I think the Gloria Jones version is perfectly serviceable. Good song. To me, that's a great example of a perfect cover...it's a song that's really good done two totally different ways. Not a fan of covers that pretty much just cruise on the quality of the original, like that band in the 1990s that covered Mrs. Robinson. Hell, a song like that is so damn good, an eight year old could bang it out on a trash can lid and have a B+ result.
Anyway, here's another 80s song that I think few people realize was a cover...this was a huge 1960s Britpop single. The original never made much chart headway in the US, so I think most Americans considered it to be an original.
Of course, in true 1960s fashion, almost nothing is an "original", as it was a Burt Bacharach song first recorded by Dionne Warwick, and actually charted by another artist before Sandie Shaw.
