Original Dixieland Jass Band - Cover Versions of "Tiger Rag"

Cover Versions of "Tiger Rag"

The band's original 1917 composition "Tiger Rag" became a jazz standard that later was covered by Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Ted Lewis, Joe Jackson, and the Mills Brothers.

There were 136 cover versions of ODJB's copyright jazz standard and classic "Tiger Rag" by 1942. It was recorded by:

  • Louis Armstrong, who released the ODJB classic as a 78 single, in 1930 on Okeh and in 1934 on Brunswick
  • Benny Goodman and his Orchestra
  • Frank Sinatra
  • Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra on a two-part, double-sided 78 released on Brunswick in 1929
  • Edward "Kid" Ory with his Creole Jazz Orchestra
  • Bix Beiderbecke with the Wolverines or the Wolverine Orchestra
  • Ethel Waters and the Jazz Masters in 1922
  • Billie Holiday
  • Sidney Bechet
  • Bob Crosby and the Bobcats
  • Fats Waller
  • Gene Krupa
  • Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra
  • Phil Napoleon and his Orchestra in 1926 on Edison
  • Abe Lyman and his Orchestra
  • Harry Reser
  • Whiteway Jazz Band
  • The New Orleans Rhythm Kings in 1922 on Gennett
  • Fletcher Henderson
  • Jelly Roll Morton in 1938
  • Ray Miller's Orchestra in 1929 on Brunswick
  • Red McKenzie
  • Freddie Fisher
  • Acker Bilk
  • Harry Roy and his Orchestra
  • The Maple City Four
  • The Saint Jazz Band
  • Isham Jones' Orchestra
  • Eddie Condon
  • Pete Fountain released "Tiger Rag" as a 45 single on Coral
  • Tommy Dorsey
  • Glenn Miller and his Orchestra
  • Muggsy Spanier
  • George Barnes
  • Liberace
  • Barney Kessel
  • Bobby Short
  • Teddy Wilson
  • Alvino Rey
  • The Mills Brothers in 1931, no. 1 for four weeks
  • The Washboard Rhythm Kings
  • Art Tatum in 1932
  • Bert Ambrose and his Orchestra
  • Jack Hylton
  • Lew Stone
  • Billy Cotton
  • Jack Payne
  • Ray Noble
  • Joe Jackson
  • Django Reinhardt with the Quintette of the Hot Club of France
  • Roy Smeck
  • "Tiger Rag" was covered on the 78 series entitled Studies in Swing No. 1, 1927, with Nat Gonella on solo trumpet
  • The Paul Whiteman Orchestra
  • Jimmy Dorsey with Spike Hughes
  • Les Paul and Mary Ford in 1952

In 1954, "Tiger Rag" was featured in the MGM cartoon Dixieland Droopy, directed by Tex Avery, in which Droopy plays on his record. It is also what the flea jazz band (on Droopy) performs in the cartoon.

The band's "Tiger Rag" was added to National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress in 2002.

Finally, "Tiger Rag" was used in a Microsoft Xbox ad, the "Banned Xbox 360 Ad: Best Ad Ever!", advertising the Xbox 360 console from Microsoft.

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