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Soul/Funk/R&B
Robert Randolph and the Family Band
- James Brown: Night Train
- Gladys Knight & the Pips: Midnight Train to Georgia/I Heard It Through the Grapevine
- The Neville Brothers: Fire on the Bayou/Big Chief
- Laura Nyro: Save the Country
- The O’Jays: Love Train/For the Love of Money
- Parliament Funkadelic: Bring on the Funk
- Professor Longhair: Big Chief/Tipitina
- Robert Randolph and the Family Band: Ain’t Nothing Wrong with That/I Need More Love
- Marlena Shaw: California Soul
- Staple Singers: Respect Yourself/Why Am I Treated So Bad?
- Edwin Starr: War/25 Miles
- The Supremes: You Just Keep Me Hanging On
- Trombone Shorty: One Night Only/Hurricane Season
- War: Low Rider/Cisco Kid
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Our Other Music
On May 19, 2013 by Carl With 0 Comments
- Bluegrass, Comedy, Doo Wop, Folk, Girl Groups, Historical, International, Irish, Movie Music, Musical Theater, Rap/Hip-Hop, Reggae/Ska, Spiritual/Gospel, Televison, Zydeco
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
1950s
- 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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Pop
Herb Alpert
- Herb Alpert: Spanish Flea
- Burt Bacharach/Dionne Warwick Medley
- Norah Jones: Don’t Know Why
- Tom Jones: Sex Bomb/What’s New Pussycat?
- Lianne La Havas: Age/Is Your Love Big Enough?
- Eleni Mandell: Magic Summertime
- Willie Nelson: Blue Skies
- Santigold: Disparate Youth
- Matt Siffert: Daybreak in Alabama and Riverside Drive
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Rock
The Clash
- AC/DC: Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap/Highway to Hell
- Alabama Shakes: I Found You
- The Allman Brothers Band: In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
- Jeff Beck/Imelda May: Remember (Walking in the Sand)
- The Bacon Brothers: New Year’s Day
- Chuck Berry: Maybellene
- The Blasters: American Music
- Mike Bloomfield: Drinking Wine/Messin’ With the Kid
- Booker T. and the MGs (including Donald “Duck” Dunn): Green Onions
- David Bromberg: Summer Wages/I Will Not Be Your Fool
- Cage the Elephant: Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked
- JJ Cale: Devil in Disguise/After Midnight/Call Me the Breeze
- Calexico: Splitter/Over Your Shoulder
- The Cardigans: My Favourite Game/I Need Some Fine Wine and You, You Need to be Nicer
- The Clash: The Magnificent Seven
- Gary Clark Jr.: Bright Lights
- Joe Cocker: The Letter/Feelin’ Alright
- Ry Cooder: Jesus on the Mainline
- Elvis Costello: I Don’t Want to Go to Chelsea/Any King’s Shilling
- Dick Dale: A Medley (Surfin’ & Swingin’, Misirlou andWedge)/Hava Nagila
- Bo Diddley: Road Runner
- Dire Straits: Skateaway
- Fats Domino: Ain’t That a Shame/Blueberry Hill
- Little Feat: Dixie Chicken
- Flogging Molly: Don’t Shut ‘Em Down
- Ben Folds: Dr. Yang/Rockin’ the Suburbs
- Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir: I’ve Been All Around this World
- George Harrison: All Things Must Pass/Beware of Darkness
- Warren Haynes: Hattiesburg Hustle
- Levon Helm: Ophelia
- Levon Helm: Short Fat Fanny
- Jimi Hendrix: Who Knows
- Richard X. Heyman: Cornerstone
- John Hiatt: Slow Turning
- Wanda Jackson: Hard Headed Woman
- Etta James, Mick Taylor, John Mayall: You Got Me Runnin’
- Dr. John and Eric Clapton: St. James Infirmary
- Jethro Tull: Locomotive Breath
- The Kinks: Low Budget
- Ladysmith Black Mambazo/Paul Simon: You Can Call Me Al
- Sonny Landreth: Zydeco Shuffle/Z Rider
- k.d. lang: The Valley/Hallelujah
- David Lindley: Mercury Blues/King of the Bed
- Los Lobos: Evangeline/Will the Wolf Survive?
- Los Lobos, Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir: This Land is Your Land
- Nils Lofgren: Delivery Night
- The Lumineers: Ho Hey/Flapper Girl
- Taj Mahal, Eric Bibb: Diving Duck Blues
- The Mamas and the Papas: California Dreamin’/Monday, Monday
- John Mayall: Oh, Pretty Woman
- Paul McCartney: Birthday
- Delbert McClinton: B Movie Box Car Blues
- John Mellencamp: Pink Houses/R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.
- Joni Mitchell: California/Me and My Uncle
- Modest Mouse: Dashboard
- Moe.: Kyle’s Song
- Mountain: Theme for an Imaginary Western
- The North Mississippi Allstars: The Meeting
- Old Crow Medicine Show: Down Home Girl/Wagon Wheel
- Phish: What Things Seem
- The Pogues: If I Should Fall From Grace With God/Body of an American
- Carl Perkins: That’s Alright Mama/Matchbox
- Porcupine Tree: Dark Matter
- Elvis Presley: Heartbreak Hotel
- The Pretenders: Brass in Pocket/My City Was Gone
- John Prine: In Spite of Ourselves/Angel From Montgomery
- Procol Harum: A Whiter Shade of Pale/Conquistador
- Queen: Bohemian Rhapsody
- Bonnie Raitt and Alison Krauss: Papa Come Quick
- The Ramones: I Wanna Be Sedated/The KKK Took My Baby Away
- Red Hot Chili Peppers: Purple Stain
- Linda Ronstadt: Blue Bayou
- Leon Russell: Crystal Closet Queen/Of Thee I Sing
- Squeeze: Cool for Cats/Up the Junction
- Stone Temple Pilots: Plush/Interstate Love Song
- The String Cheese Incident: Joyful Noise/Black and White
- James Taylor: Copperline/Mexico
- These United States: Honor Amongst Thieves
- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Mary Jane’s Last Dance/Jammin’ Me
- Roomful of Blues: Slam Jam/Back Seat Blues
- Santana: No One to Depend On
- The Searchers: Love Potion No. 9/Needles and Pins
- Sly and the Family Stone: Higher
- Southern Culture on the Skids: Voodoo Cadillac
- Steely Dan: Black Friday
- Steely Dan: My Old School
- Susan Tedeschi: Little by Little
- Talking Heads: Psycho Killer
- Traffic: John Barleycorn Must Die
- Trampled Under Foot: Love My Baby
- The Ventures: Hawaii Five-O
- Ween: Roses are Free/Big Jim
- The Who: Who Are You/Substitute
- Johnny and Edgar Winter and Rick Derringer: Highway 61 Revisited
- Stevie Wonder: Superstition/Sir Duke/I Wish
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Heads Will Roll/Zero
- Neil Young: Fork in the Road
- Frank Zappa: Cosmik Debris
- Warren Zevon: Excitable Boy
- Stevie Ray Vaughan: Texas Flood
- Tom Waits: Tom Traubert’s Blues/Ol ’55
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Classical/Opera
Kathleen Battle: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot/Vilja-Lied- Leroy Anderson: The Syncopated Clock
- Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra: Grand Canyon Suite
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Für Elise/Moonlight Sonata, Movement 1
- Maria Callas: Tosca
- Claude Debussy: Prélude à l’Apres-midi d’un Faune/Clair de Lune
- Morton Gould and his Orchestra: Aaron Copland’s Hoedown
- George Frideric Handel: Messiah/Acis and Galatea
- Charles Ives: The Unanswered Question/Prelude to The Fourth Symphony
- Franz Liszt (pictured left): Hungarian Rhapsody No.1 and Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
- Yo-Yo Ma: Elgar Cello Concerto, First Movement
- Mozart: Flute Concerto No.2 In D Major, K.314 First Movement (conducted by James Galway)
- Sergei Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf
- Arnold Schoenberg: Verklaerte Nacht
- Johann Strauss II: The Blue Danube Waltz
- Giuseppe Verdi: Triumphal March from Aida/La Travia
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Jazz
Nat King Cole
- Louis Armstrong
- Marcia Ball: Play With Your Poodle/Louella
- Count Basie: Whirly Bird
- Tony Bennett: I Left My Heart in San Francisco/Andy Williams Duet
- Clifford Brown: Oh, Lady Be Good
- Ray Brown: Lady Be Good
- Dave Brubeck: Take Five/Blue Rondo à la Turk
- Benny Carter: Misty/Wave
- Ray Charles: Hit the Road Jack
- Charlie Christian at Minton’s
- Stanley Clarke: School Days/Beat It
- Oscar “Papa” Celestin: Marie Laveau/Oh! Didn’t He Ramble
- Nat King Cole: Route 66
- John Coltrane: Naima
- Bobby Darin: Splish Splash
- Miles Davis: Autumn Leaves
- Sammy Davis, Jr.: Dancing/Mr. Bojangles
- Deodato: Also Sprach Zarathustra/Rhapsody in Blue
- Duke Ellington, Dr. Billy Taylor, Willie “The Lion” Smith: Perdido
- Tal Farlow: Air Mail Special/Misty
- Ella Fitzgerald: Mack the Knife
- Ella Fitzgerald: The Man I Love
- George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
- Dizzy Gillespie/Louis Armstrong: Umbrella Man
- Benny Goodman: Moonglow
- Dexter Gordon: Body and Soul
- Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians: New Year’s Eve, 1957
- Lionel Hampton: Avalon/Flying Home
- Coleman Hawkins: Jumpin’ With Symphony Sid
- Woody Herman: The Jazz Doctor
- Earl “Fatha” Hines: Memories of You
- Billie Holiday: God Bless the Child/Now Baby or Never
- Reggie Houston: Save the Bones for Henry Jones/Sheik of Araby
- Freddie Hubbard: I Remember Clifford/The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
- Harry James: You Made Me Love You/Don’t Be That Way
- Scott Joplin’s Ragtime
- Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Serenade to a Cuckoo
- Ramsey Lewis: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
- Henry Mancini: The Pink Panther Theme
- Wynton Marsalis: Portrait of Louis Armstrong/Come Rain or Come Shine
- Thelonious Monk: Blue Monk
- Jelly Roll Morton: The Crave/King Porter Stomp
- Patti Page: Nov. 8, 1927-Jan. 1, 2013
- Charley Parker: Dexterity
- Joe Pass: Joe’s Blues/Satin Doll
- Les Paul and Mary Ford: Alabamy Bound and Darktown Strutter’s Ball
- Cole Porter: Anything Goes
- Bud Powell: Get Happy/Anthropology
- The Preservation Hall Jazz Band: Basin Street Blues/Tailgate Ramble
- Louis Prima: Medley/Just a Gigolo/I Ain’t Got Nobody
- Leon Redbone: Up a Lazy River/Mr. Jelly Roll Baker
- Django Reinhardt: J’attendrai Swing
- Wayne Shorter: Joy Ride and Footprints
- Horace Silver: Song for My Father/Señor Blues
- Frank Sinatra: That’s Life/I Get a Kick Out of You
- Art Tatum: Humoresque
- Clark Terry: Take the A Train/On the Trail
- Sarah Vaughan: Over the Rainbow/Tenderly
- Fats Waller: The Joint is Jumpin’
- Dinah Washington: All of Me/Lover Come Back to Me
- Ben Webster: Old Folks
- Lester Young: Pennies From Heaven
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Electric and Acoustic Blues
Electric
- Luther Allison: Livin’ in the House of the Blues/Soul Fixin’ Man
- Lonnie Brooks: You’re Usin’ Me
- Albert King: Blues Power
- B.B. King (Pictured Right): How Blue Can You Get?/Just a Little Bit of Love
- Larry McCray: Smooth Sailing
- Charlie Musselwhite: Christo Redemptor
- Pinetop Perkins: Pinetop’s Boogie/Down in Mississippi
- The Robert Cray Band: Smoking Gun/Back Door Slam
- Big Joe Turner: Low Down Dog
- T-Bone Walker: Call It Stormy Monday/Woman, You Must Be Crazy/Goin’ to Chicago Blues
- The Steve Thorpe Band: Dust My Broom
Acoustic
- R.L. Burnside: When My First Wife Left Me/Jumper on the Line
- Rev. Gary Davis: Death Don’t Have No Mercy
- Son House: Death Letter Blues/John the Revelator
- Skip James: Crow Jane
- Mississippi Fred McDowell: John Henry/Goin’ Down to the River
- Keb’ Mo’: Am I Wrong?/Suitcase
- Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee: Walk On
- Bukka White: Poor Boy Long Way From Home
- Howlin’ Wolf: Sitting on Top of the World
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Tom Jones: What’s New Pussycat? and Sex Bomb
Sex Bomb (above) is perhaps the most bizarre recording I’ve even seen. The skeevy lyrics, the apparently well coached audience and the fact that the song and Jones’ delivery both are terrific add up to a level of awesomeness that is hard match.
Below is Tom Jones actually is Thomas John Woodward, which now is preceded by “Sir.” His stage name was taken from the movie Tom Jones, which was a filming of The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. Written in 1749 by Henry Fielding, it is considered the first novel in the English language.What’s New Pussycat?
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