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These Are the 50 Most Covered Songs of All Time
By Angela Underwood, Stacker News
On 1/17/21 at 11:00 AM EST
If you agree with the old proverb that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then cover songs serve as tributes to their original artists. Sometimes, a cover version vastly outshined its original. Such is the case with Summertime, originally written for the 1935 George Gershwin opera
Porgy and Bess, which Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong put a jazz spin on in 1957 to make it an international hit.
To learn more about the most covered songs in musical history, Stacker mined data from WhoSampled.com, whose goal is to build the most comprehensive database for music. The site features more than 653,000 songs and more than 215,000 artists as of February 26, 2020. Aside from Beatles tunes, Christmas music accounts for a number of the most covered songs, including Bing Crosby s White Christmas in 1942: the second-most covered holiday song with more than 50 mill
on December 17, 2020 at 10:00 am
Love ‘em or hate ‘em, Christmas music has been an integral part of the Holiday season for many decades. The wide range of styles and genres go from lively jazz to pop billboard hits and with such a wide selection, there’s something for everyone.
We all know what we hear the most, but which are the best Christmas songs?
There’s a lot of controversies and heated debate surrounding Christmas music, although a few songs are clearly in the running for “greatest Christmas song.” But because this music is so subjective, and in the spirit of cold, hard journalism, I turned to the facts to bring you the definitive list of greatest Christmas hits of all time.