Have I Told You Lately - Covers

Covers

"Have I Told You Lately" has become a classic over the years and has been performed by many unknown as well as many famous artists. In 1993 Rod Stewart's cover of the song was released that was his last Top Five solo hit to date, becoming a #5 hit in the US and the UK. This version also spent five weeks at #1 on the US Adult Contemporary chart. Some of the other best known cover versions of the song are by Kenny Rogers, Barbara Mandrell, Michael Ball, Della Reese, Engelbert Humperdinck and an instrumental cover by Floyd Cramer. Andy Williams covered it on his 2006 album, I Don't Remember Ever Growing Up and performed a live version in 2007 at Royal Albert Hall in London, England. In 2006, Thomas Anders covered the song for his swing album Songs Forever. Barry Manilow included this song on his album, The Greatest Songs of the Eighties released in November 2008. "Have I Told You Lately" has also been a popular cover song internationally. Tejano group Mazz also recorded the song on their 1993 album Que Esperabas. In 1999, the Belgian band Clouseau released a Dutch translation ("Heb ik ooit gezegd", literally : "Have I ever told you"), that charted 16 weeks in the Flemish Ultratop 50 (peaking at #7). A German version, entitled Warum komm ich nur so selten dazu, was published in 2003 by the German soul singer Stefan Gwildis on his album Neues Spiel. Emilio released a single of it from his album, Life Is Good, which also included a version in Spanish. Contemporary jazz\New Age pianist Chris Geith covered the song from his album "Timeless World."