Artist	Song
Kermit the Frog	The Rainbow Connection
Michael Hester	Lanette Waltz Caprice
Edith Piaf	La Valse d'Amour
The Desi Arnaz Orchestra	I Love Lucy
Marty Robbins	Crying Steel Guitar Waltz
Yann Tiersen	La Valse des vieux Os
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Mr. Bojangles
The Hee Haw Gang	Pfft! You Were Gone
Kate & Anna McGarrigle	My Town
Sinead O'Connor & Brian Kennedy	I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls
Noirin ni Riain	Port na bPucai
The Proclaimers	Sunshine on Leith
Grease (Italian cast)	Guarda Qui, C'e Sandra Dee
Audrey Hepburn	Moon River
Bright Eyes (with Emmylou Harris)	We are Nowhere and it's Now
Lesley Gore	Goodbye Tony
Johnny Cash	The Streets of Laredo
Vince Guaraldi Trio	The Great Pumpkin Waltz
Elliot Smith	Waltz #1
HAL	Daisy Bell
Patty Duke	Please, Don't Just Stand There
The Cranberries	Waltzing Back
Simon & Garfunkel	America
Dave Brubeck Group	I Feel Pretty
Mireille Mathieu	La Derniere Valse
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes	The Rainbow Connection

Comment:

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet
Are of imagination all compact.
--MND

Yeah, that's what Kermit's on about: Shakespeare.

The second song was my grandfather's audition piece. It got him into the stage band of the 22nd Engineers and out of the range of Boche shells. It makes me existentially sentimental.

Hee Haw was an awful cracker variety show, back in broadcast days. Every week, they sang a new version of Pfft! You Were Gone with cute new lyrics for the guest star. And yes, you had to watch it: it was the Law.

I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls is the song that Maria sings in James Joyce's Clay. And this one has the verse that Maria skips.
Port na bPucai means Lament of the Fairies and may be based on the songs of humpback whales, coming through the floor of a Blasket Islander's coracle.
Goodbye Tony is the German version of You Don't Own Me. Not entirely unlike Rita Pavone's Arrivederci, Hans.

And how far can one push eccentricity in the Internet Age? Well, we're finding that out, right now.

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