George M. Cohan

Virtuoso acoustic

• John Fahey: On the Sunny Side of the Ocean
• Bert Jansch: Reynardine/Angie
• Leo Kottke: Vaseline Machine Gun/Last Steam Engine

Historical

• “The Original” Bessie Brown: Song from a Cotton Field/St. Louis Blues
• George M. Cohan: Over There
• Georgia Field Hands: Mary Don’t You Weep
• Madrigals: Fine Knacks for Ladies/Madrigal de Nîmes
• Music of the Civil War
• Randy Newman: Louisiana 1927
• Paul Robeson: Vi Azoy Lebt der Kayser? and Ol’ Man River
• Jay Ungar: Ashokan Farewell

Science

• Alpine Kat: Large Hadron Rap
• Richard Feynman Talks About Light

International

• Amsterdam Klezmer Band: Op een Goppe/A Chassid in Amsterdam
• Black 47: Funky Céilí
• The Clancy Brothers: Finnegan’s Wake
• Juan Luis Guerra: La Guagua/Bachata en Fukuoka
• Carlos Antonio Jobim: Águas of Março
• Yu Hong Mei: Nostalgic Dreams of Beijing/There’s a Golden Sun Over Beijing
• Parov Stelar: Chambermaid Swing
• Proclaimers: King of the Road
• Damien Saez:  On a Pas la Thune/J’accuse
• Seu Jorge: Changes/É isso Aí
• Compay Segunda and The Buena Vista Social Club: Chan Chan
• Slim Dusty: Waltzing Matilda
• Jimmy Sturr: Clarinet Polka/Pennsylvania Polka

• LaVern Baker: Jim Dandy Got Married/Playing the Game of Love
• Fontella Bass: Rescue Me/Don’t Mess Up a Good Thing
• The Cadillacs: Speedoo
• Lee Dorsey: Working in the Coal Line/Ya Ya
• Little Eva: Let’s Turkey Trot
• Phil Phillips: Sea of Love

Gospel/Spiritual

• The Blind Boys of Alabama: Run On
• Al Green: Jesus is Waiting
• Happy Passover/Happy Easter
• Mahailia Jackson: Didn’t It Rain/Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho
• Alison Krauss: Down to the River to Pray
• Odetta: This Little Light of Mine/Glory, Hallelujah
• Sister Rosetta Tharpe: Up Above My Head
• Albertina Walker: I Can Go to God in Prayer/This is the Way to Sing Praises

Rap/Hip-Hop

• Blockhead: None Shall Pass
• Estelle: American Boy/Wonderful Life
• House of Pain: Jump Around
• Run-DMC: King of Rock/Christmas in Hollis
• Jimmy McMillan: The Rent is Too Damn High Anthem

Comedy

• Victor Borge: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
• Tom Lehrer: We Will All Go Together When We Go/The Elements
• The Leningrad Cowboys and The Red Army Choir: Sweet Home Alabama
• Allan Sherman: Shake Hands with Your Uncle Max

Reggae

• Burning Spear: Slavery Days/Old Marcus Garvey
• Bob Marley and the Wailers: Stir It Up
• Polemic: Svetlá Mesta/You Can Get it if You Really Want
• The Skatalites: Phoenix City/The Guns of Navarone
• Toots & The Maytals: Funky Kingston/Fine & Dandy
• Peter Tosh: Johnny B. Goode

Folk

• Harry Chapin: Sniper
• Leonard Cohen: Everybody Knows
• Stompin’ Tom Connors: The Hockey Song/Bud the Spud
• Elizabeth Cotten: Freight Train
• John Fahey: On the Sunny Side of the Ocean
• Steve Goodman: City of New Orleans/Talk Backwards
• Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin’
• Burl Ives: Medley with Johnny Cash, Scene from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• Gordon Lightfoot: TheWreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
• Kate and Anna McGarrigle: Love Over and Over/Going Back to Harlan
• Ann Rabson: One Meatball/Hopin’ It Will Be All Right
• The Rooftop Singers: Walk Right In/Mama Don’t Allow
• Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen: This Land is Your Land
• Bruce Springsteen: John Henry

Zydeco

• Clifton Chenier: Bon Ton Roulet/Calinda!
• Rockin Sidney Simien: Don’t Mess with My Toot Toot
• Buckwheat Zydeco: Hey Ma Petit Fille I’m Going Now/Creole Country

TV/Movies/Shows

• Howard DaSilva, Tom Bosley: Little Tin Box
• Anton Karas: The Third Man Theme
• Dennis Potter: Pennies from Heaven (Anything Goes)/The Singing Detective (Dry Bones)
• Mohammad Rafi: Jaan Pehchan

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