Everybody's Talkin' - Cover Versions

Cover Versions

Since Nilsson's cover of the song achieved chart success, the song has been covered by many other artists—almost 100 as of 2006—including Tom Jones, Louis Armstrong, Chet Atkins, The Beach Boys, The Ventures, Spanky and Our Gang, The Beautiful South, Tony Bennett, Jimmy Buffett, the actor Leonard Nimoy, Moose (band), Crosby, Stills & Nash, Matthew Sweet, Neil Diamond, Arlo Guthrie, Percy Faith, The Four Tops, Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, Emmylou Harris, Deborah Harry, Iggy Pop, Lena Horne, Engelbert Humperdinck, Julio Iglesias, The Kingston Trio, Vera Lynn, Liza Minnelli, Jesse Malin, Willie Nelson, Zucchero, Madeleine Peyroux, Tedeschi Trucks Band, BJ Thomas, Bill Withers, Sir Francis Highly, Bobby Womack, Stevie Wonder, Crowded House, Dwight Yoakam, Linda Eder, Van Morrison, Alain Bashung, and Tonic. It was sampled in 2002 by Paul Oakenfold in "Starry Eyed Surprise", in 2004 by The Go! Team in "Everyone's a V.I.P. to Someone" and in 2007 by Mika in his Live in Cartoon Motion DVD. In 2009, it was covered by French singer Eddy Mitchell as "Comme un étranger dans la ville". In 2010 Australian house music producer Dirty South used elements from "Everybody's Talkin'" in his own track "Phazing", which was released on his own record label, also called "Phazing". In 2007 a cover by Marko Haavisto in the Finnish language was recorded as "Kaikki jotain paasaa".