A favorite song by one of your favorite singer/songwriters they didn't write

Classic!

 

"Don't Bring Me Down" Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

 

And I'll add That Song About the Midway (Joni Mitchell) from the same album. In fact, the sequence of That Song About the Midway , Rainy Day Man and Angel from Montgomery may just be my favorite three songs to lead off an album.

 

Rave On - Buddy Holly (written By Sonny West)

 

The Who: Armenia City In The Sky

 

who didn't own this great album back then! LOL ; )

 

Robert Plant - Heaven Knows

 

'I Gotta Dance to Keep from Crying' - the Miracles, but not written by Smokey (Holland-Dozier-Holland song; 1963)

 

George Harrison - I Don’t Want To Do It

He picked two Dylan songs that suited him perfectly.

 

On Your Way Down (Little Feat) written by Allen Toussaint

 

Ghosts - Lewis Taylor

 

Rock and Roll Music - fabs

 

The Bee Gees singing You Won't See Me

 

Louis Armstrong - "Star Dust" (1931), written by Hoagy Carmichael in 1927 with lyrics in 1929 by Mitchell Parish

 

Joe Walsh - Rosewood Bitters

 

crosby - old soldier - written by marc cohn

stills - new mama - written by neil young

nash - pavanne - wtitten by richard and linda thompson

young - sittin on the dock of the bay - with booker t and the mg's.

 

Gordon Lightfoot, Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues:



This got a decent amount of airplay up here when it was released, and was my introduction to the guy who is probably Canada's national singer/songwriter.

Written by Dylan of course.

 

Testament--Nobody's Fault, it's an Aerosmith song.

 

'Be for Real' - Leonard Cohen


"thanks for the song, Mr. Knight"

song by Frederick Knight and previously recorded by Marlena Shaw
Frederick Knight (singer) - Wikipedia

 

stand by me is even better imho

 

Stevie Wonder: "Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yester-Day," "For Once In My Life," and "A Place In The Sun." Also a great deep cut called "Don't Wonder Why."

 

'Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)' - Roy Orbison


(Cindy Walker)