After playing holiday songs, Chicago Blues, motown, and obscure movie tunes for the past several months, teen band Trace's guitarist Elijah is ready to get back to his first love-classic rock. Maybe Back in Black...or Voodoo Chile...or Paint it Black...or Sunshine of Your Love. When we brought Cream's SOYL in to play for the band, they roundly voted it down. So I went in search of an R&B version of the song to sneak in some cred on Elijah's behalf. The only two I could find were Bobby McFerrin's insufferable acapella take and this curiosity from Ella Fitzgerald, a late career effort to get hip to what the kids were listening to in 1969, the year of its release.


Ella Ftizgerald-Sunshine of Your Love