Original London Cast Recording), Patti LuPone (1979 Original Broadway Cast Recording) and Elena Roger (2006 London Cast and 2014 Broadway Cast Recordings). Marti Webb, who succeeded Elaine Paige in the original London production of Evita, covered the song on her album Won't Change Places, produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber in 1981, and also included it in 1995 on the album, Music and Songs from Evita. AllMusic's Joe Francis complimented the recording. The Carpenters recorded the song for their 1977 album, Passage, coupled with "On the Balcony of the Casa Rosada" which precedes it in the musical's score. The same year, Olivia Newton-John released the song as a single from her tenth studio album, Making a Good Thing Better. In 1978, the Shadows recorded an instrumental version that reached number five on the UK Singles Chart. Also in 1978 Shirley Bassey recorded the song for her album, The Magic Is You. Simon Gage from the Daily Express praised the rendition, saying that Bassey "more than covers the ground" with it. She recorded it again in 1993 for her album Sings the Songs of Andrew Lloyd Webber. Singer Tom Jones' interpretation of the song on his 1979 album, Rescue Me, received negative reviews, with biographer Lucy Ellis describing it as "the most ludicrous massacre on the LP". American disco group Festival (produced by Boris Midney) released a version in 1979, the single from an entire LP of disco covers of songs from Evita; it reached 72 on the Billboard Hot 100. Paloma San Basilio performed the song when she played the titular role on the Spanish adaptation of the musical in 1980. Nacha Guevara, who also starred in the musical in 1986, has performed the song live several times. Singer Sinéad O'Connor recorded "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" on her album Am I Not Your Girl (1992). Her version received mixed response, with Joy Press from Spin who described the rendition as "a melodramatic, sweeping 'Je ne regrette rien'—style apologia. O’Connor had a calling. Obsessed with purity and truth, she pitched herself somewhere between Christ and the Virgin Mary, as an asexual visionary whose suffering was Inextricably Intertwined with the pain of Ireland and of the world." Released as a CD maxi single, the song reached number 31 in Belgium Flanders and number 44 in Netherlands. An easy listening cover version of the song by The Mike Flowers Pops reached number 30