Songs with two or more famous and successful cover versions?

I want to start with this one:

Please Mr. Postman

 

"Last Kiss" - got to #2 twice, 35 years apart, and both were covers.

 

Baby, I Love Your Way - Will To Power (1988)

 

Baby, I Love Your Way - Big Mountain (1994)

 

Killing Me Softly

Roberta Flack and the Fugees both scored hits with their covers of Lori Lieberman's unsuccessful original. Not surprising that a paean to Don McLean would benefit from a touch of soul. Here's the original:

 

Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah

Covered by both Jeff Buckley.....

 

....and kd lang

 

You Keep Me Hanging On-Vanilla Fudge and Kim Wilde

 

The Loco-Motion

 

I Say A Little Prayer

Both Aretha Franklin and Diana King had top forty hits with their covers of Dionne Warwick's original version of the Bacharach/David classic.



https://youtu.be/-hAH_ahc-cA

 

Wild Thing
The Troggs
The Jimi Hendrix Experience

 

'I Heard it Through the Grapevine'.

Gladys Knight & the Pips released the original. Marvin Gaye obviously had massive success with it, and CCR had modest success with it in 1970.

 

The Beatles "With A Little Help From My Friends".

Joe Cocker: #1 on the UK singles chart in 1969
The Young Idea: #10 on the UK singles chart in 1967
Sam and Mack: #1 on the UK singles chart in 2004

 

"Jolene" - Dolly Parton, and The White Stripes

 

"Go Away Little Girl"

Steve Lawrence #1 in 1963
Donny Osmond : #1 in 1971
The Happenings: #12 in 1966

 

That's not really famous. I would say I'm knowledgeable when it comes to music but I didn't know they recorded it till I heard With The Beatles album a couple of years ago

 

Don't people read and understand the OP's thread title?? TWO successful cover versions! This does NOT include the original hit! So "Wild Thing" & "Jolene" don't count. Plus Jimi's version of "Wild Thing" wasn't a hit (was it even a single?).

 

Also:

Wet Wet Wet: #1 on the UK singles chart in 1988.



And:

The Beatles: #63 on the UK singles chart (with Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band) in 1978!

 

And this

 

And of course, also this

 

And then there's this...

 

Please include text and not just videos... this will make searches possible and will avoid loads of redundant posts over time.