Betty Wright ~ Tonight Is The Night
Betty Wright ~ Pure Love
Little Stevie Wonder ~ Fingertips
Peter Frampton ~ Nassau/Baby I Love Your Way
Peter Frampton ~ Show Me The Way

Wham! ~ Blue
The Time ~ The Bird
Cheap Trick ~ I Want You To Want Me
KISS ~ Rock And Roll All Nite
Chuck Berry ~ My Ding-A-Ling

I'm going to side-step on this and make a footnote: I'd love to hear the unaltered "Bennie and the Jets." For years, folks thought it was a live cut, but in reality it's a studio take with a big ol' reverb on it audience sounds, etc.

So the non-live-not-live-anyway version could be better.

The live versions of "Devotion" and "Reasons" by Earth Wind & Fire (from the Gratitude album) seem to be more popular than the studio versions.

Peter Frampton the most obvious. Purple Rain was done live. Cheap Trick

SoulAlive said:

The live versions of "Devotion" and "Reasons" by Earth Wind & Fire (from the Gratitude album) seem to be more popular than the studio versions.

........BINGO!!!!

Cheap Trick " I Want You To Want Me"

Parliament "Mothership Connection"/"Swing Down, Sweet Chariot"- Because.......GLEN GOINS (R.I.P)

woogiebear said:

SoulAlive said:

Erykah Badu - Tyrone

Peter Frampton Comes Alive & Cheap Trick obviously

Bob Seger - Turn the Page

RocknRoll All Night - KISS

I also knew the live version of Paul Mcartney's Maybe I'm Amazed before the studio version. I think the live version was the 'hit' version from Wings Across America in 76. Both are great though.

Where's the links to all of these songs that people are listing here?

Pearl Jam - Alive

"Running On Empty" - Jackson Browne........"Freebird" - "Lyrnyrd Skynrd"......"R.A.R.A.N" - KISS.

MickyDolenz said:

nextedition said:

Tonight by Tina Turner and David Bowie, I think there is a studio version?

That would be great. It's a bit weird as a live version. The song is odd (to me). Not bad, just sorta slow, drawn out. A quasi-blues song or something.

But maybe a studio version would be pretty sweet.

TrivialPursuit said:

nextedition said:

Tonight by Tina Turner and David Bowie, I think there is a studio version?

That would be great. It's a bit weird as a live version. The song is odd (to me). Not bad, just sorta slow, drawn out. A quasi-blues song or something.

But maybe a studio version would be pretty sweet.

? There is a studio version on the album Bowie's album Tonight from 1984.

SoulAlive said:

The live versions of "Devotion" and "Reasons" by Earth Wind & Fire (from the Gratitude album) seem to be more popular than the studio versions.

Oh yes. The live version of "Devotion" is sped up a little, and that note Phil Bailey hits towards the end? WOW!

jazzz said:

PJMcGee said:

Pearl Jam's Alive from Ten isn't live, is it? Same with Running on Empty, Browne. That's been live all this time?

Both teh studio version and the live version (the video version everybody knows) is on Ten.

JorisE73 said:

PJMcGee said:

JorisE73 said:

Both teh studio version and the live version (the video version everybody knows) is on Ten.

It's a European thing. Wiki: Live performances of "Alive" can be found on European releases of Ten

Oh.
Didn't the US get the video with that particular live version?? I would guess that version would get more airplay than the studio recording

JorisE73 said:

PJMcGee said:

JorisE73 said:

Oh.
Didn't the US get the video with that particular live version?? I would guess that version would get more airplay than the studio recording

The video was probably played here (in the US). I only really remember Jeremy getting played (a lot). But radio didn't play the video version. Why would they? It wasn't available for sale.

Ah, ok. I thought all the Ten releases had the live version. Here in Holland I only ever hear the live version on the radio almost never the studio version.