"Darkness, Darkness" is a song written by Jesse Colin Young in 1969, which has been covered by many artists. Young's band

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released a version on their 1969 album '' Elephant Mountain''. They released a version of the song as a single twice: in 1969, which reached #124 on the ''Billboard'' chart, and in 1970, which reached #86 on the chart.

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released a version of the song as a single in 2002 that reached #27 on the rock chart.Robert Plant, "Darkness, Darkness" chart position
''Musicvf.com'', Retrieved May 18, 2015 It was featured on his 2002 album '' Dreamland''.

Cover versions

* 1969

Gloria Loring Gloria Loring-Lagler (born Gloria Jean Goff, December 10, 1946) is an American singer and actress. She is known for playing Liz Chandler on '' Days of Our Lives'' for six years (1980–1986, 2024). She and singer-actor Carl Anderson performed ...

on the album ''... And Now We Come To Distances'' * 1971 Mott the Hoople on the album '' Brain Capers'' * 1972 Phil Upchurch on the album ''Darkness, Darkness'' * 1976 Iain Matthews on the album ''Go for Broke'', also included on Matthews' compilation ''Discreet Repeat'' (1981) * 1980

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on the album '' Darkness Darkness'' * 1994

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on the album ''Cuts to the Chase'' * 1994 Screaming Trees on the ''

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Original Motion Picture Soundtrack'' (

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) * 1995

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on the album '' Love Sweat'' * 1996 Heidi Berry on the album ''Miracle'' * 1997

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on the album ''

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'' * 2001 Elliott Murphy and Iain Matthews on the album ''La Terre Commune'' * 2002 Solas on the album ''The Edge of Silence'' * 2002

on the album '' Dreamland'' * 2004

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on the neath Your Covers, Part 1'', a bonus disc to their album '' One Soul Now'' * 2007 Ann Wilson on the album ''Hope & Glory'' (with sister Nancy Wilson) * 2009 Helium Vola on the album ''Für Euch, die Ihr liebt'' * 2018 Escondido, featured on ''

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'' season 3 episode 4, as well as the original version * 2023 William Tyler (musician) and

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on the EP 'Darkness Darkness/No Service'

Other credits

*1983: appeared in the film ''

Purple Haze "Purple Haze" is a song written by Jimi Hendrix and released as the second single by the Jimi Hendrix Experience on March 17, 1967, in the United Kingdom. The song features his inventive guitar playing, which uses the signature Hendrix chord a ...

'' *1993: appeared in the opening credits of the film ''

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'' *2003: played during the credits of the film ''

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'' (by Lisa Torban) *2005: played during the ending credits of the film '' The Devil's Rejects'' *2015: played (in part) during the ending credits of episode 11 of ''

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'' *2018: played on the opening scene of ''

'' season 3 episode 4 (the cover by Escondido was played at the end of the same episode)

References

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* {{authority control 1969 singles 1969 songs 1970 singles 2002 singles Eric Burdon songs Golden Earring songs Mott the Hoople songs RCA Victor singles Robert Plant songs Screaming Trees songs The Youngbloods songs