What remake of a duet do you like more than the original version? Please name not only the song, but also the two pairs of singers.

Phil Spector had a bad habit of crapping all over everything he ever produced. Not being possessed of any great musical ability himself, he still stamped his own signature on it with grandiose orchestrations. McCartney was so incensed by what he did to the Beatles' penultimate album, Let It Be (released after Abbey Road but in fact recorded before it), that he later repurchased the rights and released a "naked" version which he claimed was closer to what the Fabs wanted.

 

  Yes, you are right that I’ve written about that particular Righteous Brothers song and Hall & Oates remake of it. When the Hall & Oates version was released, I had never heard the original version, and it was many years after listening to the remake that I finally heard the original, perhaps five years or more. I was already a die-hard Hall & Oates fan, so naturally I loved the remake. The original sounded horrible to me, and I dismissed it immediately. When I found out it that the H&O version was a remake, I revisited the original with the openness to give it a fair shake, but it was not to be. Having grown so accustomed to H&O singing it, and to the musical arrangement it has, I never took to the Righteous Brothers original. To this day, I still prefer the above-mentioned remake. 
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 Thank you, great answer.
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