In 1990, the Irish band Hothouse Flowers recorded this song. It was released as a single, reaching #5 on the Irish charts and #23 in the UK. It includes a prominent saxophone solo.
The original version was written and recorded by Johnny Nash in 1972. Nash was American, but the song had a heavy reggae influence, as Nash had recently collaborated with Bob Marley and recorded three of his songs for the album. Nash had been recording since 1958, and this was by far the biggest hit of his career. It reached #1 in both the US and Canada, and was a top 5 hit in the UK and Australia.
From the album
I Can See Clearly Now by Johnny Nash _________________ I'm leaning on the threshold
Of her mystery
And crashing through the walls
Of dying history
Stand By Me
written by Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller & Ben E. King
Usually, it's someone covering The Beatles music. But in 1973, John Lennon was being sued by Morris Levy for copyright infringement over the song "Come Together". Lennon's agreement with Levy led to his recording the album Rock 'N' Roll (which ended up being his final solo album). It's all covers of oldies, including this classic from Ben E. King. This is not my favorite Lennon track by any means, but he does sing the hell out of it.
If you're going to make a Bob Dylan tribute album, it should contain at least 73 tracks, and have the proceeds go to Amnesty International. That's what Chimes Of Freedom did. All new recordings of Dylan songs. And for the most part, it's pretty great. My Morning Jacket does a sparse, mainly acoustic and very slow version of this song, one of the times that their trademark over echo on the voice of Jim James works to positive effect. In fact, this may be my absolute favorite MMJ track. Very well done. This album came out in 2012.
Dylan's original is from 1975, a time when his songwriting was deadly sharp. Every track from this time is breathtaking. This is a situation where both the cover and the original are perfect. Just perfect.
I have already posted the Aretha Franklin version and the original version by Roy Hawkins in this thread. You can find those versions on page 3 of this thread, posts #26 & #27.
Robert Johnson recorded this in 1937 during his second and final recording session. The song was released as a single in 1939 (the final single), a year after Johnson's death. Like all of his recordings, it's just Johnson on vocal and guitar. It was first released on an album in 1990:
In 1969, Mick Jagger & Keith Richards heard a bootleg version of the song. They changed the arrangement, shortened the title, and recorded it (with Ry Cooder on mandolin). They credited it as traditional, which led to Johnson's estate successfully getting the copyright for the song.
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