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'Wild Thing,' The Troggs The grungy, international garage-rock smash 'Wild Thing' (the 1966 hit featured in the movie 'Major League,' not the one by Tone-Loc) was pretty much tailor-made for the crude and rude Brit rockers known as the Troggs. In fact, the song, written by Chip Taylor (Angelina Jolie's uncle, by the way), was originally unleashed upon the world a year earlier by a New York combo appropriately called the Wild Ones, to the world's indifference.

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'Love Hurts,' Nazareth After these Scottish hard rockers released 'Love Hurts' in 1976, everybody who had a broken heart would sit in their room and blast it as the tears strolled down their face. Nazareth's cover was the only hit version of this now classic tune: The original was recorded by the Everly Brothers in 1960 and issued as an album track; a year later, Roy Orbison put it out as the B side to his smash hit 'Running Scared.'

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1969 The Clique - Superman

1986 R.E.M. - Superman

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The original lyrics by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller were judged a little too raunchy for a white audience. It was in Las Vegas that Elvis Presley heard and saw the group perform this version of "Hound Dog", in April 1956. Presley was impressed and asked Bell if he would mind if he (Elvis) recorded the song himself. Bell told him to go ahead and the rest is history, as they say. In May 1956, two months before Presley, Bell rerecorded the song for Mercury, but they sat on it and it only appeared later hidden away on Bell's album "Rock & Roll ... All Flavors".

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What's the remake of this?

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