Steve Sullivan is a music historian who has authored four volumes of his own Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings and contributed to Joel Whitburn’s Pop Memories 1890-1954. He maintains a Facebook page called Classic Pop. This page focuses on his personal top 500 favorite songs. Links other Steve Sullivan lists are at the bottom of the page.
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1. Bruce Springsteen “Born to Run” (1975)
2. Louis Armstrong “West End Blues” (1928)
3. Chuck Berry “Johnny B. Goode” (1958)
4. Paul Whiteman with George Gershwin “Rhapsody in Blue” (1924)
5. Simon & Garfunkel “Bridge Over Troubled Water” (1970)
6. Coleman Hawkins “Body and Soul” (1940)
7. Sam Cooke “A Change Is Gonna Come” (1964)
8. U2 “Pride (In the Name of Love)” (1984)
9. Woody Guthrie “This Land Is Your Land” (1944)
10. Marvin Gaye “What’s Going On” (1971)
11. Glenn Miller Orchestra “In the Mood” (1939)
12. Bob Dylan “Like a Rolling Stone” (1965)
13. Bing Crosby “White Christmas” (1942)
14. Marvin Gaye “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” (1968)
15. Bessie Smith & Louis Armstrong “St. Louis Blues” (1925)
16. Ray Charles “What’d I Say” (1959)
17. Judy Garland “Over the Rainbow” (1939)
18. Aretha Franklin “Respect” (1967)
19. Patsy Cline “Crazy” (1961)
20. Benny Goodman “Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)” (1938)
21. The Righteous Brothers “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’” (1964)
22. George Gershwin with Nat Shilkret & the Victor Symphony Orchestra “An American in Paris” (1929)
23. Duke Ellington “Take the ‘A’ Train” (1941)
24. The Temptations “My Girl” (1964)
25. Don McLean “American Pie” (1971)
26. Artie Shaw & His Orchestra “Stardust” (1940)
27. The Animals “The House of the Rising Sun” (1964)
28. Artie Shaw “Begin the Beguine” (1938)
29. The Beatles “Hey Jude” (1968)
30. Martha Reeves & the Vandellas “Dancing in the Street” (1964)
31. Simon & Garfunkel “The Sound of Silence” (1965)
32. Nirvana “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (1991)
33. Billie Holiday “Strange Fruit” (1939)
34. Duke Ellington “Ko-Ko” (1940)
35. Led Zeppelin “Stairway to Heaven” (1971)
36. The Beatles “A Day in the Life” (1967)
37. Peter, Paul & Mary “Blowin’ in the Wind” (1963)
38. The Who “Won’t Get Fooled Again” (1971)
39. Charlie Parker “Parker’s Mood” (1948)
40. Elvis Presley “Heartbreak Hotel” (1956)
41. Tracy Chapman “Fast Car” (1988)
42. The Beatles “Yesterday” (1965)
43. Ben E. King “Stand by Me” (1961)
44. Frank Sinatra “I’ve Got You Under My Skin” (1956)
45. Lena Horne “Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time)” (1941)
46. Paul Robeson with Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra “Ol’ Man River” (1928)
47. Derek & the Dominos “Layla” (1970)
48. Charlie Parker’s Re-Boppers “Ko Ko” (1945)
49. Judy Garland “The Man That Got Away” (1954)
50. Creedence Clearwater Revival “Who’ll Stop the Rain” (1970)
51. Duke Ellington “Mood Indigo” (1931)
52. Bing Crosby “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” (1932)
53. R.E.M. “Losing My Religion” (1991)
54. T-Bone Walker “Call It Stormy Monday” (1947)
55. Les Paul with Mary Ford “How High the Moon” (1951)
56. Miles Davis “Round Midnight” (1956)
57. John Coltrane “Giant Steps” (1959)
58. Roy Acuff & the Smoky Mountain Boys “Wabash Cannonball” (1938)
59. Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” (1949)
60. Eminem “Lose Yourself” (2002)
61. Bobbie Gentry “Ode to Billie Joe” (1967)
62. U.S.A. for Africa “We Are the World” (1985)
63. Bessie Smith “Down Hearted Blues” (1923)
64. Bill Haley & His Comets “We’re Gonna Rock Around the Clock” (1954)
65. Nat “King” Cole “The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)” (1946)
66. Judy Collins “Amazing Grace” (1970)
67. Johnny Cash “I Walk the Line” (1956)
68. Otis Redding “Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay” (1968)
69. Eagles “Hotel California” (1976)
70. Foreigner “I Want to Know What Love Is” (1984)
71. Swan Silvertones “Mary Don’t You Weep” (1959)
72. American Quartet with Billy Murray “Casey Jones” (1910)
73. Bob Dylan “Blind Willie McTell” (1983)
74. Tennessee Ernie Ford “Sixteen Tons” (1955)
75. Clarence Tom Ashley “The Coo Coo Bird” (1929)
76. The Carter Family “Can the Circle Be Unbroken (By and By)” (1935)
77. Jimmie Rodgers “Blue Yodel #1 (T for Texas)” (1928)
78. Bo Diddley “Who Do You Love?” (1956)
79. Howlin’ Wolf “Smokestack Lightning” (1956)
80. Bruce Springsteen “Streets of Philadelphia” (1994)
81. B.B. King “The Thrill Is Gone” (1969)
82. The Police “Every Breath You Take” (1983)
83. Mamie Smith & Her Jazz Hounds “Crazy Blues” (1920)
84. Prince “When Doves Cry” (1984)
85. Robert Johnson “Cross Road Blues (aka ‘Crossroads’)” (1936)
86. Sophie Tucker “Some of These Days” (1911)
87. Arthur Collins & Bryon G. Harlan “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” (1911)
88. Blind Willie Johnson “Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground” (1927)
89. Adele “Rolling in the Deep” (2010)
90. Vess L. Ossman “Maple Leaf Rag” (1907)
91. Marion Harris “The Man I Love” (1928)
92. James Brown “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag” (1965)
93. Count Basie “One O’Clock Jump” (1937)
94. Simon & Garfunkel “The Boxer” (1969)
95. Harry Chapin “Taxi” (1972)
96. Leonard Cohen “You Want It Darker” (2016)
97. Gary Allan “Smoke Rings in the Dark” (1999)
98. The Gipsy Kings “Bamboleo” (1988)
99. Geeshie Wiley “Last Kind Word Blues” (1930)
100. Cotton Top Mountain Sanctified Singers “Christ Was Born on Christmas Morn” (1929)
101. Billy Murray with the Haydn Quartet “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” (1908)
102. Coolio with L.V. “Gangsta’s Paradise” (1995)
103. Billy Murray “You’re a Grand Old Flag (aka “The Grand Old Rag”)” (1906)
104. Green Day “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” (2004)
105. The Byrds “Mr. Tambourine Man” (1965)
106. Paul Simon “The Obvious Child” (1990)
107. Robert Cray Band “Smoking Gun” (1987)
108. The Rolling Stones “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” (1965)
109. Chuck Berry “Roll Over Beethoven” (1956)
110. Glenn Miller & His Orchestra “Moonlight Serenade” (1939)
111. The Beatles “Let It Be” (1970)
112. The Beatles “Help!” (1965)
113. The Drifters “Up On the Roof” (1962)
114. Percy Sledge “When a Man Loves a Woman” (1966)
115. Buffalo Springfield “For What It’s Worth” (1966)
116. The Five Satins “In the Still of the Nite (I’ll Remember)” (1956)
117. Miles Davis “So What” (1959)
118. Bunny Berigan “I Can’t Get Started” (1938)
119. Brook Benton “Rainy Night In Georgia” (1970)
120. Michael Jackson “Billie Jean” (1982)
121. Frank Sinatra “Blues In the Night” (1958)
122. Elvis Presley “Jailhouse Rock” (1957)
123. Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five “Hotter Than That” (1927)
124. Soggy Bottom Boys (w/ Dan Tyminski) “I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow” (2001)
125. Louis Armstrong “Stardust” (1931)
126. Nat King Cole “Stardust” (1957)
127. Bob Dylan “Mr. Tambourine Man” (1965)
128. The Beatles “I Want to Hold Your Hand” (1963)
129. Peter, Paul & Mary “If I Had a Hammer” (1962)
130. Al Stewart “Year of the Cat” (1976)
131. Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five “The Message” (1982)
132. Fred Astaire with Leo Reisman’s Orchestra “Night and Day” (1932)
133. Phil Ochs “I Ain’t Marching Anymore” (1965)
134. Billie Holiday “God Bless the Child” (1941)
135. Arlo Guthrie “The City of New Orleans” (1972)
136. Don McLean “Vincent” (1972)
137. Ben E. King “Spanish Harlem” (1960)
138. Ethel Waters “Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time)” (1933)
139. Stevie Wonder “Superstition” (1972)
140. Stevie Wonder “Living for the City” (1973)
141. Carl Perkins “Blue Suede Shoes” (1956)
142. Billie Holiday “Summertime” (1936)
143. Bob Dylan “Tangled Up In Blue” (1975)
144. Harry Chapin “Sniper” (1972)
145. Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra “Concerto for Cootie” (1940)
146. John Lennon “Imagine” (1971)
147. Johnny Cash “Folsom Prison Blues” (1956)
148. The Beach Boys “Good Vibrations” (1966)
149. Stan Rogers “The Mary Ellen Carter” (1979)
150. Bruce Springsteen “American Skin (41 Shots)” (2001)
151. The Carter Family “Wildwood Flower” (1928)
152. Skip James “Devil Got My Woman” (1931)
153. Mahalia Jackson “Move on Up a Little Higher” (1948)
154. Solomon Linda & the Original Evening Birds “Mbube” (1939)
155. The Weavers with Gordon Jenkins’ Orchestra “Goodnight Irene” (1950)
156. Dock Boggs “Country Blues” (1927)
157. Rosemary Clooney “Tenderly” (1951)
158. Fred Astaire “Cheek to Cheek” (1935)
159. Louis Armstrong & His Hot Seven “Potato Head Blues” (1927)
160. Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five “Saturday Night Fish Fry” (1949)
161. Bozie Sturduvant “Ain’t No Grave Can Hold My Body Down” (1942)
162. Bruce Springsteen “Thunder Road” (1975)
163. Duke Ellington & His Orchestra “Harlem Air Shaft” (1940)
164. Bo Diddley “Bo Diddley” (1955)
165. Clarence “Pine Top” Smith “Pine Top’s Boogie Woogie” (1928)
166. Adele “Skyfall” (2012)
167. Washington Phillips “Denomination Blues” (1927)
168. Hank Williams “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” (1949)
169. Bee Gees “Stayin’ Alive” (1977)
170. Paul Simon “The Boy In the Bubble” (1986)
171. Marty Robbins “El Paso” (1959)
172. Johnny Cash “Hurt” (2002)
173. Patsy Cline “I Fall to Pieces” (1961)
174. Michael Jackson “Beat It” (1982)
175. Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five “Choo Choo Ch’boogie” (1946)
176. Muddy Waters “Hoochie Coochie Man” (1954)
177. Bob Marley & the Wailers “Get Up Stand Up” (1973)
178. King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band “Dipper Mouth Blues” (1923)
179. Big Joe Turner “Shake, Rattle and Roll” (1954)
180. Indigo Girls “Closer to Fine” (1989)
181. Bob Dylan “The Man In the Long Black Coat” (1989)
182. The Beatles “Eleanor Rigby” (1966)
183. (James Reese) Europe’s Society Orchestra “Down Home Rag” (1913)
184. Sousa’s Band “The Stars and Stripes Forever” (1897)
185. Don Henley “The End of the Innocence” (1989)
186. Harry Chapin “What Made America Famous” (1974)
187. U2 “With or Without You” (1987)
188. Marc Anthony “Vivir mi Vida” (2013)
189. Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra “Whispering” (1920)
190. Ben Selvin’s Novelty Orchestra “Dardanella” (1919)
191. Bessie Smith “Lost Your Head Blues” (1926)
192. American Quartet “It’s a Long, Long Way to Tipperary” (1914)
193. Hank Williams “Your Cheatin’ Heart” (1953)
194. Suzanne Vega “Luka” (1987)
195. Don Azpiazu & Havana Casino Orch. “The Peanut Vendor (El Manisero)” (1930)
196. U2 “One” (1991)
197. Procol Harum “A Whiter Shade of Pale” (1967)
198. Dave Brubeck Quartet “Take Five” (1959)
199. Richard Thompson “1952 Vincent Black Lightning” (1991)
200. Arrested Development “Tennessee” (1992)
201. Bruce Springsteen “The Rising” (2002)
202. Fela Kuti “Zombie” (1976)
203. American Quartet “Over There” (1917)
204. Moby featuring Vera Hall “Natural Blues” (2000)
205. Roy Orbison “(Oh) Pretty Woman” (1964)
206. The Four Tops “Reach Out (I’ll Be There)” (1966)
207. Ossman-Dudley Trio “St. Louis Tickle” (1906)
208. Eva Cassidy “Over the Rainbow” (1992)
209. Kanye West “Jesus Walks” (2004)
210. Green Day “Wake Me Up When September Ends” (2005)
211. Tom Rush “Urge for Going” (1966)
212. The Impressions “People Get Ready” (1965)
213. Marion Harris “After You’ve Gone” (1918)
214. Ada Jones & Billy Murray “Shine On, Harvest Moon” (1909)
215. Chuck Berry “Back In the U.S.A.” (1959)
216. The Temptations “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone” (1972)
217. Bob Dylan “The Times They Are A-Changin’” (1964)
218. Mormon Tabernacle Choir “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” (1959)
219. Gnarls Barkley “Crazy” (2006)
220. Sarah Vaughan “Dancing In the Dark” (1956)
221. Righteous Brothers “(You’re My) Soul and Inspiration” (1966)
222. Johnny Mathis “Misty” (1959)
223. Ray Charles “Georgia On My Mind” (1960)
224. The Moody Blues “Nights In White Satin” (1972)
225. Adele “Hello” (2015)
226. Count Basie & His Orchestra “April In Paris” (1956)
227. Rolling Stones “Sympathy for the Devil” (1968)
228. Carole King “It’s Too Late” (1971)
229. The Beatles “A Hard Day’s Night” (1964)
230. Jimi Hendrix Experience “All Along the Watchtower” (1968)
231. The Flamingos “I Only Have Eyes for You” (1959)
232. Jerry Lee Lewis “Whole Lot of Shakin’ Goin’ On” (1957)
233. Tony Bennett “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” (1962)
234. Jimi Hendrix Experience “Purple Haze” (1967)
235. Aretha Franklin “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman” (1967)
236. The Drifters “On Broadway” (1963)
237. Bobby Bland “Lead Me On” (1960)
238. Elvis Presley “Mystery Train” (1955)
239. Dooley Wilson “As Time Goes By” (1942)
240. Bruce Springsteen “Jungleland” (1975)
241. Mahalia Jackson “Take My Hand, Precious Lord” (1956)
242. King Cole Trio “Embraceable You” (1943)
243. Benny Goodman & His Orchestra “Don’t Be That Way” (1938)
244. Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five “Struttin’ With Some Barbecue” (1927)
245. Louis Armstrong & Earl Hines “Weather Bird” (1928)
246. Artie Shaw & His Orchestra “Frenesi” (1940)
247. Ritchie Valens “La Bamba” (1958)
248. Wilbert Harrison “Kansas City” (1959)
249. Bix Beiderbecke “In a Mist” (1927)
250. Robert Johnson “Hell Hound on My Trail” (1937)
251. Keb’ Mo’ “This is My Home” (2019)
252. Johnny Nash “I Can See Clearly Now” (1972)
253. Stanley Brothers “I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow” (1950)
254. Louis Armstrong “St. Louis Blues” (1929)
255. Bruce Springsteen “Glory Days” (1985)
256. Bruce Springsteen “Born In the U.S.A.” (1984)
257. Frank Sinatra “Theme from “New York, New York”“ (1980)
258. Jo Stafford “You Belong to Me” (1952)
259. Duke Ellington & Orch./Ivie Anderson “I Got It Bad (And That Ain’t Good)” (1941)
260. Rev. Robert Wilkins “The Prodigal Son” (1964)
261. Benny Goodman Trio “Body and Soul” (1935)
262. Frank Sinatra “I Get a Kick Out of You” (1953)
263. Eminem featuring Rihanna “Love the Way You Lie” (2010)
264. Billy Murray & Haydn Quartet “By the Light of the Silv’ry Moon” (1909)
265. Clara Ward & the Ward Singers “How I Got Over” (1950)
266. Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys “New San Antonio Rose” (1940)
267. Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra “Manteca” (1947)
268. Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra “Night In Tunisia” (1946)
269. The Byrds “Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)” (1965)
270. Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band “Roll Me Away” (1983)
271. The Highwomen “Highwomen” (2019)
272. Claude Thornhill & His Orchestra “Snowfall” (1941)
273. Fred Astaire “The Way You Look Tonight” (1936)
274. Louis Armstrong & His Savoy Ballroom Five “St. James’ Infirmary” (1928)
275. Roger Miller “King of the Road” (1965)
276. Peter Gabriel “Sledgehammer” (1986)
277. Percy Mayfield “Please Send Me Someone to Love” (1950)
278. Dire Straits “Sultans of Swing” (1979)
279. Leadbelly & Golden Gate Quartet “The Midnight Special” (1940)
280. Bob Dylan “Blowin’ In the Wind” (1963)
281. Sons of the Pioneers “Cool Water” (1941)
282. Haydn Quartet “In the Good Old Summer Time” (1903)
283. Gene Austin “My Blue Heaven” (1927)
284. Bruce Hornsby & the Range “The Way It Is” (1986)
285. Whitney Houston “I Will Always Love You” (1992)
286. Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra w/ Bix Beiderbecke “Singin’ the Blues” (1927)
287. Madonna “Live to Tell” (1986)
288. Tears for Fears “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” (1985)
289. Haydn Quartet “The Old Folks At Home” (1904)
290. Bessie Smith “Empty Bed Blues” (1928)
291. Dallas String Band “Dallas Rag” (1927)
292. Adele “Someone Like You” (2011)
293. Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys “Muleskinner Blues” (1940)
294. U2 “Sunday Bloody Sunday” (1983)
295. Mississippi Sheiks “Sittin’ On Top of the World” (1930)
296. Hozier “Take Me to Church” (2014)
297. Fisk University Jubilee Quartet “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” (1909)
298. A.C. “Eck” Robertson “Sallie Gooden” (1922)
299. Fiddlin’ John Carson “The Little Old Log Cabin In the Lane” (1923)
300. Chuck Berry “Maybellene” (1955)
301. The Rascals “People Got to Be Free” (1968)
302. The Temptations “Ball of Confusion (That’s What the World Is Today)” (1970)
303. The Youngbloods “Get Together” (1969)
304. Byron G. Harlan “School Days (When We Were a Couple of Kids)” (1907)
305. Boyz II Men “I’ll Make Love to You” (1994)
306. Mary Chapin Carpenter “He Thinks He’ll Keep Her” (1993)
307. Shawn Colvin “Sunny Came Home” (1997)
308. Joan Osborne “One of Us” (1995)
309. United States Marine Band “Washington Post March” (1890)
310. Sting with Cheb Mami “Desert Rose” (2000)
311. Original Dixieland Jazz Band “Tiger Rag” (1918)
312. Arcade Fire “Intervention” (2007)
313. Rolling Stones “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” (1968)
314. Billy Joel “Goodnight Saigon” (1983)
315. Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach “God Give Me Strength” (1996)
316. Ella Fitzgerald “Blues In the Night” (1961)
317. Frank Sinatra “One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)” (1958)
318. John Mayer “No Such Thing” (2002)
319. Patty Griffin “Heavenly Day” (2007)
320. Little Richard “Tutti Fruti” (1955)
321. Chuck Berry “Promised Land” (1964)
322. The Beatles “She Loves You” (1964)
323. Bob Dylan “Things Have Changed” (2000)
324. Steve Goodman “The Dutchman” (1973)
325. Rod Stewart “Maggie May” (1971)
326. Chuck Berry “Rock and Roll Music” (1957)
327. The Byrds “Eight Miles High” (1966)
328. Tom Rush “The Circle Game” (1968)
329. Sheryl Crow & Johnny Cash “Redemption Day” (2019)
330. Martha & the Vandellas “Heat Wave” (1963)
331. Wilson Pickett “In the Midnight Hour” (1965)
332. Stan Getz w/ Astrud & Joao Gilberto “The Girl from Ipanema” (1964)
333. Lovin’ Spoonful “Summer In the City” (1966)
334. Mahalia Jackson with Duke Ellington & His Orchestra “Come Sunday” (1958)
335. John Coltrane “A Love Supreme, Part 2 (Resolution)” (1964)
336. Aretha Franklin “Chain of Fools” (1967)
337. Benny Goodman & His Orchestra “And the Angels Sing” (1939)
338. Bob Dylan “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall” (1963)
339. The Band “The Weight” (1968)
340. James Taylor “Fire and Rain” (1970)
341. Al Green “Let’s Stay Together” (1971)
342. Jerry Lee Lewis “Great Balls of Fire” (1957)
343. Edwin Hawkins Singers “Oh Happy Day” (1969)
344. Bobby Darin “Mack the Knife” (1959)
345. Peter Gabriel “Biko” (1980)
346. Art Blakey Quintet “A Night In Tunisia” (1954)
347. Joan Baez “We Shall Overcome” (1963)
348. Simon & Garfunkel “My Little Town” (1975)
349. Gene Krupa & His Orchestra featuring Roy Eldridge “Rockin’ Chair” (1941)
350. Duke Ellington & His Orchestra “Caravan” (1937)
351. Brandi Carlile “The Joke” (2017)
352. The Hollies “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother” (1969)
353. Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra w/ Frank Sinatra “I’ll Never Smile Again” (1940)
354. Little Willie John “Fever” (1956)
355. Les Brown & His Orchestra w/ Doris Day “Sentimental Journey” (1945)
356. Ray Charles “I’ve Got a Woman” (1955)
357. Fats Domino “Blueberry Hill” (1956)
358. Bob Marley & the Wailers “No Woman, No Cry” (1976)
359. Golden Gate Quartet “The Sun Didn’t Shine” (1941)
360. Louis Armstrong “Ain’t Misbehavin’” (1929)
361. Count Basie & His Orch. w/ Joe Williams “Every Day (I Have the Blues)” (1955)
362. The Penguins “Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)” (1954)
363. Gene Kelly “Singin’ In the Rain” (1952)
364. The Ink Spots “If I Didn’t Care” (1939)
365. Don Henley “The Boys of Summer” (1984)
366. Cab Calloway & His Orchestra “Minnie the Moocher” (1931)
367. Duke Ellington & His Orchestra “Solitude” (1934)
368. Bruce Springsteen “Brilliant Disguise” (1987)
369. Johnny Otis & His Orchestra “Harlem Nocturne” (1945)
370. Stan Rogers “Northwest Passage” (1981)
371. Kim Carnes “Bette Davis Eyes” (1981)
372. Hank Snow & the Rainbow Ranch Boys “I’m Movin’ On” (1950)
373. The Orioles “It’s Too Soon to Know” (1948)
374. Billy Joel “A Matter of Trust” (1986)
375. Sting “Fortress Around Your Heart” (1985)
376. Blind Willie Johnson “Motherless Children Have a Hard Time” (1927)
377. Public Enemy “Fight the Power” (1989)
378. Crowded House “Don’t Dream It’s Over” (1986)
379. Clarence Williams’ Blue Five “Cake Walking Babies from Home” (1925)
380. Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers “Black Bottom Stomp” (1926)
381. Wynonie Harris “Good Rockin’ Tonight” (1948)
382. The Doors “Light My Fire” (1967)
383. The Mamas & the Papas “California Dreamin’” (1966)
384. Ben Selvin & His Orchestra “Happy Days Are Here Again” (1930)
385. Ma Rainey “See See Rider Blues” (1924)
386. Bert Williams “Nobody” (1906)
387. Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers “Grandpa’s Spells” (1926)
388. Sugar Underwood “The Dew Drop Alley Stomp” (1927)
389. George Jones “The Grand Tour” (1974)
390. Boyz II Men “End of the Road” (1992)
391. Sting “Fields of Gold” (1993)
392. Neil Diamond “Holly Holy” (1969)
393. Rev. Sister Mary Nelson “Judgment” (1927)
394. Rosanne Cash “The Long Way Home” (2014)
395. Harry MacDonough & Olive Kline “They Didn’t Believe Me” (1915)
396. Hank Williams & His Drifting Cowboys “Jambalaya (On the Bayou)” (1952)
397. Lydia Mendoza “Mal Hombre” (1934)
398. Lee Ann Womack “I Hope You Dance” (2000)
399. John Prine “I Remember Everything” (2020)
400. Tommy Johnson “Cool Drink of Water Blues” (1928)
401. Al Jolson “April Showers” (1921)
402. Marian Anderson “Deep River” (1923)
403. Neil Young “Rockin’ In the Free World” (1989)
404. Polk Miller & the Old South Quartette “Jerusalem Mournin’” (1909)
405. Beyonce’ with Jay-Z “Crazy In Love” (2003)
406. R. Kelly “I Believe I Can Fly” (1996)
407. The Young Rascals “Groovin’” (1967)
408. The Drifters “Under the Boardwalk” (1964)
409. Billy Murray “Yankee Doodle Boy” (1904)
410. Billy Murray “Give My Regards to Broadway” (1905)
411. Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys “Wayfaring Stranger” (1958)
412. Austin Coleman, Joe Washington Brown, & Group “My Soul Is a Witness” (1934)
413. Pawlo Humeniuk “Tanec pid Werbamy (Dance Under the Willows)” (1926)
414. Alicia Keys “Fallin’” (2001)
415. Ted Daffan’s Texans “Born to Lose” (1943)
416. Haydn Quartet “Sweet Adeline (You’re the Flower of My Heart)” (1904)
417. Narciso Martinez “Muchacha Bonita” (1937)
418. John Legend “Ordinary People” (2005)
419. Pasquale Feis “Pastorale di Natale” (1917)
420. Henry Mancini “Moon River” (1961)
421. Bob Dylan “Desolation Row” (1965)
422. Rolling Stones “Gimme Shelter” (1969)
423. Bob Dylan “All Along the Watchtower” (1968)
424. Ray Charles “Hit the Road, Jack” (1961)
425. Booker T & the MGs “Green Onions” (1962)
426. Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra “Flying Home” (1942)
427. Faithless “Mass Destruction” (2004)
428. Frank Sinatra “It Was a Very Good Year” (1965)
429. Roy Orbison “Crying” (1961)
430. Roberta Flack “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” (1972)
431. Judy Collins “Send In the Clowns” (1975)
432. Van Morrison “Into the Mystic” (1970)
433. Kacey Musgraves “Slow Burn” (2018)
434. Edwin Starr “War” (1970)
435. Buddy Holly & the Crickets “That’ll Be the Day” (1957)
436. Rolling Stones “Honky Tonk Women” (1969)
437. The Platters “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes” (1958)
438. Bing Crosby “Silent Night, Holy Night” (1935)
439. Sarah Vaughan “Someone to Watch Over Me” (1957)
440. Miles Davis “Concierto de Aranjuez” (1960)
441. Aretha Franklin “Think” (1968)
442. The Who “Baba O’Riley” (1971)
443. Harry Styles “As It Was” (2022)
444. Drive-By Truckers “The Perilous Night” (2017)
445. Little Richard “Good Golly, Miss Molly” (1958)
446. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young “Ohio” (1970)
447. Kingston Trio “Tom Dooley” (1958)
448. Fats Waller “Ain’t Misbehavin’” (1929)
449. Paul Simon “American Tune” (1973)
450. Janis Joplin “Me and Bobby McGee” (1971)
451. Stevie Wonder “Higher Ground” (1973)
452. Elvis Presley “Good Rockin’ Tonight” (1954)
453. Bobby Bland “Stormy Monday Blues” (1962)
454. Glenn Miller & His Orchestra “A String of Pearls” (1942)
455. Charles Mingus & His Orchestra “Hora Decubitis” (1963)
456. Charlie Parker’s Re-Boppers “Billie’s Bounce” (1945)
457. Billie Holiday “Body and Soul” (1940)
458. Bob Seger “Night Moves” (1976)
459. Count Basie & His Orchestra “Jumpin’ At the Woodside” (1938)
460. Bobby Bland “Farther Up the Road” (1957)
461. Vernon Dalhart “The Prisoner’s Song” (1924)
462. Tito Puente & His Orchestra “Oye Como Va” (1962)
463. Bob Dylan “Every Grain of Sand” (1981)
464. Mary Chapin Carpenter “Down at the Twist and Shout” (1991)
465. Johnny Cash “Sunday Morning Comin’ Down” (1970)
466. Little Walter & His Night Cats “Juke” (1952)
467. Duke Ellington & His Orchestra “Black and Tan Fantasy” (1927)
468. Emmylou Harris “Wayfaring Stranger” (1980)
469. John Mellencamp “Small Town” (1985)
470. Dixie Hummingbirds “Amazing Grace” (1946)
471. Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper “Shallow” (2018)
472. Los Lobos “Will the Wolf Survive?” (1985)
473. Los Lobos “One Time, One Night” (1987)
474. Willie Nelson “Blue Eyes Crying In the Rain” (1975)
475. Lyle Lovett “12th of June” (2022)
476. Meade Lux Lewis “Honky Tonk Train Blues” (1927)
477. Evanescence “My Immortal” (2004)
478. Anita Baker “Sweet Love” (1986)
479. Toni Braxton “Breathe Again” (1993)
480. Sons of the Pioneers “Tumbling Tumbleweeds” (1934)
481. Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton “Hound Dog” (1953)
482. Mickey Newbury “An American Trilogy” (1971)
483. The Beatles “Something” (1969)
484. Madonna “Like a Prayer” (1989)
485. Chris Isaak “Wicked Game” (1990)
486. Jimmie Lunceford & His Orchestra “Jazznocracy” (1934)
487. B.B. King “Three O’Clock Blues” (1951)
488. Hank Williams & His Drifting Cowboys “Lovesick Blues” (1949)
489. Jimmie Rodgers “Waiting for a Train” (1928)
490. Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys “Orange Blossom Special” (1941)
491. Judy Collins “Both Sides Now” (1968)
492. Dick Dale & the Del-tones “Misirlou” (1962)
493. Renaissance “Mother Russia” (1974)
494. Queen “Bohemian Rhapsody” (1975)
495. Harry Chapin “Dogtown” (1972)
496. Muddy Waters “Got My Mojo Working” (1956)
497. Billy Murray “Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis” (1904)
498. Andres Huesca con Junto “La Bamba” (1947)
499. Mississippi John Hurt “Stack o’Lee Blues” (1928)
500. Paul Robeson “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” (1926)
501. Robert Johnson “Love In Vain” (1937)
502. Lovin’ Spoonful “Do You Believe In Magic” (1965)
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