Leonard Cohen - Do I Have To Dance All Night (1976 version - with Laura Branigan)

[drumrun]

Best Live version of this tune

[Trealawking]

brilliant, as is your website. have used it many a time

[AltheaHekate]

Totally love it!!!!!!!!

Why is it not released on any album?:-(

Love your video, it's great!!! (again!)

Blessed Be;

Althea

[MOUCHADOR]

oh you're so sexy my dear!

[studes4ever]

Wow, GREAT song!! I never knew Branigan sang back up for Cohen. I love them both, so this is an awesome find!! Sweet track too!!

[nnknkable]

Is this on any album?

Thanks for uploading DrHGuy!!!

[DrHGuy]

@nnknkable - It's not on any album. The story behind the song and an MP3 of the song can be found at my Heck Of A Guy site (see the blurb describing the video). I'm glad you enjoyed the song.

[lennycohenfan]

Wunderbar!

[drumrun]

I'd like someone to do a rock cover version of this.....

[alecs80sbuddy]

Great to hear Laura Branigan as a back-up performer. She soars! Great job Mr. Cohen and Ms. Branigan!

[gwashingmachine]

Can You See Laura In This Vid?

If So Where?

[DrHGuy]

Ms Branigan sings backup on this version of the song. The video, however, is just my cut and paste effort comprising elements of various L Cohen videos and Laura Branigan is on none of those.I list her on the title to alert her fans and to distinguish this from the 1980 version.

[gwashingmachine]

Good To Know, Thanks!

[M3town3]

@DrHGuy Is Sir Phil Spector involved?

[DrHGuy]

@M3town3 No - as far as I know, Phil Spector and Leonard Cohen collaborated only on the Death Of A Ladies' Man album

[M3town3]

@DrHGuy that's a shame, well I think Spector wrote this one anyway.

[JRT1964]

OMG! That's Laura Branigan Singing Back Up for him. she was just a teenager.

Long before "Gloria, Self Control" and her glory days of the early '80s

Rest In Peace Laura!

[DrHGuy]

That is indeed Laura Branigan (thus the clever parenthetical portion of the title, "1976 version - with Laura Branigan"). I admit that until I posted this, I had no idea how many Branigan fans there are.

[operareg]

This has me dancing!

[ABBAFANUSA]

Her last name is spelled Branigan (with one 'n')

[DrHGuy]

Phooey. You are right - I even know the correct way to spell her name and yet didn't notice the mistake. My apologies to Ms Branigan and my thanks to ABBAFANUSA for letting know about the error.

[tainaingrid]

This is indeed the one I have. One of my all-time favourites,

tnx again

[mondi860]

Excellent! Your video is matching perfectly with the song - one of my L. C. favourites though I only possess it on an old music cassette (!). I took a copy from a friend's original record in the early 90's (the record itself of course was produced in 1976). It is a very special and different kind of a L.C. song! I was pleased to recognize some scenes from "I'm a Hotel".

[tainaingrid]

Very well done!!! Ihave this song in my collection since 1976 and it's my all time favourite, tnx again,Ingrid

[proman84]

Amazing work. You truly are one hack of a guy ;) . Thanks to you this song is now in my collection.

By the way, is it possible to hear this "Amsterdam rendition" online somewhere? It's something I would be very interested in.

[HeartMonger]

Thanks for that. I like this song. Leonard cohen was quite an original guy with his performances.

As an above poster mentioned, that is indeed Laura Branigan on the back up vocals. She does such a wonderful job too. I originally came about this song because she backed it up.

Well done!

[tec0pa]

Montage vidéo vraiment superbe sur cette chanson très peu connue.

[tec0pa]

Montage video vraiment superbe.

[Eagleray99]

Yeah, utterly brilliant. Five stars and favourited :o). I love the bit with Leonard's women....he may not have quite been the man in his poem (whose voice alone could get women to sleep with him), but I really think that he got close to it. He probably had to break into song from time to time!

[dcdsjgmb]

and 0:57 to 1:00 (memories clip) reminds me that he has always enjoyed skipping, it's not just a phenomenon of the current tour. :)

[dcdsjgmb]

This is pretty much the greatest thing ever. You deserve some kind of award for this. 1:03 to 1:10 is like Cohen crack for me.

[a1000kissesdeep]

i think that 1980 live version (performed with sharon robinson and the passenger tour band in europe) is much better. this one has that funky 1976 tour sound and Laura Brannigan backups (OK, well, I'm not quite the fan of 1976 tour' sound), while in 1980 it was done in slower, oriental manner of Recent Songs, with john bilekjian's oud and raffi's violin... but still very danceable!

(i think there's gread recording of that version on amsterdam 1980 FM tape)

[DrHGuy]

I'm a fan of the Amsterdam rendition as well. I opted for the version that was released simply because my guess is that, of those folks who have already listened to Do I Have To Dance All Night, most would have heard the 1976 version.

[messalina79]

Everything a fan of Leonard's dancing could ask for ;) Brilliant, thank you.

[alkmrt]

Thanks for that. Nicely done.

[ThisPoetsFan]

So great, thank you for doing this. The last bit sums it up perfectly.