Can you name the songs made popular twice?

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While some of these songs were covered by multiple artists, an attempt has been made to feature the most well known versions
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Original	Song	Covered
The Eurythmics		Marilyn Manson
Richie Valens		Los Lobos
Simon and Garfunkel		The Bangles
Dolly Parton		Whitney Houston
The Isley Brothers		The Beatles
Bob Marley		Eric Clapton
Carl Perkins		Elvis Presley
The Monkees		Smash Mouth
David Bowie		Nirvana
Willie Nelson and/or Elvis Presley		The Pet Shop Boys
Johnny Cash		Social Distortion
Roy Orbison		Van Halen
Neil Diamond		UB40
The Commodores		Faith No More
Bob Dylan		Jimi Hendrix
Nine Inch Nails		Johnny Cash

Original	Song	Covered
Roberta Flack		The Fugees
Gloria Jones		Soft Cell
LeAnn Rimes		Trisha Yearwood
Slade		Quiet Riot
The Guess Who		Lenny Kravitz
CCR		Ike & Tina Turner
The Beatles		Aerosmith
Eric Carmen		Celine Dion
Gloria Gaynor		Cake
Bill Withers		Club Nouveau
Stevie Wonder		Red Hot Chili Peppers
Johnny Nash		Jimmy Cliff
Tears for Fears		M. Andrews (feat. G. Jules)
Rolling Stones		Devo
Fleetwood Mac		Dixie Chicks
Wings		Guns N' Roses

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Songs Done Twice Quiz

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Published: March 3rd, 2009
Category: Music
Plays: 78,817

Tags: Popular Quizzes, Song Quizzes, original, made, done, twice, covered

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	nearlyextinct:	Mar 3rd, 2009 at 04:28 GMT	-4 points
	Interesting quiz, I could only get one.

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	XUCC:	Mar 3rd, 2009 at 04:38 GMT	13 points
	johnny cash did hurt on one of american music remake albums, his last three albums were mostly covers.

	Breaker1:	Mar 3rd, 2009 at 04:40 GMT	7 points
	Funny enough, I've been considering submitting this very quiz for the past two weeks. Incidentally, I have a list ready to go should you decide to make a sequel, but I'm sure the comments section will be FILLED over the next 12 hours with songs "you guys missed". :)

	radiosilence:	Mar 3rd, 2009 at 04:43 GMT	15 points
	In addition to the "you missed this song" comments, there should be a few "so-and-so also covered this song" comments, like Wall of Voodoo also covering "Ring of Fire" and Smashing Pumpkins also covering "Landslide." :+)

	johnlk:	Mar 3rd, 2009 at 04:50 GMT	17 points
	Otis Redding also covered "Satisfaction" (so did Britney Spears, but let us never speak of that again).

	Quizmonster:	Mar 3rd, 2009 at 05:01 GMT	6 points
	Aerosmith also covered the Beatles' "I'm Down."

	Liberal:	Mar 3rd, 2009 at 05:03 GMT	0 points
	You should of done the most famous cover: Hounddog.

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	Jeremy:	Mar 3rd, 2009 at 05:11 GMT	9 points
	(feat. Jules)? You've got to be kidding me. I was thinking Jules was some rapper I've never heard of. If it had said Gary Jules I would have gotten it in a second. He's the guy singing it after all.

	Nuclear_Knuckles:	Mar 3rd, 2009 at 05:40 GMT	3 points
	For the songs that were also covered by other people, no problem. But if, as Tim Harrod says, the same cover artist also covered a different song by the same original artist, that should probably be made an alternate answer or removed from the quiz. I don't know either of those Aerosmith covers so I don't know if one of them is 50X more popular than the other...

	Nathan Jones:	Mar 3rd, 2009 at 05:45 GMT	1 point
	Great quiz! One quibble -- "Always on My Mind" was originally by Elvis Presley; Willie Nelson's version was just a cover. The Pet Shop Boy's version originated when they participated on a tv about Elvis' death, and they covered it for that show.

	Nuclear_Knuckles:	Mar 3rd, 2009 at 05:47 GMT	2 points
	I got most of them right, but I think there's only 4 songs for which I'm really familiar with both the original and cover. Of those, I'd say the original was superior 3 times, and the cover once. The Dylan original is very good but the Hendrix cover is on another level. Marley blows away the emasculated Clapton cover. I think CCR has a slight edge over Ike and Tina. Andnow I forgot what the 4th one was. What do other people prefer? (This may cause a generational schism.)

	Melissa:	Mar 3rd, 2009 at 05:47 GMT	4 points
	Always on my Mind is actually originally Elvis, not Willie.

	Esteban:	Mar 3rd, 2009 at 06:12 GMT	7 points
	Actually it's originally Brenda Lee. However, Willie's is the most famous, I'd argue.

	springmom:	Mar 3rd, 2009 at 06:48 GMT	4 points
	I much prefer Willie's version! In many of these cases, I've heard the original but not the remake, or I've heard both of them. I don't always prefer the original, but I usually do.

	lil_lemur:	Mar 3rd, 2009 at 07:50 GMT	2 points
	more tricky than i thought it would be. grand total of 12.

	bluesixstring:	Mar 3rd, 2009 at 07:53 GMT	2 points
	Esteban beat me to it, Brenda Lee beat them both. There are so many good ones not on this list, I can't wait for the sequel! You could probably make a list just on Dylan covers (most of which are more famous than the his version)

	debbiedoesnothin:	Mar 3rd, 2009 at 08:19 GMT	1 point
	I'm surprised more people didn't know the Johnny Nash one since I'm hearing it all day every day on the radio. I got 18. Because I'm old.

	LeeC:	Mar 3rd, 2009 at 10:52 GMT	4 points
	Oasis also did a cover of the Slade song.

	HalfWelsh:	Mar 3rd, 2009 at 11:17 GMT	3 points
	Good quiz, I guess there must be loads more potential songs that fall into this category, so rather than the usual listing the ones I know, can we have a sequel maybe please?

	SpicAndSpan:	Mar 3rd, 2009 at 11:18 GMT	8 points
	Didn't Quiet Riot also cover Slade's "Mama Weer All Crazee Now"?

	Havok3595:	Mar 3rd, 2009 at 11:37 GMT	5 points
	It took I'm Down for Aerosmith, which is good, and should take Like A Rolling Stone for Dylan/Hendrix.

	Evan:	Mar 3rd, 2009 at 11:45 GMT	1 point
	I got 23. woo hoo!

	Ribhump:	Mar 3rd, 2009 at 12:19 GMT	3 points
	ggrr, i was even thinking, i wish they had Come Together which Michael Jackson covered off the beatles, had no idea aerosmith had covered it too :S

	ElDavo:	Mar 3rd, 2009 at 12:21 GMT	1 point
	I expect that a sequel is on the way, because there're alot of songs that they omitted. The only song I'll name here is one that I think was pretty famous when done originally and as a remake: "Knocking on Heaven's Door" Originally Bob Dylan, covered by Guns n' Roses.

	Fitz:	Mar 3rd, 2009 at 13:53 GMT	6 points
	I can proudly say, I didn't get 'All By Myself' by Eric Carmen. There are times, I am just glad not to know something.

	Chiaprofessor:	Mar 3rd, 2009 at 13:59 GMT	0 points
	One for the sequel, "Act Naturally" by Buck Owens, covered by the Beatles, and Ringo later as a solo.

	WAG:	Mar 3rd, 2009 at 14:37 GMT	-4 points
	Chili Peppers also covered Love Rollercoaster by The Ohio Players for the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers movie.

	gene:	Mar 3rd, 2009 at 15:06 GMT	1 point
	I got 12. I got to hung up on the Willie Nelson/Elvis/Pet Shop Boys song........I could have sworn it was "Falling In Love". I looked it up and it turned out to be UB40 and not the PS Boys.

	bag_a_chips:	Mar 3rd, 2009 at 15:06 GMT	3 points
	these are typically referred to as "covers" and you could easily do at least 3 or 4 more quizzes of just cover songs.

	speedbird007:	Mar 3rd, 2009 at 15:30 GMT	1 point
	EASY lol. Of, course I only knew the original versions haha

	Tim_Allen:	Mar 3rd, 2009 at 15:34 GMT	8 points
	@yoda69: The Chili Peppers covered Love Rollercoaster for 'Beavis and Butthead Do America', not for the Power Rangers movie.

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	Fitz:	Mar 3rd, 2009 at 16:03 GMT	9 points
	Rollin' on the river is a lyric from Proud Mary, not a song itself.

	johnlk:	Mar 3rd, 2009 at 16:05 GMT	4 points
	Scotty - That is "Proud Mary". Secondly - Oasis did a cover of "Cum On Feel the Noize"?

	danzam:	Mar 3rd, 2009 at 16:12 GMT	1 point
	Alien Ant Farm did a cover of Michael Jackson's song 'Smooth Criminal'

	zigra:	Mar 3rd, 2009 at 16:13 GMT	2 points
	Does the Chili Peppers cover of Love Rollercoaster also have a death scream in it like the Ohio Players version ;) I know it's an urban legend, but I still can't listen to that song!

	Miana90:	Mar 3rd, 2009 at 16:17 GMT	-2 points
	20/32. I knew who sang the originals of all the songs, but never knew some were covered. Originals are the best pretty much always. LOL at Celine Dion, you could make a quiz just about her and all the songs she's covered. I do like her original songs though.

	Havok3595:	Mar 3rd, 2009 at 16:41 GMT	2 points
	You know, I'm usually one who knows when a mega-popular song is a cover, but I'm really shocked to find that Soft Cell's one hit was a cover.