Spoon : Tear Me Down [ purchase ] Bonnie Pink : The Origin of Love [ purchase ] Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a glam-rock musical writ...

Bronski Beat : It Ain't Necessarily So [ purchase ] Aretha Franklin : It Ain't Necessarily So [ purchase ] Porgy and Bess , ...

The Lemonheads: Frank Mills [ purchase ] There have been many covers of the various groovy pop hits from Hair, the sixties celebrational mu...

Sammy Davis Jr : I’ve Gotta Be Me “I’ve Gotta Be Me” was a surprise #11 hit for Sammy Davis Jr in early 1969, while it still featured in a n...

Nina Simone : Pirate Jenny [ purchase ] Most of the songs this week have come from Broadway, and, in a sense, Pirate Jenny is no except...

TheAudience: There Are Worse Things I Could Do [ Purchase ] I've always sort of believed that seeing the movie "Grease" was s...

Dolly Parton : I Get a Kick Out of You [ purchase ] Anything Goes is a classic musical from 1934. The songs are by Cole Porter, and the...

John Coltrane : My Favorite Things [ purchase ] Musicals are not really my thing to say the least, but when the great jazz cats ran away wit...

Pearl Jam: Millworker [live, 2004] Emmylou Harris: Millworker [ purchase ] Lavinia Ross: Millworker [ purchase ] I posted the author's ...

Girls From Mars : Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen [ purchase ] Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen is probably best known as the song that made stars of the ...

Johnny Clegg : Asimbonanga (Mandela) [ purchase ] I've posted Johnny Clegg once before . I was poking at Any Major Dude to post t...

Jim Hall : Concierto de Aranjuez (Adagio) [ purchase ] Like many good tales, this one starts with a garden. The gardens at the Palacio Re...

Amália Rodrigues : Fado Marujo [ purchase ] To me, Portuguese has always been the language of fado . The old, seemingly timeless music from...

Rachid Taha : Rock el Casbah [ purchase ] I’m cheating a bit with this post. Looking at the title of the song, you might think the cheat is ...

Dir en grey : Akuro no Oka [ purchase ] If I hadn't already been a fan, Dir en grey would have my affection for being the only top ...

Tania Maria : Ta Tudo Certo - Mas Que Nada [ purchase ] Tania Maria (not to be confused with R&B singer Teena Marie) is a renowned Braz...

Muluqèn Mèlèssè & Dahlak Band : Bèné Mote [ purchase ] In the years between the end days of emperor Haile Selassie's reign in the si...

Tenpole Tudor : Wunderbar [ purchase ] Tenpole Tudor was – and still is – a British band that emerged from the 1970s punk rock scen...

Nell : Hyeonshileui Hyeonshil (Reality of Realities) [ purchase ] Darius might as well have sent up a flare this week saying, "Geo...

David Byrne : Loco De Amor [ purchase ] I have found Salsa music tremendously exciting since I first heard it. But there was also a cer...