we are going to look and discuss about 6 famous songs that were originally ewre made in the 60’s, but their remakes reinvented them- and even outshined them.

the first song on our list is

Got my mind set on you

original: James Ray (1962)

Remake: George Harrison (1987)

James Ray didn’t have a very big catalog, having died from a drug overdose while in his early 20s. He only had one Top 40 hit, and it’s really a miracle that George Harrison had heard of him at all. But that he did, and the story goes that while Harrison was in the US visiting his sister Louise in 1963, he heard Ray’s original version of “I’ve Got My Mind Set on You” and bought a copy. Years later, when working on his Cloud Nine album in 1987, he decided to do a cover of the song, and it became his third #1 hit. It was also his only #1 not written by him and the last #1 hit any of the Beatles would have as solo artists. Today the song is a classic, all the more amazing because it came from an original that went nowhere and produced a cover that climbed all the way to the top of the charts.

our second song will be

A Groovy Lind of Love

original The Mindbenders(1965)

Remake Phil Collins (1988)

It’s pretty hard to top a record that peaks at #2, but somehow the 1988 cover of “Groovy Kind of Love” did just that. In 1965 when Toni Wine and Carole Bayer Sager first wrote the song, reportedly the word  “groovy” had never been used in a song before, so the Mindbenders made history when they released it that year as their first single; it promptly shot up to #2 on the both the US and UK pop charts. Despite the fact that the word “groovy” had long dropped from standard conversational English in 1988, you can’t beat a good melody, or so Phil Collins apparently thought. His intuition was spot-on, and his release of the song that year surpassed the Mindbenders’ version by going to #1 on both the US and UK charts.

our third song wil be

Solitary Man

original: Neil Diamond – 1966

Remake Johnny Cash: 2000

While Johnny Cash’s cover of Tent Reznor’s “Hurt” gets all the press, this Neil Diamond’s tune is just as good. The 1966 Diamond version was about young-adult heartbreak, while Cash’s rendition is about going through life and never getting over it. It remains not only one of Cash’s best cover songs, but one of his finest moments on the American Recording albums.

Our forth song wil be

American woman

original :the guess who-1970

Remake : Lenny Kravitz – 1998

One of the biggest hits for the Canadian group The Guess Who was a song that seemingly warned against getting involved with American women. But the songwriter Burton Cummings has since said, in a 2013 interview, that it was simply a way of saying that he preferred Canadian girls. Whatever the meaning, Lenny Kravitz tapped into the song’s magnetism and room for guitar theatrics in his 1999 cover that has since become a cover version that is even more famous and adored then the original.

our fifth song will be

Last Kiss

original j frank Wilson-1961

Remake- pearl jam

They may have meant it as a goof, but Pearl Jam made a solid rock ballad out of J Frank Wilson And The Cavaliers’ early-60s teen weeper “Last Kiss.” After Eddie Vedder got the band on board, the group recorded it on the cheap and offered it to their fan club members as a Christmas gift. Still, it does boggle the mind that this remains the biggest chart hit of their career, and one of the best-known cover songs of all time.

And our sixth and last (and my personal favorite)

Sound of scilence

Original: Simon and Garfunkle(1964)

Remake- Disturbed(2015)

“The Sounds of Silence” was written by Paul Simon. The song was recorded in March 1964 for inclusion on Simon and Garfunkle’s debut album, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.

A cover version of “The Sound of Silence” was released by the heavy metal band Disturbed on December 7, 2015. Their cover hit number one on the Billboard Hard Rock Digital Songs and Mainstream Rock charts. It is their highest-charting song. It was even nomimated for a Grramy Award.

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rebeatmag.com

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