Lazaro Arbos was a contestant on this year’s American Idol and finished in the top 10. He had some kind of speech/brain problem and spoke with a severe stutter, but he could sing.

These song comparisons fascinate me, and YouTube makes it easy.

Supposedly they refused to do this ever again, because they had to take and re-take it so many times as they’d absent-mindedly switch to English again and again.

2) The Beatles’ “Ultra Rare Trax”. This one is easy to find if you accept it from “spurious” sources — it’s a set of bootleg CDs derived from master tapes that someone got ahold of during the 80s, and got released on CD. The quality is excellent, the original source is believed to be surrepetitiously duped when the studio was planning to make an album called “Sessions” in the mid-80s. The plan was scrapped when the Beatles objected.
Here is a listing of the contents of the six CDs
Its interesting to hear variants of their other songs as they played with instrumentation and speed.

Another interesting one here is “Come And Get It”, associated with Badfinger, but Paul wrote it. The Beatles never released it.

This is one of my favorites, by Paul:
Besame Mucho
Also this one, by John:
Bad Boy
And here’s one by George:
Not guilty

This one’s upbeat, and a woman, but I’m pretty sure it’s not what you’re talking about:

Here’s the original, Hedy West, who wrote the song in the early 50s:

And here’s a list of possible candidates, although not a complete one.

None of my usual sources — who were certainly around them — have been able to help me. I’m beginning to feel like Dr. Crusher in ST: TNG’s “Remember Me.”

I think it comes down to which performance (singer, arrangement, etc) overall ‘nails’ the song. IMHO, Taylor’s version stands head and shoulders above Jones’ and Shannon’s which to my ears sounds dated. In fairness, Taylor’s version was the original for me but I still feel that its a superior rendition, more sophisticated and ‘texturally’ interesting as well.