Showing posts with label Janis Joplin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Janis Joplin. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

To Love Somebody

We're going to do this one backwards. I'm not much of a music buff. I know a lot of songs, but I usually have a hard time identifying who sings what songs or anything like that.

So, I'm a big Ray LaMontagne fan, so I started looking up covers that he's done. And I found this, Ray LaMontagne and Damien Rice on French TV singing To Love Somebody:

Now, again, I'm a little shaky when it comes to who sang what, but I had it in my head that this was a Janis Joplin song, which it is... kinda:

But there in the side bar is a link to the BeeGees, who I know wrote a huge amount of songs:

And then there was a link to Nina Simone, who I know all of one song of hers, but I could of sworn she was from like the 50's... or earlier:

There are others, but after four versions, I'll spare you (the Michael Bolton version.)

I had to turn to Wikipedia on this... it was originally done by the BeeGees, even though, I like the other three way better than the original.