Foo - Originals... Another Musical Journey

Coming from the Country Music thread... always an interesting journey to discover what popular music was actually new and popular 60-70 - 80 years ago...

Pretty common knowledge that Led Zepelin drew a lot of their music from early blues and that British musicians were responsible for the revival of the blues.

Memphis Minnie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2m0ROgy5WY

Zep...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9cpziwfV90&feature=related

Leadbelly... 1944 (This song is even older)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blI2dXHyBj0

Nirvana...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ-Nox_uN9A&feature=related

Robert Johnson's Sweet Home Chicago 1937

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkftesK2dck
Clapton

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moAR4Bb2QHI

Amazing thread so far! Nice!

On The Wall:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur7Rro1Vda0


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMFQYYia5bE

That's an outright cover, not piracy like Led Zep went for though...

Boogie Chillen


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai93A9M8YOE

ZZ Top's reworking drew a lawsuit but the original was ruled public domain


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kQKOthaApM

Crossroads Robert Johnson


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd60nI4sa9A


Crossroads Cream


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hwnb8AB2kc

Judy Garland 1938

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWeF5Zv_pzs&feature=related

Eva Cassidy in her last public performance (1996), still gives me goosebumps.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce-5OWBNGNw

Pretty common knowledge that Led Zepelin drew a lot of their music from early blues and that British musicians were responsible for the revival of the blues.

The Blues never needed reviving in Arkansas, it's still alive and well.

The Blues never needed reviving in Arkansas, it's still alive and well.

I read a funny review the other day of a book about the 'rediscovery' of Son House 'who hadn't considered himself to be lost'

Eva Cassidy in her last public performance (1996), still gives me goosebumps.

Indeed... think this version will be remembered and listened to 70 years from now.

Pretty common knowledge I think that The Animals weren't the first to do this song, but I think it's interesting that no one seems to be really sure exactly how old the song is. I believe this is the oldest known recording of it:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=147kS8O59Qs

And of course The Animals' version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34Iy2lYvNKs&feature=related
The Animals were yet another British band that was heavily influenced by blues.

I also like Bob Dylan's version a lot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5w63cyNOYY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4esV-NMe3m0



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-eOjitNCdU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2kxlZDOHeQ




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Om-nZeSBUU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abbj9kCBCfI



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQdElqOoUpw

If you check out the fine rockabilly compilations of the Imperial label, you will find a slew of tunes absconded with by Mssrs Sexter & crew. Why they credited Dorsey Burnette et al in some spots, but not others is beyond me. When they covered Eddie Cochran they usually modified the lyrics, so why not give everyone credit? No sir, I don't like it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjrr3D486bk


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgRYncR1Nog

(check out Jerry Harrison's baby face!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc2iLAubras


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl8sWnUZVL4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omG-hZfN6zk


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTVv7kyz8OA

Henry Mancini Peter Gunn


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcflCzZlLcQ

I love this cover by The Art of Noise!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuAQRDmuJbk&feature=fvst

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqeW7-tmVU4

Too many people have covered this beauty including
Lennon Sisters
Al Jolson
Lenny Kravitz
Da Brat
Yardbirds
Taj Mahal & Corey Harris
Bob Wills


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_JusE2urNo


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_xvESvZF5s

The White Cliffs of Dover

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp6tzQ4R1tg


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5NcBkmlNro

Led Zeppelin is one of my favorite bands, but no one is more guilty of theft...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTsvs-pAGDc


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58mQvW0ROag&feature=related


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf2e4QPPxJY&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LOEIC4WhZ8


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA8XHci9lUE&feature=fvsr

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkX7Q2J7k48


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4WJO1dfM6o&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM8_HuQ0b34


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp0jZ4BGuDw


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXKboDqiSbE

Of course when theft sounds that good who gives a toss?

Old school

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrnRL5i7CZ0


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2RNe2jwHE0

Led Zeppelin is one of my favorite bands, but no one is more guilty of theft... Dazed and Confused

I'm gonna have to check out Jake Holmes. Never heard of him before, but I should have.

The Yardbirds version just shows what Robert Plant added to the song. Jimmy Paige already had the licks down, but it needed Plant to make it a classic. Same guitar even. ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jN5vqEyV7g


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t1_ETuWIbE

I'm gonna have to check out Jake Holmes. Never heard of him before, but I should have.

The Yardbirds version just shows what Robert Plant added to the song. Jimmy Paige already had the licks down, but it needed Plant to make it a classic. Same guitar even. ;)

the weird thing is, in a few cases, the originators knew of and tacitly condoned the appropriations - even tho they could have sued at that early point. But they later did sue. Holmes, and Willie Dixon.

Yeah, Plant and Bonham > relf and mccarty...John Paul Jones is in another universe, but to be fair Chris Dreja had only played bass a short time at that point.

Jack does a good cover, I must say...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1plvBR02wDs


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS60oTRxh0g

Speaking of Jack White...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsF4y7O55jU


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5aUZ5bwDNs

And the version I was first familiar with:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSgBN0RRTfQ

I honestly couldn't say which one I like best. Of course the original and the Gary Puckett version are similar and I like them both. But Jack White's version is very different, and I like it as well, just not in the same way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAsDSFLeoJE


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtMVJwcWcPA

Elizabeth Cotten wrote this in 1905... when she was 11... and invented a very widely copied (Cotten) picking style


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUK8emiWabU&feature=related

Chet Atkins made the song famous.... it one cover I am not that fond of that has been copied by many people.

One of the many covers of this song, and one of the best.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_wrFI-Kbxk&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymKLymvwD2U

The cover by "Neil Young" is so much better...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N799R_mDx_U

Love "Neil Young's" version. :lol: