Remember this version? Here are "Covers I liked in High School But Didn't Know They Were Covers"

[The Polack MSgt]

This got some play on Pittsburgh/Wheeling/Steubenville Radio

My uncle clued me in that this was an ABB song pretty quickly but for a couple weeks, I thought it was Molly Hatchet's

I was so ignorant of blues that I though George wrote this. Until I read an interview in Cream magazine where he said all the best songs were already written. He then talked about all the people who he stole from

[Wingus Dingus]

1. I knew Molly Hatchet's version was a cover, my older brother had that album

and my dad was the biggest Allman Brothers fan that ever lived. George Thorogood, I never knew that wasn't his song. I still like it though--it's a classic.

[The Polack MSgt]

2. I still like all these tunes, but as a teenager it blew my mind that these were covers

[ProfessorGAC]

3. I Knew About Those 3

I had heard all the original versions before I heard these covers.
One that got me was this, from All The Young Dudes. I didn't even notice in the notes that the song was written by Lou Reed.
I heard the Velvet Underground version a couple years later.
(It also explains why I covered this song in my SoundCloud collection.)

[The Polack MSgt]

4. +++

Nice pick Professor

[ProfessorGAC]

5. I Did Find It Odd...

...that the YouTube file shows pictures of Mick Ronson. He was not in Mott the Hoople.
He toured with Ian Hunter after Mott broke up (we saw that tour in Chicago), but he wasn't on that album or in the band. Mick Ralphs was still the guitar player.
He left to form Bad Company with Paul Rodgers & Mott brought in Luther Grosvenor from Steelers' Wheel. In Mott, he went by the name Ariel Bender.
Yeah, I was a Mott freak.