Your Favorite Versions of Standards- Page 3

[Jim Colyer]

Posted: 10/1/12 at 5:14pm

Rod Stewart did a good job with his American Songbook.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 10/1/12 at 5:15pm

Nobody cares what you think, racist.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/9/12 at 11:22pm

From the other thread, Jason Gould and Barbra Streisand duetting on "How Deep Is the Ocean?"

http://youtu.be/RZ4uUAg0OfE

[thetinymagic2]

Posted: 10/10/12 at 3:56am

O M F G genius! Joy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VHUpGxFJJ8

[strummergirl]

Posted: 10/10/12 at 3:58am

How could I forget?
Tom Waits, "Somewhere"

[thetinymagic2]

Posted: 10/20/12 at 9:47pm

You had to be there, and I was!
Tito - the greatest thing ever to come out of NYC!
(ignore the bad dancing...)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj_XxBKG53g

[canmark]

Posted: 10/21/12 at 7:47pm

Anita O'Day, "My Heart Belongs to Daddy"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS-NponTvYw

Barbra Streisand, "Cry Me a River"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TA6LQmP0ec

Patsy Cline, "You Belong to Me"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIMtjxCbDMk

Chet Baker, "My Funny Valentine"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvXywhJpOKs

Peggy Lee, "Fever"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7_k_0dKknA

Lena Horne, "One for my Baby (and One More for the Road)" and "A Fine Romance"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKl2SqGv1BY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ40cwG_ZGI

Ella Fitzgerald sang the definitive version of so many standards, for example, Cole Porter's "Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNZKOh3oXSU

Someone above mentioned The Animals' (great) version of "House of the Rising Sun." I would, however, submit the Nina Simone version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCuu5fOEB3Y

Updated On: 10/21/12 at 07:47 PM