This week I played a number of hit jazz tunes which were so popular that lyrics were added later — sometimes years later — so that singers could add them to their sets. “Holiday For Strings” is an outlier and an anomaly, but if you know Mandy’s version, you know why I couldn’t resist playing it.
SONG TITLE / Artist / CD Or Album Title
- SATIN DOLL / Nancy Wilson/Gerald Wilson / “Yesterday’s Love Songs/Today’s Blues”
- MISTY / Billy Eckstine / “No Cover, No Minimum”
- WALTZ FOR DEBBY / (Mystery Pianist) Chevy Chase / “Here’s A Song Vol. 2”
- WALTZ FOR DEBBY / Tony Bennett/Bill Evans / “The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album”
- STOLEN MOMENTS / Betty Carter/Carmen McRae / “Duets”
- MOANIN’ / (Mystery Vocalist) / Vikki Carr / “The Ultimate Collection”
- LIKE YOUNG / Mark Winkler / “Easy The Hard Way”
- HOLIDAY FOR STRINGS / Mandy Patinkin / “Kidults”
- A CHILD IS BORN / The Real Group / “UnReal”
- WHAT’S YOUR STORY MORNING GLORY / Kristin Korb / “What’s Your Story?”
- DAT DERE / Oscar Brown Jr. / “Sin And Soul”
- DAT DERE / Louise Rogers / “Bop Boo Day”
- MOOD INDIGO / Sarah Vaughan / “Duke Ellington Songbook Vol.2”
- PARIS MISMATCH / (Theme Music) / Cody Owen Stine / (Unreleased Master)
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