Walk On By: Songs That Inspired Generations volume 1

Two cd set of songs from the documentary. Billed as "a listener's guide to the 20th Century's most influential songs", it's a pretty good selection of famous tunes from stage, screen and plain old recording studio. Mostly in their classic recordings (Ella Fitzgerald's "Night and Day", Bing Crosby's "White Christmas", the Platters' "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes", Billie Holliday's "Strange Fruit", Dionne Warwick's "Walk On By", etc, etc) but also includes a few less well-known versions of famous songs (Simply Red's surprisingly good rendition of "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye", Eva Cassidy's "Over The Rainbow", which is probably better than Judy Garland's, Tori Amos' take on "Smells Like Teen Spirit", Lucinda Williams' version of "Cold, Cold Heart", Gipsy Kings' "Hotel California").