But when you listen to Winehouse sing it, she understands things in the lyrics that Phil Spector never did.
Admittedly, Doolittle has a way to go before emulating the poetic majesty of the late Winehouse.
Over a backing track that channels the stately gloom of Portishead and late Isaac Hayes, Winehouse sounds almost Edith Piaf-like.
Winehouse laid down the track in her attic studio in 2009, at the apogee of her hard-partying ways.
But Lioness holds many unexpected pleasures even for people who do not self-identify as Winehouse completists.
