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	Song	Artist/Date/Label	Remade by
	Fair Swiss Maiden (aka The Swiss Maid)	Roger Miller 9-19-61 RCA Victor 7958	Del Shannon (5-9-62), Roger Miller (1965 for Smash)

Fallen Angel

Rogue 1975
Epic 50209

Frankie Valli

Fallen Star, A

Bobby Denton 1957
Tune 202

Nick Noble, Ferlin Husky, Jimmy Newman

Family Man

Mike Oldfield 1982
on lp Epic 37983 Five Miles Out

Hall & Oates

Farmer John

Don & Dewey 1-20-59
Specialty 659

Searchers, Premiers, Tidal Waves, Los Lobos, Neil Young

Don & Dewey's 1957 demo—a much slower arrangement—has also been released.

Fascination

Jane Dyt 1905
French Odeon 75022

Nana Mouskouri, Nat King Cole, Jane Morgan, Dinah Shore, Dick Jacobs

Feelin' Alright?

Traffic 1968 (spring)
United Artists 50460

Joe Cocker, Dave Mason, Grand Funk Railroad

Fernando

Anni-Frid Lyngstad 1975
on lp Swedish Polydor S265 Frida Ensam

Abba (9-3-75)

The backing track for Lyngstad's original, which she sang in Swedish, was also used for Abba's hit.

Feudin' Banjos (aka Dueling Banjos)

Arthur Smith & Don Reno 1955
MGM 12006

Dillards, Eric Weissberg & Steve Mandell, Joe Maphis & Zen Crook

The melody is similar to Michael Praetorious's 17th-century dance tune "In The Mountains."

59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)

Simon & Garfunkel 8-16-66
on lp Columbia 9363 Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme

Harpers Bizzare

Fill Your Heart

Tiny Tim 1967 (later)
Reprise 0679

Biff Rose (1968), David Bowie

The song's demo, sung by co-writer Paul Williams, got to Richard Perry as he was producing the God Bless Tiny Tim album. Williams' co-writer, Biff Rose, didn't cut it until months later.

This is not a major David Bowie song but, aside from his Pinups album, he didn't record many covers.

Fingertips

Little Stevie Wonder 1962
on lp Tamla 233 The Jazz Soul Of Little Stevie

Little Stevie Wonder (c. 3-10-63 on Tamla 54080)

Stevie's hit single version was split into Parts 1 and 2 (actually taken from two different live dates).

Fire

Bruce Springsteen c. 8-77
on lp Columbia 88697761771 The Promise (2010)

Robert Gordon w/ Link Wray (12-77), Pointer Sisters, Bruce Springsteen (1978, Columbia 06657 [1987]), Robin Williams

"Fire," and other tracks on The Promise, were cut in the summer of 1977 for Springsteen's Darkness On The Edge Of Town album but not used for various personal and legal reasons.

Bruce wrote "Fire" with Elvis Presley in mind and even sent him a demo. Elvis died soon after so we'll never know what he might've done with the song.

Fire And Water

Free 1970
on lp A&M 4268 Fire And Water

Wilson Pickett (12-11-70)

First Cut Is The Deepest, The

P.P. Arnold 1967 (charted 5-67)
Immediate 1901

Cat Stevens (10-5-67), Koobas, Rod Stewart, Keith Hampshire, Sheryl Crow

First Time, The (aka First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, The)

Bonnie Dobson 1960
on lp Prestige International 13021 She's Like A Swallow

Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger (1962), Kitty White, Kingston Trio (9-26-62), Ewan MacColl (many more times), Gordon Lightfoot, Roberta Flack, Peggy Seeger (1983), Alison Moyet

Ewan MacColl wrote the song in 1957 for Peggy Seeger, whom he married the following year. After composing it, MacColl sang it to Peggy by phone from England while she was in Los Angeles. Bonnie Dobson heard Seeger perfoming "First Time" at the Colorado Folk Festival and ended up being the first to record it.

Bonnie Dobson's Swallow album was reissued in 1964 on Prestige Folklore FL 14015.

First We Take Manhattan

Jennifer Warnes 1986
on lp Cypress 661-111-1 Famous Blue Raincoat

Leonard Cohen, Joe Cocker, R.E.M.

Beginning in the 1970s, Jennifer Warnes worked as a backup singer with Leonard Cohen and the two had become friends. When she wanted to do an entire album of his songs, Warnes ended up with some compositions Leonard had yet to record, including "Manhattan."

Five Guys Named Moe

Irv Carroll w/ Al Jennings 10-21-41
Bluebird 11390

Louis Jordan (7-21-42), Joe Jackson, Jerry Dixon

Five Guys Named Moe was a 1992 Broadway play tribute to Louis Jordan, which ran for 11 years.

500 Miles

Journeymen 3-21-61
Capitol 4625

Peter, Paul & Mary, Kingston Trio (12-7-61), Hedy West, Bobby Bare (as "500 Miles Away From Home"), Seldom Scene

Journeymen member, and future Mamas & Papas leader, John Phillips got (took?) co-writing credit on their single release. Hedy West was the only writer listed on the Journeymen's album and most (all?) subsequent versions.

Bobby Bare's hit was based on Hedy's song but had different verse lyrics. Bare and Charlie Williams were the credited writers although West was later rightfully also listed.

Flamingo (aka Pretty Flamingo)

Gene Pitney 1966
on lp Musicor 3095 Backstage (I'm Lonely)

Manfred Mann (4-23-66), Tommy Vann & Echoes (7-66), Rod Stewart

The song was originally composed as an instrumental titled simply "Flamingo," with lyrics casually written as an afterthought. The Drifters cut a demo but composer Mark Barkan wasn't happy with it. He then did his own arrangement demo with Jimmy Radcliffe on vocals. The song quickly got to Gene Pitney, whose British management also represented Manfred Mann. Soon after Gene's album issue, the title was modified to "Pretty Flamingo" to avoid confusion with the Edmund Anderson//Ted Grouya jazz standard.

Fly Me To The Moon see In Other Words

Foggy Mountain Breakdown (aka Theme From Bonnie & Clyde)

Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs & Foggy Mountain Boys 12-11-49
Mercury 6247

Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs (1967 for Columbia), Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Joe Maphis, Stray Cats et al.

Lester Flatt (guitar) and Earl Scruggs (banjo) had been recording for a few years before they cut "Foggy." Interestingly, this now-bluegrass-standard written by Earl, was their first instrumental. The song really came to the public's attention when it was used in the 1967 film Bonnie & Clyde. In fact, Mercury reissued their 1949 recording under the title "Theme From Bonnie & Clyde."

Follow Me

John Denver 11-5-69
RCA 0332

Mary Travers

Fool Such As I, (Now And Then, There's) A

Hank Snow 5-19-52
RCA Victor 5034

Tommy Edwards (11-20-52), Jo Stafford (12-30-52), Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan

Fools Rush In

Bob Crosby w/ Marion Mann 3-18-40
Decca 3154

Tommy Dorsey (3-29-40), Glenn Miller (3-31-40), Tony Martin (3-31-40), Mildred Bailey (4-2-40), Brook Benton, Etta James, Rick Nelson

Adapted from an instrumental by co-writer Rube Bloom titled "Shangri La" (not the Robert Maxwell song of that title).

For All We Know

Larry Meredith 1970
on lp ABC OC 15 Lovers And Other Strangers ost

Carpenters

For Lovin' Me

Ian & Sylvia 1964
on lp Vanguard 79175 Early Morning Rain

Gordon Lightfoot (12-64), Peter, Paul & Mary

For My Good Fortune

Mahalia Jackson 7-10-58
Columbia 41258

Pat Boone

For Once In My Life

Barbara McNair 10-22-65
on lp Motown 644 Here I Am (rel. 11-66)

Jean DuShon, Tony Bennett, Stevie Wonder

McNair's was scheduled to be issued as Motown single #1112, around July of 1967, but it was cancelled. It was finally released on a 45 (Motown 1123) but not until early 1968. A number of artists—including Connie Haines and actor Jack Soo—cut the song before hers. Soo's has not been issued but Haines' is now available as download on a collection titled Motown Unreleased 1965.

Even though she recorded it in 1966, Jean DuShon considers hers the first. It probably was the earliest issued version but according to Motown session records, and the 1965 copyright on McNair's 45, Barbara's was recorded the previous year.

For Sentimental Reasons, (I Love You) see Sentimental Reasons

For The Good Times

Bill Nash 1968
Smash 2178

Kris Kristofferson (10-21-69), Ray Price (3-16-70), Al Green

For You

Joe Green's Marimba Band 3-3-31
Columbia 2429D

Leo Reisman (4-7-31),Glen Gray & Casa Loma Orch. (5-26-33, 1937, 1956), Jimmy Jones, Rick Nelson

First heard in the film Holy Terror (1931). This is not the same song as John Boles' "For You" from the 1930 film Captain Of The Guard.

Forever

Floyd Cramer 6-12-59
on lp RCA 2151 Hello Blues

Little Dippers, Pete Drake

Forever Autumn

Vigrass & Osborne 1972
Uni 55330

Justin Hayward

Fortune Teller

Benny Spellman 2-2-62
Minit 644

Rolling Stones, Hardtimes, The Who, Iguanas, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss

Four Strong Winds

Ian & Sylvia 1963 (spring)
Vanguard 35021

Brothers Four (8-63), Bobby Bare, Neil Young

Four Winds (aka Let The Four Winds Blow)

Dave Bartholomew 3-15-55
Imperial 5350

Roy Brown (1957, 1968), Fats Domino, Taj Mahal

Fox On The Run

Manfred Mann 1968
Mercury 72879

Emerson & Waldron, Country Gentlemen, Tom T. Hall

Although "Fox" wasn't a hit in the US for Manfred Mann, or any other pop artist, it's notable that the song has evolved into a bluegrass standard.

Fox On The Run

Sweet 1974
on lp UK RCA Victor 5080 Desolation Boulevard

Sweet (1975 for US Capitol)

Sweet's 1974 recording was produced by the group's longtime collaborators Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn. The band produced their 1975 version and that's what was issued as a single, and included on the US release of their Desolation Boulevard album.

Frankenstein

Johnny Winter 4-17-70
on CD Columbia/Legacy C2K85735 Second Winter (2004)

Edgar Winter

Edgar Winter was part of brother Johnny's band for the original.

Frankie And Johnny

Al Bernard w/ Carl Fenton's Orch. 5-21
Brunswick 2107

Paul Biese Trio w/ Frank Crumit (6-10-21), Frank Crumit (1927 for Victor), Ted Lewis, Jimmie Rodgers, Johnny Cash, (as "Frankie's Man, Johnny"), Brook Benton, Sam Cooke, Elvis Presley et al.

Various theories abound as to the source of the song's sordid tale. The earliest story goes back to 1813 when a North Carolina woman named Frankie shot her husband dead. Another, in 1889 St. Louis, involves (a different) Frankie gunning down her man who "done her wrong." The composition was first published in 1904 under the title "He Done Me Wrong." Frankie Baker, who claimed to be the perpetrator of the St. Louis murder, unsuccessfully sued Republic Pictures over use of "her" story in their 1936 film Frankie And Johnny.

Free Bird

Lynyrd Skynyrd 6/28 to 7/2-71
on CD MCA 11888 Skynyrd's First (1998)

Lynyrd Skynyrd (4-3-73, 1976)

"Free Bird" was initially recorded as part of the band's intended first album. They weren't connected to a label at the time and once Al Kooper signed them, the group started over on what became their debut lp: pronounced leh-nerd skin-nerd.

Lynyrd Skynyrd's demo of "Free Bird," done in October of 1970, has also been issued.

Freeborn Man

Keith Allison 1967
Columbia 44028

Paul Revere & Raiders, Freddy Weller, Outlaws, Jimmy Martin, Bill Monroe

Freedom For The Stallion

Lee Dorsey 1971
Polydor 14106

Hues Corporation, Oak Ridge Boys, Allen Toussaint & Elvis Costello

Freight Train

Chas. McDevitt Skiffle Group w/ Nancy Whiskey 1956 (rel. 12-56)
Chic 1008

Peggy Seeger, Isla Cameron & Guy Carawan, Rusty Draper, Elizabeth Cotten, Peter Paul & Mary, Taj Mahal

Written by Elizabeth Cotten when she was a child. Peggy Seeger, whose family Cotten had worked for, performed in England in the mid-1950s, which explains how Brit Chas. McDevitt picked up the song. Two UK songwirters, mistakenly thinking it was traditional, took the credit but Cotten's name was added in later years.

Freshman, The

Verve Pipe 1992
on CD VP 1001 I've Suffered A Head Injury

Verve Pipe (1996 for RCA [twice])

Their I've Suffered A Head Injury CD was subsequently reissued minus the "Freshman" original.

There were two different versions of "The Freshman" on the RCA CD Villians. The first, produced by Jerry Harrison, was replaced by a Jack Joseph-Puig-produced remake. That second one became the hit.