The Standard Book of Standards

Cover many of the most covered classics. Find meaning in the music.

Thousands of classic hits await you! This book provides at least one reference to a professional quality recording of thousands of soundtrack titles that have been covered by many music artists.

Thanks to help from the Discography of American Historical Recordings, Secondhand Songs, Wikipedia, Hymnary, and YouTube, readers will find references to music standards that they know and love as well as ones they didn’t even know existed. All references are from the author who listened to all of the music——not guesses from AI.

This document organizes the references of music standards first by music genre and second by soundtrack title. For aesthetic reasons, this document also includes more space in between soundtrack titles than in the other volumes of this series.

The Standard Book of Standards includes a nearly exhaustive list of jazz standards produced up until its publication date. So, the book also goes well with its companion in composition, The Holy Grail of Jazz.

The Standard Book of Standards also mentions some music standards from other genres, such as R&B, rock, city pop, bluegrass and country music, classical music, and religious music (including standards fit for weddings and the Christmas holiday season). On top of that, it also has a section of songs that epitomize the true meaning of Christmas.

Welcome to the restaurant where memories happen. This is a buffet menu of some of the planet’s finest music: a guide you pass down for future generations. This is the book for you. This is The Standard Book of Standards.