Steve Sullivan: Encylopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings

Steve Sullivan: Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings

Steve Sullivan’s Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings is as good as it gets when it comes to music writing. In his two-volume set, he explores more than 1000 songs in detail. He organizes the songs in the book into ten playlists covering different genres, eras, and themes. However, I’ve listed the songs her alphabetically by song title. Links will go to devoted Dave’s Music Database pages. Click here to see other lists from critics and individuals and here to see other lists from publications and/or organizations. A “After the Ball” George J. Gaskin (1893) “After You’ve Gone” Marion Harris (1919) “After You’ve Gone” Benny Goodman (1935) “Aidhinikos Horos (The Magic Fountain of Your Eyes)” Marika Papagika (1928) “Ain’t Misbehavin’” Louis Armstrong (1929) “Ain’t Misbehavin’” Fats Waller (1929) “Ain’t No Grave Can Hold My Body Down” Bozie Sturduvant (1942) “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell (1967) “Ain’t No Other Man” Christina Aguilera (2006) “Ain’t Talkin'“ Bob Dylan (2006) “Ain’t That a Shame (aka "Ain’t It a Shame")” Fats Domino (1955) “Air Mail Special” Benny Goodman with Helen Forrest (1941) “Akiwowo (Chant to the Trainman)” Babatunde Olatunji (1960) “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” Arthur Collins & Byron G. Harlan (1911) “All Along the Watchtower” Bob Dylan (1967) “All Along the Watchtower” The Jimi Hendrix Experience (1968) “All I Have to Do Is Dream” The Everly Brothers (1958) “All Shook Up” Elvis Presley (1957) “All the Things You Are” Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra with Jack Leonard (1939) “Allons a Lafayette” Joseph Falcon (1928) “Alone Together” Jo Stafford (1944) “Amazing Grace” The Dixie Hummingbirds (1946) “Amazing Grace” Mahalia Jackson (1947) “Amazing Grace” Judy Collins (1970) “America” Neil Diamond (1980) “America the Beautiful” Ray Charles (1972) “An American in Paris” George Gershwin with Nat Shilkret & the Victor Symphony Orchestra (1929) “American Pie” Don McLean (1971) “American Skin (41 Shots)” Bruce Springsteen (2000) “An American Trilogy (live)” Elvis Presley (1972) “American Tune” Paul Simon (1973) “Anarchy in the U.K.” Sex Pistols (1976) “And the Angels Sing” Benny Goodman with Martha Tilton (1939) “April in Paris” Count Basie (1956) “April Showers” Al Jolson with Prince's Orchestra (1921) “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” Elvis Presley (1960) “The Arkansaw Traveler” Len Spencer (1902) “As Time Goes By” Dooley Wilson (1942) “Ashokan Farewell” Jay Unger & Fiddle Fever (1990) “At a Georgia Camp Meeting” John Philip Sousa (1900) “At Last” Etta James (1960) “At Seventeen” Janis Ian (1975) “Auld Lang Syne” Frank Stanley (1907) “Ay-Tete-Fee” Clifton Chenier (1955) B “Baba O’Riley” The Who (1971) “Baby I Need Your Loving” Four Tops (1964) “Back in the U.S.A.” Chuck Berry (1959) “Bad Moon Rising” Creedence Clearwater Revival (1969) “Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)” The Temptations (1970) “Bamboleo” The Gipsy Kings (1988) “Banana Boat Song, The (Day-O)” Harry Belafonte (1957) “Band Played On, The” Dan Quinn (1895) “Barbara Allen” Bradley Kincaid (1930) “Basin Street Blues” Charleston Chasers (1931) “The Battle Hymn of the Republic (aka "Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!")” Mormon Tabernacle Choir (1959) “The Battle of New Orleans” Johnny Horton (1959) “Be My Baby” The Ronettes (1963) “Beat It” Michael Jackson (1982) “Beer Barrel Polka (Roll Out the Barrel)” Will Glahe (1939) “Begin the Beguine” Artie Shaw (1938) “Bei Mir Bist Du Schöen (Means That You're Grand)” The Andrews Sisters (1938) “Being with You” Smokey Robinson (1981) “Bette Davis Eyes” Kim Carnes (1981) “Big Love” Fleetwood Mac (1987) “Big Road Blues” Tommy Johnson (1928) “Bi-karar Olmakti Sevmekten Muradi Gonlumen” Izak Algazi (1930) “Biko” Peter Gabriel (1980) “Bill Bailey, Won’t You Please Come Home?” Arthur Collins (1902) “Billie Jean” Michael Jackson (1982) “Billie's Bounce” Charlie Parker (1945) “Birdland” Weather Report (1977) “Black and Tan Fantasy” Duke Ellington (1927) “Black Bottom Stomp” Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers (1926) “Black Horse & the Cherry Tree” KT Tunstall (2004) “Black Jack David” Cliff Carlisle (1939) “Black Magic Woman” Santana (1970) “Black Velvet” Alannah Myles (1989) “Blind Willie McTell” Bob Dylan (1983) “Blowin’ in the Wind” Bob Dylan (1963) “Blowin’ in the Wind” Peter, Paul & Mary (1963) “Blue 7” Sonny Rollins (1956) “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain” Willie Nelson (1975) “Blue Grass Breakdown” Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys (1949) “Blue Horizon” Sidney Bechet's Blue Note Jazzmen (1944) “Blue Moon of Kentucky” Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys (1947) “Blue Rondo a la Turk” Dave Brubeck Quartet (1960) “Blue Suede Shoes” Carl Perkins (1956) “Blue Yodel #1 (T for Texas)” Jimmie Rodgers (1928) “Blueberry Hill” Fats Domino (1956) “Blues in the Night (My Mama Done Tol’ Me)” Woody Herman (1941) “Blues in the Night (My Mama Done Tol’ Me)” Frank Sinatra (1958) “Blues in the Night (My Mama Done Tol’ Me)” Ella Fitzgerald (1961) “Bo Diddley” Bo Diddley (1955) “Body and Soul” Benny Goodman (1935) “Body and Soul” Coleman Hawkins (1940) “Body and Soul” Billie Holiday (1940) “Bohemian Rhapsody” Queen (1975) “Bonaparte's Retreat” W.H. Stepp (1937) “Boogie Chillen'“ John Lee Hooker (1949) “Boogie Woogie (first recorded as "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie")” Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra (1938) “Born in the U.S.A.” Bruce Springsteen (1984) “Born to Be Wild” Steppenwolf (1968) “Born to Lose” Ted Daffan & His Texans (1943) “Born to Run” Bruce Springsteen (1975) “Born Under a Bad Sign” Albert King (1967) “Both Sides Now” Joni Mitchell (1969) “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” Green Day (2004) “The Boxer” Simon & Garfunkel (1969) “The Boy in the Bubble” Paul Simon (1986) “The Boys of Summer” Don Henley (1984) “Breathe Again” Tony Braxton (1993) “Bridge Over Troubled Water” Simon & Garfunkel (1970) “Bridge Over Troubled Water” Aretha Franklin (1971) “Brilliant Disguise” Bruce Springsteen (1987) “Bring It on Home to Me” Sam Cooke (1962) “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” Bing Crosby with Lennie Hayton's Orchestra (1932) “Brown Eyed Handsome Man” Chuck Berry (1956) “Brown-Eyed Girl” Van Morrison (1967) “Built to Last” Melee (2007) “The Bully (aka "Dat New Bully")” May Irwin (1907) “A Bunch of Rags” Vess Ossman (1899) “But Not for Me” Ella Fitzgerald (1959) “By the Light of the Silvery Moon” Billy Murray & the Haydn Quartet (1909) “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” Glen Campbell (1967) “Bye Bye Love” The Everly Brothers (1957) C “Cake Walking Babies from Home” Clarence Williams' Blue Five & Eva Taylor (1925) “California Dreamin’” The Mamas & the Papas (1965) “Call It Stormy Monday” T-Bone Walker (1947) “Can the Circle Be Unbroken (By and By)” The Carter Family (1935) “Candle in the Wind” Elton John (1973) “Candle in the Wind 1997 (Goodbye England’s Rose)” Elton John (1997) “Canhanibalmo Rag” Arthur Pryor's Band (1911) “Can't Help Falling in Love “ Elvis Presley (1961) “Caravan” Duke Ellington (1937) “Careless Love Blues” Lonnie Johnson (1928) “Carolina Shout” James P. Johnson (1922) “Casey Jones (The Brave Engineer)” American Quartet with Billy Murray (1910) “Centerfield” John Fogerty (1985) “Chain of Fools” Aretha Franklin (1967) “Chances Are “ Johnny Mathis (1957) “A Change Is Gonna Come” Sam Cooke (1964) “Chattanooga Choo Choo” Glenn Miller with Tex Beneke & the Four Modernaires (1941) “Cheek to Cheek” Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers with Leo Reisman's Orchestra (1935) “Chega de Saudade (No More Blues)” Joao Gilberto (1958) “Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White” Perez "Prez" Prado (1955) “Chimes Blues” King Oliver's Jazz Band (1923) “Chimes of Freedom” The Byrds (1965) “Choo Choo Ch'Boogie” Louis Jordan (1946) “Christ Was Born on Christmas Morn” Cotton Top Mountain Sanctified Singers (1929) “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” Darlene Love (1963) “The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)” Nat "King" Cole (1946) “Circus Day in Dixie” The Versatile Four (1916) “The Circle Game” Tom Rush (1968) “City of New Orleans” Arlo Guthrie (1972) “Classical Gas” Mason Williams (1968) “Cleanin' Out My Closet” Eminem (2002) “Clocks” Coldplay (2002) “Closer to Fine” Indigo Girls (1989) “Cloudburst” Lambert, Hendricks, & Ross (1959) “Coal Miner’s Daughter” Loretta Lynn (1970) “Cold, Cold Heart” Tony Bennett with Percy Faith's Orchestra (1951) “Cold, Cold Heart” Hank Williams (1951) “Cold Sweat” James Brown (1967) “Colonel Fraser/My Love Is in America/Rakish Paddy (Medley of Reels)” Johnny Doran (1947) “Come Josephine in My Flying Machine” Ada Jones & Billy Murray with the American Quartet (1911) “Come Sunday” Mahalia Jackson & Duke Ellington (1958) “Come Take a Trip in My Air Ship” Billy Murray (1904) “Come Together” The Beatles (1969) “The Commission's Report” Atila the Hun (1938) “Concerto for Cootie” Duke Ellington (1940) “Concierto de Aranjuez” Miles Davis (1959) “Coo Coo Bird, The” Clarence (Tom) Ashley (1929) “Cool Drink of Water Blues” Tommy Johnson (1928) “Cool Water” The Sons of the Pioneers (1941) “Coon Band Contest, A” Vess Ossman (1900) “Countin' the Blues” Ma Rainey (1924) “Country Blues” Dock Boggs (1927) “Crazy” Patsy Cline (1961) “Crazy” Gnarls Barkley (2006) “Crazy Arms” Ray Price (1956) “Crazy Blues” Mamie Smith & Her Jazz Hounds (1920) “Crazy in Alabama” Kate Campbell (1998) Crazy in LoveBeyoncé with Jay-Z (2003) “Creole Belles” Columbia Orchestra (1901) “Creole Rhapsody (instrumental)” Duke Ellington (1931) “Cross Road Blues (aka ‘Crossroads’)” Robert Johnson (1936) “Cry” Johnny Ray & the Four Lads (1951) “Crying” Roy Orbison (1961) “Crying in the Chapel” The Orioles (1953) “Crystal Blue Persuasion” Tommy James & the Shondells (1969) “Cuddle Up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine” Ada Jones & Billy Murray (1908) D “Da Doo Ron Ron (When He Walked Me Home)” The Crystals (1963) “Daisy Bell (A Bicycle Built for Two)” Edward M. Favor (1894) “Dallas Rag” Dallas String Band (1928) “Dance Me to the End of Love” Madeleine Peyroux (2004) “Dance to the Music” Sly & the Family Stone (1968) “Dancing in the Dark” Bing Crosby (1931) “Dancing in the Dark” Sarah Vaughan (1956) “Dancing in the Street” Martha & the Vandellas (1964) “Dardanella” Ben Selvin (1920) “Dark As a Dungeon” Merle Travis (1946) “Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground” Blind Willie Johnson (1928) “The Darkest Hour Is Just Before Dawn” Emmylou Harris & Ricky Skaggs (1980) “Darktown Strutters’ Ball” Arthur Collins & Byron G. Harlan (1918) “Day After Tomorrow” Tom Waits (2004) “A Day in the Life” The Beatles (1967) “Deacon Blues” Steely Dan (1977) “The Death of Ellenton” Johnson Family Singers (1951) “Deep River” Marian Anderson (1924) “Denomination Blues” Washington Phillips (1928) “Desafinado” Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd (1962) “Desert Rose” Sting with Cheb Mani (1999) “Desolation Row” Bob Dylan (1965) “Detroit City” Bobby Bare (1963) “Devil Got My Woman” Skip James (1931) “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” Charlie Daniels Band (1979) “Dew Drop Alley Stomp, The” Sugar Underwood (1927) “Dinah” Bing Crosby & the Mills Brothers (1932) “Dipper Mouth Blues” King Oliver's Jazz Band (1923) “Dixie” Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers (1927) “Django” The Modern Jazz Quartet (1954) “Do You Believe in Magic?” The Lovin' Spoonful (1965) “Don’t Be Cruel” Elvis Presley (1956) “Don't Be That Way” Benny Goodman (1938) “Don’t Dream It’s Over” Crowded House (1986) “Don't Know Why” Norah Jones (2002) “Don’t Speak” No Doubt (1995) “Don't Worry Baby” The Beach Boys (1964) “Down at the Twist and Shout” Mary Chapin Carpenter (1990) “Down by the Old Mill Stream” Harry MacDonough (1911) “Down Hearted Blues” Bessie Smith (1923) “Down Home Rag” Europe's Society Orchestra (1914) “Down on Penny's Farm” The Bentley Boys (1929) “Down on the Old Camp Ground” Dinwiddlie Colored Quartet (1902) “Drift Away” Dobie Gray (1973) “Drifting Blues” Johnny Moore's Three Blazers with Charles Brown (1945) “The Dutchman” Steve Goodman (1973) “A Dying Man's Plea” The Staple Singers (1962) E “Earl's Breakdown” Flatt & Scruggs (1951) “Early Autumn” Woody Herman (1947) “Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)” The Penguins (1954) “East St. Louis Toodle Oo” Duke Ellington & His Kentucky Club Orchestra (1927) “Eight Miles High” The Byrds (1966) “El Corrido del Agrarista” Trovadores Tamaulipecos (1929) “El Garrotin” Orquestra Pablo Valenzuela (1913) “El Paso” Marty Robbins (1959) “El Tren” Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan (1937) “Eleanor Rigby” The Beatles (1966) “Electric Light Quadrille” Issler's Orchestra (1889) “Embraceable You” Nat "King" Cole (1943) “Empire State of Mind” Jay-Z with Alicia Keys (2009) “Empty Bed Blues” Bessie Smith (1928) “The End of the Innocence” Don Henley (1989) “End of the Road” Boyz II Men (1992) “Engancha Carretero (Hitch Up, Oxcart Driver)” Sexteto Matancero (1928) “The Entertainer” The Blue Boys (1928) “Erghen Diado (Song of Schopsko)” Bulgarian State Radio & Television Female Vocal Choir (1988) “Every Breath You Take” The Police (1983) “Every Day I Have the Blues” Count Basie with Joe Williams (1955) “Every Grain of Sand” Bob Dylan (1981) “Everybody Hurts” R.E.M. (1992) “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” Tears for Fears (1985) “Everything Is Everything” Lauryn Hill (1998) “Eyesight to the Blind” Sonny Boy Williamson (#2) (1951) F “Fallin’” Alicia Keys (2001) “Falling Slowly” Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová as Swell Season (2006) “Fascinating Rhythm” Fred Astaire & Adele Astaire (1926) “Fast Car” Tracy Chapman (1988) “Feudin' Banjos” Arthur Smith & Don Reno (1955) “Fever” Little Willie John (1956) “Fields of Gold” Sting (1993) “Fifty-Four Forty-Six (54 46) Was My Number” Toots & the Maytals (1968) “Fight the Power” Public Enemy (1989) “Fire and Rain” James Taylor (1970) “Firework” Katy Perry (2010) “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” Roberta Flack (1969) “Fishing Blues” Henry Thomas (1929) “Flamenco Sketches” Miles Davis (1959) “Flying Home” Lionel Hampton (1940) “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” Flatt & Scruggs (1950) “Follow the Leader” Eric B. & Rakim (1988) “Folsom Prison Blues” Johnny Cash (1955) “For What It’s Worth” Buffalo Springfield (1966) “For Your Precious Love” The Impressions (1958) “Fortress Around Your Heart” Sting (1985) “Fortunate Son” Creedence Clearwater Revival (1969) “Frankie” Mississippi John Hurt (1928) “Free Fallin’” Tom Petty (1989) “Frenesi” Artie Shaw (1940) “Froggie Moore” King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band (1923) “Fuck You (aka “Forget You”)” Cee-Lo Green (2010) “Further on Up the Road” Bobby "Blue" Bland (1957) G “Gangsta’s Paradise” Coolio with L.V. (1995) “Georgia on My Mind” Ray Charles (1960) “Get Busy” Sean Paul (2003) “Get Things Ready for Me, Ma” Grandpa Jones (1946) “Get Together” The Youngbloods (1967) “Get Up Stand Up” Bob Marley & the Wailers (1973) “Get Your Kicks on Route 66” Nat "King" Cole (1946) “Giant Steps” John Coltrane (1959) “Gimme Shelter” The Rolling Stones (1969) “Gimme Some Lovin’” Spencer Davis Group (1966) “The Girl from Ipanema” Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto & Astrud Gilberto (1964) “Girls in Their Summer Clothes” Bruce Springsteen (2007) “Give My Regards to Broadway” Billy Murray (1905) “Gloria” The Cadillacs (1954) “Glory Days” Bruce Springsteen (1984) “Go Your Own Way” Fleetwood Mac (1976) “God Bless America” Kate Smith (1939) “God Bless the Child” Billie Holiday (1941) “God Give Me Strength” Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach (1996) “God Only Knows” The Beach Boys (1966) “Gold Watch and Chain” The Carter Family (1933) “Golden Gate Gospel Train” Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet (1937) “Good Golly Miss Molly” Little Richard (1958) “Good Lovin'“ The Young Rascals (1966) “Good Rockin' Tonight” Roy Brown (1948) “Good Rockin' Tonight” Wynonie Harris (1948) “Good Rockin' Tonight” Elvis Presley (1954) “Good Vibrations” The Beach Boys (1966) “Goodnight Irene” Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter (1933) “Goodnight Irene” The Weavers with Gordon Jenkins' Orchestra (1950) “Goodnight Saigon” Billy Joel (1982) “Got My Mojo Working” Muddy Waters (1957) “The Grand Tour” George Jones (1974) “Grandpa's Spells” Jelly Roll Morton (1927) “Great Balls of Fire” Jerry Lee Lewis (1957) “The Great Pretender” The Platters (1955) “The Great Speckled Bird” Roy Acuff & the Crazy Tennesseans (1938) “Greatest Love of All” Whitney Houston (1985) “Green Onions” Booker T. & the MG's (1962) “Green River” Creedence Clearwater Revival (1969) “Gregorio Cortez” Regionales, Trovadores (1929) “Groovin’” The Young Rascals (1967) “Guantanamera” Fernandez, Joseito (1941) “Guitar Rag” Sylvester Weaver (1924) “Guitar Town” Steve Earle (1986) H “Hammer and a Nail” Indigo Girls (1990) “Happy Days Are Here Again” Ben Selvin (1930) “A Hard Day’s Night” The Beatles (1964) “A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall” Bob Dylan (1963) “The Harder They Come” Jimmy Cliff (1972) “Harlem Air Shaft” Duke Ellington (1940) “Harlem Nocturne” Johnny Otis (1945) “Have I Told You Lately “ Van Morrison (1989) “He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother” The Hollies (1969) “He Manao Healoha” Kalama's Quartet (1928) “He Stopped Loving Her Today” George Jones (1980) “He Thinks He'll Keep Her” Mary Chapin Carpenter (1992) “Heartbreak Hotel” Elvis Presley (1956) “Heat Wave” Martha & the Vandellas (1963) “Heavenly Day” Patty Griffin (2007) “Hellhound on My Trail” Robert Johnson (1937) “Hello Ma Baby” Arthur Collins (1899) “Hello Young Lovers” Mabel Mercer (1951) “Help!” The Beatles (1965) “Here's That Rainy Day” Frank Sinatra (1959) “Hey Jude” The Beatles (1968) “Hey Ya!” OutKast (2003) “High Water Everywhere” Patton, Charley (1930) “Higher Ground” Stevie Wonder (1973) “Hips Don’t Lie” Shakira & Wyclef Jean (2006) “His Eye Is on the Sparrow” Mahalia Jackson (1951) “Hit the Road Jack” Ray Charles (1961) “Hold on I'm Comin'“ Sam & Dave (1966) “Holding Back the Years” Simply Red (1985) “Holly Holy” Neil Diamond (1969) “Holy Babe” Kelly Pace & Group (1939) “Home Sweet Home” Alice Nielsen (1915) “Honeydripper, The” Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers (1945) “Honeysuckle Rose” Fats Waller (1935) “Honky Tonk Train Blues” Meade Lux Lewis (1927) “Honky Tonk Women” The Rolling Stones (1969) “Hoochie Coochie Man” Muddy Waters (1954) “Hora Decubitis” Charles Mingus (1963) “Hot Stuff” Donna Summer (1979) “Hot Time in the Old Town, A” Len Spencer (1897) “Hotel California” Eagles (1976) “Hotter Than That” Louis Armstrong (1928) “Hound Dog” Willie Mae 'Big Mama' Thornton (1953) “Hound Dog” Elvis Presley (1956) “The House Carpenter” Clarence (Tom) Ashley (1930) “The House of the Rising Sun” The Animals (1964) “How High the Moon” Les Paul & Mary Ford (1951) “How I Got Over” Clara Ward & the Ward Singers (1950) “How Long, How Long Blues” Leroy Carr (1928) “How Many More Years” Howlin' Wolf (1951) “Hula Girl” Sol Hoopii & His Novelty Quartet (1934) “Hurricane” Bob Dylan (1975) “Hurt” Johnny Cash (2002) I “I Ain't Marchin' Anymore” Phil Ochs (1965) “I Believe I Can Fly” R. Kelly (1996) “I Believe I'll Dust My Broom” Robert Johnson (1936) “I Believe I'll Dust My Broom” Elmore James (1951) “I Can See Clearly Now” Johnny Nash (1972) “I Can See for Miles” The Who (1967) “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” The Rolling Stones (1965) “I Can’t Get Started” Bunny Berigan & His Orchestra (1938) “I Can’t Get Started” Dizzy Gillespie (1945) I Can’t Give You Anything But LoveLouis Armstrong (1929) “I Can't Make You Love Me” Bonnie Raitt (1991) “I Can't Quit You Baby” Otis Rush (1956) “I Can’t Stop Loving You” Ray Charles (1962) “I Don’t Want to Wait” Paula Cole (1996) “I Fall to Pieces” Patsy Cline (1961) “I Feel for You” Chaka Khan (1984) “I Fell in Love” Carlene Carter (1990) “I Get a Kick Out of You” Frank Sinatra (1953) “I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good” Duke Ellington & Ivie Anderson (1941) “I Got You (I Feel Good)” James Brown & His Furious Flames (1965) “I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues” Louis Armstrong (1933) “I Gotta Woman (aka "I've Got a Woman")” Ray Charles (1955) “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” Gladys Knight & the Pips (1967) “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” Marvin Gaye (1968) “I Hope You Dance” Lee Ann Womack & the Sons of the Desert (2000) “I Just Want to Make Love to You (aka "Just Make Love to Me")” Muddy Waters (1954) “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” Tony Bennett (1962) “I Love a Piano” Billy Murray (1916) “I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)” Aretha Franklin (1967) “I Only Have Eyes for You” The Flamingos (1959) “I Saw Her Standing There” The Beatles (1963) “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” U2 (1987) “I Swear” All-4-One (1994) “I Walk the Line” Johnny Cash (1956) “I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart” Patsy Montana & the Prairie Ramblers (1936) “I Want to Hold Your Hand” The Beatles (1963) “I Want to Know What Love Is” Foreigner (1984) “I Want You Back” The Jackson 5 (1969) “I Will Always Love You” Whitney Houston (1992) “I Will Survive” Gloria Gaynor (1978) “If I Can Dream (live)” Elvis Presley (1968) “If I Didn't Care” The Ink Spots (1939) “If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)” Peter, Paul & Mary (1962) “If I Had a Rocket Launcher” Bruce Cockburn (1984) ““ I’ll Be Seeing You” Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter's Orchestra (1944) “I’ll Be There” The Jackson 5 (1970) “I’ll Fly Away” James & Martha Carson (1950) “I’ll Make Love to You” Boyz II Men (1994) “I’ll Never Smile Again” Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra with Frank Sinatra & the Pied Pipers (1940) “I’m Movin' On” Hank Snow (1950) “I’m So Glad” Skip James (1931) “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” Hank Williams (1949) “I’m the Only One” Melissa Etheridge (1993) “I’m Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes” The Carter Family (1929) “Imagine” John Lennon (1971) “Immigrant, The” Neil Sedaka (1975) “In a Mist” Bix Beiderbecke (1928) “In My Life” The Beatles (1965) “In My Merry Oldsmobile” Billy Murray (1905) “In the Ghetto” Elvis Presley (1969) “In the Good Old Summertime” Haydn Quartet (1903) “In the Midnight Hour” Wilson Pickett (1965) “In the Mood” Glenn Miller (1939) “In the Still of the Nite (I’ll Remember)” The Five Satins (1956) “Intervention” Arcade Fire (2006) “Into the Mystic” Van Morrison (1970) “Isn't She Lovely” Stevie Wonder (1976) “Isn't This a Lovely Day to Be Caught in the Rain?” Fred Astaire with Johnny Greer's Orchestra (1935) “Israelites, The” Desmond Dekker & the Aces (1969) “It Had to Be You” Isham Jones (1924) “It Was a Very Good Year” Frank Sinatra (1965) “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels” Kitty Wells (1952) “It’s a Long, Long Way to Tipperary” American Quartet (1914) “It’s Mighty Dark for Me to Travel” Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys (1948) “It’s Over” Roy Orbison (1964) “It’s Too Late” Chuck Wills (1956) “It’s Too Soon to Know” The Orioles (1948) “I’ve Been Loving You Too Long” Otis Redding (1965) “I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm” Les Brown (1948) “I’ve Got You Under My Skin” Frank Sinatra (1956) “I’ve Heard That Song Before” Harry James with Helen Forrest (1943) J “Jailhouse Rock” Elvis Presley (1957) “Jambalaya on the Bayou” Hank Williams (1952) “James Alley Blues” Richard "Rabbit" Brown (1927) “Jazznocracy” Jimmie Lunceford (1934) “Jeremy” Pearl Jam (1991) “Jerusalem Mournin’” Polk Miller & His Old South Quartette (1910) “Jesus Walks” Kanye West (2004) “Joaquin Murrieta” Los Madrugadores (1934) “John Henry” Josh White (1942) “John the Revelator” Blind Willie Johnson (1930) “Johnny B. Goode” Chuck Berry (1958) “Jole Blon” Harry Choates (1947) “Joy Spring” Clifford Brown & Max Roach (1954) “Judgment” Reverend Sister Mary Nelson (1927) “Juke” Little Walter Jacobs & His Night Cats (1952) “Jump” Van Halen (1983) “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” The Rolling Stones (1968) “Jumpin’ at the Woodside” Count Basie (1938) “Jungleland” Bruce Springsteen (1975) “Just Like Real People” The Kendalls (1979) “Just My Imagination Running Away with Me” The Temptations (1971) K “Kansas City” Wilbert Harrison (1959) “Kashmir” Led Zeppelin (1975) “Kassie Jones” Furry Lewis (1928) “K.C. Moan” The Memphis Jug Band (1929) “Key to the Highway” Big Bill Broonzy (1941) “Killing Me Softly with His Song” Roberta Flack (1973) “King of the Road” Roger Miller (1965) “King Porter Stomp” Jelly Roll Morton (1923) “Kiss Me” Sixpence None the Richer (1998) “Kleftico Vlachiko” Orchestra Goldberg (1908) “Ko-Ko” Duke Ellington (1940) “Ko-Ko” Charlie Parker with Miles Davis & Dizzy Gillespie (1945) L “La Bamba” Andres Huesca con Junto (1947) “La Bamba” Ritchie Valens (1958) “Last Kind Word Blues” Geeshie Wiley (1930) “Last Night When We Were Young” Tony Bennett (1959) “Laura” Woody Herman (1945) “Lawrence of Arabia (Theme from)” Maurice Jarre (1963) “Layla” Derek & the Dominos (1970) “Lead Me On” Bobby "Blue" Bland (1960) “Let It Be” The Beatles (1970) “Let Me Call You Sweetheart” Peerless Quartet (1911) “Let the Good Times Roll” Louis Jordan (1946) “Let’s Get It On” Marvin Gaye (1973) “Let’s Stay Together” Al Green (1971) “Life Ain't Always Beautiful” Gary Allan (2006) “Light My Fire” The Doors (1967) “Like a Prayer” Madonna (1989) “Like a Rolling Stone” Bob Dylan (1965) “The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Wimoweh)” The Tokens (1961) “Listen to the Mocking Bird (aka “The Mocking Bird”)” Frank Stanley & Corinne Morgan (1904) “Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane” Fiddlin’ John Carson (1923) “Little Red Corvette” Prince (1982) “Little Sadie” Clarence (Tom) Ashley (1929) “Live to Tell” Madonna (1986) “Livery Stable Blues” Original Dixieland Jazz Band (1917) “Living for the City” Stevie Wonder (1973) “The Living Years” Mike + the Mechanics (1988) “London Calling“Lonely Teardrops” Jackie Wilson (1958) “Lonely Woman” Ornette Coleman (1959) “Long Tall Sally” Little Richard (1956) “The Long Way Round” Badly Drawn Boy (2006) “Long Yellow Road” Toshiko Akiyoshi & the Lew Tabackin Big Band (1974) “Lose Yourself” Eminem (2002) “Losing My Religion” R.E.M. (1991) “Lost Your Head Blues” Bessie Smith (1926) “Louie Louie” The Kingsmen (1963) “Louisiana 1927” Aaron Neville (1991) “Love Bridge Waltz (La Valse du Pont d'Amour)” Iry LeJeune (1948) “Love Child” The Supremes (1968) “A Love in Vain” Robert Johnson (1937) “Love Me Tender” Elvis Presley (1956) “Love the Way You Lie” Eminem with Rihanna (2010) “Love Train” The O'Jays (1973) “Lovesick Blues” Hank Williams (1949) “Lucia di Lammermoor Sextet (Sextet from 'Lucia') aks Chi Me Frena” Giovanni Giovale (1928) “Luck Be a Lady” Frank Sinatra (1965) “Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)” Waylon Jennings (1977) “Luka” Suzanne Vega (1987) “Lush Life” Nat "King" Cole (1961) M “Mack the Knife” Bobby Darin (1959) “Maggie May” Rod Stewart (1971) “Mainstreet” Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band (1976) “The Majesty of the Blues” Wynton Marsalis (1988) “Make Me Lose Control” Eric Carmen (1988) “Mal Hombre” Lydia Mendoza (1934) “Mama He Treats Your Daughter Mean” Ruth Brown (1953) “Mama Tried” Merle Haggard & the Strangers (1968) “Mambo Gozon” Tito Puente (1958) “The Man I Love” Marion Harris (1928) “Man in the Long Black Coat” Bob Dylan (1989) “Man of Constant Sorrow” The Stanley Brothers & the Clinch Mountain Boys (1950) “Man of Constant Sorrow” The Soggy Bottom Boys (2001) “Man That Got Away, The (aka "The Gal That Got Away")” Judy Garland & Ray Heindorf with the Warner Brothers Studio Orchestra (1954) “Manteca” Dizzy Gillespie (1948) “Manuelito” Lovey's Trinidad String Band (1912) “Many Rivers to Cross” Jimmy Cliff (1969) “Maple Leaf Rag” Vess Ossman (1907) “Maple Leaf Rag” United States Marine Band (1907) “Maria” Johnny Mathis (1960) “Marianne (V-J Was the Holiday)” King Radio (1947) “Mary Don't You Weep” Swan Silvertones (1959) “Mary Ellen Carter” Stan Rogers (1979) “Mass Destruction” Faithless (2004) “Matchbox Blues” Blind Lemon Jefferson (1927) “A Matter of Trust” Billy Joel (1986) “Maybellene” Chuck Berry (1955) “Mbube” Solomon Linda & the Evening Birds (1939) “Me and Bobby McGee” Janis Joplin (1971) “Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis” Billy Murray (1904) “Memories of You” Louis Armstrong (1930) “The Memphis Blues” Prince's Orchestra (1914) “The Message” Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five (1982) “Mi Unico Camino (My Only Path)” El Conjunto Bernal (1958) “The Midnight Special” Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter (1940) “Milk Cow Blues” Kokomo Arnold (1934) “Minnie the Moocher (The Ho De Ho Song)” Cab Calloway (1931) “Misirlou” Dick Dale (1962) “Mississippi Goddam” Nina Simone (1964) “Misty” Johnny Mathis (1959) “Mona Lisa” Nat "King" Cole with Les Baxter's Orchestra (1950) “Monday Monday” The Mamas & the Papas (1966) “Money Is King” Growling Tiger (1935) “Mood Indigo” Duke Ellington (1931) “Moody's Mood for Love” King Pleasure (1952) “Moon River” Henry Mancini with Audrey Hepburn (1961) “Moondance” Van Morrison (1970) “Moonlight Bay” American Quartet (1912) “Moonlight Serenade” Glenn Miller (1939) “Moten's Swing” Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra (1932) “Mother Russia” Renaissance (1974) “Motherless Children” Blind Willie Johnson (1927) “Move on Up a Little Higher” Mahalia Jackson (1948) “Mr. Tambourine Man” The Byrds (1965) “Mr. Tambourine Man” Bob Dylan (1965) “Muchacha Bonita” Narcisco Martinez (1937) “Mule Skinner Blues (Blue Yodel No. 8)” Jimmie Rodgers (1930) “Mule Skinner Blues (Blue Yodel No. 8)” Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys (1940) “My Babe” Little Walter Jacobs (1955) “My Back Pages” The Byrds (1967) “My Black Mama” Son House (1930) “My Blue Heaven” Gene Austin (1927) “My Daddy Rocks Me with One Steady Roll” Tampa Red's Hokum Jug Band (1929) “My Funny Valentine” Tony Bennett (1959) “My Generation” The Who (1965) “My Girl” The Temptations (1964) “My Guy” Mary Wells (1964) “My Immortal” Evanescence (2003) “My Little Town” Simon & Garfunkel (1975) “My Old Kentucky Home” Edison Male Quartette (1898) “My Own True Love (Tara's Theme)” Max Steiner (1939) “My Soul Is a Witness” Austin Coleman with Joe Washington Brown (1934) “Mystery Train” Elvis Presley (1955) N “Nansi Imali (Here Is the Money)” Ladysmith Black Mambazo (1982) “Natural Blues” Moby with Vera Hall (1999) “Natural, The (Theme from)” Randy Newman (1984) “New San Antonio Rose” Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys (1940) “New Year’s Day” U2 (1983) “New York, New York (Theme from)” Frank Sinatra (1980) “Night and Day” Fred Astaire with Leo Reisman's Orchestra (1932) “Night and Day” Frank Sinatra with Alex Stordahl's Orchestra (1942) “A Night in Tunisia” Dizzy Gillespie (1946) “A Night in Tunisia” Art Blakey Quartet (1954) “Night Life” Ray Price (1963) “Night Moves” Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band (1976) “Night They Drove Ol' Dixie Down, The” The Band (1969) “Nights in White Satin” The Moody Blues (1967) “9 to 5” Dolly Parton (1980) “1952 Vincent Black Lightning” Richard Thompson (1991) “1999” Prince (1982) “19th Nervous Breakdown” The Rolling Stones (1966) “No Such Thing” John Mayer (2001) “No Woman, No Cry” Bob Marley & the Wailers (1974) “Nobody” Bert Williams (1906) “Northwest Passage” Stan Rogers (1981) “Not Dark Yet” Bob Dylan (1997) “Not Ready to Make Nice” Dixie Chicks (2006) “Nothing Compares 2 U” Sinéad O'Connor (1990) “Nowhere to Run” Martha & the Vandellas (1965) “Now's the Time” Charlie Parker's Re-Boppers (1945) “Nuages” Django Reinhardt with Stephane Grappelli & the Quintet of the Hot Club of France (1946) O “The Obvious Child” Paul Simon (1990) “Ode to Billie Joe” Bobbie Gentry (1967) “Odesser Bulgar Dance” Naftule Brandwein's Orchestra (1925) “Oh Happy Day” Edwin Hawkins Singers (1969) “(Oh) Pretty Woman” Roy Orbison (1964) “Oh What a Beautiful Mornin’” Alfred Drake & the Oklahoma Cast (1943) “Ohio” Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (1970) “Oj Kozacze Bilousyj (White-Mustached Cossack)” Pawlo Humeniuk (1926) “Ol’ Man River” Paul Robeson with Paul Whiteman (1927) “Old Black Joe” Fisk University Jubilee Quartet (1909) “Old Dan Tucker” Uncle Dave Macon (1925) “The Old Folks at Home (Swanee River)” Haydn Quartet (1904) “On Broadway” The Drifters (1963) “On the Street Where You Live” Vic Damone (1956) “Once in a Lifetime” Talking Heads (1980) “One” U2 (1991) “One for My Baby and One More for the Road” Frank Sinatra (1949) “The One I Love” R.E.M. (1987) “One Minute Too Late” Voss’ 1st Regiment Band (1891) “One O’Clock Jump” Count Basie (1937) “One of Us” Joan Osborne (1995) “One Step d’Oberlin” Amede Ardoin with Dennis McGee (1930) “One Sweet Day” Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men (1995) “One Time One Night” Los Lobos (1987) “Only the Lonely Know the Way I Feel” Roy Orbison (1960) “Opus One” Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra (1945) “Orange Blossom Special” Bill Monroe (1942) “Ordinary People” John Legend & Will.i.am (2004) “Ornithology” Charlie Parker (1946) “Our Love Is Here to Stay” Ella Fitzgerald (1959) “Our Town” Iris DeMent (1992) “Over the Rainbow” Judy Garland (1939) “Over the Rainbow” Eva Cassidy (1992) “Over There” American Quartet (1917) “Oye Como Va” Tito Puente (1953) P “Paint It Black” The Rolling Stones (1966) “The Panic Is On” Hezekiah Jenkins (1931) “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone” The Temptations (1972) “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag” James Brown (1965) “Paper in Fire” John Cougar Mellencamp (1987) “Parker’s Mood” Charlie Parker (1948) “Part of the Plan” Dan Fogelberg (1974) “Passionate Kisses” Mary Chapin Carpenter (1992) “Pastorale di Natale” Pasquales Feis (1917) “Pastures of Plenty/Land/This Land Is Your Land” Lila Downs (2001) “Peace Be Still” Reverend James Cleveland (1963) “The Peanut Vendor (El Manicero)” Don Azpiazu & Arturo Machin (1930) “The Pearls” Jelly Roll Morton (1926) “Peggy Sue” Buddy Holly & the Crickets (1957) “Pennies from Heaven” Bing Crosby with George Stoll's Orchestra (1936) “People Get Ready” The Impressions (1965) “People Got to Be Free” The Rascals (1968) “Perdido” Duke Ellington (1942) “Pidkamecka Kolomyjka” Josef Pizio (1931) “La Piedrera” Santiago Jimenez & Sus Valedores (1945) “Pinetop’s Boogie Woogie” Clarence "Pinetop" Smith (1929) “Pink Houses” John Cougar Mellencamp (1983) “Pitchecanthropus Erectus” Charles Mingus (1956) “Please Send Me Someone to Love” Percy Mayfield (1950) “Politikos Manes” Kostas Karipis (1930) “Ponta de Lanca Africano (Umbarauma)” Jorge Ben (1976) “Pony Blues” Patton, Charley (1929) “Poor Mourner” Cousins & DeMoss (1897) “Potato Head Blues” Louis Armstrong (1927) “The Preacher and the Bear” Arthur Collins (1905) “Prelude to a Kiss” Duke Ellington (1957) “Pretty Polly” B.F. Shelton (1927) “Pride (In the Name of Love)” U2 (1984) “The Prisoner’s Song” Vernon Dalhart (1924) “The Prodigal Son” Reverend Robert Williams (1964) “Promised Land” Chuck Berry (1964) “Proud Mary” Creedence Clearwater Revival (1969) “Purple Haze” The Jimi Hendrix Experience (1967) R “Rag Doll” The Four Seasons (1964) “Rag Sindhu Bhairaui” Ali Akbar Khan (1955) “Rainy Night in Georgia” Brook Benton (1970) “Rank Stranger” The Stanley Brothers (1960) “Rapper’s Delight” The Sugarhill Gang (1979) “Reach Out (I’ll Be There)” Four Tops (1966) “Reconsider Baby” Lowell Fulsom (1954) “Redemption Song” Bob Marley & the Wailers (1980) “Resolution (A Love Supreme Part II)” John Coltrane (1964) “Respect” Aretha Franklin (1967) “Resurrection” Ray Wylie Hubbard (1997) “Rhapsody in Blue” Paul Whiteman's Orchestra with George Gershwin (1924) “Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend)” Vaughn Monroe (1949) “Ring of Fire” Johnny Cash (1963) “The Rising” Bruce Springsteen (2002) “River Deep, Mountain High” Ike & Tina Turner (1966) “The River” Bruce Springsteen (1980) “Rock and Roll Music” Chuck Berry (1957) “Rock and Roll Music” The Beatles (1964) “Rocket 88” Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats (1951) “Rockin’ in the Free World” Neil Young (1989) “Rockin’ Chair” Gene Krupa with Gene Eldridge (1941) “Roll Me Away” Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band (1982) “Roll Over Beethoven” Chuck Berry (1956) “Rollin' and Tumblin’” Muddy Waters (1950) “Rolling in the Deep” Adele (2010) “Rose Room in Sunny Roseland” Art Hickman (1920) “The Rose” Bette Midler (1979) “Round Here” Counting Crows (1993) “Round Midnight” Miles Davis (1956) “Round Midnight” (aka “Round About Midnight”) Thelonious Monk (1947) “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” Gene Autry & the Pinafores (1949) “Runaround Sue” Dion (1961) “Runaway” Del Shannon (1961) “Runaway Love” Ludacris with Mary J. Blige (2006) “Running Scared” Roy Orbison (1961) S “Sallie Gooden” A.C. "Eck" Robertson (1922) “Santa Barbara (Que Viva Chango!)” Celina Gonzalez (1948) “A Satisfied Mind” Porter Wagoner (1955) “Saturday Night Fish Fry” Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five (1949) “Save the Country” The 5th Dimension (1970) “Scarborough Fair” Simon & Garfunkel (1966) “Scarecrow” Melissa Etheridge (1999) “School Days (When We Were a Couple of Kids)” Byron G. Harlan (1907) “See See Rider Blues” Ma Rainey (1925) “Send in the Clowns” Judy Collins (1975) “Sentimental Journey” Les Brown with Doris Day (1945) “Sexual Healing” Marvin Gaye (1982) “Shake, Rattle and Roll” Big Joe Turner (1954) “Shango Dance” The Lion (1940) “The Shaskeen” Michael Coleman (1921) “Shaw 'Nuff” Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie Parker (1945) “She Loves You” The Beatles (1963) “She’s a Great, Great Girl” Roger Wolfe Kahn (1928) “Shine on, Harvest Moon”Ada Jones & Billy Murray (1909) “Shoot Out the Lights” Richard & Linda Thompson (1982) “Shout (Parts 1 and 2)” The Isley Brothers (1959) “The Sidewalks of New York” J.W. Myers (1895) “Silent Night” Bing Crosby & the Guardsmen Quartette (1935) “Since I Don't Have You” The Skyliners (1959) “Since I Fell for You” Lenny Welch (1963) “Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)” Benny Goodman (1938) “Singin’ in the Rain” Gene Kelly (1952) “Singin’ the Blues” Frankie Trumbauer (1927) “Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay” Otis Redding (1968) “Sitting on Top of the World” The Mississippi Sheiks (1930) “Sixteen Tons” Tennessee Ernie Ford (1955) “Sixty Minute Man” The Dominoes (1951) “The Sky Is Crying” Elmore James & His Broomdusters (1960) “Skylark” Harry James (1942) “Sledgehammer” Peter Gabriel (1986) “Small Town” John Cougar Mellencamp (1985) “Smells Like Teen Spirit” Nirvana (1991) “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” The Platters (1958) “Smoke Rings in the Dark” Gary Allan (1999) “Smokestack Lightning” Howlin' Wolf (1956) “Smoking Gun” Robert Cray (1986) “Smoky Mokes” Peerless Orchestra (1904) “Smooth” Santana with Rob Thomas (1999) “Snake Rag” King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band (1923) “Sniper” Harry Chapin (1972) “Snowfall” Claude Thornhill (1941) “So Long (It’s Been Good to Know Ya)” The Weavers with Gordon Jenkins' Orchestra (1951) “So Much in Love” The Types (1963) “So What” Miles Davis (1959) “Soldier’s Joy” Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers (1929) “Solitude” Duke Ellington (1934) “Solitude” Tony Bennett (1958) “Some Enchanted Evening” Perry Como with Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra (1949) “Some of These Days” Sophie Tucker (1911) “Somebody Hurt You” A Girl Called Eddy (2004) “Somebody to Love” Jefferson Airplane (1967) “Someone Like You” Adele (2011) “Someone to Watch Over Me” Sarah Vaughan (1957) SomethingThe Beatles (1969) “Something to Talk About” Bonnie Raitt (1991) “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” Paul Robeson (1926) “Song for My Father” Horace Silver (1964) “Song of the Soul” Cris Williamson (1975) “Sophisticated Lady” Rosemary Clooney & Duke Ellington (1956) “Sorrow, Tear, and Blood” Fela Kuti (1977) “Soul Makossa” Manu Dibango (1973) “Soul Man” Sam & Dave (1967) “The Soul of a Man” Blind Willie Johnson (1931) “The Sound of Silence” Simon & Garfunkel (1965) “Sounds of Africa” Eubie Blake (1921) “Spain” Chick Corea & Return to Forever (1973) “Spanish Harlem” Ben E. King (1960) “Spoonful” Howlin' Wolf (1960) “St. James Infirmary” Louis Armstrong with Earl Hines (1929) “St. Louis Blues” Bessie Smith & Louis Armstrong (1925) “St. Louis Blues” Louis Armstrong (1930) “St. Louis Blues” Milton Brown & His Brownies (1935) “The St. Louis Rag” Arthur Pryor (1904) “St. Louis Tickle” Vess Ossman (1906) “Stack O’ Lee Blues” Mississippi John Hurt (1929) “Stairway to Heaven” Led Zeppelin (1971) “The Stampede” Henderson, Fletcher (1926) “Stand by Me” Ben E. King (1961) “Stand by Your Man” Tammy Wynette (1968) “Star Wars (Main Title)” John Williams (1977) “Stardust” Hoagy Carmichael & His Pals (1927) “Stardust” Louis Armstrong (1931) “Stardust” Artie Shaw (1941) “Stardust” Nat "King" Cole (1957) “The Stars and Stripes Forever” John Philip Sousa (1897) “State Street Rag” Howard "Louie Bluie" Armstrong (1934) “Statesboro Blues” Blind Willie McTell (1928) “Stayin’ Alive” Bee Gees (1977) “Steal Away to Jesus” Fisk University Male Quartette (1915) “Steel Guitar Rag” Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys (1936) “Stolen Moments” Oliver Nelson (1961) “Stompin' at the Savoy” Chick Webb (1934) “Stormy Monday Blues” Bobby "Blue" Bland (1962) “Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time)” Ethel Waters (1933) “Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time)” Lena Horne (1942) “Straighten Up and Fly Right” Nat "King" Cole (1944) “Strange Fruit” Billie Holiday (1939) “Strange Things Happening Every Day” Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1944) “Streets of Philadelphia” Bruce Springsteen (1994) “A String of Pearls” Glenn Miller (1942) “Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)” Kelly Clarkson (2011) “Struttin’ with Some Barbeque” Louis Armstrong (1928) “Sugar Baby” Dock Boggs (1927) “Sultans of Swing” Dire Straits (1978) “Summer in the City” The Lovin' Spoonful (1966) “Summertime” Billie Holiday (1936) “Summertime” Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong (1957) “Summertime Blues” Eddie Cochran (1958) “Sun City” Artists United Against Apartheid (1985) “The Sun Didn't Shine” The Golden Gate Quartet (1941) “Sunday Bloody Sunday” U2 (1983) “Sunday Mornin' Coming Down” Johnny Cash (1970) “Sunny Came Home” Shawn Colvin (1996) “Superstition” Stevie Wonder (1972) “Suspicious Minds” Elvis Presley (1969) “Susta Politiki (Constantinople, My Dream and My Torment)” Andonis Dalgas (1930) “Swanee” Al Jolson with Prince's Orchestra (1920) “Sweet Adeline (You’re the Flower of My Heart)” Haydn Quartet (1904) “Sweet Child O’ Mine” Guns N' Roses (1987) “Sweet Georgia Brown” Ethel Waters & Her Ebony Four (1925) “Sweet Little Sixteen” Chuck Berry (1958) “Sweet Love” Anita Baker (1986) “Sweet Sixteen” B.B. King (1960) “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” Fisk University Jubilee Quartet (1910) “Sympathy for the Devil” The Rolling Stones (1968) T “Take a Bow” Madonna (1994) “Take Five” Dave Brubeck Quartet (1959) “Take It Easy” Eagles (1972) “Take Me Home, Country Roads” John Denver (1971) “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” Billy Murray & the Haydn Quartet (1908) “Take My Hand, Precious Lord” The Golden Gate Quartet (1939) “Take My Hand, Precious Lord” Mahalia Jackson (1956) “Take the ‘A’ Train” Duke Ellington (1941) “Taking a Chance on Love” Benny Goodman with Helen Forrest (1940) “Tanec Pid Werbamy (Dance Under the Willows)” Pawlo Humeniuk (1926) “Tanga” Machito & His Afro-Cubans with Charlie Parker (1949) “Tangled Up in Blue” Bob Dylan (1975) “Taxi” Harry Chapin (1972) “Tea for Two” Art Tatum (1939) “Tears in Heaven” Eric Clapton (1992) “Tenderly” Sarah Vaughan (1947) “Tenderly” Rosemary Clooney (1952) “Tennessee” Arrested Development (1992) “Tequila” The Champs (1958) “That’ll Be the Day” Buddy Holly & the Crickets (1957) “That's All Right, Mama” Elvis Presley (1954) “There Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down” Brother Claude Ely (1953) “There Goes My Baby” The Drifters (1959) “There'll Be Peace in the Valley” Red Foley & the Sunshine Boys (1951) “There’s a Long, Long Trail” James F. Harrison & James Reed (1915) “They Can't Take That Away from Me” Fred Astaire with Johnny Greer's Orchestra (1937) “They Didn't Believe Me” Harry MacDonough & Olive Kline (as Alice Gree) (1915) “They Say It’s Wonderful” Johnny Hartman & John Coltrane (1963) “Things Have Changed” Bob Dylan (2000) “The Things That I Used to Do” Eddie "Guitar Slim" Jones (1954) “Things to Come” Dizzy Gillespie (1946) “Think” Aretha Franklin (1968) “The Third Man Theme” Anton Karas (1950) “This Is Why We Fight” The Decemberists (2011) “This Land Is Your Land” Woody Guthrie (1944) “Three O'Clock Blues” B.B. King (1951) “The Thrill Is Gone” B.B. King (1969) “Thunder Road” Bruce Springsteen (1975) “Tiger Rag” Original Dixieland Jazz Band (1918) “Till We Meet Again” Henry Burry & Albert Campbell (1919) “Time After Time” Cyndi Lauper (1983) “Time Run Like a Freight Train” Eric Andersen (1975) “The Times They Are A-Changin’” Bob Dylan (1964) “Tin Roof Blues” New Orleans Rhythm Kings (1923) “Titanic, The” Ernest Van (Pop) Stoneman (1925) “Tom Dooley” C.B. Grayson & Henry Whitter (1929) “Tom Dooley” The Kingston Trio (1958) “Too Close to Heaven” Alex Bradford & the Bradford Specials (1953) “Toots” Dr. Clarence Penney (1914) “Torn” Natalie Imbruglia (1997) “Touch the Hem of His Garment” The Soul Stirrers (1956) “The Tracks of My Tears” The Miracles (1965) “The Tramp on the Street” Molly O’Day & the Cumberland Mountain Folks (1947) “Try a Little Tenderness” Otis Redding (1966) “Tum Agar Yuhi Nazren” Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (1988) “Tumbling Tumbleweeds” The Sons of the Pioneers (1934) “Tunnel of Love” Bruce Springsteen (1987) “Turkey in the Straw” Billy Golden (1891) “Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)” The Byrds (1965) “Tutti Frutti” Little Richard (1955) “Tuxedo Junction” Glenn Miller (1940) “Twist and Shout” The Beatles (1963) “The Twist” Chubby Checker (1960) “Two Step d"Eunice” Amede Ardoin with Dennis McGee (1929) U “Un Poco Loco” Bud Powell Trio (1951) “Unchained Melody” The Righteous Brothers (1965) “Uncloudy Day” The Staple Singers (1956) “Under the Boardwalk” The Drifters (1964) “Until I Fall Away” Gin Blossoms (1992) “Until the Night” Billy Joel (1978) “Unzer Toirele” Abe Schwartz's Orkester (1928) “Up Above My Head I Hear Music in the Air” Sister Rosetta Tharpe & Marie Knight (1948) “Up on the Roof” The Drifters (1962) “Urge for Going” Tom Rush (1968) V “Valencia (A Song of Spain)” Paul Whiteman's Orchestra with Franklyn Baur (1926) “Vertigo (Theme from)” Bernard Herrmann (1958) “Vincent (Starry, Starry Night)” Don McLean (1971) “Viva La Vida” Coldplay (2008) “Vivan los Mojados! (Long Live the Wetbacks)” Los Tigres del Norte (1977) “Vula Imbobo” Zulu Wandering Singers (1940) W “Wabash Cannonball” Roy Acuff & the Smoky Mountain Boys (1938) “Waiting for a Train” Jimmie Rodgers (1928) “Waiting for the Robert E. Lee” Heidelberg Quintet (1912) “Wake Me Up When September Ends” Green Day (2004) “Walk Away Renee” The Left Banke (1966) “Walk on By” Dionne Warwick (1964) “Walk Right In” Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers (1929) “Walk This Way” Run-D.M.C. with Aerosmith's Steven Tyler & Joe Perry (1986) “Walking in Memphis” Marc Cohn (1991) “Walking the Floor Over You” Ernest Tubb (1941) “War” Edwin Starr (1970) “A Warrior on the Battlefield (Teach Me How to Watch and Pray)” Golden Eagle Gospel Singers (1939) “The Washington Post March” United States Marine Band (1890) “Wasn’t That a Mighty Storm?” Darrington State Prison Farm Singers (1934) “Wasn’t That a Time?” The Weavers (1949) “Watermelon Man” Mongo Santamaria Band (1963) “Watermelon Party” Polk Miller & His Old South Quartette (1909) “The Way It Is” Bruce Hornsby & the Range (1986) “The Way We Were” Barbra Streisand (1973) “The Way You Look Tonight” Fred Astaire with Johnny Greer’s Orchestra (1936) “The Wayfaring Stranger” Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys (1958) “The Wayfaring Stranger” Emmylou Harris (1980) “We Are the World” USA for Africa (1985) “We Can't Make It Here” James McMurtry (2005) “We Shall Overcome” Joan Baez (1963) “We Shall Overcome” Pete Seeger (1963) “Weather Bird” Louis Armstrong with Earl Hines (1928) “The Weight” The Band (1968) “We’re Gonna Rock Around the Clock” Bill Haley & His Comets (1954) “Were You There When They Crucified My Lord” The Soul Stirrers (1957) “West End Blues” Louis Armstrong with Earl Hines (1928) “What a Little Moonlight Can Do” Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson's Orchestra (1935) “What Made America Famous” Harry Chapin (1974) “What Would You Give in Exchange for Your Soul?” The Monroe Brothers (1936) “What’d I Say” Ray Charles (1959) “What’s Going On” Marvin Gaye (1971) “What’s So Funny ‘Bout Peace, Love & Understanding” Elvis Costello (1979) “When a Man Loves a Woman” Percy Sledge (1966) “When Doves Cry” Prince (1984) “When I Stop Dreaming” The Louvin Brothers (1955) “When Something Is Wrong with My Baby” Sam & Dave (1967) “When the Saints Go Marching In” Louis Armstrong (1939) “When the Work's All Done This Fall” Carl T. Sprague (1925) “When You Wish Upon a Star” Cliff Edwards & the Ken Darby Singers with Victor Young's Orchestra (1940) “Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning” Alan Jackson (2001) “Whipped Cream” Fred Van Eps (1913) “Whispering” Paul Whiteman's Orchestra (1920) “White Christmas” Bing Crosby & the Ken Darby Singers with John Scott Trotter's Orchestra (1942) “White House Blues” Charlie Poole & His North Carolina Ramblers (1926) “White Rabbit” Jefferson Airplane (1967) “A Whiter Shade of Pale” Procol Harum (1967) “Who Do You Love?” Bo Diddley (1956) “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” Jerry Lee Lewis (1957) “Who’ll Stop the Rain” Creedence Clearwater Revival (1970) “Why Do Fools Fall in Love?” Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers (1956) “Why Don’t You Do Right?” Benny Goodman with Peggy Lee (1943) “Why We Sing” Kirk Franklin & the Family (1994) “Wichita Lineman” Glen Campbell (1968) “Wicked Game” Chris Isaak (1989) “Wide Open Spaces” Dixie Chicks (1998) “Wild Cat” Joe Ventuti & Eddie Lang (1928) “Wildwood Flower” The Carter Family (1928) “Will the Wolf Survive?” Los Lobos (1984) “Will You Love Me Tomorrow” The Shirelles (1960) “The Wind” Nolan Strong & the Diablos (1954) “With or Without You” U2 (1987) “Won’t Get Fooled Again” The Who (1971) “Woodstock” Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (1970) “Worried Man Blues” The Carter Family (1930) “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” The Beach Boys (1966) “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” Gordon Lightfoot (1976) “The Wreck of the Old 97” Vernon Dalhart (1924) Y “Yankee Doodle Boy” Billy Murray (1905) “Year of the Cat” Al Stewart (1976) “Yesterday” The Beatles (1965) “Yesterday” Ray Charles (1967) “You Are My Sunshine” Jimmie Davis (1940) “You Belong to Me” Jo Stafford (1952) “You Go to My Head” Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson's Orchestra (1938) “You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman” Aretha Franklin (1967) “You Oughta Know” Alanis Morissette (1995) “You Really Got Me” The Kinks (1964) “You Send Me” Sam Cooke (1957) “You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive” Patty Loveless (2001) “Your Cheatin’ Heart” Hank Williams (1953) “Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher and Higher” Jackie Wilson (1967) “Your Song” Elton John (1970) “You’re a Grand Old Flag (aka “The Grand Old Rag”)” Billy Murray (1906) “You’re My Soul and Inspiration” The Righteous Brothers (1966) “You’ve Been a Good Old Wagon But You’ve Done Broke Down” Len Spencer (1895) “You’ve Got a Friend” Carole King (1971) “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’” The Righteous Brothers (1964) Z “Zombie” Fela Kuti (1976) Resources/Related Links: Dave’s Music Database: lists from critics and individuals Dave’s Music Database: lists from publications and/or organizations Steve Sullivan Song Lists: “Songs of the Year, 1889-2021” (1/1/2022) “Top 100 Songs, 1897-1956” (2/7/2018) “Greatest Popular Song Recordings: 2010-2017” (2/7/2018) “Traditional Pop: The All-Time 200+ Classic Performances” (9/17/2012). 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