Artist	Song
Buffy Sainte-Marie	Up Where We Belong 1996
The Exciters	Tell Him 1962
Richard Berry & The Pharaohs	Louie Louie (1957 original)
Lori Lieberman	Killing Me Softly 1972
Jerry Reed	A Thing Called Love 1968
Phil Harris	The Thing 1950
Randy and the Rainbows	Denise 1963
Bobby Darin	Things 1962
Arthur Alexander	Burning Love 1972
Leon Payne	I Love You Because 1950
Roger Miller	Little Green Apples 1968
Louis Prima	Just a Gigolo - I Ain't Got Nobody 1956
Harry Chapin	A Better Place To Be (Live) 1972
Leadbelly	Cotton Fields 1940
Otis Redding	Respect 1966
Leslie Caron & Mel Ferrer	Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo 1953
Del Shannon	(Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame 1961
Helen Kane	I Wanna Be Loved By You 1929
Isley, Jasper, Isley	Caravan Of Love 1985
Flaco Jimenez	Did I Tell You 1988
Buffy Sainte-Marie	I'm Gonna Be A Country Girl Again
Stuart Hamblen	This Ole House (1954 - original version)
Solomon Linda's Evening Birds	Mbube 1939
The Exciters	Doo Wah Diddy Diddy 1964

Comment:

What's an original? The first recording of a song? The recording by the composer? I believe it's the first recording of a song. But on this volume i included a "black sheep". Buffy Sainte-Marie, Jack Nitzsche and Will Jennings wrote the song "Up Where We Belong" in the early 80's and it was recorded by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes in 1982 for the movie "An Officer and a Gentleman". But Buffy Sainte-Marie didn't record it herself until 1996. And the way she performes it is so different from the Cocker/Warnes version, I decided to include it. It has a totally different meaning than any other version of it. Solomon Linda was living in South Africa and made several records in the late 30's, early 40's. "Mbube" found it's way to the USA. Pete Seeger and his band The Weavers recorded a phonetic "adaption" of the song, called "Wimoweh". (They didn't understand a word of Solomon Linda's vocals.) "Wimoweh" becam "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" in the sixties. And 2004 Walt Disney Production was sued for royalties by Linda's Decendents in South Africa. Disney aquired the rights to the song in the late 90's. And since 1939 fprward, the Linda's didn't recieve as much as a dime for the song.

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