When You Say Nothing At All (Keith Whitley/Alison Krauss/Ronan Keating) Acoustic Cover by El Manafe

Hi, all. This is my cover of "When You Say Nothing At All". This is Ronan Keating's first solo single. In 1999 for The Movie "Notting Hill". It' was a chart topper in England and Ireland. But, actually this song go way back. "When You Say Nothing at All" is a country song written by Paul Overstreet and Don Schlitz. They thought the song was OK, but nothing special. When Keith Whitley heard it, he loved it, and was not going to let it get away. Keith Whitley's "When You Say Nothing at All" entered the Hot Country Singles chart on September 17, 1988, at No. 61, and gradually rose to the top, where it stayed for two weeks at the end of the year. It was the second of five consecutive chart-topping singles for Whitley, who did not live to see the last two, as he died on May 9, 1989 of alcohol poisoning. In 1995, Alison Krauss covered the song with the group Union Station for a tribute album to Whitley titled Keith Whitley: A Tribute Album. After Krauss's cover began to receive unsolicited airplay, BNA Records, the label that had released the album, issued Krauss' version to radio in January 1995.That version, also featured on Krauss' compilation Now That I've Found You: A Collection, peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart, and a commercial single reached No. 2 on the same magazine's Hot Country Singles Sales chart. While Krauss' version was on the charts, Mike Cromwell, then the production director at WMIL-FM in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, concocted a duet merging elements of Krauss' version with Whitley's original hit version. The "duet" garnered national attention, and it spread from at least Philadelphia to Albuquerque, and has been heard on radio stations in California as well. This "duet" was however never officially serviced to radio and has never been available commercially. Keith Whitley (1988)    • Keith Whitley - When You Say Nothing at Al...   Alison Krauss (1995)    • Alison Krauss - When You Say Nothing At All   Ronan Keating (1999)    • Ronan Keating - When You Say Nothing At All   NEVER RELEASED VERSION: Keith Whitley and Alison Krauss:    • Keith Whitley/Allison Krauss-"When You Say...   #ronan #keating #keith whitley #when #you #say #nothing #at #all