correction: a friend of mine saw my post on this thread and
just emailed me: "the Leaves covered "Hey Joe",
not the other way around. "Hey Joe" was played by both
the Byrds & Love before the Leaves picked up on it.
They are the only act to score a Top 40 hit w/"Hey
Joe".
I read somewhere that none of those bands wrote Hey Joe and that strangely, the Sufaris were the first band (who also didn't write it) to record it.
Jimi Hendrix and LA based The Music Machine both did slow versions of Hey Joe, the others I've heard are all fast.