Sept. 28: Come together
I used to think that Aerosmith wrote the song Come Together. I thought this because I owned their greatest hits cassette and it was the last song on side B. On that tape, Come Together was followed by a song called Remember (Walking in the Sand.) Both songs are covers. Remember was written by George Morton and it was performed, originally, by the Shangri-Las in 1964. Come Together, of course, was famously written by Lennon/McCartney. How's this for treason? I like the Aerosmith version better. - It's not wrong to say that you like the cover better than the original unless the original was (a) The Beatles or (b) a former member of the Beatles. This is why it's wrong to say you like Guns N Roses version of Live and Let Die better than Paul McCartney's and it's why it's very wrong to say you prefer Tiffany's version of I saw (him) standing there. - Tiffany was a popular singer for about two months in 1988. She got famous for singing in shop...