“Raspberry Beret”
Original - Prince
Cover - The Hindu Love Gods (Warren Zevon w/ REM’s Bill Berry, Peter Buck, & Mike Mills)
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Reason to Believe
O: Tim Hardin
C: Rod Stewart
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Talk Talk - Life’s what you make it - also by Joan as Police Woman Cover Two
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The Byrds - Eight Miles High
Cover by Hüsker Dü
Live:
Studio:
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I know this really doesn’t count, but…
Take Five
O: Desmond/Brubeck
C: String Cheese Incident (Carnival 99)
Just love this version.
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Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
cover by Shawn Colvin on Uncovered
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Portishead It’s a fire covered by Amanda Palmer and Rhiannon Giddens
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A couple:
“Kentucky Woman”
Original: Neil Diamond
Cover: Deep Purple
“Walk Away Renee”
Original: The Left Banke
Cover: Rickie Lee Jones
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She Came in Through the Bathroom Window
Beatles Abbey Road
Joe Cocker Mad Dogs and Englishmen Live at the Fillmore East 1970
Chas
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“Walk Away Renee”
Original: The Left Banke
Cover: Linda Ronstadt, Ann Savoy
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Nice version and I am not surprised I missed it; by 2006 I had moved on from Linda. I love the harmony she and Ann build in the song so thank you.
I recommended Rickie Lee Jones because of the fragility and despair she conveys as she laments losing her lover Renee.
This is a well-written and conceived song. The Left Banke did a great job writing and recording it.
Never much cared for the Four Tops version (maybe because I only heard a scratchy record through cheap cans; as a radio jock I played it many times on the air).
A Rowland Salley song, IIRC (Edit: Just saw the credit above.)
Also done by Chris Smither.
And Robert Plant and Allison Krause.
Great tune!
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Drive - original The Cars, cover Ziggy Marley
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Just about all of Joe Cocker’s career was cover songs, but some of his versions are my favorite covers of those songs: You Are So Beautiful, You Can Keep Your Hat On, She Came In Through The Bathroom Window are among them.
Reflectively,
Mongo
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I do not know the original, nor even aware of it.
There is no universal experience. 
I wonder how much music with which we truly are all familiar. There are some nursery rhymes/songs, Happy Birthday, Beethoven’s Ode to Joy, the opening to Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in d. Even then, I imagine some in Western culture would not know each of these.