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Topic: What makes a song a "standard"?

  1st Nov 2021, 4:32 PM
23skidoo

Member since Jul 2014
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zabadak wrote:
and in this day of recorded music, standards can be killed. one version can so embed itself in the popular mind, that it becomes the only version - the righteous brothers' single of ''you've lost that loving feeling'' killed all others stone dead, even cilla black's, that made it into the charts before theirs was even released in the uk...

Angel of the Morning is another example. Everyone thinks of the Juice Newton version from the 80s but the versions by Billie Davis and Evie Sands from the 1960s are definitive. Standards can also be "killed" in other ways as some songs considered standards for decades are now considered politically incorrect due to including lyrics that people consider offensive today.

EDIT: removed accidental attribution

Edited by 23skidoo on 4th Nov 2021, 8:02 PM

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