I'm looking for a version of this song, but don't know who sings it. The one I want is a guy, and it's none of these people: Julie Andrews ACDC Sound Of Music John Valby (what a moronic song) I remember my eldest brother had the CD and it had a light blue cover... I seem to remember the name Davenport for some reason, but could be way off. Anyone that's into this kind of music who can help me out?
I did a search and found these performers who have recorded this particular song: The Supremes Luther Vandross Perry Como I can't think of a performer named Davenport
An iTunes search for "favorite things" returned 111 songs. If you feel like going through them all, though, but don't actually have iTunes, then you can try this: http://itunes.punboy.net/cgi-bin/itms4all.pl?searchString=favorite+things&buttonSearch=search ...but that's not my idea of fun.
The Coltrane version is the gold standard. Of course, Will Ferrel as Robert Goulet on Conan O'Brien doing it was also a classic.
All the coltrane and brubeck versions I downloaded were instrumental for some reason, although I agree they were great. Does Miles Davis do a version of this? Apparently he did it at some private showing, and it was surprisingly great.
None of them performed with singers. They were instrumentalists, so you won't find any versions of them backing up singers doing that song unless it goes WAY back to when they first got started and were playing as members of someone else's big band.
Interestingly, one of Coltrane's favorite vehicles for his combos' sonic explorations was the Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II tune "My Favorite Things" from the musical The Sound of Music. Coltrane first recorded this piece in 1960 in an innovative interpretation that already sounded radically different from the original, catching Coltrane in the formative stages of his new, modally-based, "avant garde" sound. In the ensuing seven years, until his death in 1967, Coltrane made "My Favorite Things" a regular part of his concert repertoire. At least eighteen of these performances have been released on recording (Cole 228-248). The preponderance of recordings of this single piece, spanning the full development of Coltrane's work in the avant garde, makes it uniquely suited to careful comparison and analysis, a useful tool for the examination of his stylistic development. This project will use "My Favorite Things" as just such a tool. Following an introductory exploration of both Coltrane's musical career prior to 1960 and the "standard" form of "My Favorite Things," the paper will compare and contrast four of Coltrane's recordings of the piece: his 1960 studio recording, a more extended performance at the 1963 Newport Jazz Festival, the last recording of the piece by his "classic quartet" at the 1965 Newport Jazz Festival, and a radically evolved 57-minute performance from 1966 in Tokyo by his new quintet. These examinations will reveal the evolution of both Coltrane's own playing and the dynamics of his group's interplay. They will also reflect the influence of African, Indian, and Western art music upon Coltrane and the modal and free styles of jazz in the 1960s. Finally, a discussion of the motivations behind Coltrane's musical "quest" (as characterized by Eric Nisenson) will further illuminate his stylistic development. coltrane link
