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The Cars

My Best Friend’s Girl

1978 · via The Cars

The Cars’ 1978 recording of “My Best Friend’s Girl” is the earliest release on file. Ric Ocasek of The Cars is credited as its writer. Also recorded by Nirvana (released 1994), Hayseed Dixie (released 2002) and The Replacements (released 1984), among 31 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz. It is on the album The Cars (1978).

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Ocasek wrote it, The Cars cut it first in 1978, and in 1994 Nirvana took their own turn at it. Play them back to back and listen for how much of that hook survives the trip.

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Credited writer: Ric Ocasek.

Earliest release on file: this one, 1978.

On the album The Cars (1978).

Other recordings on file · first release year

31 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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Ric Ocasek wrote "My Best Friend's Girl" and The Cars recorded it first. Which band, years later, recorded their own take on it in 1994?Nirvana
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