Eternal Songs Kaleidoscope　佳曲萬華鏡

Careful 12 : The Tennessee Waltz / Patti Page

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さてそんなペイジのみならず、“Tennessee Waltz”をとりあげたアーティストはいろいろ。というわけで、主なヴァージョンを一覧表にしてみましょう。

まずは、Billboardでポップ・ヒットしたものを。

1950 Patti Page (#1)

1951 Jo Stafford (#7)

1951 Les Paul and Mary Ford (#6)

1951 The Fontane Sisters (#20)

1951 Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians (#6)

1951 Spike Jones & His City Slickers (#13)

1951 Anita O’Day with The All Stars (#24)

1959 Bobby Comstock & The Counts (#52)

1959 Jerry Fuller (#63)

1961 Don Robertson (#117)

1964 Sam Cooke (#35)

©Billboard

次は極初期の重要曲を。

1948 The Golden West Cowboys

1948 Cowboy Copas

1949 Roy Acuff

1950 Erskine Hawkins and His Orchestra <vocal : Ace Harris>

1951 Stick McGhee and His Buddies

1951 Petula Clark

1952 Chiemi Eri

ほかに極一部ですが、次の様なスターもパフォーマンス。

Hank Williams / Connie Francis / Alma Cogan / Ella Fitzgerald / Sammy Kaye / Slim Whitman / Floyd Cramer / Mose Allison / Carl Perkins / Tennessee Ernie Ford / Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass / The Ames Brothers / Eddy Arnold / The Mills Brothers / Gus Backus / Pat Boone / The Peanuts / David Allan Coe / The Everly Brothers / Percy Faith / Lawrence Welk / Jim Reeves / King Curtis / The Shadows / Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas / Ernest Tubb & The Texas Troubadors / Charlie Daniels / Dr. John / Ramsey Lewis Trio / Otis Redding / Elvis Presley / Manfred Mann / Hank Williams Jr. / Faron Young / Anne Murray / Dotty West / Stephane Grappelli / Kikki Danielsson / Machito / Lacy J. Dalton / Emmylou Harris / Dolly Parton / James Brown / Leonard Cohen / Sonny Rollins / Chuck Jackson & Maxine Brown / Shawn Colvin / Ry Cooder / Holly Cole / Cybill Shepherd / Leon Russell / Cassandra Wilson & Jacky Terrasson / The Chieftains featuring Tom Jones / Andre Rieu / Joel Harrison featuring Norah Jones

*ノラ・ジョーンズはボニー・レイットと共にパフォーマンスしたものもDVDで観られますね。