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1. Cover Songs and Standards Great jazz and blues musicians share a common ground of songs, standards that fans and players know and love. The songs comprise a range of styles and moods...
2. The Banana Boat Song: Day-O The Banana Boat Song, also known as Day-O, grew out of a traditional Caribbean folk song. Trinidadian Edric Connor first recorded The Banana Boat Song in England...
3. The Peter Gunn Theme Song Peter Gunn had a theme song, and it's been re-made and remixed since his television show debuted in 1958. Once it hit the airwaves, a new hit song began making...
4. The Song Autumn Leaves The song, Autumn Leaves, was written in 1945 in French, "Les feuilles mortes" ("The Dead Leaves") with music by Joseph Kosma and lyrics by poet Jacques Prevert. Yves...
5. Greatest Cover Songs I love when one artist remakes a cover version of another artists songs. Usually they remake the song in a unique way and it provides a completely new persp...
6. Best Covers of The Song Yesterday Written and performed by Paul McCartney for the 1965 Beatles Help album, the song "Yesterday" is the most covered song of all time, with more than 3,000 recordings....
7. Song Cover Versions Rock! Song Cover Versions Rock! While there has been many a musical misstep over the decades, some songs just beg to be covered. Imagine if only Bob Dylan ever sang...
8. Originals VS Cover Versions Cover versions of popular songs are as old as popular music itself. People have been doing their own versions of others songs for generations and lets face it,...
9. Knockin' on Heaven's Door Cover Versions Bob Dylan wrote Knockin' on Heaven's Door as a part of his soundtrack for a movie about Billy the Kid in the early 1970s. Whether it was the imagery of the lyrics...
10. People Get Ready: A Gospel-Inspired Standard Curtis Mayfield wrote People Get Ready for The Impressions, who had their biggest hit with the song in 1965. The song has been credited with changing the face...
11. Mack the Knife: Opera that Became a Swingin' Standard Die Moritat von Mackie Messer (or The Deadly Deeds of Mackie Messer) came onto the scene in 1928 in the Threepenny Opera and then became the theme song for Macheath...
12. Summertime By George Gershwin: The Greatest Cover Song Ever Everbody who's anybody in the music world has covered George Gershwin's Summertime at one point or another. From mournful, operatic versions true to the original...
13. Sweet Home Chicago: A Blues Standard Like many blues songs, Sweet Home Chicago has shadowy origins based in borrowed riffs and rhythms from older songs. The first recording under that name, however,...
14. Caravan: A Jazz Standard Although the original recording of Caravan was made in 1936 by Barney Bigard And His Jazzopators, Duke Ellington composed the music for this jazzy cover song...
15. Mother Knows Best "Mother Knows Best" and "Mother Knows Best (Reprise)" are sung by Mother Gothel, the villain of Tangled. It is, in my opinion, the best song from the film. The...
16. Cecilia Song Cover Versions Paul Simon wrote Cecilia and the song first appeared on the Simon and Garfunkel album "Bridge over Troubled Water" in 1970. Whether because that original version...
17. Ain't Nobody's Business Would you believe that there are three songs, all having been recorded for decades, expressing identical sentiments that it "ain't nobody's business" what the...
18. Muppet Cover Songs Muppet cover songs have been part of their tradition from their early days on Sesame Street right up to their latest film, "The Muppets" to be released this...
19. Rock Me, Baby: A Blues Crossover Standard Rock Me, Baby has been bouncing around the blues world since its first recording in 1940 by Big Bill Broonzy, and has been covered and reimagined by dozens of...
20. Acoustic Cover Songs I don't know about you, but I love acoustic cover songs. When an artist strips a song down to it's most basic form and puts their own interpretation on it i...