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Description of Pop Standards

This style refers to the high point of western vocal pop music, the era of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Bing Crosby, and Rosemary Clooney. Popular artists sang with known bands and orchestras led by such luminaries as Guy Lombardo or Nelson Riddle, and performed classic pop songs penned by George Gershwin, Cole Porter and the like. In its heyday, roughly the 1930s through the late '50s, this was the most popular form of music. Singers packed houses across the country, and the advent and subsequent widespread popularity of radio and movies enabled their music, personalities and distinctive vocal styles to catapult them to superstar status. Today, many popular artists, such as Harry Connick Jr. and Natalie Cole, have covered the work of classic pop songwriters. Standards also persist in nightclub and lounge acts around the world.

Pop Standards Key Tracks

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Play/Add	Track	Artist
	1. Too Close For Comfort	Mel Torme
	2. I Can't Get Started	Keely Smith
	3. Nevertheless (I'm In Love With You)	Frank Sinatra
	4. These Foolish Things	Billie Holiday
	5. Mood Indigo	Nat King Cole
	6. Midnight Sun	Ella Fitzgerald
	7. How Deep Is The Ocean	Dick Haymes
	8. You Came A Long Way From St. Louis	Anita O'Day
	9. I Get A Kick Out Of You	Louis Armstrong
	10. Someone To Watch Over Me	Sarah Vaughan
	11. Charade	Johnny Hartman
	12. Ten Cents A Dance	Shirley Horn
	13. I Get Along Without You Very Well	Chet Baker
	14. If He Walked Into My Life	Nancy Wilson
	15. Love Is Here To Stay	Susannah McCorkle
	16. Get Out Of Town	Rosemary Clooney
	17. They Can't Take That Away From Me	Tony Bennett
	18. Hey, Look Me Over	Peggy Lee

Pop Standards Key Albums

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Pop Standards Key Artists

Billie Holiday

There's no mistaking a Lady
Day vocal: swinging,
emotionally searing and
tasty as all get out. Perhaps
the most influential jazz si...

Dick Haymes

Dinah Shore

Shore became so famous for
her peppy demeanor that
people forgot what a good
jazz and swing fueled pop
singer she was. Shore's b...

Ella Fitzgerald

Scatting or swinging,
Fitzgerald was as popular
with the general public as
she was with fellow artists.
Though she lived a clean,...

Frank Sinatra

The voice of the twentieth
century, Sinatra's star
shone for decades and
trailblazed the art of cutting
cohesive albums. Sinatra's...

Helen O'Connell

Jo Stafford

Stafford's perfect, pure
vocals were loved by
jazz-cats, but it was the
fighting men of WWII who
dubbed her "G.I. Jo." Lest...

Joe Williams

Williams became a star with
Count Basie's band in the
1950s and just kept getting
bigger and better through
out the decades.

Julie London

While boomers remember
her as "Emergency"'s Nurse
Dixie, they're just
discovering London's
sublimely sexy torch singi...

Kay Starr

When Starr's blues-soaked
swing and country vocals
dropped off the pop charts
this Native American
returned to jazz fulltime.

Keely Smith

Keely became a star as the
romantic vocal foil to Louis
Prima but her pure pipes
carried over to a stellar solo
career.

Lena Horne

Possessing salty, jazz-hued
vocals and a fierce beauty,
Horne helped integrate
Hollywood and the U.S. An
American hero.

Michael Feinstein

This singing pianist helps
keep standards and Cabaret
material alive in the age of
rock and rap.

Nat King Cole

King Cole struck gold with
his much-copied jazz trio
and his smoky, ethereal pop
vocals. Cole's
piano/guitar/bass trio for...

Peggy Lee

From Benny Goodman band
to solo stardom at Capitol,
Peggy Lee gave everyone
"Fever" and remains a vocal
cult goddess. Peggy Lee...

Rosemary Clooney

Clooney wanted to sing
jazz, but her 1950s pop hits
were often substandard; by
the '70s she was able to sing
Swing 24/7. Rosemary Clo...

Sarah Vaughan

Called the Divine One for
her amazing vocal abilities,
Vaughan excelled at bop,
standards, and jazzy pop.

Tony Bennett

Bennett's crushed velvet
voice topped the charts in
the 1950s, '60s...and '90s as
rockers caught his joyful
jazz vibe. As a teenager,...

Vic Damone

Damone's gorgeous croon
made prom dates weep
throughout the 1950s and
his ballad style got jazzier as
the years rolled on. Vic w...

Pop Standards

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