Other Versions
- Other recordings are by Shirley Bassey (1991), Cilla Black & Cliff Richard (a duet for Cilla Black's Through The Years album in 1993) and Helen Reddy (for The Burt Bacharach Album: Broadway Sings the Best of Burt Bacharach in 1998).
- In the United Kingdom on the December 16, 2006, the major television network ITV aired the final of that year's series of The X-Factor, where all hopeful contestants who made it to the aired episodes performed this song live to an audience of several million.
- Singer Mijares covered it in his 2009 Spanish album Vivir Asà under the title of "Para ti yo estoy", a trio with Daniela Romo & Pandora.
- "The Friends Project" recorded a version that was arranged and produced by Australian singer Nathan Leigh Jones and directed by Michael Akers. Those taking part were singer-songwriter and piano player David Raleigh, Tony Award winning and Emmy-nominated Alan Cumming, Broadway actor, producer and singer Billy Porter and indie pop star Ari Gold. Revenues went to Ali Forney Center, a NYC shelter for homeless gay and lesbian youth.
- In Shrek the Third, Merlin the Wizard plays this song while Arthur and Shrek are having a talk.
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