Your Favorite Versions of Standards

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 9/10/12 at 7:26pm

I Think It's Going to Rain Today - Nina Simone:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4Lhcby4d0k

Fever - Sara Ramirez:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syudQGmsXUs

Secret Love - Mandy Moore:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fieNHFylrqw

[thetinymagic2]

Posted: 9/10/12 at 7:54pm

LOST MIND
DIANA KRALL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns_r0pnLJyc

[Wynbish]

Posted: 9/10/12 at 11:32pm

Chet Baker - Old Devil Moon

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 9/10/12 at 11:52pm

Bewitched Bothered & Bewildered - Patti LuPone:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9lSvkYAZEY

Blues in the Night - Rosemary Clooney:
http://www.youtube.com/com/watch?v=1zi2a1spXfY

[thetinymagic2]

Posted: 9/10/12 at 11:58pm

Oh man - chet Baker. So perrfect, that rendition!! Too bad about his life, though. So, so sad.

[Wynbish]

Posted: 9/11/12 at 12:07am

Carla Bruni - You Belong to Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=murYvyEzpUM

Louis Armstrong - La Vie en Rose (sorry, Edith)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IH9gGywLk4

Jane Monheit - Embraceable You (really exquisite)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO-VF2eGQ-k
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[thetinymagic2]

Posted: 9/11/12 at 12:15am

Wynbish - I never knew you had such GREAT taste in music. Carla Bruni - I NEVER knew!? Superb, superb, superb. The other 2, I agreed COMPLETELY! Great!

[Wynbish]

Posted: 9/11/12 at 12:20am

Aww thanks. Now, I'm off to hide how many times I've played Call Me Maybe this summer...

In all seriousness, I love classics. I like to buy one of the originals and a cover version for comparison. My favorite example is how different Billie Holiday's "Don't Explain" and the version Herbie Hancock did with Damien Rice/Lisa Hannigan are.

[strummergirl]

Posted: 9/11/12 at 1:12am

"Bang, Bang" Dalida (in French!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF7PQbadX4U

"Gloria" Patti Smith
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgNeBNMJFZs

"Hey Jude" Wilson Pickett (supported by Duane Allman on guitar)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2629krYrv1c

"Hallelujah" Jeff Buckley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8AWFf7EAc4

"Heard it Through the Grape Wine" CCR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93S_l0qZrXA

"House of the Rising Sun" The Animals
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwAw9ThDQmk

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 9/11/12 at 3:44am

I HATE Sara Ramirez's version of Fever! Gah.




Summertime by P!nk

Updated On: 9/11/12 at 03:44 AM

[LaurenB]

Posted: 9/11/12 at 4:17am

Artie Shaw - Begin The Beguine

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 9/11/12 at 4:43am

Strummer, that version of Hey Jude has made my morning. My brother would have LOVED that. Thank you for sharing it.

[LaurenB]

Posted: 9/11/12 at 4:49am

More favorites:

Duke Ellington - How High the Moon - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7e4xIcUIA0

There's another great version of this song by Benny Goodman live at Carnegie Hall, recorded in the 70's (with Lionel Hampton), but I can't find it.


Frank Sinata - I've Got You Under My Skin - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmobo-PrYZw

I was looking for the version where Frank sang this at Madison Square Garden, but this will do. These videos don't do him justice. His concerts, performed with a full orchestra, were the best. I wasn't a fan prior to seeing him in concert, but I wanted to see "a legend" and he knocked my socks off.

[ClapYo'Hands]

Posted: 9/11/12 at 8:01am

Someone mentioned "I Think It's Going To Rain Today", well:


Bobby Darin - I Think It's Gonna Rain Today

[PalJoey]

Posted: 9/11/12 at 8:02am

Everything Ella Fitzgerald ever did.

This for example, a 7:37 version of "These Foolish Things Remind Me of You":

http://youtu.be/mshV7ug8cdE

[thetinymagic2]

Posted: 9/11/12 at 2:08pm

This is THE BEST (Classic American Songbook) MUSIC THREAD EVER! Keep it up, kids!. I need more obsure, fabulous iTunes to download.....

[Wynbish]

Posted: 9/11/12 at 2:14pm

Is Autumn Leaves a standard? If so, definitely Eva

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--xW8HPJRY0

Posted: 9/11/12 at 2:28pm

I refuse to believe Patti LuPone's version of "Bewitched"
could top Ella Fitzgerald. It is the most perfect pairing of an artist, song, arrangement and orchestra ever.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 9/11/12 at 2:52pm

This thread needs a little Nancy LaMott love:


"Moon River"

http://youtu.be/z0W0ZUz1Amw


"All the Things You Are"/"I'm Glad There Is You"

http://youtu.be/6P5Uxa0GCz0


"My Bill"

http://youtu.be/R0CU5LfLIyw



"The Best Is Yet to Come"

http://youtu.be/rpWU2KfnM3g


"You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby"

http://youtu.be/gFEZh0mdL9o



"Two for the Road"

http://youtu.be/r-ULtacF-34

[Wynbish]

Posted: 9/11/12 at 3:01pm

Madeleine Peyroux - Smile

[strummergirl]

Posted: 9/11/12 at 3:30pm

Thanks, JerseyGirl. I love that song.

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 9/11/12 at 4:55pm

Joe, your favorite is your favorite; my favorite is my favorite. The best, is something else.

Marilyn Monroe - Do It Again:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKYjAmzjCag

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 9/11/12 at 5:44pm

Of course Autumn Leaves is a standard (I have Grace Jones' campy, slightly off key disco version on vinyl). Eva's is brilliant. While a bit on the soft jazz side, I also love Dutch vocalist Laura Fygi's live version in French http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCToiC9GJsQ

I *love* Laura Fygi's jazz take on Michel Legrand's I Will Wait for You from Umbrellas of Cherbourg, from her Legrand album he produced with her. For me, it's hands down the best take of the song in English--that ending wow. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OxEYNf1u3o

It's impossible to beat the Dusty original (especially in the original Bacharach produced soundtrack version--the later single re-recording is a bit watered down), but I *love* The Zombies' take on The Look of Love done for BBC radio in the 60s. Colin Blunstone's vocals make me melt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4emLYfb9rA

Actually, I also love the jazzy cover of Summertime they do, though it's impossible to pick a favorite version of that song (I admit though, I've always found Joplin's overated *ducks*)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo4cKTlGSFE

(OK, I also love their cover of Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? but I shouldn't turn this into a Zombies thread http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftemreRiAzM )

Everyone here probably knows them, but as cheesy as they are (in a good way--at least for me), I think Donna Summer's disco takes on Barry Manilow's Could it Be Magic and Richard Harris' MacArthur Park crap all over the originals.

I suppose some of this depends on your definition of standards, but it seems like much from the early 70s or before counts now...

[Brave Sir Robin2]

Posted: 9/11/12 at 6:22pm

I really Amy Winehouse's cover of "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" because it's such a different take on it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_r-b8vbK48

Beyonce's cover of "Fever" is literally just sexy. Nothing can compare to Miss Peggy Lee, but I really like this cover: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEOqbqhF8IA&feature=fvst

Also, Frank Sinatra's "It Might As Well Be Spring": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-65g3ofIEo

Rosemary Clooney's "Shine On Harvest Moon" (couldn't find a link to it).

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 9/11/12 at 7:32pm

Peggy Lee - How Long Has This Been Going On?:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2C6yjbplxQ

Doris Day - 10 Cents a Dance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JX2P3VekOo

Updated On: 9/11/12 at 07:32 PM