OK #NewWestGoesViral - come at me! I want your favourite cover versions, I want the sacrilegious cover versions that aren& #39;t worthy of the original artist, I want the cover version you didn& #39;t know for years WERE cover versions.
What have you got? https://twitter.com/RubyCampbell/status/1247909828355223553">https://twitter.com/RubyCampb...

Here& #39;s one to get you started. A hit when I was growing up... sounds like a typical S/A/W Bananarama bouncy hit... but nope... it& #39;s actually from 1969
cover https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4-1ASpdT1Y
original">https://www.youtube.com/watch... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LhkyyCvUHk
(still">https://www.youtube.com/watch... makes you want to dance)
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I have one more for you... you& #39;ll have to have some patience because it& #39;s a long & twisted one.
English traditional folk songs were passed down for 100s of years orally - one person taught the next & so on. Lyrics changed over time - misremembered or misheard

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There& #39;s a famous song that goes by Prickle Eye Bush and several other names about someone about to be hanged and waiting/hoping for someone to bring a ransom to free them. Here& #39;s The Watersons very traditional version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BViQOy49QI8">https://www.youtube.com/watch...

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Here& #39;s one any kid that had an early Xbox knows... Gary Jules cover of the 1983 Tears for Fears classic. Does all the right things - it& #39;s beautiful in its own right and it also re-imagines the original without taking anything away https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4">https://www.youtube.com/watch...

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But hey... fresh off the presses... listen to THIS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEpfvTdR5-U
that& #39;s">https://www.youtube.com/watch... Curt Smith from TFF & his daughter covering Gary Jules& #39; cover of his own song. Her voice <3