In setting out to chronicle the forty year history of the song, “Solitaire,” I thought it best to keep the chatter down to a minimum and just let the cover recordings tell the story. At first, I was just going to post only the half dozen or so most significant covers of the song, but I got a bit carried away and went looking for every cover I could possibly find. iTunes netted me 21 covers to add to the six I had already on CD and, rather than exercise anything that folks could possibly misinterpret as editorial discretion, I decided it would be fun to post them all. There’s no rhyme or reason to the order in which these recordings appear on the list other than Sedaka’s version, by virtue of being the original, gets to go first, followed by the more well known artists and ending with what I consider the oddest or funniest renditions. Missing from the play list is the great Johnny Mathis’ version, an omission which I hope to rectify in the very near future. His name tops the “And More” list at the bottom of the page, representing twenty other artists who have covered “Solitaire” but whose recordings of the song aren’t currently available in digital format on The Web. . .