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From: tommyo@ihuxw.UUCP (Tom O`Connor)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Remade songs
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Date: Thu, 6-Sep-84 10:08:32 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep  6 10:08:32 1984
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While digging up song titles used by more than one artist,
I came upon another common sight in music - remakes.
I skipped past the songs only remade once, and came up with
2 songs that were recorded, and then remade 3 more times.
Check it out.

Ain`t That a Shame - Pat Boone, Fats Domino, Four Seasons, Cheap Trick

Cupid - Sam Cooke, Johnny Nash, Tony Orlando and Dawn, Spinners

There were also 2 other songs which had 3 remakes,
"The Ballad of Davy Crockett" and "Unchained Melody".
All 4 versions of "Davy" came ot in the same year, so I don`t
really consider that a remake.  3 of the 4 versions of
"Unchained Melody" also came out in the same year (`55),
and was remade by the Righteous Brothers about 12 years later.
Can anyone else come up with songs recorded by 4 artists?!

Tom O`Connor
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