Bonnie Raitt covered Paul Brady's Not the Only One for her Luck of the Draw album in 1991, and gave it a whole new life. It's one of my favourite of her recordings, and it's impeccably done. It gets the Was (Not Was) treatment, too, even if it doesn't quite sound like one of their songs; producer Don Was polished every note and brought in the very best musicians ... particularly Was (Not Was)'s Sweet Pea Atkinson and Sir Harry Bowens on backing vocals. The crescendo at the end starts with Raitt's guitar, but the gentlemen finish it off. (It actually bothered me that all of it got faded out when the single was released!)
In the meantime, here's Paul Brady's version, which came out in the Eighties.
Not the Only One - Paul Brady by alanbay86
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