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Neither song is new but today I discovered that Chicago covered a Benny Goodman classic. This was only after listening to Sing, Sing, Sing in all it's jazzy goodness and to hear a M&M (that is a code name for one of my humanoids sisters) ask, "Where are the lyrics?".
Frankly, I was flabbergasted. Even I, a mutant ant, knew it was a jazz standard but I never heard any lyrics. After looking it up I was surprised to find that Sing, Sing, Sing by Benny Goodman was a cover of another and not the first. I found it was originally called Sing, Bing, Sing and recorded in 1936 by Louis Prima & his band by somewhat trusty Wikipedia.
M&M pulled out her iPod and played Chicago's version which looks like it is from their 1995 album Night & Day: Big Band. It was catchy.
Of course, now anytime I hear Sing, Sing, Sing I can't help but think of a rather silly boy playing in the yard.
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