What song do you think has been covered the most?!
Question: According to the Guinness Book of Records, Yesterday by The Beatles is the most covered song in music history with more than 3000 recorded cover versions.
Answers: According to the Guinness Book of Records, Yesterday by The Beatles is the most covered song in music history with more than 3000 recorded cover versions.
knockin on heaven's door
it was the first one that i thought of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knockin'_on...
hmmm titanic lol
eleanor rigby by the beatles has been covered a lot...even panic! at the disco did a live cover of it lol
Walk This way
My vote goes to I Fought The Law.
The Clash, Dead Kennedys, She Trinity, Bryan Adams, John Cougar Mellencamp, Bruce Springsteen, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, Social Distortion, Mike Ness, Hank Williams Jr, Waylon Jennings, Green Day, The Ramones, Grateful Dead, Stray Cats, Mary's Danish, Mano Negra, the Big Dirty Band, Nonstop Body/Lolita No. 18, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Sex Pistols, Attaque 77, Die Toten Hosen, Status Quo, Nanci Griffith
You Give Love A Bad Name
Over the Rainbow gets covered like 15 times a year. I'd go with that >_>
Not too sure, I don't think I've ever bothered to look or wonder for that matter. The first place I would start in my opinion would be with the band Ten Masked Men which is a death metal band that only covers number one hit songs. After going through their albums I would research the songs they covered and they've released about fives albums I believe of nothing but covers.
YESTERDAY
Probably the song "Black Coffee"- it's a jazz tune, almost every modern jazz musician has covered it.
Don't forget "all along the watchtower".
The correct answer is "Yesterday" by The Beatles. The actual figure varies according to source.The Guinness Book Of Records figure is only one estimate, but most people agree it's over 1,500 versions.
A more interesting question would be: "What is the most-sampled song?", because that has no official answer.
These guys think it's "Nautilus" by Bob James, but just look at the spectacular tally of James Brown and Parliament, who have several songs each:
http://www.secondhandsongs.com/stats/son...
Sadly, I just think this proves that older artists could write more memorable riffs and hooks than today's. How sad is it that Sean Paul sells records on the back of Ben E King?
For me, Time After Time.
I'm going with "Born To Be Wild"
I've got a ton of covers of that song!
little wing, my generation and yesterday it seems