With a Little Help From Covers #MusicMovesMe

It's Monday.  It's time for music!  But first, let's introduce the Music Moves Me bloggers.

We are bloggers who blog about music each Sunday or Monday and if you have music to share with us, you are most welcome to join! (Music Posts Only-meaning at least one music video, please!)   Our head host is Xmas Dolly, and our co-hosts are Cathy from Curious as a Cathy, joined by the knowledgeable Stacy of Stacy Uncorked and yours truly.

You are welcome to join our Monday music group.  It's so easy. All you have to do is join the linky above with a music post that contains at least one music video.  No music video? Your post may be removed, or may be labeled *NO MUSIC*.We alternate theme weeks and no theme weeks.

Today's theme is You Pick.  Saturday, I had a conversation with my spouse during our exercise walk.  On the way to the trail, we had heard Joe Cocker's cover of With a Little Help From My Friends and we got to talking about covers of Beatles songs that we felt were better than the original.   I thought some more, and there are other covers that I feel are better than the originals.

So here are a few of my favorite cover songs.

So let's start with Joe Cocker at Woodstock, covering the Beatles' With a Little Help From My Friends.

The last thing I would have expected was a Johnny Cash cover of a Nine Inch Nails song, but he recorded this masterpiece of a cover six months before he died.  The video is a must see, too.

I loved the Bobby Fuller Four's I Fought The Law when it came out, enough to spend my allowance on the 45 when it came out in 1966.  I never realized that was a cover of a song written by Sonny Lewis of The Crickets in 1958 and recorded by them in 1959.  No matter, this 1977 cover by The Clash is even better, in my opinion.

I did know that Led Zeppelin's song When the Levee Breaks was a cover, but, until I researched this post, I had never heard the original by Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Mimmie.  The song is based on experiences in a 1927 flood on the Mississippi River.  I decided to include both the original and the Led Zeppelin version.  The original is different but deserves a hearing just for its historical value (I also invite you to watch the video).

Led Zeppelin's cover.  I shouldn't say this cover is better - it's just a different interpretation. 

Finally, a musical performance on this past week's America's Got Talent has people saying it was better than the original.  Here's Lavender Darcangelo and "I Want to Know What Love Is".  If you are interested, here's a little more about Ms. Darcangelo.

And that's a wrap!

Join me again next week for another episode of Music Moves Me, as we welcome September.