Cover Versions
The ODJB's original 1917 composition "Tiger Rag" became a jazz standard that was later covered by Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Ted Lewis, Joe Jackson, and the Mills Brothers.
There were 136 cover versions of ODJB's copyrighted jazz standard and classic "Tiger Rag" by 1942 alone. The number has greatly increased since. A very incomplete list of artists who have recorded this standard includes:
- 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
- The Beatles, Get Back/Let It Be sessions, 1969
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