I'd go for Louis and Ella, easily, but no love for the Cal Tjader?!
― Le passé, non seulement n'est pas fugace, il reste sur place (Michael White), Tuesday, 21 January 2014 21:14 (ten years ago) link
http://bandwidth.wamu.org/remembering-billy-stewart-and-van-mccoy-two-lesser-known-d-c-music-legends/
includes link to a live version by Billy Stewart that's on Youtube
“Billy did jazz, Billy did blues, he did lots of things that fit his style of music,” Ruffin says. “The thing that excited him most was when he did George Gershwin.”
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 28 June 2016 16:34 (seven years ago) link
Billy Stewart has Pete Cosey on a lot of his sides too. Love that stuff.Also several live versions by Big Brother & Holding co thanks to that destructive James Gurley guitar.& that Zombies version is one I always loved.Would have been good by the Doors too.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 28 June 2016 17:55 (seven years ago) link
love this george shearing version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSnsSDoQWlI
― brimstead, Tuesday, 28 June 2016 19:08 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF_kIV1Dnmw
― hypnic jerk (rushomancy), Tuesday, 28 June 2016 19:16 (seven years ago) link
L. Ron Hubbardtime
― tylerw, Tuesday, 28 June 2016 19:25 (seven years ago) link
Lots of choice cuts listed already, Doc & Merle Watson's version might also be added:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPpf3FLjuMs
― bodacious ignoramus, Tuesday, 28 June 2016 22:37 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSOU6A-D_Co
― the event dynamics of power asynchrony (rushomancy), Monday, 11 July 2016 10:56 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cab-A_W7rHE
― Mark G, Monday, 11 July 2016 11:05 (seven years ago) link
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/514533/city-lights-watch-fat-boy-the-billy-stewart-story/
Billy Stewart doc on PBS website
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 April 2021 04:15 (two years ago) link
Zombies
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 16 April 2021 05:13 (two years ago) link
Another vote for Sidney Bechet.
― Double Elvis on the Dime (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 16:08 (one year ago) link
Billie's is great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THflqYOqm3A
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 7 June 2022 16:13 (one year ago) link
many versions are objectively better, but my favorite is still the first I heard:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC_Ghf3OPnw
― Brad C., Tuesday, 7 June 2022 16:59 (one year ago) link
RIght now this one, since it just popped up. Hank Mobley.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DTJTjC0fpA
― The Original Human Beat Surrender (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 June 2023 20:02 (nine months ago) link
I'm probably the only person on Earth who dislikes this tune. I think I was neutral on it until Arkology, on which there are like four consecutive versions of it on one of the discs. One is too many
― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 4 June 2023 20:13 (nine months ago) link
What’s there to dislike?
― calstars, Sunday, 4 June 2023 20:24 (nine months ago) link
Paul try this, seriously it rules:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pxbr9GXZoI
― brimstead, Sunday, 4 June 2023 20:26 (nine months ago) link