Ethan Teaches You Music Podcast

Music in this episode: The Beatles - “Yesterday” (1965) The Beatles - “Yesterday (Take 1)” (1965) Mantovani and his Orchestra - “Charmaine” (1958) The Beatles - “Yesterday (live in Munich)” (1966) Henry Bard - “Greensleeves” (2024) Sarah Vaughan - “Yesterday” (1966) Ruth Brown - “Yesterday” (1969) Marvin Gaye - “Yesterday” (1970) Boyz II Men - “Yesterday” (1994) I learned the concept of beginning-...

Music in this episode: The Beatles - “If I Fell” (1964) Roberta Flack - “If I Fell” (2012) Small Axe Rhythm - “If I Fell (Version Instrumental)” (1985) føamēk - “From the Very Start” (2020) The jazz musician who described “If I Fell” as the first musically interesting Beatles song was the late Joe Giglio, who I took some guitar lessons from when I was younger. At one point, I say that Paul is stra...

Music in this episode: The Beatles - “She Loves You” (1963) Elvis Presley - “All Shook Up” (1957) The Andrews Sisters - “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” (1941) John Williams - Imperial March (1977) The Isley Brothers - “Twist and Shout” (1962) Keely Smith - “She Loves You” (1964) Mary Wells - “He Loves You” (1965) Adam and the Ants - “Family Of Noise” (1979) The Beatles - “All You Need Is Love” (1967) I...

Music in this episode: The Beatles - “Twist and Shout” (1963) The Top Notes - “Twist and Shout” (1961) Ritchie Valens - “La Bamba” (1958) The Isley Brothers - “Twist and Shout” (1962) David Bowie - “Let’s Dance” (1983) Salt-N-Pepa - “Twist and Shout” (1988) For background on the song, I drew extensively on A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs , which you will definitely enjoy listening to if you e...

Music in this episode: Louis Armstrong - “What a Wonderful World” (1967) Louis Armstrong - “Hello, Dolly!” (1964) Louis Armstrong - “When The Saints Go Marching In” (1938) Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - “Dream a Little Dream of Me” (1950) Louis Armstrong and his Hot Seven - “Melancholy Blues” (1927) Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five - “Hotter Than That” (1927) Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five...

Music in this episode: Dolly Parton - “Traveling Man” (1971) Dolly Parton - “Jolene” (1973) Dolly Parton - “9 to 5” (1980) Dolly Parton - “Travelin’ Prayer” (1999) Dolly Parton - “Marry Me” (2001) Dolly Parton - “Stairway to Heaven” (2002) Dolly Parton - “Don’t Think Twice” (2014) Dolly Parton - “Purple Rain” (2023) References: I include excerpts of a couple of interviews with Dolly. There’s this...

Music in this episode, not counting my Suno output: Fleetwood Mac - “Dreams” (1977) Thelonious Monk - “Round Midnight” (1968) Cordelia’s Dad - “Montcalm and Wolfe” (1998) The Bee Gees - “Stayin’ Alive” (instrumental) (1977) Catherine Sikora - “The Knowing of Sums” (2016) Ethan Hein - “The Knowing of Sums remix” (2020) The Velvet Sundown - “Dust on the Wind” (2025) Neil Young - “Out on the Weekend”...

Music in this episode: Mormon Tabernacle Choir - “Old Folks At Home (Way Down Upon the Swanee River)” (1968) Al Jolson - “Swanee River” (1950) Bing Crosby - “Old Folks At Home (Swanee River)” (1945) Pete Seeger - “Swanee River” (1959) Paul Robeson - “Old Folks at Home” (1930) Louis Armstrong & the Mills Brothers - “The Old Folks At Home (Swanee River)” (1937) Ray Charles- “Swanee River Rock (Talki...

Music in this episode: Julie Andrews - “My Favorite Things” (1965) John Coltrane - “My Favorite Things” (1960) Ethan Hein - “My Favorite Things jam track” (2026) Mary Martin - “My Favorite Things” (1959) Ariana Grande - “7 Rings” (2019) John Coltrane - “Acknowledgment” (1964) Miles Davis - “So What” (1959) John Coltrane - “Giant Steps” (1960) John Coltrane - “Chim Chim Cheree” (1965) John Coltrane...

Music in this episode: Paul Dukas - “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” (1897) performed by the Moscow City Symphony Claude Debussy - “Clair de Lune” (1905) performed by Alexis Weissenberg Don Golding - “ Untitled Goose Game Soundtrack ” (2019) based on Debussy’s “Prelude No. 12: Minstrels” (1910) Richard Wagner - “Ride of the Valkyries” (1870) performed by the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Stockton’s Wing...

Music in this episode: Peter Gabriel - “Solsbury Hill” (1977) Pink Floyd - “Money” (1973) Dave Brubeck - “Unsquare Dance” (1961) The Beatles - “All You Need is Love” (1967) The Grateful Dead - “Uncle John’s Band” (1970) The Grateful Dead - “Estimated Prophet” (1977) Cordelia’s Dad - “Brother Judson” (2002) Venetian Snares - “Szamár Madár” (2005) Eleni Prodana - “Milo Mou Kokkino” (2014) Gothart -...

Music in this episode: The Dave Brubeck Quartet - “Take Five” (1959) The Dave Brubeck Quartet - “Blue Rondo à la Turk” (1959) John Coltrane - “My Favorite Things” (1961) Lalo Schifrin - “Theme from Mission: Impossible” (1966) Max Roach & Abbey Lincoln - “Tears for Johannesburg” (1961) Jaco Pastorius - “Portrait of Tracy” (1976) Brad Mehldau - “Anything Goes” (2004) The Beatles - “Eleanor Rigby” (1...

Music in this episode: Robert Johnson - “Terraplane Blues” (1936) (I said it was recorded 100 years ago, it was actually recorded 90 years ago, math is hard) Stevie Wonder - “Superstition” (1972) Dan Bubien & the Delta Struts - “Terraplane Blues” (2022) Eric Clapton - “Terraplane Blues” (2004) John Lee Hooker - “Boogie Chillen” (1948) For a nuanced discussion of Robert Johnson and Eric Clapton, I...

Music in this episode: Jamey Aebersold - “Fm Ebm Dm 8 Bars Each” (1967) The Temptations - “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone” (1972) Bo Diddley - “Bo Diddley” (1955) Aretha Franklin - “Chain of Fools” (1967) Eddy Grant - “Electric Avenue” (1982) Mobb Deep - “Shook Ones Part II (Instrumental)” (1994) Common/Slum Village - “Thelonius (Instrumental)” (2000) The Grateful Dead - “Scarlet Begonias > Fire on the...

Music in this episode: The Orb - “Little Fluffy Clouds” (1991) Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music for Airports - “1/1” (1979) Rickie Lee Jones - “Chuck E.’s in Love” (1979) A Conversation with Rickie Lee Jones (1989) Ennio Morricone - “L’uomo dell’armonica" from C’era Una Volta Il West (1968) Harry Nilsson - “Jump into the Fire” (1971) Twin Hype - “Serious Attitude” (1989) Pat Metheny - “Electric Counte...

Music in this episode: Michael Stein & Kyle Dixon - “Stranger Things Title Sequence” (2016) Kate Bush - “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)” (1985) The Clash - “Should I Stay or Should I Go” (1982) The Who - “Baba O’Riley (ConfidentialMX Remix)” (2019) Cyndi Lauper - “Time After Time” (1983) Wham! - “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” (1984) Madonna - “Material Girl” (1984) Metallica - “Master of Pu...

Music in this episode: Michael Jackson - “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’” (1982) Manu Dibango - “Soul Makossa” (1972) Manu Dibango - “Mouvement Ewondo” (1972) A Taste of Honey - “Boogie Oogie Oogie” (1978) Manu Dibango - “Electric Africa” (1985) Michael Jackson - “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’ (home demo)” (1979) Fugees - “Cowboys” (1996) Will Smith - “Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It” (1997) Lord Tariq & Peter Gu...

Music in this episode: The Beatles - “Yesterday” (1965) James Brown - “The Payback” (1973) Parliament - “Flashlight” (1978) Michael Jackson - “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough” (1979) Dizzy Gillespie - “Manteca” (1957) Small correction: I describe this as a one-chord groove. It mostly is, but it has a B section with a complex jazz chord progression. Underworld - “Rez” (1993) The Orb - “Little Fluffy...

Music in this episode: Sonny Rollins - “Sonnymoon For Two” (1958) Sonny Rollins - “Sonnymoon for Two” (1958) Charles Mingus - “Mood Indigo” (1960) Charles Mingus - “Jelly Roll” (1959) Melvin Bliss - “Synthetic Substitution” (1973) Miles Davis - “Oleo” (1954) Miles Davis - “Doxy” (1954) Sonny Rollins - “St Thomas” (1957) George Symonette - “Sponger Money” (1957) Here’s a chart of my “Sonnymoon for...

Music in this episode: Duke Ellington and His Orchestra - “Mood Indigo” (1950) The Harlem Footwarmers - “Mood Indigo” (1930) The Boswell Sisters - “Mood Indigo” (1933) Thelonious Monk - “Mood Indigo” (1955) James Brown - “The Funky Drummer” (1970) Diverse - “Move” (2001) Rosemary Clooney and Duke Ellington - “Mood Indigo” (1956) Ella Fitzgerald - “Mood Indigo” (1957) Charles Mingus - “Mood Indigo”...

Music in this episode: Stevie Wonder - “Sir Duke” (1976) Duke Ellington - “Mood Indigo” (1950) Count Basie - “One O’Clock Jump” (1937) Glenn Miller - “In the Mood” (1939) Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - “They Can’t Take That Away From Me” (1956) Duke Ellington - “The New East St. Louis Toodle-Oo” (1956) Ella Fitzgerald - “How High The Moon?” (1960) Ohio Players - “Love Rollercoaster” (1975) Du...

Music in this episode: The Beatles - “Blackbird” (1968) Paul McCartney on Parkinson (2005) JS Bach - Bourée from Suite in E Minor, BWV 996 performed by Andres Segovia (c. 1708-1717) The Beatles - “Mother Nature’s Son” (1968) Paul McCartney & Wings - “Bluebird” (1973) Paul McCartney - “Jenny Wren” (2005) Brad Mehldau - “Blackbird” (2021) Billy Preston - “Blackbird” (1972) Crosby, Stills & Nash - “B...

Music in this episode: Johnny Cash - “Big River” (1958) Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash - “Big River” (1969) Johnny Cash - “A Boy Named Sue” (1969) Woody Guthrie - “The Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done” (1946) Grateful Dead - “Big River” (1975) Grateful Dead - “Truckin’” (1970) Quotes are from Bob Dylan’s The Philosophy of Modern Song Get full access to Ethan teaches you music at ethanhein.substack.co...

Learn more about Tuniversity and sign up for our first Tune-Up event . Music in this episode: Derek Fawcett - “Just In Case” (2016) Derek Fawcett - “Runnin’ Outta Somedays” (2022) Dolly Parton - “Jolene” (1973) Dolly Parton - “9 to 5” (1980) Zingara - “Another Place” (2025) Björk - “Jóga” (1997) Get full access to Ethan teaches you music at ethanhein.substack.com/subscribe

Music in this episode Aretha Franklin - “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” (1972) Tennessee Ernie Ford - “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” (1958) Elizabeth Cotten - “In The Sweet Bye and Bye/What a Friend We Have in Jesus” (1958) Willie and Bobbie Nelson - “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” (1996) The Campbell Brothers with Katie Jackson - “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” (1997) Mahalia Jackson - “Dark...