Bob Wills: If that ain't a purty nice a version I'll take you back to Tulsa.
Leann or Patsy: The power of my gal from Garland, or the precision and sense of timing of that lady who left us too soon?
Elvis: oh, and I can't write down the sound, but "as I look at the letters ..." and you all know what I am talking about :)
Conway and Loretta: yeah, nice, but not stellar.
Willie and Ray; respectable, for sure, another fellow Texan with a mighty smooth voice.
All the Bluegrass versions, from Wiseman to the unknowns: nobody has the fiddles like them. Bluegrass musicians understand the entry to the tune and the rests, yeah.
The Texas bands like Asleep at the Wheel, all the homers: I wish I could two-step, because HELL YEAH!
And the seemingly random stuff like Flying Burrito Brothers: Way to go hippies!
I guess it's really all good. What say ye?
Doug Sahm, one of the Texas homies
I have Bob Wills and Patsy Cline versions. Those are the 2 I prefer.
I also have a Lyle Lovett/Asleep at the Wheel one, but I don’t care for it.
Willie Nelson & Ray Price had an okay version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESeyLLz82mE
Ray Price and Willie
Well worth mentioning is Lee Ann Womack crooning Heart To Heart Talk on the same CD. Fabulous.
Patsy Cline.
Add Tompall and the Glaser Brothers to the list. Here’s their very good version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0shsRdB5mg
The songs been done Patsy
And Lord knows many more.
But son if you like The Stones attempt
I’ll show you the door.
The one by Ray Price is nice
It’s good to hear him sing.
But if you want my opinion Hoss
Bob Wills is still The King.
By the way, Chuck, you sound like a guy who knows the score. I’m going to Austin in a few weeks for the first time - any advice of where I can catch some good live, real (read: non-bro) country and/or swing?
Ray Price
Wall of Voodoo.
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Just kidding - it’s Patsy Cline.
The Quebe Sisters from Austin do a very fine job with it, with THREE fiddles. If you like Texas swing check them out.
Bob Wills is still the king...
Her version is simple, plaintive, and she certainly had the pipes to do it justice, back in this time frame.
I vote BOB WILLS and the TEXAS PLAYBOYS!
I also have it by just the Texas Playboys!
I read that as “Tainted Love” and was shocked to read there were so many versions!
Then I re-read it.
“Oh, Faded Love.”
Willie Nelson.
Wait, no, that’s “Crazy Arms.”
Emmy Lou Harris?
And why she and Merle Haggard have not done a duet on “Today I Started Loving You Again,” well, that my favorite mystery of all.
For me...Patsy Cline.
I do love her style of singing...:)
Bob wills 1950 version.