What Are the Most Under-recorded Standards?

[Brownian Motion]

I've always liked the standard "I Won't Dance", music by Jerome Kern. Django Reinhart and Art Tatum recorded it, but give the quality of the melody and the tricky bridge I'm surprised more musicians haven't tackled it.

Others?

[Jazz Kat]

I dont know, they were never recorded.

[Dan Gould]

I dont know, they were never recorded. 

Yeah, this seems like an odd category: the music has to be played and recorded by lots of people to become a standard in the first place, doesn't it?

"I Won't Dance" was recorded on one of the Ella & Louis collaborations, btw.

"I Should Care" is a personal favorite, I don't think its been over-recorded, though. Mobley's version is definitive, for me.

Edited February 21, 2005 by Dan Gould

[Brownian Motion]

It's true that it needs to be played, but it doesn't necessarily need to be played by jazz musicians to achieve standard-hood[!]. But maybe we should amend the thread title to "Songs That Should Have Become Jazz Standards But Didn't".

[AllenLowe]

Strangers inthe Afternoon

All the Things You Ain't

What is this thing Called, Love?

Queasy Living

I Hear Shaun Cassidy

But Not For Us

It's Easier to Forget

[SGUD missile]

Last Night when we were young

Ill Wind

I didnt know what time it was

Daydream

Everything I've got ( Cole Porter ..who incidenatally wrote "I wont dance" as well , I believe )

Change Partners

Lazy Afternoon

Then I'll be tired of You

The meaning of the Blues

and from the "younger" masters

All in Love is fair

Too High

Sir Duke

[Jazz Kat]

It's true that it needs to be played, but it doesn't necessarily need to be played by jazz musicians to achieve standard-hood[!]. But maybe we should amend the thread title to "Songs That Should Have Become Jazz Standards But Didn't".

My first post was just a joke. I got what you were saying. You would say I Hear A Rhapsody is a standard right? Of course. But is it recorded as much as My Funny Valentine? No. I got you. I was just playing, you dont have to change no title.

[Jazzmoose]

Beat on the Brat

[Free For All]

Beat on the Brat

Young and Foolish B-)

[cannonball-addict]

I second the motion on Dan Gould's pick, "I Should Care."

Also:

What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life (Legrand-Bergman/Bergman)

Takin' a Chance on Love (Vernon Duke)

Have You Met Miss Jones (under-recorded these days)

When Lights Are Low

songs from Porgy & Bess that are not "Summertime"

Squeeze Me

[Joe]

I'll never tire of hearing this one.

[ghost of miles]

Irving Berlin's "What'll I Do." Sinatra does a nice version on the Columbia box, and somebody contemporary--Tierney Sutton, I think--has a very good interpretation out. Haven't AMG'd it, but it's not one I've heard played/sung into the ground. (Not on the Ella BERLIN SONGBOOK set, which doesn't surprise me; I can't really imagine hearing her do this.)

[Soul Stream]

A song I love that I don't hear a lot of is "Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most."

[GA Russell]

When Sunny Gets Blue.

My favorite is Kenny Rankin's.