BOTD, 1939: Marlena Shaw (d. 2024). From her debut LP, a cover of "Matchmaker, Matchmaker" from "Fiddler on the Roof."
#1001CoverSongs
Song # 692:
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Rest in peace, Chad Gilbert. Signing off with a tune from his Shai Hulud years: a cover of SFA's "Gyroscope."
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Song # 691:
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BOTD, 1921: jazz drummer Chico Hamilton (d. 2013). His run of Impulse LPs with Gabor Szabo were impeccably grooving. Check out their version of "People," from the musical "Funny Girl."
#1001CoverSongs
Song # 690:
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Signing off with a tune I played last night on KXLU: the Merseybeats' version of the Bacharach / David '60s hit "Wishin' and Hopin'."
#1001CoverSongs
Song # 689:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=oHYW...

Born 105 years ago today: Billy Ward (d. 2002). Check out his version of the Hoagy Carmichael standard, "Stardust."
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Song # 688:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=rHRt...

If you ever see a copy of Freda's jazz vocal LP on Impulse on sale for less than an exorbitant amount, get it! It includes this version of Ornette Coleman's "Lonely Woman."
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Song # 687:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=BD3p...

Signing off with a tune Fred Kiko played tonight on KXLU: Joel Jerome singing the Kinks' "Waterloo Sunset."
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Song # 686:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y8Z...

Remembering Jimmie Rodgers (the "Honeycomb" man, not the Singing Brakeman or the Chess bluesman), on the 93rd anniversary of his birth. J.R. grazed the charts with a version of the Australian folk song "Waltzing Matilda." He died in 2021.
#1001CoverSongs
Song # 685:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=WAUH...

Happy 65th birthday to Sexton Ming! Behold the most damaged Bo Diddley cover in existence.
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Song # 684:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=_q6K...

Shirley Bassey was #1001CoverSongs song # 683 if you were keeping score at home.

BOTD, 1921 and christened John Roland Redd: the reinvented Korla Pandit (d. 1998). Check out his version of the Jacob Gade standard, "Jalousie."
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Song # 682:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=97G4...

Born 101 years ago today: Riley King, better known as the Blues Boy, best known as B.B. King, died May 14, 2015. From his underrated "B.B. King Sings Spirituals," a version of the black gospel hymn "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot."
#1001CoverSongs
Song # 681:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=d1o1...

Happy 78th birthday to Kenney Jones! From his time in the Faces, a cover of Marvin Rainwater's "Whole Lotta Woman."
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Song # 680:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=aagy...

Signing off with New Zealander noisemongers the Dead C covering T. Rex's "Children of the Revolution."
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Song # 679:
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Damaso Pérez Prado passed away 37 years ago today at the age of 72, leaving behind a legacy of: he could make any tune swing, hard. Check out his rendition of the Ziegfeld Follies tune "Peg o' My Heart."
#1001CoverSongs
Song # 678:
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BOTD, 1918: Rockabilly / country singer Malcolm Yelvington, whose repertoire included a cover of Stick McGhee's paean to clena living, "Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee." Malcolm died in 2001.
#1001CoverSongs
Song # 677:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=acx4...

Happy 84th birthday to Joey Heatherton! From 1972, her version of Brenda Lee's "I'm Sorry."
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Song # 676:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=F6Sg...

In honor of the departed Cheetah Chrome, I'm signing off with the Dead Boys' version of the Rolling Stones' "Tell Me."
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Song # 675:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkaf...

BOTD, 1939: composer & arranger Gene Page (d. 1998); his hits included "Harlem Shuffle" & "The In Crowd." He also cut a disco version of the "Star Trek" theme.
#1001CoverSongs
Song # 674:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=5Puk...

Mel Torme, born 101 years ago today, heard here singing Ellington's "Don't Get Around Much Anymore." The Velvet Fog passed away in 1999.
#1001CoverSongs
Song # 673:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bjjl...