Smith - [M]
  3. Sound And Vision - Sea And Cake David Bowie - [Bobby L]
  4. Smooth Criminal - Alien Ant Farm Micheal Jackson - [Bobby L]
  5. Where Have All The Good Times Gone - Van Halen
  6. Woodstock - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Joni MItchell - [Bobby L]
  7. I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston Dolly Parton - [Bobby L]
  8. Bringin on the Heartbreak - Mariah Carey Def Leppard - [Bobby L]
  9. This Love - Natasha Bedingfield Maroon 5 - [Bobby L]
  10. Landslide - Smashing Pumpkins Fleetwood Mac - [Bobby L]
  11. Red Red Wine - UB40 Neil Diamond - [Bobby L]
  12. Cum On Feel The Noize - Quiet Riot Slade - [Rob C]
  13. Jolene - The White Stripes Dolly Parton - [Rob C]
  14. Hallelujah - Jeff BuckleyLeonard Cohen- [Rob C]
  15. Proud Mary - Ike & Tina Turner CCR - [Bobby L]

Post your answers in comments. I'll mark them off as people get them. Void where prohibited.

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7 thoughts on “The Uncovering

  1. bobby lightfoot

    Oooohhhh——can’t resist—–

    1. Al Green
    2. No flippin’ clue
    3. Errr… David Bowie?
    4. Michaela Jackson
    5. Disgracefully, I knoweth not.
    6. Joni Mitchell
    7. Dolly P represeh-in’
    8. Those wacky fellows in Def Leppard
    9. Maroon…uh…6?
    10. Fleetwood Mac
    11. Neil Diamond
    12. Christ, I thought they wrote that. A dubious distinction awaits…someone.
    13. Errr…Ray LaMountain sp.?
    14. Lernerd Cerstein
    15. Cleedence Crearwater Revilevel

    Good ‘un if you can stump this old song student.

  2. Rob Caldecott

    Cum on Feel the Noize – Slade
    Jolene – Dolly Parton
    Hallelujah – Leonard Cohen

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