It's A Man's Man's Man's World - Cover Versions

Cover Versions

The song has been recorded by many artists in various idioms over the years.

• Lucio Dalla included it in the 1966 (the same year of its first recording by James Brown) in his album '1999'.
• The MC5 covered the song in 1970 on their live album Teen Age Lust, the song is also on the soundtrack to The Runaways movie.
• It was the first hit single for Australian singer Renée Geyer, who recorded it for her 1974 album It's a Man's Man's World.
• Grand Funk Railroad covered the song in 1983 on their album "What's Funk?".
• The Residents covered the song in 1984 to promote their album George and James, despite it not appearing on that album. A music video was also created.
• Van Morrison released a live version on his double album A Night in San Francisco in 1994.
• Cher recorded it on her 1995 album It's a Man's World.
• Mountain recorded it on their 1996 album Man's World.
• Marla Glen recorded it on her album Our World in 1997.
• Sekouba Bambino, a Guinean singer well known in West Africa, released a cover version on his 2002 album Sinikan.
• Natacha Atlas recorded it on her 2003 album Something Dangerous under the simplified title "Man's World".
• Christina Aguilera performed a critically acclaimed rendition of the song as a posthumous tribute to James Brown at the 2007 Grammy Awards. Her performance has been voted as the 3rd Most Memorable Grammy Performance of all time.
• Celine Dion performed the song as a part of her 2008-2009 Taking Chances Tour.
• Seal recorded the song for his 2008 album Soul and released it as the second single from the album.
• Michael Lynche sang the song during the ninth season of American Idol.
• The cast of Glee, featuring Quinn Fabray (Dianna Agron) covered the song during season one's twenty-first episode, entitled "Funk", and released it as a single. Quinn was trying to represent the suppressed feeling women feel from men.
• The song was covered by Mary Byrne during the first live show of series seven of The X Factor. Fellow finalist Paije Richardson had also performed it as his second audition song after judge Louis Walsh gave him a second chance following his colleague's refusal to put Richardson through to the next round.
• It is also a popular song for live performances, having been performed in concert by such artists as Govt. Mule and The Grateful Dead.
• Tom Jones recorded it, and it's available on the album The Soul of Tom Jones
• Dave Meniketti, the frontman of the hard rock band Y&T covered this song on his solo album "On The Blue Side".
• Joss Stone recorded it on her first album The Soul Sessions" live at Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C., on December 7, 2003.
• Tom Andrews a UK YouTube contributor performed the song during The Ellen DeGeneres Show on 16th September 2010. This followed a short interview and preceded Ellen's announcement of him being the second signing to her record label eleveneleven.
• Gienek Loska, the winner of the first series of Polish X Factor, sang the song several times during the season.
• Shannon Noll, Australian pop/rock musician has recorded a version of the track for his upcoming fourth studio album A Million Suns
• Etta James, covered the song in 2006 on her album "All The Way"
• Bebi Dol covered the song in 2006 on her album Čovek rado izvan sebe živi.
• Karen Cartwright (Katherine McPhee) sang the song on the Smash episode Let's Be Bad.
• Juliet Simms performed the song on an episode of the The Voice (U.S.).
• Joshua Ledet sang the song during the eleventh season of American Idol.
• Karise Eden performed the song on the Australian version of The Voice.
• This song was featured on the My Wife and Kids episode, "The Proposal".