Songs You Never Get Tired Of Hearing No Matter The Artists

Desperado
Wild Horses
Have You Ever Seen the Rain

I Put a Spell on You



This song is often covered, and it seems every time it is incredible.

Hey Joe
If I Were A Carpenter

Dancing in the Streets. The Martha Reeves original to the grooviest Dead rendition…and all in between… this song just puts me in a good mood.

Baby Face-- Travis Kelce & Taylor Swift

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I Put a Spell on You

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best version IMO is Screamin' Jay" Hawkins, the original. it's frantic, it's over the top and a little crazy. especially for 1956.

Hawkins had originally intended to record "I Put a Spell on You" as "a refined love song, a blues ballad".

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However, the producer Arnold Maxin "brought in ribs and chicken and got everybody drunk, and we came out with this weird version ... I don't even remember making the record. Before, I was just a normal blues singer. I was just Jay Hawkins. It all sort of just fell in place. I found out I could do more destroying a song and screaming it to death

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this version was banned from most radio programming for its outrageous "cannibalistic" style. A truncated version was later released omitting the grunts and moans from the ending of the song, but the ban generally remained

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Unchained Melody
- Righteous Brothers
-Elvis
-Heart
-U2
-Joe Stampley
-Ronnie McDowell
Many others

Mother
I can't make you love me
Girl from the north country

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Kawliga

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It's a great song with an awesome story and just as great a story about the writing of it.

Hank started writing it when he was in jail at Our Town, Alabama, which is the next little town over from Kowaliga, Alabama.
Hank was already a big star, but he tended to be a pain in the arse locally. He had a place on Lake Martin and spent a lot of time around here.
The wooden Indian was for real, but the original was stolen after the song was a hit.
Fred Rose changed the name of the song to Kaw Liga for whatever reason.
All of this happened about 5 miles from where I am right now.
There is a replacement Indian at the restaurant at the marina, but I've heard rumors about where the original may be.
If they are true, I hope that Indian ends up in the Smithsonian one day.