Besides Lightfoot I've heard of other artists doing the same thing and in some cases having great successs with it.

James Taylor's Going To Carrolina In My Mind was originally recorded in 1968 and he remade in 8 years later and I think was more well known 2nd time around.

Isley Brothers Who's That Lady was first recorded in 1964 and a pretty good version though it was their 1973 version that charted.

Fleetwood Mac's Silver Spring I think was the B-side to Go Your Own Way and I don't know how well it did originally but a 1997 live version of it was released and I think it was more popualer 2nd time around.

castles in the air - don mclean

Steve Winwood did a version of his later hit "Valerie" in 1980 and then in 1987 re-recorded it and it became a top 10 hit.

It is one of my favorites by him.


KISS sort of did a re-make of "Beth". Drummer Eric Carr,who replaced drummer Peter Criss,re-did the song and did a pretty good job of it.

My brother has it on one of his collectable KISS albums.

valerie was origianlly done in 1982 (not 80).. but yep re-recorded for Chronicles in 87

Whoops! :redface: :

Well,I was close,thanks though. ;)

Yes well one of the most famous and arguably the most influential of remakes was by Buddy Holly who in one of his early visits in 1956 to the same (Owen Bradley's Barn in Nashville) recording studio Gord used a just 6 years later Buddy recorded a first version of That'll Be The Day
[img] http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/buddy_h...CD02-INNER.jpg [/img]
A reduced size version of the original at:-
http://www.bigomagazine.com/cdcvrsB/...mplete02in.jpg
as copied at
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/buddy_h...NNER_large.jpg
see
http://www.bigozine2.com/features06/BHcomplete.html
for full details of a fabulous 10-CD set of Holly CDs
With the very same guitarist (Grady Martin) who played on at least some (Remember Me, It's Too Late He Wins) of the first GL singles "collection", released as singles 1962 onwards and on 1972's infamous "Early Lightfoot" AME compilation /exploitation release
Buddy (another perfectionist) was unsatisfied with the quality of that original take on the famous John Wayne expression from Wayne's "The Searchers" movie and remade it in 1957 during his first visit to Norman Petty's recording studio in Clovis NM. and the rest is very much history, including the very first known recording by 4 long-haired lads from Liverpool,England:-
video overlay on the recording
the real thing on Ed Sullivan one of a very few (like 4) surviving videos of Buddy in action
the by far the best is Oh Boy also on the "demure" (I mock) Ed Sullivan show at:-
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/buddy_holly/oh_boy.jpg
Gee I love that video, having unlike at least one GL fan here missed seeing buddy live
A public service historical posting from
John Fowles Bt
I guess the above now almost qualifies for this topic to be relocated in the main general discussion forum??

Sir John: I am flattered that you remember my seeing BH. We (my friends and I)loved seeing him...'We thought it would never end (youth), we thought we'd sing and dance for ever more' Lyrics not accurate.

Re: Remakes of Songs By The Same Artists.
 

Here's the Original 1964 version of The Isley's who's That Lady.