Hallelujah by Lenard Cohen

Qdrone - I agree, Basquait is a great film, and Jeffrey Wright's performance is superb and uncanny. If you liked Jeffrey Wright in that, see Jim Jarmusch's latest film where he plays Bill Murray's armchair detective neighbor. He and Murray have great chemistry in that film. Very subtle and also a great movie.

Marco

I second the version by John Cale. It is the best version I have heard and I have the ones Jennifer Warnes and Jeff Buckley.

The Buckley sounds like it was influenced by the Cale version or vice versa.

Richard Bischoff

The John Cale version of "Hallelujah" is on his album "Paris 1919"

Oops! It's not on "Paris 1919". Got it confused with "Andalucia".

Lvk47: What a great resource. I found what I was looking for. Patricia O'Callaghan, Real Emotional Girl. I knew I owned this song sung by a female vocalist, but couldn't find it. She's not exactly mainstream.

Marco: I have Famous Blue Raincoat--one of my favorite albums by Jennifer Warnes. This was the first album I checked. I checked it several times--even played it to make sure there wasn't an extra cut that wasn't on the label. While it is Leonard Cohen songs--that particular song is not on there--unless I've somehow missed something.

Might have to check out some of these other versions. But it was driving me crazy knowing I had this in my collection but couldn't find it.