![]() Originally recorded by Bobby Rydell in 1959 ![]() Kiss rules!īut having said that, let’s have a listen to the originals just out of curiosity. I make them to be:Īctually this would make a really good Kiss compilation album because the thing that unites almost all these covers is that the Kiss version is usually immeasurably better than the original. It might seem odd to have to define what exactly constitutes a cover version and what does not but as we’ll see later in this and future articles, some songs such as ‘Rock and Roll Hell’, ‘Little Caesar’ and ‘All For the Love of Rock and Roll’ blur the lines between a cover version and an original song.īy that definition, let’s look at the covers that Kiss have recorded and released. I define a cover version as recording or playing a song by another songwriter or band that they had previously written and/or recorded themselves. Have you ever tracked down all the original artists versions of these songs?īut first, let’s define what a cover version is. The obvious ones spring to mind – ‘Kissin’ Time’, ‘Then She Kissed Me’, ‘New York Groove’, ‘2000 Man’ etc but there’s loads more. There’s some good listening to be had here and you may be surprised by some of them. No, in this episode of UNDISCOVERED KISSTORY, we’re going to sit back and listen to the original versions of all the songs that Kiss have covered on their records. I’m not talking in this article about other people covering Kiss songs, like we’ve all probably done from time to time.
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