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Just about everywhere that it departs from the original, and most often even when copying it verbatim, this version is decidedly inferior. What was the point in making it then?

Does anyone know who the pianist is here?

Invisible brass.

@TheeChronicle Dozens of Grenadians told me it was good the U.S. invaded and restored constitutional democracy. Only pro-Castro communists dissented; are you one? You say it was to prevent Grenada "going socialist". Then you think the military coup murdering PM Maurice Bishop - himself a sociali...

Astonishing how the rubbish confidently spouted by the guru - that the Soviet's reach was not long (what continents are Cuba, Angola, Ethiopia, etc. on?) and therefore posed no threat - receives such worship and adulation here. A remarkable social phenomenon.

@BarbyJones77 Ok, just don't start dancing like these chics or you'll really be in trouble.

This ranting fundamentalist, who bases his denial of the right of self-determination of Israelis on grounds that God has banished the Jews from the Land of Israel, impresses the hell out of all the Israel-haters and Muslim chauvinists here. Says much about them.

@PaganMam Sinatra died at age 82.

I've been trying to find this on DVD for years, and still haven't. Thanks for uploading it here.

Considerably more boring than necessary.

@queenoftheuniverse Good argument; the issue dates at least to Plato's Republic Bk 10. I wouldn't put art in a politically correct straightjacket, but the opposite extreme of abstracting it completely from its social import is equally wrong. Can one "suspend judgment in favour of understanding" S...

Another person seeking attention by using a celebrity's name.

The great Jackie Wilson was an ex-boxer, and borrowed a lot of his entertaining footwork from his earlier training, a kind of Muhammad Ali and Sam Cooke rolled into one. The affinity between these two professions probably was that they were the two most prominent avenues of social mobility and su...

Think what you like about the comparison between Jackie and Elvis, but here's an interesting remark Jackie Wilson himself made: "A lot of people have accused Elvis of stealing the black man’s music, when in fact, almost every black solo entertainer copied his stage mannerisms from Elvis."

Just Amy.

Even the disco production can't smother the vocal charm. But the use of echo on her voice is unpardonable, especially given how much Monk valued space.

@MyMedzzz400 Grievous, considering the relentless effort she exerted to hide them.

Sorry, but less is less in this case.

She was also a good actress. The male actor is so bad they should have redone the video.

@cokokris1 Dumb racist comment. Carole King, Jewish like Amy, wrote great hits for black singers Little Eva (Locomotion), the Crystals (this and other songs), and has been covered by Aretha Franklin and Isaac Hayes. The Gershwins, Lieber and Stoller, Rogers and Hart, all white Jews, wrote songs c...

Would have preferred a real jazz arrangement behind her, but if this brings people to jazz all the better. Such a pity she never recorded a real jazz album; very original style.

@AhmadAlmousa You may be thinking of the first notes from Van Morrison's Brown Eyed Girl, although the notes are actually in reverse order (descending instead of ascending), but the tone is similar.

@zenarrrow Etes-vous français?

No voice left, smashed and broken, yet still that impeccable timing and intonation, and that wonderful soul even in its death throes.

yeah, out of synch, but amazing performance, and these guys do the perfect arrangement, a bit reminiscent of Otis' Try a Little Tenderness.

voice and vid are out of synch

Tremendous. This video will still be watched a century from now.

Brilliant vocals, and an appallingly bad arrangement. What is that, some hockey player practicing his slapshot in the background?

A nice Jewish girl singing a song written 50 years earlier by another nice Jewish girl (then 18). A worthy tradition, and distinctly better version than the Shirelles..

If this is Joplin I'm Robert Johnson.

relatively boring - you don't do yourself any service by masquerading under Amy's banner.

Completely monotonous self-promotion. No cleverness, no wit, utterly boring.