Without You (Badfinger Song) - Other Cover Versions

Other Cover Versions

Shirley Bassey covered the song twice, once for the album And I Love You So in 1972, and again in Spanish as "Sin Ti" for the 1989 album La Mujer. This Spanish version of the ballad has also been recorded by Paloma San Basilio. A salsa style has been recorded by Antonio Cartagena, Tito Nieves, and Orquesta Corinto. A meringue version of "Sin ti" was recorded by Klasse Aparte in 1996. Abraham Mateo, an 11-year-old Spanish boy, and Caroline Costa, a 13-year-old French girl, released a Spanish version for the album Abraham Mateo. A different Spanish translation, "Desde el dia que te fuiste" ("From the Day You Went Away"), was a #1 hit for Pandora on Billboard's Hot Latin Tracks in 1992. This version was covered by operatic pop band Il Divo for the album Siempre, in 2006.

The London Symphony Orchestra included the song on their 1977 album Classic Rock. Cilla Black included the song on her January 1973 record, Day By Day with Cilla. Heart included their cover on the album Magazine, in 1978. Melissa Manchester included the song on her album For The Working Girl, in 1980. Pop group Brotherhood of Man recorded a version for their 20 Love Songs album in 1981. T.G. Sheppard included the song on his Greatest Hits album in 1983. Elaine Paige recorded a version on her 1985 album Love Hurts. Air Supply included the song on The Earth Is... in 1991.

A version by Ham on the Golders Green album, released posthumously in 1999, contains Ham's original "if it's love, that you're needing" bridge, and is only 2:16 in length. Bobby Conn recorded it for the Llovessonngs EP, in 1999. Donny Osmond recorded the song for the album Somewhere in Time, released in November 2002. In 2003 the song was released by Natalia, on the album This Time, and Jade Kwan, on the album Jade-2 Special Edition. Hall & Oates released a cover of this song on their album, Our Kind of Soul in 2004, a year that also saw covers by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy (Will Oldham) with Bob Marley's Babylon System for the EP Pebbles and Ripples, and Weezer front man Rivers Cuomo, who posted his cover on his MySpace page. Wing featured the song on the album One Voice in 2007.

In 2008 Chris de Burgh included the song on the album Footsteps and Swedish artist Timo Räisänen released a cover on his album And Then There Was Timo. Covers in 2009 came from Collin Raye on his album Never Going Back, and by

The song is often covered by TV talent show contestants, appearing on Clay Aiken's album A Thousand Different Ways in 2006 and as a b-side of Burke's "Hallelujah" single after her performance of it on the fifth series of The X Factor. A version was sung by Carly Smithson on the seventh season of American Idol the week Mariah Carey mentored the contestants. The song was released. As well, season 10 finalist James Durbin covered the song during the Top 5 'Then and Now' Week. Valentina Hasan, a season two contestant of Music Idol, sang her own version in Engrish. Soon dubbed "Ken Lee" after her mispronunciation of "Can't Live," the video of Hasan's performance became a YouTube hit, parodied and remixed by many fans as featured in Sign of the Times on ABC's Nightline in March 2009.

Mina performed the song with Johnny Dorelli in the Italian translation, "Per chi" (1978), a version that has also been released by Gens. Angela Aki rewrote most of the lyrics in Japanese loosely based on the original words with the final verse in English, released as a b-side on her 2010 single Kagayaku Hito.. Stryper lead singer Michael Sweet performed the song on his 2007 solo album Truth.

Vikki Carr covered the song on her 1972 album "The First Time Ever (I Saw Your Face) / Song Sung Blue".