Adele “Easy on Me” hit #1 for first of 10 weeks

Easy on Me Adele

Writer(s): Adele Adkins, Greg Kurstin (see lyrics here) Released: October 15, 2021 First Charted: October 23, 2021 Peak: 110 US, 12 AC, 110 A40, 2 AA, 32a RB, 18 UK, 18 CN, 14 AU (Click for codes to charts.) Sales (in millions): 4.0 US, 1.2 UK, 7.36 world (includes US + UK) Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, 683.0 video, 1172.42 streaming

Awards: Click on award for more details.

About the Song: After Adele’s debut album, 19, in 2008, she won the Grammy for Best New Artist. Her sophomore effort, 2011’s 21, became the best-selling album of the 21st century with sales over 31 million. That album and its follow-up, 2015’s 25, both won Album of the Year Grammys. Between them, the two albums gave Adele four #1 songs. Her biggest was “Hello” from 25, which spent ten weeks on top. While that set the bar impossibly high for Adele’s 2021 release, 30, she still pulled off another multi-platinum, #1 album which spawned yet another huge hit, “Easy on Me,” another ten-week chart topper. The song broke streaming records for a song in both a day and a week for Spotify and Amazon Music. WK The song was also nominated for Grammys for Record and Song of the Year. Adele won both awards with “Rolling in the Deep” and repeated the feat with “Hello.” Could she pull it off a third time? The “minimally produced pop ballad [is] set to a prominent sobre piano and propelled by sparse beats. Expressing themes of nostalgia, regret, and forgiveness, the lyrics represent Adele’s plea to her son, [Angelo], in which she details her struggles with her dissolved marriage and requests him to be kind to her.” WK Adele and her ex-husband, Simon Konecki, separated in 2019 after eleven years together and finalized their divorce in March 2021. “Easy on Me” was the first song she wrote for 30. Then she wrote nothing else for six months because she though the song said it all. SF Adele said, “I just felt like I wanted to explain to [Angelo], through this record, when he’s in his twenties or thirties, who I am and why I voluntarily chose to dismantle his entire life in the pursuit of my own happiness. It made him really unhappy sometimes. And that’s a real wound for me that I don’t know I’ll ever be able to heal.” WK Nick Levine of New Musical Express said “Adele has never sounded better.” WK The Independent’s Alexandra Pollard praised the raspy vocals, sentimental lyrics, polished sound, and piano composition. WK Cat Zhang said in Pitchfork that the song “isn’t really trending new ground,” instead sticking to Adele’s classic formula. WK Resources: SF Songfacts WK Wikipedia Related Links: First posted 1/12/2023.

Tori Amos Ocean to Ocean released

Ocean to Ocean Tori Amos

Released: October 29, 2021 Peak: 104 US, 25 UK, -- CN, 46 AU Sales (in millions): 0.01 US Genre: piano-based adult alternative rock

Tracks: Song Title [time] (date of single release, chart peaks) Click for codes to singles charts. Addition of Light Divided [4:05] Speaking with Trees [3:55] (9/29/21, --) Devil’s Bane [4:32] Swim to New York State [4:20] Spies [5:59] (10/14/21, --) Ocean to Ocean [3:30] Flowers Burn to Gold [3:41] Metal Water Wood [4:00] 29 Years [4:47] How Glass Is Made [3:56] Birthday Baby [4:44] All songs written by Tori Amos. Total Running Time: 47:38

Rating: 3.403 out of 5.00 (average of 16 ratings) Awards: (Click on award to learn more).

About the Album: “For many, the early 2020s was a course-shifting season of change, when a global pandemic and sociopolitical upheaval cast a shadow over much of life. It was no different for singer/songwriter Tori Amos, who, during one of England’s many lockdowns, penned an entire album that she later scrapped for being too divisive. In its place, she started fresh, shifting focus and processing grief with her 16th album Ocean to Ocean. As she declares on Metal Water Wood, ‘It has been a brutal year.’” AMG “Against this backdrop, Amos does what she does best: turning personal trauma into a universal experience, carrying both herself and listeners out of the darkness with sights set on renewal. Despite the bittersweet emotions and the still-lingering uncertainty at the time of release, Ocean to Ocean comforts like a warm hug, benefitting from a sumptuous depth of layered production that is at once soulful and satisfying.” AMG “From the outset, a familiar team -- husband/guitarist Mark Hawley, daughter/backing vocalist Tash, drummer Matt Chamberlain, bassist Jon Evans, and orchestral maestro John Philip Shenale – joins Amos as she whips up a storm of sound and emotion with her trademark piano and vocal sorcery.” AMG “Diving headlong into the album's main themes on Speaking with Trees, Amos addresses the death of her mother, Mary Ellen, crying, ‘I cannot let you go’ as she copes with the devastating loss. Mary Ellen’s memory is also alive on Flowers Burn to Gold, a heartbreaking piano ballad that dwells beside Toast and Mary’s Eyes as one of Amos’ biggest tearjerkers.” AMG “Emotions flow on the tender Swim to New York State, a sentimental declaration of love and recognition to a loyal partner that swells atop a grand string section and cinematic horns. Turning her focus outward, she revisits common themes such as religious hypocrisy and misogyny (on the smoky fire-and-brimstone Devil’s Bane), while calling out ‘those who don't give a goddamn’ about the climate crisis on the turbulent title track.” AMG “Amos later brings ‘Me and a Gun’ full circle with 29 Years, this time tackling trauma and the devastation it can cause by reconciling the past through reflection and rebuilding.” AMG “Some much-needed mirth appears on the highlight Spies, which rides Evans' bouncing bass and Shenale’s stabbing strings like a propulsive late-era Radiohead tune filtered through a quirky Beatles lens. Named after the mischievous entities who protect us from the bad dreams, ‘thieving meanies,’ and ‘scary men,’ it's an antidote for unsure and fearful times that’s destined to become a fan favorite.” AMG “Closing on Birthday Baby – a self-empowering tango that recalls the cinematic flourish of Abnormally Attracted to Sin – Amos sings, ‘This year, you survived through it all,’ a testament to endurance and emerging from the gloom. Like Native Invader before it, Ocean to Ocean is a late-era standout for Amos, who reaches through the dark cloud of collective grief to be that supportive presence for listeners, healing with familiar touches and a timely message.” AMG

Resources and Related Links: AMG All Music Guide review by Neil Z. Yeung WK Wikipedia Other Related DMDB Pages: First posted 6/3/2022.

The Rolling Stones’ Top 100 Songs/Studio Albums Ranked

The Rolling Stones Top 100 Songs/Studio Albums Ranked

Revered as the world’s all-time greatest rock and roll band. Formed in London, England in 1962. Singer Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards became childhood friends in 1950 and reconnected in 1961 over their shared interest in Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters. The two of them and Dick Taylor (bass: 1962-63), who had been in a garage band with Jagger, started playing together. They connected with Blues Incorporated members Brian Jones (guitar: 1963-69), Ian Stewart (keyboards: 1963-85), and Charlie Watts (drums: 1963-2021). They formed a band focused on playing covers of Chicago blues, naming themselves after a Muddy Waters’ song. They were managed by Andrew Loog Oldham (1963-67) who promoted them as bad boys in contrast to the Beatles. Other members included Mick Avory (drums: 1963), Nicky Hopkins (keyboards: 1967-82), Darryl Jones (bass: 1994-95), Chuck Leavell (keyboards: 1982-), Ian McLagan (keyboards: 1978-81), Jack Nitzsche (keyboards: 1965-71), Billy Preston (keyboards: 1971-81), Mick Taylor (guitar: 1969-75), Ronnie Wood (guitar: 1975-present), and Bill Wyman (bass: 1962-92). Two of their songs (“(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” and “Honky Tonk Women”) are featured in the DMDB book The Top 100 Songs of the Rock Era, 1954-1999. Four of their albums – Beggars Banquet (1968), Let It Bleed (1969), Sticky Fingers (1971), and Exile on Main St. (1972) – are featured in the DMDB book The Top 100 Albums of All Time. Click here to see other best-of lists from performers and here to see other best-of lists from songwriters and/or producers. Spotify Podcast: Check out Dave’s Music Database podcast: The Rolling Stones’ Tattoo You: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary. It premieres October 26, 2021 at 7pm CST. Tune in every Tuesday at 7pm for a new episode based on the lists at Dave’s Music Database.

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Top 100 Songs Dave’s Music Database lists are determined by song’s appearances on best-of lists as well as chart success, sales, radio airplay, streaming, and awards. Songs which hit #1 on various charts are noted. (Click for codes to singles charts.) DMDB Top 1%: 1. (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction (1965) #1 US, CB, UK, AU 2. Honky Tonk Women (1969) #1 US, CB, UK, AU 3. Paint It Black (1966) #1 US, CB, UK, CN, AU 4. Jumpin’ Jack Flash (1968) #1 CB, UK 5. Sympathy for the Devil (1968) 6. Brown Sugar (1971) #1 US, CN 7. Gimme Shelter (1969) 8. Start Me Up (1981) #1 AR, AU 9. Angie (1973) #1 US, CB, CN, AU 10. You Can’t Always Get What You Want (1969) #1 AU 11. Miss You (1978) #1 US, CB, CN DMDB Top 2%: 12. Get Off of My Cloud (1965) #1 US, CB, UK, CN 13. Ruby Tuesday (1967) #1 US, CB 14. Wild Horses (1971) DMDB Top 5%: 15. Tumbling Dice (1972) 16. It’s Only Rock and Roll (But I Like It) (1974) 17. Beast of Burden (1978) 18. 19th Nervous Breakdown (1966) 19. The Last Time (1965) #1 UK 20. Mother’s Little Helper (1966) 21. Time Is on My Side (1964) 22. As Tears Go By (1965) #1 CN 23. Street Fighting Man (1968) 24. It’s All Over Now (1964) #1 UK 25. She’s a Rainbow (1967) 26. Let’s Spend the Night Together (1967) 27. Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) (1973) 28. She’s So Cold (1980) DMDB Top 10%: 29. Under My Thumb (1966) 30. Shattered (1978) 31. Fool to Cry (1976) 32. Waiting on a Friend (1981) 33. Emotional Rescue (1980) #1 CN 34. Happy (1972) 35. We Love You (1967) 36. Mixed Emotions (1989) #1 CN, AR 37. Undercover of the Night (1983) 38. Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadows? (1966) 39. Heart of Stone (1964) 40. Love Is Strong (1994) 41. Tell Me (You’re Coming Back) (1964) 42. Not Fade Away (1964) 43. Harlem Shuffle (1986) DMDB Top 20%: 44. 2000 Light Years from Home (1967) 45. Play with Fire (1965) 46. Out of Tears (1994) 47. Anybody Seen My Baby? (1997) #1 CN 48. Rock and a Hard Place (1989) #1 AR 49. Ain’t Too Proud to Beg (1974) 50. Out of Time (1966) 51. Little Red Rooster (1964) #1 UK 52. Dandelion (1967) 53. Hang Fire (1981) 54. Lady Jane (1966) 55. Midnight Rambler (1979) 56. You Got Me Rocking (1994) 57. High Wire (1991) #1 AR 58. Bitch (1971) 59. Saint of Me (1997) 60. One Hit to the Body (1986) 61. Let It Bleed (1969) 62. Going to a Go-Go (live) (1982) 63. Almost Hear You Sigh (1989) #1 AR 64. Like a Rolling Stone (live, 1995) 65. She Was Hot (1983) 66. Can’t You Hear Me Knocking (1971) 67. All Down the Line (1972) 68. Moonlight Mile (1971) 69. Hot Stuff (1976) 70. Memory Motel (1976) 71. I Wanna Be Your Man (1963) 72. Far Away Eyes (1978) Beyond the DMDB Top 20%: 73. Sister Morphine (1971) 74. Don’t Stop (2002) 75. Living in a Ghost Town (2020) 76. No Expectations (1968) 77. I Go Wild (1994) 78. I’m Free (1965) 79. I Don’t Know Why I Love You (1969) 80. Monkey Man (1969) 81. Come On (1963) 82. Respectable (1978) 83. Rough Justice (2005) 84. Get Your Kicks on Route 66 (1964) 85. Sway (1971) 86. Rain Fall Down (2005) 87. Dead Flowers (1971) 88. Sparks Will Fly (1994) 89. When the Whip Comes Down (1978) 90. Doom and Gloom (2012) 91. Little T & A (1981) 92. Good Times, Bad Times (1964) 93. Plundered My Soul (1972/2010) 94. Under the Boardwalk (1964) #1 AU 95. Rip This Joint (1972) 96. Terrifying (1989) 97. Shine a Light (1972) 98. I Just Want to Make Love to You (1964) 99. Rocks Off (1972) 100. Just Your Fool (2016) The Rolling Stones: Studio Albums Ranked Dave’s Music Database lists are determined by album’s appearances on best-of lists as well as chart success, sales, critics’ ratings, and awards. Also factored in are the status of each album’s songs in Dave’s Music Database for songs. 1. Exile on Main Street (1972) 2. Sticky Fingers (1971) 3. Let It Bleed (1969) 4. Beggars Banquet (1968) 5. Some Girls (1978) 6. England’s Newest Hit Makers (aka ‘The Rolling Stones’) (1964) 7. Aftermath (UK version, 1966) 8. Aftermath (US version, 1966) 9. Tattoo You (1981) 10. Between the Buttons (1967) 11. Goats Head Soup (1973) 12. Their Satanic Majesties Request (1967) 13. Voodoo Lounge (1994) 14. Emotional Rescue (1980) 15. Out of Our Heads (US version, 1965) 16. Black and Blue (1976) 17. A Bigger Bang (2005) 18. Steel Wheels (1989) 19. 12 x 5 (1964) 20. Bridges to Babylon (1997) 21. It’s Only Rock and Roll (1974) 22. December's Children…and Everybody's (1965) 23. Blue & Lonesome (covers, 2016) 24. Undercover (1983) 25. No. 2 (1965) 26. Out of Our Heads (UK version, 1965) 27. Dirty Work (1986) 28. Now! (1965) Resources and Related Links: DMDB Encyclopedia entry for The Rolling Stones Dave’s Music Database: “Best-of Lists for Performers” Dave’s Music Database: “Best-of Lists for Songwriters and/or Producers” First posted 7/26/2013; last updated 10/26/2021.

Dave's Music Database Hall of Fame: Song Inductees (October 2021)

Originally posted 10/22/2021. In honor of the 10th anniversary of the DMDB blog on January 22, 2019, Dave’s Music Database launched its own Hall of Fame. This is the twelfth set of song inductees. These are the 10 highest-ranked songs that ranked within the top 50 of the DMDB’s list of the “Top Big Band Songs of All Time”. It does not include previously inducted songs such as Glenn Miller’s “In the Mood” and Artie Shaw’s “Stardust” and “Begin the Beguine.”

Fats Waller “Ain’t Misbehavin’” (1929) Inducted October 2021 as “Top Big Band Songs”

Waller was “a New York City-born pianist and organ accompanist during the ‘20s…[who] broke through as one of the country’s most popular entertainers. PM “Ain’t Misbehavin’” was written for the 1929 all-black revue Hot Chocolates and debuted by Louis Armstrong, who credited the revue with launching his career. TY It was so popular it moved to Broadway RCG where it ran “for a very respectable 219 performances.” SS Read more.

Ted Lewis “On the Sunny Side of the Street” (1930) Inducted October 2021 as “Top Big Band Songs”

This “cabaret and jazz standard” JA is a “metaphor for optimism.” TY In his book American Popular Song, author Alec Wilder calls it “one of the jazz musicians’ favorites…Singers, as well, love it as much for its extremely fine lyric.” SB In The NPR Curious Listener’s Guide to Popular Standards, Max Morath expresses a similar sentiment, saying the song “works both sides of the street, vocal and instrumental, with equal charm.” MM Read more.

Duke Ellington “Mood Indigo” (1931) Inducted October 2021 as “Top Big Band Songs”

The clarinet solo was based on a melody called “Dreamy Blues.” Duke Ellington turned the structure upside down, “composing a song of his own on top of it.” DH Typically jazz songs were arranged with the clarinet, trumpet, and trombone from highest to lowest pitch, but Ellington flipped it around the other way. DH He recorded it for an October 1930 broadcast. He said “wads of mail came in raving about the new tune.” WK Read more.

Benny Goodman “Sing Sing Sing (With a Swing)” (1938) Inducted October 2021 as “Top Big Band Songs”

By the start of the Swing era in 1936, Benny Goodman was its king. “Sing, Sing, Sing” was his most renowned performance with solos by Benny as well as drummer Gene Krupa (on his last hit before leaving the band) and trumpeter Harry James. “Sing, Sing, Sing,” which Goodman called a “killer diller,” NPR’99 was the closer at the bandleader’s legendary Carnegie Hall concert on January 16, 1938. It was the first time jazz comprised a full concert instead of being part of a larger show SS and marked the birthplace of the legitimacy of the genre. NPR’99 Read more.

Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb’s Orchestra “A-Tisket, A-Tasket” (1938) Inducted October 2021 as “Top Big Band Songs”

“A-Tisket, A-Tasket” began life as an American children’s rhyming game in 1879. In 1938, Ella Fitzgerald and Al Feldman adapted it into a song with very little change to the lyrics. In a 1973 lecture series at Harvard, Leonard Bernstein said that research showed the song’s melodic motif “is the same all over the world, wherever children tease each other. On every continent, in ever culture, it is one of the few musical universals.” TY Read more.

Tommy Dorsey with Frank Sinatra & the Pied Pipers “I’ll Never Smile Again” (1940) Inducted October 2021 as “Top Big Band Songs”

Ruth Lowe was a pianist with Ina Ray Hutton’s all-girl orchestra when she composed this song about the death of her husband, just a few months after their marriage. TY She staked out Tommy Dorsey in September 1939 and got Carmen Mastren, the band’s guitarist, to give her demo a listen. SS Dorsey wasn’t initially passed but took a stab at it when Frank Sinatra came on board. SS It became his first #1 song. Read more.

Duke Ellington “Take the ‘A’ Train” (1941) Inducted October 2021 as “Top Big Band Songs”

Billy Strayhorn was a hopeful pianist and composer in 1938. NPR His rearrangement of the Duke’s song “Sophisticated Lady” sufficiently impressed Ellington to invite Strayhorn to New York. TC Ellington gave directions to his house in New York, starting with “take the ‘A’ train.” WK Along the way, Strayhorn turned the directions into a song. TC It became Ellington’s signature song and one of the all-time best-loved jazz standards. Read more.

Glenn Miller “Chattanooga Choo Choo” (1941) Inducted October 2021 as “Top Big Band Songs”

The team of Mack Gordon and Harry Warren wrote the song while travelling on the Southern Railway. It didn’t refer to a particular train, but Chattanooga, Tennessee, had been on the route for most trains passing through the American South since 1880. WK The song was used in the film Sun Valley Serenade, sung by members of Glenn Miller’s band. Miller’s recording became his biggest hit after “In the Mood” and the first recording formally certified as a million seller. PM Read more.

Woody Herman “Blues in the Night (My Mama Done Tol’ Me)” (1941) Inducted October 2021 as “Top Big Band Songs”

Composer Harold Arlen and lyricist Johnny Mercer were approached to write a song for a movie about a jazz quintet riding the rails in search of its big break. Arlen wrote a melody after analyzing blues songs and Mercer penned four pages of lyrics. When they finished, Mercer called Margaret Whiting, who’d sung the pair’s songs “That Old Black Magic” and “Come Rain or Come Shine.” She told Mercer she had guests for dinner, but he and Arlen could come over later. When Mercer found out the guests included Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, and Mel Tormé, he announced, “My God, we’re coming right over.” After they played the song, Rooney said, “That’s the greatest thing I’ve ever heard.” SB Read more.

Les Brown with Doris Day “Sentimental Journey” (1945) Inducted October 2021 as “Top Big Band Songs”

When she first saw the sheet music, Doris Day commented, “What a lovely title,” to which Les Brown responded “Wait till you hear it.” SS “The song’s aching nostalgia struck a chord in a nation welcoming its boys back from the front lines,” TM becoming “one of a handful of songs that summed up romantic longing during World War II.” SS Will Friedwald called it “the definitive end-of-war song,” SS “a song that helped define an era.” SS Read more.

Dave's Music Database Hall of Fame: Song Inductees

Dave’s Music Database Hall of Fame

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Dave’s Music Database Hall of Fame was established January 22, 2019 in honor of the 10th anniversary of the DMDB blog. Every month, a class of music makers, albums, or songs are inducted. Here are the act inductee classes for songs so far: 1/19: Top Songs of Each Decade from 1900-2010 4/19: 80+ Lists/Awards 7/19: Top #1 Pop Songs of the Pre-Rock Era 10/19: Top #1 Songs of the Rock Era 1/20: Top Most-Recorded Songs from 1890-1954 4/20: Top Standards 7/20: Rock and Roll Origin Songs 10/20: Top Classic Rock Songs 1/21: Songs with 20+ Weeks atop 4 Pop Charts 4/21: MTV in the ‘80s 7/21: Top Vaudeville Songs 10/21: Top Big Band Songs All the songs which have been inducted are listed below, alphabetized by acts. Click on the song title to go to a detailed DMDB entry about it. Click on the highlighted month/year to see the song’s induction entry. A 1/19: Adele “Rolling in the Deep” (2010) 4/21: A-ha “Take on Me” (1984) 7/21: American Quartet “Moonlight Bay” (1912) 4/20: American Quartet “Over There” (1917) 1/20: Fred Astaire “Night and Day” (1932) 4/20: Fred Astaire with Ginger Rogers & Leo Reisman’s Orchestra “Cheek to Cheek” (1935) 1/19: Gene Austin “My Blue Heaven” (1927) B 4/19: The Beach Boys “Good Vibrations” (1966) 4/19: The Beatles “I Want to Hold Your Hand” (1963) 1/19: The Beatles “Hey Jude” (1968) 1/21: Bee Gees “Night Fever” (1977) 1/21: Bee Gees “Stayin’ Alive” (1977) 7/20: Chuck Berry “Johnny B. Goode” (1958) 1/21: Blondie “Call Me” (1980) 1/21: Debby Boone “You Light Up My Life” (1977) 10/21: Les Brown with Doris Day “Sentimental Journey” (1945) C 10/19: Mariah Carey with Boyz II Men “One Sweet Day” (1995) 10/19: Mariah Carey “We Belong Together” (2005) 1/21: Kim Carnes “Bette Davis Eyes” (1981) 1/21: Chic “Le Freak” (1978) 7/21: Arthur Collins “Bill Bailey, Won’t You Come Home” (1902) 1/19: Arthur Collins and Byron Harlan “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” (1911) 7/19: Francis Craig with Bob Lamm “Near You” (1947) 1/20: Bing Crosby “Silent Night” (1935) 1/19: Bing Crosby with the Ken Darby Singers “White Christmas” (1942) D 4/20: Bobby Darin “Mack the Knife” (1959) 10/20: Derek & the Dominos “Layla” (1970) 4/21: Dire Straits “Money for Nothing” (1985) 10/20: The Doors “Light My Fire” (1967) 1/20: Tommy Dorsey “All the Things You Are” (1939) 10/21: Tommy Dorsey with Frank Sinatra & the Pied Pipers “I’ll Never Smile Again” (1940) 4/19: Bob Dylan “Like a Rolling Stone” (1965) E-F 4/19: Eagles “Hotel California” (1976) 10/21: Duke Ellington “Mood Indigo” (1931) 10/21: Duke Ellington “Take the ‘A’ Train” (1941) 4/21: Eurythmics “Sweet Dreams Are Made of This” (1983) 10/21: Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb’s Orchestra “A-Tisket, A-Tasket” (1938) 10/19: Luis Fonsi with Daddy Yankee & Justin Bieber “Despacito” (2017) 4/19: Aretha Franklin “Respect” (1967) G 4/21: Peter Gabriel “Sledgehammer” (1986) 1/19: Judy Garland “Over the Rainbow” (1939) 4/19: Marvin Gaye “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” (1968) 1/21: Andy Gibb “Shadow Dancing” (1978) 10/21: Benny Goodman “Sing Sing Sing (With a Swing)” (1938) 10/19: Goo Goo Dolls “Iris” (1998) 4/21: Guns N’ Roses “Sweet Child O’ Mine” (1987) H 1/19: Bill Haley & His Comets “We’re Gonna Rock Around the Clock” (1954) 7/21: Byron G. Harlan “School Days (When We Were a Couple of Kids)” (1907) 1/20: Marion Harris “Tea for Two” (1925) 1/20: Coleman Hawkins “Body and Soul” (1940) 7/21: Haydn Quartet “Sweet Adeline (You’re the Flower of My Heart)” 10/20: The Jimi Hendrix Experience “Purple Haze” (1967) 10/20: The Jimi Hendrix Experience “All Along the Watchtower” (1968) 10/21: Woody Herman “Blues in the Night (My Mama Done Tol’ Me)” (1941) 1/20: Billie Holiday “Summertime” (1936) 7/20: Buddy Holly & the Crickets “That’ll Be the Day” (1957) 1/19: Whitney Houston “I Will Always Love You” (1992) I-J 7/19: The Ink Spots “The Gypsy” (1946) 4/19: Michael Jackson “Billie Jean” (1982) 4/21: Michael Jackson “Beat It” (1982) 4/21: Michael Jackson “Thriller” (1982) 7/19: Harry James with Helen Forrest “I’ve Heard That Song Before” (1943) 10/19: Elton John “Candle in the Wind 1997 (Goodbye England’s Rose)” (1997) 4/20: Al Jolson “Swanee” (1920) 4/20: Al Jolson “April Showers” (1922) K-L 1/21: The Knack “My Sharona” (1979) 4/21: Cyndi Lauper “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” (1983) 10/20: Led Zeppelin “Whole Lotta Love” (1969) 10/20: Led Zeppelin “Stairway to Heaven” (1971) 1/19: John Lennon “Imagine” (1971) 7/20: Jerry Lee Lewis “Great Balls of Fire” (1957) 7/20: Jerry Lee Lewis “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” (1957) 10/21: Ted Lewis “On the Sunny Side of the Street” (1930) 10/19: Lil Nas X with Billy Ray Cyrus “Old Town Road” (2018) 7/20: Little Richard “Tutti Frutti” (1955) 7/20: Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers “Who Do Fools Fall in Love?” (1956) 10/20: Lynyrd Skynyrd “Sweet Home Alabama” (1974) M 7/21: Harry Macdonough with Miss Walton “Shine on Harvest Moon” (1909) 4/21: Madonna “Like a Prayer” (1989) 10/19: Maroon 5 with Cardi B “Girls Like You” (2017) 7/19: Glenn Miller “In the Mood” (1939) 10/21: Glenn Miller “Chattanooga Choo Choo” (1941) 7/21: Billy Murray “Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis” (1904) 7/21: Billy Murray “Give My Regards to Broadway” (1905) 7/21: Billy Murray “Yankee Doodle Boy” (1905) 1/19: Billy Murray “You’re a Grand Old Flag (aka “The Grand Old Rag”)” (1906) 4/20: Billy Murray & Haydn Quartet “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” (1908) 7/21: Billy Murray with the Haydn Quartet “By the Light of the Silvery Moon” (1910) N-O 4/19: Nirvana “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (1991) 10/19: No Doubt “Don’t Speak” (1995) 1/20: Vess Ossman “The Old Folks at Home (Swanee River)” (1900) 1/19: OutKast “Hey Ya!” (2003) P 7/19: Patti Page “Tennessee Waltz” (1950) 4/20: Peerless Quartet “Let Me Call You Sweetheart” (1911) 7/20: The Penguins “Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)” (1954) 7/20: Carl Perkins “Blue Suede Shoes” (1956) 10/20: Pink Floyd “Another Brick in the Wall Part II” (1979) 1/19: The Police “Every Breath You Take” (1983) 7/20: Elvis Presley “Heartbreak Hotel” (1956) 7/20: Elvis Presley “Hound Dog” (1956) Q-R 4/19: Queen “Bohemian Rhapsody” (1975) 1/21: Lionel Richie & Diana Ross “Endless Love” (1981) 1/21: Kenny Rogers “Lady” (1980) 4/19: The Rolling Stones “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” (1965) 10/19: Mark Ronson with Bruno Mars “Uptown Funk!” (2014) 4/21: Run-D.M.C. with Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler & Joe Perry “Walk This Way” (1986) S 7/19: Ben Selvin “Dardanella” (1920) 4/20: Artie Shaw “Begin the Beguine” (1938) 7/19: Artie Shaw “Frenesi” (1940) 1/20: Artie Shaw “Stardust” (1941) 4/19: Simon & Garfunkel “Bridge Over Troubled Water” (1970) 1/20: Bessie Smith & Louis Armstrong “St. Louis Blues” (1925) 10/20: Bruce Springsteen “Born to Run” (1975) 10/20: Steppenwolf “Born to Be Wild” (1968) 1/21: Rod Stewart “Tonight’s the Night (Gonna Be Alright)” (1976) 1/21: Rod Stewart “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?” (1978) T-Z 7/21: Sophie Tucker “Some of These Days” (1911) 4/21: Van Halen “Jump” (1983) 10/21: Fats Waller “Ain’t Misbehavin’” (1929) 4/20: Ethel Waters “Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time)” (1933) 7/19: The Weavers “Goodnight Irene” (1950) 4/20: Paul Whiteman “Whispering” (1920) Resources: Dave’s Music Database Hall of Fame Dave’s Music Database Hall of Fame: Albums Dave’s Music Database Hall of Fame: Music Makers Dave’s Music Database Hall of Fame: Songs The Five-Year Anniversary of Dave’s Music Database Blog Originally posted 1/22/2019; last updated 12/27/2021.