How well do you know your cover versions?

The Johnny Cash song "I Walk the Line" was covered by Carter Family

um... the Carter Family broke up in 1943 (around Johnny Cash's 11th birthday). Johnny recorded the song in 1956... I believe the Carter Sisters covered the song, but then again, who covered any Carter Sisters song.

and then look how bandied about the carter family/johnny cash link is on the lengthier links...

SYNTAX ERROR. DOES NOT COMPUTE

The Spinal Tap song "Sonata in C Major" was covered by W.A. Mozart.

can someone fill in all those covers that sergio mendes did? i only filled in two i could think of off the top of my head. and i can't believe i was the one that put in the massive attack covers. this thing is a nightmare!

The Offspring covered the Damned's "Smash It Up" on the Batman Forever soundtrack. Yes it's true.

1 The Willie Dixon song "I Just Want to Make Love to You" was covered by Memphis Slim 2The Memphis Slim song "Every Day I Have the Blues" was covered by Chuck Berry 3 The Chuck Berry song "Carol" was covered by Beatles 4 The Beatles song "Day Tripper" was covered by Jimi Hendrix 5 The Jimi Hendrix song "Angel" was covered by Rod Stewart 6 The Rod Stewart song "Maggie May" was covered by Blur 7 The Blur song "Boys and Girls" was covered by Pet Shop Boys 8 The Pet Shop Boys song "It's a Sin" was covered by Henry Mancini 9 The Henry Mancini song "Moon River" was covered by Morrissey 10 The Morrissey song "I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday" was covered by David Bowie 11 The David Bowie song "Andy Warhol" was covered by Nick Cave 12 The Nick Cave song "Mercy Seat" was covered by Johnny Cash 13 The Johnny Cash song "Ring of Fire" was covered by Bob Dylan 14 The Bob Dylan song "Mr. Tambourine Man" was covered by the Byrds 15 The Byrds song "One Hundred Years From Now" was covered by Wilco 16 The Grateful Dead song "Ship of Fools" was covered by Elvis Costello 17 The Elvis Costello song "The Comedians" was covered by Roy Orbison 18 The Roy Orbison songs Down The Line and Ooby Dooby were covered by Jerry Lee Lewis 19 The Jerry Lee Lewis song Great Balls Of Fire was covered by Dolly Parton. 20 The Dolly Parton song The Seeker was covered by Merle Haggard 21 The Merle Haggard song Today I Started Loving You Again was covered by Willie Nelson 22 The Willie Nelson song Night Life was covered by Marvin Gaye 23 The Marvin Gaye song Stubborn Kind Of Fellow was covered by the Supremes 24 The Supremes song Stop In The Name Of Love was covered by the Isley Brothers 25 The Isley Brothers song It's Your Thing was covered by the Temptations 26 The Temptations song Just My Imagination was covered by Bobby Womack 27 The Bobby Womack song It's All Over Now was covered by the Rolling Stones 28 The Rolling Stones song Brown Sugar was covered by Little Richard 29 The Little Richard song Long Tall Sally was covered by Eddie Cochran 30 The Eddie Cochran Summertime Blues was covered by T. Rex 31 The T. Rex song Get It On was covered by Gary Glitter 32 The Gary Glitter song Rock 'n' Roll was covered by the Undertones 33 The Undertones song Teenage Kicks was covered by Therapy?

That's not bad, is it? I'll send it to them.

It's possible to write a programme that would derive the longest chain from the database. I'm not going to try it on mine as it's in Access, and I'm not an expert therein. And it strikes me as too much of a waste of even my worthless time.

"teenage kicks" was covered by portastatic who covered caetano veloso's "baby" which i imagine could create quite a few more chain reactions. i think i might be going in the wrong direction though.

It's best when you hit a genre like country or blues or rock 'n' roll where everyone is covering each other all the time. Or old, major acts - no shortage of covers of the Stones, Beatles, Kinks, say. Recent minor ones are where the problems start.

Heh. Well I know I added close to 400 myself.

Well, Know THIS!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42KbQZ4gGAA