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multiple recordings of songs
Aug. 15th, 2009 08:17 pmI like music. I wasn't bad, though never great, on the piano. I stopped playing when I realized my hands were too small to play the single piano version of Rhapsody in Blue. I got through the first page, but the other twenty needed to be able to chord far wider than I can reach. I still occasionally play guitar. It's been awhile since I've sung, but I always enjoyed being in choirs.
Still, like many people, I listen to more music than I produce -- especially now that I no longer attend church.
My iTunes list is probably somewhat predictable, if you know me, but I do have duplicates of many songs. Some of this is just the nature of liking jazz as much as I do. Anyone who's listened to Miles Davis play a song from Porgy and Bess is never going to mistake it for someone else playing the same thing. Nor is it ever going to be mistaken for a track from the opera.
One thing that's been intriguing to me is how much I've loved some of my multiple tracks. As a teenager, my favorite vocalist was Ella Fitzgerald. Now, to many jazz afficianados, that's roughly equivalent to saying I really like air. Of course, I like air. It's necessary to breathe.
My dad's favorite was Sarah Vaughn, and as I get older, I find that if I just go to iTunes and listen for a song that I want/need, I'll very often end up with a Sarah Vaughn recording. There's a song that was popular in the late 1960s called Just a Little Loving. It is a song for grown ups. It was used in the US version of Life on Mars with a recording by Dusty Springfield. I have the Dusty Springfield recording and like it.
But then I found the Sarah Vaughn version. You can taste the coffee when she sings. I don't know a better way to put it. It's an overwhelming sense that the woman knows whereof she speaks.
Just a little loving
Early in the morning
Beats a cup of coffee
for starting out the day
Just a little loving
when the world is dawning
makes you feel good things
are coming your way
This old world
wouldn't be half as sad
wouldn't be half as bad
if each and everybody in it had
Just a little loving ...
I often find that I don't listen as much to the "original" version of a song as I do to others. I know that when I hear This Guy's in Love with You in my head, it will always be Sammy Davis Jr singing it.
Anyone else do this? Have multiple recordings of the same song? What makes you have so many?
This post courtesy of seeing Julia and Julie. They use an instrumental of Time After Time (Not the one written by Cyndi Lauper which I also love, but the song by Jule Styne.). I came home to find I have four copies of it, including terrific versions by Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughn.
Still, like many people, I listen to more music than I produce -- especially now that I no longer attend church.
My iTunes list is probably somewhat predictable, if you know me, but I do have duplicates of many songs. Some of this is just the nature of liking jazz as much as I do. Anyone who's listened to Miles Davis play a song from Porgy and Bess is never going to mistake it for someone else playing the same thing. Nor is it ever going to be mistaken for a track from the opera.
One thing that's been intriguing to me is how much I've loved some of my multiple tracks. As a teenager, my favorite vocalist was Ella Fitzgerald. Now, to many jazz afficianados, that's roughly equivalent to saying I really like air. Of course, I like air. It's necessary to breathe.
My dad's favorite was Sarah Vaughn, and as I get older, I find that if I just go to iTunes and listen for a song that I want/need, I'll very often end up with a Sarah Vaughn recording. There's a song that was popular in the late 1960s called Just a Little Loving. It is a song for grown ups. It was used in the US version of Life on Mars with a recording by Dusty Springfield. I have the Dusty Springfield recording and like it.
But then I found the Sarah Vaughn version. You can taste the coffee when she sings. I don't know a better way to put it. It's an overwhelming sense that the woman knows whereof she speaks.
Just a little loving
Early in the morning
Beats a cup of coffee
for starting out the day
Just a little loving
when the world is dawning
makes you feel good things
are coming your way
This old world
wouldn't be half as sad
wouldn't be half as bad
if each and everybody in it had
Just a little loving ...
I often find that I don't listen as much to the "original" version of a song as I do to others. I know that when I hear This Guy's in Love with You in my head, it will always be Sammy Davis Jr singing it.
Anyone else do this? Have multiple recordings of the same song? What makes you have so many?
This post courtesy of seeing Julia and Julie. They use an instrumental of Time After Time (Not the one written by Cyndi Lauper which I also love, but the song by Jule Styne.). I came home to find I have four copies of it, including terrific versions by Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughn.
