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The only relief I got on my "rock" radio station on the drive home this afternoon was a live version of The Fixx's "Stand or Fall." Not sure why that particular track seems to be the only Fixx song I hear anymore, but at any rate, my question is this:

What songs (NOT albums) have charted in live versions? The only ones that jumped immediately to mind are the three hits from Frampton Comes Alive -- "Do You Feel Like I Do," "Baby, I Love Your Way," and "Show Me the Way."

What else?

― Mitya (mitya), Monday, 5 December 2005 03:24 (twenty years ago)

a live version of the angels "am i ever gonna see your face again", complete with delightfully expletive-ridden audience participation, charted at #13 when released as a 7", if i recall correctly..

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Monday, 5 December 2005 03:36 (twenty years ago)

(in australia that is)

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Monday, 5 December 2005 03:36 (twenty years ago)

I want You To Want Me by Cheap Trick is the first one that comes to my mind, then there's that Dingaling piece of sludge by Chuck Berry.

― jim wentworth (wench), Monday, 5 December 2005 03:44 (twenty years ago)

'Folsom Prison Blues' and 'A Boy Named Sue' from "At Folsom Prison" and "At San Quentin", respectively.

― Billy Pilgrim (Billy Pilgrim), Monday, 5 December 2005 03:46 (twenty years ago)

the live version of "stand or fall" was my bane back when I lived in bloomington, IN and listened to the "progressive" station.

― 'Twan (miccio), Monday, 5 December 2005 03:49 (twenty years ago)

the stop making sense version of "once in a lifetime", which only charted after being on the soundtrack to some other movie.

― turboalbino (haitch), Monday, 5 December 2005 04:05 (twenty years ago)

This may only half-count, but I believe Prince's "I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man" was live in the single version - definitely so in the video version, as it was from Sign O The Times.

I remember the Stop Making Sense version of "Once In a Lifetime" being on MTV constantly back in the day, but I suppose the song itself didn't re-chart as a result.

Did Fleetwood Mac's live version of "Landslide" from The Dance chart as a single? I certainly heard it a lot...

The single of James's "Sit Down" gets a half-point for having that insufferable outro where the audience sings the chorus for almost the entire length of the original song.

― Myke Weiskopf (Myke Weiskopf), Monday, 5 December 2005 05:05 (twenty years ago)

the live version of GbV's "i am a scientist" that heads up that particular 45 is the version i know best.. but calling it a hit might be considered foolish

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Monday, 5 December 2005 05:07 (twenty years ago)

George Michael's version of "Don't Let the Sun Go Down On Me", where he says "Ladies and gentlemen, Mr Elton John!" was some kind of hit.

― dr. phil (josh langhoff), Monday, 5 December 2005 05:09 (twenty years ago)

Louie Louie!

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 5 December 2005 05:11 (twenty years ago)

Marvin Gaye, "Got to Give It Up"

Paul McCartney and Wings, "Coming Up"

Opus, "Live Is Life"

War, "Ballero"

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 5 December 2005 05:13 (twenty years ago)

"got to give it up" is just produced to sound live.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 5 December 2005 05:17 (twenty years ago)

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - "War" (from the Live 1975-1985 box set)

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 5 December 2005 07:24 (twenty years ago)

i thought that most of their songs from, er, "throwing copper" was hits. or is it just me?

― corey c (shock of daylight), Monday, 5 December 2005 07:33 (twenty years ago)

http://www.getsomenoise.com/albumimages/56_Live_Throwing%20Copper150x150.jpg

no?

― corey c (shock of daylight), Monday, 5 December 2005 07:34 (twenty years ago)

Betty Wright - Tonight Is The Night

― one time gaffled 'em up (one time gaffled 'em up), Monday, 5 December 2005 07:37 (twenty years ago)

there's lots of these. i don't have my references handy, but i'm pretty sure these all qualify for example:

billy joel "she's got a way"
kinks "lola"
nirvana "about a girl"

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 5 December 2005 07:56 (twenty years ago)

Stevie Wonder - "Fingertips"

― R. J. Greene, Monday, 5 December 2005 08:10 (twenty years ago)

Was "Coming Up" a hit in the live version -- I thought that was off McCartney II? That said, it seems to me that "Maybe I'm Amazed" may have charted off of Wings Over America.

Good call on the Cheap Trick (and Opus). I should have thought of them.

― Mitya (mitya), Monday, 5 December 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

where he says "Ladies and gentlemen, Mr Elton John!"
I believe Elton John's live version of "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" feat. John Lennon got to Number One in the US.

― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 5 December 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

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