The book is the greatest love story ever written, Some say its Romeo & Juliette but we should remember they were only 13 years old it was not an adult love.
Pat Benatar and Kate Bush are both up for entry into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year. It would be amazing if they both got in and shared the stage to do this song together!
Personally, I can’t stand Kate Bush’s voice and for the life of me why would she be in the hall of fame when their are so many artists that are actually talented have yet to even been given a chance. The rock and roll hall of fame is a joke
@@darquone2238 Many people can't stand Kate's voice (Personally, I think her voice is incredibly melodic, but HEY!) but NOBODY who examines her catalog and compositions, lyrics, and tunes can doubt her qualifications for *any* Hall of Fame. :)
How come I am just hearing this in 2022? I had the 8-track in high school. I don’t recall the song. And I love Kate Bush! Pat did an amazing cover of this song wow.
First time I hear Pat's rendition and I dare to say that the difference between it and the Kate Bush's original is a matter of feeling. Kate delivers all the desperation and solitude of a ghost who claims attention from its still loving subject. Pat Benatar sounds like Cathy finally had accepted her condition and is just complaining about the grown distance between her and Heathcliff. And both are simply gorgeous, each version in their own voices.
The other difference is just that she doesnt sings it as high-pitched as Kate but who could blame Pat this song is so hard to sing. Apart from that both songs have that magnificent rendition
Great song. Heard Kates original version on her first album The Kick Inside in 1978 that I still have. I think Pat helped Kate get more recognition, but as good as her version is, Kates is the ultimate. I'm glade Kate is finally in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Very deserved. I'm sad it took so long and probably occurred because of Stranger Things having Running Up That Hill on the latest season, but long overdue.
Her husband Neil persuaded Pat to cover it! Pat's a fan of Kate but even Pat admitted in liner notes on Synchronistic Wanderings that she didn't think she did the song justice like Kate's original. I am a fan of both artists; 2 completely different artists. Personally I think Pat's cover is better than the other covers of Kate's songs so kudos to Pat!! 😊
Hearing a cover of a Kate Bush song is just hearing a diluted version of it. But this is a respectable attempt. Pat Benetar is a legend in her own right.
Great cover. I love Pat. I saw her live two days after 9/11. She sang the national anthem and it was just her voice piercing the night air in the outdoors. I can’t imagine how many other people not attending her show heard her. it was probably the most powerful and beautiful performance I personally have experienced.
Bravo, Bravo.. Great cover. Pat made it her own. Most covers of this song try to clone the origional. She made it a Pat Benatar interpretation of a classic. Well done...
There's a rock band that does a cover of it. at first I thought no way then I heard it and I couldn't believe it...i I forgot their name but it's on TH-cam
Emily Bronte would have loved how these versions came out. I was always wonder what Bronte sisters and Jane Austen would have felt knowing how their babys ( works) are loved to this day. Its so sad to me they never got to see what the eons brought to them. Much Appreciation and 💘
Whenever someone tries to sing it in the original pitch, it tears my eardrums apart. This is the first and only cover of this song that I can stand listening to. It's different in a good way, and it's beautiful. But of course, in no way comparable to the original, because the original is unique in every way. And that's why this singer nailed it, because she did her own thing instead of trying to copy something unique. Great job!
Ksenija Popovic Listen to Angra's cover of this song. I prefer it one thousand times over the original. Their vocalist, André Matos, has actually an amazing vocal range and can sing it smoothly. Also, it has a guitar solo the band executes it perfectly
I bought this album Crimes of Passion when I was around 15. It's straight 🔥 from A-Z. This song stuck out to me as it was the anomalie of the bunch being a cover.. In my opinion it holds it's own with every other track which are today Pat Benetar standards! Glorious voice of one of my favorite Rockers.
I always loved this song by Pat Benatar, and today heard it on the radio... by the original Kate Bush! I had NO IDEA Kate had done this song, I just loved it from Pat's album... and had NO IDEA that its' title was Wuthering Heights! I love this book, and the movies, too, especially the Ralph Finnes version.... wow! what a discovery!
I've always loved Pat's voice. Of all the great tunes of her's that I loved as a kid, I never would have guessed this would be my favorite Benatar song as an adult.
Love Pat Benatar! Grew up with her amazing songs and great voice. Was fortunate to see her live in concert here in Toronto....she opened for Cher. Saw 2 amazing singers for the price of one...that night. Simply amazing!!!
It is incredible that a small body, like hers on this picture, can produce such an enormous power, clarity and emotion in "just" some words. Always liked her, a lot, for her tough elegance.
I believe this is the best rendition of the song - if only because I can actually hear the words! Pure notes, clear enunciation of the lyrics. I absolutely love it!
I just want to say this song was what I listened to as I returned home after being a relief lookout in the mountains as a teenage girl working wildland fires. Love this song!❤
I remember listening to this amazing album back in 1981 - while attending submarine school in the Navy (Groton, Connecticut). Eating burgers and dogs and drinking cold beers with my classmates, pondering the future. Those were good times!
I must admit, till this showed up on my TH-cam feed today I wasn't even aware of this cover. Pat Benatar is another grossly underrated singer. She's done a great job here because this can't be an easy song to sing given the high notes Kate Bush hit in the original.
The point about Kate's song is that she's singing as the ghost of Cathy Earnshaw, come to haunt her lover, Heathcliff. It's a "mood piece" I guess. So yeah, the vocals can throw people off if that is their only introduction to Kate Bush's music. But it's by far, a haunting song, and meant to be strange and slightly eerie. It's frickin' Wuthering Heights!
I have heard a lot of covers of this Kate Bush song and the thing that separates both Kate and Pat from the others is the pure ease in which they sing the song, while the others struggle. I love Pat Benetar, but Kate gives a more haunting rendition IMO.
A few years ago I heard Kate Bush sing this for the first time. I listened to it half a dozen times. I loved the book, and the lyrics were so perfect. But I kept feeling that I’d heard it before, years ago. In my memory, I was standing outside the glass doors of my high school and someone’s radio was playing that chorus. But it was a different voice, not Kate Bush’s. Then I recalled hearing it frequently on various radios, a song about Cathy coming home. Suddenly I understood, I had heard the song but had not yet read Wuthering heights. As a teen, I was just hearing a song about a girl named Cathy who came home. It was Pat Benatar who sang it. It was a good song at the time and I recall feeling quite melancholy whenever it played, and a longing to understand what it meant. It took 35 years but I got there.
Blessed I was to hear this song from Pat and fall in love with it when she covered it, at that time, I would go find the originals (Ronstadt did this for me with JD Souther and Elvis Costello), and when I was prompted to find Kate for the first time, I knew I had found my number one artist of all time. For years I have sung this song true to kate's version, in her key, but as age has changed my voice, I am grateful again to Pat for letting me feel the transposed (from A to F) key can still bring the song to life.
Still breaks my heart every time I hear this song. I was 14 the first time I heard it and was unfamiliar with the Bronte story. Although I could not hear well all the lyrics being sung, I was ALTERED by the pathos of Benatar's voice, and by the lyrics my ear COULD translate through my Sony walk-man. A few years later I watched an early movie adaptation and then read the book. I am STILL amazed by how much Benatar's cover of this song imparted about the story, without me knowing "the story".
Did you see the version with Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon? That isn't just an early adaptation, it is the definitive adaptation, even though it cuts out half the book. The sheer passion betwixt Kathy and Heathcliffe leaps off the screen. I first saw it when I was a sixteen-year-old who thought he despised romance stories. I learned I just hated the ones that were poorly told.
@@RighteousBrother Sorry, I became "imprinted" with Pat Benatar's version and it truly makes me feeellll. I have no screel against Kate Bush. I'm going to listen right this next second to Kate Bush live performing this song...
Why is it that the tiniest of people have the biggest most amazing voices ?. Pat, Ronnie James Dio , etc. A proud and respectfully done cover. Great job ! 👍👏
The original release, by Kate, went to number 1 all over the World. At that time, USA didn't even know the song existed. It was later released in USA by Pat, so that's all they knew. People prefer what they are used to, so it's pretty obvious the Yanks will prefer this version.
. *Pat gives me chills...* She can do rock, blues, and anything she wants! Love how she held that strong note at the end of "Cathy!!!!!!" 2:28 Thanks for the kind upload!
if you say that Pat gives you chills, then personally not listened to the Kate Bush version because Kate Bush's version is the 1 that gives me the real chills.
@@carlsmith5528 Agreed. I have loved Kate since she started out! It's just nice to hear Pat do something more ethereal than her usual rock standard. She also crossed into blues and that was wonderful too.
Kate's got more range than Pat. Her highs were in the stratosphere and now her lows are quite low. Kate was never a weak singer by any means. In the redone version she did around the time that Pat covered this, she belted a chest G5 at the end. She also kept it in the original key, which is higher than Pat's version. I normally wouldn't say range is the be all end all, but when you're going to make it the basis of your entire argument, don't let the thing you're going against be sang higher lol
Look. She's yet another one of those "singers" who began in a totally different genre - in her instance, classical music - and wanted fame so she picked anything that she thought would get her there. Her voice isn't raw. It's not a true rock voice like, say, the untouchable Ann Wilson, Grace Slick, or Janice Joplin. This bitch is studio-manufactured and that's why she became irrelevant after the 80s.
@@LillyBunnyBoo pat was just a girl trying to make her way in this world, just like you. pat had a beautiful voice 45 years ago and probably still does today.
This is my favorite version but again Pat Benatar's voice to me is perfection!! Hers is the best concert I ever attended and I have gone to many concerts.
Yes! She is still brilliant. Her classical training helped her really bring this song to life. I had never heard the original until about 3 years ago. But I heard Pat's cover the year the album came out. To me it's the best version.
@Mark Godfreythat interval to the F# is a beast! Her classical training held her in good stead. I saw a clip of her covering this in 2011. She did it in a lower key which suited her mezzo soprano voice better. I've been listening to and singing with her since I was a preteen in the late seventies. She's a rarity.
oh that note, with that harmony---- i i could only listen to the same 11 seconds of music forever it would be 'you know it's me, Cathy'! expertly produced and timeless.......
Pat Benatar 4 octave range and a singer . Kate Bush ,pianist ,songwriter , studio owner , producer 4,1/2 -5 octave range , director and the original Lady Gaga all on her own . It seems Pat is a pale imitation . But then are so many others who have covered her song with 3 key changes (OOPS PAT)
this is one of my favorite songs of hers (well her version of it) she puts so much depth and emotion in it, and that note she hits and holds.. freaking goosebumps every time.
I just watched Kate Bush singing this song. Amazing! This version of Kate Bush's song is amazing as well, just updated for this era. Imitation IS the sincerest form of flattery.
I love Pat in the 70s and I admit I was trolling the outer circles of punk and New Wave in NYC in 1981 and yet I still hadn't heard of Kate Bush. If it weren't for my love of this cover, I never would have looked up the original...and TRULY fell in love with this song. Kate bleeds this song, in the best, most heart wrenching and soul soaring way. Much Love Kate, and Pat.
I totally woke up with this song in my head. But for some reason I had the urge to listen to the Pat Benetar version which is the first one I heard. Thanks for posting.
As a Kate Bush fan I have always managed to escape listening to this cover by Pat. The song só belongs to Kate. After all these years I still notice new nuances in Kate's voice in this song, they are so very subtle. Although sang high pitched, not what Kate later was satisfied with, it gave the song the ambiance that made the story so believable. Now... I listen to Pat's version and she did a hell of a job. I can tell what she tried to do to the song and it gained a lot of power. But I am rather sorry to say, she did miss the opportunity to tell the story. A great singer brings a story through her voice and many intonations help with that. Here I miss that too much. Not that Pat doesn't, but she does it in a way that doesn't amplify the story of the song, she emplifies the sound of the song, which is also great, because it makes me clearer why I like Kate's version so much. But to compare Pat to Kate just isn't fair. She is a totally different singer. So I applaude Pat for doing this. It is very bravely done. To be honest, when Kate did a re-recording of Wuthering Heights for her best of album The Whole Story, she herself did not manage to persuade me, like on the original.
I could listen to Pat sing the damn phone book and be perfectly happy about it!
Its a wonderful thing when a true artist can sing without autotune!
I've just realised Pat Benatar did this this is my first listen holy moly
Me too...
I never knew Pat Benatar did a remake of this. I love Kate Bush and Pat Benatar. I'm so glad I found this.❤
Side 2 of Crimes of Passion, 3rd song if I remember right.
same
Without Benetar's version, I would have never read "Wuthering Heights", when I was 12/13. I loved Benetar and wanted to understand the song.
Same here! I actually had an 8 track and listened most mornings while getting ready for school when I was 11+
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The book is the greatest love story ever written, Some say its Romeo & Juliette but we should remember they were only 13 years old it was not an adult love.
Kate Bush would say... Mission accomplished'.
Weird, I read Wuthering Heights in…maybe 1980, at the age of 15, because of Kate’s song.
Same here!
SO FABULOUS!
There is no substitute for Kate Bush's version but Benatar did it true justice
It was my first hearing of Kate Bush in the US via Pat B.
Pat Benatar and Kate Bush are both up for entry into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year. It would be amazing if they both got in and shared the stage to do this song together!
They both deserve it
I would love to see that!
Pat is long overdue.
Personally, I can’t stand Kate Bush’s voice and for the life of me why would she be in the hall of fame when their are so many artists that are actually talented have yet to even been given a chance. The rock and roll hall of fame is a joke
@@darquone2238 Many people can't stand Kate's voice (Personally, I think her voice is incredibly melodic, but HEY!) but NOBODY who examines her catalog and compositions, lyrics, and tunes can doubt her qualifications for *any* Hall of Fame. :)
No one can deny that Pat did a superb job on this.
My favorite version of this song
I remember this song when I played the cassette tape on repeat over and over in the 80s and I’m still loving it today
Me too!
Me too, on the tape the song switched over to side 2 in the middle of this song.
How come I am just hearing this in 2022? I had the 8-track in high school. I don’t recall the song. And I love Kate Bush! Pat did an amazing cover of this song wow.
🤷♀️ me too! Lol
Pat Benatar should already be in the Rock Hall of Fame.
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How did I just discover this in 2020? This is great!
Me too!! :o
You guys all know this is a cover right?
Me too!!!!!!!!!!!😉✋
I love Pat's cover, but Kate's original is always gonna be a classic, I've loved it forever.
Same
First time I hear Pat's rendition and I dare to say that the difference between it and the Kate Bush's original is a matter of feeling. Kate delivers all the desperation and solitude of a ghost who claims attention from its still loving subject. Pat Benatar sounds like Cathy finally had accepted her condition and is just complaining about the grown distance between her and Heathcliff. And both are simply gorgeous, each version in their own voices.
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Sorry but she does sound like a whining banshee. Benatar is ten times better in tone and delivery
The other difference is just that she doesnt sings it as high-pitched as Kate but who could blame Pat this song is so hard to sing. Apart from that both songs have that magnificent rendition
Great song. Heard Kates original version on her first album The Kick Inside in 1978 that I still have. I think Pat helped Kate get more recognition, but as good as her version is, Kates is the ultimate. I'm glade Kate is finally in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Very deserved. I'm sad it took so long and probably occurred because of Stranger Things having Running Up That Hill on the latest season, but long overdue.
I heard part of the original from her video not a fan.
I'm a huge fan of Pat Benatar, but this will always be my favorite song from her. Her rendition is just so heartbreaking and powerful. . .
Yep
@Baby Hunn What makes you think she didn't understand? And why wouldn't a ghost keep returning---isn't that what they do?
Crimes of Passion ❤ BRILLIANT album. Stole it off my Mum in the 80s 😅 Bought it on vinyl 4 months ago. Thanks Mum (for my infancy culturing) ❤😊
That and shadows of the night
@@zackfreakley2310your mom rocks.
Opera singer.... No wonder it's so good...
Guaranteed the best ever. My favourite for almost 40 years. Man I'm old! Still gives me goose bumps.
Damn! She hits those highs with authority -- a great cover!
Yes! She sure did! Love Kate Bush but I love this version too!
She was classically trained
Much lower key that Bush's version. I can only sqeuak out Kate's high notes these days; believe me this is much easier to sing!
Pat Benatar sings this song so beautifully !
Her husband Neil persuaded Pat to cover it! Pat's a fan of Kate but even Pat admitted in liner notes on Synchronistic Wanderings that she didn't think she did the song justice like Kate's original. I am a fan of both artists; 2 completely different artists. Personally I think Pat's cover is better than the other covers of Kate's songs so kudos to Pat!! 😊
Pat's cover is a Great Rock arrangement! It really showcases her vocal range! I love this version! I love Kate Bush as well!
one of the very few covers that is better than the original
David Albert
I hate Kate’s version it’s to weird. Pat’s though is excellent
@@laurapierorazio6280 It really showcases her vocal range. I loved it years ago when Pat's album: 'Crimes of Passion' was released.
i only knew this version and love it. still do. love pat. we have the same birthday
Hearing a cover of a Kate Bush song is just hearing a diluted version of it. But this is a respectable attempt. Pat Benetar is a legend in her own right.
Great cover. I love Pat. I saw her live two days after 9/11. She sang the national anthem and it was just her voice piercing the night air in the outdoors. I can’t imagine how many other people not attending her show heard her. it was probably the most powerful and beautiful performance I personally have experienced.
Pat Benatar was trained in Opera prior to her fame. You can hear that training here.
Rehearsing Puccini and then listening to Gimme Shelter
dream Rae no doubt
Sure can.As well her husband, a great guitarist.
Nooooooo
training in opera cannot emulate the vocals though, pat sounds very generic to the point it sounds computerised instead of unique
Bravo, Bravo.. Great cover. Pat made it her own. Most covers of this song try to clone the origional. She made it a Pat Benatar interpretation of a classic. Well done...
I'm looking for the best cover of Wuthering Heights and I think I have the winner
Take a look at Angra - Wuthering Heights - For me the best version
Better than the original.
There's a rock band that does a cover of it. at first I thought no way then I heard it and I couldn't believe it...i I forgot their name but it's on TH-cam
Felix hagan. You're welcome!
no
i love pat and she did a hell of a job singing this song it's iconic!!
A voice from an angel!!! Just Beautiful!!!
I'm a die hard of Pat Benatar. Her voice is incredible. This song (and book) is so classic and so goooooooood
Emily Bronte would have loved how these versions came out. I was always wonder what Bronte sisters and Jane Austen would have felt knowing how their babys ( works) are loved to this day. Its so sad to me they never got to see what the eons brought to them. Much Appreciation and 💘
Whenever someone tries to sing it in the original pitch, it tears my eardrums apart. This is the first and only cover of this song that I can stand listening to. It's different in a good way, and it's beautiful.
But of course, in no way comparable to the original, because the original is unique in every way. And that's why this singer nailed it, because she did her own thing instead of trying to copy something unique. Great job!
Ksenija Popovic Listen to Angra's cover of this song. I prefer it one thousand times over the original. Their vocalist, André Matos, has actually an amazing vocal range and can sing it smoothly. Also, it has a guitar solo the band executes it perfectly
Actually Pat Benatar is singing in the same key as Kate Bush. She actually has a good voice which makes it sound more natural.
Spot on Ksenija! Well said; my sentiments exactly.
Good point.
Xenia, condivido 100%
I bought this album Crimes of Passion when I was around 15. It's straight 🔥 from A-Z. This song stuck out to me as it was the anomalie of the bunch being a cover.. In my opinion it holds it's own with every other track which are today Pat Benetar standards! Glorious voice of one of my favorite Rockers.
What's your favorite Pat Benetar song?
Pat's mastered the emotional angst of the book into her own voice and music. Rock onward!
A beautiful rendition of a wonderfully written song. Absolutely haunting!
A magnificent rendition of a haunting and beautiful song
The guitar rift rocks on this version 2021 👍🏻👍🏻🇬🇧
@gbjanuary "rocks", but lacks the beauty of the Ian Bairnson original.
As much as I love Pat Benatar this is better by Kate Bush. Two beautiful talented women.
greatest female rocker ever. gorgeous and beautiful voice.
I always loved this song by Pat Benatar, and today heard it on the radio... by the original Kate Bush! I had NO IDEA Kate had done this song, I just loved it from Pat's album... and had NO IDEA that its' title was Wuthering Heights! I love this book, and the movies, too, especially the Ralph Finnes version.... wow! what a discovery!
I was in boot camp in in 80' this song helped me fall asleep @ night...head phones of course, what a voice
I've always loved Pat's voice. Of all the great tunes of her's that I loved as a kid, I never would have guessed this would be my favorite Benatar song as an adult.
This is not her original tune, but a cover of the great Kate Bush. You might wanna look it up
unbelievable voice on this woman. always loved this song since first hearing it as a teen.
Love Pat Benatar! Grew up with her amazing songs and great voice. Was fortunate to see her live in concert here in Toronto....she opened for Cher. Saw 2 amazing singers for the price of one...that night. Simply amazing!!!
It is incredible that a small body, like hers on this picture, can produce such an enormous power, clarity and emotion in "just" some words. Always liked her, a lot, for her tough elegance.
I love Kate's original and like Pat's version too. :)
Exactly. Thank you Thomas.
You should listen to angra version too
@@herickhammer Angra!!! 🧡
Thomas - you nailed it
This is the truth.
I love Pat Benatar version of this song, I never heard Kate Bush version. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
James Rivera Off Kate's 1978 album "The Kick Inside". Kate wrote most of the songs between the ages of 13 and 15.
one of her best vocals
I think this is the best version of any artist.
Beautiful performance of Pat!
I believe this is the best rendition of the song - if only because I can actually hear the words! Pure notes, clear enunciation of the lyrics. I absolutely love it!
I just want to say this song was what I listened to as I returned home after being a relief lookout in the mountains as a teenage girl working wildland fires. Love this song!❤
One of the BEST concerts I ever got to go to! Pat and Spyder are amazing!
I remember listening to this amazing album back in 1981 - while attending submarine school in the Navy (Groton, Connecticut). Eating burgers and dogs and drinking cold beers with my classmates, pondering the future. Those were good times!
I like this & I like Kate Bush's version ... but Kate is one of the most unique performers ever. There's no reason to compare.
Great voice, good performance. Thank you Pat Benatar
I must admit, till this showed up on my TH-cam feed today I wasn't even aware of this cover. Pat Benatar is another grossly underrated singer. She's done a great job here because this can't be an easy song to sing given the high notes Kate Bush hit in the original.
My favorite Pat Benatar song! ♥️♥️♥️
This instrumental is outta this world!!!!!!!
Great cover. Pat Benatar... She's amazing.
It's not a cover...
+Dean Webb yes it is, the song was originally written and sung by kate bush
This is NOT a cover! Kate Bush's Cover is an ionsult to the original! This is one of the best songs by Pat Benetar!
Sorry Bobby! I love this song but Kate did the original. No American would have EVER attempted to write a song about this. Love both versions.
Read up and you may find Kate wrote it when she was 13 and recorded when she was 17 years old.
I love Pat's version.
The point about Kate's song is that she's singing as the ghost of Cathy Earnshaw, come to haunt her lover, Heathcliff. It's a "mood piece" I guess. So yeah, the vocals can throw people off if that is their only introduction to Kate Bush's music. But it's by far, a haunting song, and meant to be strange and slightly eerie. It's frickin' Wuthering Heights!
Yes! Someone who gets it! Pat is great but Kate WAS Cathy in her version.
Totally agree, and I'm a major Pat fan. But Kate so embodies Cathy that it's the best imo.
"Crimes of Passion." AMAZING ALBUM! 'Nuff said ❤
It's like a more cleaner, more polished version meant for radio, really good too, but i love the wierdness of Kates version.
Exactly
Pat Benetar, one of a kind, so appreciate her talent.
Great version of a classic song.
i love this song by Pat Benatar
I have heard a lot of covers of this Kate Bush song and the thing that separates both Kate and Pat from the others is the pure ease in which they sing the song, while the others struggle. I love Pat Benetar, but Kate gives a more haunting rendition IMO.
Best wishes ,from a fan ❤️
She took this to another level. Love the original, but Pat rocks.
One of my all time favorites from pat dam what a voice ❤❤✌
Pat Benetar, one of a kind, so appreciate her talent.
A few years ago I heard Kate Bush sing this for the first time. I listened to it half a dozen times. I loved the book, and the lyrics were so perfect. But I kept feeling that I’d heard it before, years ago. In my memory, I was standing outside the glass doors of my high school and someone’s radio was playing that chorus. But it was a different voice, not Kate Bush’s. Then I recalled hearing it frequently on various radios, a song about Cathy coming home. Suddenly I understood, I had heard the song but had not yet read Wuthering heights. As a teen, I was just hearing a song about a girl named Cathy who came home. It was Pat Benatar who sang it. It was a good song at the time and I recall feeling quite melancholy whenever it played, and a longing to understand what it meant. It took 35 years but I got there.
Great version!!Pat has the chops for this!!
best cover i have ever heard of this song
Angra the best cover !!!
Here is the very best version yet: th-cam.com/video/uM0nnl183uc/w-d-xo.html
@@MyTH-cam. Wow that's impressive, sound just like her.. I had to go back and forth with her and between Kate's versions
Blessed I was to hear this song from Pat and fall in love with it when she covered it, at that time, I would go find the originals (Ronstadt did this for me with JD Souther and Elvis Costello), and when I was prompted to find Kate for the first time, I knew I had found my number one artist of all time. For years I have sung this song true to kate's version, in her key, but as age has changed my voice, I am grateful again to Pat for letting me feel the transposed (from A to F) key can still bring the song to life.
Still breaks my heart every time I hear this song. I was 14 the first time I heard it and was unfamiliar with the Bronte story. Although I could not hear well all the lyrics being sung, I was ALTERED by the pathos of Benatar's voice, and by the lyrics my ear COULD translate through my Sony walk-man. A few years later I watched an early movie adaptation and then read the book. I am STILL amazed by how much Benatar's cover of this song imparted about the story, without me knowing "the story".
Did you see the version with Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon? That isn't just an early adaptation, it is the definitive adaptation, even though it cuts out half the book.
The sheer passion betwixt Kathy and Heathcliffe leaps off the screen.
I first saw it when I was a sixteen-year-old who thought he despised romance stories. I learned I just hated the ones that were poorly told.
@@magnificentfailure2390 Yes, you are spot on! that was the version I saw when I was nineteen that made me literally cry puddles.
@Ginny how can you write all that, and not acknowledge Kate Bush once??
@@RighteousBrother Sorry, I became "imprinted" with Pat Benatar's version and it truly makes me feeellll. I have no screel against Kate Bush. I'm going to listen right this next second to Kate Bush live performing this song...
@@ginnyheadrick5734 yay! 😬
Why is it that the tiniest of people have the biggest most amazing voices ?.
Pat, Ronnie James Dio , etc.
A proud and respectfully done cover.
Great job ! 👍👏
Kate is tiny too!
Walter junovich, like the way you added Ronni James Dio. GREAT Artist, God Rest His Soul.
Great version of a classic song.
Who's Listening November 2019??
me. the lower key is cool
Well, apparently, we are!
2021
Pat Benatar is so awesome
I've been a fan of Pat for ages...love her songs ❤
Drums are very powerful.
A masterpiece from Pat......love it.
I heard for the first time this cover today. Is great!
I think - One of the best cover version of this great song from kate bush.
Pat rocks so beautiful shes amazing.
Here is the very best version yet: th-cam.com/video/uM0nnl183uc/w-d-xo.html
The original release, by Kate, went to number 1 all over the World. At that time, USA didn't even know the song existed. It was later released in USA by Pat, so that's all they knew. People prefer what they are used to, so it's pretty obvious the Yanks will prefer this version.
. *Pat gives me chills...*
She can do rock, blues, and anything she wants!
Love how she held that strong note at the end of
"Cathy!!!!!!" 2:28
Thanks for the kind upload!
if you say that Pat gives you chills, then personally not listened to the Kate Bush version because Kate Bush's version is the 1 that gives me the real chills.
@@carlsmith5528 Agreed. I have loved Kate since she started out! It's just nice to hear Pat do something more ethereal than her usual rock standard. She also crossed into blues and that was wonderful too.
@@Aramanth personal choice and maybe I went over the top in my message but I'm not a fan of Pat Benatar's voice at all.
sorry?? not bad?? are you serious??..she has a four octave voice...you must be deaf..her voice is stunning!!
PB may have a 4 octave range but she misses the emotion of this song. KB is much, much better IMO.
Kate's got more range than Pat. Her highs were in the stratosphere and now her lows are quite low. Kate was never a weak singer by any means. In the redone version she did around the time that Pat covered this, she belted a chest G5 at the end. She also kept it in the original key, which is higher than Pat's version.
I normally wouldn't say range is the be all end all, but when you're going to make it the basis of your entire argument, don't let the thing you're going against be sang higher lol
Look. She's yet another one of those "singers" who began in a totally different genre - in her instance, classical music - and wanted fame so she picked anything that she thought would get her there. Her voice isn't raw. It's not a true rock voice like, say, the untouchable Ann Wilson, Grace Slick, or Janice Joplin. This bitch is studio-manufactured and that's why she became irrelevant after the 80s.
@@LillyBunnyBoo pat was just a girl trying to make her way in this world, just like you.
pat had a beautiful voice 45 years ago and probably still does today.
@@LillyBunnyBoo How do you really feel about it, though? Speak plainly.
I love all versions but this is my favorite.
Here is the very best version yet: th-cam.com/video/uM0nnl183uc/w-d-xo.html
first time hearing this cover this is amazinggggg... few people can do this song justice:)
This is my favorite version but again Pat Benatar's voice to me is perfection!! Hers is the best concert I ever attended and I have gone to many concerts.
Yes! She is still brilliant. Her classical training helped her really bring this song to life. I had never heard the original until about 3 years ago. But I heard Pat's cover the year the album came out. To me it's the best version.
@Mark Godfreythat interval to the F# is a beast! Her classical training held her in good stead. I saw a clip of her covering this in 2011. She did it in a lower key which suited her mezzo soprano voice better. I've been listening to and singing with her since I was a preteen in the late seventies. She's a rarity.
Pat does a good rocky version of this song, but it will always be remembered as Kate's original & unique masterpiece - whoever sings it!
She did a great job..love this song
oh that note, with that harmony---- i i could only listen to the same 11 seconds of music forever it would be 'you know it's me, Cathy'! expertly produced and timeless.......
Love this and i am so sad she doesnt still sing it...
Pat Benatar 4 octave range and a singer . Kate Bush ,pianist ,songwriter , studio owner , producer 4,1/2 -5 octave range , director and the original Lady Gaga all on her own . It seems Pat is a pale imitation . But then are so many others who have covered her song with 3 key changes (OOPS PAT)
this is one of my favorite songs of hers (well her version of it) she puts so much depth and emotion in it, and that note she hits and holds.. freaking goosebumps every time.
I just watched Kate Bush singing this song. Amazing! This version of Kate Bush's song is amazing as well, just updated for this era. Imitation IS the sincerest form of flattery.
I love Pat in the 70s and I admit I was trolling the outer circles of punk and New Wave in NYC in 1981 and yet I still hadn't heard of Kate Bush. If it weren't for my love of this cover, I never would have looked up the original...and TRULY fell in love with this song. Kate bleeds this song, in the best, most heart wrenching and soul soaring way. Much Love Kate, and Pat.
Lauster Kate is a true original
I totally woke up with this song in my head. But for some reason I had the urge to listen to the Pat Benetar version which is the first one I heard. Thanks for posting.
As a Kate Bush fan I have always managed to escape listening to this cover by Pat. The song só belongs to Kate. After all these years I still notice new nuances in Kate's voice in this song, they are so very subtle. Although sang high pitched, not what Kate later was satisfied with, it gave the song the ambiance that made the story so believable. Now... I listen to Pat's version and she did a hell of a job. I can tell what she tried to do to the song and it gained a lot of power. But I am rather sorry to say, she did miss the opportunity to tell the story. A great singer brings a story through her voice and many intonations help with that. Here I miss that too much. Not that Pat doesn't, but she does it in a way that doesn't amplify the story of the song, she emplifies the sound of the song, which is also great, because it makes me clearer why I like Kate's version so much. But to compare Pat to Kate just isn't fair. She is a totally different singer. So I applaude Pat for doing this. It is very bravely done. To be honest, when Kate did a re-recording of Wuthering Heights for her best of album The Whole Story, she herself did not manage to persuade me, like on the original.
I like the way you think and express yourself. Well said. Layers of density.
@@josephkokomo1752 thank you, I like and appreciate your (SHORT) reply! 😀
I actually knew Pat's version 1st.. So Kate's og is something unique and unforgettable while this is just a decent PB song.
Great diction. Nice to hear the words that Kate wrote.
Used to listen to it in Singapore, in 1982...! reminds me of a wonderful journey