A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Cory Henry's "gospelified" take on the Beatles' "Yesterday." See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkMW...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkMW...
Grammy-Winning Pianist Cory Henry Covers "Yesterday" by the Beatles
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October 13, 2026 at 6:07 AM
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Cory Henry's "gospelified" take on the Beatles' "Yesterday." See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkMW...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkMW...
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: T-Bone Walker's "Get These Blues Off Me." (Hilariously, when this was released as a 78 the B-side was "I Got the Blues Again.") See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYZZ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYZZ...
Get These Blues Off Me
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October 11, 2026 at 5:41 AM
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: T-Bone Walker's "Get These Blues Off Me." (Hilariously, when this was released as a 78 the B-side was "I Got the Blues Again.") See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYZZ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYZZ...
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: From just about five years ago, here's Adele's "Strangers by Nature" (a song Adele says was inspired by watching the Judy Garland biopic starring Renee Zellwegger). See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYnA...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYnA...
Strangers By Nature
YouTube video by Adele - Topic
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October 10, 2026 at 5:47 AM
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: From just about five years ago, here's Adele's "Strangers by Nature" (a song Adele says was inspired by watching the Judy Garland biopic starring Renee Zellwegger). See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYnA...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYnA...
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: I love how Joseph Solomon's singing voice manages to be both warm and raw, as in his cover of Burt Bacharach and Hal David's "I Say a Little Prayer." See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikrc...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikrc...
i say a little prayer - aretha franklin (joseph solomon cover)
YouTube video by Joseph Solomon
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October 9, 2026 at 5:52 AM
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: I love how Joseph Solomon's singing voice manages to be both warm and raw, as in his cover of Burt Bacharach and Hal David's "I Say a Little Prayer." See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikrc...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikrc...
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Here, from early 1970, is Oscar Peterson's reimagining of the bossa nova we heard last night. See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDNe...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDNe...
October 7, 2026 at 5:07 AM
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Here, from early 1970, is Oscar Peterson's reimagining of the bossa nova we heard last night. See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDNe...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDNe...
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Freddie Jackson died this week at the age of 70. This song, which first came out almost exactly forty years ago on an album that went platinum, went on to be a number-one hit on the U.S. R&B charts as a single. See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFDK...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFDK...
Have You Ever Loved Somebody
YouTube video by Freddie Jackson - Topic
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October 8, 2026 at 5:57 AM
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Freddie Jackson died this week at the age of 70. This song, which first came out almost exactly forty years ago on an album that went platinum, went on to be a number-one hit on the U.S. R&B charts as a single. See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFDK...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFDK...
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: I promise this bossa nova classic from 1967 doesn't sound quite as melancholy as its name suggests. Here's Antônio Carlos Jobim's "Triste" ("Sad"). See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P47N...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P47N...
Antônio Carlos Jobim - Triste (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Verve Records
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October 6, 2026 at 5:07 AM
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: I promise this bossa nova classic from 1967 doesn't sound quite as melancholy as its name suggests. Here's Antônio Carlos Jobim's "Triste" ("Sad"). See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P47N...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P47N...
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: The Gershwins wrote "Someone to Watch Over Me" a century ago—in fact the first recording was made in Oct. 1926, a hundred years ago this month. (The musical it appears in, 'Oh, Kay!,' opened in Nov. 1926.) Here's Blossom Dearie's 1959 interpretation. See you around.
Someone To Watch Over Me
YouTube video by Blossom Dearie - Topic
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October 4, 2026 at 4:12 AM
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: The Gershwins wrote "Someone to Watch Over Me" a century ago—in fact the first recording was made in Oct. 1926, a hundred years ago this month. (The musical it appears in, 'Oh, Kay!,' opened in Nov. 1926.) Here's Blossom Dearie's 1959 interpretation. See you around.
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: From Steely Dan's last studio album—panned by critics but generally (I think) pretty well liked by fans—here's the title track. It's downright epitaphic. See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiK2...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiK2...
Everything Must Go
YouTube video by Steely Dan - Topic
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October 3, 2026 at 4:51 AM
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: From Steely Dan's last studio album—panned by critics but generally (I think) pretty well liked by fans—here's the title track. It's downright epitaphic. See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiK2...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiK2...
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Alexander Glazunov's 1890 "Rêverie" for horn and piano—here performed on a horn from the 1880s and a piano from 1866 (by Anneke Scott and Steven Devine respectively). See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAeF...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAeF...
Alexander Glazunov, Rêverie Op. 24 for horn and piano - Anneke Scott & Steven Devine
YouTube video by Anneke Scott
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October 1, 2026 at 4:18 AM
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Alexander Glazunov's 1890 "Rêverie" for horn and piano—here performed on a horn from the 1880s and a piano from 1866 (by Anneke Scott and Steven Devine respectively). See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAeF...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAeF...
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Here's Australian musician Kevin Parker, who records as Tame Impala, in his dreamy, floaty, 2015 song "Yes I'm Changing." Nostalgia-inducing synthesizer work here. See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_cM...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_cM...
Tame Impala - Yes I'm Changing (Audio)
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September 30, 2026 at 5:43 AM
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Here's Australian musician Kevin Parker, who records as Tame Impala, in his dreamy, floaty, 2015 song "Yes I'm Changing." Nostalgia-inducing synthesizer work here. See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_cM...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_cM...
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Burt Bacharach and Hal David wrote this song for the 1964 movie 'A House Is Not a Home.' This instrumental recording by the Bill Evans Trio—on an album that won a Grammy five months after Evans's September 1980 death—is so sad and filled with yearning. See you around.
Bill Evans Trio - A House Is Not A Home (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bill Evans
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September 29, 2026 at 5:58 AM
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Burt Bacharach and Hal David wrote this song for the 1964 movie 'A House Is Not a Home.' This instrumental recording by the Bill Evans Trio—on an album that won a Grammy five months after Evans's September 1980 death—is so sad and filled with yearning. See you around.
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Cellist Pierre Fournier arranged and recorded (with pianist Gerald Moore) these three Bach chorales 80 years ago this month—in the same Abbey Road studio room where the Beatles would record "Tomorrow Never Knows" twenty years later. See you around.
Pierre Fournier plays three Bach chorales 1946
YouTube video by Topclassical
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September 28, 2026 at 5:29 AM
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Cellist Pierre Fournier arranged and recorded (with pianist Gerald Moore) these three Bach chorales 80 years ago this month—in the same Abbey Road studio room where the Beatles would record "Tomorrow Never Knows" twenty years later. See you around.
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Since 'Avengers: Endgame' is back in theaters, here's the song that famously comes up at the end. Kitty Kallen sings, Harry James solos on trumpet, and Willie Smith solos on alto sax. It really has been a long, long time. See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chs2...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chs2...
Harry James & His Orchestra - It's Been A Long, Long Time (Audio)
YouTube video by HarryJamesVEVO
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September 27, 2026 at 3:38 AM
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Since 'Avengers: Endgame' is back in theaters, here's the song that famously comes up at the end. Kitty Kallen sings, Harry James solos on trumpet, and Willie Smith solos on alto sax. It really has been a long, long time. See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chs2...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chs2...
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Since yesterday would have been the 90th birthday of the late Jim Henson, and since today marks one month since Dolly Parton died, here they are singing a duet (with Henson voicing Kermit the Frog) on Dolly's variety show in 1987. See you around.
Dolly Parton & Kermit The Frog – “Everyday People” from 'Dolly' episode 5 (1987)
YouTube video by Jason Kottke
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September 26, 2026 at 3:27 AM
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Since yesterday would have been the 90th birthday of the late Jim Henson, and since today marks one month since Dolly Parton died, here they are singing a duet (with Henson voicing Kermit the Frog) on Dolly's variety show in 1987. See you around.
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: 100 years ago this fall, Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II started composing and writing 'Show Boat'—even before they had the rights. Here's Peggy Lee's 1964 cover of one of the musical's great songs. See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ4H...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ4H...
Make Believe
YouTube video by Peggy Lee - Topic
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September 25, 2026 at 4:17 AM
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: 100 years ago this fall, Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II started composing and writing 'Show Boat'—even before they had the rights. Here's Peggy Lee's 1964 cover of one of the musical's great songs. See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ4H...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ4H...
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Here's Hilary Hahn playing one of the "doubles" (variations) from within a Bach partita for solo violin. See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=swiO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=swiO...
J.S. Bach: Partita No. 1 for Solo Violin in B Minor, BWV 1002: VI. Double
YouTube video by Hilary Hahn - Topic
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September 24, 2026 at 6:24 AM
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Here's Hilary Hahn playing one of the "doubles" (variations) from within a Bach partita for solo violin. See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=swiO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=swiO...
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: What a groove. From Shaun Martin's 2015 album '7 Summers,' here's "Yellow Jacket," inspired in part by music of the jazz fusion band the Yellowjackets. See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlcK...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlcK...
Shaun Martin - Yellow Jacket (7 Summers)
YouTube video by Ropeadope
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September 23, 2026 at 6:40 AM
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: What a groove. From Shaun Martin's 2015 album '7 Summers,' here's "Yellow Jacket," inspired in part by music of the jazz fusion band the Yellowjackets. See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlcK...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlcK...
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: The Corries, the Scottish folk group, recorded this version of the traditional "Skye Boat Song" in 1969. (The song is probably best known to Americans as the theme song, by another performer, to the TV show 'Outlander.') See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wIe...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wIe...
The Skye Boat Song
YouTube video by The Corries - Topic
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September 22, 2026 at 6:01 AM
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: The Corries, the Scottish folk group, recorded this version of the traditional "Skye Boat Song" in 1969. (The song is probably best known to Americans as the theme song, by another performer, to the TV show 'Outlander.') See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wIe...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wIe...
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: "Misty Blue" was originally written with singer Brenda Lee in mind, but she didn't want it. So producer Owen Bradley instead brought it to Wilma Burgess, who became the first in a long line of singers to record it. See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ-q...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ-q...
Wilma Burgess - Misty Blue
YouTube video by 45RPMbyJME
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September 21, 2026 at 4:43 AM
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: "Misty Blue" was originally written with singer Brenda Lee in mind, but she didn't want it. So producer Owen Bradley instead brought it to Wilma Burgess, who became the first in a long line of singers to record it. See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ-q...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ-q...
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Today's my birthday—and the day I was born was also the day NASA's Voyager spacecraft snapped the first-ever photo showing the Earth and the Moon in a single frame. So I figured I'd close out the day with this Aaron Neville duet with Jim Henson. See you around.
Sesame Street: Aaron Neville And Ernie Sing Don't Want To Live On The Moon
YouTube video by Sesame Street
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September 19, 2026 at 3:58 AM
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Today's my birthday—and the day I was born was also the day NASA's Voyager spacecraft snapped the first-ever photo showing the Earth and the Moon in a single frame. So I figured I'd close out the day with this Aaron Neville duet with Jim Henson. See you around.
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Nina Simone's guitarist, Rudy Stevenson, wrote "One September Day" for her. In the album liner notes, she said this recording "reminds me of the way I used to sing many years ago, soft and sweet and very simple." See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGk8...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGk8...
Nina Simone - One September Day
YouTube video by Into the Music
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September 18, 2026 at 4:37 AM
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Nina Simone's guitarist, Rudy Stevenson, wrote "One September Day" for her. In the album liner notes, she said this recording "reminds me of the way I used to sing many years ago, soft and sweet and very simple." See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGk8...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGk8...
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: The Norwegian singer Aurora's 2015 cover of "Half the World Away," a 1994 Oasis song that Noel Gallagher wrote by (as he admitted) lifting from Burt Bacharach's "This Guy's in Love with You." See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYKU...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYKU...
AURORA - Half The World Away
YouTube video by iamAURORAVEVO
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September 16, 2026 at 6:02 AM
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: The Norwegian singer Aurora's 2015 cover of "Half the World Away," a 1994 Oasis song that Noel Gallagher wrote by (as he admitted) lifting from Burt Bacharach's "This Guy's in Love with You." See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYKU...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYKU...
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: The pianist Friedrich Gulda, best known for his interpretations of Beethoven and Mozart and his work in jazz, here plays an aria he composed himself. See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUb8...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUb8...
Friedrich Gulda plays Gulda: Aria (Solo Version) - 1990
YouTube video by LOFTmusic
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September 15, 2026 at 5:38 AM
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: The pianist Friedrich Gulda, best known for his interpretations of Beethoven and Mozart and his work in jazz, here plays an aria he composed himself. See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUb8...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUb8...
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: The Greek singer Nana Mouskouri—still with us at 91—recorded this version of "Try to Remember" in 1968. See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-yO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-yO...
Try To Remember
YouTube video by Nana Mouskouri - Topic
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September 13, 2026 at 4:51 AM
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: The Greek singer Nana Mouskouri—still with us at 91—recorded this version of "Try to Remember" in 1968. See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-yO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-yO...