I really don't understand how I missed that until today (when I heard it over the sound system at a Manhattan restaurant where a certain Shady Dame of my acquaintance took me for one last birthday lunch.) But as I found out later, when I reseearched it, it originally appeared on an album of outtakes released shortly after La Winehouse's tragic death.
In any case, on reflection I now think that it's the best performance of that song ever waxed, and that includes the original by The Shirelles and Carole King's re-make on Tapestry.
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Check out some of the other tracks on Lioness. The duet with Tony Bennett on "Body & Soul" is also a killer, as are "Our Day Will Come" and "A Song For You." She was something else.
Good version but The Shirelles version will always rock my world the most!
Captain Al
Worth mentioning although most visitors here know this already. Gerry Goffin and Carole King were a married songwriting duo with the wife writing the music and the husband writing the words. That may not be female subservience in the Amy Barrett sense, but these great "feminist" lyrics were in fact written by a man.
She was really something. She lived a bio-pic in public.
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