Just My Imagination

Here's the Stones playing Just My Imagination from their disco-inspired Some Girls album:

And here's how it's supposed to sound. Just My Imagination -- The Temptations:

Shake Your Hips

Rolling Stones, Exile on Main Street:

Slip Harpo:

Is it me or have the stones really sucked the energy out of this one?

Prodigal Son

Prodigal Son -- Rolling Stones, Beggar's Banquet:

Robert Wilkins, That's No Way to Get Along:

A bit more subtle this, but the guitar and melody for the end of each verse is lifted from Robert Wilkins' original. According to Wikipedia:

"His best known songs are "That's No Way To Get Along" (to which he – an ordained minister since the 1930s – had changed the 'unholy' words to a biblical theme and since titled it "The Prodigal Son", covered under that title by The Rolling Stones)".

Here's Wilkin's playing Prodigal Son in the 1980s:

The 10 Best Robert Johnson Covers

Led Zeppelin – “Traveling Riverside Blues”
Perhaps the most famous and transformative Robert Johnson cover. In 1969, Led Zeppelin turned the song into a pagan boogie that showcases Jimmy Page’s insistent central riff, John Paul Jones’ fat bass line, John Bonham’s impossible beat, and Robert Plant’s possessed performance, which borrows from at least three Johnson compositions.

Howlin’ Wolf – “Dust My Broom”
Long before white British kids discovered him, older black bluesmen were playing the hell out of Robert Johnson’s tunes, chief among them Howlin’ Wolf. His hoarse delivery and blaring harmonica lend the tune a strident groove, as if he doesn’t quite grasp the sexual undertones.

Cream – “Cross Road Blues”
Few artists have done as much to make Robert Johnson boring and tasteful than Eric Clapton, who recorded a deadly album of covers in 2004. But this version of “Cross Road Blues,” recorded with the short-lived supergroup Cream, gets points for exploding the power-trio format. Maybe Clapton just needed Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker to egg him on.