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Post by tarobe on Dec 6, 2015 21:00:22 GMT -5
Elvis Presley had a Top 40 hit in 1974 with "I've Got a Thing About You, Baby," which was originally released by Billy Lee Riley in 1972 (Entrance 7508).
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Post by tarobe on Dec 6, 2015 21:14:27 GMT -5
Billy "Crash" Craddock had a Top 40 hit in 1974 with "Rub It In." The original was by its author, Layng Martine, in 1971 (Barnaby 2041).
Craddock's follow-up, "Ruby Baby," also hit the Top 40. Although Dion had a huge hit with it in 1963, the original was by the Drifters in 1956 (Atlantic 1089).
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Post by tarobe on Dec 6, 2015 21:20:31 GMT -5
Three Dog Night's "Shambala" was a big hit in 1973. B.W. Stevenson's version (RCA 0952), released a few days earlier, was not .
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Post by tarobe on Dec 6, 2015 21:29:35 GMT -5
Helen Reddy's hit from 1974, "Keep On Singing," was first released in 1973 by Austin Roberts (Chelsea 0110). I recall hearing Roberts' version a lot on the radio and was very surprised to learn it did not hit the Top 40.
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Post by tarobe on Dec 6, 2015 21:37:02 GMT -5
Santana's big hit from 1970, "Black Magic Woman," was originally released in 1968 by Fleetwood Mac (Epic 10351).
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Post by tarobe on Dec 6, 2015 21:39:58 GMT -5
1971's "Sweet and Innocent" by Donny Osmond was a remake of Roy Orbison's 1958 original (RCA 7381).
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Post by dukelightning on Dec 6, 2015 21:41:07 GMT -5
The Mac also failed to hit the 40 with "Oh Well" but the Rockets did in 1979.
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Post by freakyflybry on Dec 6, 2015 21:43:01 GMT -5
While we're on the subject of Fleetwood Mac, their original version of "Landslide" missed the top 40, but the Dixie Chicks cover made it.
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Post by tarobe on Dec 6, 2015 21:44:07 GMT -5
Leo Sayer never hit the Top 40 in 1974 with "The Show Must Go On" (Warner 7768), but Three Dog Night did.
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Post by tarobe on Dec 6, 2015 21:50:35 GMT -5
The Carpenters hit #1 in 1973 with "Top of the World." This first appeared in 1972 on their album A Song for You, but the first to put it out as a single was Lynn Anderson (Columbia 45857) in 1973.
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Post by tarobe on Dec 6, 2015 22:00:27 GMT -5
Gene Cotton and Kim Carnes had a Top 40 hit in 1978 with "You're a Part of Me," written by Carnes. The author released a solo version in 1976 (A&M 1767), but Susan Jacks released a version of it the year before (Mercury 73649).
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Post by chrislc on Dec 6, 2015 22:39:17 GMT -5
The Carpenters hit #1 in 1973 with "Top of the World." This first appeared in 1972 on their album A Song for You, but the first to put it out as a single was Lynn Anderson (Columbia 45857) in 1973. That makes at least two songs from that LP (I Won't Last A Day Without You) that eventually made the Top 40 but were released as singles first by other artists. I wonder how many times that has happened twice with one LP. |
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Post by tarobe on Dec 7, 2015 9:38:53 GMT -5
"Angel," a posthumous Jimi Hendrix single, was released in 1971 (Reprise 1000). It didn't hit the Top 40, but a year later Rod Stewart's cover version did. AT40 listeners never heard it though cause they played the flip side, "Lost Paraguayos" instead.
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Post by cayleytable on Dec 7, 2015 15:36:22 GMT -5
The discussion about the Carpenters puts me in mind of one of their last top 40 hits, "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft," originally written and recorded by Klaatu on their first LP. Klaatu's version was part of a single that reached #62 a few months before the Carpenters hit #32 in late 1977.
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Post by tarobe on Dec 7, 2015 16:52:45 GMT -5
And let us not forget that Karen and Richard's 1972 smash "Hurting Each Other" was originally not a hit for Ruby and the Romantics in 1969 (A&M 1042).
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