Music they "made their own"
 

New list:

Songs written and performed by famous songwriters, then performed way more successfully by other (famous) artists:

Lotta Love - Neil Young / Nicolette Larson
Diamonds and Rust - Joan Baez / Judas Priest
Mama Told Me Not To Come - Randy Newman / 3 Dog Night
Crazy Little Thing Called Love - John Hiatt / Bonnie Raitt
Boom Boom (Out Go The Lights) "Little Walter" Jacobs - Pat Travers
The Pusher - Hoyt Axton / Steppenwolf
As Tears Go Bye - Glimmer Twins / Marianne Faithfull
Woodstock - Joni Mitchell / CSNY

Anything that Carol King wrote and someone else sang first and Carol eventually recorded herself.

this is interesting! - I've never been much of a CK fan.
what are some of these songs? (seriously - no green fonts here:))

I will always love you - Dolly Parton / Whitney Houston

I shot the sheriff - Bob Marley / Eric Clapton

Sweet Jane - Lou Reed (Velvet Underground) / Cowboy Junkies

Come on guys...

All Along the Watchtower?

(Has anyone even heard the Bob Dylan version? Not that good IMO. Of course, I've never been a Dylan fan...)

Wild Thing - Troggs/Hedrix

Watchtower-

Chronologically, oldest to newest:
Bob Dylan -> Hendrix - > Dave Matthews Band

Quality, Highest to lowest:
Dave Matthews Band > Hendrix > Bob Dylan

Cocaine - JJCale / Clapton

Like half the songs Joe Cocker sings.

Hallelujah- Leonard Cohen/ Rufus Wainright, KD Lang (and about 500 others.)

how about just about anything by The Animals

Red Red Wine: Neil Diamond/UB40

This is so wrong it isn't even funny. Seriously. No one can touch Hendrix's version. After that there are a number of good ones including Dave Mason and various Dylan renditions.

Warren Zevon kept Linda Ronstadt full with songs for a while.

Ian

Voodoo Chile - Hendrix / Stevie

Warren, Linda, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Waddy Wachtel, John Hiatt, etc. had a great music cartel going in the late 70's/early eighties.

yeah, that was a musically incestous time. A lot of great songs came out of them. Weren't they called The California Rock Mafia or something?

Ian

You're kidding, right?

Realistically, Stevie didn't make it his own, but he gave the song a bump.

I like em both,both for different reasons.
No one but SRV could have done as much with this tune, thats all.

ok, I'll buy that. I just get a headache when people say that a SRV version blows away the Hendrix one. I don't think SRV would even have said that.

Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) on Electric Ladyland is one of the most mindblowing guitar pieces ever laid down. SRV does it justice, but it doesn't blow my mind.