A few weeks later a second version of the song was also released as a single by the UK artist Heart and produced by Phil Swern and Johnny Arthey on RCA. The UK born but New Zealand based singer, Rob Guest, also released his version of "House of Cards" as his first solo single on Polydor in 1972.- - - It also appeared as the lead track on Guest's album Sing. The song was also covered by the BBC Radio 1 DJ Tony Blackburn and appeared as a track on the self-named album released in 1972 on RCA- which received favourable reviews.Hi-fi News & Record Review (1972), Volume 18, Issues 1-6, Page 357 It was released for the first time on CD in 2012 on the Tony Blackburn compilation album The Singles Collection 1965-1980. Blackburn performed his version of the song on the ITV prime time programme 2G's & The Pop People on 17 June 1972. When reviewing the single released by "Heart" in Disc and Music Echo, John Peel wrote ""This sounds very much like Tony Blackburn singing under a pseudonym and if so puts me in a certain amount of difficulty".
