Wednesday 30 July 2008

The letter F

There is a partial theme with the first three tracks this week - songs that were made famous not by the original performer. Everyone knows Peggy Lee's version of Fever and Roberta Flack's The First time I ever saw your face was her breakthrough track. However, the former is credited to Eddie Cooley and John Davenport (aka Otis Blackwell); and the latter was written by Ewan MacColl  for his wife Peggy Seeger. Fly me to the moon was written by Bart Howard for Felicia Saunders in 1954, first recorded by Kaye Ballard in the same year - but it's this swing version recorded a full 10 years later by the great man himself we all know and love.

The letter F

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