'The Originals'© by Arnold Rypens

...or, the ongoing Search for FIRST RECORDED Versions of Popular Songs.
"Stay tuned...!!!"
' The Originals ' started off as a radio format, and has been around for almost 25 years now.
Radio series ' The Originals ' started off as part of 'Domino' (Omroep Brabant) in February 1982; it was taken over by KRO radio ('Hilversum 3') in Holland, 'Radio 2 West Vlaanderen', 'Studio Brussel' (StuBru), 'Hubert on the Air' (Omroep Limburg) and finally on L1 Radio (Since Jan. 7, 2007).
And since 1992 it's been a daily column on Belgian 'Radio 1' (VRT) for years.
Who bids more?
"You can't judge a book by its cover" but you can't judge a SONG by the cover either.
How many songs tell but half of the story, since in fact they derive from a complete different era/genre/artist than the hitversion?
In his book ' The Originals ', Belgian author Arnold Rypens traces back the origin of more than 7,300 titles, songs we know or might know, hits and better misses.

"The song, not the singer"

' The Originals '-book
It's bigger and better than ever before, more detailed, accurate and incomparable. OK it's in Dutch, but a title is a title, a name is a name and a date is a date and as this book mostly consists of titles, names and dates, you can read it even if Dutch is dutch to you.
Besides, Dutch ain't that difficult: 'in' is 'in', 'film' is 'film', 'zang' is 'vocal'.
Take a lemma like:
3469 - "JUST ONE OF THOSE THINGS" (Cole Porter)
(o): June Knight & Charles Walters (1935) In Broadway-musical "Jubilee".
(c): Richard Himber ('35), Lionel Hampton ('39), Ginny Simms ('45) [in film "Night And Day"], Tommy Dorsey Orch. ('50) [zang : Frank Sinatra], Jo Stafford ('50), Doris Day ('51) [in film "Lullaby Of Broadway"], Peggy Lee ('52), Frank Sinatra ('55) [in film "Young At Heart"], Ella Fitzgerald ('56), Louis Armstrong & Oscar Peterson Quartet ('57), Billie Holiday ('57), Maurice Chevalier ('60) [in film "Can Can"], Burt Reynolds ('75) [in film "At Long Last Love"], Kirsty MacColl & The Pogues ('90) [in medley met Miss Otis Regrets], Bryan Ferry ('99)
You can read that, can't you? (o) stands for 'original', (c) for 'cover'.
Have another try :) :
6058 - "TAKE YO' PRAISE" (Camille Yarbrough)
(o): Camille Yarbrough (1975) - Vanguard
Folk-funk classic op haar lp "The Iron Pot Cooker".
(c): Fatboy Slim ('98) [n°1 UK als "Praise You"]
See? It's easy; 'op haar' stands for 'on her', 'als' for 'as'.
There's more than 7,300 titles like that in the book. It's the titles that count, the song, not the singer.
Thanks to ' The Originals ' we realise how these songs are timeless while their singers come and go. Songs are reproduced from the oldest known recording to the most recent cover.
' The Originals ' name horse and carriage. Every home should have one unless you're absolutely sure "Bitter Sweet Symphony" is from The Verve, "Natural Blues" from Moby, "Torn" from Natalie Imbruglia and the theme from "The Piano" from Michael Nyman.
Every home should have one since the first cut is the deepest.
Also, the book is the basis for the website . Only what failed the book's deadline is online on www.originals.be
Credits:
Title: The Originals
Author: Arnold Rypens
Editor: VOX Publishing House (Lier)
ISBN: 90-76695-02-4
Price: 30 EUR
Distribution: [email protected]
"The history of art is, among other things, a history of revivals" - (Peter van der Merwe - "Origins of the Popular Style")
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