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Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Journey et al: Top 100 Songs

Journey et al

Top 100 Songs

left to right: Jonathan Cain, Ross Vallory, Neal Schon, Steve Perry, and Steve Smith

Rock group formed in San Francisco, California (1973-86, 1996, 2001-). Members: Neal Schon (g: 73-86, 96-), Gregg Rolie (v/k: 73-81), Ross Valory (b: 73-83, 96, 08-), Aynsley Dunbar (d: 73-79), George Tickner (g: 73-75), Steve Perry (v: 78-86, 96), Steve Smith (d: 79-83, 96), Jonathan Cain (k: 81-86, 96-), Randy Jackson (b: 86), Michael Baird (d: 86), Steve Augeri (v: 98-06), Deen Castronovo (d: 98-15), Jeff Scott Soto (v: 06-07), Arnel Pineda (v: 07-).

Schon and Rolie had been in Santana together. Schon, Cain, and Castronovo later formed Bad English 87-91). Rolie, Valory, and Smith were in The Storm (91-92). Schon and Castronovo worked in Hardline (92) together.

For a complete list of this act’s DMDB honors, check out the DMDB Music Maker Encyclopedia entry.

Click here to see other acts’ best-of lists.

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Check out the Dave’s Music Database podcast The Best of the Journey, 1978-2022 based on this list. Debut: July 12, 2022, at 7pm CST. Tune in every Tuesday at 7pm for a new episode based on the lists at Dave’s Music Database.

Awards:

Top 100 Songs

Dave’s Music Database lists are determined by song’s appearances on best-of lists, appearances on compilations and live albums by the featured act, and songs’ chart success, sales, radio airplay, streaming, and awards. This list includes Journey-related acts such as Bad English, Steve Perry’s solo work, and The Storm.

DMDB Top 1%:

1. Don’t Stop Believin’ (1981)
2. Open Arms (1981)

DMDB Top 2%:

3. Faithfully (1983)

DMDB Top 5%:

4. When I See You Smile (Bad English, 1989)
5. Who’s Crying Now? (1981)
6. Any Way You Want It (1980)
7. Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) (1983)
8. Lights (1978)
9. Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’ (1979)

DMDB Top 10%:

10. Wheel in the Sky (1978)
11. Oh Sherrie (Steve Perry, 1984)
12. Anytime (1978)
13. You Better Wait (Steve Perry, 1994)
14. Feeling That Way (1978)
15. Be Good to Yourself (1986)
16. Still They Ride (1981)

DMDB Top 20%:

17. Only the Young (1985)
18. I’ll Be Alright without You (1986)
19. The Party’s Over (Hopelessly in Love) (1981)
20. When You Love a Woman (1996)

21. Girl Can’t Help It (1986)
22. Send Her My Love (1983)
23. Don’t Fight It (Steve Perry with Kenny Loggins, 1982)
24. After the Fall (1983)
25. Strung Out (Steve Perry, 1984)
26. Foolish Heart (Steve Perry, 1984)
27. She’s Mine (Steve Perry, 1984)
28. Ask the Lonely (1983)
29. Suzanne (1986)
30. Just the Same Way (1979)

31. Walks Like a Lady (1980)
32. The Price of Love (Bad English, 1989)
33. Stay Awhile (1980)
34. I’ve Got a Lot to Learn About Love (The Storm, 1991)
35. Good Morning Girl (1980)
36. Too Late (1979)
37. Forget Me Not (Bad English, 1989)
38. Possession (Bad English, 1989)
39. Why Can’t This Night Go on Forever (1986)
40. Stone in Love (1981)

Beyond the DMDB Top 20%:

41. Heaven Is a 4 Letter Word (Bad English, 1989)
42. Straight to Your Heart (Bad English, 1991)
43. Message of Love (1996)
44. If He Should Break Your Heart (1996)
45. Only Solutions (1982)
46. Dixie Highway (live, 1981)
47. Natural Thing (1981)
48. Raised on Radio (1986)
49. Mother, Father (1981)
50. No Erasin’ (Steve Perry, 2018)

51. Best of What I Got (Bad English, 1989)
52. All the Way (2001)
53. City of the Angels (1979)
54. Missing You (Steve Perry, 1994)
55. The Eyes of a Woman (1986)
56. Good Times (live, 1978)
57. I Believe (Steve Perry, 1984)
58. After All These Years (2008)
59. Little Girl (1980)
60. Patiently (1978)

61. Chain Reaction (1983)
62. Never Walk Away (2008)
63. Where Were You (1980)
64. Line of Fire (1980)
65. City of Hope (2011)
66. Remember Me (1998)
67. Takin’ Me Down (Hardline, 1992)
68. Higher Place (2001)
69. Escape (1981)
70. Baby, I Believe in You (1996)

71. To Play Some Music (1975)
72. On a Saturday Nite (1976)
73. She Makes Me Feel Alright (1976)
74. Hot Cherie (Hardline, 1992)
75. Liberty (1981)
76. Show Me the Way (The Storm, 1992)
77. Forever in Blue (1996)
78. Someday Soon (1980)
79. Young Hearts Forever (Steve Perry, 1994)
80. If Only for the Moment, Girl (Steve Perry, 1985)

81. We’re Still Here (Steve Perry, 2018)
82. If You Need Me, Call Me (Steve Perry with Alien Project, 1977)
83. Frontiers (1983)
84. Troubled Child (1983)
85. Rubicon (1983)
86. Spaceman (1977)
87. Can’t Tame the Lion (1996)
88. Where Did I Lose Your Love (2008)
89. The Way We Used to Be (2021)
90. The Time Alone with You (Bad English, 1992)

91. You Got the Best of Me (2022)
92. Anything Is Possible (2011)
93. Let It Rain (2022)
94. Of a Lifetime (1975)
95. Positive Touch (1986)
96. Happy to Give (1986)
97. Captured by the Moment (Steve Perry, 1984)
98. It’s Only Love (Steve Perry, 1984)
99. La Raza del Sol (1982)
100. When You’re in Love for the First Time (Steve Perry, 1988)

Resources and Related Links:

DMDB Encyclopedia entry for Journey
DMDB Encyclopedia entry for Steve Perry
DMDB Encyclopedia entry for Bad English
Dave’s Music Database: “Acts’ Profile Pages and Best-of Lists”

First posted 1/22/2013; updated 7/13/2022.

Monday, December 21, 2020

Grammy Hall of Fame: Songs, 1973-2020

Grammy Hall of Fame:

Songs

From the Grammy Hall of Fame website: “The GRAMMY Hall Of Fame was established by the Recording Academy's National Trustees in 1973 to honor recordings of lasting qualitative or historical significance that are at least 25 years old. Inductees are selected annually by a special member committee of eminent and knowledgeable professionals from all branches of the recording arts.”

Dave’s Music Database has listed all the recipients from 1973 to present on two separate pages, one for songs and one for albums. Click here to see albums which have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

Click here to see other awards and Hall of Fame inductees for songs.

Year of Induction: Performer “Song” (year released)

2015: Abba “Dancing Queen” (1976)
1998: Roy Acuff & the Smoky Mountain Boys “Wabash Cannonball” (1938)
2009: Roy Acuff “The Great Speckled Bird” (1938)
2018: Aerosmith “Dream On” (1973)
2019: Aerosmith “Walk This Way” (1975)
1998: Herb Alpert “The Lonely Bull” (1962)
2008: Herb Alpert “A Taste of Honey” (1965)
1999: Marian Anderson “Ave Maria” (1936)
2008: Marian Anderson “He's Got the Whole World in His Hands” (1936)
2009: Marian Anderson “My Country 'Tis of Thee” (1939)
1996: The Andrews Sisters “Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen (Means That You're Grand)” (1938)
2000: The Andrews Sisters “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” (1941)
2016: The Andrews Sisters “Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree with Anyone Else But Me” (1942)
1999: The Animals “The House of the Rising Sun” (1964)
2011: The Animals “We Gotta Get Out of This Place” (1965)
1999: Louis Armstrong “Heebie Jeebies” (1926)
2018: Louis Armstrong “Savoy Blues” (1927)
1974: Louis Armstrong “West End Blues” (1928)
2008: Louis Armstrong “Weather Bird” (1928)
2016: Louis Armstrong “What Did I Do to Be So Black and Blue?” (1929)
2008: Louis Armstrong “St. Louis Blues” (1930)
2009: Louis Armstrong “Stardust” (1931)
2010: Louis Armstrong “Lazy River” (1931)
2005: Louis Armstrong “All of Me” (1932)
2014: Louis Armstrong “Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen” (1938)
2017: Louis Armstrong “When the Saints Go Marching In” (1939)
1997: Louis Armstrong “Mack the Knife” (1956)
2001: Louis Armstrong “Hello Dolly!” (1964)
1999: Louis Armstrong “What a Wonderful World” (1967)
1999: Eddy Arnold “Make the World Go Away” (1965)
2006: Fred Astaire “Fascinating Rhythm” (1926)
2004: Fred Astaire “Night and Day” (1932)
2000: Fred Astaire “Cheek to Cheek” (1935)
2008: Fred Astaire “Top Hat, White Tie, and Tails” (1935)
1998: Fred Astaire “The Way You Look Tonight” (1936)
2005: Fred Astaire “They Can't Take That Away from Me” (1937)
2005: Gene Austin “Bye Bye Blackbird” (1926)
1978: Gene Austin “My Blue Heaven” (1927)
1997: Gene Autry “Back in the Saddle Again” (1939)
2012: Gene Autry “Deep in the Heart of Texas” (1942)
1985: Gene Autry & the Pinafores “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer” (1949)

2007: DeFord Bailey “Pan American Blues” (1927)
2011: Mildred Bailey “Rockin' Chair” (1937)
1998: Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra “Cherokee” (1939)
2008: Barry, John “The James Bond Theme” (1962)
1979: Count Basie “One O’Clock Jump” (1937)
2005: Count Basie “Lester Leaps In” (1939)
1992: Count Basie “Everyday I Have the Blues” (1955)
1985: Count Basie “April in Paris” (1956)
2015: Fontella Bass “Rescue Me” (1965)
2008: Shirley Bassey “Goldfinger “( 1964)
2008: Nora Bayes “Over There” (1917)
1999: The Beach Boys “In My Room” (1963)
2017: The Beach Boys “I Get Around” (1964)
2010: The Beach Boys “California Girls” (1965)
1994: The Beach Boys “Good Vibrations” (1966)
1998: The Beatles “I Want to Hold Your Hand” (1963)
1997: The Beatles “Yesterday” (1965)
2008: The Beatles “Help!” (1965)
2002: The Beatles “Eleanor Rigby” (1966)
1999: The Beatles “Strawberry Fields Forever” (1967)
2011: The Beatles “Penny Lane” (1967)
2001: The Beatles “Hey Jude” (1968)
2004: The Beatles “Let It Be” (1970)
2011: Sidney Bechet “Summertime” (1939)
1980: Bix Beiderbecke “In a Mist” (1928)
2009: Harry Belafonte “Banana Boat (Day-O)” (1957)
2008: Vincenzo Bellini “Casta Diva (from "Norma")” (1929)
1994: Tony Bennett “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” (1962)
2009: Tony Bennett “For Once in My Life” (1967)
1975: Bunny Berigan & His Orchestra “I Can't Get Started” (1938)
1988: Chuck Berry “Maybellene” (1955)
1990: Chuck Berry “Roll Over Beethoven” (1956)
1999: Chuck Berry “Johnny B. Goode” (1958)
1999: Big Maybelle “Candy” (1953)
1998: Art Blakey “Moanin'“ (1958)
1999: Bobby “Blue” Bland “Turn on Your Love Light” (1961)
2016: Blondie “Heart of Glass” (1978)
1999: Booker T. & the MG’s “Green Onions” (1962)
2008: Boston Pops Orchestra “Jalousie (Jealousy)” (1935)
2018: David Bowie “Space Oddity” (1969)
2017: David Bowie “Changes” (1971)
2011: The Box Tops “The Letter” (1967)
1998: Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats “Rocket 88” (1951)
1999: Fanny Brice “My Man (Mon Homme)” (1922)
2012: Big Bill Broonzy “Key to the Highway” (1941)
2001: James Brown “Please Please Please” (1956)
1999: James Brown “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag” (1965)
2013: James Brown “I Got You (I Feel Good)” (1965)
2010: James Brown “It's a Man's Man's Man's World” (1966)
2016: James Brown “Cold Sweat” (1967)
2014: James Brown “Get Up I Feel Like Being Like a Sex Machine” (1970)
1998: Les Brown with Doris Day “Sentimental Journey” (1945)
1996: Dave Brubeck Quartet “Take Five “( 1959)
2000: Buffalo Springfield “For What It’s Worth” (1966)
2016: Buffett, Jimmy “Margaritaville” (1977)
1999: The Paul Butterfield Blues Band “East-West” (1966)
1998: The Byrds “Mr. Tambourine Man” (1965)
2001: The Byrds “Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)” (1965)
1999: The Byrds “Eight Miles High” (1966)

1999: Cab Calloway “Minnie the Moocher (The Ho De Ho Song)” (1931)
2017: Cab Calloway “Hep! Hep! the Jumpin' Jive” (1939)
2004: Glen Campbell “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” (1967)
2008: Glen Campbell “Gentle on My Mind” (1967)
2000: Glen Campbell “Wichita Lineman” (1968)
2007: Gus Cannon’s Jug Stompers “Walk Right In” (1929)
1995: Hoagy Carmichael “Stardust” (1927)
2014: Hoagy Carmichael “Georgia on My Mind” (1930)
1998: Carpenters “We've Only Just Begun” (1970)
2000: Carpenters “They Long to Be Close to You “( 1970)
2016: James Carr “The Dark End of the Street” (1967)
2012: Leroy Carr “How Long Blues” (1928)
1998: Fiddlin’ John Carson “Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane” (1923)
1999: The Carter Family “Wildwood Flower” (1928)
2006: The Carter Family “Keep on the Sunny Side” (1928)
1998: The Carter Family “Can the Circle Be Unbroken (Bye and Bye)” (1935)
1993: Enrico Caruso “Celeste Aida (Heavenly Aida)” (1904)
1975: Enrico Caruso “Pagliacci, Act I: Vesti La Giubba (On with the Play) (new version)” (1907)
2001: Johnny Cash “Folsom Prison Blues” (1955)
1998: Johnny Cash “I Walk the Line” (1956)
1999: Johnny Cash “Ring of Fire” (1963)
1999: The Cats and the Fiddle “I Miss You So” (1939)
1999: Feodor Chaliapin (performer) “Song of the Flea” (1926)
2001: The Champs “Tequila” (1958)
2002: Gene Chandler “Duke of Earl” (1962)
2011: Harry Chapin “Cat's in the Cradle” (1974)
1990: Ray Charles “I Gotta Woman” (1955)
2000: Ray Charles “What’d I Say” (1959)
1993: Ray Charles “Georgia on My Mind” (1960)
2013: Ray Charles “Hit the Road Jack” (1961)
2001: Ray Charles “I Can’t Stop Loving You” (1962)
2005: Ray Charles “America the Beautiful” (1972)
2000: Chubby Checker “The Twist” (1960)
2017: Cher “ I Got You Babe” (1965)
2015: Chic “Le Freak” (1978)
2002: The Chordettes “Mr. Sandman” (1954)
2008: The Chords “Sh-Boom” (1954)
2020: The Chuck Wagon Gang “I’ll Fly Away” (1948)
2003: Eric Clapton “I Shot the Sheriff” (1974)
2003: Petula Clark “Downtown” (1964)
2011: Jimmy Cliff “Many Rivers to Cross” (1969)
2020: Patsy Cline “Walkin’ After Midnight” (1957)
1992: Patsy Cline “Crazy” (1961)
2001: Patsy Cline “I Fall to Pieces” (1961)
1999: Rosemary Clooney “Hey There” (1954)
1999: The Coasters “Yakety Yak” (1958)
1999: Eddie Cochran “Summertime Blues” (1958)
2001: Joe Cocker “With a Little Help from My Friends” (1968)
2016: Joe Cocker “You Are So Beautiful” (1974)
2019: Leonard Cohen “Hallelujah” (1984)
1998: Nat “King” Cole “Straighten Up and Fly Right” (1944)
1974: Nat “King” Cole “The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)” (1946)
2002: Nat “King” Cole “Get Your Kicks on Route 66” (1946)
2018: Nat “King” Cole “I Love You for Sentimental Reasons” (1946)
1999: Nat “King” Cole “Nature Boy” (1948)
1992: Nat “King” Cole “Mona Lisa” (1950)
2000: Nat “King” Cole “Unforgettable” (1951)
2005: Arthur Collins and Byron Harlan “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” (1911)
2003: Judy Collins “Both Sides Now” (1968)
2000: John Coltrane “Lush Life” (1963)
1998: Perry Como “Till the End of Time” (1945)
1998: Sam Cooke “You Send Me” (1957)
2014: Sam Cooke “Wonderful World” (1960)
2018: Sam Cooke “Bring It on Home to Me” (1962)
2000: Sam Cooke “A Change Is Gonna Come” (1964)
2015: Alice Cooper “School's Out” (1972)
2009: Aaron Copland “Fanfare for the Common Man” (1943)
2009: Aaron Copland “Appalachian Spring” (1944)
1999: Chick Corea “Now He Sings, Now He Sobs” (1968)
2021: Elizabeth Cotton “Freight Train” (1905)
2013: Francis Craig with Bob Lamm “Near You” (1947)
2004: Floyd Cramer “Last Date” (1960)
1998: Creedence Clearwater Revival “Proud Mary” (1969)
2014: Creedence Clearwater Revival “Fortunate Son” (1969)
2005: Bing Crosby “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” (1932)
2004: Bing Crosby “Pennies from Heaven” (1936)
1974: Bing Crosby with the Ken Darby Singers & the John Scott Trotter Orchestra “White Christmas” (1942)
1998: Bing Crosby “Don't Fence Me In” (1944)
2002: Bing Crosby “Swinging on a Star” (1944)
2009: Crosby, Stills & Nash with Neil Young “Ohio” (1970)
2018: Arthur Crudup “That's All Right, Mama” (1946)
2004: The Crystals “He's a Rebel” (1962)

2020: Dick Dale & the Del-Tones “Misirlou” (1962)
2022: Vernon Dalhart “The Wreck of the Old 97” (1924)
1998: Vernon Dalhart “The Prisoner’s Song” (1925)
1999: Bobby Darin “Mack the Knife” (1959)
1999: Jimmie Davis “You Are My Sunshine” (1940)
2002: Sammy Davis, Jr. “What Kind of Fool Am I?” (1962)
1999: Spencer Davis Group “Gimme Some Lovin'“ (1966)
1999: Doris Day “Secret Love” (1954)
2012: Doris Day “Whatever Will Be Will Be (Que Sera Sera)” (1956)
2017: Deep Purple “Smoke on the Water” (1972)
2021: Édouard-Léon Scott De Martinville “Au Clair De La Lune” (1860)
2007: Desmond Dekker “The Israelites” (1969)
2007: The Delmore Brothers “Blues Stay Away from Me” (1949)
1998: John Denver “Take Me Home, Country Roads “( 1971)
1998: Derek & the Dominos “Layla” (1970)
2008: Jackie DeShannon “What the World Needs Now Is Love” (1965)
2000: Al Dexter & His Troopers “Pistol Packin' Mama” (1943)
2020: Neil Diamond “Sweet Caroline” (1969)
1998: Bo Diddley “Bo Diddley” (1955)
2020: Bo Diddley “I’m a Man” (1955)
2010: Bo Diddley “Who Do You Love?” (1956)
1999: Dion “I Wonder Why” (1958)
2002: Dion “Runaround Sue” (1961)
2017: Dion “The Wanderer” (1961)
2000: The Dixie Hummingbirds “Amazing Grace” (1946)
1998: Bill Doggett “Honky Tonk (Parts 1 & 2)” (1956)
2016: Fats Domino “The Fat Man” (1950)
2002: Fats Domino “Ain't That a Shame” (1955)
1987: Fats Domino “Blueberry Hill” (1956)
2019: Fats Domino “I’m Walkin’” (1957)
2011: Fats Domino “Walking to New Orleans” (1960)
2015: The Dominoes “Sixty Minute Man” (1951)
1998: The Doors “Light My Fire” (1967)
2010: The Doors “Riders on the Storm” (1971)
2009: Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra “Brazil (Aquarela Do Brasil)” (1942)
1998: Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra “I'm Gettin' Sentimental Over You” (1936)
1998: Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra “Marie” (1937)
1982: Tommy Dorsey with Frank Sinatra “I’ll Never Smile Again” (1940)
1999: The Drifters “Money Honey” (1953)
1998: The Drifters“There Goes My Baby” (1959)
2001: The Drifters “Save the Last Dance for Me” (1960)
2013: The Drifters “On Broadway” (1963)
2014: The Drifters “Under the Boardwalk” (1964)
1994: Bob Dylan “Blowin' in the Wind” (1963)
2013: Bob Dylan“The Times They Are A-Changin’” (1964)
1998: Bob Dylan “Like a Rolling Stone” (1965)
2002: Bob Dylan “Mr. Tamborine Man” (1965)

2000: Eagles “Desperado” (1973)
2008: Eagles “Hotel California” (1976)
2008: Earth, Wind & Fire “Shining Star” (1975)
1999: Billy Eckstine “I Apologize” (1951)
2018: Thomas Alva Edison “Mary Had a Little Lamb” (1878)
2002: Cliff Edwards “When You Wish Upon a Star” (1940)
1981: Duke Ellington “Black and Tan Fantasy” (1927)
1975: Duke Ellington “Mood Indigo” (1931)
2008: Duke Ellington “It Don't Mean a Thing if It Ain't Got That Swing” (1932)
2007: Duke Ellington “Cocktails for Two” (1934)
2009: Duke Ellington “Caravan” (1937)
2010: Duke Ellington “Don't Get Around Much Anymore” (1940)
2011: Duke Ellington “Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me” (1940)
2011: Duke Ellington “Ko-Ko” (1940)
1976: Duke Ellington “Take the ‘A’ Train” (1941)
1990: Duke Ellington “Black, Brown and Beige” (1943)
1999: Duke Ellington “Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue” (1956)
2005: Ruth Etting “Love Me or Leave Me” (1929)
1999: Ruth Etting “Ten Cents a Dance” (1930)
2020: Eurythmics “Sweet Dreams Are Made of This” (1983)
1998: The Everly Brothers “Bye Bye Love” (1957)
2017: The Everly Brothers “Wake Up Little Susie” (1957)
2004: The Everly Brothers “All I Have to Do Is Dream” (1958)

2000: Percy Faith “A Summer Place (Theme from)” (1960)
2013: Joseph Falcon “Allons a Lafayette” (1928)
2010: Jose Feliciano “Feliz Navidad” (1970)
2012: Freddy Fender “Wasted Days and Wasted Nights” (1975)
2003: The Fifth Dimension “Up Up and Away” (1967)
2004: The Fifth Dimension “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In” (1969)
2015: Fisk University Jubilee Quartet “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” (1910)
1986: Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb & His Orchestra “A-Tisket, A-Tasket” (1938)
2002: Ella Fitzgerald “How High the Moon” (1960)
1998: The Five Satins “In the Still of the Nite (I’ll Remember)” (1956)
1999: Roberta Flack “Killing Me Softly with His Song” (1973)
2003: The Flamingos “I Only Have Eyes for You” (1959)
1999: Flatt & Scruggs “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” (1950)
1998: Tennessee Ernie Ford “Sixteen Tons” (1955)
2006: Jimmy Forest “Night Train” (1952)
2015: The Four Seasons “Big Girls Don’t Cry” (1962)
1998: Four Tops “Reach Out (I’ll Be There)” (1966)
1998: Aretha Franklin “Respect” (1967)
1999: Aretha Franklin “You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman” (1967)
2001: Aretha Franklin “Chain of Fools” (1967)
1999: Lefty Frizzell “If You've Got the Money, I've Got the Time” (1950)
2015: The Bobby Fuller Four “I Fought the Law” (1966)

2013: Carols Gardel “El Dia Que Me Quieras” (1935)
1998: Judy Garland “You Made Me Love You (Dear Mr. Gable)” (1937)
1981: Judy Garland “Over the Rainbow” (1939)
2010: Judy Garland “For Me and My Gal” (1942)
1991: Erroll Garner Trio “Misty” (1954)
1999: Marvin Gaye “Ain't No Mountain High Enough” (1967)
1998: Marvin Gaye “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” (1968)
2002: Marvin Gaye “Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)” (1971)
2012: Gloria Gaynor “I Will Survive” (1978)
1999: Bobbie Gentry “Ode to Billie Joe” (1967)
1997: George Gershwin “An American in Paris” (1929)
2000: Stan Getz “Desafinado” (1962)
2000: Stan Getz “The Girl from Ipanema” (1964)
2000: Joao Gilberto “Chega de Saudade (No More Blues)” (1958)
2000: Dizzy Gillespie “Groovin' High” (1945)
2004: Dizzy Gillespie “A Night in Tunisia” (1946)
1999: Dizzy Gillespie “Manteca” (1948)
1998: Benny Goodman “Moon Glow” (1934)
2008: Benny Goodman “King Porter Stomp” (1935)
1982: Benny Goodman “Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)” (1938)
1987: Benny Goodman “And the Angels Sing” (1939)
2008: Benny Goodman “Seven Come Eleven” (1940)
2017: Lesley Gore “You Don't Own Me” (1963)
2012: Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five “The Message” (1982)
1999: Al Green “Let’s Stay Together” (1971)
2011: Al Green “Take Me to the River” (1974)
2002: Arlo Guthrie “Alice's Restaurant” (1967)
2017: Arlo Guthrie “City of New Orleans” (1972)
1989: Woody Guthrie “This Land Is Your Land” (1944)

1999: Merle Haggard “Mama Tried” (1968)
2017: Merle Haggard “Okie from Muskogee” (1969)
1982: Bill Haley & His Comets “We’re Gonna Rock Around the Clock” (1954)
1996: Lionel Hampton “Flying Home” (1940)
2019: W.C. Handy “St. Louis Blues” (1914)
1999: The Harmonicats “Peg O’ My Heart” (1947)
2008: Slim Harpo “I'm a King Bee” (1957)
2009: Wynonie Harris “Good Rockin' Tonight” (1948)
2001: Wilbert Harrison “Kansas City” (1959)
1974: Coleman Hawkins “Body and Soul” (1940)
1999: Edwin Hawkins Singers “Oh Happy Day” (1969)
1999: Isaac Hayes “Shaft (Theme from)” (1971)
2021: Fletcher Henderson “Copenhagen” (1924)
2000: The Jimi Hendrix Experience “Purple Haze” (1967)
2001: The Jimi Hendrix Experience “All Along the Watchtower” (1968)
2009: Jimi Hendrix “The Star Spangled Banner (live)” (1969)
2002: Woody Herman “At the Woodchoppers’ Ball” (1939)
2000: Woody Herman “Early Autumn” (1947)
1984: Woody Herman “Four Brothers” (1948)
2018: Billie Holiday “My Man (Mon Homme)” (1938)
1978: Billie Holiday “Strange Fruit” (1939)
2005: Billie Holiday “Embraceable You” (1944)
1989: Billie Holiday “Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)” (1945)
2010: Billie Holiday “Crazy He Calls Me” (1949)
2021: Billie Holiday “Solitude” (1952)
1998: Buddy Holly & the Crickets “That’ll Be the Day” (1957)
1999: Buddy Holly & the Crickets “Peggy Sue” (1957)
1999: John Lee Hooker “Boogie Chillen'“ (1949)
2016: John Lee Hooker “Boom Boom” (1962)
2005: Bob Hope “Thanks for the Memory” (1939)
2000: Lena Horne “Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time)” (1942)
2002: Johnny Horton “The Battle of New Orleans” (1959)
2013: Son House “My Black Mama” (1930)
2018: Whitney Houston “I Will Always Love You” (1992)
1999: Howlin' Wolf “Smokestack Lightning” (1956)
2011: Mississippi John Hurt “Frankie” (1928)
2017: Mississippi John Hurt “Stack O' Lee Blues” (1928)
1984: Walter Huston “September Song” (1939)

2002: Janis Ian “Society's Child (Baby, I've Been Thinking)” (1967)
2008: Janis Ian “At Seventeen” (1975)
1998: The Impressions “People Get Ready” (1965)
1987: The Ink Spots “If I Didn't Care” (1939)
1999: The Isley Brothers “Shout (Parts 1 and 2)” (1959)
2010: The Isley Brothers “Twist and Shout” (1962)

1999: The Jackson 5 “I Want You Back” (1969)
2011: The Jackson 5 “I’ll Be There” (1970)
2017: The Jackson 5 “ABC” (1970)
1998: Mahalia Jackson “Move on Up a Little Higher” (1948)
2010: Mahalia Jackson “His Eye Is on the Sparrow” (1951)
2012: Mahalia Jackson “Take My Hand, Precious Lord” (1956)
2008: Little Walter Jacobs “Juke” (1952)
1998: Emore James “I Believe I'll Dust My Broom” (1952)
2008: Etta James “The Wallflower (Roll with Me Henry)” (1955)
1999: Etta James “At Last” (1961)
2020: Skip James “Devil Got My Woman” (1931)
2008: Jan & Dean “Dead Man's Curve” (1964)
2019: El Jarocho “La Bamba” (1939)
1998: Jefferson Airplane “White Rabbit” (1967)
1999: Blind Lemon Jefferson “Matchbox Blues” (1927)
2016: Joan Jett & the Blackhearts “I Love Rock and Roll” (1981)
2013: Billy Joel “Piano Man” (1973)
2004: Billy Joel “Just the Way You Are” (1977)
1998: Elton John “Your Song” (1970)
2020: Elton John “Tiny Dancer” (2020)
2011: Blind Willie Johnson “Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground” (1927)
2020: James P. Johnson “Carolina Shout” (1922)
1998: Robert Johnson “Crossroads (aka "Cross Road Blues")” (1936)
2014: Robert Johnson “Sweet Home Chicago” (1936)
2010: Al Jolson “You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)” (1913)
2004: Al Jolson “Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody” (1918)
1998: Al Jolson “Swanee” (1920)
2005: Al Jolson “California Here I Come” (1924)
2002: Al Jolson “Sonny Boy” (1928)
2011: Al Jolson “My Mammy” (1928)
1999: George Jones “She Thinks I Still Care” (1962)
2007: George Jones “He Stopped Loving Her Today” (1980)
2007: Isham Jones “It Had to Be You” (1924)
1995: Spike Jones & His City Slickers “Cocktails for Two” (1945)
2007: Spike Jones & His City Slickers “All I Want for Christmas Is My Tooth Front Teeth” (1948)
1999: Janis Joplin “Piece of My Heart” (1968)
2002: Janis Joplin “Me and Bobby McGee” (1971)
1998: Louis Jordan “Caldonia” (1945)
2008: Louis Jordan “Choo Choo Ch'Boogie” (1946)
2009: Louis Jordan “Let the Good Times Roll” (1946)
2013: Louis Jordan “Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens” (1946)
2021: Journey “Don’t Stop Believin’” (1981)
1998: Bill Justis “Raunchy” (1957)

2009: Helen Kane “I Wanna Be Loved by You” (1928)
2006: Anton Karas “The Third Man Theme” (1950)
1999: Gene Kelly “Singin' in the Rain” (1952)
1985: Stan Kenton “Artistry in Rhythm” (1944)
2014: B.B. King “Three O'Clock Blues” (1951)
2004: B.B. King “Everyday I Have the Blues” (1955)
1998: B.B. King “The Thrill Is Gone” (1969)
2002: Ben E. King “Spanish Harlem” (1960)
1998: Ben E. King “Stand by Me” (1961)
2001: Carole King “You’ve Got a Friend” (1971)
2003: Carole King “It's Too Late” (1971)
1999: Freddie King “Hideaway” (1961)
1999: The Kingsmen “Louie Louie” (1963)
1998: The Kingston Trio “Tom Dooley” (1958)
1999: The Kinks “You Really Got Me” (1964)
2018: Gladys Knight & the Pips “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” (1967)
1999: Gladys Knight & the Pips “Midnight Train to Georgia” (1973)
2016: Kool & the Gang “Celebration” (1980)

2003: Patti LaBelle “Lady Marmalade” (1974)
1998: Frankie Laine “That's My Desire” (1947)
2008: Gertrude Lawrence “Someone to Watch Over Me” (1927)
2007: Led Zeppelin “Whole Lotta Love” (1969)
2003: Led Zeppelin “Stairway to Heaven” (1971)
2002: Huddie “Leadbelly” Ledbetter “Goodnight Irene” (1933)
2016: Huddie “Leadbelly” Ledbetter “Rock Island Line” (1942)
2019: Brenda Lee “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” (1958)
1999: Brenda Lee “I'm Sorry” (1960)
1998: Peggy Lee “Fever” (1957)
1999: Peggy Lee “Is That All There Is?” (1969)
1999: John Lennon “Imagine” (1971)
2012: Furry Lewis “Kassie Jones” (1928)
1998: Jerry Lee Lewis “Great Balls of Fire” (1957)
1999: Jerry Lee Lewis “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” (1957)
2009: Ramsey Lewis “The In Crowd” (1965)
2007: Solomon Linda & the Evening Birds “Mbube” (1939)
2016: Little Eva “The Loco-Motion” (1962)
1998: Little Richard “Tutti Frutti” (1955)
1999: Little Richard “Long Tall Sally” (1956)
2002: Little Richard “Lucille” (1957)
2001: Julie London “Cry Me a River” (1955)
2002: The Lovin’ Spoonful “Do You Believe in Magic” (1965)
1999: The Lovin’ Spoonful “Summer in the City” (1966)
1999: Jimmie Lunceford “For Dancers Only” (1937)
2001: Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers “Why Do Fools Fall in Love?” (1956)
1998: Loretta Lynn “Coal Miner's Daughter” (1970)
2008: Lynyrd Skynyrd “Free Bird” (1973)
2009: Lynyrd Skynyrd “Sweet Home Alabama” (1974)

2008: Jeanette MacDonald “Indian Love Call” (1936)
2020: Machito “Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite” (1950)
2007: Uncle Dave Macon “Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy” (1924)
2019: Miriam Makeba “Pata Pata” (1967)
2001: The Mamas & the Papas “California Dreamin'“ (1966)
2008: The Mamas & the Papas “Monday Monday” (1966)
2005: Henry Mancini “Peter Gunn” (1959)
1999: Henry Mancini with Audrey Hepburn “Moon River” (1961)
2003: Henry Mancini “The Days of Wine and Roses” (1963)
1999: Bob Marley & the Marleys “Get Up Stand Up” (1973)
2005: Bob Marley & the Marleys “No Woman, No Cry” (1974)
2007: Bob Marley & the Marleys “One Love/People Get Ready” (1977)
1999: Dean Martin “Everybody Loves Somebody” (1964)
2007: Mary Martin “My Heart Belongs to Daddy” (1939)
2011: The Marvelettes “Please Mr. Postman” (1961)
2018: Hugh Masekela “Grazing in the Grass” (1968)
1998: Johnny Mathis “Chances Are “( 1957)
2008: Johnny Mathis “It's Not for Me to Say” (1957)
2002: Johnny Mathis “Misty” (1959)
2019: Curtis Mayfield “Move on Up” (1970)
1999: Percy Mayfield “Please Send Me Someone to Love” (1950)
1999: John McCormack “Somewhere a Voice Is Calling” (1916)
2002: Don McLean “American Pie” (1971)
2017: Blind Willie McTell “Statesboro Blues” (1928)
2019: Edward Meeker “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” (1908)
2013: The Memphis Jug Band “Stealin' Stealin'“ (1928)
2021: Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe McCoy “When the Levee Breaks” (1929)
1998: Johnny Mercer “Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive” (1945)
2010: Johnny Mercer “Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah” (1946)
2008: Ethel Merman “You're the Top” (1934)
2006: Big Maceo Merriweather “Worried Life Blues” (1941)
2011: The Meters “Cissy Strut” (1969)
2004: Mickey & Sylvia “Love Is Strange” (1956)
2007: Emmett Miller & His Georgia Crackers “Lovesick Blues” (1928)
1983: Glenn Miller “In the Mood” (1939)
1991: Glenn Miller “Moonlight Serenade” (1939)
1996: Glenn Miller with Tex Beneke & the Four Modernaires…Chattanooga Choo Choo (1941)
1998: Roger Miller “Dang Me” (1964)
1999: Roger Miller “King of the Road” (1965)
1998: The Mills Brothers “Paper Doll” (1942)
2017: The Mills Brothers “You Always Hurt the One You Love” (1944)
2006: The Miracles “Shop Around” (1960)
1998: The Miracles “You've Really Got a Hold on Me” (1962)
2007: The Miracles “The Tracks of My Tears” (1965)
2002: The Miracles “The Tears of a Clown” (1970)
2008: The Mississippi Sheiks “Sitting on Top of the World” (1930)
1993: Thelonious Monk “Round Midnight” (1947)
2009: Bill Monroe “Mule Skinner Blues” (1940)
1998: Bill Monroe “Blue Moon of Kentucky” (1947)
2007: Patsy Montana & the Prairie Ramblers “I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart” (1936)
1999: The Moody Blues “Nights in White Satin” (1967)
2001: James Moody “Moody's Mood for Love” (1952)
2002: The Moonglows “Sincerely” (1955)
1998: Helen Morgan “Bill” (1928)
1999: Van Morrison & Them “Gloria” (1965)
2007: Van Morrison “Brown-Eyed Girl” (1967)
2010: Jelly Roll Morton “Kansas City Stomp” (1923)
2006: Billy Murray “Yankee Doodle Boy” (1905)
2008: Billy Murray “Give My Regards to Broadway” (1905)

2011: Willie Nelson “On the Road Again” (1980)
2008: Willie Nelson “Always on My Mind” (1982)
2020: Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard “Pancho and Lefty” (1982)
2015: Aaron Neville “Tell It Like It Is” (1966)
1999: Harry Nilsson “Everybody's Talkin'“ (1968)
2017: Nirvana “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (1991)
2010: The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band “Mr. Bojangles” (1970)
2005: Ray Noble “The Very Thought of You” (1934)

2006: The O’Jays “Love Train” (1973)
2016: The O’Jays “For the Love of Money” (1974)
1996: King Oliver “Chimes Blues” (1923)
2010: King Oliver “Dipper Mouth Blues” (1923)
1999: Roy Orbison “Only the Lonely” (1960)
2002: Roy Orbison “Crying” (1961)
1999: Roy Orbison “(Oh) Pretty Woman” (1964)
2006: Original Dixieland Jazz Band “The Darktown Strutters' Ball” (1917)
2008: The Orioles “Crying in the Chapel” (1953)
2013: Buck Owens “Act Naturally” (1963)
1999: Buck Owens “I've Got a Tiger by the Tail” (1965)

1998: Patti Page “Tennessee Waltz” (1950)
2002: Charlie Parker “Billie's Bounce” (1945)
2019: Charlie Parker with Miles Davis & Dizzy Gillespie “Ko-Ko” (1945)
1989: Charlie Parker “Ornithology” (1946)
2014: Charlie Parker “Yardbird Suite” (1946)
2018: Parliament/Funkadelic “Flash Light” (1977)
2019: Dolly Parton “Coat of Many Colors” (1971)
2014: Dolly Parton “Jolene” (1973)
2007: Dolly Parton “I Will Always Love You” (1974)
1999: Charley Patton “Pony Blues” (1929)
2018: Billy Paul “Me and Mrs. Jones” (1972)
1979: Les Paul & Mary Ford “How High the Moon” (1951)
2005: Les Paul & Mary Ford “Vaya Con Dios (May God Be with You)” (1953)
1998: The Penguins “Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)” (1954)
1986: Carl Perkins “Blue Suede Shoes” (1956)
2003: Peter, Paul & Mary “Blowin' in the Wind” (1963)
1998: Edith Piaf “La Vie En Rose” (1950)
1999: Wilson Pickett “In the Midnight Hour” (1965)
2000: Wilson Pickett “Mustang Sally” (1966)
1999: The Platters “Only You (And You Alone)” (1955)
2002: The Platters “The Great Pretender” (1955)
2019: The Platters “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” (1958)
2008: The Police “Roxanne” (1978)
2007: Charlie Poole & His North Carolina Ramblers “Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Blues” (1925)
1999: Bud Powell Trio “Un Poco Loco” (1951)
2005: Dick Powell “Lullaby of Broadway” (1935)
1998: Elvis Presley “That's All Right, Mama” (1954)
1988: Elvis Presley “Hound Dog” (1956)
1995: Elvis Presley “Heartbreak Hotel” (1956)
2002: Elvis Presley “Don’t Be Cruel” (1956)
2017: Elvis Presley “Jailhouse Rock” (1957)
2007: Elvis Presley “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” (1960)
1999: Elvis Presley “Suspicious Minds” (1969)
1999: Ray Price “Crazy Arms” (1956)
1998: Procol Harum “A Whiter Shade of Pale” (1967)
1998: Professor Longhair “Tipitina” (1953)
2018: Public Enemy “Fight the Power” (1989)
2002: Tito Puente “Oye Como Va” (1953)

2004: Queen “Bohemian Rhapsody” (1975)
2009: Queen “We Will Rock You” (1977)
2009: Queen “We Are the Champions” (1977)
1999: Quintette of the Hot Club of France “Djangology” (1935)

2004: Ma Rainey “See See Rider Blues” (1925)
2017: Bonnie Raitt “I Can't Make You Love Me” (1991)
1999: The Rascals “Groovin'“ (1967)
1998: Johnnie Ray “Cry” (1951)
2011: Otis Redding “I've Been Loving You Too Long” (1965)
2015: Otis Redding “Try a Little Tenderness” (1966)
1998: Otis Redding “(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay” (1968)
2020: Blind Alfred Reed “How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live” (1930)
2015: Lou Reed “Walk on the Wild Side” (1972)
1999: Jim Reeves “He'll Have to Go” (1959)
1999: Martha Reeves & the Vandellas “Dancing in the Street” (1964)
2000: Django Reinhardt, “Nuages” (1940)
2017: R.E.M. “Losing My Religion” (1991)
1999: Charlie Rich “Behind Closed Doors” (1973)
2005: Harry Richman “Puttin' on the Ritz” (1930)
1998: The Righteous Brothers “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’” (1964)
2000: The Righteous Brothers “Unchained Melody” (1965)
2019: Jeannie C. Riley “Harper Valley P.T.A.” (1968)
1998: Marty Robbins “El Paso” (1959)
2015: Paul Robeson “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” (1926)
2006: Paul Robeson “Ol’ Man River” (1927)
1985: Jimmie Rodgers “Blue Yodel #1 (T for Texas)” (1928)
2007: Jimmie Rodgers “In the Jailhouse Now” (1928)
2007: Jimmie Rodgers “Blue Yodel #9 (Standing on the Corner)” (1930)
2021: Kenny Rogers “The Gambler” (1978)
2009: Roy Rogers “Happy Trails” (1948)
1998: The Rolling Stones “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” (1965)
2018: The Rolling Stones “Paint It Black” (1966)
2014: The Rolling Stones “Honky Tonk Women” (1969)
2019: Sonny Rollins Quartet featuring John Coltrane “Tenor Madness” (1956)
1999: The Ronettes “Be My Baby” (1963)
2004: David Rose “Holiday for Strings” (1943)
2014: Run-D.M.C. with Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler & Joe Perry “Walk This Way” (1986)
2018: Leon Russell “A Song for You” (1970)

1999: Sam & Dave “Soul Man” (1967)
2009: Sam the Sham & the Pharoahs “Wooly Bully” (1965)
1998: Mongo Santamaria “Watermelon Man” (1963)
2009: Carlo Savina “The Godfather (Love Theme from)” (1972)
1984: Bidu Sayao “Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 - Aria” (1945)
2017: Lalo Schifrin “Mission Impossible” (1968)
2014: Gil Scott-Heron “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” (1970)
1999: Pete Seeger “We Shall Overcome” (1963)
2002: Pete Seeger “Where Have All the Flowers Gone” (1964)
2007: Ben Selvin “Happy Days Are Here Again” (1930)
2002: Del Shannon “Runaway” (1961)
1977: Artie Shaw “Begin the Beguine” (1938)
2001: Artie Shaw “Any Old Time” (1938)
2000: Artie Shaw “Frenesi” (1940)
1988: Artie Shaw “Stardust” (1941)
1999: The Shirelles “Will You Love Me Tomorrow” (1960)
2004: Carly Simon “You're So Vain” (1972)
2004: Simon & Garfunkel “The Sounds of Silence” (1965)
1999: Simon & Garfunkel “Mrs. Robinson” (1968)
1998: Simon & Garfunkel “Bridge Over Troubled Water” (1970)
2000: Nina Simone “I Loves You, Porgy” (1959)
2019: Nina Simone “To Be Young, Gifted, and Black” (1969)
1998: Frank Sinatra “The House I Live In” (1946)
2005: Frank Sinatra “One for My Baby and One More for the Road” (1949)
2004: Frank Sinatra “I've Got the World on a String” (1953)
1998: Frank Sinatra “I've Got You Under My Skin” (1956)
2008: Frank Sinatra “Strangers in the Night” (1966)
2000: Frank Sinatra “My Way” (1969)
2013: Frank Sinatra “New York New York (Theme from)” (1980)
2020: Nancy Sinatra “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’” (1965)
2016: Sir Douglas Quintet “She's About a Mover” (1965)
2008: Sister Sledge “We Are Family” (1979)
1999: Percy Sledge “When a Man Loves a Woman” (1966)
1998: Sly & the Family Stone “Dance to the Music” (1968)
2017: Sly & the Family Stone “Thank You Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin” (1969)
2006: Bessie Smith “Down Hearted Blues” (1923)
1993: Bessie Smith with Louis Armstrong “St. Louis Blues” (1925)
1983: Bessie Smith “Empty Bed Blues” (1928)
1983: Clarence “Pinetop” Smith “Pine Top's Boogie Woogie” (1929)
1982: Kate Smith “God Bless America” (1939)
1994: Mamie Smith “Crazy Blues” (1920)
1998: Sammi Smith “Help Me Make It Through the Night” (1971)
2000: Hank Snow “I'm Moving On” (1950)
2002: The Sons of the Pioneers “Tumbling Tumbleweeds” (1934)
1986: The Sons of the Pioneers “Cool Water” (1941)
1998: John Philip Sousa “The Stars and Stripes Forever” (1897)
2008: Dusty Springfield “The Look of Love” (1967)
1998: Jo Stafford “You Belong to Me” (1952)
2020: The Stanley Brothers & the Clinch Mountain Boys “I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow” (1951)
1999: The Staple Singers “Uncloudy Day” (1956)
2002: The Staple Singers “Respect Yourself” (1971)
1999: The Staple Singers “I'll Take You There” (1972)
1999: Edwin Starr “War” (1970)
1998: Kay Starr “Wheel of Fortune” (1952)
2013: W.H. Stepp “Bonaparte's Retreat” (1937)
2002: Steppenwolf “Born to Be Wild” (1968)
2017: Rod Stewart “Maggie May” (1971)
2013: Ernest Van (Pop) Stoneman “The Titanic” (1925)
1998: Barbra Streisand “People” (1964)
2008: Barbra Streisand “The Way We Were” (1973)
2014: The Sugarhill Gang “Rapper’s Delight” (1979)
1999: The Supremes “Where Did Our Love Go” (1964)
2001: The Supremes “Stop! In the Name of Love” (1965)
1999: The Supremes “You Keep Me Hangin' On” (1966)
2020: The Surfaris “Wipe Out” (1963)
2020: The Swan Silvertones “Oh Mary Don’t You Weep” (1959)

1986: Art Tatum “Tea for Two” (1939)
1998: James Taylor “Fire and Rain” (1970)
2002: James Taylor “You’ve Got a Friend” (1971)
1998: The Temptations “My Girl” (1964)
1999: The Temptations “Papa Was a Rollin' Stone” (1972)
2016: Sister Rosetta Tharpe “This Train” (1939)
2014: Sister Rosetta Tharpe “Strange Things Happening Every Day” (1944)
2014: B.J. Thomas “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head” (1969)
2021: Irma Thomas “Time Is on My Side” (1964)
2002: Rufus Thomas “Walking the Dog” (1963)
1999: Hank Thompson “The Wild Side of Life” (1952)
2013: Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton “Hound Dog” (1953)
2019: The Troggs “Wild Thing” (1966)
1977: Frankie Trumbauer “Singin' the Blues” (1927)
1998: Ernest Tubb “Walking the Floor Over You” (1941)
1995: Sophie Tucker “Some of These Days” (1911)
1998: Big Joe Turner “Shake, Rattle and Roll” (1954)
1999: Ike & Tina Turner “River Deep, Mountain High” (1966)
2003: Ikie & Tina Turner “Proud Mary” (1971)
2012: Tina Turner “What’s Love Got to Do with It?” (1984)
2007: The Turtles “Happy Together” (1967)
1999: Conway Twitty “Hello Darlin’” (1970)

U-V

2021: U.S.A. for Africa “We Are the World” (1985)
2000: Ritchie Valens “La Bamba” (1958)
1998: Sarah Vaughan “If You Could See Me Now” (1946)
2019: Sarah Vaughan “Tenderly” (1947)
2006: The Ventures “Walk Don't Run” (1960)
1997: Victor Symphony Orchestra “An American in Paris” (1929)
2021: Village People “Y.M.C.A.” (1978)
1999: Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps “Be-Bop-A-Lula” (1956)

2002: Junior Walker & the All Stars “Shotgun” (1965)
1991: T-Bone Walker “Call It Stormy Monday” (1947)
1984: Fats Waller “Ain’t Misbehavin’” (1929)
1999: Fats Waller “Honeysuckle Rose” (1935)
2015: Fats Waller “Jitterbug Waltz” (1942)
2014: War “Low Rider” (1975)
2000: Dionne Warwick “Don't Make Me Over” (1962)
1998: Dionne Warwick “Walk on By” (1964)
2008: Dionne Warwick “Alfie” (1967)
1999: Dinah Washington “Teach Me Tonight” (1954)
1998: Dinah Washington “What a Diff'rence a Day Makes” (1959)
2001: Dinah Washington “Unforgettable” (1959)
1998: Ethel Waters “Dinah” (1926)
2007: Ethel Waters “Am I Blue?” (1929)
2003: Ethel Waters “Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time)” (1933)
2010: Muddy Waters “I Feel Like Going Home” (1948)
2000: Muddy Waters “Rollin' Stone” (1950)
1998: Muddy Waters “Hoochie Coochie Man” (1954)
1999: Muddy Waters “Got My Mojo Working” (1957)
2006: Doc Watson “Black Mountain Rag” (1964)
2010: Weather Report “Birdland” (1977)
2006: The Weavers “Goodnight Irene” (1950)
1998: Kitty Wells “It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels” (1952)
1999: Mary Wells “My Guy” (1964)
2012: Bukka White “Fixin' to Die” (1940)
1998: Paul Whiteman “Whispering” (1920)
1974: Paul Whiteman with George Gershwin “Rhapsody in Blue” (1924)
2012: Paul Whtieman “Anything Goes” (1934)
1999: The Who “My Generation” (1965)
2018: Andy Williams “Moon River” (1962)
1981: Bert Williams “Nobody” (1906)
2015: Hank Williams “Honky Tonkin’” (1948)
1999: Hank Williams liams, Hank “I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry” (1949)
2011: Hank Williams “Lovesick Blues” (1949)
2001: Hank Williams “Hey Good Lookin’” (1951)
2002: Hank Williams “Jambalaya (On the Bayou)” (1952)
1983: Hank Williams “Your Cheatin’ Heart” (1953)
2011: Bob Wills “Steel Guitar Rag” (1936)
2015: Bob Wills “San Antonio Rose” (1939)
1998: Bob Wills “New San Antonio Rose” (1940)
2010: Dooley Wilson “As Time Goes By” (1942)
1999: Jackie Wilson “Lonely Teardrops” (1958)
1999: Jackie Wilson “Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher and Higher” (1967)
1999: Bill Withers “Ain't No Sunshine” (1971)
2007: Bill Withers “Lean on Me” (1972)
1998: Stevie Wonder “Superstition” (1972)
2002: Stevie Wonder “You Are the Sunshine of My Life” (1972)
2019: Link Wray & His Men “Rumble” (1958)
2021: Betty Wright “Clean Up Woman” (1971)
1999: Tammy Wynette “Stand by Your Man” (1968)

X-Y-Z

1999: Frank Yankovic & His Yanks “Just Because” (1948)
2000: Faron Young “Hello Walls” (1961)
1999: Lester Young “Just You, Just Me” (1944)
2016: The Zombies “She's Not There” (1964)

Resources/Related Links:

Dave’s Music Database: “Grammy Hall of Fame: Albums”
Dave’s Music Database: other awards and Hall of Fame inductees for songs
Grammy Hall of Fame (official site with all albums and songs listed alphabetically by the title of the work)
Grammy.com (12/21/2020). “GRAMMY Hall of Fame Welcomes 2021 Inductions”

First posted 1/24/2019; last updated 12/21/2020.

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Journey: A Retrospective, 1975-1996

Journey

A Retrospective: 1975-1996

left to right: Jonathan Cain, Ross Vallory, Neal Schon, Steve Perry, and Steve Smith

Overview:

Journey started in 1973 when guitarist Neal Schon and keyboardist Gregg Rolie, formerly of Santana, formed the group. After three albums focused more on progressive rock and instrumentals, the group developed a more mainstream-rock sound with the addition of Steve Perry on vocals. The group saw immediate results on 1978’s Infinity, a million seller within a year. 1979’s Evolution and 1980’s Departure brought similar success. Those three albums produced classic rock favorites like Lights, Wheel in the Sky, Any Way You Want It, and Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’.

The 1981-83 lineup of Schon, Perry, bassist Ross Valory, drummer Steve Smith, and keyboardist Jonathan Cain gave the group its greatest success. 1981’s Escape produced three top-10 hits, sold 10 million copies, and gave Journey its only #1 album. 1983’s Frontiers gave the group a #2, six-time platinum album with another top 10 hit.

Schon, Perry, and Cain returned in 1986 for another top-10, platinum album in Raised on Radio. The group then went on hiatus before returning a decade later with 1996’s Trial by Fire.

The Players:

Neal Schon (guitar, backing vocals: 1973-96)
Greg Rolie (keyboards, vocals: 1973-80)
George Tickner (rhythm guitar, backing vocals: 1973-75)
Ross Valory (bass, backing vocals, 1973-83, 1996)
Anysley Dunbar (drums, percussion 1974-78)
Steve Perry (vocals: 1977-96)
Steve Smith (drums: 1979-96)
Jonathan Cain (keyboards, backing vocals, rhythm guitar: 1980-96)
Randy Jackson (bass: 1986)

On the Web:

Lists:

Journey et al: Top 100 Songs

Sales:

Singles: 2.5 million
Albums: 46 million US, 75 million international

Awards:

The Studio Albums:

Hover over an album cover to see its title and year of release. Click on the album to go to its dedicated DMDB page.

Compilations/Live Albums:

^C Captured (recorded live 1980, released 1981)
^GL Greatest Hits Live (recorded live 1981-1983, released 1998)
^G1 Greatest Hits (1978-87, released 1988)
^T3 Time (box set: 1975-1986, released 1992)
^ES The Essential (1978-1996, released 2001)
^G2 Greatest Hits 2 (1978-1996, released 2011)

Under each album snapshot, songs featured on the anthologies are noted. If the song charted, the date of the song’s release or first chart appearance and its chart peaks are noted in parentheses. Click for codes to singles charts.

Journey (1975):

Of a Lifetime (1975, --) ^T3
Kohoutek (instrumental) ^T3

Journey, whose name came from a radio contest, began as an offshoot of Santana when guitarist Neal Schon and keyboardist/vocalist Gregg Rolie jumped ship to form a new band in 1973. Aynsley Dunbar, who replaced original drummer Prairie Prince, also brought an impressive resume, having worked with John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, the Jeff Beck Group, and Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention. Rounding out the band were bassist Ross Valory and guitarist George Tickner. At this point, Journey focused more on the instrumental abilities of its players as they honed a sound that mixed jazz and progressive rock.

Look into the Future (1976):

I’m Gonna Leave You ^T3

The band lost rhythm guitarist George Tickner, but maintained the rest of the lineup and a similar sound for their sophomore outing.

Next (1977):

Nickel and Dime ^T3

This was the finale for Journey’s more progressive rock sound before they moved to a more radio-friendly, arena-rock sound.

Infinity (1978):

Wheel in the Sky (4/8/78, 57 US, 45 CN) ^{C,GL,G1,T3,ES}
Lights (8/19/78, 68 US, 30 AC, 74 CN, airplay: 1 million) ^{C,GL,G1,T3,ES}
Anytime (7/1/78, 83 US) ^C,TS,ES,G2
Feeling That Way ^C,G2
La Do Da ^C
Patiently ^T3,ES,G2
Somethin’ to Hide ^ES

Steve Perry’s first album with Journey marked the turn of the tides. Their first three albums had been more progressive-rock and jazz-leaning affairs, but with Infinity the band had their sites set on the classic rock world. The album sold three million copies. None of Journey’s first three albums even hit gold status.

Evolution (1979):

Just the Same Way (4/7/79, 58 US, 80 CN) ^C,T3,ES,G2
Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’ (7/21/79, 16 US, 12 CN, sales: ½ million) ^{C,GL,G1,T3,ES}
Too Late (1/12/80, 70 US) ^C,T3
Majestic ^C,T3
Do You Recall ^C
Sweet and Simple ^T3

Like its predecessor, Evolution sold three million copies. This time, however, the band also landed its first top-40 hit.

Departure (1980):

Any Way You Want It (3/1/80, 23 US, 50 CN) ^{C,GL,G1,T3,ES}
Walks Like a Lady (5/24/80, 32 US, 31 CN) ^C,T3,G2
Good Morning Girl (8/23/80, 55 US) ^T3,ES,G2
Stay Awhile (8/23/80, 55 US) ^C,GL,T3,G2
Line of Fire ^C,GL,T3,ES
Where Were You ^C,T3
Someday Soon ^T3
Homemade Love ^T3

Having built a loyal fan base with Infinity and Evolution, Journey were now headed for the big leagues. Like the two albums before it, Departure sold three million copies. This time, however, the band would crack the top-ten of the album chart.

Dream After Dream (soundtrack, 1980):

Little Girl ^T3,G2

Despite release during the height of Journey’s powers, this soundtrack to the Japanese fantasy film Yume, Yume No Ato, garnered almost no attention. That was primarily because the album was dominated by instrumental throwbacks to the band’s earlier, pre-Infinity progressive rock/jazz days. Still, Little Girl, one of the few songs with Steve Perry vocals on it, should have mustered a little more curiosity among the Journey faithful.

Captured

Journey

Released: January 30, 1981

Recorded: August and October 1980

Peak: 9 US, -- UK, 9 CN, -- AU, 1⁴ DF

Sales (in millions): 2.0 US, -- UK, 3.0 world (includes US and UK)

Genre: classic rock

Tracks: (1) Majestic (2) Where Were You (3) Just the Same Way (4) Line of Fire (5) Lights (6) Stay Awhile (7) Too Late (8) Dixie Highway (9) Feeling That Way (10) Anytime (11) Do You Recall (12) Walks Like a Lady (13) La Do Da (14) Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’ (15) Wheel in the Sky (16) Any Way You Want It (17) The Party’s Over (Hopelessly in Love)

Total Running Time: 71:18

Rating:

3.988 out of 5.00 (average of 20 ratings)

Awards: (Click on award to learn more).

About Captured:

This was the first live album from Journey. This was a double-platinum, top-ten album. It featured a new studio cut (The Party’s Over) and a live song (Dixie Highway) which had never been released on a Journey album.

Tracks Not on Previously Noted Albums:

The Party’s Over (Hopeless in Love) (3/21/81, 34 US, 2 AR, 33 CN) ^C,T3,ES,G2
Dixie Highway (live) (3/21/81, 30 AR) ^T3

Escape (1981):

Who’s Crying Now (7/18/81, 4 US, 4 AR, 14 AC, 46 UK, 3 CN, 65 AU, sales: 1.0 m, airplay: 2.0 m) ^GL,G1,T3,ES
Stone in Love (8/1/81, 13 AR) ^GL,T3,ES,G2
Don't Stop Believin’ (8/15/81, 9 US, 8 AR, 6 UK, 9 CN, 100 AU, sales: 5 million) ^GL,G1,T3,ES
Open Arms (1/16/82, 2 US, 35 AR, 7 AC, 2 CN, 43 AU, sales: 1 million, airplay: 3 million) ^GL,G1,T3,ES
Still They Ride (5/22/82, 19 US, 47 AR, 37 AC) ^GL,T3,ES,G2
Mother, Father ^T3,ES
Escape ^GL,ES,G2
Keep on Runnin’ ^T3

Journey’s sole #1 album sold ten million copies on the strength of three top-ten pop hits. Open Arms became the band’s biggest chart hit and Don't Stop Believin’ would become the band’s biggest seller over time, thanks to publicity a quarter century later from use in the TV Shows The Sopranos and Glee.

Frontiers (1983):

Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) (2/5/83, 8 US, 1 AR, 11 CN, 93 AU) ^GL,G1,T3,ES
After the Fall (2/26/83, 23 US, 30 AR) ^GL,T3,ES,G2
Faithfully (4/16/83, 12 US, 24 AC, 36 CN) ^GL,G1,T3,ES
Send Her My Love (9/24/83, 23 US, 27 AC) ^GL,G1,T3,ES
Chain Reaction ^ES,G2

Frontiers couldn’t match the success of Escape, but it was still the second-best charting and selling album of the band’s career. It gave them their fourth top-ten hit with Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) and three more top-40 hits.

Greatest Hits Live

Journey

Released: March 24, 1998

Recorded: 1981-1983

Peak: 79 US, 1² DF

Sales (in millions): 0.5 US, -- UK, 1.0 world (includes US and UK)

Genre: classic rock

Tracks: (1) Don't Stop Believin’ (2) Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) (3) After the Fall (4) Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’ (5) Faithfully (6) Who’s Crying Now (7) Any Way You Want It (8) Lights (9) Stay Awhile (10) Open Arms (11) Send Her My Love (12) Still They Ride (13) Stone in Love (14) Escape (15) Line of Fire (16) Wheel in the Sky (17) Fireworks & Crowd

Total Running Time: 71:16

Rating:

4.009 out of 5.00 (average of 17 ratings)

Awards: (Click on award to learn more).

About Greatest Hits Live:

The band’s second live album covers material from their heyday from 1978 to 1983. Had it been released after Frontiers, it seems it would have been guaranteed platinum, top-10 status. Instead, it didn’t come out until 1998 and went largely unnoticed.

Raised on Radio (1986):

Be Good to Yourself (4/12/86, 9 US, 2 AR, 90 UK, 43 CN) ^G1,T3,ES
Girl Can’t Help It (5/10/86, 17 US, 9 AR, 60 CN) ^G1,ES
Suzanne (6/14/86, 17 US, 11 AR, 87 CN) ^G2
I’ll Be Alright without You (12/6/86, 14 US, 26 AR, 7 AC, 57 CN) ^G1,ES
Why Can’t This Night Go on Forever (4/25/87, 60 US, 24 AC) ^T3
The Eyes of a Woman ^T3,ES
Once You Love Somebody ^T3
Happy to Give ^T3

Schon, Perry, and Cain got back together in 1986 for Raised on Radio. Valory and Smith were no longer in the band, replaced by Michael Baird on drums and Randy Jackson, later a judge on TV’s American Idol. This was another multi-platinum affair which was a top-ten hit on the Billboard album chart and gave the band yet another top-ten hit.

“Following the tour, Journey disbanded. Perry went into a prolonged period of seclusion as Schon and Cain formed Bad English with vocalist John Waite,” ^WR who had worked with Cain in The Babys a decade earlier. “Bad English had several hit singles, including the chart-topper ‘When I See You Smile,’ before breaking up” ^WR after two albums.

Schon then formed the rock group Hardline with Bad English drummer Deen Castronovo. While the group experienced far less success than Journey or Bad English, it did cement a relationship between Schon and Castronovo. Eventually, he would be brought into the Journey fold as well.

During this same time, Journey alums Gregg Rolie, Ross Valory, and Steve Smith formed The Storm, which didn’t generate near the attention of Journey or even Bad English and Steve Perry solo projects, but they did manage one top 40 hit with “I’ve Got a Lot to Learn about Love” in 1991.

“Perry returned to recording in 1994, releasing For the Love of Strange Medicine. Although the album went gold, it was a commercial disappointment by previous standards.” ^WR

Greatest Hits

Journey

Released: November 15, 1988

Recorded: 1978-1987

Peak: 10 US, 12 UK, 8 CN, -- AU

Sales (in millions): 15.0 US, -- UK, 16.5 world (includes US and UK)

Genre: classic rock

Tracks: (1) Only the Young (2) Don't Stop Believin’ (3) Wheel in the Sky (4) Faithfully (5) I’ll Be Alright without You (6) Any Way You Want It (7) Ask the Lonely (8) Who’s Crying Now (9) Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) (10) Lights (11) Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’ (12) Open Arms (13) Girl Can’t Help It (14) Send Her My Love (15) Be Good to Yourself

Total Running Time: 61:32

Rating:

4.450 out of 5.00 (average of 21 ratings)

Awards: (Click on award to learn more).

About Greatest Hits:

“Greatest Hits is an excellent, thorough 14-track collection containing all of Journey’s big hits, from 1978’s Wheel in the Sky to 1986’s I’ll Be Alright Without You. Although the songs aren't presented in chronological order and a handful of minor hits (‘Suzanne,’ ‘Walks Like a Lady’) aren't included, it doesn’t matter, since every essential Journey single…is here, which means that it's all most casual fans will ever need.” ^AMG The album includes two songs which hadn’t been released on a Journey album before. Ask the Lonely was first available on the Two of a Kind soundtrack and Only the Young came from the soundtrack for Vision Quest.

Ask the Lonely (12/3/83, 3 AR) ^G1,T3,ES

Only the Young (1/26/85, 9 US, 3 AR) ^G1,T3,ES

Time ³

Journey

Recorded: 1975-1986

Released: December 1, 1992

Peak: 90 US, 10 UK, -- CN, -- AU

Sales (in millions): 0.5 US, -- UK, 0.5 world (includes US and UK)

Genre: classic rock

Tracks, Disc 1: (1) Of a Lifetime (2) Kohoutek (3) I’m Gonna Leave You (4) Cookie Duster (5) Nickel and Dime (6) For You (7) Velvet Curtain/Feeling That Way (8) Anytime (9) Patiently (10) Good Times (11) Majestic (12) Too Late (13) Sweet and Simple (14) Just the Same Way (15) Little Girl (16) Any Way You Want It (17) Someday Soon (18) Good Morning Girl

Tracks, Disc 2: (1) Where Were You (2) Line of Fire (3) Homemade Love (4) Natural Thing (5) Lights (live) (6) Stay Awhile (live) (7) Walks Like a Lady (live) (8) Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’ (live) (9) Dixie Highway (live) (10) Wheel in the Sky (live) 11) The Party’s Over (Hopeless in Love) (12) Don't Stop Believin’ (13) Stone in Love (14) Keep on Runnin’ (15) Who’s Crying Now (16) Still They Ride (17) Open Arms (18) Mother, Father

Tracks, Disc 3: (1) La Raza Del Sol (2) Only Solutions (3) Liberty (4) Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) (5) Send Her My Love (6) Faithfully (7) After the Fall (8) All That Really Matters (9) The Eyes of a Woman (10) Why Can’t This Night Go on Forever (11) Once You Love Somebody (12) Happy to Give (13) Be Good to Yourself (14) Only the Young (15) Ask the Lonely (16) With a Tear (instrumental) (17) Into Your Arms (instrumental) (18) Girl Can’t Help It (live) (19) I’ll Be Alright without You (live)

Rating:

3.970 out of 5.00 (average of 20 ratings)

About Time ³:

Like many box sets, this set tries to appease casual fans and diehards simultaneously. The result is that neither side will be completely satisfied. Over the three discs, there are about a disc’s worth of mostly previously-unreleased rarities (listed below). The rest of the collection is a mix of singles and album cuts. One has to ask why the box set needs to cover 7 of the 10 songs from Escape. Instead of 7 songs from the Captured live album, wouldn’t it have been more interesting to mix in more previously-unreleased live cuts? Alas, this is what we get.

Tracks Not on Previously Noted Albums:

Cookie Duster (1976) ^T3
For You (1977) ^T3
Velvet Curtain/Feeling That Way (1977) ^T3
Good Times (1978) ^T3
Natural Thing (recorded 1979, 1/2/93, 32 AR) ^T3
Liberty (1981) ^T3
La Raza Del Sol (1982) ^T3
Only Solutions (8/14/82, 22 AR) ^T3
All That Really Matters (1982) ^T3
With a Tear (instrumental) (1985) ^T3
Into Your Arms (instrumental) (1985) ^T3
Girl Can’t Help It (live) ^T3
I’ll Be Alright without You (live) ^T3

Trial by Fire (1996):

Message of Love (10/5/96, 18 AR, 36 CN) ^ES
When You Love a Woman (10/12/96, 12 US, 1 AC, 3 CN, sales: ½ million) ^ES
Baby, I’m A-Leavin’ You ^ES
When I Think of You ^G2

After ten years, Journey returned – and the classic lineup of Steve Perry, Neal Schon, Jonathan Cain, Ross Valory, and Steve Smith who gave the world Escape and Frontiers, the band’s two most successful albums. Even after a decade away, Journey managed a top-20 pop hit with When You Love a Woman. The song accomplished a first for the band – it was their maiden voyage to the top of the adult contemporary chart.

The reunion was short-lived, however; Perry and Smith opted out of the reunion after the tour, but Journey continued, hiring a new lead singer, Steve Augeri (formerly of Tall Stories), and…Castronovo, who made their debuts on Remember Me, a track on the 1998 Armageddon soundtrack. The band next reconvened in 2001. Arrival, Journey’s 11th new studio album, was released in April, followed by a national tour.” ^WR

In 2005, Journey “released a new album, Generations, and embarked on their 30th anniversary tour. Shows on the tour stretched over three hours long and were divided into two sets – one focusing on pre-Escape material, the other on post-Escape material.” ^WR

By 2006, “Jeff Scott Soto aboard as a replacement for Augeri, who developed a throat infection that prevented him from singing. However, Soto’s time with the band was limited; in 2007, Journey announced that they had parted ways with the singer and were once again seeking a frontman. They found him in Arnel Pineda, a Filipino vocalist that they discovered after seeing him perform on YouTube. Pineda made his debut with the band in 2008, the same year that Journey released Revelation.” ^WR That album proved a surprise success – going top 10 and inching toward gold as of this writing – feats the band hadn’t accomplished on a studio effort since 1996’s Trial by Fire. They returned with another studio album, Eclipse, in 2011. The journey had proved to not be over yet.

The Essential

Journey

Recorded: 1978-1996

Released: October 16, 2001

Peak: 47 US, 10 UK, -- CN, -- AU

Sales (in millions): 2.0 US, -- UK, 2.0 world (includes US and UK)

Genre: classic rock

Tracks: (1) Only the Young (2) Don't Stop Believin’ (3) Wheel in the Sky (4) Faithfully (5) Any Way You Want It (6) Ask the Lonely (7) Who’s Crying Now (8) Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) (9) Lights (10) Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’ (11) Open Arms (12) Girl Can’t Help It (13) Send Her My Love (14) When You Love a Woman (15) I’ll Be Alright Without You (16) After the Fall

Tracks, Disc 2: (1) Chain Reaction (2) Message of Love (3) Somethin’ to Hide (4) Line of Fire (live) (5) Anytime (6) Stone in Love (7) Patiently (8) Good Morning Girl (9) The Eyes of a Woman (10) Be Good to Yourself (11) Still They Ride (12) Baby I’m a Leavin’ You (13) Mother Father (14) Just the Same Way (15) Escape (16) The Party’s Over (Hopelessly in Love)

Rating:

4.094 out of 5.00 (average of 17 ratings)

About The Essential:

There weren’t any new tracks on this collection to whet fans’ appetites. In fact, it’s hard to know why this sold two million copies as it isn’t really any more than a deluxe repackaging of the 1988 Greatest Hits album. Disc 1 almost repeats the track order of that compilation.

This means the second disc is dominated by minor hits and album cuts. One would think that would at least make this an exhaustive set covering every song that ever charted for Journey. Nope. “Too Late,” “Stay Awhile,” “Walks Like a Lady,” “Dixie Highway,” “Only Solutions,” “Suzanne,” and “Why Can’t this Night Go on Forever,” “If He Should Break Your Heart,” and “Can’t Tame the Lion” were all hits on one chart or another and could have been included here instead of an overabundance of album cuts. “Little Girl,” from the Dream After Dream soundtrack would also have been a sensible addition. And how do you miss the mark by not pairing “Anytime” with “Feeling That Way,” one of the great two-fers of classic rock radio? To be fair, some of these did appear on the third disc of the limited edition set, but considering that third disc (see notes) only had eight cuts, it still made for a subpar job.

This collection would have also worked much better if it were compiled chronologically. That would balance the better known songs over two discs instead of loading them all up on the first disc. About the only thing this collection has over the previous Greatest Hits and Time ³ collections is the inclusion of three cuts from 1996’s Trial by Fire.

Notes: A limited edition offered another disc’s worth of material: (1) Don't Stop Believin’ (live) (2) Stone in Love (live) (3) When I Think of You (4) Suzanne (5) Walks Like a Lady (6) Feeling That Way (7) Mother Father (live) (8) I Can See It in Your Eyes

Greatest Hits 2

Journey

Recorded: 1978-1996

Released: November 1, 2011

Peak: 93 US, 10 UK, -- CN, -- AU

Sales (in millions): --

Genre: classic rock

Tracks: (1) Stone in Love (2) After the Fall (3) Chain Reaction (4) The Party’s Over (Hopeless in Love) (5) Escape (6) Still They Ride (7) Good Morning Girl (8) Stay Awhile (9) Suzanne (10) Feeling That Way (11) Anytime (12) Walks Like a Lady (13) Little Girl (14) Just the Same Way (15) Patiently (16) When I Think of You (17) Mother Father (live)

Rating:

3.954 out of 5.00 (average of 10 ratings)

About Greatest Hits 2:

Like The Essential collection, there’s nothing here that hadn’t been released before, but this set does correct some of the mistakes of that compilation. While this one still misses some chart hits, it does have “Feeling That Way,” “Stay Awhile,” “Little Girl,” and “Suzanne” – all songs left off of the two-disc Essential. It is still hard to understand who this set was for. Clearly the record companies hoped the 15 million fans who bought the first greatest hits set would pony up for this one as well. They didn’t. The album peaked at #93 and didn’t even crack the half-million mark in sales.

Notes: An international version added a live version of “Don't Stop Believin’” as a bonus track.

Resources and Related Links:

DMDB Encyclopedia entry for Journey
^CRM ClassicRockMagazine.com
^AMG Mike DeGagne, All Music Guide
^JM JourneyMusic.com
^WR William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

First posted 9/12/2020; last updated 7/9/2022.

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Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Journey et al: Top 100 Songs

Journey et al

Top 100 Songs

Spotify Podcast:

Awards:

Top 100 Songs

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Monday, December 21, 2020

Grammy Hall of Fame: Songs, 1973-2020

Grammy Hall of Fame:

Songs

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Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Journey: A Retrospective, 1975-1996

Journey

A Retrospective: 1975-1996

Overview:

The Players:

On the Web:

Lists:

Sales:

Awards:

The Studio Albums:

Compilations/Live Albums:

Captured

Journey

Greatest Hits Live

Journey

Greatest Hits

Journey

Time 3

Journey

The Essential

Journey

Greatest Hits 2

Journey

Resources and Related Links:

Time ³