Your Favorite version of The Bee Gees' "To Love Somebody"

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The new Billy Corgan single is a cover of the Bee Gees "To Love Somebody" featuring Robert Smith on backing vocals

I want to gush on and on about this Bee Gees song.

Who did your favorite version?

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

Umm, the Bee Gees? (for once)

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

nina simone...

― b b, Tuesday, 28 June 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

1. The Bee Gees' original
2. Nina Simone
3. Michael Bolton (probably my favorite of his singles)

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

Firewater recorded one (with new, somewhat nasty lyrics) but sadly never released it.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

People should just stop bothering to mention Robert Smith being on that cover on the Corgan record. You can barely notice anyone else besides Corgan.

Good cover, though. I like the dreaminess of the production.

― Brett Hickman (Bhickman), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

I like James Carr's version the best.

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

I like Janis Joplin's version best.

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

I like James Carr's version the best.
Me too. I also like the Al Green version of "How Can You Mend A Broken Heart" the best.

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

Robert Smith is audible, if just. Great version.

My favorite version nobody else knows about (I think) -- Gallon Drunk, on one of their later albums. Really fine.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

Busty Brown & the Upsetters

― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

Mule!

YSI for you!

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

Thanks for the YSI.

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

The Sweet Inspirations

― mucho, Tuesday, 28 June 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

Eagle Eye Cherry do a pretty good version on the "Y Tu Mama Tambien" soundtrack.

― Adam Harrison-Friday, Tuesday, 28 June 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

Flying Burrito Brothers with Gram Parsons. Easy.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

Has anybody done a version of "Words"? That's probably my favorite Bee Gees song (next to "Nights on Broadway").

― Michael Costello (MichaelCostello1), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

One of those British boy-bands -- Westlife or Boyzone? -- covered "Words," pretty much note-for-note replicating the original.

Need more covers of "I Can't See Nobody" and "You Win Again."

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

Alex Chilton

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

i second the gallon drunk choice. great version, great album, maraccas on fire.

― joan vich (joan vich), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

And here's another one for Gallon Drunk's version + album!

― Niels Aalberts (Niels), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

where does Alex Chilton do "To Love Somebody"?

I never realized how many great versions there are of this one!

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

Eric Burdon's version.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

edd: live in LA about 10 years ago.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

1. The Bee Gees

99999999999999999. Jimmy Sommerville

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

1. nina simone
2. slobberbone
3. jimmy somerville

― stevie (stevie), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 21:49 (twenty years ago)

p.p. arnold!

― the underground homme (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 21:53 (twenty years ago)

yes, p.p. arnold. also the flying burrito bros!!!! with a nice steel guitar part.

but i guess i like the original best of all.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 22:21 (twenty years ago)

fifteen years pass...

Kind of liking this version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_1cM7vXb7w

Also my whole life I've thought the lyric was

In my prayers
I see your face again

and not

In my brain
I see your face again

The Brothers Gibb strike again1

― Left Eye Frizzell (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 20:35 (five years ago)

four years pass...

Wish Jimmy Somerville would take another shot at this

― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Sunday, 18 May 2025 18:17 (one year ago)

I love Rod Stewart's version with Booker T. & The MG's. Insane he left in the vaults until his first box set. Sounds great there, and the mix on the deluxe reissue of Atlantic Crossing with the additional strings is great too, maybe even better.

― birdistheword, Sunday, 18 May 2025 21:03 (one year ago)

Released in 1990:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mJUFv3ysVU

2009 release with strings:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcCfP7JoULY

― birdistheword, Sunday, 18 May 2025 21:05 (one year ago)

Michael Bolton's obv

― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 18 May 2025 21:12 (one year ago)

not the first to say Gallon Drunk but will go for that too, I remember a review saying it sounded like he'd broken into your house and was whispering it into your ear while you slept

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlmqEhBFpA0

― zoloft keeps liftin' me (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 18 May 2025 21:41 (one year ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LymNICNvaH8

― the way out of (Eazy), Sunday, 18 May 2025 23:51 (one year ago)

That live version from Nina Simone is fantastic. It’s a such a good song. How the artist covers it is like a distillation of their sound.

― that's not my post, Monday, 19 May 2025 02:36 (one year ago)

Didn’t see Roberta Flack’s devastating version posted so here it is. It soundtracked the scene in season 1 of The Americans where Gregory goes out to his death.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyg4lA7lUcI

― that's not my post, Monday, 19 May 2025 02:40 (one year ago)

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