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Cover me : the stories behind the greatest cover songs of all time / by Padgett, Ray,author.(CARDINAL)677400;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-227) and index.Elvis Presley "Hound dog" (Big Mama Thornton cover) -- The Beatles "Twist and shout" (Isley Brothers/Top Notes cover) -- The Righteous Brothers "Unchained melody" (Todd Duncan cover) -- Aretha Franklin "Respect" (Otis Redding cover) -- Jimi Hendrix "All along the watchtower" (Bob Dylan cover) -- Joe Cocker "With a little help from my friends" (The Beatles cover) -- The Who "Summertime blues" (Eddie Cochran cover) -- Creedence Clearwater Revival "I heard it through the grapevine" (Marvin Gaye cover) -- Gladys Knight & the Pips "Midnight train to Georgia" (Jim Weatherly cover) -- Patti Smith "Gloria" (Them cover) -- Talking Heads "Take me to the river" (Al Green cover) -- Devo "Satisfaction" (The Rolling Stones cover) -- "Weird Al" Yankovic "Polkas on 45" (various artists cover) -- Pet Shop Boys "Always on my mind" (Elvis Presley/Brenda Lee cover) -- Whitney Houston "I will always love you" (Dolly Parton cover) -- Fugees "Killing me softly" (Roberta Flack/Lori Lieberman cover) -- The Gourds "Gin and juice" (Snoop Doggy Dogg cover) -- Johnny Cash "Hurt" (Nine Inch Nails cover) -- Adele "Make you feel my love" (Bob Dylan cover)."From the creator of the popular website covermesongs.com comes the perfect book for music fans: the inside stories behind 20 iconic cover songs and the artists who turned them into classics. A great cover only makes a song stronger. Jimi Hendrix's version of Bob Dylan's 'All Along the Watchtower.' The Beatles rocking out with 'Twist and Shout.' Aretha Franklin demanding 'Respect.' Without covers, the world would have lost many unforgettable performances. This is the first book to explore the most iconic covers ever, from Elvis's 'Hound Dog' and Joe Cocker's 'With a Little Help from My Friends' to the Talking Heads' 'Take Me to the River' and Adele's 'Make You Feel My Love.' Written by the founder of the website covermesongs.com, each of the 19 chapters investigates the origins of a classic cover -- and uses it as a framework to tell the larger story of how cover songs have evolved over the decades. Cover Me is packed with insight, photography, and music history"--Publisher's website.
Subjects: Cover versions; Popular music;
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Three mo' tenors. by Huff, Leon.(CARDINAL)389194; Creed, Linda.; Cook, Victor Trent.sng; Dixon, Rodrick.sng; Young, Thomas,1962-sng; Joubert, Joseph,1958-cnd; Verdi, Giuseppe,1813-1901.Rigoletto.Donna è mobile.; Flaherty, Stephen.Ragtime.Make them hear you.; Donizetti, Gaetano,1797-1848.Fille du régiment.Ah, mes amis, quel jour de fête.; Ellington, Duke,1899-1974.You gotta be a rug cutter;arranged.; Ellington, Duke,1899-1974.It don't mean a thing;arranged.; Ellington, Duke,1899-1974.I let a song go out of my heart;arranged.; Ellington, Duke,1899-1974.Drop me off in Harlem;arranged.; Ellington, Duke,1899-1974.I'm beginning to see the light;arranged.; Ellington, Duke,1899-1974.Take the A train;arranged.; Calloway, Cab,1907-1994.Jazz cat;arranged.; Calloway, Cab,1907-1994.Minnie the moocher;arranged.; Gray, Wardell,1921-1955.Twisted;arranged.; Puccini, Giacomo,1858-1924.Turandot.Nessun dorma.; Lewis, Curtis,1918-1969.Today I sing the blues.; Gamble, Kenny.Love train.; Record, Eugene.Oh girl.; Bell, Thom.Betcha, by golly, wow.; Weatherly, Jim.Midnight train to Georgia.; Ward, Samuel A.,1847-1903.America the beautiful.(CARDINAL)532805; Hammond, Fred.Let the praise begin;arranged.; Bady, Percy.Just come;arranged.; Broadway Inspirational Voices.prf;
Victor Trent Cook, Rodrick Dixon, Thomas Young, tenors ; Broadway Inspirational Voices, Michael McElroy, director ; gospel ensemble ; orchestra, Joseph Joubert, director.Marion J. Caffey, director ; musical arrangements by Joseph Joubert.Recorded live in concert at the Hammerstein Ballroom, NYC, in the Silver Truck, Remote Recording Services, on June 12 and 13, 2001.Compact disc./ Participants: Victor Trent Cook, Rodrick Dixon, Thomas Young, tenor ; Broadway Inspirational Voices, Michael McElroy, director ; gospel ensemble ; orchestra, Joseph Joubert, director./ Recorded live in concert at The Hammerstein Ballroom, NYC, in the Silver Truck, Remote Recording Services, on June 12 and 13, 2001.
Subjects: Jazz.; Live sound recordings.; Popular music.; Soul music.; Gospel music.; Spirituals (Songs); Operas; Jazz vocals.; African Americans;
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The blues fake book : 400 songs : melody line, lyrics & chords for all "C" instruments.
Includes Alphabetical Listing of titles (pages 2-4) and an Artist Index (pages 5-7).23 Hours Too Long -- 32-20 Blues -- 99 Blues -- Ah'w Baby -- Ain't Gonna Worry My Life Anymore -- Ain't Misbehavin' -- Ain't That Loving You Baby -- Alabama Bound -- Alimonia Blues -- All Aboard -- All Blues -- All My Love In Vain -- All Your Love (I Miss Loving) -- Alright, Okay, You Win -- Angel Eyes -- Apologize -- As The Years Go Passing By -- Ask Me No Questions -- At My Front Door -- Aw Shucks, Hush Your Mouth -- Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You -- Baby Doll -- Baby How Long -- Baby Please Don't Go -- Baby What's Wrong -- Baby, Let's Play House -- Baby, Scratch My Back -- Baby, What You Want Me To Do -- Baby, Won't You Please Come Home -- Back Door Man -- Backwater Blues -- Basin Street Blues -- Beale Street Blues -- Bell Bottom Blues -- A Big Hunk O' Love -- Big Road Blues -- Billie's Blues (I Love My Man) -- (What Did I Do To Be So) Black And Blue -- Black Coffee -- Blow, Wind, Blow -- Blue Prelude -- Blue Train (Blue Trane) -- Blue Turning Grey Over You -- Blueberry Hill -- Bluebird Blues -- Before Sunrise -- The Blues Ain't Nothin' But A Woman Cryin' For Her Man -- Blues For Alice -- The Blues Had A Baby And They Named It Rock And Roll -- Blues On The Ceiling -- Blues With A Feeling -- Bo Diddley -- Boogie Chillen No. 2 -- Boom Boom (Out Go The Lights) -- Born In Mississippi, Raised Up In Tennessee -- Born To Be Blue -- Bottle It Up And Go -- Bourgeois Blues -- Bright Lights, Big City -- Bring It On Home -- Broke And Hungry -- Broken Hearted Blues -- Built For Comfort -- Caldonia (What Makes Your Big Head So Hard?) -- Can't Hold Out Much Longer -- Can't You Hear Me Talking To You -- Canal Street Blues -- Candy Man Blues -- Careless Love -- Catfish Blues (Rollin' Stone) -- Check Yourself -- Checkin' Up On My Baby -- Chicago Blues -- Chicago Bound -- Close To You (I Wanna Get) -- Clouds In My Heart -- Cold Weather Blues -- Come Back Baby -- Come On In My Kitchen -- Confessin' The Blues -- Continental Blues -- Cool Drink Of Water Blues -- Country Boy Blues -- Country Girl -- Cow Cow Blues -- Crackin' Up -- Crazy Blues -- Cross Road Blues (Crossroads) -- Cryin' In My Sleep -- Custard Pie -- Dallas Blues -- De Kalb Blues -- Dead Presidents -- Decoration Day -- Devil Got My Woman -- Did You Ever -- Diddie Wa Diddie -- Dippermouth Blues -- Dirty No-Gooder's Blues -- Dissatisfied -- Diving Duck -- Do Me Right -- Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans -- Don't Go No Further (You Need Meat) -- Don't Smoke In Bed -- Don't You Lie To Me (I Get Evil) -- Double Trouble -- Down Hearted Blues -- Down In The Dumps -- Drunken Hearted Man -- Dust Pneumonia Blues -- Easy Rider -- Empty Bed Blues -- End Of The Blues -- Everyday (I Have The Blues) -- Evil (Is Going On) -- Eyesight To The Blind -- Fattening -- Frogs For Snakes -- Feel Like Going Home -- Fever Fine And Mellow -- Five Long Years -- Flip, Flop And Fly -- Folsom Prison Blues -- Foolish Man Blues -- Forty Days And Forty Nights -- Forty-Four -- From Four till Late -- Further On Up The Road -- Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You -- Georgia On My Mind -- God Bless' The Child -- Going Down Slow -- A Good Man Is Hard To Find -- Good Mornin' Blues -- Good Morning Heartache -- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl -- Good Rockin' Tonight -- Goodbye Baby -- Got The Blues, Can't Be Satisfied -- Got To Hurry -- Gulf Coast Blues -- Happy With The Blues -- Have You Ever Loved A Woman -- Heartbreak Hotel -- Hell Hound On My Trail -- Help Me -- Hesitation Blues -- Hey Hey Hey Lawdy Mama -- Hey, Pretty Mama -- Hidden Charms -- Highway 40 Blues -- Highway 51 Blues -- Home To Mamma -- Honest I Do -- Honey Bee -- Hootie Blues -- Hound Dog -- How Many More Years -- Howlin' For My Darling -- Hush Hush -- I Ain't For It -- I Ain't Got Nobody (And Nobody Cares For Me).I Ain't Got Nothin' But The Blues -- I Ain't Superstitious -- I Almost Lost My Mind -- I Believe I'll Make A Change -- I Believe I've Been Blue Too Long -- I Can Make Love -- (I) Can't Afford To Do It -- I Can't Be Satisfied -- I Can't Quit You Baby -- I Can't Stop, Baby -- I Don't Know -- I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good -- I Got My Brand On You -- I Got To Find My Baby -- I Got What It Takes -- I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues -- I Just Want To Make Love To You -- I Keep Going Back To Joe's -- I Know Your Wig Is Gone -- I Need Love -- I Wanna Put A Tiger In Your Tank -- I Want To Be Loved -- I Want You Close To Me -- I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water -- I'm A Man -- I'm A Natural Born Lover -- I'm A Steady Rollin' Man (Steady Rollin' Man) -- I'm A Woman -- I'm Ready -- I'm So Glad -- I'm Tore Down -- I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man -- I've Been Dealin' With The Devil -- I've Been Treated Wrong -- Ice Cream Man -- In The Evening (When The Sun Goes Down) -- In The House Blues -- It Do Me So Good -- It Hurts Me Too -- It Makes My Love Come Down -- It Seem Like A Dream -- It Serves Me Right To Suffer -- It's A Low Down Dirty Deal -- It's A Low Down Dirty Shame -- It's My Own Fault -- It's Too Bad Things Are Going So Tough -- Jailhouse Blues -- Jelly Roll Blues -- Jim Crow -- Juke -- Just A Dream -- Just Like I Treat You -- Key To The Highway -- Killing Floor -- Kind Hearted Woman Blues -- Kokomo Blues -- Lady Sings The Blues -- Last Night -- The Lemon Song -- Let Me Love You Baby -- Let's Get Down To Business -- Letter To My Baby -- Life Is Like That -- Little Baby (You Go And I'll Go With You) -- Little Queen Of Spades -- Little Red Rooster -- Live Another Day -- Lonely Boy Blues -- Lonesome Whistle Blues -- Long Distance Call -- Long Gone Blues -- Long Gone Lonesome Blues -- Long Road -- Look What You've Done -- Louise, Louise Blues -- Love In Vain Blues -- Love Struck Baby -- Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?) -- Lovin'est Woman In Town -- Loving You -- Lucille -- Mad Man Blues -- Mary Had A Little Lamb -- Matchbox -- Maudie -- Mean Mistreater -- Mean Old Frisco Blues -- Mean Old World -- Mean Woman Blues -- Meet Me (Down At The Bottom) (Down In The Bottom) -- Mellow Down Easy -- Memphis Blues -- Mercury Blues -- Merry Christmas, Baby -- Michigan Water Blues -- Midnight -- The Midnight Special -- Midnight Sun -- Milk Cow Blues -- Mind Your Own Business -- Moanin' At Midnight -- Moanin' For My Baby -- Mule Kicking In My Stall -- My Babe -- My Baby Is Sweeter -- My Baby Left Me -- My Country Sugar Mama -- My First Wife Left Me -- My Home Is On The Delta -- My John The Conquer Root -- My Last Goodbye To You -- My Man Blues -- Mystery Train -- New York Town -- Night Train -- Nine Below Zero -- No Particular Place To Go -- No Place To Go -- Nobody Knows The Way I Feel This Morning -- Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out -- Oh! Darling -- On The Road Again -- One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer -- One More Time -- Ooh Wee -- Paying The Cost To Be The Boss -- Peach Orchard Mama -- Pickpocket Blues -- Pinetop's Blues -- Piney Brown Blues -- Please Help Me Get Him Off My Mind -- Please Send Me Someone To Love -- Poison Ivy -- Pride And Joy -- Prison Bound -- Rain Is Such A Lonesome Sound -- Ramblin' On My Mind -- Reconsider Baby -- Riverside Blues -- Road Runner -- Roberta -- Rock Me Baby -- Rocking Chair Blues -- Roll 'em Pete Rollin' And Tumblin' -- Rollin' Stone (Catfish Blues) -- Royal Garden Blues -- Rusty Dusty Blues -- Saint James Infirmary -- The Same Thing -- San Francisco Bay Blues -- See See Rider -- The Seventh Son -- Shady Lane Blues -- Shake That Thing -- Shipwrecked Blues -- Silver City Bound -- Six Cold Feet Of Ground -- Smokestack Lightning -- Some Of These Days.Something Inside Me -- Sorrowful Blues -- Spoonful -- St. Louis Blues -- Standing Around Crying -- Statesboro Blues -- Steamroller (Steamroller Blues) -- Stella Mae -- Still A Fool -- Still Got The Blues -- Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All The Time) -- Sugar Blues -- Sun's Gonna Shine In My Door -- Sweet Home Chicago -- T-Bone Shuffle -- Tail Dragger -- Tain't Nobody's Biz-ness If I Do -- Take It Easy Baby -- Terraplane Blues -- Texas Flood -- That's All Right -- That's Alright -- That's No Way To Get Along -- They're Red Hot -- Things Ain't What They Used To Be -- This Pain In My Heart -- Three Hours Past Midnight -- Three Hundred Pounds Of Joy -- Three O'Clock Blues -- The Thrill Is Gone -- The Time Seems So Long -- Tin Roof Blues -- Tishomingo Blues -- Tobacco Road -- Tollin' Bells -- Too Young To Die -- Traveling Riverside Blues -- Trouble In Mind -- Trouble No More (Someday Baby) -- Trying To Get Back On My Feet -- Tupelo (Tupelo Blues) -- Twenty Nine Ways To My Baby's Door -- Vicksburg Blues -- Vida Lee -- Walk On -- Walkin' Blues -- Walking Through The Park -- Wang Dang Doodle -- Wasted Life Blues -- Weary Blues -- Wee Baby Blues -- West End Blues -- When The Lights Go Out -- When You Got A Good Friend -- Whiskey And Wimmen -- Who Do You Love -- Who's Been Talking -- Why Don't You Do Right (Get Me Some Money, Too!) -- Why I Sing The Blues -- Woke Up Cold In Hand -- Woman Alone With The Blues -- Worried Life Blues -- Worried Man Blues -- Yellow Dog Blues -- Yer Blues -- You Can't Judge A Book By The Cover -- You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had -- You Don't Have To Go -- You Don't Know My Mind You Gonna Need My Help -- You Know I Got To Do It -- You Know My Love -- You Need Love -- You Shook Me -- Young Fashioned Ways (Old Fashioned Ways) -- Your Funeral My Trial.400 songs, spanning the entire history of the genre. Every major blues artist is represented, including Howlin' Wolf, Robert Johnson, B.B. King, Billie Holiday, Leadbelly, Alberta Hunter, Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Witherspoon, Bessie Smith, Sonny Boy Williamson, and scores of others.
Subjects: Blues (Music); Fakebooks (Music); Lead sheets.; Blues (Music); Blues (Music);
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