Covers no one knows are covers

What songs are you always pointing out to people are covers that they think are originals?

Tops of my list:

Respect by Aretha Franklin (Otis Redding)
All Along the Watchtower by Jimi Hendrix (Bob Dylan)
Istanbul by They Might Be Giants (The Four Lads)
Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood by The Animals (Nina Simone)
Half of The Byrds' greatest hits (Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger)
Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin (Muddy Waters)

really!?

Hallelujah by Shrek/Buckley (Leonard Cohen)

Seriously. The Sun is a Mass of Incandescent Gas is also a cover. Originally by educational kids music duo Tom Glazer and Dottie Evans.

And so is New York City. It's by NYC indie pop trio Cub.

Bullshit, she wrote all of those.

i fought law by clash (sunny curtis and crickets then bobby fuller four)
police on back by clash (electric avenue guy eddy grant)

heeeee! no one sings own lovely song!

I'll be damned. I always assumed it was a Bobby Fuller original.

Barbara Ann--the Beach Boys.

Hey Hey (We're the Monkees)- originally by Bobby Darin.

That might not be true.

Might not. Might not.

No, but Neil Diamond did write "I'm a Believer"

Whoa,I didnt know.

Are you kidding us?

Probably.

god save the queen by Queen is achlly the british natonal antham

Nah,it's sex pistols' best song.

I don't think that counts as a "cover." Like Diane Warren writes some shit song for Aerosmith, they play it. It's not a cover.

disc 5, track 7

"You Really Got Me-Van Halen (The Kinks)
"Last Kiss"-Pearl Jam (J Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers)

People don't know that Van Halen didn't write "You Really Got Me"?

And he wrote "Red Red Wine" which was later made popular by UB40.

If people think that the original (or most notable) performer wrote it, I'll count it. Like, for example, most people don't know that Mack the Knife was written by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill for their Threepenny Opera.

So was Alabama Song. Not written by the Doors.

Though I'm sure no one thinks that Ella Fitzgerald wrote Summertime or The Lady is a Tramp.