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1. Baby It's Cold Outside: A Winter Standard Frank Loesser wrote Baby It's Cold Outside for he and his wife, Lynn, to perform at a dinner party in 1944. The song was such a hit that the two were popular guests for years. They were so well known for the song, in fact, that Loesser decided to giv...
2. Feliz Navidad: A Merry Christmas Song In 1970, Jose Feliciano wrote Feliz Navidad and taught the world to wish each other a Merry Christmas en espanol. Little did anyone suspect that the bouncy little tune would become one of the most-played holiday songs in the world. But one listen wil...
3. Mele Kalikimaka: The Hawaiian Christmas Carol Robert Anderson, born in Honolulu, Hawaii and better known as R. Alex Anderson, wrote Mele Kalikimaka in the 1940s. The first major recording came from Bing Crosby with the Andrews Sisters, from Decca Records, in 1950. Although it's not the best-know...
4. Stagger Lee: A Murderous Blues Standard It seems that folk and blues songs about otherwise minor historical characters, like Frankie and Johnny and Stagger Lee, make for lasting standards. The history of Stack O'Lee or Stagger Lee dates back to at least 1895, but the song may predate the m...
5. 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 of popular music, and dozens of singers and bands have recorded cover versions ever since....
6. 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 performer does? While Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do and Ain't Nobody's Business But My Ow...
7. The Christmas Song When you take a song written by wonderful Mel Torme and Bob Wells, then have smooth Nat King Cole and his trio record it, you get an instant Christmas standard. That's what happened with The Christmas Song in 1946. Since then, the song has been perfo...
8. 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, came from legendary blues-man Robert Johnson and was released in 1937. Most sources sugg...
9. 10 Benefits of PMI Membership 10 Benefits of PMI Membership: PMI is the leading global association for the project management profession. PMI's primary goal is to advance the practice, science and profession of project management throughout the world in a conscientious and proac...
10. 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 recorded it many times. Then again, Irving Mills wrote the lyrics and the song was based on...
11. 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 musicians of both blues and rock-and-roll fame. The song has crossed genre boundaries and h...
12. Mack the Knife: A Swingin' Standard For a complete explanation of where Mack the Knife came from (and why you ought not be too taken with the scoundrel), check The Straight Dope. This lens picks up at the point where Louis Armstrong recorded the smash hit swing version of the song in 1...
13. It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) Irving Mills explained to the world, in 1931, that It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got that Swing, and the world listened. Duke Ellington kicked off the Swing Era with the song in the thirties and big bands all around the country picked up this fun...
14. Sweet Georgia Brown: A Whistlin' Jazz Standard Ben Bernie and Maceo Pinkard got together and composed a little ditty, for which Kenneth Casey wrote some saucy lyrics. Thus, Sweet Georgia Brown was born, a song which Bernie and His Orchestra recorded in 1926, at the height of the roaring 20s, and...
15. You Give Me Fever Little Willie John had a Top 25 hit on the US charts in 1956 with Fever, a song written by Eddie Cooley and Otis Blackwell (under the name John Davenport). Two years later, Peggy Lee recorded her own version of the song with somewhat different lyrics...
16. Customer Service Standards Focused on standards of customer service, this is a sublens of Customer Service Reader. Standards define what customer service means, and what behaviors are expected of the members of the organization. They form the backbone of the customer service p...
17. I've Got You Under My Skin: A Cole Porter Standard Cole Porter wrote I've Got You Under My Skin in 1936, as part of the score for the movie "Born to Dance", which fans of Jimmy Stewart may remember as starring Eleanor Powell. (Trivia tidbit: Virginia Bruce actually performed the song in the movie.) T...
18. Route 66: A Modern Standard Whether you remember Nat King Cole crooning about Route 66 in the 40s and 50s, Depeche Mode rocking the way down the road in the 80s, or you first heard John Mayer or Chuck Berry singing the song in the movie Cars, this song has been moving and inspi...
19. Frankie and Johnny: A Murderous Folk Music Standard Frankie and Johnny has been covered and recorded for a hundred years. While the music for Frankie and Johnny was copyrighted to Hughie Cannon in 1904, there have been various claims regarding the authorship of the lyrics. Some claim that the song goe...
20. Unseen Killers. Clean water that is Dirty. The water we drink. Is it as really clean as we think? Runoff from natural and man made objects is leaching and ending up in our precious fresh water. Two thirds of the earth is water. Very little of it is fresh or potable. For centuries mankind has...