Never made recordings you'd love to hear.

Cafe Society
1

I’d love to hear Cry Baby sung by Timi Yuro, no offense to Janis or Garnet.

For those of you too young to remember Timi, here she was. Them was some pipes.

Hows about you?

2

John Lennon’s singing and songwriting was so heavily influenced by Arthur Alexander, and he did wonderful interpretations of Alexander’s “Soldier of Love” and “Anna (Go to Him).”

So it’s curious that, while we have versions by The Stones and The Hollies, The Beatles never attempted Alexander’s “You Better Move On.” Seems to me John could have added an extra bit of menace to the song’s sentiments that even Alexander didn’t.

3

In one of the P.D.Q. Bach albums, in a performance of the Grand Oratorio, “The Seasonings,” there is a fugue – “The Grossest Fugue of All” – and it begins and goes through one iteration of the theme…then is interrupted by the stage manager, who vetoes the rest of the performance.

I would really, really love to hear the whole of that fugue!

4

Buddy Bolden never made a recording. There have been rumors for years of a lost cylinder recording, but most serious collectors doubt it ever existed. I (and many jazz fans) would love to know what he sounded like.

5

I’d like both John Prine and Tom Waits to do albums that are covers of each other’s songs.

6

Good lord yes. The man who invented New Orleans jazz along with Jellyroll Morton and a huge influence on Louis Armstrong, the man himself.

I’d’ve loved to hear plenty old bluesmen/women in their prime - Son House at the height of his powers…

7

I don’t know if there were any recordings made or no, but according to Barry Miles’ biography, before he died Frank Zappa did some sessions with The Chieftains. I would dearly love to hear the results of that.

8

I occasionally think “I’d like to hear artist X do song Y”… some examples:

David Bowie doing “Blues in the Night”
Leon Russell doing “Little Red Riding Hood”
Elvis Costello doing Del Shannon’s “Little Town Flirt”

9

I’d like to hear an album of torch songs/ballads sung by Boy George. Especially, a slow, longing version “I Guess That’s Why They Call it the Blues”. Every cover version of IGTWTCitB I’ve heard preserves the annoying chunk-a-chunk piano playing style of the original. :frowning: