Susan - That's the post you should have started with; then people would have known where you were coming from.

Nonetheless, all you'll get are people's opinions of the song (or the performance). Some will like it, some won't. Not liking it doesn't make someone heartless or against you, it just means that the song is not to their taste. For me the song's point is just made too crudely. I find the song to be perhaps much of its time and not (time) travelling well. You, and probably others, will disagree. It doesn't make either of us better or worse. (And though I find Cheryl Barnes' version better than Three Dog Night's - which really does sound of its time - it's still not enough to make the song palatable to me. Sadly, I can't remember what I though about the song in the halcyon days of my late adolescence! (to quote another song from those days))

If I want to listen to sisters who can sing like that, I'd prefer to listen to pretty much anything by Billy Holliday or Ella Fitzgerald or Sarah Vaughan. And amazingly I was recently listening to Donna Summer - disco queen! - sing Lush Life, and quite liked it; unlike Nat King Cole's version - a man whose singing and piano playing in general I find wonderful - which I did find too soulless. All a question of personal taste: an unexpectedly good performance from someone I'd never have imagined doing it, a poor performance from someone I would.

We're not all going to like the same things. The song means something to you, which is good for you, but it leaves me cold. There are doubtless performances of other songs which will have exactly the opposite effect.

Heartless though we be, we're not out to oppose you at every step. Just give us a reference point to start from!

Mick