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 Kay Starr, Billy Butterfield & His Orchestra - ‘December’

Bai Guang (birth name Chinese: 史永芬; pinyin: Shǐ Yǒngfēn; - ’ Waiting For You’ (1947)

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 Kay Starr, Billy Butterfield & His Orchestra - ‘December’

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The Puppini  Sisters - ’ Wuthering Heights’ (2006)

Una Mae Carlisle - ‘Oh, I’m Evil’ (1941)

Sarah Vaughan - ’ Hot And Cold Running Tears’ (1956)

Koop feat Yukimi Nagano - ‘I See A Different You’ (2007)

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Kay Starr - ‘Honey’ (1940-1947?)

This is the said song I added to my play, knew I had posted it before. The song at first is very unassuming standard but the more you listen to it, it’s really quite a wonderful song (first written in 1928). It’s sung by the innamorati of the play, not the ornery leads. Given that one of the innamorati is a baker and all my characters have names that are spices, herbs or food, and there is an in-story puff pastry incident the title of the song is very fitting.

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Claude Thornhill & His Orchestra - ‘Snowfall’ (1941)

I thought following May-Day and that primal spring itch that people get this first week of May, I thought I’d give one last send off to Winter.

Note this “sweet” jazz group’s theme song sounds more like prototypal “cool-jazz” with sparse moody classical flourishes and musicality, a style that really wouldn’t develop until ten, fifteen years later in the 1950’s.

Picture is by Edmund Dulac,‘Gerta And The Reindeer’ 

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Kay Starr - ‘December’
Perhaps one of the prettiest holiday songs…ever…and yet it’s one generally no one knows at all.

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The Puppini Sisters - Last Christmas (2010) They managed to make one of the worst Christmas songs into something incredibly classy.

This is still best cover of this song I’ve heard and it renders the original obsolete.
Not that the original is listenable to begin with (for me). It should be a new classic as it pretty much destroys any bit of 80’s sound from the song and pushes it into The Great American Songbook standards type of territory. 

Kay Starr - ‘Honey’ (1940-1947?)