[mb-users] Singer/songwriter covering their own songs?

[artysmokes]

Frederic Da Vitoria wrote:
> 
> 2007/9/4, Philip Jägenstedt <philip at foolip.org>:
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> <SNIP>
> 
>> What about when an a group releases a song and later a member of that
>> group (say, John Lennon) makes another version. He both wrote and
>> performed the original version, just not by himself. Using the
>> strictest possible interpretation of the cover AR, this is also a
>> cover AR. Can this really be what we want?
> 
> This is how I would see it, but this is only my opinion.
> 

Mine too. Paul McCartney occasionally performs tracks he wrote and recorded
as part of the Beatles. They aren't later versions (i.e. later *releases*)
of old songs. They are cover versions.
In answer to the original question, YES, an artist *can* cover a song they
wrote themselves, if it has been previously released by another artist.
(Burt Bacharach is another artist that has recorded several cover versions
of songs made famous by others, but which he actually wrote). To emphasise,
a cover version is a new recording of something that has been *released*
previously, whoever wrote it.
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