HODGES JAMES & SMITH I Who have nothing

Nice version of this deep Soul number from Hodges, James and Smith.

Bettye LaVette - I Who Have Nothing @ 92Y NY,NY

Bettye LaVette at a 2013 concert in honour of song writer Mike Stoller. On August 16th 2021 I featured this song by Linda Jones and at the time I said that there is Soul then there's Deep Soul And there's Linda Jones. I now believe I've discovered another singer who gets down to that same depth!

I (Who Have Nothing) - Gladys Knight (1979)

Gladys doing a great cover of a song that Dame Shirley Bassey made famous. (Linda Jones had a Deep Soul version I posted some time back).This is Gladys' distinct "Gentle Soul" version.

Linda Jones - I Who Have Nothing

Linda Jones had one of the most immediately recognisable voices of the Soul Music genre. There's Soul and then Deep Soul where the singer reaches to deeper emotional depths, but I think Linda needs a further , deeper category of classification. The circumstances of her death were both traumatic and sad for her many fans. She went to her mother's apartment for a short rest between the afternoon and evening performances at the nearby Apollo Theater in Harlem but slipped into a state of insulin shock and was pronounced dead that evening. The news was relayed to a packed Apollo as fans waited for her to appear. She was just 27 years old. Here she brings her unique style to a song also performed by Dame Shirley Bassey.