Covers:

1971:

Brenda Lee [coauthor Wayne Carson Thompson cut his own version for Monument that year, still unreleased]

1972:

Gwen McCrae [as You Were Always On Mind; released two months before Brenda's as B-side of Columbia single He's Not You]

1972:

Elvis Presley [B-side of Separate Ways, the single that sealed his divorce from Priscilla]

1982:

Willie Nelson [n°1 C&W; proclaimed "song of the year", later even "country-song of the eighties"]

1982:

Sonny Charles

1982:

Ron Brandsteder [as Ik Hield Altijd Alleen Van Jou]

1985:

Joe Simon

1987:

Pet Shop Boys [n°1 UK]

1988:

Bert Weedon

1990:

David Hasselhoff

1991:

Brenda Cochrane

1992:

Piet Veerman

1992:

Mama's Jasje [as Zonder Verhaal]

1992:

Cissy Houston

1993:

Skeeter Davis

2002:

Glennis Grace

2005:

Ryan Adams

2006:

Julio Iglesias

2007:

Michael Bublé

2013:

Willie Nelson & Carrie Underwood

2016:

Loretta Lynn

2017:

Ane Brun

2021:

Dave Gahan

2022:

Dale Watson