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    Posted: March 06 2020 at 09:42
Originally posted by LAM-SGC LAM-SGC wrote:

I just checked up on this, as it isn't a subject I've ever even thought about before, and Summertime is listed as No. 6 and Yesterday is No. 1.


If you are referring to the linked article above, it doesn't say the songs are ranked in any particular order. Just that they are 10 of the most covered song. The article doesn't even say 'the 10 most'covered song. They might not all be in the top 10 because it doesn't specify how many most covered songs were considered.
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Originally posted by Grumpyprogfan Grumpyprogfan wrote:

Over the Rainbow

This would have been my guess.
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Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:

ForestFriend got it right; it is "Summertime"
 
What's the source for this?
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I would have guessed Summertime too, although I suspect that with the immense amount of music that gets recorded each day and all that which keeps getting discovered in vaults, people will continue to be divided on what the actual answer is.
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I read once that The House of the Rising Sun is the most covered song since 1933.

There are 20 versions just in Spanish
            
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I just checked up on this, as it isn't a subject I've ever even thought about before, and Summertime is listed as No. 6 and Yesterday is No. 1.

Edited by LAM-SGC - March 05 2020 at 17:51
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https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/20811/most-covered-songs-in-music-history

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Yes, the Big Brother cover hint gave it away for me. Fun to consider the various responses.  Wonderful question and good trivia knowledge, though, thank you!
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Ah right, just sae your answer.
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O Fortuna from Carmina Burarna, I'm just throwing out every really big opera aria I can think of now.

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ForestFriend got it right; it is "Summertime"


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My brain is running through Brecht & Weill, Gershwin and R & H now.
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Mack the Knife?
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Originally posted by ForestFriend ForestFriend wrote:

Summertime? That way you have both the opera people and the jazz people contributing to the total (plus the occasional pop or rock interpretation).

congrats; you got it


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Give us another clue. Is it classical opera or modern musical opera?
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Summertime? That way you have both the opera people and the jazz people contributing to the total (plus the occasional pop or rock interpretation).
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Vesti la Guibba from Pagliaci
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a few well-known artists who did cover versions of this song: Big Brother and the Holding Company, Herbie Hancock, The Residents, The Zombies, Brainbox and Paul McCartney


Edited by BaldJean - March 05 2020 at 17:04


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The big one from Carmen.
Or the Pearl Fishers or Delibes Flower Song duet
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Over the Rainbow
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