{"id":1480,"date":"2008-06-09T17:02:04","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T21:02:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-06-09T17:02:04","modified_gmt":"2008-06-09T17:02:04","slug":"original-versions-of-songs-that-you-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/original-versions-of-songs-that-you-only\/","title":{"rendered":"Original Versions of Songs That You Only Know by a Cover Version"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/laughner.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"301\" height=\"300\" \/><\/div>\n<p><strong>Townsman Tvox<\/strong>, while necessarily donning the Pince Nez for a correction in a recent thread, made this interesting admission regarding a cool cover his old band used to feature:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Wishniaks<\/strong> used to cover <strong>Peter Laughner<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Sylvia Plath&#8221;. Only we covered the version done by Philly locals <strong>The Johnsons<\/strong>. To this day, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve heard the Laughner version.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was reminded of how many years passed before I finally heard the original version of <strong>&#8220;Louie Louie&#8221;<\/strong> or even <strong>&#8220;Twist and Shout&#8221;<\/strong>. I did hear the originals eventually, but I&#8217;m sure there are still songs I know well in a cover form without ever having heard the original. I&#8217;ve got to think about this. How about you? Have you ever had an experience like the one Tvox expressed, whether you&#8217;d covered the cover version or not?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Townsman Tvox, while necessarily donning the Pince Nez for a correction in a recent thread, made this interesting admission regarding a cool cover his old band used to feature: The Wishniaks used to cover Peter Laughner&#8216;s &#8220;Sylvia Plath&#8221;. Only we covered the version done by Philly locals The Johnsons. To this day, I don&#8217;t think <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/original-versions-of-songs-that-you-only\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}