Song: I'd Rather Go Blind written by Billy Foster, Ellington Jordan

Originals

I'd Rather Go Blind

First recording and first release by Etta James (August 23, 1967 / October 1967)

Adaptations

An adaptation is a musical work, which uses elements (music or lyrics) from another musical work.

Title	Performer	Release date	Info
I'd Rather Go Blind	Etta James	October 1967	First recording on August 23, 1967 First release
I'd Rather Go Blind	Clarence Carter	February 1969
I'd Rather Go Blind	Chicken Shack	April 18, 1969	Hit song
I'd Rather Go Blind	The Hoochie Coochies	1969
I'd Rather Be a Blind Man	Fugi	1970
I'd Rather Go Blind	Christine Perfect	1970
I'd Rather Go Blind	Spencer Wiggins	1970
I'd Rather Go Blind	Rod Stewart	July 21, 1972
I'd Rather Go Blind	Bettye Swann	November 1972
I'd Rather Go Blind	Margie Joseph	January 1973
Id Rather Go Blind	Carl Dawkins	1973
I'd Rather Go Blind	Rod Stewart / Faces	1974	Live Editor's cover song pick
I'd Rather Go Blind	Lemi Aso	1976
I'd Rather Go Blind	Cherry Roland	1976
I'd Rather Go Blind	Koko Taylor	1981
I'd Rather Go Blind	Marcia Ball	1983
I'd Rather Go Blind	Stan Webb's Chicken Shack	August 11, 1986
I'd Rather Go Blind	Ruby Turner	1986
I'd Rather Go Blind	Queen Bee and the Blue Hornet Band	1987
I'd Rather Go Blind	Janet Kay	1988
I'd Rather Go Blind	Ole Friis with Daddy Drugstore	1988
I'd Rather Go Blind	Sydney Youngblood	1989
I'd Rather Go Blind	Lynn August	1989
I'd Rather Go Blind	The Boogie Kings	1993
I'd Rather Go Blind	Marva Wright	1994
I'd Rather Go Blind	Elkie Brooks	1994
I'd Rather Go Blind	Paul Weller	April 24, 1995
I'd Rather Go Blind	Christian Willisohn, Rick Hollander & Rocky Knauer	March 19, 1996
I'd Rather Go Blind	Barbara Lynn	1996
I'd Rather Go Blind	Billy Swan	1996	Live
I'd Rather Go Blind	Little Milton	May 26, 1998
I'd Rather Go Blind	Andrew Strong	2000
I'd Rather Go Blind	Beth Case	2001
I'd Rather Go Blind	Rose Wayne	May 2, 2002
I'd Rather Go Blind	Mary Coughlan	September 24, 2002
I'd Rather Go Blind	Connie Lush	2002
I'd Rather Go Blind	Earl Thomas	September 2003
I'd Rather Go Blind	Christiane Weber	February 2004
I'd Rather Go Blind	Shannon McNally	November 5, 2004
I'd Rather Go Blind	Magda Piskorczyk	October 8, 2005
I Would Rather Go Blind	Blue Merlot	December 20, 2006
Rather Go Blind	Gráinne Duffy	November 13, 2007
Rather Go Blind	deRosa	2007
I'd Rather Go Blind	Davina and The Vagabonds	August 12, 2008
I'd Rather Go Blind	Beyoncé	December 2, 2008
I'd Rather Go Blind	Martha High with Shaolin Temple Defenders	2008
I'd Rather Go Blind	Florence K	2008
I'd Rather Go Blind	Dana Fuchs	2008	Live
I'd Rather Go Blind	The Del Moroccos	2008
I'd Rather Go Blind	Gemma Ray	June 1, 2010
I'd Rather Go Blind	Liam Bailey	September 2010	Acoustic
I'd Rather Go Blind	Meena	2010
I'd Rather Go Blind	Michael Grimm	2010
I'd Rather Go Blind	Bare Bones Boogie Band	2010
I'd Rather Be Blind	Kay Carter	2010
I'd Rather Go Blind	Tom Lockwood with Jaimee Paul	March 25, 2011
I'd Rather Go Blind	Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa	September 23, 2011
I'd Rather Go Blind	Paloma Faith	November 7, 2011	Live Editor's cover song pick
I Would Rather Go Blind	Gizzelle	November 16, 2011
I'd Rather Go Blind	Green Room Rockers	2011
I'd Rather Go Blind	Joshua Ledet	May 17, 2012	Version from TV talent show
I'd Rather Go Blind	Karise Eden	June 26, 2012
I'd Rather Go Blind	Leela James	July 31, 2012
I'd Rather Go Blind	Brooklyn Soul Stew	October 12, 2012
I'd Rather Go Blind	Mick Hucknall	October 26, 2012
I'd Rather Go Blind	Martha High & Speedometer	October 29, 2012
I'd Rather Go Blind	Don Rich [US2]	October 2012
I'd Rather Go Blind	Le Blanc & Nick Becattini	2012	Unverified
I'd Rather Go Blind	Miss Murphy	April 14, 2013	Version from TV talent show
I'd Rather Go Blind	Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters	May 2013
I'd Rather Go Blind	Layla Zoe	2013
I'd Rather Go Blind	Henrik Freischlader Band	2013
I'd Rather Go Blind	Ina Forsman with Helge Tallqvist Band	2013
I'd Rather Go Blind	Josh Franklin	November 23, 2014
I'd Rather Go Blind	Jay Boy Adams & Zenobia	2014
I'd Rather Go Blind	Paloma Faith duet with Ty Taylor	2014	Live
I'd Rather Go Blind	Sean Webster & The Dead Lines	January 2015
I'd Rather Go Blind	Ameera Delandro	March 3, 2015
I'd Rather Go Blind	The Frightnrs	June 30, 2015	Editor's cover song pick
I'd Rather Go Blind	Rosemary Standley	2015	Live
I'd Rather Go Blind	Playing for Change Band	2015
I'd Rather Go Blind	Emi Meyer	2015
I'd Rather Go Blind	Ima	September 23, 2016	Unverified
I'd Rather Go Blind	Sa'Rayah	November 7, 2016
Rather Go Blind	Meena Cryle & The Chris Fillmore Band	January 20, 2017	Live
I'd Rather Go Blind	Blank Range	February 3, 2017
I'd Rather Go Blind	Renee Wilkin	May 12, 2017	Unverified
I'd Rather Go Blind	Crystal Shawanda	October 31, 2017
I'd Rather Go Blind	Syleena Johnson	November 10, 2017
I'd Rather Go Blind	Dua Lipa	December 8, 2017	Acoustic
I'd Rather Go Blind	Jason Manns feat. Briana Buckmaster	January 19, 2018
I'd Rather Go Blind	Najet	September 7, 2018	Unverified
I'd Rather Go Blind	Helmut Lotti with The Golden Symphonic Orchestra	September 28, 2018
I'd Rather Go Blind	Grace Potter	October 26, 2018	Editor's cover song pick
I'd Rather Go Blind	Scary Pockets feat. Maiya Sykes & Ben Folds	December 25, 2019	Mash-up
I'd Rather Go Blind	Lisa Mills	January 24, 2020
I'd Rather Go Blind	Stephen Scaccia	March 15, 2020	Live
I'd Rather Go Blind	Jonathan Karrant	September 15, 2020
I'd Rather Go Blind	Rory Block	October 7, 2022

Info

October 1967

First recording on August 23, 1967
First release

I'd Rather Go Blind

Clarence Carter

February 1969

I'd Rather Go Blind