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WITNESS23  UTEP Fan Courtside Member since Feb 2010 8566 posts

| What song has been remade the most? (Posted on 10/3/12 at 3:31 pm)
Besides the Star Spangled Banner, Happy Birthday, etc..
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CottonWasKing  LSU Fan 4,8,15,16,23,42 Member since Jun 2011 12740 posts

| re: What song has been remade the most? (Posted on 10/3/12 at 3:34 pm to WITNESS23)
Has to be House of the Rising Sun
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LSUTygerFan  LSU Fan Team Boxtard Member since Jun 2008 20460 posts

| re: What song has been remade the most? (Posted on 10/3/12 at 3:34 pm to WITNESS23)
ruling out christmas songs... i shot the sheriff? dancing in the streets?
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tigerdup07  LA-Lafayette Fan Member since Dec 2007 17640 posts

| re: What song has been remade the most? (Posted on 10/3/12 at 3:37 pm to WITNESS23)
"I've never been to spain"
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WITNESS23  UTEP Fan Courtside Member since Feb 2010 8566 posts

| re: What song has been remade the most? (Posted on 10/3/12 at 3:39 pm to LSUTygerFan)
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ruling out christmas songs...
That too And I don't know the answer. I was just trying to see what people thought
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oompaw  LSU Fan In piney hill country... Member since Dec 2007 5483 posts

| re: What song has been remade the most? (Posted on 10/3/12 at 3:41 pm to WITNESS23)
Yesterday
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genro  Penn Fan Literally unbannable Member since Nov 2011 17415 posts

| re: What song has been remade the most? (Posted on 10/3/12 at 3:41 pm to WITNESS23)
The most covered song of all time is The Beatles' "Yesterday". You can google this. /thread
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CottonWasKing  LSU Fan 4,8,15,16,23,42 Member since Jun 2011 12740 posts

| re: What song has been remade the most? (Posted on 10/3/12 at 3:44 pm to genro)
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The most covered song of all time is The Beatles' "Yesterday". You can google this.
I have a hard time believing that "Yesterday" has been covered more times than "House of the Rising Sun" considering that HOFTRS is a traditional folk song that no one even knows who wrote it.
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TheDrunkenTigah  LSU Fan Baton Rouge Member since Aug 2011 3766 posts

| re: What song has been remade the most? (Posted on 10/3/12 at 3:45 pm to WITNESS23)
all along the watchtower?
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oompaw  LSU Fan In piney hill country... Member since Dec 2007 5483 posts

| re: What song has been remade the most? (Posted on 10/3/12 at 3:46 pm to TheDrunkenTigah)
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Yesterday
Everybody wants to be like Paul McCartney. 
This post was edited on 10/3 at 3:47 pm
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LSUTygerFan  LSU Fan Team Boxtard Member since Jun 2008 20460 posts

| re: What song has been remade the most? (Posted on 10/3/12 at 3:46 pm to genro)
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You can google this
Well that just takes all the fun out of it...
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WITNESS23  UTEP Fan Courtside Member since Feb 2010 8566 posts

| re: What song has been remade the most? (Posted on 10/3/12 at 4:00 pm to LSUTygerFan)
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Well that just takes all the fun out of it...
This, I was looking to see what people thought, not actual facts 
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Dire Wolf  LSU Fan 6969 bushwood Member since Sep 2008 3941 posts
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| re: What song has been remade the most? (Posted on 10/3/12 at 4:10 pm to WITNESS23)
yesterday or something
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Tigris Colorado Fan In a van by the river. Member since Jul 2005 4740 posts

| re: What song has been remade the most? (Posted on 10/3/12 at 5:07 pm to WITNESS23)
It seems like Brown Eyed Girl, at least at concerts.
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Jester  LSU Fan Baton Rouge Member since Feb 2006 15706 posts

| re: What song has been remade the most? (Posted on 10/4/12 at 7:31 am to Tigris)
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It seems like Brown Eyed Girl, at least at concerts.
Yep, a favorite amongst wedding bands.
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LSUTygerFan  LSU Fan Team Boxtard Member since Jun 2008 20460 posts

| re: What song has been remade the most? (Posted on 10/4/12 at 7:47 am to WITNESS23)
3 different versions of Dancing in the Street made the Billboard 100/ Martha and the Vandelas 1964 number 2 Van Halen 1982 number 38 David Bowie/Mick Jagger 1985 number 7
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Flair Chops .gif) Miami (FL) Fan purgatory Member since Nov 2010 29859 posts
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| re: What song has been remade the most? (Posted on 10/4/12 at 8:10 am to WITNESS23)
yesterday hallelujah is up there too
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Blackbeard  LSU Fan Amite River Member since Jun 2012 150 posts

| re: What song has been remade the most? (Posted on 10/4/12 at 9:12 am to WITNESS23)
"Friend of the Devil" by Greatful Dead comes to mind, Off the top of my head...its been covered by: Counting crows Bob Dylan Tom Petty Lyle Lovett Corry Morrow
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