9 Songs So Good You Didn't Know They Were Covers

9. Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Blinded By The Light (Originally By Bruce Springsteen)

This is one of those songs that often gets credited to the wrong band. Was this Edgar Winter? Eddie Money? Bachman-Turner Overdrive? Well, whoever it belongs to, it's certainly not Bruce Springsteen... ...Right? Because it would be crazy to think the eternally gruff Springsteen would be caught dead using those spacey keyboards and rat-a-tat drums.

Mannfred Mann (and his Earth Band), on the other hand, had no qualms using every prog-rock trick in the book when he laid down "Blinded By the Light" in 1976. But Springsteen actually did record it first. With his typical hollering, working class, roots-rock fashion, it sounds like pretty much every else he did before Born in the U.S.A. Then Mann came along and jazzed it up about 10 notches, delivering it as the epic ode to revved-up deuces it's known for today.