Speaking of The Checkers, here's Judy Garland singing the original hit version of "Over The Rainbow":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSZxmZmBfnU
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Speaking of The Checkers, here's Judy Garland singing the original hit version of "Over The Rainbow":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSZxmZmBfnU
Here are The Checkers singing it in 1952:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWXm5jhY2bY
Here's Pete Seeger's original recording of "Where Have All The Flowers Gone":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ked7lBK-2hw
Here's Freddie Scott's version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NQXiKg9kbU
Here's Bob Dylan's original "Blowin' In The Wind"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G58XWF6B3AA
Here's Stevie Wonder and Clarence Paul's version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lE6EVAitFI
Here's Frankie Laine's Pop version of Miserlou:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fYe3zFWvIg
Here's The Cardinals' version of "Miserlou":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMc2uOx3I7Y
Here's Sammy Ambrose's original version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0f_Q88v4j8
Here's The Everly Brothers singing their hit version of "Cathy's Clown":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXvKAWiU_cQ
Here's The Ideals' version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YSfMlApc2Q
Here's Lena Horne's hit version of "Can't Help Lovin' That Man of Mine":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omb2kItC-JY
Here's The Hide-A-Ways' version - changed to ".....Girl Of Mine" of course, as they were very prudish about sexual matters in USA back in 1954:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_byUbfyjJU
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I think Dee Dee Warwick doing ANY song will blow away all the other versions. The Supremes and Temptations couldn't come near her original "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me".
Here's Gene McDaniels' hit version of Bachrach and David's "Tower of Strength":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKyitdO740c
Here's Gloria Lynne's version from the female side:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgIg8KEWsbc
Here's Johnny Ace's 1954 hit version of "Never Let Me Go":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeuvzUB0WI8
Here's George Kerr's and Sidney Barnes' Serenaders doing their version as a remake in 1957:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmcJ4iaxOds
Here's classic actor, Walter Huston's original rendition of "September Song" in the Broadway show, "Knickerbocker Holiday", from 1938 9written for him):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3mAT-4FdP4
Here's The Flamingos' 1952 version, with Sollie McElroy's soaring lead:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGvI_YdroZ8
I find it hard to believe that Broadway songwriter, Kurt Weill, went to a Chicago-based, child-owned music publishing company in 1938 to publish a song he intended for a Broadway musical. Joni Music was owned by Chance Records' owner, Art Sheridan, who was only a young teenager back then, in 1938. Actually, I know he founded Joni Music in 1952. So, Weill and Anderson would have had to have been hard up for money in 1952 to sell him the publishing rights to that song. Of course that never happened. It's just a hint to collectors that the record is not a real original, or a legitimate re-issue by the real owner [[e.g. it was a bootleg pressing).
And here's the Queen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8Ju5lw5MeA
And Luther:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83mek263B88
And The Impressions' version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaI7llWT9Sw
And Eddie Holman and The Larks' version [[yes, Weldon McDougall's Larks):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1XYefGyjMM
I prefer Linda Jones' version of For Your Precious Love over Jerry Butler's.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY7fZ95XfMY
Great choices, robb_k.
Here's Roy Hamilton's big hit, "Unchained Melody":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8Fuesi8VcI
And here's Vito and the Salutations' weird rendition:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5SGI0GxrS0
Here's The Mills Brothers' original 1940s version of "Gloria":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDNjrt_eKMc
Here's The Cadillacs' 1954 version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAbFqFaVBKA
Here's the 1940s original version of "I Sold My Heart To The Junkman", by The Basin Street Boys:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi3dGx4v8Nc
Here's The Bluebelles' 1962 hit version [[Original Chicago group- NOT Patti Labelle and her group):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHMwz8kaoSg
Here's my pick:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ0Y0lbBPUU
Here's Bing Crosby's ever popular "I Don't Stand A Ghost of A Chance With You" from the 1930s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RNvwdHtDLY
Here's The Five Keys' 1952 version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHHpR40MdOU
Here's Anthony Newly [[composer) singing his original Broadway show hit, "Feelin' Good":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYF__H4PSUA