music

[kmac12345678]

who first recorded the first cut is the deepest?

[fiferboy]

pp arnold

[DrWu]

I thought it was Cat Stevens, who also wrote it...could be wrong!

[mudbug]

it was cat stevens

[hectic]

It was P P Arnold in 1965, don't think Cat Stevens was around then! Just for info purposes Sheryl Crow also recorded a version of it :-)

[littleoldme]

PP Arnold's version was actually 1967, by which time Cat Stevens was certainly around (he must have been, because as DrWu rightly says, he wrote it)! Stevens never had a hit single with it though. It was also famously ruined in the 70s by Rod Stewart.

[littleoldme]

Meant to show off me HTML by saying ruined covered by... That'll teach me to try and be clever. :O)