Both the Liza Minnelli and the
Frank Sinatra versions of "Theme from New York, New York" have been added
to the "Broadway and the Movies" Songbook.
Song Title |
YouTube Link |
9 To 5
(Dolly Parton, 1980) (C & G)
9 To 5 (song), Wikipedia;
9 To 5
(film), Wikipedia. |
9 To 5
by Dolly Parton (1980) |
A Bushel
And A Peck (Frank Loesser, 1950) from "Guys And Dolls"
The song was introduced in the Broadway musical "Guys and
Dolls," which opened at the 46th Street Theater on November 24, 1950. It
was performed on stage by Vivian Blaine, who later reprised her role as
Miss Adelaide in the 1955 film version of the play. "A Bushel and a
Peck," however, was omitted from the film, and instead replaced by a new
song, titled "Pet Me, Poppa." A popular recording by Perry Como and
Betty Hutton peaked at #6 on the Billboard magazine charts.
A Bushel And
A Peck, Wikipedia. |
A Bushel And A
Peck by Perry Como and Betty Hutton (1950)
A Bushel And A
Peck by Doris Day (1950)
A Bushel And A
Peck by The Andrews Sisters (1950) |
A Hard
Day's Night &
A Hard Day's Night (C & G)
(John Lennon & Paul McCartney, 1964)
The song's title and the title of the film originated
from something said by Ringo Starr, the Beatles' drummer. Starr
described it this way in a 1964 interview:
"We went to do a job, and we'd worked all day and we
happened to work all night. I came up still thinking it was day I
suppose, and I said, 'It's been a hard day …' and I looked around and
saw it was dark so I said, '… night!' So we came to 'A Hard Day's
Night.'"
In a 1980 interview, Lennon said that "it was an off-the-cuff remark by
Ringo. You know, one of those malapropisms. A Ringo-ism, where he said
it not to be funny … just said it."
The song - with its distinctive opening chord, described as an Fadd9 (F
- A - C - G) plus a G "Power" Chord (G - D) and a bass D - featured
prominently on the soundtrack to the Beatles' first feature film, "A
Hard Day's Night," and on their album of the same name, the group's
third studio album. The song simultaneously topped the charts in both
the United Kingdom and United States when it was released as a single,
the first time any artist had accomplished this feat.
In contrast to the Beatles' first two albums, all 13 tracks on "A Hard
Day's Night" were written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, showcasing
the development of their songwriting partnership. Several of the songs
feature George Harrison playing a
Rickenbacker
12-string electric guitar, a sound that was influential on the Byrds
and other groups in the folk rock movement.
The 1964 musical comedy film was released during the height of
Beatlemania, and portrays 36 hours in the lives of the group. The
film was a financial and critical success. Forty years after its
release, Time magazine rated it as one of the 100 all-time great films.
It is credited as being one of the most influential of all musical
films, inspiring numerous spy films, the Monkees' television show and
pop music videos.
A Hard
Day's Night (song), Wikipedia;
A
Hard Day's Night (album), Wikipedia;
A Hard
Day's Night (film), Wikipedia; Alan J. Pollack's
Notes On A Hard Day's Night. |
A
Hard Day's Night by The Beatles (1964)
A Hard
Day's Night by The Beatles (Music video)
A Hard Day's Night
by The Beatles (Live 1964 performance)
A Hard Day's
Night movie trailer.
|
A Kiss At The End Of The Rainbow (Michael McKean & Annette O’Toole,
ca. 2003) from "A Mighty Wind"
An Oscar-nominated song from the 2003 Christopher Guest
film described as a documentary-style comedy, with
three classic folk groups from the 1960s reuniting to perform a tribute
concert for their recently deceased common manager. In the movie, it is
performed in the movie by Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara of "Saturday
Night Live" fame.
The three groups parodied in the film and tribute show are based on
successful folk acts; The Folksmen on The Kingston Trio, the New Main
Street Singers on The New Christy Minstrels and Mitch and Mickey on the
married and later divorced Canadian folk and country music duo Ian &
Sylvia Tyson.
A Mighty Wind,
Wikipedia;
Oscar’s Greatest Mistakes – “A Kiss At The End Of The Rainbow,”
FilmBuffOnline |
A
Kiss At The End Of The Rainbow by Mitch & Mickey from a PBS
broadcast.
A
Kiss At The End Of The Rainbow from the soundtrack "A Mighty Wind"
(2003)
A Kiss at the
End of the Rainbow by Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara at the 76th
Academy Awards, February 2004
A Kiss At The
End Of The Rainbow by Michael McKean & Annette O'Toole (Live) |
Anything
Goes (Cole Porter, 1934) from the musical "Anything Goes"
Anything Goes, Wikipedia. |
Anything Goes
by Ethel Merman
Anything Goes
by Mary Martin
Anything Goes
by Elaine Paige |
April Love (Sammy Fain & Paul Francis Webster, 1957)
from the film "April Love"
"April Love" was written as the theme song for a 1957
film of the same name starring Pat Boone and Shirley Jones. Helped by
the release of the film, "April Love" became a number-one hit in the
United States for Pat Boone, and spent twenty-six weeks on the US pop
charts (it spent 6 weeks at number 1). In 1958, it was nominated for an
Oscar for Best Music, Original Song but lost out to "All the Way."
April Love
(song), Wikipedia,
April Love
(film), Wikipedia. |
April Love by
Pat Boone (1957 recording)
April Love by
Pat Boone (film clip)
April Love
by Pat Boone (TV appearance, Dec. 1957) |
April Showers (Buddy DeSylva & Louis Silvers, 1921) (C &
G) from the Broadway musical "Bombo,"
First published in 1921, it is one of many
popular songs whose lyrics use a "bluebird of happiness" as
a symbol of cheer ("So keep on looking for a bluebird, and
listening for his song."). The song was first performed by Al
Jolson. It became a well-known Jolson standard and has also
been recorded by many other artists.
April Showers, Wikipedia |
April
Showers by Al Jolson (1921)
April
Showers by Frank Sinatra (Live, 1947)
April
Showers by Bing Crosby
April
Showers by Judy Garland, the finale from "GE Theatre"
(1956) |
As Time Goes By
(Herman Hupfeld, 1931)
Written for the 1931 Broadway musical "Everybody's
Welcome," it became famous when it was featured in the 1942 Warner Bros.
film "Casablanca" performed by Dooley Wilson as Sam. The song was voted
No. 2 on the AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs special, commemorating the best
songs in film (only surpassed by "Over the Rainbow" by Judy Garland).
The song has since become the signature tune of Warner Bros. National
Public Radio also included it in its "NPR 100", a 1999 list of the most
important American musical works of the 20th century as compiled by
NPR's music editors. The song is a popular reflection of nostalgia and
often used in films and series reflecting this feeling. It was first
recorded by Rudy Vallée on July 25, 1931 for Brunswick Records; Dooley
Wilson was not able to record his version due to the 1942–44 musicians'
strike. Unable to record new versions of the song, RCA Victor reissued
the 1931 recording by Rudy Vallée which became a number one hit, eleven
years after it was originally released.
As Time
Goes By, Wikipedia. |
As Time Goes By
– Dooley Wilson, “Casablanca” (1942) |
Baby the Rain Must Fall (Elmer Bernstein & Ernie
Sheldon, ca. 1964) (C & G)
This song was first performed by Glenn
Yarbrough after he left the Limeliters for a solo career. In
early 1965, the song reached #2 on the adult contemporary
chart and #12 on the Billboard chart. The song is the title
song from the movie, "Baby the Rain Must Fall" and is heard
during the opening credits. The song appeared on Yarbrough's
1965 album, "Baby the Rain Must Fall." The song was arranged
and conducted by Bread lead singer Dave Gates. Earl Palmer
played drums on the song.
Baby the Rain Must Fall, Wikipedia. |
Baby
the Rain Must Fall by Glenn Yarbrough (1965)
Baby
the Rain Must Fall by Glenn Yarbrough from the
soundtrack of the film of the same name (1965)
Baby
the Rain Must Fall by Glenn Yarbrough and the Limeliters
from the LP "Joy Across The Land"
Baby
the Rain Must Fall by Chris Connor released a version of
the song on her 1965 album, "Sings Gentle Bossa Nova."
Baby
the Rain Must Fall by Trini Lopez (1966) |
Banana Boat Song - C & F
Banana Boat Song (Nashville Notation) (Traditional
Jamaican folk song) featured in "Beetlejuice"
Day-O (The Banana Boat Song), Wikipedia. |
Day-O (Banana
Boat Song) by Harry Belefonte (1956)
Banana Boat Song,
clip from movie "Beetlejuice." |
Bewitched, Bothered, And Bewildered (Rodgers and Hart, 1940) from
"Pal Joey"
Considered to be part of the Great American Songbook, this show
tune and popular song is from this 1940 Rodgers and Hart musical. The
song was introduced by Vivienne Segal on December 25, 1940, in the Broadway
production during Act I, Scene 6, and again in Act II, Scene 4, as a reprise.
Segal also sang the song on both the 1950 hit record and in the 1952 Broadway
revival.
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, Wikipedia. |
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered by Ella Fitzgerald, with a quartet led by
Paul Smith (1956)
Bewitched by Frank Sinatra, from the film "Pal Joey" soundtrack album
(1957), although Sinatra did not sing the song in the film.
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered by Barbra Streisand from "The Third
Album" (1963)
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered by Linda Ronstadt (1986)
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered by Rod Stewart and Cher from Stewart's
second pop standards album, "As Time Goes By: the Great American Songbook 2."
(2003) |
Blood On The Coal (Harry Shearer, Michael McKean & Christopher
Guest, 2003) from "A Mighty Wind"
This song is
performed by "The Folkmen," a fictitious American folk music trio,
conceived and performed by actors-comedians-musicians Christopher Guest,
Michael McKean and Harry Shearer. Originally created in 1984 for a
Saturday Night Live sketch, the Folksmen have subsequently maintained an
intermittent public presence for more than twenty-five years including
appearances with their fictitious heavy metal band, Spinal Tap.
The Folkmen were patterned after The Kingston Trio.
A Mighty Wind,
Wikipedia; The
Folksmen, Wikipedia. |
Blood On The Coal
by The Folksmen from "A Mighty Wind" (2003) (soundtrack)
Blood On The Coal
by The Folksmen from "A Mighty Wind" (2003) (video) |
Blue Hawaii
(Leo Robin & Ralph Rainger, 1937)
(C &
G)
Written for the 1937
Paramount Pictures film "Waikiki Wedding," starring Bing
Crosby and Shirley Ross. Crosby recorded a version with
backing by Lani McIntyre and His Hawaiians, which was
released in 1937 as the B-side of "Sweet Leilani." This
reached the #5 spot in the charts of the day during a
13-week-stay. The song subsequently received numerous cover
versions, most successfully as the title track of the 1961
Elvis Presley film, the soundtrack of which stayed at #1 on
the album chart for twenty consecutive weeks. "Blue Hawaii"
was the first of three Elvis films to be shot in Hawaii,
followed by "Girls! Girls! Girls!" in 1962 and "Paradise,
Hawaiian Style" in 1965.
Blue Hawaii, Wikipedia |
Blue Hawaii by
Bing Crosby with Lani McIntyre and His Hawaiians from the film "Waikiki
Wedding" (1937)
Blue Hawaii by
Bing Crosby (1937)
Blue
Hawaii by Elvis Presley (1961) |
Blue Skies
(Irving Berlin, 1926) (Dm)
The song was composed in 1926 as a last-minute
addition to the Rodgers and Hart musical "Betsy." Although the show
ran for only 39 performances, "Blue Skies" was an instant success,
with audiences on opening night demanding 24 encores of the piece
from star Belle Baker. During the final repetition, Ms. Baker forgot
her lyrics, prompting Berlin to sing them from his seat in the front
row.
In 1927, the music was published and Ben Selvin's recorded version
was a hit. That same year, it became one of the first songs to be
featured in a talkie, when Al Jolson performed it in "The Jazz
Singer." 1946 was also a notable year for the song, with a Bing
Crosby/Fred Astaire film taking its title along with two recorded
versions by Count Basie and Benny Goodman. Crossing genres, Willie
Nelson's recording of "Blue Skies" was a #1 country music hit in
1978.
Blue Skies, Wikipedia. |
Blue Skies by
Ben Selvin & His Orchestra, vocals by Charles Kaley (1927)
Blue Skies by
Al Jolson in "The Jazz Singer" (1927)
Blue Skies by
Benny Goodman and his Orchestra, vocals by Art Lund (1946)
Blue Skies by
Bing Crosby (1946)
Blue Skies by
Count Basie & His Orchestra, vocals by Jimmy Rushing (1946)
Blue Skies by
Willie Nelson (1978) |
Blue Suede
Shoes (C) &
Blue Suede Shoes (G) (Carl Perkins, 1955)
It is considered one of the
first rockabilly records, incorporating elements of blues, country
and pop music of the time. Perkins' original version of the song was
on the Cashbox Best Selling Singles list for 16 weeks and spent two
weeks at the number two position. Elvis Presley recorded "Blue Suede
Shoes" in 1956 and it appears as the opening track of his debut
album "Elvis Presley." In 1999, Presley's version was certified as a
gold record by the RIAA.
"Blue Suede Shoes" was chosen by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as
one of the "500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll". In 1986, Perkins'
version was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame and in 1999. In
2004, Perkins's version was ranked number 95 on Rolling Stone's list
of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time." Presley's 1956 recording of the
song was also on the list, ranked number 423. In 1960, Presley
re-recorded "Blue Suede Shoes" for the soundtrack of the film
G.I. Blues.
This became the title song of a 1980 music documentary film by
Curtis Clark that combines archival film of early American rock 'n'
roll pioneers of the 1950s.
Blue Suede
Shoes, Wikipedia;
Blue
Suede Shoes (film), Wikipedia. |
Blue
Suede Shoes by Carl Perkins (1956, the Perry Como Show)
Blue
Suede Shoes by Elvis Presley (1956 color video)
Blue
Suede Shoes by Buddy Holly
Blue
Suede Shoes by Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, and Robbie
Robertson, a tribute to Carl Perkins at the 1999 Rock & Roll
Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony |
By the Light of the Silvery Moon
(C) &
By The Light Of The Silvery Moon (G) (Edward Madden &
Gus Edwards, 1909)
Published in 1909 and first performed on
stage by Lillian Lorraine in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1909,
it was one of a series of moon-related Tin Pan Alley songs
of the era. Popular recordings in 1910 were by Billy Murray
and The Haydn Quartet; Ada Jones; and The Peerless Quartet.
The song has been used in over 2 dozen television shows and
motion pictures. A film of the same title was released in
1953, starring Doris Day. It served as a sequel to "On
Moonlight Bay," which also starred Doris Day. The song's
patter is parodied in a popular "The Rocky Horror Picture
Show."
The song was originally recorded in C major, but has since
been sung in E major (Day) and A major (Jimmy Bowen).
By the Light of the Silvery Moon, Wikipedia.
Sheet Music from the New York City Public Library. |
By the
Light of the Silvery Moon by Billy Murray and The Haydn
Quartet (1910)
By the
Light of the Silvery Moon by Ada Jones (1910)
By the
Light of the Silvery Moon by Al Jolson (1946)
By the
Light of the Silvery Moon by Doris Day and Gordon MacRae
from the 1953 movie of the same name.
By the
Light of the Silvery Moon by Bing Crosby (1942)
By the
Light of the Silvery Moon by Ray Charles (1966) |
Charade (Henry
Mancini & Johnny Mercer, 1963)
Charade (Am Dm Em) (Simplified
Version)
from Theresa.
Composer Henry Mancini wrote: "There is a scene in the
movie where Audrey returns from a happy winter holiday to her Paris flat
to find it stripped of everything of value. Bare floors and the walls
are all that remain. Her loutish husband had absconded with all of her
worldly goods. She enters the dimly-lit apartment with her suitcase and
surveys the scene. Her feelings are of sadness, loneliness and
vulnerability. To me, it translated into a sad little Parisian waltz.
With that image of Audrey in my mind, I went to the piano and within
less than an hour 'Charade' was written. I played it for Audrey and
Stanley. Both felt it was just right for the movie. Johnny Mercer added
his poetry, and the song was nominated for an Oscar that year". Johnny
Mercer later said it was his favourite Mancini melody.
Charade,
Wikipedia. |
Charade by Henry Mancini & His
Orchestra and Chorus (1963)
Charade by Henry Mancini & His Orchestra (Main Title, Instrumental)
(1963)
Charade by Andy Williams (1964) |
Come Saturday Morning (Fred Karlin & Dory Previn, 1969)
This song was first performed by The Sandpipers on the
soundtrack of the 1969 film "The Sterile Cuckoo" starring Liza Minnelli.
The Sandpipers also included the song on their 1970 album, "Come
Saturday Morning." In 1970,"Come Saturday Morning" was nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Original Song, losing to "Raindrops Keep Fallin'
on My Head" from the film "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." It has
been covered by many artists including Liza Minnelli, Johnny Mathis, and
Tony Bennett.
Come Saturday Morning, Wikipedia. |
Come Saturday
Morning by The Sandpipers (1969)
Come Saturday
Morning by Liza Minnelli from her 1969 album "Come Saturday Morning"
Come Saturday
Morning by Johnny Mathis from his 1970 album "Close To You"
Come Saturday
Morning by Tony Bennett from his 1970 album "Tony Bennett's
Something"
|
Count Your Blessings (Instead of Sheep) (Irving Berlin, 1954)
From the 1954 film "White Christmas," it is commonly
performed as a Christmas song, although the lyrics make no reference to
the December holiday. The song came from a personal experience of Berlin
who was experiencing insomnia brought on by stress. In a letter to 20th
Century Fox executive Joseph Schenck, Berlin wrote:
"I’m enclosing a lyric of a song I finished here and which I am going to
publish immediately. This particular song is based on what really
happened. The story is in its verse, which I don't think I'll publish.
Sometime ago, after the worst kind of a sleepless night, my doctor came
to see me and after a lot of self-pity, belly-aching and complaining
about my insomnia, he looked at me and said "speaking of doing something
about your insomnia, did you ever try counting your blessings?"
Berlin incorporated the song into the movie to advance the relationship
between the characters played by Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney. The
theme reminds listeners to remember how much they are blessed instead of
fretting about short-term problems.
It was nominated for an Academy Award as "Best Song" but was defeated by
"Three Coins in the Fountain" from the film of the same name written by
Jule Styne and lyricist Sammy Cahn. During his 60-year career Berlin
wrote an estimated 1,500 songs, including the scores for 20 original
Broadway shows and 15 original Hollywood films, with his songs nominated
eight times for Academy Awards.
Count Your Blessings (Instead of Sheep), Wikipedia;
White
Christmas (film), Wikipedia;
Irving Berlin,
Wikipedia. |
Count Your
Blessings Instead Of Sheep by Bing Crosby & Rosemary Clooney from
"White Christmas" (1954) (Video clip)
Count Your
Blessings Instead Of Sheep by Bing Crosby from "Selections From
Irving Berlin's White Christmas" (1954)
Count Your
Blessings Instead Of Sheep by Rosemary Clooney (1954)
Count Your
Blessings Instead Of Sheep by Peggy King at the 1954 Academy Awards
ceremony (March 1955)
Count Your
Blessings Instead Of Sheep by the Ray Coniff Singers
Count Your
Blessings Instead Of Sheep by Eddie Fisher (peaked at No. 5 on the
Billboard chart)
Count Your
Blessings Instead Of Sheep by Andy Williams
Count Your
Blessings Instead Of Sheep by Johnny Mathis (2013)
Count Your
Blessings Instead Of Sheep by Amy Grant (2008) |
Danny Boy
(Frederic Weatherly, 1913, and a traditional tune, "Londonderry Air")
Although is frequently printed in four verses, the
actual song has only two verses (each 8 lines long). Sinead O'Connor
added a third verse to her rendition; other third verses
exist according to posts in the
Mudcat Cafe
and at The Danny Boy
Trivia Collection.
Sheet Music:
Danny Boy_Lead Sheet.pdf |
Danny Boy,
Celtic Women, Live At Morris Performing Arts Center, South Bend, IN
(2013) (Two verses) (55 second introduction)
Danny Boy,
Dennis Day, one of the finest tenors of his time (1961) (Two verses)
Danny Boy, Sinead O'Connor (2009) (Three verses)
Danny Boy,
Bing Crosby from "Merry Christmas" (1945) (Verse 1, repeating the second
half)
Danny Boy,
Judy Garland (1955) (Verse 1)
Londonderry Air
(Reprise) (Celtic harp & tin whistle), Claire Hamilton from her
album "Northern Ireland"
Londonderry Air, Sir James Galway, "In Concert at Armagh Cathedral" |
Down to the River to Pray
featured in "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" (G) |
Down To The River To Pray
by Alison Krauss from "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" |
Easter Parade (In Your Easter Bonnet) (Irving Berlin, 1933)
One of America's greatest song
writers, Berlin wrote an estimated 1,250 songs and the scores to 20
Broadway plays and 15 Hollywood movies.
Berlin originally wrote the melody in
1917, under the title "Smile and Show Your Dimple", as a "cheer up"
song for a girl whose man has gone off to fight in World War I.
Berlin resurrected it with modifications and new lyrics for the 1933
revue "As Thousands Cheer." In addition to the the films listed,
this song was performed in several other films and has been covered
by dozens of singers. Irving Berlin received the Grammy Lifetime
Achievement Award in 1968.
Irving Berlin,
Wikipedia. |
Easter
Parade from "As
Thousands Cheer" (1933) recorded by Clifton Webb with
Leo Reisman and his Orchestra, including the introductory
verse beginning "Never saw you...". (Instrumental prelude of
about 1:17). It was sung by Marilyn Miller and Clifton Webb
in the musical.
Easter
Parade from "Holiday
Inn" (1942) sung by Bing Crosby
Easter
Parade (1948) from "Easter
Parade" (1948) by Judy Garland & Fred Astaire |
Easy To
Be Hard (Galt MacDermot, James Rado, and Gerome Ragni, ca. 1967)
from the musical "Hair"
Written for the 1967 rock musical "Hair," the original
recording of the musical was released in May 1968, sung by Lynn Kellogg,
who performed the role of Sheila on stage in the musical. The song was
covered by Three Dog Night on their 1969 album "Suitable for Framing,"
with the lead vocal part sung by Chuck Negron. A decade later, in 1979,
the film version of "Hair," "Easy to Be Hard" was sung by Cheryl Barnes.
Easy To Be Hard,
Wikipedia. |
Easy To Be Hard
by Lynn Kellogg (1968)
Easy To Be Hard
by Three Dog Night from "Suitable for Framing" (1969)
Easy To Be Hard
by Cheryl Barnes (1979) |
Edelweiss
(Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, 1959) from the Broadway
musical "The Sound of Music"
The song is named after the
edelweiss, a white flower found high in the Alps (Leontopodium nivale).
The song was created for the 1959 Broadway production as a song for the
character Captain Georg von Trapp. In the musical, Captain von Trapp and
his family sing this song during the concert near the end of Act II, as
a statement of Austrian patriotism in the face of the pressure put upon
him to join the navy of Nazi Germany following the Anschluss (Nazi
annexation of their homeland). It is also Captain von Trapp's goodbye to
his beloved homeland, using the flower as a symbol of his loyalty to
Austria. It was the last song written by Oscar Hammerstein II.
Edelweiss,
Wikipedia;
The Sound of
Music, Wikipedia;
The
Sound of Music (film), Wikipedia. |
Edelweiss by
Christopher Plummer, Julie Andrews, the children, and the audience (near
the finale of the 1965 film).
Edelweiss by
Christopher Plummer (early in the 1965 film). |
Everybody's Talkin' (Fred Neil, 1966) featured in "Midnight Cowboy"
Everybody's Talkin', Wikipedia |
Everybody's
Talkin' by Harry Nilsson (1969) |
Fallin'
and Flyin' (Stephen Bruton and Gary Nicholson, 2010) from the movie
"Crazy Heart"
Jeff Bridges performed this song for his Academy
Award-winning role as Otis "Bad" Blake in the movie "Crazy Heart"
(2009). The soundtrack features a solo version from Bridges and a duet
with Colin Farrell, who performed the song with him at the end of the
movie.
Fallin' and Flyin', Songfacts.com;
Crazy
Heart (soundtrack), Wikipedia. |
Fallin' and Flyin'
by Jeff Bridges from the soundtrack of Crazy Heart (2010)
Fallin' and Flyin'
by Jeff Bridges (Clip from the movie)
Fallin' and Flyin'
by Jeff Bridges (Music video) |
Getting
To Know You (Rodgers and Hammerstein, 1951) from "The King And I"
It was first sung by Gertrude Lawrence in the original
Broadway production and later by Marni Nixon who dubbed for Deborah Kerr
in the 1956 film adaptation. In the show, Anna, a British schoolteacher
who has been hired as a governess, sings the song as she strikes up a
warm and affectionate relationship with the children and the wives of
the King of Siam.
Getting to Know You (song), Wikipedia. |
Getting To Know
You by Gertrude Lawrence (Broadway cast recording, 1951)
Getting To Know
You by Marni Nixon (dubbing Deborah Kerr) & Children's Chorus (video
clip from the motion picture) (1956)
Getting To Know
You by Elaine Paige (London Cast Recording, 2000)
Getting To Know
You by Julie Andrews
Getting To Know
You by Andy Williams (Andy Williams Sings Rogers and Hammerstein,
1958)
Getting To Know
You by Johnny Mathis (1963) |
Give My Regards to Broadway (C & G) (George M. Cohan, 1904) from "Little
Johnny Jones" (1904)
This was the first of more than three dozen Broadway
musicals written by George H. Cohen. Cohan, playing the title character,
sings this song as his friend is about to sail to America, looking for
evidence aboard the ship that will clear his name for allegedly throwing
the English Derby. He is sure he'll become a star at Broadway, therefore
signing off with: "Give my regards to Broadway." The show also
introduced Cohan's "The Yankee Doodle Boy." The lead character was
inspired by real-life Hall of Fame jockey
Tod Sloan
whose flamboyant lifestyle caused Cohan to think of him as a "Yankee
Doodle dandy." The play was adapted for film in
1923 and
1929. This song has been featured in several movies including two
biopics, the Oscar-winning film "Yankee
Doodle Dandy" (1942) and the 1968 musical "George
M!"starring Joel Grey. In 2004, the American Film Institute
nominated the song "Give My Regards to Broadway" from this film for
AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs.
Give
My Regards to Broadway, Wikipedia;
Little Johnny Jones, Wikipedia.
Give My Regards to Broadway, Ukulele Tabs with chords and lyrics
from Jolly Roger Ukulele (Chorus Only)
Give My Regards to Broadway Sheet Music at the
Lester
S. Levy Sheet Music Collection, Sheridan Libraries & University
Museums, Johns Hopkins
Complete lyrics:
Give My Regards To Broadway |
Give My Regards to
Broadway by James Cagney from the 1942 film "Yankee Doodle Dandy"
(video clip includes Cagney dancing in Cohan's style)
Give My Regards to
Broadway by Joel Grey from the 1968 musical "George M!" (Broadway
cast recording)
Give My Regards to
Broadway by Joel Grey from the 1968 musical "George M!" (video clip)
Give My Regards to
Broadway by Billy Murray (1905) (full song). This song and his
version of "Yankee
Doodle Boy" were both #1 hits for Billy and led to Murray becoming
one of the foremost interpreters of George M. Cohan's songs in the early
1900's.
Give My Regards To
Broadway by Judy Garland, an audio recording from the March 3, 1966
on the televised The Sammy Davis Jr. Show
Give My Regards To Broadway by Ro Foster, ukulele tutorial |
God Bless
America (Irving Berlin, 1918, 1938)
Written during World War I in
1918 while serving in the U.S. Army at Camp Upton in Yaphank, New
York, but Berlin decided that it did not fit in a revue called Yip
Yip Yaphank, so he set it aside. He revised it in the run up to
World War II in 1938. It was introduced in 1938 on an Armistice Day
radio broadcast by Kate Smith and has become her signature song.
Berlin provided an introduction that is now rarely heard but which
Smith always used: "While the storm clouds gather far across the sea
/ Let us swear allegiance to a land that's free / Let us all be
grateful for a land so fair, / As we raise our voices in a solemn
prayer."
"God Bless America" takes the form of a prayer (intro lyrics "as we
raise our voices, in a solemn prayer") for God's blessing and peace
for the nation ("...stand beside her and guide her through the
night...").
During a live television broadcast on the evening of the September
11, 2001, terrorist attacks, following addresses by then House and
Senate leaders, Speaker Dennis Hastert (Re) and Tom Daschle (D),
members of the United States Congress broke out into a spontaneous
verse of "God Bless America" on the steps of the Capitol building in
Washington, D.C.
God Bless
America, Wikipedia |
God
Bless America by Kate Smith (1938) |
Good Morning
(Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown) from "Babes in Arms" (1939) and
featured in "Singin' in the Rain" (1952)
Good Morning (1939 song),
Wikipedia. |
Good Morning
by Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney.
Good Morning
by Debbie Reynolds, Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor |
Good Morning Sunshine (James Rado, Gerome Ragni, Galt MacDermot,
1967) from the Broadway musical "Hair"
A song from the second act of the 1967 musical,
the song is performed by the character Sheila, played Off-Broadway in
1967 by Jill O'Hara and on Broadway in 1968 by Lynn Kellogg. In the 1979
film version of the musical, Sheila is portrayed by Beverly D'Angelo. It
was a 1969 hit in the US and the UK for Oliver.
Good
Morning Starshine, Wikipedia. |
Good Morning Starshine
by Oliver Urdaneta (1969)
Good Morning Starshine by Lynn Kellogg (1968)
Good Morning Starshine by Beverly D'Angelo (1979) (Video clip) |
Great Balls Of Fire (C & G) (Otis Blackwell & Jack Hammer, 1957)
The Jerry Lee Lewis 1957 recording was ranked as the
96th greatest song ever by Rolling Stone; a slightly different
version by Jerry Lee Lewis was featured in the 1957 film "Jamboree."
It sold one million copies in its first 10 days of release in the
US, making it both one of the best-selling singles in the US, as
well as one of the world's best-selling singles of all time. In the
1986 film Top Gun, LTJG Nick "Goose" Bradshaw (portrayed by Anthony
Edwards) plays the song in a bar with his family and Pete Mitchell
(Tom Cruise).
Great
Balls of Fire, Wikipedia;
Jamboree (1957 film), Wikipedia |
Great
Balls of Fire by Jerry Lee Lewis (Original song, 1957)
Great
Balls of Fire by Jerry Lee Lewis from 1957 movie
"Jamboree"
Great
Balls of Fire by Jerry Lee Lewis (Live TV, 1957, with
Dick Clark)
Great
Balls of Fire by Jerry Lee Lewis from the soundtrack of
the movie "Great Balls Of Fire" |
Green
Leaves of Summer (Paul Francis Webster & Dimitri Tiomkin, 1960) (Am
& Dm)
Written for the 1960 film "The Alamo," it was performed
in the film's score by the vocal group The Brothers Four. In the film,
the song is heard on the last night before the final day of the Battle
of the Alamo, when the men were certainly conscious of their impending
death. Davy Crockett (John Wayne), when asked what he is thinking,
responds "not thinking, just remembering." The men of the Alamo
reminisce on their lives and reflect on their own mistakes, faith,
morality, and mortality.
A second recording of the song is on the soundtrack it was by Dimitri
Tiomkin & the Sinphony Orchestra, and, according to one source, a studio
chorus lead by Jester Hairston, although I have not been able to confirm
this.
The song itself has no lyrical connection to the Alamo, or to any other
historical events.
In 1961, the song was nominated for an Academy Award; its parent
soundtrack, for the film "The Alamo," was awarded a Golden Globe Award
for Best Original Score.
The
Green Leaves of Summer, Wikipedia |
The Green Leaves of Summer by The Brothers Four from the soundtrack
of "The Alamo" (1960)
The Green Leaves
of Summer by The Brothers Four from "Greenfields And Other Gold"
(1977)
The Green Leaves of Summer from the soundtrack of "The Alamo" by
Dimitri Tiomkin & Sinphony Orchestra (1960)
This version was played after Gen.
Sam Houston says "I hope Texas remembers" (at about 2:20 into the film)
and as Mrs. Susanna Dickinson (Joan O'Brien), her daughter Angelina, and
a young black boy are moved into a center building for their safety. The
song ends as Crockett says "not thinking, just remembering." |
Happy Days Are Here Again (C & G) (Milton Ager & Jack Yellen, 1929) from
“Chasing Rainbows”
The song is a standard that has been covered by many
artists. It appeared in the 1930 film "Chasing Rainbows," was the title
song for a 1936 British musical drama film, and has been heard in over
80 other films. It was also the campaign song for Franklin D.
Roosevelt's 1932 presidential campaign. The song is #47 on the Recording
Industry Association of America's list of "Songs of the Century". In
1986 it received an ASCAP Award for Most Performed Feature Film
Standards on TV.
Reviewer
Matthew Greenwald described the song as a "true saloon standard" and
"a Tin Pan Alley standard" that has been "sung by virtually every
interpreter since the 1940s. In a way, it's the pop version of 'Auld
Lang Syne'."
Happy
Days Are Here Again, Wikipedia. |
Happy Days Are
Here Again by Leo Reisman and His Orchestra, vocals by Lou Levin
(1929)
Happy Days Are
Here Again by Barbra Streisand from "The Barbra Streisand Album" (1963); this version included the
Introduction, which is rarely sung in most of the recordings.
Happy Days Are
Here Again by Barbra Streisand from the live concert album "A
Happening in Central Park" (1967)
Happy Days Are
Here Again by Jo Ann Castle (on ragtime piano) from the Lawrence
Welk Program (New Year's Eve program, December, 1966)
Happy Days Are
Here Again by Mitch Miller and the Gang (used as the theme for the
PBS sports history series "The Way It Was" in the 1970s)
Happy Days Are
Here Again by Vanessa Williams, Miss New York 1983, during the
talent competition of the Miss America 1984 pageant. Williams won the
preliminary talent award and was crowned Miss America 1984. |
Heat
Wave
(C) &
Heat
Wave (G) (Updated arrangement, 6 chords)
Heat Wave
(Original arrangement, 4 chords)
(Brian Holland–Lamont Dozier–Eddie Holland, 1963)
This 1963 song written by the
Holland–Dozier–Holland songwriting team was first made
popular by the Motown vocal group Martha and the Vandellas.
It hit number 1 on the Billboard Hot R&B chart—where it
stayed for four weeks—and peaking at number 4 on the
Billboard Hot 100. This was one of many songs written and
produced by the Holland–Dozier–Holland songwriting and
producing team and was the second hit collaboration between
Martha and the Vandellas and the team. Produced and composed
with a gospel backbeat, jazz overtones, and doo-wop call and
responsive vocals, "Heat Wave" was one of the first songs to
exemplify the style of music later termed as the "Motown
Sound". It also garnered the group's only Grammy Award
nomination for Best Rhythm and Blues Recording for 1964,
making the Vandellas the first Motown group ever to receive
a Grammy Award nomination. The success of "Heat Wave" helped
popularize both Martha and the Vandellas and
Holland-Dozier-Holland, while cementing Motown as a strong
musical force.
It was recorded 12 years later by rock vocalist Linda
Ronstadt on her Platinum-selling 1975 album 'Prisoner in
Disguise.' Ronstadt's version of the song reached #5
in Billboard, #4 in Cash Box, and #6 in Record World.
In a 2007 DVD entitled "The Lovin' Spoonful with John
Sebastian – Do You Believe in Magic", author Sebastian
illustrates how he sped up the three-chord intro from "Heat
Wave" to come up with the intro to "Do You Believe in
Magic".
Heat Wave (Martha And The Vandellas song), Wikipedia. |
Heat
Wave by Martha and the Vandellas (1963)
Heat
Wave by Linda Ronstadt from her 1975 album "Prisoner in
Disguise"(1975)
Heat
Wave by Linda Ronstadt (1975) (Live) |
Hernando's Hideaway (C & F) (Richard Adler & Jerry Ross, 1957) from "The
Pajama Game"
This tango show tune, largely in
long meter, was
sung in the stage and film versions of the musical by Carol Haney. The
song is about a fictional invitation-only nightclub of the same name
where lovers can meet for secret rendezvous. According to author Dave
Hoekstra, "Hernando's Hideaway" was based on "Hilltop," an establishment
in East Dubuque, Ill. that had been a speakeasy in the 1920s (where Al
Capone once hid out from the Chicago police) before turning into a
supper club. In the few years after the song's release, a number of
artists had hit recordings of it, including Archie Bleyer, Johnnie Ray
and The Johnston Brothers. The original Broadway production (1954) won
three Tony awards including Best Musical.
Hernando’s
Hideaway, Wikipedia;
The Pajama Game,
Wikipedia; Long meter,
Wikipedia. |
Hernando’s
Hideaway by Carol Haney (the 1954 cast recording)
Hernando’s
Hideaway by Carol Haney (the 1957 film soundtrack recording)
Hernando’s
Hideaway by Carol Haney and John Raitt (clip from the 1957 film)
Hernando’s
Hideaway by Archie Bleyer (hit #2 on Billboard)
Hernando’s
Hideaway by Johnnie Ray (hit #11 on the UK Singles Chart) |
High Hopes
(James Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn, 1959) from the movie "A Hole in the
Head"
High Hopes (Frank Sinatra song),
Wikipedia;
High Hopes, Wikiwand |
High Hopes by
Frank Sinatra and Eddie Hodges (audio)
High Hopes by
Frank Sinatra and Eddie Hodges (movie clip) |
Hoist The Colors High (Lyrics by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, Music
by Hans Zimmer and Gore Verbinski, 2007)
A song featured in the feature film, "Pirates of the
Caribbean: At World's End" (2007). The song tells the tale of Calypso's
binding by the First Brethren Court. and is used in the film as a call
to arms for the members of the Brethren Court. At the beginning of the
film, the song was sung by assembled men and women sentenced for
execution by the East India Trading Company at Fort Charles in Port
Royal. The song was inspired by a legend claiming that the children's
nursery rhyme "Sing a Song of Sixpence" was used by confederates of the
notorious pirate Blackbeard as a coded reference to recruit crew
members.
Hoist the Colours, Disney Fandom;
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Wikipedia;
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (soundtrack), Wikipedia;
Pirates and Sing a Song of Sixpence, Snopes;
Sing a
Song of Sixpence, Wikipedia. |
Hoist the Colors High
from the beginning of Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At Worlds
End." |
I Am Hawaii
Mack David and Elmer Bernstein, 1966) from "Hawaii"
"I Am Hawaii," also known as "Hawaii", was the 1966 theme
song composed by Elmer Bernstein for the 1966 film "Hawaii." After the
film's release, Mack David added the lyrics, which was subsequently
covered by artists such as Don Ho (for the 1966 album, "Tiny Bubbles")
and Cathy Foy (in a medley with "Follow Me" from the 1962 film, "Mutiny
on the Bounty"), the winner of the 1975 Miss Hawaii pageant. Foy's cover
received greater national attention when it accompanied Angela Perez
Baraquio's hula performance on Miss America 2001 before Baraquio became
Miss America.
Hawaii (Elmer Bernstein song), Wikipedia. |
I Am Hawaii by
Don Ho
I Am Hawaii by
Cathy Foy (in a medley with "Follow Me") accompaning Miss Hawaii, Angela
Perez Baraquio's hula performance on Miss America 2001; Miss Baraquio
was subsequently crowned Miss America.
I Am Hawaii by
Emma Veary (Hawaiian Memories, 2012) |
I Got the Sun in the Morning (Irving Berlin, 1946) from "Annie Get
Your Gun"
I Got the Sun in the Mornin' (and the Moon at Night), Wikipedia. |
I Got the Sun in
the Morning by Ethen Merman
I Got the Sun in
the Morning by Doris Day
I Got the Sun in
the Morning by Mel Torme |
I
Got You Babe - TVUC 611_C
I
Got You Babe - TVUC 611_G |
I Got You Babe
by Sonny
& Cher |
I
Walk The Line (Johnny Cash, 1956)
A song that talks about marital fidelity, personal
responsibility, and avoiding temptation and criminal behavior. In an
interview, Cash stated, “I wrote the song backstage one night in 1956 in
Gladewater, Texas. I was newly married at the time, and I suppose I was
laying out my pledge of devotion." The unique chord progression for the
song was inspired by backwards playback of guitar runs on Cash's tape
recorder while he was in the Air Force stationed in Germany. While
performing the song on his TV show, Cash told the audience, with a
smile, "People ask me why I always hum whenever I sing this song. It's
to get my pitch." The humming was necessary since the song required Cash
to change keys several times while singing it. "Walk The Line" is a 2005
biopic of Cash starring Joaquin Phoenix.
I Walk The Line,
Wikipedia; Walk
The Line, Wikipedia. |
I Walk The Line
by Johnny Cash
I Walk the Line
by Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Three, Live at San Quentin State Prison
(Feb. 24, 1969)
I Walk The Line
by Joaquin Phoenix from the movie "Walk The Line" (2005) |
If I Were A Rich Man (Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock, 1964)
from "Fiddler On The Roof"
A show tune from the 1964 Broadway musical "Fiddler on
the Roof," it is performed by Tevye, the main character in the musical,
and reflects his dreams of glory. The title is inspired by a 1902
monologue by Sholem Aleichem in Yiddish, Ven ikh bin Rothschild (If I
were a Rothschild), a reference to the wealth of the Rothschild family,
although the content is quite different. The lyric is based in part on
passages from Sholem Aleichem’s 1899 short story "The Bubble Bursts."
Both stories appeared in English in the 1949 collection of stories
Tevye's Daughters. Tevye was portrayed by Zero Mostel in the
original 1964 Broadway play (the first musical theatre run in history to
surpass 3,000 performances) and by Chaim Topol in the 1971 motion
picture.
If I
Were A Rich Man (song), Wikipedia;
Fiddler on
the Roof, Wikipedia. |
If I Were a Rich
Man by Zero Mostel from the Broadway soundtrack of "Fiddler On The
Roof” (1964)
If I Were a Rich
Man by Zero Mostel (Performed at the 19th Tony Awards, June 13,
1965)
If I Were A Rich
Man by Chaim Topol from "Fiddler On The Roof” Motion Picture
soundtrack (1971)
If I Were A Rich
Man by Chaim Topol from "Fiddler On The Roof” Motion Picture (1971)
(movie clip) |
I’ll Fly Away - Kossoy Sisters
(Albert E. Brumley, 1929)
(C
&
G), featured in "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"
Written in 1929 and published in 1932, this song is said to have been
influenced by the 1924 secular ballad, "The Prisoner's Song". It has
been called the most recorded gospel song, and it is frequently used in
worship services by Baptists, Pentecostals, Nazarenes, the Churches of
Christ and many Methodists. It is also a standard song at bluegrass jam
sessions and is often performed at funerals. Author Albert E. Brumley
has been described as the "pre-eminent gospel songwriter" of the 20th
century with over 600 published songs. The listings at AllMusic are in
excess of 1000 published recordings.
I'll Fly Away,
Wikipedia. |
I'll Fly Away
by the Selah Jubilee Singers (1941)
I'll Fly Away
by Chuck Wagon Gang (1948)
I’ll Fly
Away by the Kossoy Sisters (1956)
from
"O Brother, Where Art Thou?"
I’ll Fly
Away by Alison Krauss & Gillian Welch
with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band from the soundtrack of "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" |
I'll Never Fall In Love Again (Burt Bacharach & Hal David, 1968)
from "Promises, Promises"
Written for the 1968 musical "Promises, Promises,"
several recordings of the song were released in 1969, the most popular
of which was by Dionne Warwick. In the fall of 1968, Bacharach and David
were asked by producer David Merrick to write the score for his new
musical.
But while Bacharach was soon hospitalized with pneumonia and wasn't able
to write the music, the hospitalization inspired Hal David to write:
'What do you get when you kiss a girl? / You get enough germs to catch
pneumonia / After you do, she'll never phone you.' After his release
from the hospital, Bacharach recalls, "I wrote the melody for 'I'll
Never Fall in Love Again' faster than I had ever written any song in my
life." It became the outstanding hit from the score and "pretty much
stopped the show every night." On Broadway, the song was sung by Jill
O'Hara and Jerry Orbach.
I'll Never Fall In Love Again, Wikipedia. |
I'll Never Fall In
Love Again by Jill O'Hara and Jerry Orbach from "Promises, Promises:
Original Broadway Cast Album" (1968)
I'll Never Fall In
Love Again by Johnny Mathis (1969)
I'll Never Fall In
Love Again by Dionne Warwick (1969). This version is
noted for Burt Bacharach playing a counterpoint melody on the piano,
which is heard at the fading Coda section of the song. Her recording
received the Grammy for won in the category of Best Contemporary Vocal
Performance, Female.
I'll Never Fall In
Love Again by Burt Bacharach (1969)
I'll Never Fall In
Love Again by Bobbie Gentry (1969) |
I'm Going to Go Back There Someday (C-G) (Paul Williams & Kenny
Ascher, 1979) from "The Muppet Movie"
This is Gonzo's song as he looks at the night sky,
reminiscing about being accidentally set adrift hanging onto a bunch
of balloons. Even after he has been rescued, he can't forget the
experience: "You can just visit, but I plan to stay; I'm going to go
back there someday." This is a startlingly abstract, melancholy
moment in the middle of a road movie, complete with a lonesome
cowboy harmonica and a sense that what we are able to see and know
on Earth is always going to be less than what we could see from
anywhere else. Source: "Rainbows,
Frogs, Dogs And 'The Muppet Movie' Soundtrack At 40, National
Public Radio (NPR) |
I'm
Going to Go Back There Someday by Gonzo, video clip from
"The Muppet Movie" (First release) (July 1979; performed by
Dave Goelz and Frank Oz)
I'm
Going to Go Back There Someday by Paul Williams & The
Great Gonzo (2016)
I'm
Going to Go Back There Someday by Diana Panton (2015) |
In The Good Old Summertime (lyrics by Ren Shields, music by
George Evans, 1902)
Shields and Evans were at first unsuccessfully trying
to sell this Tin Pan Alley song to one of New York's big sheet music
publishers. The publishers thought the topic of the song doomed it
to be forgotten at the end of the summer season. But, Blanche Ring,
who had helped to arrange the number, was enthusiastic about it and
at her urging it was added to her 1902 musical comedy show "The
Defender." The song was a hit from the opening night, with the
audience often joining in singing the chorus. The song became one of
the big hits of the era, selling popular sheet music and being
recorded by various artists of the day, including John Philip
Sousa's band in 1903. It has remained a standard often revived in
the decades since.
The song appeared in many films, including the 1949 Judy Garland
film "In the Good Old Summertime." The book Elmer Gantry
opens with the title character drunkenly singing the song in the
saloon.
In The Good
Old Summertime, Wikipedia.
In The Good Old Summertime
Sheet music is available at IMSLP |
In The
Good Old Summertime by Sousa's Band (1903); instrumental
verses with chorus being sung.
In The Good Old Summertime by by the Haydn Quartet
(1903); both verses and the chorus.
In The Good Old Summertime by The Andrews Sisters & Dan Dailey (1949);
chorus, first verse, chorus, instrumental chorus, second verse, chorus.
In The Good Old Summertime by Nat King Cole for the album "Those
Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer" (1963). Altered lyrics (first person). Chorus,
chorus, chorus.
In The
Good Old Summer Time by Trudbol A Cappella Barbershop
Quartet; first verse and chorus.
"In
the Good Old Summertime" (1949) Trailer (3:01), starring Judy Garland and
Van Johnson. (Garland's three-year-old daughter, Liza Minnelli, makes her film
debut, walking with her mother and Van Johnson in the film's closing shot.) |
Keep on the Sunny Side
(C, D, G) &
Keep on the Sunny Side (C) featured in "O Brother, Where Art
Thou?"
(Ada Blenkhorn and J. Howard Entwisle,
1899)
Ada Blenkhorn wrote the song for his
disabled nephew who always wanted his wheelchair pushed down "the
sunny side" of the street.
The Carter Family learned of the song from A. P. Carter's uncle who
was a music teacher, and they recorded the song in Camden, New
Jersey in 1928. "Keep on the Sunny Side" became their theme song on
the radio in later years. Several additional recordings were made
including those by the Carter Family, Johnny Cash, and June Carter
Cash. A recording of the song with The Whites was featured in the
2000 movie "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"
Keep
On The Sunny Side, Wikipedia.
Keep_On_The_Sunny_Side-1902
(Sheet Music) |
Keep on the Sunny Side
by The Carter Family (1928)
Keep on the Sunny Side
by The Whites from "O Brother,
Where Art Thou?" (2000)
Keep On The Sunny
Side by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Mother Maybelle Carter |
La Bamba
(adapted from a Mexican folk song by Richard Steven
Valenzuela, 1958)
"La Bamba" is a Mexican folk song, originally
from the state of Veracruz, best known from a 1958
adaptation by Ritchie Valens, a top 40 hit in the U.S.
charts and one of early rock and roll's best-known songs.
"La Bamba" has been covered by numerous artists, most
notably by Los Lobos, whose version was the title track of
the 1987 film "La Bamba" and reached #1 in the U.S. and UK
singles charts in the same year, earning Valens retroactive
credit with writing a #1 single. The Los Lobos version
remained #1 for three weeks in the summer of 1987.
Valens, who was proud of his Mexican heritage, was hesitant
at first to merge "La Bamba" with rock and roll but then
agreed. The song has appeared on numerous "best of" lists
including being ranked #345 on Rolling Stone magazine′s list
of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time." In 2019, Valens'
version was selected by the Library of Congress for
preservation in the National Recording Registry for being
"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Richard Steven Valenzuela (May 13, 1941 – February 3, 1959)
- a rock and roll pioneer and a forefather of the Chicano
rock movement - was only eight months into his recording
career at the time of his death. On February 3, 1959, on
what has become known as "The
Day the Music Died", Valens died in a plane crash in
Iowa, an accident that also claimed the lives of fellow
musicians Buddy Holly and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson,
as well as pilot Roger Peterson. Valens was posthumously
inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001.
La
Bamba, Wikipedia;
Ritchie Valens, Wikipedia. |
La
Bamba by Ritchie Valens (1958)
La
Bamba by Los Lobos from the movie "La Bamba" (1987); Lou
Diamond Phillips starred as Valens.
In 2017, the film was selected for
preservation in the United States National Film Registry by
the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically,
or aesthetically significant".
La
Bamba by Los Lobos (Original Videoclip) |
Light My Fire (Gm) &
Light My Fire (Dm) (Jim Morrison, Robby Krieger, John Densmore,
Ray Manzarek, 1966)
Released as an edited single on April 24, 1967, it
spent three weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in
late July, and one week on the Cash Box Top 100, nearly a year after
its recording. In 1968, their version re-entered the Billboard Hot
100 following the success of José Feliciano's cover version of the
song, which peaked at #3 on the Hot 100.
The song is ranked at number 35 on
Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
"Light My Fire" was performed live by the Doors on The Ed Sullivan
Show, September 17, 1967. Although the band agreed to change one of
the lines, during the live performance, the band's lead singer Jim
Morrison sang the original, unaltered lyrics. Ed Sullivan did not
shake Jim Morrison's hand as he left the stage and although The
Doors had been negotiating future appearances, they were informed
they would never perform on the show again.
Light My Fire,
Wikipedia. |
Light
My Fire by The Doors from the album "The Doors" (1967)
(2017 Remaster)
Light
My Fire by The Doors (the 'edited' single, 1967)
The album version was over
7 minutes long; the "edited" single was reduced to 3
minutes for airplay on AM radio.
Light
My Fire by The Doors (Live, 1967)
Light
My Fire by Jose Feliciano (1968)
Light
My Fire by Jose Feliciano (1968 TV appearance)
Light
My Fire by Amii Stewart from her 1979 album "Knock On
Wood" (1979) (Official Video)
Light
My Fire by Shirley Bassey (1999)
Light
My Fire by Will Young (2002) (Official Video) |
Mack the
Knife (Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, 1928) for "The Threepenny
Opera" (German: Die Dreigroschenoper)
Mack the Knife, Wikipedia |
Mack the Knife
by Bobby Darin |
Man In
The Moon (Michael Stipe, Bill Berry & Peter Buck, 1992)
Lyrically, the song is a tribute to the comedian and
performer Andy Kaufman, with numerous references to his career,
including his Elvis impersonation, wrestling, and the film "My Breakfast
with Blassie." The song's title and chorus refer to the Moon landing
conspiracy theories, as an oblique allusion to rumors that Kaufman's
death in 1984 was faked. The song gave its name to "Man on the Moon"
(1999), Miloš Forman's film based on Kaufman's life, and was featured
prominently in the film's soundtrack. It remains one of R.E.M.'s most
popular songs.
Man In
The Moon, Wikipedia. |
Man In The Moon
by R.E.M. from their 1992 album "Automatic for the People."
Man In The Moon
by R.E.M. (official orchestral version) |
Man Of Constant Sorrow
& Man
of Constant Sorrow (C) - Version 1
(Dick Burnett, 1913)
featured in "O Brother, Where
Art Thou?"
"Man of Constant Sorrow" is a
traditional American folk song first published in 1913 by Dick
Burnett, a partially blind fiddler from Kentucky, with the title
"Farewell Song" in a six-song songbook titled "Songs Sung by R. D.
Burnett—The Blind Man—Monticello, Kentucky." It was first recorded
by Emry Arthur in 1928, which gave the song its current title. There
exist a number of versions of the song that differ in their lyrics
and melodies. "Second Hand Songs" reports 84 different versions,
under several different titles.
It appeared in the 2000 film "O Brother, Where Art
Thou?," where it plays a central role in the plot, performed by "the Soggy Bottom Boys" (George Clooney, George Nelson
and John Turtorro, with the real-life vocals provided by Harley
Allen, Pat Enright, and Dan Tyminksi, lead vocalist). The songs was
included in the film's highly successful, multiple-platinum-selling
soundtrack. This recording won a Grammy for Best Country
Collaboration at the 44th Annual Grammy Awards in 2002.
Man
Of Constant Sorrow, Wikipedia;
Farewell Song, Second Hand Songs;
I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow, American Songwriter. |
Man of
Constant Sorrow by The Soggy Bottom Boys featuring Dan
Tyminski from the movie "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" (2000)
(clip from the movie)
Man of
Constant Sorrow by the Stanley Brothers (1950)
Man of
Constant Sorrow by Ralph Stanley
Man of
Constant Sorrow by Bob Dylan (1961)
Man of
Constant Sorrow by Alison Krauss & Union Station (2002
live performance in Louisville, Kentucky) |
Memory
(Andrew Lloyd Webber & Trevor Nunn, 1981) from the Broadway musical
"Cats" (C)
Based on the T. S. Eliot poem "Rhapsody
on a Windy Night", it is sung primarily by the character Grizabella as a melancholic
remembrance of her glamorous past and as a plea for acceptance. "Memory"
is the climax of the musical and by far its best-known song, having
achieved mainstream success outside of the musical. According to
musicologist Jessica Sternfeld, it is "by some estimations the most
successful song ever from a musical." Elaine Paige originated the role
of Grizabella in the West End production of Cats, and was thus the first
to perform the song publicly on stage. "Memory" was named the Best Song
Musically and Lyrically at the 1982 Ivor Novello Awards. In the 2019
film adaptation featuring Jennifer Hudson as Grizabella, Jemima's
soprano part was given to Victoria the White Cat. "Cats"
was based on a 1939 book of poems by T. S. Eliot, "Old
Possum's Book of Practical Cats."
Memory (Cats
song), Wikipedia. |
Memory by
Elaine Paige from "Stages" (1983)
Memory by
Elaine Paige (1998 Reprise, video)
Memory by
Barbra Streisand (1981)
Memory by
Barry Manilow (1982)
Memory by
Jennifer Hudson (2019) |
Midnight Special - TVUC 415 (G) from "Cool Hand Luke"
See: Carl Sandburg's 1927 The American Songbag,
"Midnight
Special," pp. 26-27, 217. |
The Midnight
Special by Creedence Clearwater Revival |
Moon River
(Henry Mancini & Johnny Mercer, 1961) (C, F & G) from "Breakfast
At Tiffany's"
Originally performed by Audrey Hepburn in "Breakfast At Tiffany's,"
winning an Academy Award for Best Original Song. The song also won the
1962 Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. |
Moon River by Audrey Hepburn (1961)
Moon River
by Andy Williams (1962) |
More (Riz Ortolani &
Nino Oliviero, English lyrics by Norman Newell) (in C & G; from the 1962
movie "Mondo Cane")
More (Theme from Mondo Cane),
Wikipedia. |
More by Bobby
Darin
More by Andrea
Bocelli
More by Andy
Williams (1964)
More by Doris
Day |
Mrs. Robinson
(Paul Simon, 1968) from "The Graduate"
Mrs. Robinson, Wikipedia |
Mrs. Robinson
by Simon and Garfunkel (LP)
Mrs. Robinson
by Simon and Garfunkel (movie soundtrack) |
New York New York (Minnelli) and
New York, New York (Sinatra) (John Kander & Fred Ebb, 1977)
"Theme
from New York, New York" is the theme song from the Martin
Scorsese film New York, New York (1977). It was written for and
performed in the film by Liza Minnelli. It remains one of the best-known
songs about New York City. In 2004 it finished #31 on AFI's 100
Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American Cinema.
In 1979, "Theme from New York, New York" was recorded by Frank Sinatra
for his album Trilogy: Past Present Future (1980), and has since become
closely associated with him. He occasionally performed it live with
Minnelli as a duet. Sinatra recorded it a second time for his 1993 album
Duets, with Tony Bennett.
Theme from New York, New York, Wikipedia. |
Theme from New
York, New York by Liza Minnelli (1977)
Theme from New
York, New York by Liza Minnelli (Video clip from the movie)
Theme from New
York, New York by Liza Minnelli performed in the middle of the 7th
inning at Shea Stadium during a New York Mets game, the first pro sports
event in New York after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Theme From New
York, New York by Frank Sinatra (1979) |
My Favorite Things (Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, 1959)
from the Broadway musical "The Sound of Music"
The original Broadway musical
places the song in the Mother Abbess's office, just before she sends
Maria to serve Captain von Trapp's family as governess to his seven
children. However, in the film adaptation, it was repositioned so that
Maria would sing it with the children during the thunderstorm scene in
her bedroom.
My
Favorite Things (song), Wikipedia;
The Sound of
Music, Wikipedia;
The
Sound of Music (film), Wikipedia. |
My Favorite Things
by Julie Andrews (from the soundtrack)
My Favorite Things
by Julie Andrews (movie clip) |
Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' (Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II,
1943) from "Oklahoma!"
The opening song by the character "Curly" whose "brimming
optimism is perfectly captured by Rodgers' ebullient music and
Hammerstein's buoyant pastoral lyrics." This was the Rodgers and
Hammerstein musical collaboration to be heard by theatre audiences. It
has become one of their most famous numbers and "quickly became one of
the most popular American songs to emerge from the wartime era, gaining
currency away from Broadway first on the radio and recordings, and then
later on numerous television variety shows."
Oh,
What A Beautiful Mornin', Wikipedia;
Oklahoma!,
Wikipedia;
Oklahoma! (1955 film), Wikipedia. |
Oh, What a
Beautiful Mornin’ by Gordon MacRae from the 1955 film |
Oklahoma
(Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, 1943) from the
Broadway musical "Oklahoma!"
The title song from the 1943 Broadway musical, named for
the setting of the musical play. The music and lyrics were written by
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. The melody is reprised in the
main title of the 1955 film version and in the overtures of both film
and musical productions. Orchestrator Robert Russell Bennett's massive
8-part chorale near the end of the song extends it to include a spelling
of the name, ending with an epic ritardando leading into one last
iteration of "Oklahoma." In 1953, the Oklahoma legislature chose it as
the state song of Oklahoma, the only official state song from a Broadway
musical.
Oklahoma (Rodgers and Hammerstein song), Wikipedia;
Oklahoma!,
Wikipedia;
Oklahoma! (1955 film), Wikipedia. |
Oklahoma by
Gordon Macrae, Charlotte Greenwood, James Whitmore, Shirley Jones, and
Jay C Flippen and Cast/Chorus from the 1955 motion picture soundtrack
Oklahoma by
Gordon Macrae, Charlotte Greenwood, James Whitmore, Shirley Jones, and
Jay C Flippen and Cast/Chorus (clip from the 1955 motion picture) |
Ol'
Man River (C G) (Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II) from the 1927
musical "Show Boat"
A show tune that contrasts the struggles and hardships of
African Americans with the endless, uncaring flow of the Mississippi
River. It is sung from the point of view of a black stevedore "Joe" on a
showboat, and is the most famous song from the show. The character Joe,
the stevedore who sings "Ol' Man River", was expanded from the novel and
written specifically by Kern and Hammerstein for Paul Robeson, already a
noted actor and singer. Although he is the actor most identified with
the role and the song, he was unavailable for the original production
due to its opening delay. However, Mr. Robeson played the role in the
1936 film version. In 2004, Robeson's version finished at #24 on AFI's
100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema, and was
inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2006. William Warfield played
the role of Joe in the 1951 film.
Ol' Man River,
Wikipedia; Show Boat,
Wikipedia. |
Ol' Man River
by Paul Robeson from the 1936 film Show Boat (film clip)
Ol' Man River
by Paul Robeson (audio recording, remastered)
Ol' Man River
by William Warfield from the 1951 film Show Boat (film clip) |
Old Time Rock and Roll
(Music by George Jackson & Thomas E. Jones III, Lyrics by Bob Seger (uncredited),
1978) featured in the film "Risky Business" (1983) (C)
Old Time Rock and Roll,
Wikipedia; Risky
Business, Wikipedia;
‘Old Time Rock & Roll’: The Story Behind Bob Seger’s Classic Rock Hit,
U Discover Music;
Old Time Rock And Roll by Bob Seger, Songfacts |
Old Time
Rock and Roll by Bob
Seger & The Silver Bullet Band from "Stranger in Town" (1978);
featureing the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section.
Old Time Rock and Roll by Tom
Cruise (lip sync), video clip from "Risky Business" |
On the Road Again - TVUC 513 (Willie Nelson, 1979) from "Honeysuckle
Rose" (C) |
On The Road Again by Willie Nelson (Official Audio)
On the Road Again
by Willie Nelson, Live from the Grand Ole Opry
On the Road Again
by Willie Nelson (audio only and probably a better version in terms of
the melody). |
On the Sunny Side of the Mountain (Harry C. "Big Slim" McAuliffe
& Bobby Gregory, 1944); often recorded as “Sunny Side Of The
Mountain.”
Sunny Side Of The Mountain,
Second Hand Songs;
Sunny Side of the Mountain, American Rhythm Music Magazine |
Sunny Side Of The
Mountain by Hank "The Singing Ranger" Snow (1944, released 1946)
On The Sunny Side
Of The Mountain by Hankshaw Hawkins (1947, 1956)
Sunny Side Of The
Mountain by The Stanley Brothers (1959)
Sunny Side of the
Street by Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys (Live) (1965)
Sunny Side Of The
Mountain by Jimmy Martin and The Sunny Mountain Boys (1965); this is
Jimmy and the Osborne Brothers; Jimmy Martin first sang with Bill
Monroe.
Sunny Side of the
Mountain by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band from "Will The Circle Be
Unbroken" (1972), with an assist by Jimmy Martin.
Sunny Side Of The
Mountain by The Osborne Brothers (1978) |
People
(Jule Styne & Bob Merrill, 1964) from "Funny Girl"
Written for the 1964 Broadway musical "Funny
Girl," starring Barbra Streisand, who later starred in the
1968 film
adaptation. It is based on the life and career of Broadway and film
star and comedian Fanny Brice and her stormy relationship with
entrepreneur and gambler Nicky Arnstein. Although covered by numerous
artists, it is considered one of Streisand's signature songs. In 1998,
Streisand's version was inducted in Grammy Hall of Fame. In 2004,
Streisand's version on the soundtrack of Funny Girl finished at #13 on
AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema.
People (Barbra Streisand song), Wikipedia. |
People by
Barbra Streisand (1964)
People by
Barbra Streisand (1968 Movie Soundtrack)
People by
Barbra Streisand (Movie clip)
People by Andy
Williams (1964)
People by Ella
Fitzgerald (1964)
People by
Florence Ballard and the Supremes (Live, 1964) |
Pretty Irish Girl
(Lawrence Edward Watkin & Oliver Wallace, 1959) featured in "Darby O'Gill And The Little
People." |
Pretty Irish Girl
sung by Janet Munro & Sean Connery (45 RPM recording)
Pretty Irish Girl
sung by Sean Connery & Janet Munro in "Darby O'Gill And The Little
People" (1959 Film Clips) |
Radio Ga Ga
(Roger Taylor, 1984)
The song makes reference to two important radio events of
the 20th century; Orson Welles' 1938 broadcast of H. G. Wells' The War
of the Worlds in the lyric "through wars of worlds/invaded by Mars", and
Winston Churchill's 18 June 1940 "This was their finest hour" speech
from the House of Commons, in the lyric "You've yet to have your finest
hour."
Radio Ga Ga,
Wikipedia. |
Radio Ga Ga by
Queen (audio)
Radio Ga Ga by
Queen (Official Video)
Radio Ga Ga by
Queen (Live Aid, Wembley, London) |
Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head (C) &
Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head (G) (Burt Bacharach &
Hal David) from "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"
Written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach for
the 1969 film, it won
an Oscar for Best Original Song. David and Bacharach also
won Best Original Score. The song was recorded by B. J.
Thomas in seven takes, after Bacharach expressed
dissatisfaction with the first six. The single by Thomas
reached No. 1 on charts in the United States, Canada, Norway
and reached No. 38 in the UK Singles Chart.
The film version featured a separate vaudeville-style
instrumental break in double time while Paul Newman
performed bicycle stunts.
In 2004, it finished at number 23 on AFI's "100 Years...100
Songs" survey of top tunes in American cinema. In 2008, the
single was ranked 85th on Billboard's Hot 100 All-Time Top
Songs. It was inducted inducted into the Grammy Hall Of Fame
in 2014.
Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head, Wikipedia |
Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head by B.J. Thomas (1969)
from the movie "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"
Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head, the bicycle scene
video clip from "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"
Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head by Dionne Warwick on
her album "I'll Never Fall in Love Again."
Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head by Johnny Mathis on
his album "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head." |
Red
River Valley (C) &
Red
River Valley (G) (Traditional)
A folk song and cowboy music
standard of uncertain origins that has gone by different names (such
as "Cowboy Love Song", "Bright Sherman Valley", "Bright Laurel
Valley", "In the Bright Mohawk Valley", and "Bright Little Valley"),
depending on where it has been sung. It is listed as Roud Folk Song
Index 756. It was first recorded as “Cowboy Love Song” in 1925 by
Carl T. Sprague, one of the first cowboy singers from Texas, but it
was fellow Texan Jules Verne Allen's 1929 "Cowboy's Love Song" that
gave the song its greatest popularity.
Canadian folklorist Edith Fowke offers anecdotal evidence that the
song was known in at least five Canadian provinces before 1896. The
earliest known written manuscript of the lyrics, titled "The Red
River Valley", bears the notations "Nemaha 1879" and "Harlan 1885."
Nemaha and Harlan are the names of counties in Nebraska, and the
names of towns in Iowa. The song appears in sheet music, titled "In
the Bright Mohawk Valley", printed in New York in 1896 with James J.
Kerrigan as the writer, but the song was thought to have been
adapted for a New York audience. The tune and lyrics were collected
and published in Carl Sandburg's 1927 The American Songbag, "Red
River Valley," pp. 130-131.
Red
River Valley, Wikipedia. |
Red
River Valley by Marty Robbins
Red
River Valley by Gene Autry in the 1936 Western film "Red
River Valley."
Red
River Valley by The Sons of the Pioneers |
Ring of Fire (G) &
Ring of Fire (C) (June Carter Cash & Merle Kilgore, ca. 1963)
The song was originally recorded by June's sister,
Anita Carter in early 1963. After hearing Anita's version, Cash
claimed he had a dream where he heard the song accompanied by
"Mexican horns". When it failed to become a hit, Johnny Cash
re-recorded it, adding the mariachi-style horns from his dream.
Although "Ring of Fire" sounds ominous, the term refers to falling
in love – which is what June Carter was experiencing with Johnny
Cash at the time. Some sources claim that Carter had seen the phrase
"Love is like a burning ring of fire," underlined in one of her
uncle A. P. Carter's Elizabethan poetry books.
"Ring of Fire" was ranked No. 4 on CMT's 100 Greatest Songs of
Country Music in 2003 and #87 on Rolling Stone's list of The 500
Greatest Songs of All Time.
Numerous cover versions of "Ring of Fire" have been produced, the
most commercially successful version being by Eric Burdon & the
Animals. Their version was recorded at the end of 1968, and made the
top 40 in four countries.
Ring of
Fire, Wikipedia. |
Ring
of Fire by Johnny Cash (Official Audio)
Ring
of Fire by Johnny Cash (Official Video)
Ring
of Fire by Eric Burdon & the Animals from their album
"Love Is" (1968)
Ring
of Fire by Joaquin Phoenix, clip from the movie
"Walk The Line" (2005), a biography of Johnny Cash
Ring
of Fire by Joaquin Phoenix, from the soundtrack of
the movie "Walk The Line" (2005), a biography of Johnny Cash
Ring of Fire-Mariachi Strum Patterns.pdf |
Rocket Man (Elton John and Bernie Taupin, 1972) featured in the
biopic "Rocketman" (2019) (Am, Dm, Em)
Rocket Man (song), Wikipedia;
Rocketman
(film), Wikipedia. |
Rocket Man (I
Think It's Going To Be A Long, Long Time) by Elton John (1972)
Rocket Man by
Taron Egerton from "Rocketman" (Official Video) |
Shine on Harvest Moon (Nora Bayes & Jack Norworth, 1908)
Shine On, Harvest Moon, Wikipedia
Shine On, Harvest Moon Sheet Music (PDF) from the
New York Public Library
|
Shine
On, Harvest Moon by Ada Jones and Billy Murray (1909)
Shine
On, Harvest Moon by Leon Redbone
|
Singin' in the Rain
(F) &
Singin' In The Rain
(C & G) (Arthur Freed & Nacio Herb Brown, ca. 1927)
Title song of the 1952
MGM movie, the song originally appeared in "The Hollywood
Revue of 1929", first performed by Cliff Edwards as
"Ukulele Ike" and later performed by the entire cast at the
end of the film. The song has an unusual form: the song
opens with a 32-bar chorus and then is followed by a 24-bar
verse that has the feeling of a bridge before the chorus
repeats.
In the 1929 film of the same name, in the sequence in which
Gene Kelly dances and sings the title song while spinning an
umbrella, splashing through puddles and getting soaked with
rain, Kelly was sick with a 103 °F (39 °C) fever. The water
used in the scene caused Kelly's wool suit to shrink during
filming which took 2 to 3 days to complete. In the American
Film Institutes' 2004 "100 Years...100 Songs," the song is
ranked #3.
PS. Debbie Reynolds was not a
dancer when she made "Singin' in the Rain." Kelly apparently
insulted her for her lack of dance experience, upsetting
her. Later Fred Astaire found Reynolds crying under a piano.
Hearing what had happened, he volunteered to help her with
her dancing. After the 15-hour shoot of the "Good Morning"
routine, Reynolds' feet were bleeding.
Baritone players may find some
challenges in making the chord changes in the song "Singin'
In The Rain." Here is a chart of options:
F, Am, Gm6 & C7 Combinations for Baritone Ukulele.pdf |
Singin' In The Rain by Gene Kelly (1952 recording)
Singin' In The Rain (film clip) by Gene Kelly from the
movie "Singing In The Rain" (1952) starring Gene Kelly,
Donald O'Connor, and Debbie Reynolds, regarded as one of the
best musicals ever made.
Singin' In The Rain by Cliff Edwards performing as
Ukulele Ike (1928 recording). A #1 Hit on the US Music
Charts for Cliff Edwards in 1929.
Singin' in the Rain (film clip) by Cliff Edwards
performing as Ukulele Ike in the movie "The Hollywood Revue
of 1929"
Singin' in the Rain by the cast of "The Hollywood Revue
of 1929" |
Sit Down You're Rocking the Boat (Frank Loesser, 1950) from the
Broadway musical "Guys And Dolls", 1955
Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat,
Wikipedia. |
Sit Down You're
Rocking The Boat (video from "Guys And Dolls", 1955) |
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (C) &
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (G) (Jerome Kern & Otto Harbach, 1933)
Written for the 1933 musical "Roberta," the song was
first recorded by Gertrude Niesen, with the orchestra of Ray
Sinatra, Frank Sinatra's second cousin. Paul Whiteman had the first
hit recording of the song on the record charts in 1934. The song was
reprised by Irene Dunne in the 1935 film adaptation of "Roberta,"
co-starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, and Randolph Scott. It was
a number 1 chart hit in 1959 for The Platters, and has been
frequently covered.
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, Wikipedia. |
(When Your Heart's On Fire)
Smoke
Gets In Your Eyes by Gertrude Niesen (1933)
(When Your Heart's On Fire)
Smoke
Gets In Your Eyes by Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra,
vocals by Bob Lawrence (1934) (an upbeat fox trot)
Smoke
Gets In Your Eyes by Irene Dunne (1935)
Smoke
Gets In Your Eyes by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers from
the movie "Roberta" (1935)
Smoke
Gets In Your Eyes by The Platters (1959)
Smoke
Gets In Your Eyes by The Platters from the movie
"American Graffiti" (1973) (video clip)
Smoke
Gets In Your Eyes by J. D. Souther from the movie
"Always" (1989) with Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfuss
(Dance scene in the bar)
Smoke
Gets In Your Eyes by The Platters from the movie
"Always" (1989) with Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfuss
(Ghost dancing scene)
Smoke
Gets In Your Eyes by J.D. Souther, Retrtospective
Soundtrack from the movie "Always" (1989) |
Some Enchanted Evening 2 (C & G)_(PJ) (Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, 1949)
from "South Pacific", plus two additional arrangements:
Some Enchanted Evening (Keith in G) and
Some Enchanted Evening (Jim's Ukulele in C & G)
It has been described as "the single biggest popular hit
to come out of any Rodgers and Hammerstein show." Andrew Lloyd Webber
describes it as the "greatest song ever written for a musical". In the
original Broadway production, "Some Enchanted Evening" was sung by
former Metropolitan Opera bass Ezio Pinza, who won the Tony Award for
Best Actor in 1950 for this role. In the 1958 film, the song is sung by
another Metropolitan Opera bass, Giorgio Tozzi, who dubbed the singing
for actor Rossano Brazzi. Tozzi's version finished at No. 28 on the 2004
American Film Institute list and television special, AFI's 100
Years...100 Songs.
Some
Enchanted Evening, Wikipedia. |
Some Enchanted
Evening - Ezio Pinza (recorded April 18, 1949, Original Broadway
cast recording of South Pacific). His single version reached No. 7 in
the Billboard charts in 1949.
Some Enchanted
Evening by Perry Como (1949). His single reached No. 1 in 1949
Some Enchanted
Evening by Frank Sinatra (1949), The 1949 version reached the No. 6
position in the Billboard charts.
Some Enchanted
Evening by Giorgio Tozzi (1958) for the film soundtrack
Some Enchanted
Evening by Jay & The Americans (1965). The group's single version
reached No. 13 on the Billboard charts in 1965. |
Somewhere
(Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim, 1957) for the Broadway musical
"West Side Story"
Employs a phrase from the slow movement of Beethoven's
'Emperor' Piano Concerto and also a longer phrase from the main theme of
Pyotr Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake."
Somewhere
(song), Wikipedia;
West Side Story,
Wikipedia. |
Somewhere by
Reri Grist (1957) from the album "West Side Story (Original Broadway
Cast)"
Somewhere from
the 1961 film
Somewhere by
The Supremes (1965)
Somewhere by
Barbra Streisand (1985) |
Standing On The Corner – Version 1 (Frank Loesser, 1956) from the
Broadway musical, "The Most Happy Fella."
Standing on the Corner (show tune),
Wikipedia. |
Standing on the
Corner by the Four Lads (1956)
Standing on the
Corner by Dean Martin (1956)
Standing on the
Corner by the Mills Brothers (1956) |
Stormy Weather (G) &
Stormy Weather (C) (Harold Arlen & Ted Koehler, 1933)
This 1933 torch song was first performed by
Ethel Waters in Harlem's The Cotton Club night club in 1933
and recorded it that year. Also 1933, for the first time in
history, the entire floor revue from Harlem's Cotton Club
went on tour, playing theatres in principal cities. The
revue was originally called "The Cotton Club Parade of 1933"
but for the road tour it was changed to the "Stormy Weather
Revue."
Ethel Waters' recording was inducted in the Grammy Hall of
Fame in 2003, and the Library of Congress honored the song
by adding it to the National Recording Registry in 2004.
Also in 2004, Lena Horne's version finished at number 30 on
AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American
cinema.
Stormy Weather (song), Wikipedia |
Stormy
Weather by Ethel Waters (1933)
Stormy
Weather by Lena Horne
Stormy
Weather by Billie Holiday with Lester Young and Count
Basie (1955)
Stormy
Weather by Etta James from "At Last!" (1960) |
Summer Nights
(Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, 1971)
"Summer Nights" is a popular song from the musical
"Grease," first performed on stage in Chicago in 1971 and then
opening on Broadway (1972) and the West End (1973); it was released
as a motion picture in 1978 becoming the highest-grossing musical
film ever at the time. Written by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, its
best-known version was recorded by John Travolta and Olivia
Newton-John for the1978 film adaptation, and released as a single
that same year. Its soundtrack album ended 1978 as the
second-best-selling album of the year in the United States, behind
the soundtrack of the 1977 blockbuster "Saturday Night Fever" (which
also starred Travolta).
"Summer Nights" was originally written for the stage show's
transition to Broadway and became a massive hit in both the United
States and United Kingdom during the summer of 1978. It reached #5
on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, #3 on Cash Box Top 100, and #1 in the
UK.. In 2004, the song finished at #70 in AFI's "100 Years...100
Songs" survey of top tunes in American cinema. In 2010, Billboard
ranked it #9 on their "Best Summer Songs of All Time" list.
According to Second Hand Songs, it has been covered or adapted
nearly three dozen times.
The script was based on Jim Jacobs' experience at William Taft High
School, Chicago. Warren Casey collaborated with Jim and together
they wrote the music and lyrics. It ran for eight months.
It opened on Broadway in 1972 and at the time that it closed in
1980, Grease's 3,388-performance run was the longest yet in Broadway
history, although it was surpassed by "A Chorus Line" on September
29, 1983. It went on to become a West End hit in 1973, a successful
feature film in 1978, plus 2 Broadway revivals, 4 West End revivals,
2 US tours, and one tour in the UK (as of 2017). It is a staple of
regional theatre, summer stock, community theatre, and high school
and middle school drama groups. It remains Broadway's 16th
longest-running show.
Summer Nights, Wikipedia;
Grease
(musical), Wikipedia;
Grease (film),
Wikipedia;
Summer Nights, Second Hand Songs;
AFI's 100
Years...100 Songs - American Film Institute |
Summer
Nights by John Travolta , Olivia Newton-John, & Cast
from the motion picture "Grease" and the album "Grease: The
Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture" |
Summertime
(George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin with lyrics by DuBose Heyward,
1934) (Dm)
An aria composed in 1934 by George Gershwin for the
1935 opera "Porgy and Bess," with lyrics by DuBose Heyward, the
author of the novel "Porgy" on which the opera was based. The song
soon became a popular and much recorded jazz standard, described as
"without doubt ... one of the finest songs the composer ever wrote
... Gershwin's highly evocative writing brilliantly mixes elements
of jazz and the song styles of blacks in the southeast United States
from the early twentieth century". Composer and lyricist Stephen
Sondheim has characterized Heyward's lyrics for "Summertime" and "My
Man's Gone Now" as "the best lyrics in the musical theater". There
have been over 30,000 recordings of "Summertime". In 2001, Porgy and
Bess was proclaimed the official opera of the state of South
Carolina.
Summertime (George Gershwin song), Wikipedia.
Porgy And
Bess, Wikipedia. |
Summertime by Abbie Mitchell (July 19, 1935), the first
recording featured George Gershwin playing the piano and
conducting the orchestra.
Summertime by Loulie Jean Norman from the 1959 movie
version of the musical. Plus the
video
from the movie "Porgy and Bess." This
rendition finished at #52 in AFI's "100 Years...100 Songs"
survey of top tunes in American cinema.
Summertime by Billie Holiday (September 1936), was the
first to hit the US pop charts, reaching #12.
Summertime by Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald.
Incomparable.
Summertime by Leontyne Price with Skitch Henderson
conducting the RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra (1963)
Summertime by Big Brother and the Holding Company
featuring Janis Joplin. David Starkey in his
article "Summertime" says that Joplin sings the song "with
the authority of a very old spirit". |
Sunrise, Sunset
(Jerry Bock & Sheldon Harnick, 1964) (Am & Dm) from
"Fiddler On The Roof"
A song from the 1964 Broadway musical and
1971 film "Fiddler on the Roof," performed at the wedding of
Tevye and Golde's eldest daughter, Tzeitel. The two parents
sing about how they can't believe their daughter has grown
up, while Hodel and Perchik sing about whether there may be
a wedding in the nearby future for them.
Lyricist Sheldon Harnick said:
"I do remember when we wrote "Sunrise Sunset," the
first person we played it for was Jerry Bock's wife...and
when I finished, then I looked at Jerry's wife Patti and I
was startled to see that she was crying. And I thought my
goodness; this song must be more effective than we even
know. And the same thing happened – I am not a pianist but
the music to "Sunrise Sunset" is easy enough so that I could
learn the piano part – and I played it for my sister. And
when I finished I looked and she had tears in her eyes. And
that was a very unusual experience."
The Irish Times said the song has a "hypnotic chorus".
AllMusic deemed it one of the film's "famous and
now-standard songs". The Broadway musical won nine Tony
Awards while the film won three Academy Awards and two
Golden Globe awards. Second Hand Songs reports 115
recordings of this song.
Sunrise, Sunset, Wikipedia;
Fiddler On The Roof (stage), Wikipedia;
Fiddler On The Roof (film), Wikipedia;
Sunrise, Sunset, Second Hand Songs |
Sunrise, Sunset from the 1964 Original Broadway Cast
Recording (Zero Mostel as Τevye)
Sunrise, Sunset from the 1971 movie (Chaim Topol as
Τevye) (Video clip)
Sunrise, Sunset by Shelton Harnick
Sunrise, Sunset by Robert Goulet |
Sweet
Georgia Brown (Ben Bernie, Maceo Pinkard & Kenneth Casey, 1925)
Composer Ben Bernie came up with the concept for the
song's lyrics after meeting Dr. George Thaddeus Brown in New York
City. Dr. Brown, a longtime member of the State House of
Representatives for Georgia, spoke about his daughter, Georgia, and
how after to the girl's birth on August 11, 1911, the Georgia
General Assembly had issued a declaration that she was to be named
Georgia after the state, an anecdote which would be directly
referenced by the song's lyric: "Georgia claimed her – Georgia named
her." The tune was first recorded on March 19, 1925, by bandleader
Ben Bernie, resulting in a five-week number one for Ben Bernie and
his Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra.
One of the most popular versions of "Sweet Georgia Brown" was
recorded in 1949 by Brother Bones and His Shadows and later adopted
as the theme song of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team in
1952.
Sweet Georgia Brown,
Wikipedia. |
Sweet
Georgia Brown by Brother Bones and His Shadows (1949)
Sweet Georgia Brown, Ella Fitzgerald & Duke Ellington
Orchestra
Sweet Georgia Brown, Ray Charles
Sweet Georgia Brown (Instrumental), an unnamed Dixieland
band. |
Take This Job And Shove It (David Allan Coe, 1977) (C)
Take This Job and Shove It, Wikipedia. |
Take
This Job and Shove It by Johnny Paycheck (1977) |
Takin' Care Of Business (Randy Bachman, 1973) (G & NN)
Takin' Care Of Business, Wikipedia. |
Takin'
Care Of Business by Bachman-Turner Overdrive (BTO)
(1973) |
That Old Black Magic (Harold Arlen & Johnny Mercer, 1942)
"That Old Black Magic" is a 1942 popular song, music by
Harold Arlen with the lyrics by Johnny Mercer. They wrote it for the
1942 film "Star Spangled Rhythm," when it was sung by Johnny Johnston
and danced by Vera Zorina. The song was nominated for the Academy Award
for Best Original Song in 1943 but lost out to "You'll Never Know".
Mercer wrote the lyrics with Judy Garland in mind, who was an occasion
partner.
That Old Black Magic, Wikipedia. |
That Old Black
Magic by Judy Garland (1942)
That Old Black
Magic by Johnny Mercer (1974)
That Old Black
Magic by Ella Fitzgerald (1961)
That Old Black
Magic by Frank Sinatra (1961)
That Old Black
Magic by Marilyn Monroe from her film "Bus Stop" (Video Clip, 1956) |
The Ballad of Thunder Road (C) &
The Ballad of Thunder Road (G) (Don Raye & Robert
Mitchum, 1957), theme song of the movie "Thunder Road."
This song was performed and co-written by
actor Robert Mitchum in 1957. The song made the Billboard Hot 100 twice,
in 1958 and 1962. The song moves ominously between minor and
major keys. Mitchum got the tune for the song from a
Norwegian folk-dance (Gammel Reinlender) song his mother
used to sing to him. It has been incorrectly written that
Jack Marshall was a co-author. The record label from 1958
identifies Marshall as the conductor of the orchestra and
chorus that accompanied Mitchum on the recording.
The Ballad of Thunder Road, Wikipedia |
The
Ballad of Thunder Road by Robert Mitchum
The
Ballad of Thunder Road by the Charlie Daniels Band |
The Impossible Dream (The Quest) (Mitch Leigh and Joe Darion, 1965)
from the Broadway musical "Man of La Mancha"
The Impossible Dream (The Quest), Wikipedia;
Man of La
Mancha, Wikipedia;
Man of
La Mancha (film), Wikipedia.
|
The Impossible
Dream by Richard Kiley on the original Broadway cast album of "Man
of La Mancha" (1965)
The Impossible
Dream by Simon Gilbert from the 1972 film adaptation
The Impossible
Dream by Frank Sinatra (1966)
The Impossible
Dream by Jim Nabors (1966)
The Impossible
Dream by Aretha Franklin performed the song at the 2005 funeral of
civil rights activist Rosa Parks |
The Music Of The Night (C) &
The Music Of The Night (F) (Andrew Lloyd Webber & Charles Hart, 1986)
from "The Phantom of the Opera"
This major song from the 1986
musical was written by Andrew
Lloyd Webber with lyrics by Charles Hart. The song is sung after the
Phantom lures Christine Daaé to his lair beneath the Opera House. He
seduces Christine with "his music" of the night, his voice putting her
into a type of trance. He sings of his unspoken love for her and urges
her to forget the world and life she knew before. The Phantom leads
Christine around his lair, eventually pulling back a curtain to reveal a
mannequin dressed in a wedding gown resembling Christine. When she
approaches it, it suddenly moves, causing her to faint. The Phantom then
carries Christine to a bed, where he lays her down and goes on to write
his music.
Initially made famous by Michael Crawford, the actor who originated the
role of the Phantom both in the West End and on Broadway, "The Music of
the Night" has appeared on many cast recordings of the musical, sold
millions of copies worldwide, and has been translated into many
languages.
The Music
of the Night, Wikipedia |
The Music of the
Night from "The Phantom of the Opera" (1986) |
The Rainbow Connection (Paul Williams & Kenneth Ascher,
1978) (C F & G) from "The Muppet Movie"
A song from the 1979 film "The Muppet Movie"
performed by Kermit the Frog (Jim Henson) playing the banjo
in the film. It reached #25 on the Billboard Hot 100 in
November 1979, remaining in the Top 40 for seven weeks.
Williams and Ascher received an Academy Award nomination for
Best Original Song at the 52nd Academy Awards.
Williams has said that his favorite lyrics in the song are
"Who said that every wish/ Would be heard and answered/ When
wished on the morning star?/ Somebody thought of that/ And
someone believed it/ Look what it's done so far", because
they imply that "there's power in your thoughts". He also
noted that the lyrical phrasing was written specifically
with Kermit’s speech patterns in mind.
Allmusic observed that "'Rainbow Connection' serves the same
purpose in "The Muppet Movie" that "Over the Rainbow" served
in "The Wizard of Oz," with nearly equal effectiveness: an
opening establishment of the characters' driving urge for
something more in life."
The American Film Institute named "Rainbow Connection" the
74th greatest movie song of all time in AFI's 100
Years...100 Songs. Kermit the Frog reprised the song on The
Muppet Show in 1980 as a duet with Debbie Harry when she was
a guest star.
Rainbow Connection, Wikipedia |
Rainbow Connection by Kermit the Frog (Jim Henson) from
the 1979 film "The Muppet Movie" (Video clip)
Rainbow Connection by Kermit the Frog (Jim Henson)
(Video Clip)
Rainbow Connection by Kermit the Frog (Jim Henson),
Soundtrack version
Rainbow Connection by The Carpenters from the 1981 album
"Made in America"
Rainbow Connection by Willie Nelson (Official Video,
2001) |
The Sadder But Wiser Girl (Meredith Willson, 1957) from the Broadway
musical "The Music Man"
Yup. Right here in River City (Decatur, Ala.?).
The Music Man,
Wikipedia;
The
Music Man (1962 film), Wikipedia. |
The
Sadder-but-Wiser Girl for Me by Robert Preston from the 1957
Broadway soundtrack
The
Sadder-but-Wiser Girl for Me by Robert Preston (1962 movie clip) |
The Sound of Music (F) &
The Sound of Music (C F G)
(Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, 1959) from the Broadway
musical "The Sound of Music"
The title song from the 1959
musical introduces the character of Maria, a young novice in an Austrian
abbey.
The Sound of Music (song), Wikipedia;
The Sound of
Music, Wikipedia;
The
Sound of Music (film), Wikipedia. |
The Sound of Music
by Julie Andrews (1965 movie soundtrack)
The Sound of Music
by Julie Andrews (opening scene in the movie) |
The Surrey With The Fringe On Top (Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II,
1943) from "Oklahoma!" (Version 3 in G; a version in C is
pending)
The Surrey With The Fringe
On Top.docx (Text only - no chord diagrams - in A, C, D, Eb, F &
G)
In Oklahoma Territory, in 1906, cowboy Curly McLain looks
forward to a beautiful day as he visits farm girl Laurey Williams's yard
("Oh,
What A Beautiful Mornin'"). He and Laurey tease each other, while
her Aunt Eller looks on. There will be a box social dance that night and
Curly asks Laurey to go with him, but she refuses, feeling that he has
waited too long. To persuade her, he says he will take her in the finest
carriage money can buy, a Surrey with the fringe on top, but she teases
him about it until he says he made it up to get back at her. She
flounces off, not realizing that he really has rented such a surrey.
The Surrey With the Fringe on Top, Wikipedia;
Oklahoma!,
Wikipedia;
Oklahoma! (1955 film), Wikipedia. |
The Surrey With
The Fringe On Top by Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones & Charlotte
Greenwood from the 1955 film soundtrack.
The Surrey With
The Fringe On Top by Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones & Charlotte
Greenwood from the 1955 film (video clip). |
The Yellow Rose of Texas (Traditional, 1850s) (C & Nashville
Notation)
This is a traditional American folk song dating back
to at least the 1850s. Members of the Western Writers of America
chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. It became
popular during the American Civil War. The version by Mitch Miller
went to #1 in 1955.
Featured in the movie of the same name.
Yellow Rose of Texas, Wikipedia. |
Yellow
Rose of Texas by Elvis Presley
Yellow
Rose of Texas by Gene Autry
Yellow
Rose of Texas by Mitch Miller
Yellow
Rose of Texas by Mitch Miller (Video) |
They Call the Wind Maria (Alan J. Lerner & Frederick
Loewe, 1951) (C & F) from "Paint Your Wagon"
"A sad and wistful song
about being far from home" wrote Princeton University
historian Robert V. Wells about the popular song from the
1951 Broadway musical "Paint Your Wagon." A striking feature
of the song in the original orchestration (also used in many
cover versions), is a driving, staccato rhythm, played on
the string instruments, that evokes a sense of restless
motion. First recorded by Vaughn Monroe and his Orchestra in
1951 it has been covered by a wide selection of artists.
Best known is the version by Harve Presnell for the 1969
movie adaptation.
The song came from the protagonist in George Rippey
Stewart's 1941 novel "Storm." In the 1947 reprint, Stewart
wrote about the pronunciation of "Maria":
"The soft Spanish pronunciation is fine for some
heroines, but our Maria here is too big for any man to
embrace and much too boisterous." He went on to say, "So put
the accent on the second syllable, and pronounce it 'rye'".
On the song sheet, we've kept the phonetic spelling of
"Mariah."
The American singer, songwriter and producer Mariah Carey
was named after this song.
They Call the Wind Maria, Wikipedia |
They
Call the Wind Maria by Harve Presnell from the movie
"Paint Your Wagon" (1969)
They
Call the Wind Maria by Vaughn Monroe and his Orchestra
(1951)
They
Call the Wind Maria by the Kingston Trio (1960)
They
Call the Wind Maria by Ed Ames (1969)
They
Call the Wind Maria by the Baja Marimba Band (1969)
They
Call the Wind Maria by The Browns |
This Land is Your Land (Lyrics by Woody Guthrie, 1940; Music
"When the World's on Fire," a Carter Family tune which was based on
"Oh, My Loving Brother", a Baptist gospel hymn)
Written in 1940, recorded in
1944, and published 1945; in 2002, "This Land Is Your Land" was one
of 50 recordings chosen by the Library of Congress to be added to
the National Recording Registry.
As with other folk songs, it was sung with different words at
various times although the motives for any particular change of
lyrics may involve the possible political interpretations of the
verses. Recordings of Guthrie have him singing the verses with
different words. It has also been the subject of many parodies.
Inspired by its political message, the song was revived in the 1960s
by several artists of the new folk movement, including Bob Dylan,
The Kingston Trio, Trini Lopez, Jay and the Americans, and The New
Christy Minstrels. Numerous other artists have covered the song
including Peter, Paul and Mary, Pete Seeger, and Arlo Guthrie.
Featured in the biopic of Woodie Guthrie, "Bound for Glory."
This
Land Is Your Land, Wikipedia. |
This
Land Is Your Land by Woody Guthrie (1940) |
To Sir, With Love (Don Black & Marc London, 1967) (C & G) |
To Sir, With Love
by Lulu (1967) |
Today (Randy
Sparks, 1964) from the movie "Advance To The Rear." Also
available is a version in F with two key changes:
Today (F) Key Changes.pdf
Today (The New Christy Minstrels song), Wikipedia. |
Today by The
New Christy Minstrels
Today by Bobby
Goldsboro |
Toora Loora Looral
(James Royce Shannon, 1913)
"Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral (That's an Irish
Lullaby)" is an Irish-American song written in 1913 by James Royce
Shannon (1881–1946) for the Broadway musical "Shameen Dhu" (32
performances; Feb. 2, 1914 - Feb. 28, 1914). The original recording of
the song on July 30, 1913 by Chauncey Olcott, peaked at #1 on the music
charts in December 1913. Bing Crosby's performance in the 1944 "Going My
Way" renewed the song's popularity. Crosby's single sold over a million
copies and peaked at #4 on the Billboard music charts; because of
problems with the original, he re-recorded the song on July 17, 1945. It
has been recorded by many artists.
Sheet Music:
Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral-Original Sheet Music |
Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral (That's An Irish Lullaby), The Irish Tenors
from "The Irish Tenors Live From Dublin" (1998). Both verses and chorus.
Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral (That's An Irish Lullaby), Bing Crosby the
1945 re-recording; featured in the movie "Going My Way" (1944) (Chorus &
First Verse)
Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral (That's An Irish Lullaby), Dennis Day
Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral (That's An Irish Lullaby), Chauncey Olcott
(1913), Original hit recording. |
Try
To Remember (Updated Arrangement with 5 chords) (Tom Jones & Harvey Schmidt, ca. 1960)
Try
To Remember 2.pdf (May 2, 2020, arrangement with 11
chords) from "The Fantastics"
From the musical comedy
"The Fantasticks", originally sung by Jerry Orbach in 1960.
"Try to Remember" made the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart three
times in 1965 in versions recorded by six groups or
individuals. The show's original Off-Broadway production ran
a total of 42 years (until 2002) and 17,162 performances,
making it the world's longest-running musical. It was
revived August 23, 2006, and ran until June 4, 2017, for an
additional 4,390 performances. Off Broadway, the show ran
for a total of 53 years and 21,552 performances! The musical
has played throughout the US and in at least 67 foreign
countries. "The Fantasticks" has become a staple of
regional, community and high school productions since its
premiere, with approximately 250 new productions each year.
It is played with a small cast, two- to three-person
orchestra and minimalist set design.
Try To Remember, Wikipedia |
Try to Remember by Jerry Orbach (Live TV, 1972)
Try to Remember by The Brothers Four (1965)
Try to Remember by The Brothers Four, "Campfire 14"
Try to Remember by The Kingston Trio (1965)
Try to Remember by Josh Groban from his album "Stages"
(2015) |
Un Poco Loco
(Adrian Molina / Germaine Franco) (C & G) from "Coco"
From the 2017 Disney/Pixar movie "Coco," this song is
sung by Miguel and Hector who are performing at a music contest in the
Land Of The Dead.
Un Poco Loco, Disney Fandom; Not to be confused with "Un
Poco Loco" (Jazz song by Bud Powell), Wikipedia |
Un Poco Loco
from the 2017 Disney/Pixar movie "Coco" |
What Kind of Fool Am I (Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley, 1961)
from the stage musical "Stop the World - I Want to Get Off"
Stop the World – I Want to Get Off,
Wikipedia |
What Kind Of Fool
Am I by Anthony Newley from the 1962 Broadway musical soundtrack
What Kind Of Fool
Am I by Sammy Davis Jr. |
When I'm Gone (originally
"Cups" aka "The Cup Song") (A. P. Carter, 1931)
The original song "When I'm
Gone" was written by A. P. Carter, then recorded in 1931 by the
Carter Family. The song was reworked in 1937 by J. E. Mainer. It was
altered and recorded under the title "You're Gonna Miss Me" by Lulu
and The Lampshades (2009).
Amanda Dobbins and Linsey Fields,
A Comprehensive History of the ‘Cups’ Phenomenon, Teen Things,
Aug. 15, 2013
Additional Lyrics:
|
When
I'm Gone by the Carter Family (1931)
Miss
Me When I’m Gone, J.E. Mainer (1937)
You're
Gonna Miss Me by Lulu and The Lampshades (2009)
Cups
(You're Gonna Miss Me) by Lulu and The Lampshades, live
and acoustic at Northampton Square Bandstand in Islington,
London for "Bandstand Busking"
Cups
by Anna Kendrick from the 2012 film "Pitch Perfect."
The
Cup Song by 1500 participants at the Collège
Saint-Bernard, Drummondville, France. Includes pre-school,
primary, and secondary school students, staff,
administrators, and others. |
While Strolling Through the Park One Day ("The Fountain in the Park") (Ed
Haley, ca. 1880)
Published in 1884 by Willis Woodward & Co. of New York,
but dating from about 1880, it is best known for the being the source of
the tune that contains the lyric "While strolling through the park one
day, in the merry merry month of May," and has been featured in numerous
films, including "Strike Up the Band" (1940), in which it was sung by
Judy Garland.
A few bars of "The Fountain in the Park" were sung on the Moon by NASA
Astronauts Harrison Schmitt and Eugene Cernan on the Apollo 17 mission.
Schmitt started by singing "I was strolling on the Moon one day..." when
Cernan joined in. Cernan kept with the original "merry month of May",
however, while Schmitt sang "December", which was the actual date of the
mission.
The
Fountain in the Park (Strolling Through the Park One Day),
Wikipedia. |
Strolling Through
the Park One Day by The Perfect Gentlemen
Strolling Through
the Park One Day by The Muscrat Ramblers
Strolling Through
the Park One Day by Mitch Miller
The
Fountain In The Park Sheet Music.pdf (From the Library of Congress) |
Who’ll Stop the Rain (John Fogerty, 1969) (C & G)
Fogerty said in an interview "I was at
Woodstock 1969. I think. It was a nice event. I'm a
California kid. I went up there and saw a whole bunch of
really nice young people. Hairy. Colorful. It started to
rain, and got really muddy, and then (yelling) half a
million people took their clothes off!!! (Normal voice
again) Boomer generation making its presence known I guess.
Anyway, then I went home and wrote this song." Originally
recorded by Creedence Clearwater Revival for their 1970
album Cosmo's Factory, it was one of six singles from that
album to reach the top five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked it No. 188 on its "500
Greatest Songs of All Time" list. The Recording Industry
Association of America certified the album gold in 1970 and
platinum (4x) in 1990.
Who’ll Stop the Rain, Wikipedia;
Cosmo's Factory, Wikipedia. |
Who’ll
Stop the Rain by Creedence Clearwater Revival from
"Cosmo's Factory" (1970)
Who’ll
Stop the Rain by John Fogerty
Who’ll
Stop the Rain by John Fogerty with Bruce Springsteen and
Robbie Robertson of The Band at the 1993 Hall of Fame
Inductions
Who’ll
Stop the Rain by Bruce Springsteen live at Nassau
Colisseum, NY, December 29, 1980
Who’ll
Stop the Rain by Bruce Springsteen, live at Stockholm
Olympic Stadium, 1993 |
Wind Beneath My Wings (Jeff Silbar & Larry Henley, 1982)
(C & G)
First recorded by Kamahl in 1982 for a
country and western album he was recording but it was not
released because it was felt he did not suit the country and
western style. It was subsequently recorded by several other
artists including Roger Whittaker, Sheena Easton, Lee
Greenwood, Lou Rawls, Gladys Knight and The Pips, and in
1987 by Perry Como for his final studio album "Today." The
highest-charting version was recorded in 1988 by Bette
Midler for the soundtrack to the film "Beaches." It reached
#1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and in the Top 5 in the UK,
Iceland, New Zealand, and Australia; it won Grammy Awards
for both Record of the Year and Song of the Year in 1990. In
2004 Midler's version finished at No. 44 in AFI's 100
Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema.
Wind Beneath My Wings, Wikipedia. |
Wind
Beneath My Wings by Bette Midler (1988) (Official Music
Video);
Video
Clip from "Beaches" (1988)
Wind
Beneath My Wings by Roger Whittaker (1982)
Wind
Beneath My Wings by Lou Rawls (1983)
Wind
Beneath My Wings by Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwoʻole
Hero
(Wind Beneath My Wings) by Gladys Knight and The Pips
(1983)
Wind
Beneath My Wings by Perry Como from his album "Today"
(1987);
video
of his appearance on Evening At The Pops, August 14,
1988. |
Windmills of Your Mind (Michel Legrand and Eddy Marnay, "Les Moulins
de mon cœur"; English lyrics by Americans Alan and Marilyn Bergman,
1968) from the film "The Thomas Crown Affair" (1968)
The song (with the English lyrics) won the Academy Award for
Best Original Song. In the original 1968 film "The Thomas Crown Affair,"
the song is heard – sung by Noel Harrison – during opening credits; and,
during the film, in a scene in which the character Thomas Crown flies a
glider at the glider airport in Salem, New Hampshire
In 2004, "Windmills of Your Mind" was ranked 57 in AFI's 100 Years...100
Songs survey of top songs in American cinema. A cover by Sting was used
in the 1999 remake of "The Thomas Crown Affair."
Windmills of Your Mind, Wikipedia. |
Windmills of Your
Mind by Noel Harrison (1968)
Windmills of Your
Mind by Sting (Film clip from the 1999 version of "The Thomas Crown
Affair")
Windmills of Your
Mind by Dusty Springfield (1969)
Windmills of Your
Mind by José Feliciano |
Wouldn't It Be Loverly (Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, 1956),
for the 1956 Broadway play "My Fair Lady"
Wouldn't It Be Loverly,
Wikipedia; My Fair
Lady, Wikipedia;
My Fair Lady
(film), Wikipedia. |
Wouldn't It Be
Loverly by Julie Andrews from the Broadway soundtrack
Wouldn't It Be
Loverly by Marni Nixon (clip from the 1964 movie) |
Yankee
Doodle Boy (George M. Cohan & Kenneth Elkinson, 1904)
from the Broadway musical "Little Johnny Jones"
The play opened at the Liberty Theater on November 7, 1904. A
version of the song was recorded by Cohan's contemporary and fellow
Irish-American Billy Murray.
Eddie Buzzell sang "Yankee Doodle Boy" in the 1929 motion-picture
adaptation of "Little Johnny Jones." Jimmy Cagney played the role of
George M. Cohan and sang "Yankee Doodle Boy" in the Academy
Award-winning 1942 film "Yankee Doodle Dandy." Bob Hope popularized
the song further in the 1955 Academy Award-nominated film "The Seven
Little Foys." And in 1969 Joel Grey played George M. Cohan on
Broadway in the smash hit "George M!."
In 2004, the American Film Institute placed the song at #71 on its
"AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs."
The
Yankee Doodle Boy, Wikipedia;
The Yankee Doodle Boy,
Library of Congress. |
The
Yankee Doodle Boy by James Cagney from 1942 film "Yankee
Doodle Dandy"
The
Yankee Doodle Boy by Billy Murray (1905)
The
Yankee Doodle Boy by Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland in
the Ghost Theater Sequence of the film "Babes on Broadway"
(1941)
The
Yankee Doodle Boy by The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra
- - - - -
Full lyrics:
The Yankee Doodle Boy
Sheet Music:
The Yankee Doodle Boy-1904.pdf
The Zip file of the full lyrics and
sheet music (from the Library of Congress):
Yankee Doodle Boy.zip
These files are not included in
the "All Songs" compilations.
|
You Are My Sunshine (Paul
Rice, with the rights purchased by Jimmie Davis & Charles Mitchell,
1939) (C)
"You Are My Sunshine" is a song popularized by Jimmie
Davis and Charles Mitchell in 1939. It has been declared one of the
state songs of Louisiana because of its association with Davis, a
country music singer and governor of the state in the years
1944–1948 and 1960–1964.
The song has been recorded numerous times — so often, in fact, that
it is "one of the most commercially programmed numbers in American
popular music." In 1941, it was recorded by Gene Autry, Bing Crosby,
Mississippi John Hurt, Wayne King, and Lawrence Welk. The versions
by Autry, Crosby, and King reached the US charts of the day.
You Are
My Sunshine, Wikipedia. |
You
Are My Sunshine by The Rice Brothers Gang (1939)
You
Are My Sunshine by Jimmy Davis with the Charles Mitchell
Orchestra (1940)
You
Are My Sunshine by Johnny Cash and June Carter
You
Are My Sunshine by from "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"
(2000) |
You Gotta Have Heart (Richard Adler & Jerry Ross, 1955) from "Damn
Yankees"
"Damn Yankees" is a 1955 musical comedy that is a modern
retelling of the Faust legend. It was set during the 1950s in
Washington, D.C., during a time when the New York Yankees dominated
Major League Baseball. It is based on Douglass Wallop's 1954 novel "The
Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant." The Broadway musical was adapted to
film in 1958. Damn
Yankees, Wikipedia;
Damn Yankees
(film), Wikipedia. |
You Gotta Have Heart by Russ Brown, Jimmie Komack, Nathaniel Frey &
Albert Linville (Original Broadway Cast) (1955)
You Gotta Have
Heart by Eddie Fisher (1955)
You Gotta Have
Heart by The Four Aces (1955)
You Gotta Have
Heart by Peggy Lee (1959)
You Gotta Have
Heart by Russ Brown, Jimmie Komack, Nathaniel Frey & Albert Linville
from the 1958 film |
You'll Never Walk Alone (Rodgers and Hammerstein, 1945) from "Carousel"
In the second act of the musical, Nettie Fowler, the
cousin of the protagonist Julie Jordan, sings "You'll Never Walk Alone"
to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband, Billy Bigelow, the male
lead, falls on his knife and dies after a failed robbery attempt. It is
reprised in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which
Louise (Billy and Julie's daughter) is a member.
After the chart success of the 1963 cover by the Liverpool group Gerry
and the Pacemakers, the song was sung at football games, first at
Liverpool F.C. and later by other clubs around the world.
From 1964 through 2010, Jerry Lewis concluded the annual Jerry Lewis
Labor Day MDA Telethon by singing the song.
American singer Barbra Streisand performed this song in a surprise
appearance at the close of the 2001 Emmy Awards, in honor of the victims
of the September 11 attacks.
In some areas of the UK and Europe, "You'll Never Walk Alone" became the
anthem of support for medical staff, first responders, and those in
quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic.
You'll
Never Walk Alone, Wikipedia. |
You'll Never Walk
Alone by Christine Johnson (1945 original Broadway soundtrack)
You'll Never Walk
Alone by Claramae Turner (film adaptation)
You'll Never Walk
Alone by Gerry and the Pacemakers (1963)
You'll Never Walk
Alone by Barbra Streisand, 2001 Emmy Awards
You'll Never Walk
Alone by Jerry Lewis (1987 MDA Telethon)
You'll Never Walk
Alone by Frank Sinatra
You'll Never Walk
Alone by Judy Garland |