Today on Cocktail Capers I pitted the best crooners against each other in a Battle of the Sexes!
1. Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong, “They Can’t Take That Away From Me” – 1956
2. Frank Sinatra, “What’s New” – 1953
3. Billie Holiday, “What’s New” – 1956
4. Chet Baker, “That Old Feeling” – 1954
5. Doris Day, “That Old Feeling” – 1940
6. Quincy Jones, “Desafinado” – 1964
7. Nara Leao, “Desafinado” – 1971
8. Ella Fitzgerald, “I Concentrate On You” – 1956
9. Frank Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim, “I Concentrate on You” – 1967
10. Nina Simone, “One September Day” – 1967
11. Nat King Cole, “September Song” – 1959
12. Sarah Vaughn, “September Song” – 1955
13. Chet Baker, “Embraceable You” – 1957
14. Ella Fitzgerald, “Embraceable You” – 1959
15. John Coltrane, “Like Someone In Love” – 1958
16. Bjork, “Like Someone In Love” – 1993
17. Dean Martin, “Please Don’t Talk About Me (When I’m Gone)” – 1960
18. Billie Holiday, “Please Don’t Talk About Me (When I’m Gone)” -1956
19. Lena Horne, “The Lady is a Tramp” ~ 1940
20. Sammy Davis Jr., “The Lady is a Tramp” – 1963
21. Astrud Gilberto, “Meditation” – 1967
22. Frank Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim, “Meditation” – 1967
23. Dinah Washington, “I Get a Kick Out of You” -1959
24. Louis Armstrong & Oscar Peterson, “I Get a Kick Out of You” – 1957
25. Judy Garland, “Come Rain or Come Shine” – 1955
26. Billie Holiday, “Come Rain or Come Shine” – 1957