Which one is your favorite? - VIII -

Thank you dear readers, requests are coming and I am trying to fulfill them as long as I can find noteworthy covers of the songs. This one is from a very old friend...

Please keep your requests and comments coming...

And our song for this week is;

"Honesty"

"Honesty" is a song by American singer and songwriter Billy Joel. Columbia Records released the song as the third single from his sixth studio album 52nd Street in 1979. It was solely written by Joel, while production was handled by Phil Ramone.

The song received mostly positive reviews from music critics, who generally praised its lyrics and piano instrumentation. It also received comparisons to other songs by Joel. "Honesty" peaked at number twenty-four on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, becoming the album's third consecutive top forty hit. It went to Number 1 in France and has also been certified gold by Recording Industry Association of Japan for ringtone download sales of over 100,000 units.

When Joel started writing this song, he started with the title "Home Again," but was looking for something more appropriate. At his Howard Stern town hall appearance in 2014, he explained: "I didn't have a lyric for it, so my drummer started to sing 'sodomy' - 'sodomy... such a lonely word.' So I had to come up with some lyrics fast."

And here are the 3 versions I chose for you;

• Beyoncé - "Honesty"

• Toots Thielemans - "Honesty" 

• Ramón García - "Honesty"

Now the floor is yours, go ahead and make your comments (here, Instagram, Facebook wherever you feel like...).

nb. Please note that I intentionally do not include the original versions of the songs as it would be a little unfair to the artists covering the songs, and I am sure that sometimes you will be surprised to see that the songs you thought were the originals are just covers...