HE AIN'T HEAVY HE'S MY BROTHER

Created on 26/01/2003
Latest update on 19/12/2023

Artist: Kelly Gordon
Author: Bob Russell/Bobby Scott
Label: Capitol
Year: 1969

Producer who also worked for Glen Campbell, Aretha Franklin and David Lee Roth. Coauthor is jazzman Bobby Scott. (see also: A Taste Of Honey)

Covers:

1969:

Hollies [n°3 UK, top 10 US and n°1 UK in '88]

1969:

Joe Lee Wilson

1970:

Neil Diamond [top 20 US]

1970:

David & Jimmy Ruffin

1970:

Osmonds

1970:

Bobby Scott [author on lp Robert William Scott]

1971:

Glen Campbell

1971:

Bobby Goldsboro

1971:

Cher

1971:

Melba Moore

1971:

Donny Hathaway

1971:

Pat Kelly

1975:

Olivia Newton-John [top 3 US]

1976:

Lorraine Ellison

1976:

Brotherhood Of Man

1977:

Cissy Houston

1986:

Housemartins

1987:

Al Green

1988:

Bill Medley [in film Rambo III; hit UK]

1996:

Gotthard

2001:

Rufus Wainwright [in film Zoolander]

2003:

Helmut Lotti

2003:

Sanchez

2010:

Ali Campbell

2012:

Justice Collective [charity project for the Hillsborough disaster feat. Robbie Williams, Melanie C, Pete Wylie and Mick Jones (The Clash); n°1 UK]

Contact


If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:

Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)

info@originals.be

No Facebook No Twitter