"Joel Olson" <joel_olson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Joel Olson" <joel_olson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> How do you define it?
>> Now many songs?
>>
> Wikpedia gives:
> A jazz standard is a jazz tune that is held in continuing esteem and
which
> is widely known, performed, and recorded among jazz musicians as part of
> the jazz musical repertoire. There is no definitive list of jazz
> standards, and the list of songs deemed to be "jazz standards" changes
> over time. Moreover, there are different jazz standards for the
different
> musical styles and subgenres that make up jazz, such as swing, bebop,
and
> fusion.
>
> And a link to
http://digitaldreamdoor.nutsie.com/pages/best_bluesong.html
>
So we not only have a repertoire for each subgenre of blues, but also for
each era (perhaps 2 decades?), to be determined by 1. esteem/popularity,
2. breadth of dispersion, 3. frequency of performance, and 4. frequency of
being recorded.
So how pragmatic are these criteria?
The first, esteem, has often been addressed in this newsgroup, sometimes
even for specific subgenres. The second, dispersion of a song, is I
suppose
a matter of foreign musicians and their contributions. The third
criterion,
frequency of performance would require collecting a large number of play-
lists from live venues, clearly requiring a team effort.
So, for the typical individual, it comes down to how often a particular
song
has been recorded, to be determined by the recordings to which he has
access.
The question then arises as to how many times a tune must be covered in
order to demonstrate its establiment in the "repertoire". Given the small
pro****tion of the total recorded works that I can access, I estimate that
if
I see a tune 3 times, it likely occurs elsewhere many more, and is, in
fact,
a "known" blues tune.
So I've counted up the coverings in a sample of about 9,000 songs, and
came out with this listing, beginning with songs occurring 5 or more
times:
05 - 44 Blues
05 - Big Legged Woman
05 - Catfish Blues
05 - Christine
05 - Cocaine
05 - Country Girl
05 - Diddy Wah Diddy
05 - Diggin' My Potatoes
05 - Don't Start Me Talking
05 - Driving Wheel
05 - Evil
05 - Fannie Mae
05 - Going Home
05 - Hard Hearted Woman
05 - How Many More Years
05 - I Ain't Got You
05 - I Had A Dream
05 - I'm In The Mood
05 - Jambalaya
05 - John Henry
05 - Juke
05 - Just To Be With You
05 - Killing Floor
05 - Kind Hearted Woman
05 - Match Box Blues
05 - Mean Old World
05 - Mean Ole Frisco
05 - Mystery Train
05 - Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
05 - One Room Country Shack
05 - Please Send Me Someone to Love
05 - Shake 'em on Down
05 - Sittin' On Top Of The World
05 - So Many Roads So Many Trains
05 - Take It Easy
05 - Te-Ni-Nee-Ni-Nu
05 - Teardrops From My Eyes
05 - The Thrill Is Gone
05 - The Train I Ride
05 - Turn On Your Love Light
05 - Wang Dang Doodle
05 - Weeping Willow
05 - Whole Lotta Loving
05 - Woke up This Morning
05 - You Don't Have to Go
06 - Blues With A Feeling
06 - Boom Boom
06 - Born Under A Bad Sign
06 - Careless Love
06 - Come Back Baby
06 - Have A Good Time
06 - Hi-Heel Sneakers
06 - I Want To Know
06 - I'd Rather Go Blind
06 - I'm A Man
06 - Little Boy Blue
06 - Look On Yonder Wall
06 - Louisiana Blues
06 - St. James Infirmary
06 - Tell Me Baby
06 - The Dirty Dozens
06 - The Sky Is Crying
06 - Candy Man
07 - Boogie Chillen
07 - Caldonia
07 - Corrina, Corrina
07 - Everthings Gonna Be Alright
07 - Every Day I Have The Blues
07 - Frankie and Johnny
07 - Let The Good Times Roll
07 - Mean Mistreater Mama
07 - Poor Boy
07 - Reconsider Baby
07 - That's All Right
07 - The Things That I Used To Do
07 - Worried Life Blues
07 - You Don't Love Me
08 - Early In The Morning
08 - I'm Ready
08 - It Hurts Me Too
08 - Messin' With The Kid
08 - Rock Me - 8
08 - Smoke Stack Lightning
08 - Stagger Lee
08 - Statesboro Blues
08 - Sweet Home Chicago
08 -Trouble In Mind
09 - All Your Love
09 - C.C. Rider
09 - Dust My Broom
09 - Hide Away
09 - Sugar Mama
10 - Ain't Nobody's Business
10 - Big Boss Man
10 - Rollin' and Tumblin'
10 - Spoonfull
10 - St. Louis Blues
10 - Walkin' Blues
11 - Bring It on Home
11 - Help Me
11 - Hoochie Coochie Man
11 - I Just Want To Make Love To You
11 - Stormy Monday
12 - Pinetop's Boogie Woogie
13 - Good Morning Little School Girl
13 - How Long
14 - Little Red Rooster
14 - Rock Me Baby
15 - Got My Mojo Workin
15 - Key To The Highway
16 - Goin' Down Slow
Many of your favorites not in this list?
Maybe they were only covered 4 times:
After Hours - 4
Backwater Blues - 4
Big Road Blues - 4
Blue Mood - 4
Bo Diddley - 4
Buzz Me - 4
Bye Bye, Baby - 4
California Blues - 4
Chicken Shack - 4
Country Boy - 4
Crossroad Blues - 4
Down South Blues - 4
Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee - 4
Freight Train - 4
Hellhound On My Trail - 4
Hey Baby - 4
Hobo Blues - 4
Honey Bee - 4
Honky Tonk - 4
I Can Tell - 4
I Don't Know - 4
I Got a Woman - 4
I Wonder - 4
I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town - 4
Johnny B Goode - 4
Kansas City - 4
Keep It To Yourself - 4
Lonesome Train - 4
Louise - 4
Love Her With A Feeling - 4
Me And My Chauffeur - 4
Mojo Boogie - 4
Motherless Children - 4
Mule Skinner Blues - 4
My Love Will Never Die - 4
Ramblin' On My Mind - 4
Reap What You Sow - 4
Selling That Stuff - 4
Shake Your Money Maker - 4
Sloppy Drunk - 4
Stand By Me - 4
Still A Fool - 4
Summertime - 4
Telephone Blues - 4
The Last Time - 4
These Arms Of Mine - 4
Think - 4
Third Degree - 4
Tip On In - 4
Tom Cat Blues - 4
Walking By Myself - 4
Walking The Dog - 4
Who's Been Talkin' - 4
Wine-O - 4
56 Songs
And then there are the three-somes:
All Night Long
At Last
Baby Please Don't Go
Baby What You Want Me To Do
Bad Boy
Bad Luck Blues
Basin St. Blues
Beedle Um Bum
Blow Wind Blow
Blue Monday
Brown Skin Woman
Bumble Bee Blues
Can't Hold Out Much Longer
Checkin' Up On My Baby
Crawlin' King S****
Crosscut Saw
Cryin' Shame
Cut You Loose
Decoration Day
Dimples
Doin' It
Don't Cry Baby
Don't Go No Farther
Double Trouble
Down The Road Apiece
Early Every Morning
Early Morning Blues
Early One Morning
Feeling Good
Five Long Years
Going to Chicago
Goodbye, My Lady
Got To Find My Baby
Guitar Boogie
Hard Times
Hey Little Girl
Honest I Do
Honky Tonk Train Blues
Hot Tamale Baby
Hound Dog
House Of Blue Lights
Howlin' For My Darling
Hoy Hoy
I Almost Lost My Mind
I Can't Be Satisfied
I Done Got Over
I Love The Life I Live, I Live The Life I Love
I Need Your Love
I Put a Spell on You
I Want To Be Loved
I Wonder Why
I'm A Blues Man
Jack O' Diamonds
Jelly Roll Baker
Just A Little Bit
Last Fair Deal Gone Down
Last Night
Late Last Night
Let It Rock
Lies
Little By Little
Little Wing
Lonesome Road
Long Gone
Look What You've Done
M & O Blues
Mailbox Blues
Mama Talk To Your Daughter
Mary Don't You Weep
Me and Bobby McGee
Mellow Down Easy
Midnight Special
Millennium Blues
Monday Morning Blues
Muddy Water
Mustang Sally
My Babe
My Way
One More Day
One Step Ahead
Palace Of The King
Pick A Bale Of Cotton
Pony Blues
Prison Bound Blues
Queen Bee
Rainin' In My Heart
Rainy Day
Ridin' On The L&N
Riot In Cell Block No. 9
Roadrunner
Roberta
Rock Island Line
Rock This House
Santa Fe Blues
Screamin' And Cryin'
Shake a Hand
Shake For Me
Shake, Rattle & Roll
She Walks Right In
She's Tough
Skinny Woman
Smack Dab In The Middle
Sneakin' Around
So Long
Someday
Someday Baby
S****tin' Life Blues
Stormy Weather
Swanee River
Sweet Black Angel
Sweet Little Angel
Sweet Little Sixteen
T-Bone Shuffle
Talkin' About You
Tell It Like It Is
Tell Me
Terraplane Blues
The Entertainer
The House Of The Rising Sun
The Same Thing
The Stumble
Tin Pan Alley
Tollin' Bells
Too Many Drivers
Tore Down
Trouble No More
Wade In The Water
Walk On
Wee Baby Blues
When I Am Gone
When The Saints Go Marching In
Wrap It Up
You Can't Get That Stuff No More
You Can't Judge a Book
You Got It
You Rascal You
You're So Fine
You're the One
140 Tunes
And I still think this list has missed a lot of well-known tunes.
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