Sing Out celebrates Ludwig van Beethoven's 239th birthday, today, with a two-hour program of classical compositions performed by non-classical musicians, from Pete Seeger and the Ventures to Regina Carter and Monty Python. It's quite a party. Happy birthday, Ludwig!
| Artist | Song | Album | Label | Year | ||
| Modern Mandolin Quartet | "Hoedown" (Copland) | Intermezzo | Windham Hill | 1990 | 10:00 | 3:19 |
| Dolly Dawn & Her Dawn Patrol | "Beethoven Wrote It But It Swings" | Beethoven Wrote It But It Swings (compilation) | Sony Classical | 1996 | 10:03 | 2:50 |
| Blood, Sweat & Tears | Variations on Themes by Erik Satie (Gymnopedie 1&2) | Blood, Sweat & Tears | Columbia | 1969 | 10:07 | 2:35 |
| Robbie Basho | "Variations on Claire de Lune" (Debussy) | Bonn ist Supreme | Bo'Weavil | 1980 | 10:09 | 4:46 |
| Oscar Peterson | "Humouresque" (Dvorak) | Oscar's Boogie | Jazz Hour | 1945 | 10:13 | 2:47 |
| Hubert Laws | "Farandole" (Bizet's L'Arlesienne Suite #2) | Best of Hubert Laws | Columbia | 1990 | 10:16 | 10:57 |
| Jim Hall | "Concierto" (Rodrigo) | Concierto | CTI | 1975 | 10:27 | 5:00 (excerpt) |
| Willie Nelson | "Bach Minuet in G" | Red Headed Stranger | Columbia Legacy | 2000 | 10:33 | 0:40 |
| Bill Frisell | "Open Prairie" (Copland's Billy the Kid) | Have a Little Faith | Nonesuch | 1993 | 10:33 | 3:30 |
| Regina Carter | "Apres un Reve" (Faure) | Paganini: After a Dream | Verve | 2003 | 10:37 | 5:02 |
| James Booker | "Black Minute Waltz" (Chopin) | Junco Partner | Hannibal | 1976 | 10:41 | 3:10 |
| Leo Kottke | "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" (Bach) | 6 & 12 String Guitar | Takoma | 1969 | 10:44 | 2:21 |
| Pete Seeger | "Duet from Beethoven's Symphony No. 7" | Goofing Off Suite | Smithsonian Folkways | 1955 | 10:46 | 2:04 |
| B. Bumble & the Stingers | "Bumble Boogie" (Rimsky-Korsakov) | Rock Instrumental Classics: the '60s | Rhino | 1994 | 10:49 | 2:11 |
| Yo-Yo Ma & Bobby McFerrin | "Flight of the Bumblebee" (Rimsky-Korsakov | Hush | Sony Masterworks | 1992 | 10:41 | 1:09 |
| Deodato | "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" (Debussy) | Prelude | CTI | 1973 | 10:53 | 5:13 |
| Don Sebesky | "Firebird/Birds of Fire" (Stravinsky/McLaughlin) | Giant Box | CTI | 1973 | 11:01 | 11:47 |
| Darol Anger & MIke Marshall | "Bach: Sarabande in B Minor" | Jam | Compass | 1999 | 11:12 | 4:25 |
| Brian Auger | "Faure Pavane" | Befour | Discinform | 1998 | 11:16 | 3:44 |
| Monty Python | "Decomposing Composers" | Monty Python Sings | Virgin | 1989 | 11:20 | 2:45 |
| Ventures | "Rap City" (Brahms' Hungarian Rhapsody) | Live in Japan '65 | EMI | 1995 | 11:23 | 1:51 |
| Nat King Cole Trio | "Liebestraum" (Liszt) | King Cole Trio 1938-1941 | Virgin France | 1992 | 11:25 | 3:17 |
| Benny Goodman | "Peter and the Wolf" (Prokofiev) | Beethoven Wrote It But It Swings | Sony Classical | 1996 | 11:28 | 3:10 |
| Bad Plus | "Variation d"apollon" (Stravinsky) | For All I Care | Heads Up | 2009 | 11:31 | 4:33 |
| Uri Caine | Mahler: Symphony No. 1, 3rd Mvt. | Mahler in Toblach | Winter and Winter | 1998 | 11:35 | 13:22 |
| Duke Ellington | "Waltz of the Flowers" (Tchaikovsky) | Three Suites | Columbia | 1990 | 11:49 | 4:07 |
| Brian Eno | "Variations on Pachelbel's Canon" | Discreet Music | EG | 1975 | 11:55 | 4:00 (excerpt) |
