Ms. Zetlan's Russian was heavily accented, although her rendition of two songs by Rimsky-Korsakov wascintillatingng.
The column also referred incorrectly to the writers of two songs performed by Ethel Waters in "Cabin in the Sky".
The album consists of two songs, or compositions; there are no voices on the record, no lyrics.
Mr. Gibson's first single for the company was a recording of two songs he wrote on one day in 1957.
Red Light, a reggae track released this week, is the first of two songs recorded with Snoop Lion.
(This is one of two songs on the album, though, that no band member had a hand in writing, suggesting a fishing expedition for something tougher).
"We can take two beats and make a phenomenal song out of two songs," Big Freedia said, by way of explanation.
"He presented us with a cassette tape of two songs – 'Here, do you want to record these?' And one of them was Manic Monday," Peterson recalled.
There were also deftly turned transcriptions, by Mr. Wynberg, of two songs by Villa-Lobos and a handful of showpieces by the violinist-composer Pablo de Sarasate.
Darker still is the last chorus, which makes Sinister one of two songs on this list to resolve with a blunt reference to self-interference.
The inclusion of two songs by Molly Drake bore an eerie testament to her influence, conscious or otherwise, on her son.
