SONG | WRITER(S), m = music, w = words | Performer with Highest Rated Version | Year |
A – You’re Adorable (The Alphabet Song) | Sid Lippman, Buddy Kaye, Fred Wise | Perry Como & the Fontane Sisters with Mitchell Ayres Orchestra | 1949 |
The Aba Daba Honeymoon | Walter Donaldson w/m), Arthur Fields (m/w) | Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan | 1914 |
Abraham, Martin and John | Dick Holler (m/w) | Dion | 1968 |
Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder | Herbert Dillea (m), Arthur Gillespie (w) | Harry MacDonough | 1901 |
Absinthe Frappe | Victor Herbert (m), Glen MacDonough (w) | Harry Davenport | 1905 |
Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive | Harold Arlen (m), Johnny Mercer (w) | Johnny Mercer & the Pied Pipers | 1945 |
Achin’ Hearted Blues | Clarence Williams, Clarence Johnson, Spencer Williams | | 1922 |
Addicted to Love | Robert Palmer | Robert Palmer | 1985 |
An Affair to Remember | Harry Warren (m), Harold Adamson (w), Leo McCarey (w) | Vic Damone | 1957 |
Africa | David Paich, Jeff Porcaro | Toto | 1982 |
The African 400 | Charles J. Roberts | Arthur Pryor | 1909 |
After You Get What You Want, You Don’t Want It | Irving Berlin | Van & Schenck | 1920 |
After You’ve Gone | Turner Layton (m), Henry Creamer (w) | Marion Harris | 1919 |
Afternoon Delight | Bill Danoff | Starland Vocal Band | 1976 |
Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now) | Phil Collins | Phil Collins | 1984 |
Aggravatin’ Papa | Roy Turk, J. Russel Robinson, Addy Brit | Marion Harris | 1923 |
Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life | Rida Johnson Young (w), Victor Herbert (m) | Fred Waring & Tom Waring | 1928 |
Ah-Ha! | James V. Monaco, Sidney Clare | | 1925 |
Ain’t Dat a Shame? | Walter Wilson, John Queen | Dan Quinn | 1901 |
Ain’t Misbehavin’ | Thomas "Fats" Waller (m), Harry Brooks (m), Andy Razaf (w) | Fats Waller | 1929 |
Ain’t No Mountain High Enough | Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson | Diana Ross | 1970 |
Ain’t She Sweet? | Milton Ager (m), Jack Yellen (w) | Ben Bernie with Scrappy Lambert & Billy Hillpot | 1927 |
Ain’t That a Shame | Dave Bartholomew, Fats Domino | Fats Domino | 1955 |
Ain’t We Got Fun? | Gus Kahn, Raymond B. Egan, Richard Whiting | Van & Schenck | 1921 |
Ain’t You Ashamed | Seymour Simons, Sid Mitchell, Lew Brown | Coon-Sanders Night Hawks | 1923 |
Alabama Jubilee | Jack Yellen, George L. Cobb | Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan | 1915 |
Alabamy Bound | Ray Henderson, Buddy DeSylva, Bud Green | Blossom Seeley | 1925 |
Alcoholic Blues | Edward Laska, Albert Von Tilzer | Billy Murray | 1919 |
Alexander (Don’t You Love Your Baby No More?) | Harry Von Tilzer, Andrew B. Sterling | Billy Murray | 1904 |
Alexander’s Got a Jazz Band Now | Buddy DeSylva, Chris Schonberg | Sophie Tucker | 1917 |
Alexander’s Ragtime Band | Irving Berlin (m/w) | Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan | 1911 |
Alice Blue Gown (aka "In My Sweet Little Alice Blue Gown") | Harry Tierney (m), Joseph McCarthy (w) | Edith Day | 1920 |
Alice’s Restaurant | Arlo Guthrie | Arlo Guthrie | 1967 |
All 4 Love | Color Me Badd, Howard Thompson | Color Me Badd | 1991 |
All Aboard for Dixieland | George L. Cobb, Jack Yellen | Ada Jones & the Peerless Quartet | 1914 |
All Alone | Irving Berlin (m/w) | Al Jolson with Ray Miller’s Orchestra | 1925 |
All Alone Monday | Harry Ruby, Bert Kalmar | Nat Shilkret with Johnny Marvin | 1927 |
All by Myself | Irving Berlin (m/w) | Ted Lewis | 1921 |
All for Love | Bryan Adams, Robert John "Mutt" Lange, Michael Kamen | Bryan Adams with Sting & Rod Stewart | 1993 |
All I Do Is Dream of You | Nacio Herb Brown (m), Arthur Freed (w) | Jan Garber with Fritz Heilbron | 1934 |
All I Have to Do Is Dream | Boudleaux Bryant | The Everly Brothers | 1958 |
All I Wanna Do | Sheryl Crow, Wyn Cooper, Bill Bottrell, David Baerwald, Kevin Gilbert | Sheryl Crow | 1993 |
All in, Down and Out | Chris Smith (m), Billy Johnson (m), Elmer Bowman (m), Cecil Mack (w) | Bert Williams | 1906 |
All Muddled Up | Percy Wenrich | Zez Confrey | 1922 |
All Night Blues | Richard Jones | Callie Vassar | 1923 |
All Night Long (All Night) | Lionel Richie | Lionel Richie | 1983 |
All of Me | Seymour Simons, Gerald Marks | Louis Armstrong | 1932 |
All or Nothing at All | Arthur Altman (m), Jack Lawrence (w) | Harry James with Frank Sinatra | 1939 |
All Over Nothing at All | James Rule, J. Keirn Brennan, Paul Cunningham | Nora Bayes | 1922 |
All She’d Say Was "Umh-Hum" | Mac Emery, King Zany, Van & Schenck, Harry Von Tilzer | Van & Schenck | 1921 |
All Shook Up | Otis Blackwell, Elvis Presley | Presley, Elvis | 1957 |
All That Jazz | John Kander (m), Fred Ebb (w) | Chita Rivera | 1975 |
All the Quakers Are Shoulder Shakers Down in Quaker Town | Pete Wending (m), Bert Kalmar (w), Edgar Leslie (w) | All-Star Trio | 1919 |
All the Things You Are | Jerome Kern (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w) | Tommy Dorsey with Jack Leonard | 1939 |
All the Way | Jimmy Van Heusen (m), Sammy Cahn (w) | Frank Sinatra | 1957 |
All Through the Night | Cole Porter (m/w) | Paul Whiteman with Bob Lawrence | 1934 |
All You Need Is Love | John Lennon, Paul McCartney | The Beatles | 1967 |
Alligator Crawl | Thomas "Fats" Waller, Andy Razaf, Joe Davis | Fats Waller | 1937 |
Almost Like Being in Love | Frederick Loewe (m), Alan Jay Lerner (w) | Frank Sinatra | 1947 |
Alone | Billy Steinberg, Tom Kelly | Heart | 1987 |
Alone Again Naturally | Gilbert O’Sullivan | Gilbert O’Sullivan | 1972 |
Alone at Last | Ted Fiorito, Gus Kahn | Carl Fenton with Frank Munn | 1925 |
Always | Jonathan Lewis, David Lewis, Wayne Lewis | George Olsen with Fran Frey, Bob Rice, & Edward Joyce | 1926 |
Always | Irving Berlin (m/w) | Atlantic Starr | 1987 |
Always True to You in My Fashion | Cole Porter (m/w) | Lisa Kirk | 1948 |
Am I Blue? | Akst, Harry (m), Grant Clarke (w) | Ethel Waters | 1929 |
American Pie | Don McLean | Don McLean | 1971 |
American Woman | Randy Bachman, Burton Cummings, Jim Kale, Garry Peterson | The Guess Who | 1970 |
And I Am All Alone | Jerome Kern (m), P.G. Wodehouse (w) | Henry Burr | 1916 |
And They Called It Dixieland (They Made It Twice As Nice As Paradise) | Raymond Egan, Richard Whiting | Geoffrey O’Hara | 1916 |
Angel Child | George Price, Abner Silver, Benny Davis | Al Jolson with Charles Prince’s Orchestra | 1922 |
Angie | Mick Jagger, Keith Richards | The Rolling Stones | 1973 |
Angry | Henry Brunies, Merritt Brunies, Jules Cassard, Dudley Mecum | Art Gillham | 1925 |
Another Brick in the Wall Part II | Roger Waters | Pink Floyd | 1979 |
Another Day in Paradise | Phil Collins | Phil Collins | 1989 |
Another One Bites the Dust | John Deacon | Queen | 1980 |
Anti Rag-Time Girl | Elsie Janis | Elsie Janis | 1913 |
Any Ice Today, Lady? | Pat Ballard | Fred Waring’s Pennsylvanians | 1926 |
Any Rags? | Thomas S. Allen | Arthur Collins | 1903 |
Any Time Blues | Herbert Happy Lawson | Eddie Fisher | 1951 |
Anything for You | Gloria Estefan | Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine | 1987 |
Anything Goes | Cole Porter (m/w) | Paul Whiteman with Ramona Davies | 1934 |
Anything You Can Do | Irving Berlin (m/w) | Ethel Merman with Ray Middleton | 1946 |
Anytime, Anyday, Anywhere | Max Kortlander, Louis Weslyn | Paul Whiteman | 1921 |
April in Paris | Vernon Duke (m), E. Y. "Yip" Harburg (w) | Count Basie | 1956 |
April Love | Sammy Fain, Paul Webster | Pat Boone | 1957 |
April Showers | Buddy DeSylva, Louis Silvers | Al Jolson with Charles Prince’s Orchestra | 1922 |
Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In | Galt MacDermot, James Rado, Gerome Ragni | The 5th Dimension | 1969 |
Are You from Dixie? (‘Cause I’m from Dixie Too) | George L. Cobb, Jack Yellen | Billy Murray with Irving Kaufman | 1916 |
Are You Happy? | Milton Ager, Jack Yellen | Van & Schenck | 1921 |
Are You Having Any Fun? | Sammy Fain (m), Jack Yellen (w) | Tommy Dorsey & Edythe Wright | 1939 |
Are You Lonesome Tonight? | Lou Handman, Roy Turk | Presley, Elvis | 1960 |
The Argentines, the Portuguese, and the Greeks | Crey Morgan, Arthur Swanstrom | Nora Bayes | 1920 |
Arkansas Blues | Anton Lada, Spencer Williams | Noble Sissle & Eubie Blake with Their Sizzling Syncopators | 1922 |
Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do) | Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager, Christopher Cross, Peter Allen | Christopher Cross | 1981 |
As Long As I Live | Harold Arlen (m), Ted Koehler (w) | Benny Goodman | 1941 |
As Time Goes By | Herman Hupfeld (m/w) | Dooley Wilson | 1942 |
At Sundown When Love Is Calling Me Home | Walter Donaldson (m/w) | George Olsen with Bob Borger, Fran Frey, & Bob Rice | 1927 |
At the Ball, That’s All | J. Leubrie Hill | | 1913 |
At the Devil’s Ball | Irving Berlin (m/w) | Peerless Quartet | 1913 |
At the High Brown Babies’ Ball | Ernie Erdman, Sid Erdman, Benny Davis | Yerke’s Novelty Five | 1919 |
At the Hop | Artie Singer, John Medora, David White | Danny & the Juniors | 1957 |
At the Mississippi Cabaret | Albert Gumble, A. Seymour Brown | American Quartet | 1915 |
Aunt Hagar’s Children Blues (aka “Aunt Hagar’s Blues”) | W.C. Handy, J. Tim Brymn | Ted Lewis | 1923 |
Auntie Skinner’s Chicken Dinner | Theodore Morse, Arthur Fields, Earl Carroll | Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan | 1915 |
Autumn in New York | Vernon Duke (m/w) | Frank Sinatra | 1949 |
Autumn Leaves | Joseph Kosma (m), Johnny Mercer (w), Jacques Prevert (w) | Roger Williams | 1955 |
Avalon | Vincent Rose (m/w), Buddy DeSylva (w), Al Jolson (w) | Al Jolson with Charles Prince’s Orchestra | 1920 |
SONG | WRITER(S), m = music, w = words | Performer with Highest Rated Version | Year |
Baby Baby | Amy Grant, Keith Thomas | Amy Grant | 1991 |
Baby Face | Harry Akst, Benny Davis | Jan Garber & Benny Davis | 1926 |
Baby Got Back | Sir Mix-A-Lot | Sir Mix-A-Lot | 1992 |
Baby It’s Cold Outside | Frank Loesser (m/w) | Johnny Mercer & Margaret Whiting | 1949 |
Baby Love | Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Eddie Holland | The Supremes | 1964 |
Baby One More Time | Max Martin | Britney Spears | 1998 |
Baby Won’t You Please Come Home | Clarence Williams (m), Charles Warfield (w) | Bessie Smith | 1923 |
Back in My Arms Again | Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Eddie Holland | The Supremes | 1965 |
Back in Your Own Back Yard | Dave Dreyer, Billy Rose, Al Jolson | Ruth Etting | 1928 |
Back O’ Town Blues | L.M. Bowen, Herbie Herbedeaux | The Cotton Pickers | 1923 |
Bad | Michael Jackson | Michael Jackson | 1987 |
Bad Bad Leroy Brown | Jim Croce | Jim Croce | 1973 |
Bad Girls | Bruce Sudano, Joe Esposito, Eddie Hokenson | Donna Summer | 1979 |
Bad Moon Rising | John Fogerty | Creedence Clearwater Revival | 1969 |
Bake Dat Chicken Pie | Frank Dumont (m/w) | Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan | 1907 |
The Ballad of Davy Crockett | George Bruns, Tom Blackburn | Bill Hayes | 1955 |
The Ballad of the Green Berets | Barry Sadler, Robin Moore | SSgt Barry Sadler | 1966 |
Ballerina (aka “Dance Ballerina Dance”) | Carl Sigman (m), Bob Russell (w) | Vaughn Monroe | 1947 |
Ballin’ the Jack | Jim (James Henry) Burris (w), Chris Smith (m) | Prince’s Orchestra | 1914 |
Bambalina | Vincent Youmans, Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II | Paul Whiteman | 1923 |
Band on the Run | Paul McCartney | Paul McCartney & Wings | 1973 |
Bandana Days | Eubie Blake, Noble Sissle | Eubie Blake | 1921 |
Barbara Ann | Fred Fassert | The Beach Boys | 1965 |
Barney Google | Con Conrad, Billy Rose | Ernest Hare & Billy Jones | 1923 |
Basin Street Blues | Spencer Williams (m), Glenn Miller (w), Jack Teargarden (w) | Louis Armstrong with Earl Hines & Mancy Cara | 1938 |
Batdance | Prince | Prince | 1989 |
The Battle of New Orleans | Jimmy Driftwood | Johnny Horton | 1959 |
Baubles, Bangles and Beads | Alexander Borodin (m), Robert Wright (w), George Forrest (w) | Peggy Lee | 1953 |
Be My Life’s Companion | Bob Hilliard, Milton DeLugg | The Mills Brothers with Sy Oliver’s Orchestra | 1952 |
Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee | Stanley Murphy (w), Henry I. Marshall (m) | Ada Jones & Billy Murray | 1912 |
Be My Love | Nicholas Brodszky, Sammy Cahn | Mario Lanza | 1950 |
Beale Street Blues | W.C. Handy (m/w) | Prince’s Orchestra | 1917 |
Beale Street Mama | J. Russell Robinson, Roy Turk | Lucille Hegamin & Her Blue Flame Syncopators | 1923 |
Beat It | Michael Jackson | Michael Jackson | 1982 |
Beautiful Ohio | Robert A. King as as Mary Earl (m), Ballard MacDonald (w) | Henry Burr | 1919 |
Beauty and the Beast | Alan Menken, Howard Ashman | Celine Dion & Peabo Bryson | 1991 |
Bebe | Abner Silver, Sam Coslow | Billy Jones | 1923 |
Be-Bop Baby | Pearl Lendhurst | Ricky Nelson | 1957 |
Be-Bop-A-Lula | Gene Vincent, Sheriff Tex Davis | Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps | 1956 |
Because My Baby Don’t Mean Maybe Now | Walter Donaldson | Ruth Etting | 1928 |
Because of You | Dudley Wilkinson (m), Arthur Hammerstein (w) | Tony Bennett with Percy Faith’s Orchestra | 1951 |
Because You Loved Me | Diane Warren | Celine Dion | 1996 |
Bedelia | Jean Schwartz (m), William Jerome (w) | Haydn Quartet | 1904 |
Beer Barrel Polka (Roll Out the Barrel) | Wladimir Timm, Jaromir Vejvoda, Lew Brown | Will Glahe | 1939 |
Bee’s Knees | Ray Lopez, Ted Lewis, Leo Wood | Ted Lewis | 1922 |
Before I Met You | Jerome Kern (m), P.G. Wodehouse (w) | Vivienne Sega & Carl Randall | 1918 |
Begin the Beguine | Cole Porter (m/w) | Artie Shaw | 1938 |
Behind Your Silken Veil | Vincent Rose, Earl Burtnett, Richard Coburn | Happy Six | 1919 |
Being Alive | Stephen Sondheim | Dean Jones | 1970 |
Believe | Paul Barry, Matt Gray, Brian Higgins, Stuart McLennan, Tim Powell, Steve Torch | Cher | 1998 |
Beside a Babbling Brook | Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn | Marion Harris | 1923 |
Bessie Couldn’t Help It | Byron H. Warner, J.L. Richmond, Charles Bayha | The Diplomats | 1925 |
The Best I Get Is Much Obliged to You | Benjamin Hapgood Burt (m/w) | Louise Dresser | 1908 |
Best of My Love | Maurice White, Al McKay | Eagles | 1974 |
Best of My Love | Don Henley, Glenn Frey, John Souther | The Emotions | 1977 |
The Best Things in Life Are Free | Ray Henderson (m), Lew Brown (w), Buddy DeSylva (w) | George Olsen with Bob Borger | 1927 |
Bette Davis Eyes | Jackie DeShannon, Donna Weiss | Kim Carnes | 1981 |
Betty Co-Ed | J. Paul Fogarty, Rudy Vallee | Rudy Vallee | 1930 |
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea | Harold Arlen (m), Ted Koehler (w) | Louis Armstrong | 1932 |
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered | Richard Rodgers (m), Lorenz Hart (w) | Bill Snyder | 1950 |
Beyond the Blue Horizon | Richard A. Whiting (m), W. Franke Harling (m), Leo Robin (w) | Jeannette MacDonald | 1930 |
Big Bad Bill Is Sweet William Now | Milton Ager, Jack Yellen | Van Halen | 1982 |
Big Bad John | Jimmy Dean | Jimmy Dean | 1961 |
Big Boy | Milton Ager, Jack Yellen | Jack Sidney | 1943 |
Big Girls Don’t Cry | Bob Gaudio, Bob Crewe | The Four Seasons | 1962 |
Big Hunk O’ Love | Aaron Schroeder, Sid Wyche | Presley, Elvis | 1959 |
Bill | Jerome Kern (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w), P.G. Wodehouse (w) | Helen Morgan | 1928 |
Bill Bailey, Won’t You Please Come Home? | Hughie Cannon (m/w), Johnnie Queen | Arthur Collins | 1902 |
Billie Jean | Michael Jackson | Michael Jackson | 1982 |
Billy | James Kendis, Herman Paley, Joe Goodwin | Billy Clifford | 1911 |
Bird Dog | Boudleaux Bryant | The Everly Brothers | 1958 |
A Bird in a Gilded Cage | Arthur J. Lamb (w), Harry Von Tilzer (m) | Steve Porter | 1900 |
The Bird on Nellie’s Hat | Alfred Solman (m) Arthur J. Lamb (w) | Helen Trix | 1907 |
Birmingham Blues | Charles McCord, Matthews | Fats Waller | 1922 |
The Birth of the Blues | Ray Henderson (m), Lew Brown (w), Buddy DeSylva (w) | Paul Whiteman with Jack Fulton, Charles Gaylord & Austin Young | 1926 |
Black and White | Earl Robinson, David Arkin | Three Dog Night | 1972 |
Black and White Rag | George Botsford | Victor Orchestra | 1908 |
Black Bottom | Ray Henderson (m), Lew Brown (w), Buddy DeSylva (w) | Johnny Hamp | 1926 |
Black or White | Michael Jackson | Michael Jackson | 1991 |
Black Water | Patrick Simmons | The Doobie Brothers | 1974 |
Blinded by the Light | Bruce Springsteen | Manfred Mann’s Earth Band | 1976 |
Blowin’ in the Wind | Bob Dylan | Bob Dylan | 1963 |
Blue and Broken Hearted | Lou Handman, Grant Clarke, Edgar Leslie | Marion Harris | 1922 |
Blue Bell | Theodore F. Morse (m), Edward Madden (w) | Byron Harlan & Frank Stanley | 1904 |
Blue Danube Blues | Jerome Kern, Anne Caldwell | Carl Fenton | 1922 |
Blue Grass Blues | Elmer Schoebel, Billy Meyers | Abe Lyman | 1923 |
Blue Hoosier Blues | Abel Baer, Cliff Friend, Jack Meskill | Rose & Mae Wilton | 1923 |
Blue Moon | Richard Rodgers (m), Lorenz Hart (w) | Glen Gray with Kenny Sargent | 1935 |
Blue River | Joseph Meyer (m), Alfred Bryan (w) | Al Jolson with William Wirges’ Orchestra | 1928 |
The Blue Room | Richard Rodgers (m), Lorenz Hart (w) | The Revelers | 1926 |
Blue Skies | Irving Berlin (m/w) | Ben Selvin | 1927 |
Blue Suede Shoes | Carl Perkins | Carl Perkins | 1956 |
Blue Velvet | Bernie Wayne, Lee Morris | Bobby Vinton | 1963 |
Blueberry Hill | Vincent Rose, Al Rose, Larry Stock | Fats Domino | 1956 |
Blue-Eyed Sally | J. Russel Robinson, Al Bernard | The Dixie Stars | 1924 |
Blues in the Night (My Mama Done Tol’ Me) | Harold Arlen (m), Johnny Mercer (w) | Woody Herman | 1941 |
Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me | Arthurn N. Swanstone, Chas. R. Mc Carron, Carey Morgan | Ted Lewis | 1920 |
Bluin’ the Blues (Song and Fox Trot) | Sydney D. Mitchell, H.W.Ragas | Original Dixieland Jazz Band | 1919 |
Body and Soul | Johnny Green (m), Edward Heyman (w), Robert Sour (w), Frank Eyton (w) | Coleman Hawkins | 1940 |
Bo-La-Bo | George Fairman | Ted Lewis | 1920 |
Bon Bon Buddy | Will Marion Cook (m), Alex Rogers (w) | Billy Murray | 1908 |
Bongo on the Congo | Jerome Kern, P.G. Wodehouse | Eugene Revere with Dwight Frye & Frank McIntyre | 1924 |
Boo Hoo Hoo (You’re Gonna Cry When I’m Gone) | Bob Nelson, Harry Link, Al Lentz, Irving Aaronson | Adele Rowland | 1922 |
Boogie Oogie Oogie | Janice Marie Johnson, Perry Kibble | A Taste of Honey | 1978 |
Book of Love | Warren Davis, George Malone, Charles Patrick | The Monotones | 1958 |
Born Free | John Barry, Don Black | Roger Williams | 1966 |
Born to Be Wild | Mars Bonfire | Steppenwolf | 1968 |
Bow Wow Blues | Cliff Friend, Nat Osborne | Benny Krueger | 1922 |
The Boy Is Mine | Lashawn Daniels, Rodney Jerkins, Fred Jerkins, Brandy Norwood, Japhe Tejeda | Brandy & Monica | 1998 |
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do (fast version) | Neil Sedaka, Howard Greenfield | Neil Sedaka | 1962 |
Breeze Blow My Baby Back to Me | James F. Hanley, Ballard MacDonald, Joe Goodwin | American Quartet | 1919 |
Breezin’ Along with the Breeze | Richard Whiting, Seymour Simons, Haven Gillespie, Jerome H. Remick | Johnny Marvin | 1926 |
Bridge Over Troubled Water | Paul Simon | Simon & Garfunkel | 1970 |
Broadway Blues | Carey Morgan, Arthur Swanstrom | Nora Bayes | 1921 |
Broadway Melody | Nacio Herb Brown (m), Arthur Freed (w) | Ben Selvin | 1929 |
Broken Hearted (Here Am I) | Ray Henderson (m), Lew Brown (w), Buddy DeSylva (w) | Paul Whiteman with Jack Fulton, Charles Gaylord & Austin Young | 1927 |
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | Jay Gorney (m), E. Y. "Yip" Harburg (w) | Rudy Vallee | 1932 |
Brotherhood of Man | Frank Loesser (m/w) | Robert Morse with Sammy Smith & Ruth Kobart | 1961 |
Brown Eyes, Why Are You Blue? | George W. Meyer, Alfred Bryan | Nick Lucas | 1925 |
Brown Skin, Who You For? | Clarence Williams, Armand J. Piron | Victor Military Band | 1916 |
Brown Sugar | Harry Barris | Dixie Jazz Band | 1926 |
Brown Sugar | Mick Jagger, Keith Richards | The Rolling Stones | 1971 |
Bugle Call Rag | J. Hubert Blake (m), Carey Morgan (m) | The Mills Brothers | 1932 |
Bull Frog Blues | Tom Brown, Gus Shrigley | The Six Brown Brothers | 1916 |
Bull Frog Patrol | Jerome Kern, Anne Caldwell | The Duncan Sisters | 1919 |
The Bungalow in Quogue | Jerome Kern (m), P.G. Wodehouse (w) | Sam Hardy & Juliette Day | 1917 |
A Bushel and a Peck | Frank Loesser (m/w) | Perry Como & Betty Hutton with Mitchell Ayres Orchestra | 1950 |
But Not for Me | George Gershwin (m), Ira Gershwin (w) | Ella Fitzgerald | 1959 |
Button Up Your Overcoat | Ray Henderson (m), Lew Brown (w), Buddy DeSylva (w) | Helen Kane | 1929 |
Buttons and Bows | Jay Livingston (m), Ray Evans (w) | Dinah Shore & Her Harper Valley Boys | 1948 |
Buzzin’ the Bee | Jack Wells | May Irwin | 1916 |
By the Beautiful Sea | Harold R. Atteridge (w), Harry Carroll (m) | Heidelberg Quintet | 1914 |
By the Light of the Silvery Moon | Edward Madden (w), Gus Edwards (m) | Billy Murray & the Haydn Quartet | 1910 |
By the Watermelon Vine, Lindy Lou | Thomas S. Allen (m/w) | Bob Roberts | 1904 |
Bye Bye Blackbird | Ray Henderson (m), Mort Dixon (w) | Gene Austin | 1926 |
Bye Bye Blues | Fred Hamm, Dave Bennett, Bert Lown, Chauncey Gray | Bert Lown | 1930 |
Bye Bye Love | Boudleaux Bryant, Felice Bryant | The Everly Brothers | 1957 |
Bye Bye Pretty Baby | Jack Gardner, Spike Hamilton | Abe Lyman | 1927 |
SONG | WRITER(S), m = music, w = words | Performer with Highest Rated Version | Year |
Cabaret | John Kander (m), Fred Ebb (w) | Louis Armstrong | 1968 |
Cake Walking Babies from Home | Chris Smith, Henry Troy, Clarence Williams | Clarence Williams’ Blue Five with Eva Taylor | 1925 |
The Cakewalk in the Sky | Ben Harney | Victor Dance Orchestra | 1899 |
California Dreamin’ | John Phillips, Michelle Phillips | The Mamas & the Papas | 1966 |
California Girls | Brian Wilson | The Beach Boys | 1965 |
California Here I Come | Joseph Meyer, Buddy DeSylva, Al Jolson | Al Jolson with Isham Jones’ Orchestra | 1924 |
Call Me | Deborah Harry, Giorgio Moroder | Blondie | 1980 |
Call Me Irresponsible | Jimmy Van Heusen (m), Sammy Cahn (w) | Frank Sinatra | 1963 |
Camelot | Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lerner | Richard Harris | 1967 |
Can This Be Love? | Kay Swift, Paul James | Arden-Ohman Orchestra with Frank Luther | 1930 |
Can You Feel the Love Tonight | Elton John, Tim Rice | Elton John | 1994 |
Canadian Capers | Gus Chandler (m/w), Bert White (m/w), Henry Cohen (m/w) | Paul Whiteman | 1921 |
Candle in the Wind 1997 (Goodbye England’s Rose) | Elton John, Bernie Taupin | Elton John | 1997 |
Candy | David Mack, Joan Whitney, Alex Kramer | Johnny Mercer with Jo Stafford & the Pied Pipers | 1945 |
The Candy Man | Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley | Sammy Davis Jr. with the Mike Curb Congregation | 1972 |
Cannon Ball | Jos. C. Northup | Home Guards Band | 1905 |
Can’t Buy Me Love | John Lennon, Paul McCartney | The Beatles | 1964 |
Can’t Help Falling in Love | Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore, George David Weiss | Presley, Elvis | 1961 |
Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man | Jerome Kern (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w) | Ben Bernie with Vaughn Deleath | 1928 |
Can’t We Be Friends? | Kay Swift (m), Paul James aka James Warburg (w) | Libby Holman | 1929 |
Can’t We Talk It Over? | Victor Young, Ned Washington | Bing Crosby & the Mills Brothers | 1932 |
Careless Whisper | George Michael, Andrew Ridgeley | George Michael | 1984 |
Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run) | Keith Diamond, Billy Ocean | Billy Ocean | 1984 |
The Carioca | Vincent Youmans (m), Edward Eliscu (w), Gus Kahn (w) | Eric Madriguera with Patricia Gillmore | 1934 |
Carol | Chuck Berry (m/w) | Chuck Berry | 1958 |
Carolina in the Morning | Gus Kahn, Walter Donaldson | Van & Schenck | 1923 |
Carolina Shout | James P. Johnson | James P. Johnson | 1922 |
Casey Jones | T. Lawrence Seibert (w), Eddie Newton (m), Wallace Saunders | American Quartet with Billy Murray | 1910 |
The Castle Walk | James Reese Europe, Ford Dabney | Irene & Vernon Castle | 1914 |
Catch a Falling Star | Paul Vance, Lee Pockriss | Perry Como | 1957 |
Cathy’s Clown | Don Everly, Phil Everly | The Everly Brothers | 1960 |
Cat’s in the Cradle | Harry Chapin, Sandy Chapin | Harry Chapin | 1974 |
Cecelia | Dave Dreyer (m), Herman Ruby (w) | "Whispering" Jack Smith | 1925 |
Celebration | Robert "Kool" Bell, Ronald Bell, George Brown, Robert Mickens, Claydes Smith, James "J.T." Taylor, Dennis "D.T." Thomas, Earl Eugene Toon Jr., Eumir Deodato | Kool & the Gang | 1980 |
Centerfold | Seth Justman | J. Geils Band | 1981 |
Chain Gang | Sam Cooke | Sam Cooke | 1960 |
Chances Are | Robert Allen (m), Al Stillman (m) | Johnny Mathis | 1957 |
Changes | Walter Donaldson | Paul Whiteman with Bing Crosby, Al Rinker, Harry Barris, Jack Fulton, Charles Gaylor, & Austin Young | 1928 |
Chansonette | Rudolf Friml (m), Dailey Paskman (w), Sigmund Spareth (w), Irving Caesar (w) | Paul Whiteman | 1923 |
Chantilly Lace | J.P. Richardson | The Big Bopper | 1958 |
Chariots of Fire - Titles | Vangelis | Vangelis | 1981 |
Charleston | James P. Johnson, Cecil Mack | Arthur Gibbs & His Gang | 1924 |
Charleston Baby of Mine | Dan Dougherty (m), Bernie Grossman (w) | Don Bestor | 1925 |
Charleston Charley | Gene Austin, Emmet O’Hara, Irving Mills | Marion Harris | 1924 |
Charley, My Boy | Ted Fiorito, Gus Kahn | Eddie Cantor | 1924 |
Charlie Brown | Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller | The Coasters | 1959 |
Charmaine | Erno Rapee, Lew Pollack | Guy Lombardo with Weston Vaughan | 1927 |
Chattanooga Choo Choo | Harry Warren (m), Mack Gordon (w) | Glenn Miller with Tex Beneke & the Four Modernaires | 1941 |
Cheatin’ on Me | Lew Pollack (m), Jack Yellen (w) | Ben Bernie | 1925 |
Cheek to Cheek | Irving Berlin (m/w) | Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers with Leo Reisman’s Orchestra | 1935 |
Cherish | Terry Kirkman | The Association | 1966 |
Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White | Jacques Larue, Mack David | Perez "Prez" Prado | 1955 |
Chicago (That Toddlin’ Town) | Fred Fisher (m/w) | Ben Selvin | 1922 |
Chicken Reel | Joseph M. Daly (m) | Byron Harlan & Frank Stanley | 1911 |
Chim Chim Cher-ee | Richard Sherman, Robert Sherman | Julie Andrews with Dick Van Dyke, Dotrice, & Garber | 1964 |
China Boy | Dick Winfree, Phil Boutelje, Art Tatum | McKenzie & Condon’s Chicagoans | 1927 |
Chinatown, My Chinatown | Jean Schwartz (m), William Jerome (w) | American Quartet | 1915 |
Chirpin’ the Blues | Alberta Hunter, Lovie Austin | Bessie Smith | 1923 |
Chloe (Song of the Swamp) | Neil Moret, Gus Kahn | Spike Jones & His City Slickers with Red Ingle | 1945 |
The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) | Mel Tormé, Robert Wells (w) | Nat "King" Cole | 1946 |
Church Street Sobbin’ Blues | Anton Lada, Jos. Crawley, Al Nunez | Louisiana Five | 1919 |
Clap Hands! Here Comes Charley! | Joseph Meyer (m), Billy Rose (w), Ballard MacDonald (w) | Johnny Marvin | 1926 |
Clap Yo’ Hands | George Gershwin (m), Ira Gershwin (w) | Roger Wolfe Kahn | 1927 |
Clarinet Marmalade | Larry Shields, Henry Ragas | Fletcher Henderson | 1926 |
Clementine from New Orleans | Harry Warren (m), Henry Creamer (w) | Blossom Seeley | 1927 |
Cleopatterer | Jerome Kern (m), P.G. Wodehouse (w) | Georgia O’Ramey | 1917 |
Cocktails for Two | Sam Coslow, Arthur Johnston | Duke Ellington | 1934 |
Cold Hearted | Elliott Wolff | Paula Abdul | 1988 |
Collegiate | Moe Jaffe, Nat Bonx | Fred Waring’s Pennsylvanians | 1925 |
Colors of the Wind | Alan Menken (m), Steven Schwartz (w) | Vanessa Williams | 1995 |
Come After Breakfast, Bring ‘Long Your Lunch, and Leave ‘Fore Supper Time | Chris Smith, James Burris, J. Tim Brymn | S.H. Dudley | 1909 |
Come Down Ma Evening Star | Robert B. Smith (w), John Stromberg (m) | Mina Hickman | 1903 |
Come Josephine in My Flying Machine | Fred Fisher (m), Alfred Bryan (w) | Ada Jones & Billy Murray with the American Quartet | 1911 |
Come on Eileen | Kevin Rowland, Kevin Adams, Jim Patterson | Dexy’s Midnight Runners | 1982 |
Come Rain or Come Shine | Harold Arlen (m), Johnny Mercer (w) | Margaret Whiting with Paul Weston’s Orchestra | 1946 |
Come See about Me | Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Eddie Holland | The Supremes | 1964 |
Come Take a Trip in My Air Ship | Ren Shields (w), George Evans (m) | Billy Murray | 1905 |
Come Together | John Lennon, Paul McCartney | The Beatles | 1969 |
Coming Out of the Dark | Emilio Estefan Jr., Gloria Estefan, Jon Secada | Gloria Estefan | 1991 |
Coming Up (live at Glasgow) | Paul McCartney | Paul McCartney & Wings | 1980 |
Coney Island Washboard | Hampton Durand, Jerry Adams, Ned Nestor, Aude Shugart | | 1926 |
The Continental (You Kiss While We’re Dancing) | Con Conrad (m), Herb Magidson (w) | Leo Reisman | 1934 |
Convoy | C.W. McCall, Bill Fries, Chip Davis | C.W. McCall | 1975 |
Copenhagen | Charlie Davis (m), Walter Melrose (w) | Benson Orchestra of Chicago | 1925 |
Coquette | Carmen Lombardo (m), Johnny Green (m), Gus Kahn (w) | Rudy Vallee | 1929 |
Cotton | Albert von Tilzer | Duke Ellington with Ivie Anderson | 1935 |
Cotton Belt Blues | Spencer Williams | Lizzie Miles | 1923 |
Could I? I Certainly Could | Milton Ager (m), Jack Yellen (w) | Sophie Tucker | 1926 |
Cracklin’ Rosie | Neil Diamond | Neil Diamond | 1970 |
Crazy Blues | Peter Bradford | Mamie Smith | 1920 |
Crazy for You | Jon Lind, John Bettis | Madonna | 1985 |
Crazy Little Thing Called Love | Freddie Mercury | Queen | 1979 |
Crazy Quilt | Paul F. Van Loan | Charles Creath’s Jazz-O-Matics | 1926 |
Crazy Rhythm | Roger Wolfe Kahn (m), Joseph Meyer (m), Irving Caesar (w) | Roger Wolfe Kahn with Franklyn Baur | 1928 |
Crazy Words, Crazy Tune | Milton Ager (m), Jack Yellen (w) | Frank Crumit | 1927 |
Cream | Prince | Prince | 1991 |
Creole Belle | George Sidney (w), J. Bodewalt Lampe (m) | Metropolitan Orchestra | 1902 |
The Crickets Are Calling | Jerome Kern (m), P.G. Wodehouse (w) | | 1917 |
Crimson and Clover | Tommy James, Peter Lucia | Tommy James & the Shondells | 1968 |
Crinoline Days | Irving Berlin | Paul Whiteman | 1923 |
Crocodile Rock | Elton John, Bernie Taupin | Elton John | 1972 |
Cross Words Between Sweetie and Me | Billy Heagney (m), Bert Reed (m), Bob Schafer (w), Fred Steele (w) | Jan Garber | 1925 |
Cruising Down the River on a Sunday Afternoon | Eily Beadell, Nell Tollerton | Blue Barron & His Orchestra | 1949 |
Cry | Churchill Kohlman | Johnnie Ray & the Four Lads | 1951 |
Cry Baby Blues | George W. Meyer (m), Sam M. Lewis (w), Joe Young (w) | Gene Rodemich | 1921 |
Crying | Joe Melson, Roy Orbison | Roy Orbison | 1961 |
Cuban Moon | Norman Spencer, Joe McKiernan | Carl Fenton | 1920 |
The Cubanola Glide | Vincent P. Bryan (w), Harry Von Tilzer (m) | Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan | 1910 |
Cuddle Up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine | Otto A. Harbach (w), Karl L. Hoschna (m) | Ada Jones & Billy Murray | 1908 |
A Cup of Coffee, a Sandwich, and You | Joseph Meyer (m), Al Dubin (w), Billy Rose (w) | Gertrude Lawrence with Jack Buchanan | 1926 |
The Curse of an Aching Heart | Al. Piantadosi (m), Henry Fink (w) | Will Oakland | 1913 |
SONG | WRITER(S), m = music, w = words | Performer with Highest Rated Version | Year |
Da Doo Ron Ron (When He Walked Me Home) | Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, Phil Spector | The Crystals | 1963 |
Da Ya Think I’m Sexy? | Rod Stewart, Carmine Appice | Rod Stewart | 1978 |
Dainty Miss | Bernard Barnes | Nat Shilkret | 1924 |
Daisies Won’t Tell | Anita Owen (m/w) | Arthur Clough | 1910 |
Dallas Blues | Hart A. Wand | Ted Lewis | 1931 |
Dance of the Grizzly Bear | George Botsford (m), Irving Berlin (w) | American Quartet with Billy Murray | 1911 |
Dance with a Dolly with a Hole in Her Stocking | Terry Shand (m), Jimmy Eaton (w), Mickey Leader (w) | Russ Morgan with Al Jennings | 1944 |
Dancin’ Dan | Jack Stanley (m), William Tracey (w) | Original Memphis Five | 1923 |
Dancing Fool | Ted Snyder (m), Harry B. Smith (w), Francis Wheeler (w) | Club Royal Orchestra | 1922 |
Dancing in the Dark | Arthur Schwartz (m), Howard Dietz (w) | Artie Shaw | 1941 |
Dancing in the Dark | Bruce Springsteen | Bruce Springsteen | 1984 |
Dancing Queen | Benny Andersson, Bjorn Ulvaeus | Abba | 1976 |
Dangerous Blues | Billy Brown, Anna Welker Brown | Mamie Smith | 1921 |
Daniel | Elton John, Bernie Taupin | Elton John | 1973 |
Dardanella | Johnny S. Black (m), Felix Bernard (m), Fred Fisher (w) | Ben Selvin | 1920 |
Darktown Strutters’ Ball | Shelton Brooks (m/w) | Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan | 1918 |
Darn That Dream | Jimmy Van Heusen (m), Eddie De Lange (w) | Benny Goodman with Mildred Bailey | 1940 |
The Daughter of Rosie O’Grady | Monty C. Brice (w), Walter Donaldson (m) | Lewis James (as Robert Lewis) | 1918 |
Day by Day | Stephen Schwartz, John-Michael Tebelak | Godspell | 1972 |
Day by Day | Axel Stordahl (m), Paul Weston (m), Sammy Cahn (w) | Frank Sinatra | 1946 |
Daydream Believer | John Stewart | The Monkees | 1967 |
The Days of Wine and Roses | Henry Mancini (m), Johnny Mercer (w) | Henry Mancini | 1963 |
Dear Hearts and Gentle People | Sammy Fain (m), Bob Hilliard (w) | Bing Crosby with Perry Botkin’s Orchestra | 1949 |
Dear Little Boy of Mine | Ernest R. Ball (m), J. Kiern Brennan (w) | Charles Harrison | 1918 |
Dearie | Bob Hilliard, Dave Mann | Ethel Merman & Ray Bolger with Sy Oliver’s Orchestra | 1950 |
Decatur Street Blues | Clarence Williams, T.A. Hammed | Leona Williams & Her Dixie Band | 1922 |
Dede Dinah | Pete DeAngelis (m), Bob Marcucci (w) | Frankie Avalon | 1957 |
Deed I Do | Fred Rose (m), Walter Hirsch (w) | Ruth Etting | 1927 |
Deep Henderson | Fred Rose (m/w) | Charley Straight & His Orchestra | 1926 |
Deep in My Heart | Sigmund Romburg (m), Dorothy Donnelly (w) | Franklyn Baur with Benny Krueger | 1924 |
Deep Purple | Peter DeRose (m), Mitchell Parish (w) | Larry Clinton with Bea Wain | 1939 |
The Desert Song | Sigmund Romberg (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w), Otto Harbach (w), Frank Mandel (w) | Nat Shilkret with Mischa Russell’s Orchestra | 1927 |
Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend | Jule Styne (m), Leo Robin (w) | Marilyn Monroe | 1953 |
Diane (I’m in Heaven When I See You Smile) | Erno Rapee, Lew Pollack | Nat Shilkret | 1927 |
Did You Mean It? | Abe Lyman, Phil Baker, Sid Silvers | Nat Shilkret | 1928 |
Didn’t We Almost Have It All | Will Jennings, Michael Masser | Whitney Houston | 1987 |
Diga-Diga-Doo | Jimmy McHugh (m), Dorothy Fields (w) | Duke Ellington & Irving Mills | 1928 |
Dill Pickles Rag | Charles L. Johnson | Arthur Pryor’s Band | 1910 |
Dinah | Harry Akst (m), Sam M. Lewis (w), Joe Young (w) | Bing Crosby & the Mills Brothers | 1932 |
Dixie Moon | Eubie Blake (m), Noble Sissle (w) | | 1924 |
Dizzy | Tommy Roe, Freddy Weller | Tommy Roe | 1969 |
Dizzy Fingers | Zez Confrey | Zez Confrey | 1927 |
Do Do Do | George Gershwin (m), Ira Gershwin (w) | Gertrude Lawrence | 1927 |
Do It Again | George Gershwin (m), Buddy DeSylva (w) | Paul Whiteman | 1922 |
Do Something | Sam Stept (m), Bud Green (w) | Helen Kane | 1929 |
Do That to Me One More Time | Toni Tennille | Captain & Tennille | 1979 |
Do Wah Diddy Diddy | Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich | Manfred Mann | 1964 |
Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? | Louis Alter (m), Eddie De Lange (w) | Louis Armstrong | 1946 |
Do You Want to Dance | Robert Freeman | Bobby Freeman | 1958 |
Doctor Jazz | Joseph Oliver (m), Walter Melrose (w) | Jelly Roll Morton | 1927 |
Does the Spearmint Lose Its Flavour on the Bedpost Overnight? | Ernest Breuer (m), Marty Bloom (w), Billy Rose (w) | Ernest Hare & Billy Jones | 1924 |
The Doggie in the Window | Bob Merrill (m/w) | Patti Page | 1953 |
Doin’ the New Low Down | Jimmy McHugh (m), Dorothy Fields (w) | Don Redman & His Orchestra with Bill Robinson | 1932 |
Doin’ What Comes Naturally | Irving Berlin (m/w) | Freddy Martin with Glenn Hughes | 1946 |
The Doll Dance | Nacio Herb Brown | Nat Shilkret | 1927 |
Dominique | Soeur Sourire (m), Randy Sparks (w) | The Singing Nun | 1963 |
The Donkey Serenade | Rudolf Friml (m), Herbert Stothart (m), Bob White (w), Chet Forrest (w) | Allan Jones with Nat Shilkret’s Orchestra | 1938 |
Don’t Be Cruel | Otis Blackwell, Elvis Presley | Presley, Elvis | 1956 |
Don’t Bring Lulu | Ray Henderson (m), Billy Rose (w), Lew Brown (w) | Ernest Hare & Billy Jones | 1925 |
Don’t Cry for Me Argentina | Andrew Lloyd Webber (m), Tim Rice (w) | Madonna | 1996 |
Don’t Fence Me In | Cole Porter (m/w) | Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen's Orchestra | 1944 |
Don’t Get Around Much Anymore | Duke Ellington (m), Bob Russell (w) | The Ink Spots | 1943 |
Don’t Go Breaking My Heart | Ann Orson, Carte Blanche | Elton John & Kiki Dee | 1976 |
Don’t Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes | Slim Willet | Perry Como & the Ramblers with Mitchell Ayres Orchestra | 1952 |
Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree with Anyone Else But Me | Sam Stept, Charlie Tobias, Lew Brown | Glenn Miller with Marion Hutton, Tex Beneke, & the Modernaires | 1942 |
Don’t Stop | Christine McVie | Fleetwood Mac | 1977 |
Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right | Bob Dylan | Bob Dylan | 1963 |
Don’t Worry, Be Happy | Bobby McFerrin | Bobby McFerrin | 1988 |
Doo Wacka Doo | Clarence Gaskill, Will Donaldson, George Horther | Paul Whiteman | 1924 |
Doodle Doo Doo | Art Kassel, Mel Stitzel | Eddie Cantor | 1924 |
Down Among the Sheltering Palms | James Brockman (w), Abe Olman (m) | Lyric Quartet | 1915 |
Down Among the Sugar Cane | Avery (w), Hart (w), Cecil Mack (m), Chris Smith (m) | Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan | 1909 |
Down by the O-hi-O (I’ve Got the Sweetest Little O, My! O!) | Abe Olman (m), Jack Yellen (w) | Billy Murray with Billy Jones (as Victor Roberts) | 1921 |
Down by the Old Mill Stream | Tell Taylor (m/w) | Harry MacDonough | 1911 |
Down Hearted Blues | Lovie Austin (m), Alberta Hunter (w) | Bessie Smith | 1923 |
Down Home Rag | Wilbur C.S. Sweatman | Europe’s Society Orchestra | 1914 |
Down in Georgia on Camp Meeting Day | Nathan Bivins (m), John Madison Reed (w) | Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan | 1907 |
Down in Honky Tonk Town | Chris Smith (m), Chas. McCarron (w) | Victor Military Band | 1916 |
Down in Jungle Town | Edward Madden (w), Theodore F. Morse (m) | Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan | 1908 |
Down on the Corner | John Fogerty | Creedence Clearwater Revival | 1969 |
Down South Blues | Fletcher Henderson, Ethel Waters, Alberta Hunter | The Virginians | 1923 |
Down Under | Colin Hay, Ron Strykert | Men at Work | 1981 |
Down Where the Wurzburger Flows | Vincent P. Bryan (w), Harry Von Tilzer (m) | Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan | 1902 |
Down Yonder | L. Wolfe Gilbert | Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers | 1934 |
Downtown | Tony Hatch | Petula Clark | 1964 |
Dream (When You’re Feeling Blue) | Johnny Mercer (m/w) | The Pied Pipers with Paul Weston’s Orchestra | 1945 |
Dream a Little Dream of Me | Wilbur Schwandt (m), Fabian Andre (m), Gus Kahn (w) | Wayne King with Ernie Burchill | 1931 |
Dream Along with Me (I’m on My Way to a Star) | Carl Sigman (m/w) | Perry Como | 1956 |
A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes | Jerry Livingston, Mack David, Al Hoffman | Ilene Woods | 1950 |
Dreamlover | Mariah Carey, Dave Hall | Mariah Carey | 1993 |
Dreams | Stevie Nicks | Fleetwood Mac | 1977 |
The Duck’s Quack | Hannibal Maguire (m/w) | The Cotton Pickers | 1923 |
Duke of Earl | Bernice Williams, Eugene Dixon, Earl Edwards | Gene Chandler | 1961 |
Dumbell | Zez Confrey (m/w) | Zez Confrey | 1922 |
Dusky Stevedore | J.C. Johnson (m), Andy Razaf (w) | Nat Shilkret with Elliott Shaw & Wilfred Glenn | 1928 |
SONG | WRITER(S), m = music, w = words | Performer with Highest Rated Version | Year |
Hail! Hail! the Gang’s All Here | D.A. Esrom (w), Theodore Morse (m), Arthur Sullivan (m) | Irving Kaufman & the Columbia Quartet | 1918 |
Hallelujah! | Vincent Youmans (m), Clifford Grey (w), Leo Robin (w) | Nat Shilkret with Franklyn Baur | 1927 |
The Halls of Ivy | Henry Russell, Vic Knight | Voices of Walter Schumann | 1950 |
Handful of Keys | Fats Waller | Fats Waller | 1933 |
Handy Man | Otis Blackwell, Jimmy Jones, Charles Merenstein | James Taylor | 1977 |
Hangin’ Around | Fred Hamm (m), Jack Gardner (m), Harry Harris (w) | Ray Allen | 1926 |
Hanky Panky | Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich | Tommy James & the Shondells | 1966 |
Happy Days and Lonely Nights | Fred Fisher (m), Billy Rose (w) | Ruth Etting | 1928 |
Happy Days Are Here Again | Milton Ager (m), Jack Yellen (w) | Ben Selvin | 1930 |
Happy Happy Birthday Baby | Margo Sylvia Beach, Gilbert Lopez | Ronnie Milsap | 1986 |
Happy Together | Gary Bonner, Alan Gordon | The Turtles | 1967 |
A A Hard Day’s Night | John Lennon, Paul McCartney | The Beatles | 1964 |
Hard to Say I’m Sorry | David Foster, Peter Cetera | Chicago | 1982 |
Hard-Hearted Hannah, the Vamp of Savannah | Milton Ager (m), Jack Yellen (w), Bob Bigelow (w), Charles Bates (w) | Dolly Kay | 1924 |
Hard-to-Get Gertie | Milton Ager (m), Jack Yellen (w) | Irving Aaronson & His Commanders | 1926 |
Harper Valley P.T.A. | Tom T. Hall | Jeannie C. Riley | 1968 |
Harrigan | George M. Cohan (m/w) | Billy Murray | 1907 |
Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly? | C.W. Murphy (m/w), Will Letters (m/w) | Nora Bayes | 1910 |
Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman? | Bryan Adams, Robert John "Mutt" Lange, Michael Kamen | Bryan Adams | 1995 |
Have You Ever Seen the Rain | John Fogerty | Creedence Clearwater Revival | 1970 |
Have You Never Been Mellow | John Farrar | Olivia Newton-John | 1975 |
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas | Ralph Blane (m), Hugh Martin (w) | Judy Garland with George Stoll’s Orchestra | 1944 |
He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother | Bobby Scott (m), Bob Russell (w) | The Hollies | 1969 |
He Loves and She Loves | George Gershwin (m), Ira Gershwin (w) | Ella Fitzgerald | 1959 |
He May Be Your Man But He Comes to See Me Sometimes | Lemuel Fowler | Lucille Hegamin | 1922 |
Heart of Glass | Deborah Harry, Chris Stein | Blondie | 1978 |
Heart of Gold | Neil Young | Neil Young | 1972 |
Heartache Tonight | Glenn Frey, Don Henley, J.D. Souther, Bob Seger | Eagles | 1979 |
Heartaches | Al Hoffman (m), John Klenner (w) | Ted Weems with Elmo Tanner | 1947 |
Heartbreak Hotel | Mae Axton, Tommy Durden | Presley, Elvis | 1956 |
Heat Wave | Irving Berlin (m/w) | Glen Gray with Mildred Bailey | 1933 |
Heaven Is a Place on Earth | Ellen Shipley, Rick Nowels | Belinda Carlisle | 1987 |
Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl | Edgard Smith (w), A. Baldwin Sloane (m) | Marie Dressler | 1910 |
He’d Have to Get Under, Get Out and Get Under, to Fix Up His Automobile | Maurice Abrahams (m), Grant Clarke (w), Edgar Leslie (w) | Billy Murray | 1914 |
Heidelberg (Stein Song) | Frank Pixley (w), Gustav Luders (m) | Harry MacDonough | 1903 |
Hello | Lionel Richie | Lionel Richie | 1983 |
Hello Bluebird | Cliff Friend | Vincent Lopez with the Keller Sisters & Lynch | 1927 |
Hello Central, Give Me Heaven | Charles K. Harris (m/w) | Byron Harlan | 1901 |
Hello Central, Give Me No Man’s Land | Jean Schwartz (m), Sam M. Lewis (w), Joe Young (w) | Al Jolson with Charles Prince’s Orchestra | 1918 |
Hello Dolly! | Jerry Herrman (m/w) | Louis Armstrong & the All Stars | 1964 |
Hello Ma Baby | Joseph E. Howard (m/w), Ida Emerson (m/w) | Arthur Collins | 1899 |
Hello Young Lovers | Richard Rodgers (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w) | Perry Como with Mitchell Ayres Orchestra | 1951 |
Help Me Rhonda | Brian Wilson | The Beach Boys | 1965 |
Help! | John Lennon, Paul McCartney | The Beatles | 1965 |
Here Comes My Ball and Chain | J. Fred Coots (m), Lou Davis (w) | Coon-Sanders Orchestra | 1929 |
Here Comes My Daddy Now | L. Wolfe Gilbert (w), Lewis F. Muir (m) | Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan | 1913 |
Here Comes the Show Boat | Maceo Pinkard (m), Billy Rose (w) | Vaughn Deleath | 1928 |
He’s a Cousin of Mine | Cecil Mack (w), Chris Smith (m), Silvio Hein (m) | Bert Williams | 1907 |
He’s a Rebel | Gene Pitney | The Crystals | 1962 |
He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands | Geoff Love (adapted) | Laurie London | 1957 |
He’s So Fine | Ronald Mack (m/w) | The Chiffons | 1963 |
He’s the Last Word | Walter Donaldson (m), Gus Kahn (w) | Jane Gray | 1927 |
The Hesitating Blues | W.C. Handy | Prince’s Orchestra | 1916 |
Hey Jude | John Lennon, Paul McCartney | The Beatles | 1968 |
Hey Mr. Banjo | Freddy Morgan, Norman Malkin | The Banjo Boys | 1955 |
Hey Taxi! | Ivon DeBie (m/w) | Ernie Kovacs with Leroy Holmes | 1956 |
Hey! Baby | Margaret Cobb, Bruce Channel | Bruce Channel | 1962 |
Hiawatha (His Song to Minnehaha) | Neal Moret (m), James O’Dea | Harry MacDonough | 1903 |
High Fever | Joe Sanders (m), Charlie Harrison (w) | Coon-Sanders Orchestra | 1926 |
High Hopes | Sammy Cahn, James Van Heusen | Frank Sinatra & a Bunch of Kids | 1959 |
High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me, Oh, My Darlin’) | Ned Washington, Dmitri Tiomkin | Tex Ritter | 1952 |
High Society | Porter Steele | King Oliver | 1924 |
Higher Love | Steve Winwood, Will Jennings | Steve Winwood | 1986 |
Hindustan | Oliver Wallace (m/w), Harold Weeks (m/w) | Henry Burr with Albert Campbell | 1919 |
Hit the Road Jack | Ray Charles, Percy Mayfield | Ray Charles | 1961 |
Hit the Road to Dreamland | Harold Arlen (m), Johnny Mercer (w) | Freddie Slack | 1943 |
Hitchy Koo | L. Wolfe Gilbert (w), Lewis F. Muir (m) | American Quartet | 1912 |
Hold On | Carnie Wilson, Glen Ballard, Chynna Phillips | Wilson Phillips | 1990 |
Hold on to the Nights | Richard Marx | Richard Marx | 1987 |
Holiday for Strings | David Rose (m), Sam Gallop (w) | David Rose | 1943 |
Home Again Blues | Irving Berlin, Harry Akst | Original Dixieland Jazz Band | 1921 |
Honest and Truly | Fred Rose | Henry Burr | 1925 |
Honey | Bobby Russell | Bobby Goldsboro | 1968 |
Honey Boy | Albert Von Tilzer (m), Jack Norworth (w) | Peerless Quartet (as Columbia Male Quartet) | 1907 |
Honey Man | Al Piantadosi (m), Joe McCarthy (w) | Stella Tracey | 1911 |
Honeysuckle Rose | Thomas "Fats" Waller (m), Andy Razaf (w) | Fats Waller | 1935 |
Honky Tonk Women | Mick Jagger, Keith Richards | The Rolling Stones | 1969 |
Hooked on a Feeling | Mark James | Blue Swede | 1974 |
Hooray for Hollywood | Richard A. Whiting (m), Johnny Mercer (w) | | 1937 |
A Horse with No Name | Dewey Bunnell | America | 1971 |
Horses | Richard Whiting, Byron Gay | George Olsen with Fran Frey | 1926 |
Hot Lips (He’s Got Hot Lips When He Plays Jazz) | Henry Lange, Henry Busse, Lou Davis | Paul Whiteman | 1922 |
Hot Stuff | Pete Bellotte, Harold Faltermeyer, Keith Forsey | Donna Summer | 1979 |
Hotel California | Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Don Felder | Eagles | 1976 |
Hound Dog | Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller | Presley, Elvis | 1956 |
The House I Live In | Earl Robinson (m), Lewis Allan (w) | Frank Sinatra | 1946 |
The House of the Rising Sun | Alan Price, traditional | The Animals | 1964 |
How About You? | Tom Adair (m), Ralph Freed (w) | Tommy Dorsey with Frank Sinatra | 1942 |
How Are Things in Glocca Mora? | Burton Lane (m), E. Y. "Yip" Harburg (w) | Buddy Clark with Mitchell Ayres Orchestra | 1947 |
How Are You Goin’ to Wet Your Whistle? | Percy Wenrich, Francis Byrne, Frank McIntyre | | 1919 |
How Come You Do Me Like You Do? | Gene Austin, Roy Bergere | Marion Harris | 1924 |
How Could I Be Blue? | Dan Wilson, Andy Razaf | Roger Wolfe Kahn | 1926 |
How Could Red Riding Hood? | A.P. Randolph | Rube Wolf | 1925 |
How Deep Is the Ocean? | Irving Berlin (m/w) | Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo | 1932 |
How Deep Is Your Love | Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, Maurice Gibb | Bee Gees | 1977 |
How High the Moon | Morgan Lewis (m), Nancy Hamilton (w) | Les Paul & Mary Ford | 1951 |
How Long Has This Been Going On? | George Gershwin (m), Ira Gershwin (w) | Bobbe Arnst & Mary O’Brien | 1927 |
How Will I Know | "George Merrill, Shannon Rubicam, Narada Walden
" | Whitney Houston | 1985 |
How Ya Gonna Keep ‘Em Down on the Farm After They’ve Seen Paree | Walter Donaldson (m), Sam Lewis (w), Joy Young (w) | Nora Bayes | 1919 |
How’d You Like to Spoon with Me? | Edward Laska (w), Jerome Kern (m) | Corrine Morgan & the Haydn Quartet | 1906 |
The Hustle | Van McCoy | Van McCoy | 1975 |
SONG | WRITER(S), m = music, w = words | Performer with Highest Rated Version | Year |
I Ain’t Gonna Give Nobody None of This Jelly Roll | Clarence Williams (m), Spencer Williams (w) | Clarence Williams | 1919 |
I Ain’t Got Nobody | Roger Graham (w), Dave Peyton (m), Spencer Williams (m) | Sophie Tucker | 1927 |
I Ain’t Never Had Nobody Crazy Over Me | Jimmie Durante, Johnny Stein, Jack Roth | Broadway Syncopators | 1923 |
I Am Woman | Helen Reddy, Ray Burton | Helen Reddy | 1972 |
I Can Dream, Can’t I? | Sammy Fain (m), Irving Kahal (w) | The Andrews Sisters with Gordon Jenkins’ Orchestra | 1949 |
I Can See Clearly Now | Johnny Nash | Johnny Nash | 1972 |
I Can’t Believe That You’re in Love with Me | Jimmy McHugh (m), Clarence Gaskill (w) | Roger Wolfe Kahn | 1927 |
I Can’t Do the Sum | Glen MacDonough (w), Victor Herbert (m) | Billy Murray | 1904 |
I Can’t Get Next to You | Barrett Strong, Norman Whitfield | The Temptations | 1969 |
(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction | Mick Jagger, Keith Richard | The Rolling Stones | 1965 |
I Can’t Get Started | Vernon Duke (m), Ira Gershwin (w) | Bunny Berigan & His Orchestra | 1938 |
I Can’t Get the One I Want | Lou Handman (m), Herman Ruby (w), Billy Rose (w) | Paul Whiteman | 1924 |
I Can’t Give You Anything But Love | Jimmy McHugh (m), Dorothy Fields (w) | Cliff Edwards | 1928 |
I Can’t Go for That (No Can Do) | Daryl Hall, John Oates, Sara Allen | Hall & Oates | 1981 |
I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) | Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Eddie Holland | Four Tops | 1965 |
I Can’t Stop Loving You | Don Gibson | Ray Charles | 1962 |
I Could Be Happy with You | Sandy Wilson | Julie Andrews & John Hewer | 1954 |
I Could Have Danced All Night | Frederick Loewe (m), Alan Jay Lerner (w) | Julie Andrews | 1956 |
I Cover the Waterfront | Johnny Green (m), Edward Heyman (w) | Eddy Duchin with Lew Sherwood | 1933 |
I Cried for You | Gus Arnheim (m), Abe Lyman (m), Arthur Freed (w) | Benny Krueger | 1923 |
I Didn’t Know What Time It Was | Richard Rodgers (m), Lorenz Hart (w) | Benny Goodman with Louise Tobin | 1939 |
I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier | Alfred Brya (w), Al Piantadosi | Peerless Quartet | 1915 |
I Don’t Care | Jean Lenox, Harry O. Sutton | Damita Jo | 1953 |
I Don’t Care if the Sun Don’t Shine | Mack David | Presley, Elvis | 1954 |
I Don’t Know Why, I Just Do | Fred E. Ahlert (m), Roy Turk (w) | Wayne King with Ernie Burchill, Andy Hansen, & Bill Enger | 1931 |
I Don’t Wanna Cry | Mariah Carey, Narada Michael Walden | Mariah Carey | 1990 |
I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing | Diane Warren | Aerosmith | 1998 |
I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire | Eddie Seiler, Sol Marcus, Bennie Benjamin, Eddie Durham | Horace Heidt with Larry Colton, Donna Wood, & Don Juans | 1941 |
I Found a Million-Dollar Baby in a Five-and-Ten-Cent Store | Harry Warren (m), Billy Rose (w), Mort Dixon (w) | Fred Waring with Clare Hanlon | 1931 |
I Found a Rose in the Devil’s Garden | Fred Fisher, Willie Raskin | Sterling Trio | 1921 |
I Gave You Up Just Before You Threw Me Down | Fred Ahlert, Harry Ruby, Bert Kalmar | Billy Murray & Gladys Rice (as Rachel Grant) | 1923 |
I Get a Kick Out of You | Cole Porter (m/w) | Ethel Merman with Johnny Green’s Orchestra | 1934 |
I Get Around | Brian Wilson | The Beach Boys | 1964 |
I Got Plenty O’ Nuttin’ | George Gershwin (m), Ira Gershwin (w), Dubose Heyward (w) | Leo Reisman | 1935 |
I Got Rhythm | George Gershwin (m), Ira Gershwin (w) | Red Nichols | 1930 |
I Got You Babe | Sonny Bono | Sonny & Cher | 1965 |
I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues | Harold Arlen (m), Ted Koehler (w) | Louis Armstrong | 1933 |
I Guess I’ll Have to Change My Plan (The Blue Pajama Song) | Arthur Schwartz (m), Howard Dietz (w) | Rudy Vallee | 1932 |
I Hadn’t Anyone Till You | Ray Noble (m/w) | Tommy Dorsey with Jack Leonard | 1938 |
I Heard It Through the Grapevine | Barrett Strong, Norman Whitfield | Marvin Gaye | 1968 |
I Honestly Love You | Peter Allen, Jeff Barry | Olivia Newton-John | 1974 |
I Just Called to Say I Love You | Stevie Wonder | Stevie Wonder | 1984 |
I Just Want to Be Your Everything | Barry Gibb | Andy Gibb | 1977 |
I Know That You Know | Vincent Youmans (m), Anne Caldwell (w) | Nat Shilkret | 1927 |
I Left My Heart in San Francisco | George Cory (m), Douglas Cross (w) | Tony Bennett | 1962 |
I Love a Piano | Irving Berlin (m/w) | Billy Murray | 1916 |
I Love a Rainy Night | David Malloy, Eddie Rabbitt, Even Stevens | Rabbitt Eddie | 1980 |
I Love It! | Harry Von Tilzer (m), E. Ray Goetz (w) | Arthur Collins | 1911 |
I Love Me (I’m Wild About Myself) | Edwin J. Weber, Jack Hoins, Will Mahoney | Willie Howard | 1923 |
I Love My Baby | Harry Warren (m), Bud Green (w) | Dolly Kramer | 1926 |
I Love My Wife, But, Oh, You Kid! | Harry Armstrong, Billy Clark | Dorothy Drew | 1909 |
I Love Paris | Cole Porter (m/w) | Les Baxter | 1954 |
I Love Rock and Roll | Jake Hooker, Alan Merrill | Joan Jett & the Blackhearts | 1981 |
I Love to Go Swimmin’ with Wimmen | Sigmund Romberg (m), Ballard MacDonald (w) | Pat Rooney | 1921 |
I Love You | Harry Archer, Harlan Thompson | Paul Whiteman | 1924 |
I Love You Sunday | Charley Straight (m), Charles F. Byrne (w) | Ted Lewis | 1921 |
I Love You Truly | Carrie Jacobs-Bond (m/w) | Elsie Baker (aka "Edna Brown") | 1912 |
I Love, I Love, I Love My Wife, But Oh You Kid! | Jimmy Lucas (w), Harry Von Tilzer (m) | Arthur Collins | 1909 |
I May Be Crazy, But I Ain’t No Fool | Alex Rogers (m/w) | Bob Roberts | 1904 |
I Meet Her in the Moonlight But She Keeps Me in the Dark | Pete Wendling (m), Alfred Bryan (w), Willie Raskin (w) | Pete Wendling | 1926 |
I Might Be Your Once-in-a-While | Victor Herbert (m), Robert B. Smith (w) | John E. Young with Ada Meade | 1919 |
I Need Some Pettin’ | Ted Fiorito (m), Robert King (m), Gus Kahn (w) | Sam Heiman’s Orchestra | 1924 |
I Need You Now | Jimmie Crane, Al Jacobs | Eddie Fisher with Hugo Winterhalter’s Orchestra | 1954 |
I Never Knew I Could Love Anybody Like I’m Loving You | Tom Pitts/Ray Egan/Roy Marsh | Paul Whiteman | 1921 |
I Never Knew That Roses Grew | Ted Fiorito (m), Gus Kahn (w) | Sam Donahue with Bill Lockwood & the Blues Hues | 1947 |
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden | Joe South | Lynn Anderson | 1970 |
I Never See Maggie Alone | Everett Lynton, Harry Tilsley | Kenney Roberts | 1949 |
I Only Have Eyes for You | Harry Warren (m), Al Dubin (w) | The Flamingos | 1959 |
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus | Tommie Connor | Jimmy Boyd with Norman Luboff’s Orchestra | 1952 |
I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream | Robert King, Howard Johnson, Billy Moll | Fred Waring’s Pennsylvanians | 1928 |
I Second That Emotion | Smokey Robinson, Al Cleveland | The Miracles | 1967 |
I Shot the Sheriff | Bob Marley | Eric Clapton | 1974 |
I Surrender Dear | Harry Barnes (m), Gordon Clifford (w) | Gus Arnheim with Bing Crosby | 1931 |
I Swear | Gary Baker, Frank Myers | All-4-One | 1994 |
I Think I Love You | Tony Romeo | The Partridge Family | 1970 |
I Wanna Be Loved | Johnny Green (m), Billy Rose (w), Edward Heyman (w) | The Andrews Sisters with Gordon Jenkins’ Orchestra | 1950 |
I Wanna Be Loved by You | Harry Ruby (m), Herbert Stothart (m), Bert Kalmar (w) | Helen Kane with Leonard Joy’s Orchestra | 1928 |
I Wanna Dance with Somebody Who Loves Me | "George Merrill, Shannon Rubicam
" | Whitney Houston | 1987 |
I Wanna Go Where You Go, Do What You Do, Then I’ll Be Happy | Cliff Friend (m), Sidney Clare (w), Lew Brown (w) | Eddie Fisher | 1955 |
I Wanna Say Hello | Jimmy MacDonald (m), Jack Hoffman (w) | Ellen Sutton | 1952 |
I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl Who Married Dear Old Dad | William Dillon (w), Harry Von Tilzer (m) | Peerless Quartet | 1911 |
I Want a Little Girl | Murray Mencher (m), Billy Moll (w) | | 1930 |
I Want to Be Happy | Vincent Youmans (m), Irving Caesar (w) | Vincent Lopez | 1924 |
I Want to Hold Your Hand | John Lennon, Paul McCartney | The Beatles | 1963 |
I Want to Know What Love Is | Mick Jones | Foreigner | 1984 |
I Want to Linger | Henry I. Marshall (m), Stanley Murphy (w) | Prince’s Orchestra | 1915 |
I Whistle a Happy Tune | Richard Rodgers (m), Oscar Hammerstein (w) | Gertrude Lawrence with Sandy Kennedy | 1951 |
I Will Always Love You | Dolly Parton | Whitney Houston | 1992 |
I Will Follow Him | J. W. Stole (m), Del Roma (m), Norman Gimbel (w), Arthur Altman (w) | Little Peggy March | 1963 |
I Will Survive | Dino Fekaris, Freddie Perren | Gloria Gaynor | 1978 |
I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate | Clarence Williams, Armand Piron | The Virginians | 1923 |
I Wish’t I Was in Peoria | Harry Woods (m), Billy Rose (w), Mort Dixon (w) | Russo & Fiorito Orchestra | 1925 |
I Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight? | Walter Donaldson (m), Gus Kahn (w) | Henry Burr & Billy Murray | 1926 |
I Wonder Where My Sweet Sweet Daddy’s Gone | Ray Stark (m), T.A. Hammed (w) | Aileen Stanley | 1921 |
I Wonder Where My Sweetie Can Be | Eubie Blake (m), Noble Sissle (w) | Eubie Blake & Noble Sissle | 1925 |
I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now | Joseph E. Howard (m) Harold Orlob (m), Frank R. Adams (w), Will M. Hough (w) | Henry Burr | 1909 |
I Write the Songs | Bruce Johnston | Barry Manilow | 1975 |
Ice Ice Baby | David Bowie, Queen, Earthquake, Vanilla Ice | Vanilla Ice | 1990 |
I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That) | Jim Steinman | Meat Loaf | 1993 |
I’d Leave My Happy Home for You | Will A. Heelan (w), Harry Von Tilzer (m) | Arthur Collins | 1899 |
I’d Rather Be Blue Over You Than Be Happy with Somebody Else | Fres Fisher (m), Billy Rose (w) | Fanny Brice with Leonard Joy’s Orchestra | 1929 |
Ida (Sweet As Apple Cider) | Eddie Munson (m), Eddie Leonard (w) | Red Nichols | 1927 |
Idolizing | Sam Messenheimer, Irving Abrahamson, Ray West | Abe Lyman | 1926 |
If Ever I Would Leave You | Frederick Loewe (m), Alan Jay Lerner (w) | Robert Goulet | 1960 |
If I Could Be with You One Hour Tonight | James P. Johnson (m), Henry Creamer (w) | McKinney’s Cotton Pickers with George Thomas | 1930 |
If I Didn’t Care | Jack Lawrence | The Ink Spots | 1939 |
If I Give My Heart to You | Jimmie Crane, Al Jacobs, Jimmy Brewster (aka Milt Gabler) | Doris Day with the Mellomen | 1954 |
If I Had a Talking Picture of You | Ray Henderson (m), Buddy DeSylva (w), Lew Brown (w) | Johnny Hamp with Cliff Garnet | 1929 |
If I Had My Way (I’d Live Among the Gypsies) | Lou Klein (w), James Kendis (m) | Peerless Quartet | 1914 |
If I Knew You Were Comin’ I’d’ve Baked a Cake | Al Hoffman, Bob Merrill, Clem Watts | Eileen Barton & the New Yorkers | 1950 |
If I Loved You | Richard Rodgers (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w) | Perry Como with Russell Case’s Orchestra | 1945 |
If I Were a Bell | Frank Loesser (m/w) | Frankie Laine | 1950 |
If Money Talks, It Ain’t on Speakin’ Terms with Me | J.Fred Helf (m/w) | Arthur Collins | 1902 |
If My Friends Could See Me Now | Cy Coleman (m), Dorothy Fields (w) | Linda Clifford | 1978 |
If This Isn’t Love | Burton Lane (m), E. Y. "Yip" Harburg (w) | Ella Logan & Donald Richards | 1946 |
If You Don’t Know Me by Now | Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff | Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes | 1972 |
If You Had My Love | Rodney Jerkins, Fred Jerkins, LaShawn Daniels, Cory Rooney | Jennifer Lopez | 1999 |
If You Knew Susie Like I Know Susie | Buddy DeSylva | Eddie Cantor | 1925 |
If You Leave Me Now | Peter Cetera | Chicago | 1976 |
If You Sheik on Your Mama, Your Mamma’s Gonna Sheba on You | Chris Smith (m/w) | New Leviathan Oriental Foxtrot Orchestra | 1977 |
If You Talk in Your Sleep, Don’t Mention My Name | Nat D. Ayer (m), Seymour Brown (w) | Billy Murray | 1912 |
I’ll Be a Friend with Pleasure | Maceo Pinkard | Bernie Cummins | 1930 |
I’ll Be Missing You | Sting, Faith Evans, Todd Gaither, Albert E. Brumley | Puff Daddy with Faith Evans & 112 | 1997 |
I’ll Be Seeing You | Sammy Fain (m), Irving Kahal (w) | Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter’s Orchestra | 1944 |
I’ll Be There | Berry Gordy, Hal Davis, Willie Hutch, Bob West | The Jackson 5 | 1970 |
I’ll Be with You in Apple Blossom Time | Neville Fleeson, Albert Von Tilzer | Charles Harrison | 1920 |
I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise | George Gershwin (m), Buddy DeSylva (w), Ira Gershwin as Arthur Francis (w) | Paul Whiteman | 1922 |
I’ll Get by As Long As I Have You | Fred E. Ahlert (m), Roy Turk (w) | Harry James with Dick Haymes | 1941 |
I’ll Know | Frank Loesser (m/w) | Sammy Davis Jr. | 1955 |
I’ll Make Love to You | Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds | Boyz II Men | 1994 |
I’ll Never Be the Same | Matty Malneck (m), Frank Signorelli (m), Gus Kahn (w) | Paul Whiteman with Mildred Bailey | 1932 |
I’ll Never Fall in Love Again | Burt Bacharach (m), Hal David (w) | Dionne Warwick | 1969 |
I’ll Never Smile Again | Ruth Lowe (m/w) | Tommy Dorsey with Frank Sinatra & the Pied Pipers | 1940 |
I’ll Say She Does | Buddy DeSylva, Gus Kahn, Al Jolson | Al Jolson with Charles Prince’s Orchestra | 1919 |
I’ll See You Again | Noel Coward | Leo Reisman | 1930 |
I’ll See You in C-U-B-A | Irving Berlin | Billy Murray | 1920 |
I’ll See You in My Dreams | Isham Jones (m), Gus Kahn (w) | Isham Jones with Ray Miller & Frank Bessinger | 1925 |
I’ll Walk Alone | Jule Styne (m), Sammy Cahn (w) | Dinah Shore | 1944 |
I’m a Believer | Neil Diamond | The Monkees | 1966 |
I’m a Jonah Man | Alex Rogers (m/w) | Arthur Collins | 1903 |
I’m a Little Blackbird Looking for a Bluebird | George Meyer, Arthur Johnston | Eva Taylor with Clarennce Williams’ Blue Five | 1924 |
I’m Alabama Bound | Robert Hoffman (m), John J. Puderer (w) | Rag Trio | 1910 |
I’m All Bound Round with the Mason Dixon Line | Sam M. Lewis (w), Joe Young (w), Jean Schwartz (m) | Al Jolson with Charles Prince’s Orchestra | 1918 |
I’m All Broken Up Over You | Joe Murphy (m), Carl Hoeffle (m), Joe Burke (w), Lou Hersher (w) | Ted Weems | 1924 |
I’m Always Chasing Rainbows | Frederick Chopin (m), Harry Carroll (m), Joseph McCarthy (w) | Charles Harrison | 1918 |
I’m Certainly Living a Ragtime Life | Robert S. Roberts (m), Gene Jefferson (w) | Fannie Midgely | 1900 |
I’m Coming Virginia | Donald Heywood, Will Marion Cook | Paul Whiteman & the Rhythm Boys (Bing Crosby, Al Rinker, & Harry Barris) | 1927 |
I’m Confessin’ That I Love You | Doc Dougherty (m), Ellis Reynolds (m), Al J. Neiburg (w) | Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo | 1930 |
I’m Crazy ‘Bout My Baby | Thomas "Fats" Waller, Alexander Hill | Fats Waller | 1931 |
I’m Croonin’ a Tune about June | J. Fred Coots (m), Lou Davis (w) | Noble Sissle | 1929 |
I’m Easy | Keith Carradine | Keith Carradine | 1976 |
I’m Falling in Love with Someone | Victor Herbert, Rida Johnson Young | John McCormack | 1911 |
I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles | Jean Kenbrovin (m/w), John William Kellette (m/w) | Ben Selvin | 1919 |
I’m Gettin’ Sentimental Over You | George Bassman (m), Ned Washington (w) | Tommy Dorsey | 1936 |
I’m Goin’ Away Just to Wear You Off My Mind | Lloyd Smith, Clarence Johnson, Warren Smith | King Oliver | 1922 |
I’m Goin’ to Live Anyhow, Till I Die | Shepard N. Edmonds | Eddie Leonard | 1901 |
I’m Goin’ to Settle Down Outside of London Town | James V. Monaco (m), Joe McCarthy (w) | Billy Murray & the Peerless Quartet | 1919 |
I’m Going to Do What I Please | Ted Snyder (m), Alfred Bryan (w) | Sophie Tucker | 1909 |
I’m Gonna Charleston Back to Charleston | Lou Handman (m), Roy Turk (w) | Missouri Jazz Band | 1925 |
I’m Gonna Make You Love Me | Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff, Jerry Ross | The Supremes & the Temptations | 1968 |
I’m Gonna Meet My Sweetie Now | Jesse Greer (m), Benny Davis Iw) | Jean Goldkette | 1927 |
I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter | Fred E. Ahlert (m), Joe Young (w) | Fats Waller | 1935 |
I’m in Love Again | Cole Porter | Dolly Sisters | 1927 |
I’m in Love Again | Dave Bartholomew, Fats Domino | Fats Domino | 1956 |
I’m in the Mood for Love | Jimmy McHugh (m), Dorothy Fields (w) | Little Jack Little | 1935 |
I’m Just Wild about Animal Crackers | Harry Link, Sam Coslow, Fred Rich | Irving Aaronson & His Orchestra | 1926 |
I’m Just Wild about Harry | Eubie Blake (m), Noble Sissle (w) | Marion Harris | 1922 |
I’m Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover | Mort Dixon, Harry Woods | Art Mooney | 1948 |
I’m More Than Satisfied | Thomas Waller (m), Ray Klages (w) | Eddie Peabody | 1927 |
I’m Nobody’s Baby | Milton Ager, Benny Davis, Lester Santly | Judy Garland | 1940 |
I’m Sitting on Top of the World | Ray Henderson (m), Sam M. Lewis (w), Joe Young (w) | Al Jolson with Carl Fenton’s Orchestra | 1926 |
I’m Sorry I Made You Cry | N.J. Clesi (m/w) | Henry Burr | 1918 |
I’m Telling You Now | Freddie Garrity, Mitch Murray | Freddie & the Dreamers | 1963 |
I’m Through Shedding Tears Over You | Edwin J. Weber (m), Karyl Norman (w) | Karyl Norman | 1922 |
I’m Too Sexy | Fred Fairbrass, Richard Fairbrass, Rob Manzoli | Right Said Fred | 1991 |
I’m Walkin’ | Dave Bartholomew, Fats Domino | Fats Domino | 1957 |
I’m Walking Behind You | Billy Reid | Eddie Fisher & Sally Sweetland with Hugo Winterhalter’s Orchestra | 1953 |
I’m Your Angel | R. Kelly | R. Kelly & Celine Dion | 1998 |
Imagine | John Lennon, Yoko Ono | John Lennon | 1971 |
The Impossible Dream | Joe Darion, Mitch Leigh | Jack Jones | 1966 |
In a Little Spanish Town (‘Twas on a Night Like This) | Mabel Wayne (m), Sam Lewis (w), Joe Young (w) | Paul Whiteman with Jack Fulton | 1927 |
In a Mist | Bix Beiderbecke | Bix Beiderbecke | 1928 |
In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town | Little Jack Little (m), John Siras (m), Joe Young (w) | Ted Lewis | 1932 |
In Honeysuckle Time | Eubie Blake (m), Noble Sissle (w) | | 1921 |
In My Merry Oldsmobile | Vincent Bryan (w), Gus Edwards (m) | Billy Murray | 1905 |
In Old New York | Victor Herbert (m), Henry Blossom (w) | Fred Stone with Dave Montgomery | 1907 |
In Soudan | Nat Osborne (m), Ballard MacDonald (w) | Zez Confrey | 1919 |
In the Cool Cool Cool of the Evening | Hoagy Carmichael (m), Johnny Mercer (w) | Bing Crosby & Jane Wyman | 1951 |
In the Good Old Summertime | Ren Shields (w), George Evans (m) | Haydn Quartet | 1903 |
In the Land O’ Yamo Yamo | Fred Fisher (m), Joe McCarthy (w) | Van & Schenck | 1918 |
In the Mood | Andy Razaf, Joe Garland | Glenn Miller | 1939 |
In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree | Harry H. Williams (w), Egbert Van Alstyne (m) | Henry Burr (as Irving Gillette) | 1905 |
In the Still of the Night | Cole Porter (m/w) | Tommy Dorsey with Jack Leonard | 1937 |
In the Still of the Nite (I’ll Remember) | Fred Parris | The Five Satins | 1956 |
In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus) | Richard S. Evans | Zager & Evans | 1969 |
Indian Love Call | Rudolf Friml (m), Otto Harbach (w), Oscar Hammerstein (w) | Paul Whiteman | 1925 |
Indian Summer | Victor Herbert (m), Al Dubin (w) | Tommy Dorsey with Jack Leonard | 1939 |
Indiana | James Hanley (m), Ballad MacDonald (w) | Conway’s Band | 1917 |
Invisible Touch | Anthony Banks, Phil Collins, Michael Rutherford | Genesis | 1986 |
Is It True What They Say About Dixie | Gerald Marks, Irving Caesar, Sammy Lerner | Jimmy Dorsey with Bob Eberly | 1936 |
Is She My Girl Friend? | Milton Ager (m), Jack Yellen (w) | Van & Schenck | 1928 |
Islands in the Stream | Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, Maurice Gibb | Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton | 1983 |
Isn’t It Romantic? | Richard Rodgers (m), Lorenz Hart (w) | Maurice Chevalier with Jeannette MacDonald | 1932 |
It Ain’t Gonna Rain No Mo’ | Wendell Hall | Wendell Hall | 1924 |
It Ain’t Necessarily So | George Gershwin (m), Ira Gershwin (w) | Leo Reisman | 1935 |
It All Depends on You | Ray Henderson (m), Lew Brown (w), Buddy DeSylva (w) | Paul Whiteman | 1927 |
It Goes Like It Goes | David Shire, Norman Gimbel | Jennifer Warnes | 1979 |
It Had to Be You | Isham Jones (m), Gus Kahn (w) | Isham Jones | 1924 |
It Isn’t Fair | Richard Himber, Frank Warshauer, Sylvester Sprigato | Sammy Kaye with Don Cornell | 1950 |
It Looks Like Rain in Cherry Blossom Lane | Joe Burke (m), Edgar Leslie (w) | Guy Lombardo with Lebert Lombardo | 1937 |
It Might As Well Be Spring | Richard Rodgers (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w) | Dick Haymes with Victor Young’s Orchestra | 1945 |
It Takes a Long, Tall, Brown-Skin Gal | Will E. Skidmore | Rae Samuels | 1917 |
Italian Street Song (Zing, Zing) | Rida Johnson Young (w), Victor Herbert (m) | Lucy Isabelle Marsh & the Victor Light Opera Co. | 1911 |
It’s a Grand Night for Singing | Richard Rodgers (m), Oscar Hammerstein (w) | Dick Haymes with Earl Hagen’s Orchestra | 1946 |
It’s a Long, Long Way to Tipperary | Jack Judge (m/w), Harry Williams (m/w) | John McCormack | 1915 |
It’s a Lovely Day Today | Irving Berlin | Doris Day with George Siravo’s Orchestra | 1951 |
It’s a Lovely Day Tomorrow | Irving Berlin | Tommy Dorsey with Frank Sinatra & the Pied Pipers | 1940 |
It’s a Most Unusual Day | Jimmy McHugh (m), Harold Adamson (w) | Ray Noble | 1948 |
It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie | Billy Mayhew | Fats Waller | 1936 |
It’s All in the Game | Charles G. Dawes (m), Carl Sigman (w) | Tommy Edwards | 1951 |
It’s Been a Long, Long Time | Jule Styne (m), Sammy Cahn (w) | Bing Crosby & the Les Paul Trio | 1945 |
It’s Magic | Jule Styne (m), Sammy Cahn (w) | Doris Day | 1948 |
It’s My Party | John Gluck Jr., Wally Gold | Lesley Gore | 1963 |
It’s Not for Me to Say | Robert Allen (m), Al Stillman (m) | Johnny Mathis | 1957 |
It’s Now or Never | Aaron Schroeder, Wally Gold | Presley, Elvis | 1960 |
It’s Only a Paper Moon | Harold Arlen (m), E.Y. "Yip" Harburg (w), Billy Rose (w) | Ella Fitzgerald & the Delta Rhythm Boys | 1945 |
It’s Right Here for You | Alex Belledna (m), Marion Dickerson (w) | Mamie Smith | 1920 |
It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me | Billy Joel | Billy Joel | 1980 |
It’s the Talk of the Town | Jerry Livingston (m), Marty Symes (w), Al J. Neiburg (w) | Glen Gray with Kenny Sargent | 1933 |
It’s Tight Like That | Thomas Dorsey, Hudson Whittaker | Tampa Red with Georgia Tom | 1928 |
It’s Too Late | Carole King (m), Toni Stern (w) | Carole King | 1971 |
It’s Tulip Time in Holland | Dave Radford (w), Richard A. Whiting (m) | Henry Burr | 1915 |
Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini | Paul Vance, Lee Pockriss | Brian Hyland | 1960 |
I’ve Found a New Baby | Jack Palmer, Spencer Williams | Ted Lewis | 1926 |
I’ve Got a Crush on You | George Gershwin (m), Ira Gershwin (w) | Frank Sinatra | 1948 |
I’ve Got a Feelin’ I’m Fallin’ | Harry Link (m), Thomas "Fats" Waller (m), Billy Rose (w) | | 1929 |
I’ve Got My Habits On | Jimmie Durante (m), Chris Smith (w), Bob Schafer (w) | Donald Kerr | 1921 |
I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm | Irving Berlin (m/w) | Les Brown | 1948 |
I’ve Got Rings on My Fingers | Maurice Scott (m), Weston (w), Barnes (w) | Ada Jones | 1909 |
I’ve Got the World on a String | Harold Arlen (m), Ted Koehler (w) | Cab Calloway | 1932 |
I’ve Got You Under My Skin | Cole Porter (m/w) | Ray Noble | 1936 |
I’ve Got Your Number | Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh | Swen Swenson | 1962 |
I’ve Grown Accustomed to Your Face | Frederick Loewe (m), Alan Jay Lerner (w) | Rosemary Clooney | 1956 |
I’ve Had the Time of My Life | Frank Previte, John DeNicola, Donald Markowitz | Bill Medley with Jennifer Warnes | 1987 |
I’ve Heard That Song Before | Jule Styne (m), Sammy Cahn (w) | Harry James with Helen Forrest | 1943 |
I’ve Never Seen a Straight Banana | Ted Waite | Ernest Hare & Billy Jones | 1927 |
I’ve Told Ev’ry Little Star | Jerome Kern (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w) | Jack Denny with Paul Small | 1932 |
Ivy, Cling to Me | Isham Jones, Jimmy Johnson | Isham Jones | 1923 |
SONG | WRITER(S), m = music, w = words | Performer with Highest Rated Version | Year |
La Bamba | Ritchie Valens | Ritchie Valens | 1958 |
Lady | Lionel Richie (m/w) | Kenny Rogers | 1980 |
The Lady Is a Tramp | Richard Rodgers (m), Lorenz Hart (w) | Tommy Dorsey with Jack Leonard | 1937 |
Lady Madonna | John Lennon, Paul McCartney | The Beatles | 1968 |
The Land Where the Good Songs Go | Jerome Kern (m), P.G. Wodehouse (w) | Elizabeth Brice with Charles King | 1917 |
Last Dance | Paul Jabara | Donna Summer | 1978 |
The Last Time I Saw Paris | Jerome Kern (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w) | Kate Smith | 1940 |
Last Train to Clarksville | Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart | The Monkees | 1966 |
Laughin’ Cryin’ Blues | Porter Grainger, Bob Ricketts | Fats Waller | 1923 |
Laughter in the Rain | Neil Sedaka, Philip Cody | Sedaka, Neil | 1974 |
Laura | David Raskin (m), Johnny Mercer (w) | Woody Herman | 1945 |
Lay Lady Lay | Bob Dylan | Bob Dylan | 1969 |
Lazy | Irving Berlin (m/w) | Al Jolson with Gene Rodemich’s Orchestra | 1924 |
Lazy Bones | Hoagy Carmichael (m), Johnny Mercer (w) | Ted Lewis | 1933 |
Lazy Moon | Bob Cole (w), Rosamond Johnson (m) | J. Rosamond Johnson with Bob Cole | 1904 |
Le Freak | Nile Rodgers, Bernard Edwards | Chic | 1978 |
Leader of the Pack | Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, George "Shadow" Morton | The Shangri-La’s | 1964 |
Lean on Me | Bill Withers | Bill Withers | 1972 |
Learnin’ the Blues | Dolores Vicki Silvers | Frank Sinatra | 1955 |
Leave it to Jane | Jerome Kern (m), P.G. Wodehouse (w) | Edith Hallor et al | 1917 |
Leaving on a Jet Plane | John Denver | John Denver | 1969 |
Left All Alone Again Blues | Jerome Kern (m), Anne Caldwell (w) | Marion Harris | 1920 |
Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella | Sammy Fain (m), Irving Kahal (w), Francis Wheeler (w) | Roger Wolfe Kahn with Franklyn Baur | 1928 |
Let It Be | John Lennon, Paul McCartney | The Beatles | 1970 |
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! | Jule Styne (m), Sammy Cahn (w) | Vaughn Monroe | 1945 |
Let Me Be Your Teddy Bear | Kal Mann, Bernie Lowe | Presley, Elvis | 1957 |
Let Me Call You Sweetheart | Leo Friedman (m/w), Beth Slater Whitson (m/w) | Peerless Quartet | 1911 |
Let Me Go, Lover! | Jenny Lou Carson, Al Hill | Joan Weber | 1954 |
Let the Rest of the World Go By | J. Kiern Brennan (w), Ernest R. Ball (m) | Elizabeth Spencer & Charles Hart | 1920 |
Let the River Run | Carly Simon | Carly Simon | 1989 |
Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off | George Gershwin (m), Ira Gershwin (w) | Fred Astaire with Johnny Greer’s Orchestra | 1937 |
Let’s Do It, Let’s Fall in Love | Cole Porter (m/w) | Irving Aaronson & His Commanders with Jack Armstrong | 1929 |
Let’s Fall in Love | Harold Arlen (m), Ted Koehler (w) | Eddy Duchin with Lew Sherwood | 1934 |
Let’s Get Away from It All | Matt Dennis (m), Tom Adair (w) | Tommy Dorsey & the Pied Pipers | 1941 |
Let’s Hang On | Bob Crewe, Sandy Linzer, Denny Randell | The Four Seasons | 1965 |
Let’s Have Another Cup of Coffee | Irving Berlin | Fred Waring’s Pennsylvanians | 1932 |
Let’s Hear It for the Boy | Tom Snow, Dean Pitchford | Deniece Williams | 1984 |
Let’s Stay Together | Al Green, Willie Mitchell, Al Jackson | Al Green | 1971 |
Let’s Take an Old-Fashioned Walk | Irving Berlin (m/w) | Ada Jones & Billy Murray | 1907 |
The Letter | Wayne Carson Thompson | The Box Tops | 1967 |
Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries | Ray Henderson (m), Lew Brown (w) | Rudy Vallee | 1931 |
Light My Fire | John Densmore, Robbie Krieger, Ray Manzarek, Jim Morrison | The Doors | 1967 |
Like a Prayer | Patrick Leonard, Madonna | Madonna | 1989 |
Like a Rolling Stone | Bob Dylan | Bob Dylan | 1965 |
Like a Virgin | Billy Steinberg, Tom Kelly | Madonna | 1984 |
Lila | Maceo Pinkard, Archie Gottler, Chas. Tobias | Watts & Marshall | 1928 |
Limehouse Blues | Philip Braham, Douglas Furber | Paul Whiteman | 1924 |
Linda | Jack Lawrence | Ray Noble with Buddy Clark | 1947 |
Linger Awhile | Vincent Rose (m), Harry Owens (w) | Paul Whiteman | 1924 |
The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Wimoweh) | Hugo Peretti, Albert Stanton, Luigi Creatore, Paul Campbell, George Weiss, Roy Ilene | The Tokens | 1961 |
A Little Bit of Heaven (Shure, They Call It Ireland) | J. Keirn Brennan (b), Ernest R. Ball (m) | George MacFarlane | 1915 |
The Little Drummer Boy | Harry Simeone, Katherine K. Davis, Henry V. Onorati | Harry Simeone Chorale | 1958 |
The Little Ford Rambled Right Along | Byron Gay (m), B.G. Foster (w), C.R. Foster (w) | Billy Murray | 1915 |
Little Girl | Francis Henry, Madeline Hyde | Harold Arlen with Joe Ventuti’s Big Four | 1931 |
Little Things Mean a Lot | Edith Lindeman, Carl Stutz | Kitty Kallen with Jack Piels’ Orchestra | 1954 |
Livery Stable Blues | Ray Lopez, Alcide Nunez | Original Dixieland Jazz Band | 1917 |
Livin’ La Vida Loca | Desmond Child; Robi Rosa | Ricky Martin | 1999 |
Livin’ on a Prayer | Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, Desmond Child | Bon Jovi | 1986 |
Liza | Maceo Pinkard, Nat Vincent | Zez Confrey | 1922 |
Liza (All the Clouds’ll Roll Away) | George Gershwin (m), Ira Gershwin (w), Gus Kahn (w) | Al Jolson with Bob Haring’s Orchestra | 1929 |
The Loco-Motion | Gerry Goffin, Carole King | Little Eva | 1962 |
Lollipop | Beverly Ross, Julius Dixon | The Chordettes | 1958 |
Lonely Boy | Paul Anka | Paul Anka | 1959 |
Lonesome and Sorry | Con Conrad (m), Benny Davis (w) | Ruth Etting | 1926 |
Lonesome Mama Blues | Billie Brown, A.W. Brown, E. Nickel | Mamie Smith | 1922 |
Lonesome, Lovesick Got-to-Have-My-Daddy Blues | Ernie Erdman, Clarence Jones, Chester Cohn | Moody & Duncan | 1921 |
Long Ago and Far Away | Jerome Kern (m), Ira Gershwin (w) | Dick Haymes & Helen Forrest with Camarata’s Orchestra | 1944 |
The Long and Winding Road | John Lennon, Paul McCartney | The Beatles | 1970 |
Long Tall Sally | Robert Blackwell, Enotris Johnson, Richard Penniman | Little Richard | 1956 |
Look for the Silver Lining | Jerome Kern (m), Buddy DeSylva (w) | Marion Harris | 1921 |
Looking at the World Through Rose-Colored Glasses | Tommie Malie, Jimmy Steiger | Fred Waring’s Pennsylvanians | 1926 |
Looking for a Boy | George Gerswhin, Ira Gershwin | Arden-Ohman Orchestra | 1926 |
Looks Like We Made It | Richard Kerr, Will Jennings | Barry Manilow | 1976 |
A Lot of Livin’ to Do | Charles Strouse (m), Lee Adams (w) | Dick Gautier et al | 1960 |
Louie Louie | Richard Berry | The Kingsmen | 1963 |
Louise | Richard A. Whiting (m), Leo Robin (w) | Maurice Chevalier with Leonard Joy’s Orchestra | 1929 |
Love and Marriage | James Van Heusen | Frank Sinatra | 1955 |
Love Child | Pam Sawyer, R. Dean Taylor, Frank Wilson, Deke Richards | The Supremes | 1968 |
Love in Bloom | Ralph Rainger (m), Leo Robin (w) | Bing Crosby with Irving Aaronson’s Orchestra | 1934 |
Love Is a Many Splendored Thing | Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster | The Four Aces | 1955 |
Love Is Blue | Andre Popp, Pierre Cour | Paul Mauriat | 1967 |
Love Is Here to Stay | George Gershwin (m), Ira Gershwin (w) | Larry Clinton with Bea Wain | 1938 |
Love Is Just Around the Corner | Lewis E. Gensler (m), Leo Robin (w) | Bing Crosby with George Stoll’s Orchestra | 1934 |
Love Is the Tender Trap | Jimmy Van Heusen (m), Sammy Cahn (w) | Frank Sinatra | 1955 |
Love Letters in the Sand | Nick Kenny, Charles Kenny, J. Fred Coots | Pat Boone | 1957 |
Love Me Do | John Lennon, Paul McCartney | The Beatles | 1962 |
Love Me or Leave Me | Walter Donaldson (m), Gus Kahn (w) | Ruth Etting | 1929 |
Love Me Tender | Elvis Presley, Vera Matson | Presley, Elvis | 1956 |
The Love Nest | Louis A. Hirsch | John Steel | 1920 |
Love Will Find a Way | Eubie Blake, Noble Sissle | Noble Sissle | 1921 |
Love Will Keep Us Together | Neil Sedaka, Howard Greenfield | Captain & Tennille | 1975 |
Love Will Lead You Back | Diane Warren | Taylor Dayne | 1989 |
Lovely to Look At | Jerome Kern (m), Dorothy Fields (w) | Eddy Duchin with Lew Sherwood | 1935 |
Lover | Richard Rodgers (m), Lorenz Hart (w) | Paul Whiteman with Jack Fulton | 1933 |
Lover Come Back to Me | Sigmund Romberg (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w) | Paul Whiteman with Jack Fulton | 1929 |
Lovie Joe | Joe Jordan (m), Will Marion Cook (w) | Fanny Brice | 1910 |
Lucky Day | Ray Henderson (m), Buddy DeSylva (w), Lew Brown (w) | The Revelers | 1926 |
Lucky in Love | Ray Henderson (m), Buddy DeSylva (w), Lew Brown (w) | George Olsen | 1927 |
Lucky Lindy | Abel Baer (m), L. Wolfe Gilbert (w) | Vernon Dalhart | 1927 |
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds | John Lennon, Paul McCartney | Elton John | 1974 |
Lullaby of Birdland | George Shearing (m), George David Weiss (w) | Blue Stars | 1955 |
Lullaby of Broadway | Harry Warren (m), Al Dubin (w) | Dorsey Brothers Orchestra with Bob Crosby | 1935 |
Lyin’ Eyes | Glenn Frey, Don Henley | Eagles | 1975 |
SONG | WRITER(S), m = music, w = words | Performer with Highest Rated Version | Year |
Ma Blushin’ Rosie | Edgar Smith (w), John Stromberg (m) | Albert Campbell | 1900 |
Ma! | Sidney Clare, Con Conrad | Ted Lewis | 1922 |
Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix) | Rafael Ruiz, Perdigones, Antonio Romero Monge, SWK, Carlos de Yarza | Los Del Rio | 1995 |
MacArthur Park | Jimmy Webb | Richard Harris | 1968 |
Mack the Knife | Kurt Weill (m), Mark Blitzstein (w), Berthold Brecht (w) | Bobby Darin | 1959 |
Madelon (I’ll Be True to the Whole Regiment) | Louis Bousquet (w), Alfred Bryan (w), Camille Robert (m) | Victor Military Band with Marcel Journet | 1919 |
Maggie May | Rod Stewart, Martin Quittenton | Rod Stewart | 1971 |
Magic | John Farrar | Olivia Newton-John | 1980 |
Make Believe | Jerome Kern (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w) | Paul Whiteman with Bing Crosby | 1928 |
Make Believe Ballroom | Paul Denniker (m), Andy Razaf (w) | | 1936 |
Make It with You | David Gates | Bread | 1970 |
Makin’ Whoopee | Walter Donaldson (m), Gus Kahn (w) | Eddie Cantor | 1929 |
Mama Told Me Not to Come | Randy Newman | Three Dog Night | 1970 |
Mama’s Gone, Goodbye | Peter Bocage, Armand J. Piron | Piron’s New Orleans Orchestra | 1924 |
Mammy Blossom’s Possum Party | Theodore Morse (m), Arthur Fields (w) | Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan | 1917 |
Mammy Jinny’s Jubilee | L. Wolfe Gilbert (w), Lewis F. Muir (m) | Louise Bauer | 1913 |
Mammy O’ Mine | William Tracey (w), Maceo Pinkard (m) | Yerkes Jazarimba Orchestra | 1919 |
Mammy’s Little Coal Black Rose | Raymond Egan (w), Richard A. Whiting (m) | Orpheus Quartet | 1917 |
The Man I Love | George Gershwin (m), Ira Gershwin (w) | Marion Harris | 1928 |
Man in the Mirror | Glen Ballard, Siedah Garrett | Michael Jackson | 1987 |
The Man That Got Away (aka “The Gal That Got Away”) | Harold Arlen (m), Ira Gershwin (w) | Judy Garland & Ray Heindorf with the Warner Brothers Studio Orchestra | 1954 |
Manana Is Soon Enough for Me | Peggy Lee, Dave Barbour | Peggy Lee with Dave Barbour’s Orchestra | 1948 |
Mandy | Irving Berlin (m/w) | Barry Manilow | 1974 |
Mandy | Scott English, Richard Kerr | Van & Schenck | 1919 |
Mandy, Make Up Your Mind | George W. Meyer, Arthur Johnstone | Paul Whiteman | 1925 |
Maneater | Daryl Hall, John Oates, Sara Allen | Hall & Oates | 1982 |
Manhattan | Richard Rodgers (m), Lorenz Hart (w) | Ben Selvin | 1925 |
Manhattan Serenade | Louis Alter (m), Howard Johnson (w), Harold Adamson (w) | Harry James with Helen Forrest | 1942 |
The Mansion of Aching Hearts | Arthur J. Lamb (w), Harry Von Tilzer (m) | Harry MacDonough | 1902 |
Maori | William H. Tyers (m), Henry S. Creamer (w) | Rudy Vallee | 1932 |
Maple Leaf Rag | Scott Joplin (m) | Vess Ossman | 1907 |
Margie | Benny Davis, Con Conrad, J. Russell Robinson | Eddie Cantor | 1921 |
Marie | Irving Berlin (m/w) | Tommy Dorsey with Jack Leonard | 1937 |
A Marshmallow World | Peter DeRose (m), Carl Sigman (w) | Bing Crosby with Sonny Burke’s Orchestra | 1951 |
Mary Lou | Abe Lyman, George Waggner, J. Russell Robinson | Abe Lyman with Charles Kaley | 1926 |
Mary’s a Grand Old Name | George M. Cohan (m/w) | Donald Brian | 1906 |
Masculine Women! Feminine Men! | James V. Monaco (m), Edgar Leslie (w) | Maureen Englin | 1925 |
Material Girl | Peter Brown, Robert Rans | Madonna | 1984 |
Maybe | George Gershwin (m), Ira Gershwin (w) | Nat Shilkret | 1926 |
Maybe Baby | Norman Petty, Buddy Holly | Buddy Holly & the Crickets | 1957 |
Maybellene | Chuck Berry, Russ Fratto, Alan Freed | Chuck Berry | 1955 |
Mazie | Lew Gold, Sid Caine, Eli Dawson | Yerkes Jazarimba Orchestra | 1921 |
Me and Bobby McGee | Kris Kristofferson, Fred Foster | Janis Joplin | 1971 |
Me and My Shadow | Dave Dreyer (m), Al Jolson (m), Billy Rose (w) | "Whispering" Jack Smith | 1927 |
Me and the Boy Friend | Jimmie Monaco (m), Sidney Clare (w) | Jane Green with Nat Shilkret’s Orchestra | 1925 |
Mean to Me | Fred E. Ahlert (m), Roy Turk (w) | Ruth Etting | 1929 |
Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis | Arthur B. Sterling (w), Kerry Mills (m) | Billy Murray | 1904 |
Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland | Beth Slater Whitson (w), Leo Friedman (m) | Henry Burr | 1910 |
Melancholy Lou | Ray Hibbeler | Howard Lanin | 1925 |
Mellow Yellow | Donovan Leitch | Donovan | 1966 |
Memories | Egbert Van Alstyne, (m), Gustave Kahn (w) | John Barnes Wells | 1916 |
Memories Are Made of This | Terry Gilkyson, Richard Dehr, Frank Miller | Dean Martin | 1955 |
Memories of You | Eubie Blake (m), Andy Razaf (w) | Louis Armstrong | 1930 |
Memory | Andrew Lloyd Webber (m), Trevor Nunn (w) | Barbra Streisand | 1981 |
The Memphis Blues | W.C. Handy (m), George A. Norton, Charles Tobias, Peter DeRose | Prince’s Orchestra | 1914 |
The Merry Widow Waltz | Franz Lehar | Victor Orchestra | 1907 |
The Merry Widow’s Got a Sweetie Now | Lew Porter, Sam A. Perry | Lew Weimer’s Black & Gold Aces | 1928 |
The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down | Cliff Friend, Dave Franklin | Russ Morgan with Jimmie Lewis | 1937 |
Messin’ Around | Charles L. Cooke (m), John A. St. Cyr (w) | Memphis Slim & His House Rockers | 1948 |
Midnight Train to Georgia | Jim Weatherly | Gladys Knight & the Pips | 1973 |
Mighty Like a Rose (aka "Mighty Lak’ a Rose") | Frank L. Stanton (w), Ethelbert Nevin (m) | George Alexander | 1903 |
Millenburg Joys | Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton, Leon Roppolo, Paul Mares, Walter Melrose | Ted Lewis | 1925 |
Mine | George Gershwin (m), Ira Gershwin (w) | Emil Coleman | 1933 |
Minnie the Mermaid | Buddy DeSylva (m/w) | Rudy Vallee | 1923 |
Miss Annabelle Lee (Who’s Wonderful, Who’s Marvelous) | Lew Pollack (m), Sidney Clare (w) | Ben Selvin | 1927 |
Miss You | Mick Jagger, Keith Richards | The Rolling Stones | 1978 |
Miss You Much | James Harris III, Terry Lewis | Janet Jackson | 1989 |
M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I | Harry Tierney (m), Bert Hanlon (w), Benny Ryan (w) | Anna Wheaton | 1917 |
Mississippi Mud | Harry Barris | Paul Whiteman with Al Rinker, Harry Barris, Jack Fulton, Charles Gaylord, Austin Young, Bing Crosby, & Irene Taylor | 1928 |
Missouri Waltz (Hush-A-Bye Ma Baby) | Frederick K. Logan (m), James Royce as James R. Shannon (w) | Elsie Baker (aka "Edna Brown") | 1917 |
Mo’ Lasses | C. Luckeyth Roberts (m), Alex Rodgers (w) | Luckeyth Roberts | 1923 |
Mobile Blues | Albert E. Short, Fred Rose | Jimmie Wade’s Moulin Rouge Orchestra | 1924 |
Molasses, Molasses | Larry Clinton | Roberta Quinlan | 1950 |
Moments to Remember | Robert Allen (m), Al Stillman (m) | The Four Lads | 1955 |
Mona Lisa | Jay Livingston (m), Ray Evans (w) | Nat "King" Cole with Les Baxter’s Orchestra | 1950 |
Monday Monday | John Phillips, Michelle Phillips | The Mamas & the Papas | 1966 |
Money for Nothing | Mark Knopfler, Sting | Dire Straits | 1985 |
Monster Mash | Bobby Pickett, Leonard Capizzi | Bobby "Boris" Pickett & the Crypt-Kickers | 1962 |
Mood Indigo | Duke Ellington (m), Barney Bigard (m), Irving Mills (m/w), Mitchell Parish (w) | Duke Ellington | 1931 |
The Moon Is Blue | Herschel Burke Gilbert (m), Sylvia Fine (w) | Sauter-Finegan Orchestra | 1953 |
Moon Over Miami | Joe Burke (m), Edgar Leslie (w) | Eddy Duchin with Lew Sherwood | 1936 |
Moon River | Henry Mancini (m), Johnny Mercer (w) | Henry Mancini with Audrey Hepburn | 1961 |
Moonglow | Will Hudson, Eddie DeLange, Irving Mills | Benny Goodman | 1934 |
Moonlight | Con Conrad | Paul Whiteman | 1921 |
Moonlight and Roses | Neil Moret (m), Edwin H. Lemare (w), Ben Black (w) | John McCormack | 1925 |
Moonlight Bay | Edward Madden (w), Percy Wenrich (m) | American Quartet | 1912 |
Moonlight Cocktail | Luckey Roberts (m), Kim Gannon (w) | Glenn Miller with Ray Eberle & the Modernaires | 1942 |
Moonlight in Vermont | Karl Suessdorf (m), John Blackburn (w) | Billy Butterfield & His Orchestra with Margaret Whiting | 1945 |
Moonlight on the Ganges | Sherman Myers (m), Chester Wallace (w) | Paul Whiteman with Austin Young | 1926 |
Moonlight Serenade | Glenn Miller (m), Mitchell Parish (w) | Glenn Miller | 1939 |
More Than You Know | Vincent Youmans (m), Edward Eliscu (w), Billy Rose (w) | Ruth Etting | 1929 |
The Morning After | Al Kasha, Joel Hirschhorn | Maureen McGovern | 1973 |
Morning Train (Nine to Five) | Florrie Palmer | Sheena Easton | 1980 |
Morocco Blues | Joe Jordan (m), Clarence Williams (w) | Rita Gould | 1926 |
The Most Beautiful Girl | Rory Bourke, Billy Sherrill, Norris Wilson | Charlie Rich | 1973 |
M-O-T-H-E-R (A Word That Means the World to Me) | Theodore Morse (m), Howard Johnson (w) | Henry Burr | 1916 |
Mother Machree | Chauncey Olcott (m), Ernest R. Ball (m), Rida Johnson Young (w) | Will Oakland | 1911 |
Mother-in-Law | Allen Toussaint | Ernie K-Doe | 1961 |
Moxie (1 Step) | Norman Leigh (m), Dennis J. Shea (w) | Arthur Fields | 1921 |
Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean | Ed Gallagher, Al Shean | Ed Gallagher & Al Shean | 1922 |
Mr. Jazz, Himself | Irving Berlin | Watson Sisters | 1917 |
Mr. Moon Man Turn Off Your Light | Jack Norworth, Nora Bayes | Nora Bayes & Jack Norworth | 1910 |
Mr. Sandman | Pat Ballard | The Chordettes | 1954 |
Mr. Tambourine Man | Bob Dylan | The Byrds | 1965 |
Mrs. Robinson | Paul Simon | Simon & Garfunkel | 1968 |
Muddy Water | Peter DeRose (m), Harry Richman (m), Jo Trent (w) | Ben Bernie with Frank Munn | 1927 |
Muscle Shoals Blues | George W. Thomas | Harry Raderman’s Orchestra | 1921 |
The Music Goes ‘Round and ‘Round | Edward Farley (m), Michael Riley (m), Red Hodgson (w) | Tommy Dorsey & Edythe Wright | 1935 |
Music! Music! Music! | Stephen Weiss, Bernie Baum | Teresa Brewer & the Dixieland All Stars | 1950 |
My Baby Don’t Love Me No More | Leo DeJohn (m), Julie DeJohn (w), Dux DeJohn (w) | DeJohn Sisters with O.B. Masingill | 1954 |
My Baby Just Cares for Me | Walter Donaldson (m), Gus Kahn (w) | Ted Weems | 1930 |
My Beautiful Lady | Ivan Caryll (m), C.M.S. McLellan (w) | Lucy Isabelle Marsh | 1911 |
My Blackbirds Are Bluebirds Now | Cliff Friend (m), Irving Caesar (w) | Ruth Etting | 1928 |
My Blue Days Blew Over | Max Rich (m), Tot Seymour (w) | Eubie Blake | 1931 |
My Blue Heaven | Walter Donaldson (m), George A. Whiting (w) | Gene Austin | 1927 |
My Boyfriend’s Back | Robert Feldman, Jerry Goldstein, Richard Gottehrer | The Angels | 1963 |
My Buddy | Walter Donaldson (m), Gus Kahn (w) | Henry Burr | 1922 |
My Castle in the Air | Jerome Kern (m), P.G. Wodehouse (w) | George MacFarlane | 1916 |
My Castle on the Nile | J.W. Johnson (w), Bob Cole (w), Rosamond Johnson (m) | Bert Williams | 1901 |
My Cherie Amour | Sylvia Moy, Henry Cosby, Stevie Wonder | Stevie Wonder | 1969 |
My Cutie’s Due at Two-to-Two Today | Albert Von Tilzer, Irving Berlin, Leo Robin | Vaughn Deleath | 1926 |
My Darling My Darling | Frank Loesser | Jo Stafford with Gordon MacRae | 1948 |
My Ding-a-Ling (live) | Dave Bartholomew, Chuck Berry | Chuck Berry | 1972 |
My Favorite Things | Richard Rodgers (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w) | John Coltrane | 1961 |
My Foolish Heart | Victor Young (m), Ned Washington (w) | Gordon Jenkins & Eileen Wilson | 1950 |
My Funny Valentine | Richard Rodgers (m), Lorenz Hart (w) | Hal McIntyre with Ruth Gaylor | 1945 |
My Gal Sal | Paul Dresser (m/w) | Byron Harlan | 1907 |
My Girl | Smokey Robinson, Ronald White | The Temptations | 1964 |
My Guy | Smokey Robinson | Mary Wells | 1964 |
My Happiness | Barney Bergantine (m), Betty Peterson (w) | Jon & Sandra Steele | 1948 |
My Heart Belongs to Daddy | Cole Porter (m/w) | Mary Martin with Eddy Duchin | 1939 |
My Heart Cries for You | Percy Faith (m), Carl Sigman (w) | Guy Mitchell | 1950 |
My Heart Stood Still | Richard Rodgers (m), Lorenz Hart (w) | Paul Whiteman with Al Rinker, Jack Fulton, Charles Gaylor, & Austin Young | 1928 |
My Heart Will Go On | James Horner, Will Jennings | Celine Dion | 1997 |
My Hero | Oscar Straus (m), Stanislaus Stange (w) | Lucy Isabelle Marsh | 1910 |
My Honey’s Lovin’ Arms | Joseph Meyer (m), Herman Ruby (w) | Isham Jones | 1922 |
My Isle of Golden Dreams | Walter Blaufuss, Gus Kahn | Ben Selvin | 1920 |
My Life | Billy Joel | Billy Joel | 1978 |
My Little Bimbo from the Bamboo Isle | Walter Donaldson, Donald Clark | Frank Crumit | 1920 |
My Love | Paul McCartney | Paul McCartney & Wings | 1973 |
My Lovin’ (You’re Never Gonna Get It) | Thomas McElroy, Denzil Foster | En Vogue | 1992 |
My Mammy | Walter Donaldson (m), Sam Lewis (w), Joy Young (w) | Paul Whiteman | 1921 |
My Man (Mon Homme) | Maurice Yvain (m), Jacques Mardochee Charles, Albert Willemetz (French lyrics), Channing Pollock (English lyrics) | Fanny Brice with Rosario Bourdon’s Orchestra | 1922 |
My Melancholy Baby | Ernie Burnett (m), George A. Norton (w) | Gene Austin with Nat Shilkret’s Orchestra | 1928 |
My Name Is Morgan, But It Ain’t J.P. | Halsey K. Mohr (m), Will A. Mahoney (w) | Bob Roberts | 1906 |
My One and Only | George Gershwin (m), Ira Gershwin (w) | Jane Green with Nat Shilkret’s Orchestra | 1928 |
My Pillow and Me | Tim Brymn, Chris Smith, Clarence Williams | Lada’s Louisiana Orchestra | 1922 |
My Pony Boy | Charley O’Donnell (m), Bobby Heath (w) | Ada Jones | 1909 |
My Prayer (Avant de Mourir) | Georges Boulanger, Jimmy Kennedy | The Platters | 1956 |
My Sharona | Doug Fieger, Berton Averre | The Knack | 1979 |
My Silent Love | Dana Suesse (m), Edward Heyman (w) | Ruby Norman with Gordon Graham | 1932 |
My Sunday Girl | Sam H. Stept (m), Herman Ruby (w), Bud Cooper (w) | Edwin J. McEnelly | 1927 |
My Sunny Tennessee | Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby and Herman Ruby | Peerless Quartet | 1922 |
My Sweet Lord | George Harrison | George Harrison | 1970 |
My Sweetie Turned Me Down (aka "What Do I Care, What Do I Care, My Sweetie Turned Me Down") | Walter Donaldson (m), Gus Kahn (w) | The Dixie Stars | 1925 |
My Time Is Your Time | Leo Dance (m), Eric Little (w) | Rudy Vallee | 1929 |
My Truly, Truly Fair | Bob Merrill | Donald Peers | 1941 |
My Wild Irish Rose | Chauncey Olcott (m/w) | Haydn Quartet with Harry MacDonough | 1907 |
SONG | WRITER(S), m = music, w = words | Performer with Highest Rated Version | Year |
O (Oh!) | Arnold Johnson, Byron Gay | Ted Lewis | 1920 |
The Object of My Affection | Pinky Tomlin, Coy Poe, Jimmie Grier | Jimmie Grier & Pinky Tomlin | 1934 |
The Oceana Roll | Lucien Denni (m), Roger Lewis (w) | Arthur Collins | 1911 |
Ode to Billie Joe | Bobbie Gentry | Bobbie Gentry | 1967 |
Oh Baby | Owen Murphy | Fred Waring’s Pennsylvanians | 1924 |
Oh Baby | Walter Donaldson (m), Buddy DeSylva (w) | Ted Lewis | 1928 |
Oh Boy What a Girl | Frank Wright (m), Frank Bessinger (m), Bud Green (w) | Eddie Cantor | 1926 |
Oh by Jingo! Oh by Gee! You’re the Only Girl for Me | Albert Von Tilzer (m), Lew Brown (w) | Frank Crumit | 1920 |
Oh Daddy Blues | Will Russell, Ed Herbert | Bessie Smith | 1923 |
Oh Didn’t He Ramble | Bob Cole (m/w) and J. Rosamond Johnson (m/w) as Will Handy | Dan Quinn | 1902 |
Oh Gee, Oh Gosh, Oh Golly, I’m in Love | Ernest Breuer (m), Olsen and Johnson (w) | Eddie Cantor | 1923 |
Oh Gee, Say Gee, You Ought to See My Gee Gee from the Fiji Isles | Albert Von Tilzer (m), Lew Brown (w) | Billy Murray | 1920 |
Oh How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning | Irving Berlin (m/w) | Arthur Fields | 1918 |
Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh! | Edward Rose (w), Abraham Olman (m) | American Quartet | 1917 |
Oh Lady Be Good | George Gershwin (m), Ira Gershwin (w) | Paul Whiteman | 1925 |
Oh Me! Oh My! Oh You! | Vincent Youmans (m), Arthur Francis (w) | Frank Crumit with the Paul Biese Trio | 1921 |
(Oh) Pretty Woman | Roy Orbison, Bill Dees | Roy Orbison | 1964 |
Oh Sister, Ain’t That Hot | Will Donaldson, Harry White | Gene Rodemich | 1923 |
Oh That Navajo Rag | Egbert Van Alstyne (m), Harry Williams (w) | American Quartet with Billy Murray | 1912 |
Oh What a Beautiful Mornin’ | Richard Rodgers (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w) | Bing Crosby with Trudy Erwin & the Sportsmen Glee Club | 1943 |
Oh What a Pal Was Mary | Pete Wendling (m), Edgar Leslie (w), Bert Kalmar (w) | Henry Burr | 1919 |
Oh You Beautiful Doll | Nat D. Ayer (m), Seymour Brown (w) | Billy Murray with the American Quartet | 1911 |
Oklahoma! | Richard Rodgers (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w) | Alfred Drake & the Oklahoma Cast | 1943 |
Ol’ Man River | Jerome Kern (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w) | Paul Robeson with Paul Whiteman | 1927 |
Old Fashioned Garden | Cole Porter | Lillian Kemble Cooper | 1919 |
Old Fashioned Love | James P. Johnson (m), Cecil Mack (w) | Frank Crumit | 1924 |
The Old Piano Roll Blues | Cy Coben | Lawrence "Piano Roll" Cook with the Jim Dandies | 1950 |
Ole Buttermilk Sky | Hoagy Carmichael, Jack Brooks | Kay Kyser with Michael Douglas | 1946 |
On a Slow Boat to China | Frank Loesser (m/w) | Kay Kyser with Harry Babbitt & Gloria Wood | 1948 |
On a Sunday Afternoon | Andrew B. Sterling (w), Harry Von Tilzer (m) | J.W. Myers | 1902 |
On Bended Knee | James Harris III, Terry Lewis | Boyz II Men | 1994 |
On Broadway | Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil | The Drifters | 1963 |
On My Own | Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager | Patti LaBelle with Michael McDonald | 1986 |
On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe | Harry Warren (m), Johnny Mercer (w), Kay Thomspon (w), Ralph Blane (w), Roger Edens (w) | Johnny Mercer & the Pied Pipers | 1945 |
On the Level You’re a Devil | Jean Schwartz (m), Joe Young (w) | Arthur Pryor | 1918 |
On the Mississippi | Harry Carroll (m), Arthur Fields (m), Ballard MacDonald (w) | American Quartet | 1913 |
On the Street Where You Live | Frederick Loewe (m), Alan Jay Lerner (w) | Vic Damone | 1956 |
On the Sunny Side of the Street | Jimmy McHugh (m), Dorothy Fields (w) | Ted Lewis | 1930 |
On Treasure Island | Joe Burke (m), Edgar Leslie (w) | Tommy Dorsey & Edythe Wright | 1935 |
Once in a While | Michael Edwards (m), Bud Green (w) | Tommy Dorsey | 1937 |
Once in Love with Amy | Frank Loesser (m/w) | Ray Bolger with Sy Oliver’s Orchestra | 1949 |
One Alone | Sigmund Romberg (m), Otto Harbach (w), Oscar Hammerstein (w) | Nat Shilkret | 1927 |
One Bad Apple | George Jackson | The Osmonds | 1971 |
One for My Baby and One More for the Road | Harold Arlen (m), Johnny Mercer (w) | Frank Sinatra | 1949 |
One Hour with You | Richard A. Whiting (m), Leo Robin (w) | Jimmie Grier & Donald Novis | 1932 |
The One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else | Isham Jones (m), Gus Kahn (w) | Al Jolson with Isham Jones’ Orchestra | 1924 |
One More Night | Phil Collins | Phil Collins | 1985 |
One Sweet Day | Mariah Carey, Michael McCary, Nathan Morris, Wanya Morris, Shawn Stockman, Walter Afanasieff | Mariah Carey with Boyz II Men | 1995 |
The One That You Love | Graham Russell | Air Supply | 1981 |
Only a Rose | Rudolf Friml (m), Brian Hooker (w) | Carolyn Thompson | 1926 |
Only You (And You Alone) | Ande Rand, Buck Ram | The Platters | 1955 |
Oogie Oogie Wa Wa | Archie Gottler (m), Grant Clarke (w), Edgar Leslie (w) | Margaret Young | 1922 |
Open Your Heart | Gardner Cole, Madonna, Peter Rafelson | Madonna | 1986 |
Opposites Attract | Oliver Leiber | Paula Abdul with the Wild Pair | 1988 |
Oriental Blues | Jack Newlon | Jack Newlon | 1933 |
Original Dixieland One-Step | Dominic James LaRocca | | 1937 |
Our Day Will Come | Mort Garson (m), Bob Hilliard (w) | Ruby & the Romantics | 1963 |
Out of Nowhere | Johnny Green (m), Edward Heyman (w) | Bing Crosby with Victor Young’s Orchestra | 1931 |
Over the Rainbow | Harold Arlen (m), E.Y. "Yip" Harburg (w) | Judy Garland | 1939 |
Over There | George M. Cohan (m/w) | American Quartet | 1917 |
SONG | WRITER(S), m = music, w = words | Performer with Highest Rated Version | Year |
Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag and Smile, Smile, Smile | George Powell (aka Charles Asaf) (w), Felix Powell (m) | Knickerbocker Quartet | 1917 |
Paddlin’ Madelin’ Home | Harry Woods | Cliff Edwards | 1925 |
Pagan Love Song | Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed | Bob Haring with Copley Plaza | 1929 |
Paint It Black | Mick Jagger, Keith Richards | The Rolling Stones | 1966 |
Painting the Clouds with Sunshine | Joe Burke (m), Al Dubin (w) | Nick Lucas | 1929 |
Palesteena (Lena from Palesteena) | Con Conrad (m), J. Russell Robinson (w) | Original Dixieland Jazz Band | 1921 |
Papa Better Watch Your Step | Gilbert Wells, Bud Cooper | Margaret Young | 1923 |
Papa Don’t Preach | Brian Elliot (m), Madonna (w) | Madonna | 1986 |
Paper Doll | Johnny S. Black | The Mills Brothers | 1942 |
Party Doll | Buddy Knox, Jimmy Bowen | Buddy Knox | 1957 |
The Party’s Over | Jule Styne (m), Betty Comden (w), Adolph Green (w) | Judy Holliday | 1956 |
The Peanut Vendor (El Manicero) | Moises Simons, Marion Sunshine, Gilbert Wolfe | Don Azpiazu with Arturo Machin | 1930 |
Peg O’ My Heart | Alfred Bryan (w), Fred Fisher (m) | The Harmonicats | 1947 |
Peggy Sue | Jerry Allison, Buddy Holly, Norman Petty | Buddy Holly & the Crickets | 1957 |
Pennies from Heaven | Arthur Johnston (m), Johnny Burke (w) | Bing Crosby with George Stoll's Orchestra | 1936 |
Pennsylvania 6-5000 | Jerry Gray (m), Carl Sigman (w) | Glenn Miller | 1940 |
Penny Lane | John Lennon, Paul McCartney | The Beatles | 1967 |
People | Jule Styne (m), Bob Merrill (w) | Barbra Streisand | 1964 |
People Got to Be Free | Felix Cavaliere, Eddie Brigati | The Rascals | 1968 |
People Will Say We’re in Love | Richard Rodgers (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w) | Bing Crosby with Trudy Erwin & the Sportsmen Glee Club | 1943 |
Peppermint Twist | Joey Dee, Henry Glover | Joey Dee & the Starliters | 1961 |
A Perfect Day | Carrie Jacobs-Bond (m/w) | Cecil Fanning | 1911 |
Peter Gink | George L. Cobb | The Six Brown Brothers | 1918 |
Philadelphia Freedom | Elton John, Bernie Taupin | Elton John | 1975 |
Physical | Steve Kipner, Terry Shaddick | Olivia Newton-John | 1981 |
Pianoflage | Roy Bargy | Roy Bargy | 1922 |
Piccolo Pete | Phil Baxter | Ted Weems with Parker Gibbs | 1929 |
Play a Simple Melody | Irving Berlin (m/w) | Billy Murray with Edna Brown | 1916 |
Play That Barber-Shop Chord | William Tracey (w), Lewis F. Muir (m) | Bert Williams | 1910 |
Play That Funky Music | Robert Parissi | Wild Cherry | 1976 |
Please | Ralph Rainger (m), Leo Robin (w) | Bing Crosby with Anson Weeks’ Orchestra | 1932 |
Please Don’t Go | Harry Wayne Casey | KC & the Sunshine Band | 1979 |
Please Don’t Talk about Me When I’m Gone | Sam H. Stept (m), Bee Palmer (m), Sidney Clare (w) | Gene Austin with Leonard Joy’s Orchestra | 1931 |
Please Let Me Sleep | R.C. McPherson, James T. Brymn | | 1902 |
Please Mr. Postman | Brian Holland, Robert Bateman, William Garrett, Georgia Dobbins, Freddie Gorman | The Marvelettes | 1961 |
Please Please Me | John Lennon, Paul McCartney | The Beatles | 1963 |
Pleasure Mad | Sidney Bechet (m), Rousseau Simmons (w) | Blossom Seeley | 1924 |
Pledging My Love | Don Robey, Ferdinand Washington | Johnny Ace | 1955 |
Pony Time | Don Covay, John Berry | Chubby Checker | 1961 |
Poor Butterfly | Raymond Hubbell (m), John L. Golden (w) | Victor Military Band | 1917 |
The Poor People of Paris | Marguerite Mannot, Jack Lawrence, Rene Rouzaud | Les Baxter | 1956 |
Popularity | George M. Cohan | Vess Ossman | 1907 |
A Porter’s Love Song to a Chambermaid | James P. Johnson (m), Andy Razaf (w) | Fats Waller | 1934 |
The Portuguese Washerwoman | Andre Popp, Roger Lucchesi | Joe "Fingers’ Carr | 1956 |
Potomac River Blues | Maceo Pinkard | Gertrude Saunders | 1923 |
Powder Your Face with Sunshine (Smile! Smile! Smile!) | Carmen Lombardo, Stanley Rochinski | Evelyn Knight & the Stardusters | 1948 |
The Power of Love | Johnny Colla, Chris Hayes, Huey Lewis | Huey Lewis & the News | 1985 |
The Power of Love | Mary Applegate, Jennifer Rush | Celine Dion | 1993 |
The Preacher and the Bear | George Fairman, Joe Arizona (m/w) | Arthur Collins | 1905 |
Pretty Baby | Gus Kahn (w), Tony Jackson (m), Egbert Van Alstyne (m) | Billy Murray | 1916 |
A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody | Irving Berlin (m/w) | John Steel | 1919 |
Prince of Wails | Elmer Schoebel | Bennie Moten & His Kansas City Orchestra | 1932 |
Private Eyes | Daryl Hall, Warren Pash, Sara Allen, Jana Allen | Hall & Oates | 1981 |
Proud Mary | John Fogerty | Creedence Clearwater Revival | 1969 |
Proud of a Baby Like You | Paul R. Helmick (m), Charles Schonberg (w), Leonard Stevens (w) | Foursome | 1926 |
Puff the Magic Dragon | Peter Yarrow, Leonard Upton | Peter, Paul & Mary | 1963 |
The Pullman Porter’s Parade | Maurice Abrahams (m), Irving Berlin as Ren. G. May (w) | Al Jolson with Charles Prince’s Orchestra | 1913 |
The Purple People Eater | Sheb Wooley | Sheb Wooley | 1958 |
The Purple Rose of Cairo | A.J. Piron (m), Steve Lewis (m), Jimmie Dupre (w) | Zez Confrey | 1920 |
Put a Little Love in Your Heart | Jimmy Holiday, Randy Myers, Jackie DeShannon | Al Green with Annie Lennox | 1988 |
Put on a Happy Face | Charles Strouse (m), Lee Adams (w) | Dick Van Dyke & Chita Rivera | 1960 |
Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet | Stanley Murphy (w), Percy Weinrich (m) | Haydn Quartet | 1909 |
Put Your Arms Around Me Honey (I Never Knew Any Girl Like You) | Junie McCree (w), Albert Von Tilzer (m) | Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan | 1911 |
Put Your Head on My Shoulder | Paul Anka | Paul Anka | 1959 |
Puttin’ on the Ritz | Irving Berlin (m/w) | Harry Richman | 1930 |
SONG | WRITER(S), m = music, w = words | Performer with Highest Rated Version | Year |
S’ Wonderful | George Gershwin (m), Ira Gershwin (w) | Sarah Vaughan | 1927 |
Sailing | Christopher Cross | Christopher Cross | 1979 |
Sailing Down the Chesapeake Bay | Jean C. Havez (w), George Botsford (m) | Henry Burr with Albert Campbell | 1913 |
Sam, the Accordian Man | Walter Donaldson | Ruth Etting | 1927 |
Sam’s Song | Lew Quadling, Jack Elliott | Bing Crosby with Gary Crosby & Matty Matlock’s Orchestra | 1950 |
San | Lindsay McPhail, Walter Hirsch | Ted Lewis | 1924 |
San Francisco | J. Gordon Temple, James G. Dewey | Tommy Dorsey & Edythe Wright | 1936 |
San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair) | John Phillips | Scott McKenzie | 1967 |
San Francisco Bound | Irving Berlin | Peerless Quartet | 1913 |
Santa Claus Is Coming to Town | J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie | Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen’s Orchestra | 1947 |
Save It for Me | Bob Cole, James Weldon Johnson | Marie Cahill | 1903 |
Save the Best for Last | John Lind, Wendy Waldman, Phil Galdston | Vanessa Williams | 1992 |
Saving All My Love for You | Michael William Masser (m), Gerry Goffin (w) | Whitney Houston | 1985 |
Say It Isn’t So | Irving Berlin (m/w) | George Olsen with Paul Small | 1932 |
Say It with Music | Irving Berlin | Paul Whiteman | 1921 |
Say It with Your Heart | Steve Nelson, Norman Kaye | Bob Carroll with Jimmy Leyden’s Orchestra | 1953 |
Say, Say, Say | Paul McCartney, Michael Jackson | Paul McCartney with Michael Jackson | 1983 |
Say You Say Me | Lionel Richie | Lionel Richie | 1985 |
School Days | Chuck Berry | Chuck Berry | 1957 |
School Days (When We Were a Couple of Kids) | Gus Edwards (m), Will D. Cobb (w) | Byron Harlan | 1907 |
Searchin’ | Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller | The Coasters | 1957 |
Second Hand Rose | Grant Clarke, James F. Hanley | Fanny Brice with Rosario Bourdon’s Orchestra | 1922 |
Secret Love | Paul Francis Webster, Sammy Fain | Doris Day | 1954 |
See You Later, Alligator | Robert Guidry | Bill Haley & His Comets | 1956 |
Seems Like Old Times | Carmen Lombardo (m), John Jacob Loeb (w) | Guy Lombardo | 1946 |
Send in the Clowns | Stephen Sondheim | Judy Collins | 1975 |
Sentimental Journey | Ben Homer, Les Brown, Bud Green | Les Brown with Doris Day | 1945 |
September Song | Kurt Weill (m), Maxwell Anderson (w) | Walter Huston | 1939 |
Serenade in Blue | Mack Gordon, Harry Warren | Glenn Miller with Ray Eberle | 1942 |
Seventy Six Trombones | Meredith Wilson | Robert Preston | 1957 |
Shadow Dancing | Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, Maurice Gibb, Andy Gibb | Andy Gibb | 1978 |
The Shadow of Your Smile (Love Theme from "The Sandpiper") | Johnny Mandel (m), Paul Francis Webster (w) | Tony Bennett | 1965 |
Shaft (Theme from) | Isaac Hayes | Isaac Hayes | 1971 |
Shake Shake Shake Shake Your Booty | Harry Wayne Casey, Richard Finch | KC & the Sunshine Band | 1976 |
Shake, Rattle and Roll | Charles Calhoun | Big Joe Turner | 1954 |
Shaking the Blues Away | Irving Berlin | Ruth Etting | 1927 |
Shaky Eyes | Harry Armstrong, Billy Clark | Arthur Collins | 1910 |
Sh-Boom | William Edwards, Carl Feaster, Claude Feaster, James Keyes, Floyd McRae | The Chords | 1954 |
She Came in Through the Bathroom Window | John Lennon, Paul McCartney | Joe Cocker | 1969 |
She Didn’t Say "Yes" | Jerome Kern (m), Otto Harbach (w) | Leo Reisman | 1932 |
She Loves You | John Lennon, Paul McCartney | The Beatles | 1963 |
The Sheik of Araby | Ted Snyder, Harry B. Smith, Francis Wheeler | Ray Miller | 1922 |
Shepherd Serenade | Fred Spielman (m), Kermit Goell (w) | Bing Crosby with Harry Sosnik’s Orchestra | 1941 |
Sherry | Bob Gaudio | The Four Seasons | 1962 |
Shine (S-h-i-n-e) | Ford Dabney, Cecil Mack, Lew Brown | California Ramblers | 1924 |
Shine on Harvest Moon | Jack Norworth (w), Nora Bayes (m) | Harry MacDonough with Miss Walton | 1909 |
A Shine on Your Shoes | Arthur Schwartz (m), Howard Dietz (w) | Roger Wolfe Kahn | 1932 |
Shining Star | Maurice White, Philip Bailey | Earth, Wind & Fire | 1975 |
Shoe Shine Boy | Saul Chaplin (m), Sammy Cahn (w) | Louis Armstrong | 1936 |
Shop Around | Berry Gordy, Smokey Robinson | The Miracles | 1960 |
Short People | Randy Newman | Randy Newman | 1977 |
Shout (Parts 1 and 2) | O’Kelly Isley Jr., Ronald Isley, Rudolph Isley | The Isley Brothers | 1959 |
Show Me the Way to Go Home | Irving King | Vincent Lopez | 1926 |
Side by Side | Harry MacGregor Woods | Paul Whiteman & the Rhythm Boys (Bing Crosby, Al Rinker, & Harry Barris) | 1927 |
Sidewalk Blues | Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton (m), Walter Melrose (w) | Jelly Roll Morton | 1926 |
The Sign | Jenny Berggren, Jonas Berggren, Malin Berggren, Ulf Ekberg | Ace of Base | 1993 |
Silly Love Songs | Paul McCartney | Paul McCartney & Wings | 1976 |
Silver Bell | Edward Madden (w), Percy Wenrich (m) | Peerless Quartet | 1910 |
Since My Best Gal Turned Me Down | Ray Lodwig, Howdy Quicksell | Bix Beiderbecke | 1927 |
Sincerely | Harvey Fuqua, Alan Freed | The McGuire Sisters | 1954 |
Singin’ in the Rain | Nacio Herb Brown (m), Arthur Freed (w) | Cliff Edwards (aka Ukelele Ike) | 1929 |
Singin’ the Blues | Sam Lewis, Joe Young, Con Conrad, J. Russell Robinson | Frankie Trumbauer | 1927 |
Singing the Blues | Melvin Endlsey (m/w) | Guy Mitchell | 1956 |
The Siren’s Song | Jerome Kern (m), P.G. Wodehouse (w) | Helen Clark & Gladys Rice | 1918 |
Sister Susie’s Sewing Shirts for Soldiers | R.P. Weston (w), Hermann E. Darewski (m) | Al Jolson with Charles Prince’s Orchestra | 1915 |
Sittin’ in a Corner | George W. Meyer (m), Gus Kahn (w) | Broadway Syncopators | 1924 |
(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay | Steve Cropper, Otis Redding | Otis Redding | 1968 |
Sixteen Tons | Merle Travis | Tennessee Ernie Ford | 1955 |
Sleepy Head | Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn | The Mills Brothers | 1934 |
Sleepy Time Gal | Richard Whiting, Ange Lorenzo, Joseph Alden, Ray Egan | Ben Bernie with Arthur Fields | 1926 |
Slow Hand | Michael Clark, John Bettis | The Pointer Sisters | 1981 |
Slow Poke | Pee Wee King, Chilton Price, Redd Stewart | Pee Wee King & His Golden West Cowboys | 1951 |
Smiles | Lee Roberts (m), J. Will Callahan (w) | Joseph C. Smith with Harry MacDonough | 1918 |
Smilin’ Through | Arthur A. Penn | Reinald Werrenrath | 1919 |
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes | Jerome Kern (m), Otto Harbach (w) | Paul Whiteman with Bob Lawrence | 1933 |
Smoke Rings | Eugene Gifford, Ned Washington | Clyde McCoy | 1933 |
Smoky Mokes | Abe Holzmann (m) | Len Spencer | 1899 |
Smooth | Itaal Shur, Rob Thomas | Santana with Rob Thomas | 1999 |
Snookey Ookums | Irving Berlin (m/w) | Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan | 1913 |
So in Love | Cole Porter (m/w) | Patti Page | 1949 |
So Long Oo-Long (How Long You Gonna Be Gone) | Harry Ruby (m), Bert Kalmar (w) | Frank Crumit | 1920 |
Sobbin’ Blues | Arthur Kassell (m), Victor Burton (w) | Russ Carlyle & His Orchestra | 1955 |
Soldier Boy | Luther Dixon, Florence Greenberg | The Shirelles | 1962 |
Some Enchanted Evening | Richard Rodgers (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w) | Perry Como with Mitchell Ayres Orchestra | 1949 |
Some Little Bug Is Going to Find You | Silvio Hein (m), Benjamin Hapgood Burt (w), Roy Atwell (w) | Roy Atwell | 1915 |
Some of These Days | Shelton Brooks (m/w) | Sophie Tucker | 1911 |
Somebody Loves Me | George Gershwin (m), Buddy DeSylva (w), Ballard McDonald (w) | Paul Whiteman | 1924 |
Somebody Stole My Gal | Leo Woods | Ted Weems | 1924 |
Someday Sweetheart | John C. Spikes | Gene Austin & Abel Baer | 1927 |
Someday We’ll Be Together | Jackie Beavers, Harvey Fuqua, Johnny Bristol | The Supremes | 1969 |
Someone Is Losin’ Susan | George W. Meyer (m), Roy Turk (w) | Harry Reser’s Orchestra | 1926 |
Someone to Watch Over Me | George Gershwin (m), Ira Gershwin (w) | Gertrude Lawrence | 1926 |
Something | George Harrison | The Beatles | 1969 |
Something’s Gotta Give | Johnny Mercer (m/w) | The McGuire Sisters | 1955 |
Sometimes I’m Happy | Vincent Youmans (m), Irving Caesar (w) | Roger Wolfe Kahn | 1927 |
Song of India | Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov | Paul Whiteman | 1921 |
Song Sung Blue | Neil Diamond | Neil Diamond | 1972 |
Sooner or Later | Stephen Sondheim | Madonna | 1990 |
Sophisticated Lady | Duke Ellington (m), Mitchell Parish (w), Irving Mills (w) | Duke Ellington | 1933 |
Soul Man | Isaac Hayes, David Porter | Sam & Dave | 1967 |
The Sounds of Silence | Paul Simon | Simon & Garfunkel | 1965 |
South America, Take It Away | Harold Rome | Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen’s Orchestra | 1945 |
South of the Border (Down Mexico Way) | Jimmy Kennedy, Michael Carr | Shep Fields & Hal Derwin | 1939 |
Spain | Isham Jones (m), Gus Kahn (w) | Isham Jones | 1924 |
Spanish Shawl | Elmer Schoebel (m), Billy Meyers (w), Walter Melrose (w) | Blossom Seeley | 1925 |
Speedoo | Esther Navarro | The Cadillacs | 1955 |
Splish Splash | Bobby Darin, Murray Kaufman | Bobby Darin | 1958 |
Spreadin’ Rhythm Around | Jimmy McHugh (m), Ted Koehler (w) | Alice Faye | 1936 |
Squeeze Me | Clarence Williams, Thomas Waller | Clarence Williams | 1926 |
St. Louis Blues | W.C. Handy (m/w) | Bessie Smith & Louis Armstrong | 1925 |
Stairway to the Stars | Matty Malneck (m), Frank Signorelli (m), Mitchell Parish (w) | Glenn Miller with Ray Eberle | 1939 |
Stand by Me | Ben E. King, Elmo Glick, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller | Ben E. King | 1961 |
Standing on the Corner | Frank Loesser (m/w) | The Four Lads | 1956 |
Stardust | Hoagy Carmichael (m), Mitchell Parish (w) | Artie Shaw | 1941 |
Stars Fell on Alabama | Frank S. Perkins (m), Mitchell Parish (w) | Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo | 1934 |
Stay in Your Own Backyard | Karl Kennett (w), Lyn Udall (m) | Louise Dresser | 1899 |
Step by Step | Maurice Starr | New Kids on the Block | 1990 |
Steppin’ in Society | Harry Akst, Alex Gerber | Paul Whiteman | 1925 |
Steppin’ Out | Con Conrad (m), John S. Howard (w) | Al Jolson with Isham Jones’ Orchestra | 1924 |
Steppin’ Out with My Baby | Irving Berlin (m/w) | Fred Astaire | 1947 |
Stop! In the Name of Love | Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Eddie Holland | The Supremes | 1965 |
Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time) | Harold Arlen (m), Ted Koehler (w) | Ethel Waters | 1933 |
The Story Book Ball | Billie Montgomery, George Perry | | 1917 |
Stout-Hearted Men | Sigmund Romberg (m), Oscar Hammerstein (w) | Perry Askam | 1930 |
Strange Fruit | Abel Meeropol aka Lewis Allan (pseud. for Abel Meeropol) (m/w) | Billie Holiday | 1939 |
Stranger in Paradise | Robert Wright, George Forrest | Tony Bennett with Percy Faith’s Orchestra | 1953 |
Strangers in the Night | Bert Kaempfert, Charles Singleton, Eddie Snyder | Frank Sinatra | 1966 |
Streets of Philadelphia | Bruce Springsteen | Bruce Springsteen | 1994 |
Strike Up the Band, Here Comes a Sailor | Andrew B. Sterling (w), Charles B. Ward (m) | | 1900 |
A String of Pearls | Jerry Gray (m), Eddie DeLange (w) | Glenn Miller | 1942 |
The Stroll | Clyde Otis, Nancy Lee | The Diamonds | 1957 |
Stuck on You | Aaron Schroeder, J. Leslie McFarland | Presley, Elvis | 1960 |
Stuck with You | Chris Hayes, Huey Lewis | Huey Lewis & the News | 1986 |
Stumbling | Zez Confrey | Paul Whiteman | 1922 |
Stuttering | Maceo Pinkard, Sidney Mitchell | Zez Confrey | 1922 |
Subterranean Homesick Blues | Bob Dylan | Bob Dylan | 1965 |
Suddenly There’s a Valley | Chuck Meyer, Biff Jones | Petula Clark | 1955 |
Sugar Blues | Clarence Williams, Lucy Fletcher | Clyde McCoy | 1931 |
Sugar Foot Stomp | Joe Oliver (m), Walter Melrose (w) | Fletcher Henderson | 1925 |
Sugar Plum | Joseph Meyer, Buddy DeSylva | Markel & His Orchestra | 1925 |
Sugar Shack | Keith McCormick, Faye Voss | Jimmy Gilmer & the Fireballs | 1963 |
Sugar, Sugar | Jeff Barry, Andy Kim | The Archies | 1969 |
Summer in the City | John Sebastian, Steve Boone, Mark Sebastian | The Lovin’ Spoonful | 1966 |
A Summer Place (Theme from) | Max Steiner | Percy Faith | 1960 |
Summertime | George Gershwin (m), Ira Gershwin (w), Dubose Heyward (w) | Billie Holiday | 1936 |
The Sun Shines Brighter | Jerome Kern (m), P.G. Wodehouse (w) | Oscar Shaw & Ann Orr | 1917 |
Sunday | Jule Styne, Nathan Ned Miller, Chester Conn, Benny Kreuger | Cliff Edwards | 1927 |
Sunny | Jerome Kern (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w), Otto Harbach (w) | George Olsen | 1926 |
Sunny Disposish | Philip Charig, Ira Gershwin | Arline & Edgar Gardiner | 1926 |
Sunny Side Up | Ray Henderson (m), Buddy DeSylva (w), Lew Brown (w) | Earl Burtnett | 1929 |
Sunrise Serenade | Frankie Carle, Jack Lawrence | Glen Gray | 1939 |
Sunrise, Sunset | Sheldon Harnick, Jerry Bock | Zero Mostel | 1964 |
Sunshine of Your Love | Peter Brown, Jack Bruce, Eric Clapton | Cream | 1967 |
Sunshine on My Shoulders | John Denver, Dick Kniss, Mike Taylor | John Denver | 1971 |
Superstition | Stevie Wonder | Stevie Wonder | 1972 |
Surf City | Jan Berry, Brian Wilson | Jan & Dean | 1963 |
Surfin’ U.S.A. | Chuck Berry (m), Brian Wilson (w) | The Beach Boys | 1963 |
Surrender | Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman | Presley, Elvis | 1961 |
The Surrey with the Fringe on Top | Richard Rodgers (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w) | Alfred Drake with Jay Blackton’s Orchestra | 1943 |
Susie | C. Naset, Gus Kahn | Wolverine Orchestra | 1924 |
Suspicious Minds | Mark James | Presley, Elvis | 1969 |
Sussudio | Phil Collins | Phil Collins | 1985 |
Swanee | George Gershwin (m), Irvng Caesar (w) | Al Jolson with Charles Prince’s Orchestra | 1920 |
Swanee Blues | J. Milton Delcamp, Frank Goodman | Milton J. Delcamp | 1920 |
Sweepin’ the Clouds Away | Sam Coslow | Maurice Chevalier | 1930 |
Sweet Adeline (You’re the Flower of My Heart) | Richard Gerard Husch as Richard H. Gerard (w), Harry Armstrong (m) | Haydn Quartet with John Bieling & S.H. Dudley | 1904 |
Sweet Dreams Are Made of This | Annie Lennox, David Stewart | Eurythmics | 1983 |
Sweet Georgia Brown | Ben Bernie, Kenneth Casey, Maceo Pinkard | Ben Bernie | 1925 |
Sweet Lady | Frank Crumit (m), Dave Zoob (m), Howard Johnson (w) | Frank Crumit | 1921 |
Sweet Leilani | Harry Owens | Bing Crosby with Lani McIntyre & His Hawaiians | 1937 |
Sweet Little Sixteen | Chuck Berry | Chuck Berry | 1958 |
Sweet Lorraine | Cliff Burwell (m), Mitchell Parish (w) | Teddy Wilson | 1935 |
Sweet Man | Maceo Pinkard, Roy Turk | Isham Jones | 1925 |
Sweet Savannah Sue | Thomas Waller (m), Harry Brooks (m), Anday Rasaf (w) | Fats Waller | 1929 |
Sweet Sue, Just You | Victor Young, Will Harris | Ben Pollack with Franklyn Baur | 1928 |
The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi | Byron D. Stokes, F. Dudleigh Vernor (m) | Fred Waring’s Pennsylvanians | 1927 |
Sweethearts | Robert B. Smith (w), Victor Herbert (m) | Christie MacDonald | 1913 |
Sweethearts on Parade | Carmen Lombardo (m), Charles Newman (w) | Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo | 1928 |
Swingin’ Down the Lane | Isham Jones (m), Gus Kahn (w) | Isham Jones | 1923 |
Swinging on a Star | Jimmy Van Heusen (m), Johnny Burke (w) | Bing Crosby & the Williams Brothers Quartet with John Scott Trotter’s Orchestra | 1944 |
Sympathy | Otto Hauerbach (w), Rudolf Friml (m) | Walter Van Brunt with Helen Clark | 1913 |
SONG | WRITER(S), m = music, w = words | Performer with Highest Rated Version | Year |
T’ain’t Nobody’s Business if I Do | Graham Prince, Porter Grainger, Clarence Williams, Billy Strayhorn | Bessie Smith | 1923 |
Take a Bow | Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, Madonna | Madonna | 1994 |
Take Five | Paul Desmond | Dave Brubeck Quartet | 1959 |
Take Good Care of My Baby | Gerry Goffin, Carole King | Bobby Vee | 1961 |
Take Me Out to the Ball Game | Albert Von Tilzer (m), Jack Norworth (w) | Billy Murray & the Haydn Quartet | 1908 |
Take Me to the Midnight Cake Walk Ball | Maurice Abrahams (m/w), Eddie Cox (m/w), Arthur Jackson (m/w) | Daphne Pollard | 1915 |
Take My Breath Away | Giorgio Moroder, Tom Whitlock | Berlin | 1986 |
Take Your Girlie to the Movies if You Can’t Make Love at Home | Pete Wendling (m), Edgar Leslie (w), Bert Kalmar (w) | Irving Kaufman | 1919 |
Taking a Chance on Love | Vernon Duke (m), Ted Fetter (w), John Latouche (w) | Benny Goodman with Helen Forrest | 1940 |
The Talk of the Town | Chester Cohn, Gus Kahn | Ted Weems | 1933 |
Talk to the Animals | Leslie Bricusse | Rex Harrison | 1967 |
Tammy | Jay Livingston, Ray Evans | Debbie Reynolds | 1957 |
Tea for Two | Vincent Youmans (m), Irving Caesar (w) | Marion Harris | 1925 |
The Tears of a Clown | Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, Hank Cosby | The Miracles | 1967 |
Teasing (I Was Only Teasing You) | Richard M. McPherson, Albert Von Tilzer | Billy Murray | 1904 |
Teen Angel | Jean Surrey, Red Surrey | Mark Dinning | 1959 |
Tell Her about It | Billy Joel | Billy Joel | 1983 |
Tell Me, Pretty Maiden | Owen Hall (w), Leslie Stuart (m) | Harry MacDonough with Grace Spencer | 1901 |
Tell Me Why | Marty Gold, Al Alberts | The Four Aces | 1951 |
Temptation Rag | Henry Lodge | Prince’s Orchestra | 1910 |
Ten Cents a Dance | Richard Rodgers (m), Lorenz Hart (w) | Ruth Etting | 1930 |
Tenderly | Walter Gross (m), Jack Lawrence (w) | Rosemary Clooney | 1952 |
Tennessee Waltz | Pee Wee King, Redd Stewart | Patti Page | 1950 |
Tequila | Chuck Rio | The Champs | 1958 |
Thank God I’m a Country Boy | John Martin Sommers | John Denver | 1974 |
Thank You Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin | Sylvester Stewart | Sly & the Family Stone | 1969 |
Thanks for the Memory | Ralph Rainger (m), Leo Robin (w) | Shep Fields with Bob Goday | 1937 |
That Certain Party | Walter Donaldson (m), Gus Kahn (w) | Ernest Hare & Billy Jones | 1926 |
That International Rag | Irving Berlin (m/w) | Victor Military Band | 1914 |
That Lucky Old Sun | Beasley Smith (m), Haven Gillespie (w) | Frankie Laine with Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires & Harry Geller’s Orchestra | 1949 |
That Old Black Magic | Harold Arlen (m), Johnny Mercer (w) | Glenn Miller with Skip Nelson | 1943 |
That Old Feeling | Sammy Fain (m), Lew Brown (w) | Shep Fields with Bob Goday | 1937 |
That Thing Called Love | Perry Bradford | Sophie Tucker | 1920 |
That’ll Be the Day | Buddy Holly, J.I. Allison, Norman Petty | Buddy Holly & the Crickets | 1957 |
That’s Amore | Jack Brooks, Harry Warren | Dean Martin | 1953 |
That’s A-Plenty | Ray Gilbert (w), Lew Pollack (m) | Prince’s Orchestra | 1914 |
That’s My Desire | Helmy Kresa (m), Carroll Loveday (m) | Frankie Laine | 1947 |
That’s My Weakness Now | Sam Stept (m), Bud Green (w) | Helen Kane with Nat Shilkret’s Orchestra | 1928 |
That’s the Kind of a Baby for Me | J.C. Egan, Alfred Harriman | Eddie Cantor | 1917 |
That’s the Way I Like It | Harry Wayne Casey, Richard Finch | KC & the Sunshine Band | 1975 |
That’s the Way Love Goes | Charles A. Bobbit, James Brown, Janet Jackson, John Starks, Fred A. Wesley Jr., Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis | Janet Jackson | 1993 |
That's What Friends Are For | Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager | Dionne & Friends (Dionne Warwick with Elton John, Gladys Knight, & Stevie Wonder) | 1985 |
That’s Why They Call Me "Shine" | Cecil Mack (w), Ford Dabney (m) | Aida Overton Walker | 1910 |
Them There Eyes | Maceo Pinkard, Doris Tauber, William G. Tracey | Gus Arnheim with the Rhythm Boys | 1930 |
Then Came You | Sherman Marshall, Phil Pugh | Dionne Warwick & the Spinners | 1974 |
There! I’ve Said It Again | Redd Evans, Dave Mann | Vaughn Monroe | 1945 |
There’ll Be Some Changes Made | W. Benton Overstreet (m), Billy Higgins (w) | Benny Goodman with Louise Tobin | 1941 |
There’s a Kind of Hush | Les Reed, Geoff Stephens | Herman’s Hermits | 1967 |
There’s a Small Hotel | Richard Rodgers (m), Lorenz Hart (w) | Hal Kemp with Maxine Gray | 1936 |
There’s No Business Like Show Business | Irving Berlin (m/w) | Ethel Merman | 1946 |
These Boots Are Made for Walkin’ | Lee Hazlewood | Nancy Sinatra | 1966 |
These Foolish Things Remind Me of You | Harry Link (m), Jack Strachey (m), Eric Maschwitz, aka Holt Marvel (w) | Benny Goodman with Helen Ward | 1936 |
They Can’t Take That Away from Me | George Gershwin (m), Ira Gershwin (w) | Fred Astaire with Johnny Greer’s Orchestra | 1937 |
They Didn't Believe Me | Jerome Kern (m), Herbert Reynolds (w) | Harry MacDonough with Olive Kline (as Alice Green) | 1915 |
They Go Wild, Simply Wild, Over Me | Fred Fisher (m), Joe McCarthy (w) | Marion Harris | 1917 |
They Gotta Quit Kickin’ My Dawg Around | Webb M. Oungst (w), Cy Perkins (m) | Carrie B. Stark | 1912 |
They Long to Be Close to You | Burt Bacharach (m), Hal David (w) | Carpenters | 1970 |
Think of Me | Al Eldridge | Buck Owens | 1966 |
Thinking of You (I’ve Grown So Lonesome) | Harry Ruby, Bert Kalmar | Don Cherry with Dave Terry | 1950 |
The Third Man Theme | Anton Karas | Anton Karas | 1950 |
This Can’t Be Love | Richard Rodgers (m), Lorenz Hart (w) | Benny Goodman with Martha Tilton | 1938 |
This Diamond Ring | Al Kooper, Bobby Brass, Irwin Levine | Gary Lewis & the Playboys | 1965 |
This Guy’s in Love with You | Burt Bacharach, Hal David | Herb Alpert | 1968 |
This Magic Moment | Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman | The Drifters | 1960 |
This Used to Be My Playground | Madonna Ciccone, Shep Pettibone | Madonna | 1992 |
Those Panama Mamas | Irving Bibo (m), Howard Johnson (w) | Eddie Cantor | 1924 |
Thou Swell | Richard Rodgers (m), Lorenz Hart (w) | Ben Selvin | 1928 |
Three Coins in the Fountain | Jule Styne (m), Sammy Cahn (w) | The Four Aces with Jack Piels’ Orchestra | 1954 |
Three Little Words | Harry Ruby (m), Bert Kalmar (w) | Duke Ellington with the Rhythm Boys (Bing Crosby, Al Rinker, & Harry Barris) | 1930 |
Three Times a Lady | Lionel Richie | Commodores | 1978 |
Ticket to Ride | John Lennon, Paul McCartney | The Beatles | 1965 |
The Tickle Toe | Louis A. Hirsch (m), Otto Harbach (w) | Edith Day & Allen Fagan | 1917 |
The Tide Is High | John Holt | Blondie | 1980 |
Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree | L. Russell Brown, Irwin Levine | Tony Orlando & Dawn | 1973 |
Tiger Rag | Original Dixieland Jazz Band (m), Harry DeCosta | Original Dixieland Jazz Band | 1918 |
Till I Waltz Again with You | Sidney Prosen | Teresa Brewer with Jack Piels’ Orchestra | 1952 |
Till the Clouds Roll By | Jerome Kern (m/w), P.G. Wodehouse (w), Guy Bolton (w) | Anna Wheaton & James Harrod | 1917 |
Till Then | Guy Wood, Sol Marcus, Eddie Seiler | The Mills Brothers | 1944 |
Till There Was You | Meredith Willson | Anita Bryant | 1959 |
Till We Meet Again | Richard A. Whiting (m), Raymond B. Egan (w) | Henry Burr with Albert Campbell | 1919 |
Time After Time | Rob Hyman, Cyndi Lauper | Cyndi Lauper | 1983 |
Time in a Bottle | Jim Croce | Jim Croce | 1972 |
Time on My Hands (You in My Arms) | Vincent Youmans (m), Harold Adamson (w), Mack Gordon (w) | Smith Ballew & His Orchestra | 1931 |
Tin Roof Blues | New Orleans Rhythm Kings (m), Walter Melrose (w) | New Orleans Rhythm Kings | 1923 |
Tip Toe Through the Tulips | Joe Burke, Al Dubin | Nick Lucas | 1929 |
Tishomingo Blues | Spencer Williams | Duke Ellington | 1928 |
To Know Him Is to Love Him | Phil Spector | The Teddy Bears | 1958 |
To Sir with Love | Don Black, Mark London | Lulu | 1967 |
Together Forever | Matt Aitken, Mike Stock, Peter Waterman | Rick Astley | 1987 |
Tomorrow | Martin Charnin, Charles Strouse | Andrea McCardle | 1977 |
Tonight You Belong to Me | Lee David, Billy Rose | Gene Austin with Nat Shilkret’s Orchestra | 1927 |
Too Close | Darren Lightly, Keir Gist, Robert Huggar | Next | 1998 |
Too Marvelous for Words | Richard A. Whiting (m), Johnny Mercer (w) | Bing Crosby with Jimmy Dorsey’s Orchestra | 1937 |
Too Young | Sid Lippman (m), Sylvia Dee (w) | Nat "King" Cole with Les Baxter’s Orchestra | 1951 |
Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral (That’s an Irish Lullaby) | James R. Shannon (m/w) | Chauncey Olcott | 1913 |
Toot Toot Tootsie (Goo-Bye!) | Gus Kahn, Ernie Erdman, Dan Russo | Al Jolson | 1922 |
Top Banana | Johnny Mercer | Phil Silvers | 1951 |
Top Hat, White Tie, and Tails | Irving Berlin (m/w) | Fred Astaire with Johnny Greer’s Orchestra | 1935 |
Top of the World | Richard Carpenter, John Bettis | Carpenters | 1973 |
Tossin’ and Turnin’ | Ritchie Adams, Malou Rene | Bobby Lewis | 1961 |
Total Eclipse of the Heart | Jim Steinman | Bonnie Tyler | 1983 |
The Touch of Your Hand | Jerome Kern (m), Otto Harbach (w) | Leo Reisman | 1934 |
Toyland | Glen MacDonough (w), Victor Herbert (m) | Corrine Morgan & the Haydn Quartet | 1904 |
Tragedy | Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, Maurice Gibb | Bee Gees | 1978 |
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine | Ballard MacDonald (w), Harry Carroll (m) | Henry Burr with Albert Campbell | 1913 |
Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! | Victor Herbert (m), Rida Johnson Young (w) | Byron Harlan & Frank Stanley | 1910 |
Tres Moutarde (Too Much Mustard) | Cecil Macklin (m) | Victor Military Band | 1911 |
Tricks | Confrey, Zez | Paul Whiteman | 1922 |
The Trolley Song | Ralph Blane (m), Hugh Martin (w) | Judy Garland with George Stoll’s Orchestra | 1944 |
True Colors | Billy Steinberg, Tom Kelly | Cyndi Lauper | 1986 |
True Love | Cole Porter (m/w) | Bing Crosby with Grace Kelly | 1956 |
Try a Little Tenderness | Harry M. Woods, Jimmy Campbell, Reginald Connelley | Otis Redding | 1966 |
Try to Remember | Tom Jones, Harvey Schmidt | Ed Ames | 1965 |
Tuck Me to Sleep in My Old ‘Tucky Home | George W. Meyer (m), Sam Lewis (w), Joe Young (w) | Vernon Dalhart & the Criterion Trio | 1921 |
Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season) | Pete Seeger | The Byrds | 1965 |
Tutti Frutti | Richard Penniman, D. LaBostroe, Joe Lubin | Little Richard | 1955 |
Tweedle Dee | Winfield Scott | LaVern Baker | 1955 |
Twelfth Street Rag | Euday L. Bowman (m) | Pee Wee Hunt | 1948 |
Twilight Time | Buck Ram, Morty Nevins, Al Nevins, Artie Dunn | The Platters | 1958 |
Twist and Shout | Bert Russell, Phil Medley | The Beatles | 1963 |
The Twist | Hank Ballard | Chubby Checker | 1960 |
Two Sleepy People | Hoagy Carmichael (m), Frank Loesser (w) | Fats Waller | 1938 |
SONG | WRITER(S), m = music, w = words | Performer with Highest Rated Version | Year |
Wabash Blues | Fred Meinken | Isham Jones | 1921 |
Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie | Andrew B. Sterling (w), Harry Von Tilzer (m) | Byron Harlan | 1906 |
Waiting for the Robert E. Lee | L. Wolfe Gilbert (w), Lewis F. Muir (m) | Heidelberg Quintet | 1912 |
Wake the Town and Tell the People | Jerry Livingston (m), Sammy Gallop (w) | Mindy Carson | 1955 |
Wake Up Little Susie | Boudleaux Bryant, Felice Bryant | The Everly Brothers | 1957 |
Walk Don’t Run | Johnny Smith | The Ventures | 1960 |
Walk Like a Man | Bob Crewe, Bob Gaudio | The Four Seasons | 1963 |
Walk Right In | Gus Cannon, Hosie Woods | The Rooftop Singers | 1962 |
Walkin’ the Dog | Shelton Brooks | Delta & Alpha Mudge | 1916 |
Walking My Baby Back Home | Fred E. Ahlert (m), Roy Turk (w) | Johnny Walker & His Orchestra | 1931 |
The Wallflower (Roll with Me Henry) | James Etta Rogers, Phyliss Otis | Etta James & the Peaches | 1955 |
Wang Wang Blues | Leo Wood, Gus Mueller, "Buster" Johnson, Henry Busse | Paul Whiteman | 1920 |
Wannabe | Matt Rowe, Melanie Chisholm, Melanie Brown, Geri Halliwell, Victoria Adams, Emma Butnon, Richard Stannard | Spice Girls | 1996 |
War | Norman Whitfield, Barrett Strong | Edwin Starr | 1970 |
Waterfalls | Patrick Brown, Ray Murray, Rico Wade, Marqueze Ethridge, Lisa Lopes | TLC | 1994 |
Watermelon Man | Herbie Hancock | Herbie Hancock | 1962 |
Way Down Yonder in New Orleans | Turner Layton, Henry Creamer | Peerless Quartet | 1922 |
The Way It Is | Bruce Hornsby | Bruce Hornsby & the Range | 1986 |
The Way We Were | Marvin Hamlisch, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman | Barbra Streisand | 1973 |
The Way You Do the Things You Do | Smokey Robinson, Bobby Rogers | The Temptations | 1964 |
The Way You Look Tonight | Jerome Kern (m), Dorothy Fields (w) | Fred Astaire with Johnny Greer’s Orchestra | 1936 |
The Way You Make Me Feel | Michael Jackson | Michael Jackson | 1987 |
The Wayward Wind | Stan Lebousky, Herb Newman | Gogi Grant | 1956 |
We Are the World | Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie | USA for Africa | 1985 |
We Built This City | Starship | Starship | 1985 |
We Didn’t Start the Fire | Billy Joel | Billy Joel | 1989 |
We May Never Love Like This Again | Al Kasha, Joel Kirschhorn | Maureen McGovern | 1975 |
We Shall Overcome | Charles Albert Tindley | Pete Seeger | 1963 |
Weak | Brian Alexander Morgan | SWV (Sisters with Voices) | 1993 |
Weary Blues (aka "Shake It and Break It") | Artie Matthews (m), George Cates (w), Mort Greene (w) | Louis Armstrong | 1927 |
The Wedding Bell Blues | Laura Nyro | The 5th Dimension | 1969 |
Wedding Bells Are Breaking Up That Gold Gang of Mine | Sammy Fain (m), Irving Kahal (w), Willie Raskin (w) | Gene Austin & Ed Smalle & Dick Robertson with Leonard Joy’s Orchestra | 1929 |
The Wedding of the Painted Doll | Nacio Herb Brown (m), Arthur Freed (w) | Leo Reisman with Lew Conrad | 1929 |
Well Did You Evuh? | Cole Porter (m/w) | Bing Crosby with Frank Sinatra | 1956 |
We’re Gonna Rock Around the Clock | Max Freedman, Jimmy DeKnight | Bill Haley & His Comets | 1954 |
We’re Off to See the Wizard | Harold Arlen (m), E.Y. "Yip" Harburg (w) | Judy Garland with Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, & Bert Lahr | 1939 |
West End Blues | Clarence Williams, Joe "King" Oliver | Louis Armstrong & Earl Hines | 1928 |
What a Diff’rence a Day Makes | MarĂa Grever (m), Stanley Adams (w) | Dinah Washington | 1959 |
What a Wonderful World | Bob Thiele, George David Weiss | Louis Armstrong | 1967 |
What Can I Say, Dear, After I Say I’m Sorry? | Walter Donaldson, Abe Lyman | Bee Palmer | 1926 |
What Did I Do to Be So Black and Blue? | Harry Brooks, Andy Razaf, Fats Waller | Louis Armstrong | 1929 |
What Do You Do Sundays, Mary? | Stephen Jones (m), Irving Caesar (w) | American Quartet | 1924 |
What Is This Thing Called Love? | Cole Porter (m/w) | Leo Reisman | 1930 |
What Kind of Fool Am I? | Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley | Sammy Davis Jr. | 1962 |
What the World Needs Now Is Love | Burt Bacharach, Hal David | Jackie DeShannon | 1965 |
What You Goin’ to Do When the Rent Comes ‘Round? (Rufus Rastas Johnson Brown) | Andrew B. Sterling (w), Harry Von Tilzer (m) | Arthur Collins | 1905 |
Whatever Lola Wants | Richard Adler, Jerry Ross | Alma Cogan | 1957 |
Whatever Will Be Will Be (Que Sera Sera) | Jay Livingston, Ray Evans | Doris Day | 1956 |
What’ll I Do? | Irving Berlin (m/w) | Paul Whiteman | 1924 |
What’s Going On | Marvin Gaye, Renaldo Benson, Al Cleveland | Marvin Gaye | 1971 |
What’s Love Got to Do with It? | Graham Lyle, Terry Britten | Tina Turner | 1984 |
What’s New Pussycat? | Burt Bacharach (m), Hal David (w) | Tom Jones | 1965 |
Wheel of Fortune | Bennie Benjamin, George Weiss | Kay Starr | 1952 |
When a Man Loves a Woman | Cameron Lewis, Arthur Wright | Percy Sledge | 1966 |
When Can I See You | Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds | Babyface | 1994 |
When Doves Cry | Prince | Prince | 1984 |
When I Lost You | Irving Berlin (m/w) | Henry Burr | 1913 |
When I Take My Sugar to Tea | Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal, Pierre Norman | The Boswell Sisters with the Dorsey Brothers | 1931 |
When I’m Not Near the Girl I Love | Burton Lane (m), E. Y. "Yip" Harburg (w) | | 1946 |
When Irish Eyes Are Smiling | Chauncey Olcott (w) George Graff Jr. (w), Ernest R. Ball (m) | Chauncey Olcott | 1913 |
When It’s All Goin’ Out and Nothin’ Comin’ In | Bert Williams (m/w), George Walker (m/w) | Bert Williams | 1902 |
When It’s Sleepy Time Down South | Leon Rene, Otis Rene, Clarence Muse | Paul Whiteman with Mildred Bailey & the Romancers | 1931 |
When My Baby Smiles at Me | Bill Munro (m), Andrew B. Sterling (w), Ted Lewis (w) | Ted Lewis | 1920 |
When My Baby Walks Down the Street | Jimmy McHugh, Gene Austin, Irving Mills | Gene Austin with Aileen Stanley | 1924 |
When Ragtime Rosie Ragged the Rosary | Lewis F. Muir (m), Edgar Leslie (w) | | 1911 |
When the Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabam’ | Irving Berlin (m/w) | Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan | 1913 |
When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain | Harry Woods, Howard Johnson, Kate Smith | Kate Smith | 1931 |
When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin’ Along | Harry M. Woods (m/w) | Al Jolson with Carl Fenton’s Orchestra | 1926 |
When Will I Be Loved | Phil Everly | The Everly Brothers | 1960 |
When You Believe | Stephen Schwartz | Mariah Carey with Whitney Houston | 1998 |
When You Wish Upon a Star | Leigh Harline (m), Ned Washington (w) | Cliff Edwards & the Ken Darby Singers with Victor Young’s Orchestra | 1940 |
When You Wore a Tulip and I Wore a Big Red Rose | Jack Mahoney (w), Percy Weinrich (m) | American Quartet | 1914 |
When You’re Good, You’re Lonesome | Grace Doro | Edythe Baker | 1920 |
When You’re Smiling, the Whole World Smiles with You | Mark Fisher, Joe Goodwin, Larry Shay | Seger Ellis | 1928 |
Where Did Our Love Go | Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Eddie Holland | The Supremes | 1964 |
Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go with Friday on Saturday Night? | George W. Meyer (m), Sam M. Lewis (w), Joe Young (w) | Al Jolson with Charles Prince’s Orchestra | 1916 |
Where Did You Get That Girl? | Bert Kalmar (w), Harry Puck (m) | Walter Van Brunt | 1913 |
Where Do Broken Hearts Go | Frank Wildhorn, Chuck Jackson | Whitney Houston | 1987 |
Where or When | Richard Rodgers (m), Lorenz Hart (w) | Hal Kemp with Bob Allen | 1937 |
Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day | Fred E. Ahlert (m), Roy Turk (w), Bing Crosby (w) | Bing Crosby | 1932 |
Whip-Poor-Will | Jerome Kern (m), Buddy DeSylva (w) | Isham Jones | 1921 |
Whispering | John Schonberger (w), Richard Coburn (w), Vincent Rose (m) | Paul Whiteman | 1920 |
Whistle While You Work | Morey, Churchill | Seven Dwarfs | 1937 |
The Whistler and His Dog | Arthor Pryor (m) | Prince’s Orchestra | 1905 |
Whistling Rufus | Kerry Mills (m), F.A. Mills (m) | Vess Ossman | 1899 |
White Christmas | Irving Berlin | Bing Crosby & the Ken Darby Singers with John Scott Trotter’s Orchestra | 1942 |
White Rabbit | Grace Slick | Jefferson Airplane | 1967 |
A Whiter Shade of Pale | Gary Brooker, Keith Reid, Matthew Fisher | Procol Harum | 1967 |
Who Can It Be Now? | Colin James Hay | Men at Work | 1981 |
Who Takes Care of the Caretaker’s Daughter While the Caretaker’s Busy Taking Care? | Chick Endor | Cliff Edwards | 1925 |
Who Wouldn’t Love You | Carl Fisher (m), Bill Carey (w) | Kay Kyser with Trudy Babbitt & Harry Babbitt | 1942 |
Who? | Jerome Kern (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w), Otto Harbach (w) | George Olsen | 1926 |
Whole Lotta Loving | Dave Bartholomew, Fats Domino | Fats Domino | 1958 |
Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On | Dave Williams, Roy Hall | Jerry Lee Lewis | 1957 |
A Whole New World | Alan Menken, Tim Rice | Peabo Bryson with Regina Belle | 1992 |
Who’ll Take My Place When I’m Gone? | Billy Fazioli (m), Ray Klages | Benny Krueger | 1922 |
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? | Frank E. Churhill, Ann Ronnell | Don Bestor & His Orchestra with Florence Case, Frank Sherryl, & Charles Yontz | 1933 |
Who’s Sorry Now? | Harry Ruby (m), Bert Kalmar (w), Ted Snyder (w) | Connie Francis | 1958 |
Whose Baby Are You? | Jerome Kern (m), Anne Caldwell (w) | Joseph C. Smith | 1920 |
Why Couldn’t It Be Poor Little Me? | Isham Jones (m), Gus Kahn (w) | Isham Jones | 1925 |
Why Do Fools Fall in Love? | Frankie Lymon, Herman Santiago, Jimmy Merchant | Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers | 1956 |
Why Do I Love You? | Jerome Kern (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w) | Nat Shilkret | 1928 |
Why Don’t You Believe Me | Lew Douglas, King Laney, Roy Roddle | Joni James with Lew Douglas’ Orchestra | 1952 |
Why Was I Born? | Jerome Kern (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w) | Libby Holman | 1930 |
Wild Cherries | Ted Snyder | Victor Orchestra | 1909 |
Wild Flower | Vincent Youmans (m), Otto Harbach (w), Oscar Hammerstein (w) | Guy Robertson | 1923 |
Wild Thing | Chip Taylor | The Troggs | 1966 |
The Wild Wild Women | Al Piantadosi, Al Wilson, Henry Lewis | Henry Lewis | 1917 |
Will You Love Me in December As You Do in May? | James J. Walker (w), Ernest R. Ball (m) | Haydn Quartet with Harry MacDonough | 1906 |
Will You Love Me Tomorrow | Gerry Goffin, Carole King | The Shirelles | 1960 |
Will You Remember (Sweetheart) | Rida Johnson Young (w), Sigmund Romberg (m) | Olive Kline (as Alice Green) with Raymond Dixon | 1918 |
Willie the Weeper | Grant V. Rymal, Walter Melrose, Marty Bloom | King Oliver | 1927 |
Willow Weep for Me | Ann Ronell (m/w) | Paul Whiteman with Irene Taylor | 1932 |
Windmills of Your Mind | Michael Legrand, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman | Noel Harrison | 1968 |
Windy | Ruthann Friedman | The Association | 1967 |
Winter | Alfred Bryan (w), Albert Gumble (m) | Lyric Quartet | 1911 |
Winter Wonderland | Felix Bernard (m), Richard B. Smith (w) | Guy Lombardo | 1934 |
Wipe Out (i) | Bobby Berryhill, Pat Connolly, Jim Fuller, Ron Wilson | The Surfaris | 1963 |
Wish You Were Here | Harold Rome | Eddie Fisher with Hugo Winterhalter’s Orchestra | 1952 |
Witch Doctor | Ross Bagdasarian | David Seville | 1958 |
With a Song in My Heart | Richard Rodgers (m), Lorenz Hart (w) | Leo Reisman with Ran Weeks | 1929 |
With Plenty of Money and You (Oh! Baby What I Couldn’t Do) | Harry Warren (m), Al Dubin (w) | Henry Busse’s Orchestra with Bob Hannon | 1937 |
Without a Song | Vincent Youmans (m), Edward Eliscu (w), Billy Rose (w) | Paul Whiteman with Bing Crosby | 1929 |
Wolverine Blues | Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton, Benjamin Spikes, John Spikes | Jelly Roll Morton | 1923 |
A Woman in Love | Frank Loesser | Frankie Laine | 1955 |
Wonderful Copenhagen | Frank Loesser | Danny Kaye | 1953 |
Wonderful World | Barbara Campbell, Herb Alpert, Lou Adler | Sam Cooke | 1960 |
Woodman Woodman, Spare That Tree! | Iving Berlin (m/w) | Bob Roberts | 1911 |
Woodstock | Joni Mitchell | Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young | 1970 |
The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise | Ernest Seitz (m), Gene Lockhart (w) | Isham Jones | 1922 |
Would You Like to Take a Walk? | Harry Warren (m), Mort Dixon (w), Billy Rose (w) | Rudy Vallee | 1931 |
Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away) | Harry Barris (m), Ted Koehler (w), Billy Moll (w) | Bing Crosby with Gus Arnheim’s Orchestra | 1931 |
Wunderbar | Cole Porter | Alfred Drake & Patricia Morrison | 1948 |
SONG | WRITER(S), m = music, w = words | Performer with Highest Rated Version | Year |
The Yama Yama Man | George Collin Davis (w), Karl Hoschna (m) | Ada Jones & the Victor Light Opera Co. | 1909 |
Yankee Doodle Blues | Geroge Gershwin (m), Irving Caesar (w), Buddy DeSylva (w) | Billy Murray with Ed Smalle | 1922 |
Yankee Doodle Boy | George M. Cohan (m/w) | Billy Murray | 1905 |
Yearning Just for You | Irving Berlin | Gene Austin | 1925 |
Yellow Dog Blues | W.C. Handy | Joseph C. Smith | 1920 |
The Yellow Rose of Texas | Don George | Mitch Miller | 1955 |
Yes Sir! That’s My Baby | Walter Donaldson (m), Gus Kahn (w) | Gene Austin with Billy Carpenter | 1925 |
Yes! We Have No Bananas | Frank Silver, Irving Cohn | Billy Jones | 1923 |
Yesterday | John Lennon, Paul McCartney | The Beatles | 1965 |
Yesterdays | Jerome Kern (m), Otto Harbach (w) | Leo Reisman with Frank Luther | 1933 |
Yip-I-Addy-I-Ay! | Will D. Cobb (w), John H. Flynn (m) | Blanche Ring | 1909 |
You | Walter Donaldson (m), Harold Adamson (w) | Tommy Dorsey & Edythe Wright | 1936 |
You and the Night and the Music | Arthur Schwartz (m), Howard Dietz (w) | Libby Holman & Richard Himber | 1935 |
You Are My Lucky Star | Nacio Herb Brown (m), Arthur Freed (w) | Eddy Duchin with Lew Sherwood | 1935 |
You Are My Sunshine | Jimmie Davis, Charles Mitchell | Jimmie Davis | 1940 |
You Are the Sunshine of My Life | Stevie Wonder | Stevie Wonder | 1972 |
You Belong to Me | Pee Wee King, Chilton Price, Redd Stewart | Jo Stafford | 1952 |
You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me | Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal, Pierre Norman | Maurice Chevalier with Leonard Joy’s Orchestra | 1930 |
You Can’t Do What My Last Man Did | J.C. Johnson, Allie Moore | James P. Johnson | 1923 |
You Can’t Hurry Love | Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Eddie Holland | The Supremes | 1966 |
You Can’t Keep a Good Man Down | Perry Bradford | Mamie Smith | 1920 |
You Do Something to Me | Cole Porter (m/w) | Leo Reisman | 1930 |
You Don’t Have to Be a Star to Be in My Show | James Dean, John Glover | Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr. | 1976 |
You Go to My Head | J. Fred Coots (m), Haven Gillespie (w) | Larry Clinton with Bea Wain | 1938 |
You Keep Me Hangin’ On | Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Eddie Holland | The Supremes | 1966 |
You Light Up My Life | Joe Brooks | Debby Boone | 1977 |
You Made Me Love You (I Didn’t Want to Do It) | Jimmy Monaco (m), Joseph McCarthy (w) | Al Jolson with Charles Prince’s Orchestra | 1913 |
You Make Me Feel Like Dancing | Leo Sayer, Vini Poncia | Leo Sayer | 1976 |
You Make Me Feel So Young | Josef Myrow (m), Mack Gordon (w) | Dick Haymes | 1946 |
You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby | Harry Warren (m), Johnny Mercer (w) | Bing Crosby with Bob Crosby | 1938 |
You Must Love Me | Andrew Lloyd Webber (m), Tim Rice (w) | Madonna | 1996 |
You Never Knew about Me | Jerome Kern (m), P.G. Wodehouse (w) | Marie Carroll & Tom Powers | 1917 |
You Said Something | Jerome Kern (m/w), P.G. Wodehouse (w) | Marjorie Gateson with Donald MacDonald | 1917 |
You Send Me | Charles "L.C." Cooke | Sam Cooke | 1957 |
You Tell Me Your Dream and I Will Tell You Mine | Charles N. Daniels (m), Seymour Rice (w), Albert Brown (w) | Ella Butler | 1900 |
You Took Advantage of Me | Richard Rodgers (m), Lorenz Hart (w) | Paul Whiteman with Bing Crosby, Jack Fulton, Charles Gaylor, & Austin Young | 1928 |
You Were Meant for Me | Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed | Connee Boswell with Victor Young’s Orchestra | 1948 |
You Were Only Fooling When I Was Falling in Love | Larry Fotine (m), Billy Faber (w), Fred Meadows (w) | The Ink Spots | 1948 |
You’d Be Surprised | Irving Berlin | Eddie Cantor | 1920 |
You’ll Be in My Heart | Phil Collins | Phil Collins | 1999 |
You’ll Never Know | Harry Warren (m), Mack Gordon (w) | Dick Haymes with the Song Spinners | 1943 |
You’ll Never Walk Alone | Richard Rodgers (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w) | Frank Sinatra | 1945 |
Young at Heart | Carolyn Leigh, Johnny Richards | Frank Sinatra | 1954 |
Young Love | Ric Cartey, Carole Joyner | Sonny James | 1956 |
Younger Than Springtime | Richard Rodgers (m), Oscar Hammerstein II (w) | Billy Tabbert | 1949 |
Your Boy Is on the Coal Pile Now | Sam Ward | H. Claar | 1918 |
Your Feet’s Too Big | Ada Benson, Fred Fisher | Fats Waller | 1939 |
Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher and Higher | Gary Jackson, Raynard Miner, Carl William Smith | Jackie Wilson | 1967 |
You’re a Grand Old Flag (aka “The Grand Old Rag”) | George M. Cohan (m/w) | Billy Murray | 1906 |
You’re an Old Smoothie | Richard Whiting, Nacio Herb Brown | Paul Whiteman with Ramona Davies | 1933 |
You’re Breaking My Heart | Pat Genaro, Sunny Skylar | Vic Damone with Glenn Osser’s Orchestra | 1949 |
You’re Driving Me Crazy! (What Did I Do?) | Walter Donaldson | Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo | 1930 |
You’re Getting to Be a Habit with Me | Harry Warren (m), Al Dubin (w) | Bing Crosby with Guy Lombardo’s Orchestra | 1933 |
You’re Just in Love | Irving Berlin (m/w) | Perry Como & the Fontane Sisters with Mitchell Ayres Orchestra | 1950 |
You’re Lucky to Me | Eubie Blake (m), Andy Razaf (w) | Ethel Waters | 1930 |
You’re No Good | Clint Ballard Jr. | Linda Ronstadt | 1974 |
You’re Sixteen | Richard Sherman, Robert Sherman | Ringo Starr | 1973 |
You’re So Right for Me | Jay Livingston, Ray Evans | Tony Bennett | 1958 |
You’re So Vain | Carly Simon | Carly Simon | 1972 |
You’re the Cream in My Coffee | Ray Henderson | Ben Selvin with Jack Palmer | 1928 |
You’re the One That I Want | John Farrar | Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta | 1978 |
You’re the Top | Cole Porter (m/w) | Paul Whiteman with Peggy Healy & John Hauser | 1934 |
You’ve Got a Friend | Carole King | James Taylor | 1971 |
You’ve Got to See Mamma Ev’ry Night (aka "You Can’t See Mamma at All") | Con Conrad (m), Billy Rose (w) | Dolly Kay with Frank Westphal’s Orchestra | 1923 |
You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’ | Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, Phil Spector | The Righteous Brothers | 1964 |