Un-Covered: Less famous original versions

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Eh?
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Dylan's All Along the Watchtower
original not available on youtube apparently

https://play.spotify.com/album/2KzCDxKpgLqBffHu1IZ7Kn

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Someone already posted the original Me n Bobby McGee by Roger Miller.

Here's the writer doing it


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Willis Alan Ramsey doing song made famous by Capt and Tenille

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Otis Redding doesn't get enough credit or listens





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Maybe this was mentioned. Several of those 80s New Wave hits were covers.


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This is one of my faves. Little known Linda Lyndell had a very minor hit with this before Salt n Pepa found it. I discovered it on one of the Oxford American music issue anthologies.


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