I Know Him So Well - Other Cover Versions

Other Cover Versions

The song has been covered by other music artists including:

  • Barbra Streisand for her 1985 album The Broadway Album; the track was later included on her 1991 box-set Just for the Record
  • The Shadows on their 1986 album Moonlight Shadows (instrumental version)
  • Whitney Houston and her mother Cissy Houston on Houston's 1987 album Whitney
  • Richard Clayderman recorded the song for his 1987 album Songs of Love
  • Willeke Alberti and Simone Kleinsma in 1989 as a Dutch version renamed "Ik Ken Hem Te Goed"
  • Steps for the 1999 Abbamania tribute album; their cover was later released as a single on their 2002 The Last Dance compilation album
  • Vivian Chow and Shirley Kwan, who covered the song in Cantonese as (男人心)
  • John Barrowman on his 2008 album Music Music Music, with Daniel Boys
  • Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, who performed a spoof of the song on their 1990 UK Live tour (available on VHS video only)
  • Paul O'Grady (in his Lily Savage persona) as a live duet with Barbara Dickson on the TV special An Evening With Lily Savage (available on DVD)
  • Amateur Transplants, who used the tune for Finals Fantasy on their second album Unfit to Practice
  • Idina Menzel and Kerry Ellis performed a version of the song at the concert version of Chess at the Royal Albert Hall with the London Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Elaine Paige and Susan Boyle, who performed a live cover of the song on the TV program I Dreamed a Dream: The Susan Boyle Story

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