after playing one of my fave obscurities, the Dixie Hummingbirds' rendition of "Loves Me Like a Rock" (sans Paul Simon), JJ totally blows my mind with a NTM soulful cover by the Cymbals (?) of "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" (!!) -- apparently done in 1970, a year before Ms Baez had her hit version. And now another NTM gem, Gladys/Pips "Don't Burn Down the Bridges" -- an LP cut, I guess, but some of the most stellar work by the Pips I've ever heard. DAMN!
ETA: some googling reveals the Pips tune was the B-side of "I Feel a Song in My Heart"! And now here's Jimmy Bee doing the ballad version of "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" in 1976, around the same time as Wacky Sedaky did it that way -- tho' Lenny Welch was the first to ballad-ize the tune in 1970.