A "cover version" of a song CAN'T be recorded 2 years after the original is out, because if it did wait that long, it couldn't possibly cover up the original's access to markets, and reap sales from piggybacking on that song's popularity. What you describe [[an issue NOT released at the same time, but long after an original's initial run on the charts), is a "remake" of a song. Cilla Black's version of "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" was put out deliberately with the purpose of piggybacking on The Righteous Brothers' hit version, and getting extra sales, because lots of people already liked the song through familiarity with it. that happened plenty in USA, with White groups and artists putting out Pop versions of R&B songs Diamonds covering The Gladiolas' "Little Darlin' ", Cheers covering The Chords' "Sh-Boom" [[Eeek!) , Pat Boone covering Little Richard's "Tutti Frutti"[[Yeccchh!), and the like.
But that type of activity lasted long after, as in Betty Everett covering Ramona King's regional hit, "It's In His Kiss", calling it "The Shoop, Shoop Song" [[yes, I know that even Ramona King was covering Merry Clayton's original). Peter Tosh singing The Temptations' "Don't Look back" was a REMAKE [[albeit in a different music genre). I'm sure that true cover versions are probably still occurring today [[but can't give examples, as I haven't kept up with what was happening in music since 1967 or so, [[not even when I owned a record company during the 1980s
).
Why don't we just remove ALL other ways to describe or say something, except one, then language would be much simpler. Oh yeah, then we'd have LOTS more misunderstandings between people, and a lot more fights, battles and wars. Try speaking Norwegian, where in many cases, there is only one way to express a concept, whereas, in the vocabulary-rich language, English, there may be 7 or 8, or even more than 10. I'm not a big fan of The USA; but its language, when used to its greatest level of facility, is a very useful tool for communication. Let's not help facilitate its degradation.
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