Poll: What songs would be on your Songs of The Century list?
Rank Title Artist
1 "Over The Rainbow" Judy Garland
2 "White Christmas" Bing Crosby
3 "This Land Is Your Land" Woody Guthrie
4 "Respect" Aretha Franklin
5 "American Pie" Don McLean
6 "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" The Andrews Sisters
7 West Side Story (Album) Original Cast
8 "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" Billy Murray
9 "You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’" The Righteous Brothers
10 "The Entertainer" Scott Joplin
11 "In the Mood" Glenn Miller Orchestra
12 "Rock Around the Clock" Bill Haley & His Comets
13 "When the Saints Go Marching In" Louis Armstrong
14 "You Are My Sunshine" Jimmie Davis
15 "Mack the Knife" Bobby Darin
16 "(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction" The Rolling Stones
17 "Take the A Train" Duke Ellington Orchestra
18 "Blueberry Hill" Fats Domino
19 "God Bless America " Kate Smith
20 "Stars and Stripes Forever" Sousa’s Band
21 "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" Marvin Gaye
22 "(Sittin’ on) the Dock of the Bay" Otis Redding
23 "I Left My Heart In San Francisco " Tony Bennett
24 "Good Vibrations" The Beach Boys
25 "Stand by Me" Ben E. King
26 "Stormy Weather" Lena Horne
27 "Johnny B. Goode" Chuck Berry
28 "I Want to Hold Your Hand" The Beatles
29 "Midnight Train to Georgia" Gladys Knight & the Pips
30 "Imagine" John Lennon
31 "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" Gene Autry
32 "The Twist" Chubby Checker
33 "Happy Trails" Roy Rogers & Dale Evans
34 "Your Cheatin’ Heart" Hank Williams
35 "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" Fisk Jubilee Singers
36 The Sound of Music (Album) Original Cast
37 "’Round Midnight" Thelonious Monk
38 "What’s Love Got to Do with It?" Tina Turner
39 "Over There" The American Quartet
40 "Stardust" Hoagy Carmichael
41 "Ain’t Misbehavin’" Fats Waller
42 "Georgia on My Mind" Ray Charles
43 "Oh Pretty Woman" Roy Orbison
44 "Every Breath You Take" The Police
45 "My Girl" The Temptations
46 "Hotel California" The Eagles
47 "Happy Days Are Here Again" Ben Selvin Orchestra
48 "Stand By Your Man" Tammy Wynette
49 "Take Five" Dave Brubeck
50 "America the Beautiful" Louise Homer
51 "When a Man Loves a Woman" Percy Sledge
52 "Light My Fire" The Doors
53 "Stairway to Heaven" Led Zeppelin
54 "Sweet Georgia Brown" Ben Bernie & His Orchestra
55 "When You Wish upon a Star" Cliff Edwards
56 "Yesterday" The Beatles
57 "Louie Louie" The Kingsmen
58 "God Bless the Child" Billie Holiday
59 "Born in the U.S.A." Bruce Springsteen
60 "The Girl from Ipanema" Stan Getz/Astrud Gilberto
61 "I Walk the Line" Johnny Cash
62 "The Star-Spangled Banner" John McCormack
63 "Oh Happy Day" The Edwin Hawkins Singers
64 "Great Balls of Fire" Jerry Lee Lewis
65 "What’s Going On" Marvin Gaye
66 Oklahoma! (Album) Original Cast
67 "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" Johnny Mercer
68 "Don’t Be Cruel" / "Hound Dog" Elvis Presley
69 "St. Louis Blues" W.C. Handy
70 "Yankee Doodle" Vess L. Ossman
71 "California Dreamin’" The Mamas & Papas
72 "On the Road Again" Willie Nelson
73 "Auld Lang Syne" Frank Stanley
74 "Summertime" Sidney Bechet
75 "Theme from Shaft" Isaac Hayes
76 "Beat It" Michael Jackson
77 "Sentimental Journey" Les Brown Orchestra/Doris Day
78 "Blue Suede Shoes" Carl Perkins
79 "The Sound of Silence" Simon & Garfunkel
80 "Smells Like Teen Spirit" Nirvana
81 "It Had to Be You" Isham Jones Orchestra
82 "Minnie the Moocher" Cab Calloway
83 "Sixteen Tons" Tennessee Ernie Ford
84 "What a Wonderful World" Louis Armstrong
85 "Fire and Rain" James Taylor
86 "Y.M.C.A." The Village People
87 "Heartbreak Hotel" Elvis Presley
88 "King of the Road" Roger Miller
89 "I Will Survive" Gloria Gaynor
90 "Ave Maria" Marian Anderson
91 "Begin the Beguine" Artie Shaw Orchestra
92 "Like a Rolling Stone" Bob Dylan
93 "Stop! In the Name of Love" The Supremes
94 "Stayin’ Alive" The Bee Gees
95 "1999" Prince
96 "Please Remember Me" Tim McGraw
97 Porgy and Bess (Album) Original Cast
98 "Back in the Saddle Again" Gene Autry
99 "Shake, Rattle and Roll" Joe Turner
100 "In the Still of the Night" The Five Satins
101 "Killing Me Softly with His Song" Roberta Flack
102 "Friends in Low Places" Garth Brooks
103 "Charleston" Arthur Gibbs & His Gang
104 "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" Ella Fitzgerald
105 "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" Chauncey Olcott
106 "The Times They Are a-Changin’" Bob Dylan
107 "I Fall to Pieces" Patsy Cline
108 "I Will Always Love You" Whitney Houston
109 "Mona Lisa" Nat King Cole
110 "Blowin’ in the Wind" Bob Dylan
111 "Peggy Sue" Buddy Holly
112 "Lean on Me" Bill Withers
113 Kind of Blue (Album) Miles Davis
114 "I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry" Hank Williams
115 "Proud Mary" Creedence Clearwater Revival
116 "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" The Carter Family
117 "Puttin’ on the Ritz" Harry Richman
118 "Layla" Derek & the Dominos
119 "Jump" Van Halen
120 "I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For" U2
121 "We Are the World" USA for Africa
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January 18th, 2010 at 3:30 am
Dead Memories – Slipknot
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January 18th, 2010 at 3:51 am
Great list! "Over The Rainbow" would be at the top of my list as well.
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…out of the many I would add, "The Wall" by Pink Floyd, Elton John’s "Benny And The Jets" and Stevie Wonder’s "I Wish".
January 18th, 2010 at 4:11 am
over the rainbow
american pie
god bless the child
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January 18th, 2010 at 4:29 am
i’ll take ur list
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January 18th, 2010 at 4:44 am
Pennsylvania 6500 – Glenn Miller
In The Mood – Glenn Miller
Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong
St Blues – Bessie Smith
Downhearted Blues – Bessie Smith
Key To The Highway – Little Walker
Back Door Man – Howlin Wolf
Smokestack Lightning – Howlin Wolf
Spoonful – Muddy Waters
I’m Your Hootchie Coochie Man – Muddy Waters
I’m A Man – Bo Diddley
I Can’t Quit You Babe
Hound Dog – Big Mama Thorton
Into The Night – BB King
Next Door To The Blues – Eta James
I’d Rather Go Blind – Eta James
Rock Around The Clock – Bill Haley & The Comets
Jailhouse Rock – Elvis Presley
Love Me Tender – Elvis Presley
Blue Swede Shoes – Carl Perkins
Great Balls of Fire – Jerry Lee Lewis
Peggy Sue – Buddy Holly
Johnny B. Goode – Chuck Berry
Rock and Roll Music – Chuck Berry
Tutti Fruitti – Little Richard
Long Tall Sally – Little Richard
This is Your land – Woodie Guthrie
I Want To Hold Your Hand – The Beatles
Twist and Shout The Beatles
Help – The Beatles
A Day In The Life – The Beatles
Yesterday – The Beatles
Revolution – The Beatles
Hey Jude the Beatles
Let It Be – the Beatles
Satisfaction – The Rolling Stones
Honky Tonk Women – The Rolling Stones
Angie – The Rolling Stones
My Generation – The Who
Won’t Get fooled Again – The Who
Good Vibrations – The Beach Boys
California Girls – The Beach Boys
Sloop John B. – The Beach Boys
California Dreaming – Mamas & The Papas
Blowin in The Wind – Bob Dylan
Times They are Changing – Bob Dylan
My Back Pages – Bob Dylan
White Rabbit – Jefferson Airplane
Somebody To Love – Jefferson Airplane
Light My Fire – The Doors
LA Woman – The Doors
Voodoo Child – Jimi Hendrix
All Along The Watchtower – Jimi Hendrix
Me and Bobby McGee – Janis Joplin
American Pie – Don McLean
Bridge Over Troubled Water – Simon and Garfunkel
You’ve Got a friend – James Taylor
Stairway To Heaven – Led Zeppelin
Whole Lotta Love – Led Zeppelin
Nights In White Satin – The Moody Blues
Whiter Shade Of Pale – Procol Harum
25 or 6 to 4 – Chicago
Horse With No Name – America
White Room – Cream
Sunshine of Your Love – Cream
Born To Be wild – Steppenwolf
Joy To The World – 3 Dog Night
Lean On Me – Bill Withers
Layla – Derek and the Dominoes
I Shot The Sheriff – Eric Clapton
The Redemption Song – Bob Marley
Turn The Page – Bob Seger
Hotel California – The Eagles
Band On The Run – Wings
Imagine – John Lennon
Aqualung – Jethro Tull
Sweet Home Alabama – Lynyrd Skynyrd
Freebird – Lynyrd Skynyrd
Whipping Post – Allman brothers
Statesboro – The Allman Brothers
Anarchy In The UK – Sex Pistols
London’s Calling – The Clash
You got Lucky – Tom Petty
Southern Accents – Tom Petty
Born To Run – Bruce Springsteen
Born In The USA – Bruce Springsteen
My City In Ruins – Bruce Springsteen
Paranoid – Black Sabbath
Smoke On The Water – Deep Purple
Rock and Roll All Night – Kiss
Pretty Woman – Roy Orbinson
You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman – Aretha Franklin
Killing Me Softly – Roberta Flack
Blueberry Hill – Fats Domino
Welcome To The Jungle – Guns and Roses
Roxanne – The Police
Dream On – Aerosmith
Running With The Devil – Van Halen
Barracuda – Heart
Alone – Heart
Heartbreaker – Pat Benatar
Hell Is For Children – Pat Benatar
Rhiannon – Fleetwood Mac
Dreams – Fleetwood Mac
Cold As Ice – Foriegner
Carry On Wayward Son – Kansas
Because The Night – Patti Smith
Proud Mary – CCR
Who’ll Stop The Rain – CCR
Fortunate Son – CCR
Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana
New Years Day – U2
Where The Streets Have No Name – U2
Enter Sandman – Metallica
Master of Puppets – Metallica
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January 18th, 2010 at 5:33 am
I think there should be a law that only Judy Garland can sing Over The Rainbow!!!!!
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January 18th, 2010 at 6:21 am
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January 18th, 2010 at 6:36 am
I will try this from memory and break it down by decades.
Turn of the Century classics.
1. Sousa band and Stars and stripes forever.
2. Scott Joplin – The entertainer
3.Frank Stanley – Auld Lang Syne.
4. Am,erica the beautiful
5. BillMurrays take me to the ball game
6. Swing low sweet chariot
7. Over there
I believe the next decade is or was called the dawn of the Jazz age.
1. Louis Armstrong – When the saints go marching in
2. Fats waller – aint misbehavin’
3. W.C. Handy – St. Louis Blues.
4. sweet Georgia brown
5. Hoaggy carmicheal – Star dust
6. Happy days are here again
Of course we had the depression era and the government just fell over themselves trying to get upbeat songs for people.
Tough times for people.
1. Kate smith – GOD Bless America
2. Jimmie davis and you are my Sunshine
3.Roy Acuff – Wabash Cannonball
4. Judie garland – Over the rainbow
5.Bing Crosby – Pennies from Heaven
6. Cab Calloway – Minnie the moocher
7. Shirley Temple – Good ship lollipop
8. Chuckwagon Gang – I’ll fly away.
Also the musicals Showboat and Porgy and Bess came from that era
From that era brought about a new and a fun era that lead us through Patriotism of world war 2.
1. Woody guthries – This land is your land
2.Les Brown – Sentimental journey
3. Glenn Miller – In the mood
4.Andrew sisters – Boogie woogie bugle boy
5. Lena horn – Stormy weather
6.Les brown’s Sentimental journy
7. Roy Rogers and dale evans- Happy Trails
8. Thelonius Monk – Around Midnight
9. Vaughn Monroe – Ghostriders in the sky
10.Bill Monroe – Blue moon of Kentucky
also the musicals of oklahoma and South Pacific.
From those growing times came a renewd spirt and freedom for kids to kick up their feet and get ready for american Bandstand and saturday nights at the malt shops and drive ins.
1. Ritchie valens – La Bamba
2. Chuck berry – Johnny B. Goode.
3.Everly brothers – Wake up little suzie
4. Johnny Cash – I walk the line
5. The Isley Brothers – Shout
6. The champs – Tequilla
7. Hank williams- I’m so lonesome i could cry
8.Bo Diddley- Bo diddley
9. Ray Charles – Georgia on my Mind.
10. Eddie cochran – Summertime blues
11. Danny and the juniors – At the hop.
12. Kingston Trio – Tom Dooley
13. Nat King Cole- Mona lisa
14. Bill Halley – Rock around the clock
15. Bobby Darin – Mack the knife
16. Fats domino – Blueberry Hill
17. Johnny Mathis – Chances are
18 Jerry Lee lewis – Great Balls of fire
then came the legends of Buddy Holley with Peggy Sue and that will be the day
and the king Elvis Presley with Heartbreak hotel and hound dog.
Also some great musicals like the king and I, West side story, Music Man, and My fair lady!
from their we went to the generation of free love and wild ideas in music. Some of which will never ever be touched gain not only in character but in imagination and expiermentation and that spawned the most creative generation in the history of music.
1 Beach Boys – good vibrations
2. Animals – house of the rising sun
3. Doors – Light my fire
4. Bob Dylan – The times are a changing
5 Johnny cash – Ring of fire
6. Louis armstrong- What a wonderful World
7. The byrds – Turn, turn , turn
8. James brown – I feel good
9. C.C.R. Proud Mary
10. Chubby Checker – The twist
11. Jackie DelShannon – What the world needs now
12. Dion – Abraham, Martin and John
13.Aretha franklin – Respect
14. Marvin Gaye – Heard it through the grapevine
15. Lesly gore- It’s my party
16. BB Kink – The thrill is gone
17. The tokens – the lion sleeps tonight
18. Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit
19. Jimi Hendrix – Along the watchtower
20. Sly Stone – Everyday people
21.The supremes- Stop in the name of love
22. Ben E. King – Stand by me
23. Steppenwolf – Born tobe wild
24.Percy Sledge – When a man loves a woman
25. Temptations – My Girl
26.Mama’s and the papa’s – California dreaming
27.Peter Paul and mary – Blowing in the wind
28. Henry Mancini – Moon River
29.Smokey Robinson and the miracles – The tracks of my tears
30. Roger miller – King of the road.
31.Wilson Pickett – In the midnight hour
32. Roy Orbison Pretty Woman ; Crying
33. Ottis reddng – Dock on the bay
34. Rolling Stones – Satisfaction
35. Frank Sinatra – My way; Strangers in the night.
36. Sam and dave – Soul Man
37.Simon and garfunkle – Sounds of silence
38. Sonny and cher – I got you babe
The sound of music and hair was the thing for musicals
and the last but certainly not the least is the band that turned music on it’s ears; the beatles
I want to hold your hand, Sgt. Peppers lonely hearts band. Yesterday. All you need is love
Such was the band that inspired what we think of today as the rock and roll band of tommorrow.
Then came the freedom of what we call the rock Era that brought about the expierents of new musical equipment and ideas.
The 70′s brought us. ABBA – Dancing queen
2. Bee GEES – How deep is your love; Staying Alive
3. Chicago -
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