MUSIC - What is the deepest cover song you know?

Cyndi Lauper's Girls Just Want to Have Fun was originally Robert Hazard's Girls Just Want to Have Fun

Gloria Jones originally performed Tainted Love in the ‘60s. It didn’t hit until Soft Cell covered it in ‘81.

“Torn,” by Natalie Imbruglia (1997) was originally written by Ednaswap and recorded in 1995—which, imo, is better. However, even though they wrote it, it was first recorded in 1993 by danish band, Lis Sørensen, who titled it “Brændt,” which means “Burned.”

Bonus! "The State I'm In" a song from Ednaswap’s first album, was covered by Sinéad O'Connor for her 2000 album Faith and Courage.

Harry Belafonte's exuberent cover of "Day O (Banana Boat Song)" which was a hit in its time and re-popularized by the dinner scene in Beetlejuice.

The original is Jamaican folk/traditional and the first recording of it Eric Connor - Day O has a totally different tone to it. In the original, labouring on a banana plantation is as tiring and depressing as you'd think.

Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt. Trent came off a bit whiny. Cash... it's his song now.

God Gave Rock and Roll To You was a hit for Kiss.

Original by Argent: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QsG5V-o6uxY&pp=ygUdZ29kIGdhdmUgcm9jayBhbmQgcm9sbCB0byB5b3U%3D

Dax Riggs covering Bonnie Prince Billy's Grand Dark Feeling of Emptiness

https://youtu.be/obnh0-NOjZg?feature=shared

This cover by the Afghan Whigs of the song "Lost in the Supermarket" by The Clash is really good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzDJhOMjq1E