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6 songs

In The Jailhouse Now

1928

Recorded in Camden in February 1928, a vaudeville novelty from 1915 that Rodgers claimed forever with one yodel.

★ 5.5

2008 · From For Emma, Forever Ago

In his father's Wisconsin hunting cabin, Vernon shaped the melody wordlessly, then wrote his gambling losses into it.

★ 5.6

Luck Be a LadyFrank Sinatra

1965 · From Reprise Musical Repertory Theatre: Guys and Dolls

Brando sang it in the film while Sinatra played Nathan Detroit; eight years later Sinatra cut it himself.

★ 5.6

1959

An 1895 St. Louis barroom killing, remade by Price into a number one he re-recorded clean for American Bandstand.

★ 6.1

1969 · From The Band

Hudson ran a clavinet through a wah-wah pedal, Helm sang lead, and the single reached number twenty-five.

★ 6.5

1972 · From Exile on Main St.

Taylor on bass, Jimmy Miller drumming the coda, and a lyric Jagger got from a housekeeper who played dice.

★ 7.5