Itunes can do funny things to you. Before I had all my music on my computer, I would never have been able to work out which song I have most different recordings of. I would have wondered, but I never would have actually been able to work it out.
I assumed the answer would be Yesterday - as that is, I believe, the most recorded song of all time. But I've only got four different recordings of that in my collection - The Beatles, Paul McCartney doing a later, live version, Ray Charles and Oscar Peterson.
I have five different recordings of Summertime: Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Gary Burton, Oscar Peterson and, weirdly, Peter Gabriel.
But so far, the surprise winner is Georgia On My Mind. I have six different recordings of it. I'm still looking for other songs that I might have loads of different times, so feel free to suggest titles I should search for.
Meanwhile, how about guessing which 6 recordings I have?
5 comments:
I just found out I have six different recordings of 'All The Things You Are' as well.
My six 'Georgias': Ray Charles, Hoagy Carmichael, John Scofield, Oscar Peterson, Django Reinhardt and Ben Webster.
So, surprisingly little overlap!
Just noticed this in this weeks Front Row email newsletter...
> The shelves of the BBC music library contain hundreds of different
> versions of George Gershwin's song Summertime and on Thursday Kirsty
> Lang investigates its long-standing popularity, which has even led
> one club promoter to ban singers from performing it.
www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/frontrow
Yes, Summertime is definitely over-performed. Great song, but I won't play it at gigs. In fact, the only version I'll listen to (despite owning 5 different versions) is the INCREDIBLE Oscar Peterson version that you'll find by typing B0000C435N into the search box at amazon.co.uk.
Just to complete the picture, I just found 6 different recordings of each of the following: 'Tenderly', 'Perdido' and 'Solitude'.
Come to think of it, type B0000046LU into the amazon.co.uk search box and get the whole set.
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