Memorable Songs: Originals vs. Covers - Part 1
“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery” is an old proverb that is probably never truer than in the field of popular music. Songs such as Rodgers and Hart’s “Where or When,” George and Ira Gershwin’s “Someone to Watch Over Me,” and Meredith Willson’s “Till There Was You,” all have been recorded several hundred times by a variety of artists after the release of the original version. In this presentation we will be able to contrast a prominent cover of a song from the Great American Songbook with the original version and examine how changes in tempo and arrangement may, in some cases, have even made it better.
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