Elton John - Time Has Told Me (Nick Drake Cover)

Elton John's demo sessions at Dick James Music Studio in 1968.Elton John singing songs of Nick Drake (Day is Done, Saturday sun, Way to blue and Time has told me)

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Music

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• Elton
• John
• Nick
• Drake
• Time
• Has
• Told
• Me
• Saturday
• Sun
• Sessions
• 1969

[lewis9229]

i liked his way to blue cover, but this is a pile of shite

[artvandelay13]

waaaaaaayyyyy too much, tone it down a little!! doesn't have the same soul as nick's version at all!

[Fredigundis22]

These travesties of Nick Drake songs by Elton John are uniformly awful. It simply confirms the depressing truth that a mediocrity with boundless self-belief will thrive, while a genius with none will go to the wall. Nobody who really loves Nick Drake could really like - or even tolerate - this.

[pointsonthei]

i think this is elton with the big bril

[ThePieffe63]

This cover is like an elephant in a shop of glasses!

[AllegrettoDolce]

Hi all, Nick Drake's bio in Rolling Stone states- "In 1970 Elton John was hired as a session vocalist to record Drake's songs to use as demos to entice established singers to covet Drake's compositions."



[strangefruit42]

@hannahmwalsh Your knowledge is right. Elton, or better Reg was mostly a session musician, and as far as I know Nick Drake even made those recordings. He hadn't recorded the song himself back then, so it's logical to assume that it was even the way he imagined the song should sound at that time.

[strangefruit42]

@cleolicious You have no idea how ridiculous you sound. In 1968 Elton wasn't even Elton, he was Reg Dwight, a young and very shy (so much about the huge ego crap) musician who made a living doing cover versions of songs for sampler records. Or, like it was in this case to help artists selling songs they hadn't recorded themselves at that point. Please don't judge the history of an artist by the very limited knowledge you have out of the yellow press.

[SirPsychoSexy121]

it's a cover people. it's not supposed to be the same exact thing.

[NicoDraak74]

@artvandelay13 Yo Art, how them latex factory doing?

[richardvollin]

@chevrotyne I made some rather shoddy remarks concerning the information posted regarding this song.

I apoligised and provided 'chevrotyne' the information he requested.

Maybe in the future; people who post on YouTube will research their information first, check twice, and help keep misinformation, and distorted facts from being perpetuated.

'chevrotyne' is cleared of any wrong doing, as he is not the only person who has been conned by fabrications appearing on CD's of dubious origin.

[chevrotyne]

@richardvollin oh really ! so give me good information : richardvollin !