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Thread started 03/02/21 12:27am

JabarR74

Don't Leave Me This Way: Which Version Is Better?

Who did the song, "Don't Leave Me This Way" better?

Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes

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Thelma Houston

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Reply #1 posted 03/02/21 11:58am

MickyDolenz

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I didn't know Thelma remade this until the 1990s. I had never heard the Blue Notes version until then when I bought their Best Of CD. I had only heard Thema Houston's version. Thelma was the one played on the radio and relatives had her record.

You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #2 posted 03/02/21 3:01pm

IAdoreWeronika

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JabarR74 said:

Who did the song, "Don't Leave Me This Way" better?



Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes



or



Thelma Houston


Neither , always liked The Communards version the most.
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Reply #3 posted 03/02/21 4:06pm

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Thelma's all day long. Ain't even close.
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Reply #4 posted 03/03/21 4:44am

RJOrion

daingermouz2020 said:

Thelma's all day long. Ain't even close.



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Reply #5 posted 03/03/21 2:15pm

jjhunsecker

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I prefer Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, but I can see why Thelma’s version was a massive hit
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Reply #6 posted 03/03/21 8:33pm

alphastreet

Thelma’s version is one of the best disco singles of its time
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Reply #7 posted 03/04/21 12:38am

Purplegarden

Both are incredible, but it has to be Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes by a nose.

Teddy's vocals are mesmerising, still give me goosebumps when I hear it everytime!

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Reply #8 posted 03/04/21 3:44am

JoeTyler

Thelma's by a long margin. Althought the version of the Communards is the definitive version.
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Reply #9 posted 03/07/21 12:50pm

woogiebear

Thelma Houston

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Reply #10 posted 03/08/21 5:13am

Empress

Thelma Houston
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