Smooth Operator - Cover Versions

Cover Versions

• Filipino bossa nova singer Sitti recorded a cover of the song in 2007 for her second studio album My Bossa Nova.
• Helena Paparizou performed the song live at Mad Secret Concert 2005. The song was officially released at her album "Iparhei Logos"
• R&B singer Pru covered the song on her self titled album in 2000.
• Covered by Cuban percussionist Mongo Santamaría on his 1987 release Soy Yo (along with another '80s quiet storm hit, Anita Baker's "Sweet Love"). Also featured on his 2000 release Mucho Mambo Mongo.
• Danish vocal group Basix recorded the song for their The Grass album.
• It was also covered in a death metal version by Ten Masked Men on their 1999 The Ten Masked Men Strike Back EP.
• Señor Coconut y Su Conjunto covered the song on their 2003 Fiesta Songs album.
• Swedish crooner James Gicho released a cover version in 2005, produced by Håkan Lidbo.
• Paloma Faith performed a cover of the song as part of the "Great British Songbook" segment of Simon Mayo's Radio 2 programme on 18 January 2009, where she claimed to suspect she knew who the song was about.
• Trumpeter Greg Adams provided an instrumental version of the song off his 1995 Hidden Agenda album.
• Basia performed a jazzy remake. The intro to her version of Smooth Operator was used in a 2008 Nissan Teana (Maxima) TV commercial in Japan. It is unreleased, but can be found on services such as YouTube.
• The duo Asaro and Wolcott, composed of vocalist Catherine Asaro and jazz musician Donald Wolcott, covered the song in 2010 on their EP Goodbye note.
• The Venezuelan a cappella Band Sie7e Palos recorded this song for their most recent album "Rumba Romance", which will be released on 2011.