http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-c66SJPuUI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXyk_sAAfyo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FamDsDXosM
I was in a '50s-themed burger joint with my girlfriend yesterday when "Mr. Sandman" started playing over the piped-in music. I know that sort of music was the "cheesiness" that rock and roll was suppoed to have supplanted, but I couldn't help but think how pretty a song it was with its TV-theme-like orchestration and those "bung bung bung" backing vocals. So, after consulting a Billboard reference book this morning and seeing that the song was popular 60 years ago this month in 1954 (in two versions, one by the Chordettes and one by Four Aces) I thought I'd turn it into a salute by seeing if there were any cool versions of it on YouTube. I was not disappointed. Here's an instrumental guitar version from Chet Atkins: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-c66SJPuUI Instrumental again from another group, sped up, and with an accordion! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXyk_sAAfyo I thought The Supremes had cut a version, too. Here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FamDsDXosM
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