Round about Midnight
Thelonious Monk, Composer
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[Three paths...]
Thelonious Monk
Wes Montgomery, guitarist
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The song was given a dramatic shift by Bernie Henighen and Clarence Williams, creating a vocalese staple of the jazz world. The title morphed to Round Midnight
Sarah Vaughan & Dizzy Gillespie
Scarborough Fair
(Traditional)
... songs to live by ...
Marianne Faithfull
Hayley Westenra
Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel
Run On
(Traditional)
... songs to live by ...
Moby
Johnny Cash
Elvis Presley
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ah well, well...
I'm So Glad
Skip James, Composer
... songs to live by ...
Beck
(from The Soul of a Man, film, directed by Wim Wenders)
Cream
Skip James
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James is an original - gifted and haunting - a master of the Delta blues.
Because the Night
Patti Smith & Bruce Springsteen , Composers
... songs to live by ...
10,000 Maniacs
Bruce Springsteen
Patti Smith Group
If we believe in the night we trust
Take Me to the River
Al Green & Mabon Hodges, Composers
... songs to live by ...
Talking Heads, with Adrian Belew
Live in Rome
Warren Haynes (of Gov't Mule) and Grace Potter
Al Green
Take me to the river
And wash me down
Won't you cleanse my soul
Put my feet on the ground
A Night in Tunisia
Dizzy Gillespie & Frank Paparelli, Composers
... music to live by ...
- as Another Night in Tunisia
The Manhattan Transfer, with Bobby McFerrin & Jon Hendricks
- from their Vocalese recordings
Elvin Jones Trio
Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus & Max Roach
- live, Toronto, 1953
(...as strong a group of musicians on one stage as is possible)
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According to Allmusic.com, the song has been recorded by various artists or released in separate format at least 797 times. And I’m sure there are others.
It is, absolutely, on my short list of necessary songs.
Four Strong Winds
Ian Tyson, Composer
... songs to live by ...
Neil Young, with Willie Nelson
Johnny Cash
Ian Tyson
Four strong winds that blow lonely
Seven seas that run high
All those things that don't change come what may.
Summertime
George Gershwin, DuBose Heyward, & Ira Gershwin, Composers
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Janis Joplin, Big Brother and the Holding Company
Keith Jarrett
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
One of these mornings
You're going to rise up singing
Then you'll spread your wings
And you'll take to the sky
Eleanor Rigby
John Lennon & Paul McCartney, composers
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Aretha Franklin
Godhead
The Beatles
All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?
Hallelujah
Leonard Cohen, Composer
... music to live by ...
K D Lang
Jeff Buckley
Leonard Cohen
I did my best, it wasn’t much
I couldn’t feel, so I tried to touch
I’ve told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you
