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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, Roger Miller (1965 for Smash)

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

Premiers, Tidal Waves

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

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)

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

Biff Rose
on lp Tetragrammaton 103 The Thorn In Mrs. Rose's Side

Tiny Tim, David Bowie

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

Fingertips

Little Stevie Wonder 1963
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.

Fire

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

Robert Gordon w/ Link Wray (12-77), Pointer Sisters, Bruce Springsteen

"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.

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 Ever I Saw Your Face, The

Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger 1962
on lp Folkways 8734 New Briton Gazette Vol. 2

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

Ewan MacColl wrote the song for Peggy Seeger, whom he married in 1958.

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 release while Hedy West was the only writer listed on subsequent versions.

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."

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 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 but none has been issued.

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), 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 Winds (aka Let The Four Winds Blow)

Dave Bartholomew 3-15-55
Imperial 5350

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

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.

Freight Train

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

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 Cotton'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.