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Thursday, October 6, 2016

10 Ballads (Almost) No One Sings

Most of the best ballads are covered endlessly, but somehow, a few beauties have managed to slip the noose and have not been ground into dust by endless repetition.

I realize a post like this is like a person giving away a person's favorite secret swimming hole, but I know my elite and discreet readership can keep a secret.

I have ordered them from what I think are the most to the least recorded.













The song itself is sandwiched in between very non-ballad sounds and starts about 4:00 in






3 comments:

john said...

I woulda had "For the want of a kiss" and "You taught my heart to sing"... I'm just sayin' is all...

your jazz host pal in Olympia,
John (KAOS-fm) Ford

Steve Provizer said...

Sounds good to me.

roger hunter said...

Nat cole singing " where can i go without you" and then listen to Keith Jarrett's version.