The UkeQuestors Zoom Jam Webpage

These are the songs for the weekly UkeQuestors Zoom Jam that is held on Sunday afternoons beginning at 2 p.m. (CDT) at Zoom.com.

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)

50 Ways To Beat Corona (Adaptation by Theresa Miller) (G)

50 Ways To Beat Corona by Anastasia Vishnevsky
(Fifty Ways To Beat This Virus - Steager & Vishnevsky (Em).pdf
Pamela Steager and Anastasia Vishnevsky, "with apologies to Paul Simon")

50 Ways To Leave Your Lover (Paul Simon, 1975) (Am)

50 Ways To Leave Your Lover by Paul Simon from "Still Crazy After All These Years" (1975)

59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) (Paul Simon, 1966)
"59th Street Bridge" is the colloquial name of the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge in New York City. The song's message is immediately delivered in its opening verse: "Slow down, you move too fast". The studio version features Dave Brubeck Quartet members Joe Morello (drums) and Eugene Wright (double bass).
A popular cover version "Feeling Groovy" was recorded by Harpers Bizarre in 1967, reaching #13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #4 on the Easy Listening chart. Their version featured a harmonic choral a cappella section and a woodwind quartet with a flute, oboe, clarinet, and bassoon.
The song has been covered by a number of artists, has appeared in TV commercials, TV shows, and movies. The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy), Wikipedia.

59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) by Simon & Garfunkel from their 1966 album "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme"

59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) by Simon & Garfunkel from the Concert in Central Park (Video)

59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) by Simon & Garfunkel, Live at Carnegie Hall, New York, July 1970

59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) by Harpers Bizarre (1967)

100 Year Moon Medley (compiled by Theresa Miller)

1. Moonlight Bay (Edward Madden & Percy Wenrich, 1912)

• Moonlight Bay, Wikipedia

• Moonlight Bay Sheet Music (PDF) from the New York Public Library

2. 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

3. By the Light of the Silvery Moon (Edward Madden & Gus Edwards, 1909)

• By the Light of the Silvery Moon, Wikipedia.

• By the Light of the Silvery Moon Sheet Music (PDF) from the New York Public Library

Moonlight Bay by the American Quartet (1912)

Moonlight Bay by the Beatles

Moonlight Bay by Leon Redbone

Shine On, Harvest Moon by Ada Jones and Billy Murray (1909)

Shine On, Harvest Moon by Leon Redbone

By The Light Of The Silvery Moon by the Peerless Quartet (1910)

By the Light of the Silvery Moon by Al Jolson (1946)

409 (Brian Wilson, Mike Love & Gary Usher, 1962) (C & G)
"409" was inspired by Gary Usher's obsession with hot rods. Its title refers to an automobile fitted with Chevrolet's 409-cubic-inch-displacement "big block" V8 engine. The song's narrator concludes with the description "My four speed, dual-quad, positraction four-oh-nine." This version of the engine - at 409 hp, achieving 1 hp per cubic inch - featured twin "D" series Carter AFB (Aluminum Four Barrel) carburetors ("dual-quads"). It was offered in new vehicles - Impala SS ["Super Sport"], the Biscayne, and in particular the Bel-Air sport coupe version, which could go from zero to 60 miles per hour in four seconds flat. It stayed one week on the Billboard Hot 100, at number 76, in October 1962. The song is credited for initiating the hot rod music craze of the 1960s. Lead vocals were by Mike Love. 409 cubic inches is equivalent to 6.7 liters; by way of comparison, 5 liters = 305 cubic inches. 409, Wikipedia; 409 by The Beach Boys, Songfacts.com; Metric Conversions.

409 by The Beach Boys from “Surfin’ Safari” (1962)

A Hard Day's Night (John Lennon & Paul McCartney, 1964) (C & G)

A Hard Day's Night (song), Wikipedia; A Hard Day's Night (film), Wikipedia.

A Hard Day's Night by The Beatles (single)

A Hard Day's Night by The Beatles (Music video)

A Hazy Shade of Winter (Paul Simon, 1965) (Am)
Initially as a stand-alone single, it was subsequently included on the duo's fourth studio album, "Bookends" (1968). The song dates back to Simon's days in England in 1965; it follows a hopeless poet, with "manuscripts of unpublished rhyme", unsure of his achievements in life. The lyrics recall the transition from fall to winter, as suggested by the repetition of the final chorus of the song:
     I look around,
     leaves are brown
     And the sky
     is a hazy shade of winter

     Look around,
     leaves are brown
     There's a patch of snow on the ground.
Author and disc jockey Pete Fornatale considered the lyrics evocative of, and standing in contrast with, those of John Phillips' "California Dreamin'". A Hazy Shade of Winter, Wikipedia

A Hazy Shade of Winter by Simon & Garfunkel (1966)

A Hundred Pounds of Clay  (Kay Rogers, Luther Dixon, & Bob Elgin, 1961)
In the early '60s, the BBC banned the song and wouldn't allow British radio stations to play it. The controversy arose not from the fact that it was a religious song, but because the censors interpreted the song as suggesting women were created simply to be sexual beings; the BBC felt the song was blasphemous, and banned it to avoid controversy. A Hundred Pounds of Clay, Wikipedia.

A Hundred Pounds of Clay by Gene McDaniels (1961)

A Kind of Hush (C & G) and A Kind Of Hush (Landscape in C) (Les Reed & Geoff Stephens, 1966)
Like that group's hit "Winchester Cathedral", this was conceived as a neo-British music hall number although it is a less overt example of that style. First recorded by the New Vaudeville Band on for their 1966 album "Winchester Cathedral," it became a hit for Herman's Hermits in 1967 and for the Carpenters in 1976. There's A Kind Of Hush, Wikipedia.

A Kind Of Hush by the New Vaudeville Band (1966)

A Kind Of Hush by Herman's Hermits (1967)

A Kind Of Hush by the Carpenters (1976)

A Summer Song (Chad Stuart, Clive Metcalfe, and Keith Noble, 1964) (C)
Like the duo's breakthrough selection, "Yesterday's Gone," "A Summer Song" is a reminiscence of a summer romance. However, "A Summer Song" moves away from the Merseybeat sound of "Yesterday's Gone" in favor of a gentler folk-influenced arrangement, with the lyrics also being wistful in tone. The song did not chart in the UK (it was on a small label; you couldn't buy it in the record shops). However, it became the signature song for Chad and Jeremy in the US, peaking #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 and at #2 on the Adult Contemporary chart; it reached #7 in Canada and #49 in Australia.
It is considered one of the signature songs of the 1960s "British Invasion" to the US music scene, triggered in large part to the February 9, 1964, appearance of The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show, seen by an estimated that 45% of US television viewers that night! By April 4th, the Beatles held the top five spots on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Cash Box listings in the US, a feat never duplicated by any other band.
A Summer Song, Wikipedia; British Invasion, Wikipedia

A Summer Song by Chad & Jeremy from their album "Yesterday's Gone" (1964)

A World of Our Own (Tom Springfield, 1965). Plus:

A World of Our Own: Portrait format in C & G.

A World of Our Own by The Seekers (1965), video from their 25th Anniversary Reunion Concert, Melbourne, 1993

Against the Wind (C) & Against the Wind (G) (Bob Seger, 1980)
This song is from the 1980 album "Against the Wind." Released as the second single from the album, it peaked at number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Bob Seger said that "Against the Wind" came about from his days as a high-school cross country runner. He described the song as "about trying to move ahead, keeping your sanity and integrity at the same time." The "Jan" Seger references in the opening lyrics of the song refers to Jan Dinsdale, with whom he had a long-term relationship from 1972 until 1983. The line "Let the cowboys ride!" towards the song's end is a reference to the closing lyrics of the song "Santa Fe/Beautiful Obsession" by Van Morrison. Against the Wind (Bob Seger), Wikipedia.

Against the Wind by by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band (1980)

Against the Wind by The Highwaymen from their debut album.

All I Have To Do Is Dream (Sept. 8) (Boudleaux Bryant of the husband-and-wife songwriting team Felice and Boudleaux Bryant, 1958) (C & G) (Portrait)

In Landscape mode:

• All I Have To Do Is Dream (Sept. 8)

• All I Have to Do Is Dream (April 25)

It was the only single ever to be at #1 on all of the Billboard singles charts simultaneously. It received the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 2004. All I Have To Do Is Dream, Wikipedia.

All I Have to Do Is Dream by the Everly Brothers (1958)

All I Have To Do Is Dream by Roy Orbison (1963)

All I Have To Do Is Dream by Emmylou Harris & Alison Krauss

All I Have To Do Is Dream by Bobbie Gentry and Glen Campbell (1969)

America (My Country, 'Tis of Thee) (Lyrics by Samuel Francis Smith, 1831; music is British Traditional, ca. 1740s, primarily associated with the song "God Save The Queen.")
The lyrics were written by Samuel Francis Smith while he was studying at Andover Theological Seminary in 1831. Smith was approached by the famed organist and composer Lowell Mason. The song was debuted by Mason on July 4, 1831, at a children's service at the Park Street Church in Boston, Massachusetts.
The melody is the same as that of the national anthem of the United Kingdom, "God Save the Queen." The melody has been used and adapted by lyricists in many countries.
"My Country, 'Tis of Thee" served as one of the de facto national anthems of the United States before the adoption of "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the official U.S. national anthem in 1931.
Notable performances

• Marian Anderson performed the song at the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday, April 9, 1939.

• Martin Luther King Jr. recited the first verse of the song toward the end of his famous "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963.

• On January 20, 2009, Aretha Franklin sang the song at the first inauguration of Barack Obama.

• It was played at Senator John McCain's funeral service at the Washington National Cathedral on Sep 1, 2018.

America (My Country, 'Tis of Thee), Wikipedia; My Country 'Tis of Thee, Library of Congress.

America (My Country, 'Tis of Thee) by Marian Anderson, contralto, who was denied the right to perform at Constitution Hall by the DAR because of her color. Instead, and at the urging of Eleanor Roosevelt, she performed at the Lincoln Memorial on April 9, 1939.

America (My Country, 'Tis of Thee) by Aretha Franklin, the inauguration of Barack Obama, Jan. 20, 2009.

America (My Country, 'Tis of Thee) by The Soldiers' Chorus of The United States Army Field Band

America (My Country, 'Tis of Thee) by The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square

America (My Country, 'Tis of Thee) by The Robert Shaw Chorale

Scores are from at My Country, 'Tis of Thee, Choral Public Domain Library (CPDL):

• My Country, 'Tis of Thee-Theresa A. Steiner.pdf (Six verses, Key of G)

• My Country, 'Tis of Thee-Rafael Ornes.pdf (Four verses, Key of F)

This score is from America, Notated Music, Libary of Congress:

• America-LOC.pdf (Four verses, Key of A♭, 4 Flats)

America the Beautiful (Lyrics: "Pikes Peak," Katharine Lee Bates, 1893, 1904, 1913; Music: "Materna" by Samuel Augustus War, 1882). First published as "America" in the Fourth of July edition of the church periodical "The Congregationalist" in 1895.
Katharine Lee Bates, poet and professor of English Literature at Wellesley College, made a lecture trip to Colorado in 1893 and while there she and some of the other teachers at Colorado College in Colorado Springs went to the top of Pikes Peak. Later, she began writing the poem in her room at the Antlers Hotel, recalling the sight of the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago ("the White City"), the wheat fields of America's heartland Kansas, and the majestic view of the Great Plains from high atop Pikes Peak.
She wrote: "It was then and there, as I was looking out over the sea-like expanse of fertile country spreading away so far under those ample skies, that the opening lines of the hymn floated into my mind."
Originally titled "Pikes Peak", it was first published as "America" in the Fourth of July edition of the church periodical "The Congregationalist" in 1895. Although set to many tunes including "Auld Lang Syne," eventually the preferred tune was Samuel Ward's 1882 "Materna."
She revised the lyrics in 1904, which were published in "The Boston Evening Transcript," and made some final additions to the poem in 1913.
Bates and Ward never met.
America the Beautiful, Wikipedia; America the Beautiful, Library of Congress; Greatness Is Not A Given: 'America The Beautiful' Asks How We Can Do Better, National Public Radio (NPR), April 4, 2019; American The Beautiful-About The Song, Ballad of America.org

America the Beautiful by Ray Charles; this recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2005.

America the Beautiful by Ray Charles from The Dick Cavett Show, September 18, 1972.

America the Beautiful by Perry Como (1974)

America the Beautiful by Garth Brooks performing at the Points of Light Tribute event on March 21, 2011 in Washington, DC.

America the Beautiful by The Gaither Vocal Band (Official Video)

America the Beautiful by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir at the Jefferson Memorial, July 6, 2003.

American Tune (Portrait) & American Tune (Landscape) (Paul Simon, 1973)

This was the third single from his third studio album, "There Goes Rhymin' Simon" (1973). The song, a meditation on the American experience, is based on the melody of the hymn "O Sacred Head, Now Wounded". The lyrics offer a perspective on the American experience; there are references to struggle, weariness, hard work, confusion, and homesickness. The song reached #35 on the Billboard Hot 100. American Tune, Wikipedia.

American Tune by Paul Simon from the album There Goes Rhymin' Simon (1973)

An American Dream (Rodney Crowell, 1978) (C, G & NN)
An American Dream, Wikipedia

Voilá, An American Dream by Rodney Crowell (1978)

An American Dream by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (1979)

Anchors Aweigh (lyrics by Alfred Hart Miles; music by Charles A. Zimmermann, 1906; additional verse by Royal Lovell (class of 1926); revised in 1997 by MCPON John Hagan, USN (Ret).)
When he composed "Anchors Aweigh," Zimmermann was a lieutenant and had been bandmaster of the United States Naval Academy Band since 1887. Miles was Midshipman First Class at the Academy, in the class of 1907, and had asked Zimmermann to assist him in composing a song for that class, to be used as a football march. Another Academy Midshipman, Royal Lovell (class of 1926), later wrote what would be adopted into the song as its third verse. The lyrics were revised in 1997 by MCPON John Hagan, USN (Ret). Alfred H. Miles, the lyricist, continued his Navy career and retired as a Captain.
The song was first played during the Army–Navy football game on December 1, 1906, at Franklin Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Navy won the game 10–0 before a crowd in excess of 30,000, their first win in the match up since 1900.
The song was gradually adopted as the song of the U.S. Navy; although there is a pending proposal to make it the official song, and to incorporate protocol into Navy regulations for its performance, its status remains unofficial.
The song has a joyful, brisk melody, and it has been adopted by several other navies around the world.
The Navy Hymn is "Eternal Father, Strong To Save."
Anchors Aweigh, Wikipedia.

Anchors Aweigh by the United States Naval Academy Band & Chorus

Anchors Aweigh by The United States Navy Band Commodores jazz ensemble performs retired Master Chief Musician Jeff Taylor's arrangement at the 2010 Navy Birthday concert at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.

Anchors Aweigh by the US Navy Band in a concert at Grand Allee, Quebec City, with additional parade footage.

Anchors Aweigh by The Mormon Tabernacle Choir

Anchors Aweigh by the Rah Rah Boys (1906 lyrics: "Stand Navy down the field, sails set to the sky"; 1920s recording)

Anchors Aweigh by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra (1942)

Angel From Montgomery (John Prine, 1971)

John Prine, October 10, 1946 – April 7, 2020
"one of the most influential songwriters of his generation"
John Prine received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020.

Angel From Montgomery by John Prine (1971)

Angel From Montgomery by Bonnie Raitt (1974)

Angel From Montgomery by John Prine & Bonnie Raitt

Annie's Song (John Denver, 1973)
"Annie's Song" (also known as "Annie's Song (You Fill Up My Senses)") is a folk rock and country song recorded and written by singer-songwriter John Denver. The song was released as a single from Denver's album Back Home Again. It was his second #1 song in the United States, occupying that spot for two weeks in July 1974. "Annie's Song" also went to #1 on the Easy Listening chart. Billboard ranked it as the #25 song for 1974. It went to #1 in the United Kingdom, where it was Denver's only major hit single.

"Annie's Song" was written as an ode to Denver's wife at the time, Annie Martell Denver. Denver "wrote this song in July 1973 in about ten-and-a-half minutes one day on a ski lift" to the top of Ajax Mountain in Aspen, Colorado, as the physical exhilaration of having "just skied down a very difficult run" and the feeling of total immersion in the beauty of the colors and sounds that filled all senses inspired him to think about his wife. Annie Denver recalls the beginnings: "It was written after John and I had gone through a pretty intense time together and things were pretty good for us. He left to go skiing and he got on the Ajax chair on Aspen mountain and the song just came to him. He skied down and came home and wrote it down... Initially it was a love song and it was given to me through him, and yet for him it became a bit like a prayer." Annie's Song, Wikipedia

Annie's Song by John Denver (Capo on 2)

Anticipation (Carly Simon, 1971). Plus:

Anticipation: Portrait format in C & G.

Anticipation by Carly Simon (1971)

Anticipation by Carly Simon (Live)

April Come She Will (Paul Simon, 1964)
The song was written in 1964 while Paul Simon was in England. Its lyrics use the changing nature of the seasons as a metaphor for a girl's changing moods. The inspiration for the song was a girl that Simon met and the nursery rhyme she used to recite. Matthew Greenwald of Allmusic wrote: "The sense of yearning in this song would later be beautifully echoed in "For Emily, Wherever I May Find Her." Like that song, [April] is very brief, yet the shortness of the song adds to the effectiveness and economy of both the lyric and melody." It originally appeared on the solo album "The Paul Simon Songbook" (UK, 1965) and later on "Sounds of Silence" (1966). April Come She Will, Wikipedia; The Paul Simon Songbook, Wikipedia.

April Come She Will by Simon & Garfunkel from "Sounds of Silence"

April Come She Will by Simon & Garfunkel from The Concert in Central Park

April Love (Sammy Fain & Paul Francis Webster, 1957)
"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)
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 introduced in the 1921 Broadway musical "Bombo," where it was 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)

Autumn Leaves ("Les Feuilles mortes" ("The Dead Leaves") by Jacques Andre Marie Prevert & Joseph Kosma, 1945, with English lyrics by Johnny Mercer, 1950) (Am & Dm)

Autumn Leaves by Jo Stafford (1950)

Autumn Leaves by Roger Williams (1955 Instrumental)

Autumn Leaves by Nat King Cole (1955)

Autumn Leaves by Frank Sinatra (1957)

Autumn Leaves (Les Feuilles Mortes) by Edith Piaf (with both French and English lyrics)

Baby Driver (C) & Baby Driver (G) (Paul Simon, 1970)
"Baby Driver", an uptempo and happy rock and roll song, tells about a boy who lives a comfortable life in a protected home, but who searches for adventures and one day decides to have his first sexual experience. The recording features car noises, Beach Boys-like singing parts and absurd syllables. Edgar Wright's 2017 action comedy film "Baby Driver" is named after the song, which is played at the end credits. The album, "Bridge over Troubled Water" charted in over 11 countries, topping the charts in 10 countries, including the UK and the US where it topped the chart for 10 of the 85 weeks it was on the chart. It was the best-selling album in 1970, 1971 and 1972 and was the best-selling album of all time until the release of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" in 1982. Bridge over Troubled Water, Wikipedia.

Baby Driver by Simon & Garfunkel from "Bridge Over Troubled Water" (1970)

Back Home Again (John Denver, 1974) (A, C, & G)
Denver's fifth Top 10 hit on the pop chart. "Back Home Again" topped the adult contemporary chart for two weeks. The single was the first of three #1s on the country music chart where it stayed for a single week. The song won a CMA Award for Denver in 1975 in the category "Song of the Year"; he was also named "Entertainer of the Year" at the same ceremony, prompting country pop singer Charlie Rich to light the envelope on fire after reading that Denver had won—in an apparent insult to Denver's musical style and image. One of America's best-selling performers, he died October 12, 1997, while piloting his recently purchased light plane.

Back Home Again by John Denver (Official Audio) (1974)

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)

Bad Moon Rising (John C. Fogerty) (C, D & G)
This was the lead single from CCR's album "Green River" and was released in April 1969,  peaking at #2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 on 28 June 1969 and reaching #1 on the UK Singles Chart for three weeks in September 1969. It was CCR's second gold single.
Fogerty reportedly wrote "Bad Moon Rising" after watching "The Devil and Daniel Webster." Inspired by a scene in the film involving a hurricane, Fogerty claims the song is about "the apocalypse that was going to be visited upon us". The song has become notably popular in Argentina as a soccer chant, sung by fans at the stadium to support their teams during soccer matches - especially targeting Argentina's arch rival, Brazil. The song has also been adapted by fans of the Manchester City and Manchester United football clubs.
In 2010, Rolling Stone ranked it #364 on its "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list. Bad Moon Rising, Wikipedia.

Bad Moon Rising by Creedence Clearwater Revival (1969)

Bad Moon Rising by Creedence Clearwater Revival from their album "Green River" (1969)

Banana Boat Song (Nashville Notation) (Traditional Jamaican folk song)

Day-O (The Banana Boat Song), Wikipedia.

Banana Boat (Day-O) by Harry Belafonte (1956)

Banana Boat Song, clip from movie "Beetlejuice."

Barbara Allen (traditional Scottish ballad)
"Barbara Allen" (Child 84, Roud 54) is a traditional Scottish ballad; it later travelled to America both orally and in print, where it became a popular folk song. Ethnomusicologists Steve Roud and Julia Bishop described it as "far and away the most widely collected song in the English language—equally popular in England, Scotland and Ireland, and with hundreds of versions collected over the years in North America." A diary entry by Samuel Pepys on January 2, 1666 contains the earliest known reference to the song. One 1690 broadside of the song was published in London. Several early complete versions of the ballad are extant. Scottish poet Allan Ramsay published "Bonny Barbara Allen" in his "Tea-Table Miscellany" published in 1740. Soon after, Thomas Percy published two similar renditions in his 1765 collection "Reliques of Ancient English Poetry."
A tune and lyrics were collected and published in Carl Sandburg's 1927 The American Songbag, "Barbra Allen," p. 57. Barbara Allen, Wikipedia.

Barbara Allen by Joan Baez (1960)

Barbara Allen by Art Garfunkel, recorded in 1973 At Grace Cathedral, New York.

Barbara Allen by Jean Ritchie from "British Traditional Ballads in the Southern Mountains, Volume 1" (1960)

Barbara Allen by Pete Seeger from "The World of Pete Seeger"

Battle Hymn of the Republic (Julia Ward Howe, Nov. 1861, published Feb. 1862; Music ""Say, Brothers, Will You Meet Us", late 1700s and early 1800s, and likely from earlier, unknown sources.)

First published in "The Atlantic Monthly" in February 1862, the song links the judgment of the wicked at the end of the age (through allusions to biblical passages such as Isaiah 63 and Revelation 19) with the American Civil War. It is a popular and well-known American patriotic song.
After John F. Kennedy died in 1963, Judy Garland sang the "Battle Hymn" on her CBS show as a tribute to her personal friend. Her rendition was so moving that the audience gave her a standing ovation.
The last line that Martin Luther King Jr. ever spoke in public came from this hymn. It was on the day before he was killed in 1968, when he made his famous "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech, which he ended by quoting the song's first line: "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord." The hymn was thereafter an anthem to him and the civil rights movement.
Two months later, on June 8, the Requiem Mass for Bobby Kennedy ended with the same song, performed by Andy Williams.
At the memorial service for 9/11 at the National Cathedral in Washington D.C., the choir struck up the familiar tune, and five American presidents sang along.
"Battle Hymn" has been for America both a remembrance and a call to action.
Battle Hymn Of The Republic, Wikipedia; John Brown's Body, Wikipedia; Dominic Tierney, "'The Battle Hymn of the Republic': America's Song of Itself", The Atlantic, Nov. 4, 2010; And see: Andrew Limbong, "One Song Glory: How 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic' became an anthem for every cause", National Public Radio (NPR) July 4, 2018. Image of first publication: Battle_Hymn.

Battle Hymn of the Republic by The United States Army Field Band & Chorus

Beep Beep (Little Nash Rambler) (Carl Cicchetti & Donald Claps, 1958) (C)
The "B" of their song "Your Love", the song is built around accelerando: the tempo of the song gradually increases commensurate with the increasing speed of the drivers. In his book "The Guide to United States Popular Culture," Ray B. Browne lists "Beep Beep" as an example of "motoring music […] in the chase mode". It is a tortoise-and-the-hare story, substituting the drivers of two unequal cars: a Nash Rambler and Cadillac, respectively.
In December 1958, Time credited the popularity "Beep Beep" with helping Nash Motors break records. In November 1958, the company doubled its previous year's production record with 26,782 cars.
The compact Rambler American was most often the lowest priced car built in the U.S., popular for its economy in ownership. After a V8 engine was added in 1966, it also became known as a powerful compact performance model that also included the 390 cu in (6.4 L) engine. A special youth-oriented concept car, the 1964 Rambler Tarpon, foretold the fastback design as well as future trends in sporty-type pony cars, including the '68 AMC Javelin.
Beep Beep (song), Wikipedia; Rambler American, Wikipedia.

Beep Beep by The Playmates (1958)

Verse     Start  Duration including chorus / Approx. BPM.

Verse 1:  0:00   65 seconds / 68

Verse 2:  1:06   35 seconds / 108

Verse 3:  1:41   18 seconds / 240

Verse 4:  1:59   15 seconds / 400+ (?)

Verse 5:  2:14   15 seconds / 400+ (?) (no chorus but retard
End:      2:29                         last two lines)

Being A Pirate (Don Freed, 1985)

Being A Pirate by Fisherman's Friends

Being A Pirate by The Longest Johns at the Perranporth Shout 2014

Bewitched, Bothered, And Bewildered (Rodgers and Hart, 1940)
Considered to be part of the Great American Songbook, this show tune and popular song is from the 1940 Rodgers and Hart musical "Pal Joey." 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)

Bewitched Theme Song (Howard Greenfield & Jack Keller, 1964)
Jack Keller recalled, "the pilot had used Frank Sinatra's 'Witchcraft,' but they didn't want to pay for 'Witchcraft,' so they asked us to write something. We only had a week to write the song, do the demo, and get it out to California, and they accepted it and they put it on. The show was a smash." Bewitched was an American television sitcom fantasy series, originally broadcast for eight seasons on ABC from September 17, 1964, to March 25, 1972. In 2002, Bewitched was ranked #50 on "TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time". There's a good background piece on the Bewitched Theme: All About The Bewitched Theme Music. There were several versions of the theme song heard during various years of the show. YouTube has many of the variations: Bewitched Theme Song. Bewitched, Wikipedia.

Bewitched Theme Video Clip

Bewitched by Steve Lawrence from "Steve & Edie At The Movies."

Big Yellow Taxi (G) (Original); Updated: Big Yellow Taxi (C) & Big Yellow Taxi (G) (Joni Mitchell, 1970)
"I wrote 'Big Yellow Taxi' on my first trip to Hawaii. I took a taxi to the hotel and when I woke up the next morning, I threw back the curtains and saw these beautiful green mountains in the distance. Then, I looked down and there was a parking lot as far as the eye could see, and it broke my heart... this blight on paradise. That's when I sat down and wrote the song." Big Yellow Taxi, Wikipedia.

Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell, "Ladies of the Canyon" (1970)

Big Yellow Taxi by Amy Grant (1994)

Big Yellow Taxi tutorial by Gracie Terzian (14:30), a great help to learning a song that has some great chord changes and subtle strumming patterns.

Bitter Green (Gordon Lightfoot, 1968)

Bitter Green by Gordon Lightfoot from "Back Here on Earth" (1968)

Black Day In July (Gordon Lightfoot, 1967-68)
This song is about the Detroit Race Riots (also known as the 12th Street Rioting) that began Saturday July 23, 1967. 43 people died in the riots. Black Day In July (Gordon Lightfoot), Songfacts.com.

Black Day In July by Gordon Lightfoot (1968)

Black Is Black (Em) & Black Is Black (Am) (Michelle Grainger, Tony Hayes, Steve Wadey, ca. 1966)
"Black Is Black" is a song by the Spanish rock band Los Bravos, released in 1966 as the group's debut single for Decca Records. The song reached #2 in the UK, #4 in the U.S., and #1 in Canada. With the song's success, Los Bravos became the first Spanish rock band to have an international hit single. Lead singer Mike Kogel's vocals sounded so similar to Gene Pitney that many listeners assumed that "Black Is Black" was a Pitney single. Black is Black, Wikipedia.

Black is Black by Los Bravos (1966)

Blame It on Coronavirus (Original lyrics by Cynthia Weil,  music by Barry Mann, 1963; updated lyrics by Keith Fukumitsu)
"Blame It on the Bossa Nova" merges the sensibilities of the Brill Building Sound with the Latin music which Edie Gormé had previously specialized in, describing a romantic relationship begun by a couple dancing to the bossa nova - "the dance of love." The bossa nova is a Brazilian music style in vogue in the United States from the late 1950s. It was the last top 40 hit by Edie Gormé. Blame It on the Bossa Nova, Wikipedia

Blame It On The Bossa Nova by Eydie Gormie (1963)

Blowin' In The Wind (C) & Blowin' in the Wind (G) (Lyrics by Bob Dylan; melody an adaptation of the old African-American spiritual "No More Auction Block/We Shall Overcome", 1962)
This song was released as a single and on Dylan's album "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" in 1963. It has been described as a protest song, and poses a series of rhetorical questions about peace, war, and freedom. The refrain "The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind" has been described as "impenetrably ambiguous: either the answer is so obvious it is right in your face, or the answer is as intangible as the wind". The theme may have been taken from a passage in Woody Guthrie's autobiography, "Bound for Glory," in which Guthrie compared his political sensibility to newspapers blowing in the winds of New York City streets and alleys.
In 1994, the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. In 2004, it was ranked number 14 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time". Blowin' In The Wind, Wikipedia

Blowin' In The Wind by Bob Dylan (1962)

Blowin' In The Wind by the Chad Mitchell Trio

Blowin' In The Wind by Peter, Paul and Mary

Blowin' In The Wind by Stevie Wonder (Live)

Blowin' In The Wind from the movie "Forrest Gump" (1994)

Blowin' In The Wind by Joan Baez from her 1980 album "Live"

Blue Bayou (Roy Orbison & Joe Melson, ca. 1963) (A, F & G)
irst sung and recorded by Orbison, who had an international hit with his version in 1963, the cover by Linda Ronstadt went to #3 on the Billboard Hot 100, as well as #2 Country and #3 Easy Listening charts. It also reached #2on the Cash Box Top 100 chart. It was the first of Ronstadt's three Gold singles. The Blue Bayou was a quiet bayou located outside of New Orleans, in Louisiana. Blue Bayou, Wikipedia; Pirates of the Caribbean Wiki

Blue Bayou by Roy Orbison, from "The Essential Roy Orbison"

Blue Bayou by Linda Ronstadt (1977 audio recording, 2015 remaster)

Blue Bayou by Linda Ronstadt (Official Music Video)

Blue Bayou by Alisan Porter (The Voice, 2016)

Blue Bayou by Billie Holiday

Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain (Fred Rose, ca. 1946) (C, F & G)
Originally performed by Roy Acuff, the song has been covered by many artists, including Hank Williams Sr., Johnny Russell, and Charley Pride. Most notably, the song was recorded by Willie Nelson as part of his 1975 album "Red Headed Stranger." Both the song and album became iconic in country music history, and revived Nelson's success as a singer and recording artist. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" #302 on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Rolling Stone also ranked "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" #48 on its list of the 100 Greatest Country Songs of All Time in June 2004. Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain, Wikipedia.

Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain by Roy Acuff (1947)

Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain by Hank Williams, Sr., 1951)

Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain by Willie Nelson (1975)

Blue Hawaii (Leo Robin & Ralph Rainger, 1937)
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 (1937)

Blue Hawaii by Elvis Presley (1961) 

Blue Hawaiian Moonlight (Ray Muffs & Myron A. Muffs) (C, F & G)

Blue Hawaiian Moonlight by Mike Keale And Friends, Hula By Melissa Meidinger

Blue Hawaiian Moonlight by The Gabby Pahinui Hawaiian Band, featuring Ry Cooder (Instrumental)

Blue Hawaiian Moonlight by the steel guitarist Eddie Palama, with Bobby Ingano on ukulele, Alan Akaka on bass, and Kaipo Asing on guitar. From the 2017 Kaua'i Steel Guitar Festival.

Blue Moon (Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart, 1934) (C)
It may be the first instance of the familiar "50s progression" in a popular song [I–vi–IV–V, in C major: C–Am–F–G] and has become a standard ballad. The song was a hit twice in 1949 with successful recordings in the U.S. by Billy Eckstine and Mel Tormé. In 1961, "Blue Moon" became an international number-one hit for the doo-wop group The Marcels, on the Billboard 100 chart and in the UK Singles chart. Over the years, "Blue Moon" has been covered by various artists, including versions by Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Elvis Presley, Sam Cooke, The Platters, Dean Martin, The Supremes, Cyndi Lauper, Bob Dylan and Rod Stewart.
It is also the anthem of English Football League club Crewe Alexandra and English Premier League football club Manchester City, who have both adapted the song slightly. Blue Moon (1934 song), Wikipedia; 50s Progression, Wikipedia.

Blue Moon by Billy Eckstine (1949)

Blue Moon by Mel Tormé (1949)

Blue Moon by Elvis Presley (1954)

Blue Moon by The Marcels (1961)

Blue Moon by Bobby Vinton from his 1963 album "Blue Velvet" (originally "Blue On Blue")

Blue Moon Tutorial by Gracie Terzian.

Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Bill Monroe, 1945) (C & G)
A waltz written in 1945 by bluegrass musician Bill Monroe and recorded by his band, the Blue Grass Boys. It was first performed on a Grand Ole Opry broadcast of August 25, 1945, first recorded in 1946 and released in early 1947. The song has since been recorded by many artists, including Elvis Presley and the Stanley Brothers (an upbeat, blues-flavored arrangement in 4/4 time). "Blue Moon of Kentucky" is the official bluegrass song of Kentucky. In 2002, Monroe's version was one of 50 recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry. In 2003, CMT ranked "Blue Moon" number 11 in its list of 100 Greatest Songs in Country Music. Blue Moon of Kentucky, Wikipedia.

Blue Moon of Kentucky by Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys (1946)

Blue Moon of Kentucky by Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys (Live)

Blue Moon of Kentucky by Elvis Presley (1954)

Blue Moon of Kentucky by the Stanley Brothers (1954)

Blue Moon of Kentucky by John Fogerty (2000)

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 Spanish Eyes (Charles Singleton, Bert Kaempfert & Eddie Snyder) (C & G)
First released by Freddy Quinn in 1965 it became a hit for Al Martino in 1966. Blue Spanish Eyes, Second Hand Songs.

Spanish Eyes by Al Martino (1986 video; it was originally released in 1965)

Spanish Eyes by Andy Williams (1967)

Spanish Eyes by Engelbert Humperdinck from his 1968 album "A Man Without Love"

Spanish Eyes by Elvis Presley

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 recording of the song was also on the list, ranked number 423. Blue Suede Shoes,  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

Blue Velvet (Bernie Wayne & Lee Morris, 1950) (G)
A top 20 hit for Tony Bennett in its original 1951 version, the song has since been re-recorded many times, with a 1963 version by Bobby Vinton reaching No. 1. Blue Velvet (song), Wikipedia.

Blue Velvet by Bobby Vinton (1963)

Blue Velvet by Tony Bennett (1951)

Blue Velvet, a duet by Tony Bennett and k.d. lang (2011)

Blueberry Hill (Vincent Rose, Larry Stock & Al Lewis, ca. 1940) (F)
Although published in 1940 and recorded six times in 1940, it's best remembered for its 1950s rock and roll version by Fats Domino. Recordings in 1940 included the Sammy Kaye Orchestra, Gene Krupa, the Glenn Miller Orchestra, Kay Kyser, Russ Morgan, Gene Autry, and Jimmy Dorsey. The largest 1940 hit was by the Glenn Miller Orchestra, which reached #2 on the US charts.
Louis Armstrong's 1949 recording charted in the Billboard Top 40 and it was an international hit in 1956 for Fats Domino, reaching #2 on the Billboard Top 40 chart, becoming his biggest pop hit, and hiting #1 on the R&B Best Sellers chart. His version was ranked #82 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Blueberry Hill, Wikipedia

Blueberry Hill by The Glenn Miller Orchestra, vocals by Ray Eberle (1940)

Blueberry Hill by Louis Armstrong (1949)

Blueberry Hill by Fats Domino (1956)

Blueberry Hill by Bobby Vinton from his 1963 album "Blue Velvet" (originally "Blue On Blue")

Born in the USA (Bruce Springsteen, 1981)
Superficially a flag-waving paean to America, the song is a commentary on the return of American soldiers to their country after the Vietnam War. The song presents a veteran as a tragic figure alienated upon his return from the war. One of Springsteen's best-known singles, Rolling Stone ranked the song 275th on its list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time", and in 2001, the RIAA's Songs of the Century placed the song 59th (out of 365). It was written in 1981, recorded in 1982, and released in 1984. Born in the U.S.A., Wikipedia

Born in the U.S.A. by Bruce Springsteen (1981)

Brown Eyed Girl (Portrait) & Brown Eyed Girl (Van Morrison, 1967) (Landscape) (C & G)
Northern Irish singer and songwriter Van Morrison wrote and recorded this song in 1967, which peaked at #10 on the Billboard Hot 100 during the sixteen weeks it spent on the chart. "Brown Eyed Girl" has remained a staple on classic rock radio, and has been covered by hundreds of bands over the decades.
The song's nostalgic lyrics about a former love were considered too suggestive at the time to be played on many radio stations. A radio-edit of the song was released which removed the lyrics in the third verse "making love in the green grass", replacing them with "laughin' and a-runnin', hey hey" from a previous verse.
In 2011, "Brown Eyed Girl" joined an elite group of songs as it was honoured for having 10 million US radio air plays and therefore becoming one of the ten songs that have been registered with BMI that have received that number of radio plays.
It's on just about every major list of great songs including #110 on the Rolling Stone magazine list of 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In January 2007, "Brown Eyed Girl" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Brown Eyed Girl, Wikipedia.

Brown Eyed Girl by Van Morrison (original) from his 1967 album "Blowin' Your Mind!"

Brown Eyed Girl by Van Morrison (radio edit version: "laughin' and a-running' hey hey" but the scrolling lyrics have the original lyrics. Oops!)

Bus Stop (Dm) & Bus Stop (Am) (Graham Gouldman, 1966)
In a 1976 interview Gouldman said the idea for "Bus Stop" had come while he was riding home from work on a bus. The opening lines were written by his father, playwright Hyme Gouldman. Graham Gouldman continued with the rest of the song in his bedroom, apart from the middle-eight, which he finished while riding to work – a men's outfitters – on the bus the next day.
It reached No. 5 in the UK Singles Chart. It was the Hollies' first US top ten hit, reaching No. 5 on the Billboard charts.
Gouldman also wrote major hits for The Yardbirds ("For Your Love") and Herman's Hermits ("No Milk Today"), as well as the Hollies' first venture into the US top 40 with "Look Through Any Window". Bus Stop (the Hollies), Wikipedia

Bus Stop by The Hollies (1966)

Bus Stop by Herman's Hermits (1966)

Bus Stop by Classics IV from their 1968 album "Spooky"

Buy For Me The Rain (Greg Copeland & Steve Noonan) (C & G)
This was the first hit for the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and has been described as "one of the 1960s-style songs. It starts with guitar playing a fast, staccato pattern. This is joined by a violin playing long notes over top. Jeff Hanna sings lead. Someone else sings harmony on the second half of the verse, and a lower voice echos the last line of each verse [Bruce Kunkel]. That last line is always a cautionary variation on "before it is too late". The first two verses propose buying things of natural beauty for each other, that cannot truly be bought, like the rain. The third verse says that happiness cannot be bought, and the final verse says that what we buy for each other is for "the living, it's no use to the dead". The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (album), Wikipedia

Buy For Me The Rain by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

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)

Calendar Girl (Neil Sedaka & Howard Greenfield, 1960)
Howard Greenfield got the inspiration for the song title from an old movie listing in "TV Guide." Record producer Joe Viglione, writing for AllMusic, describes the song as a G-rated calendar of pin-ups such as Betty Grable and Marilyn Monroe, using verbal rather than visual imagery. Each month gives a different reason for the singer's affection for the titular character, and September — "I light the candles at your sweet sixteen" — was a lyrical motif that Greenfield frequently used at the time, including "Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen," released later the same year. Calendar Girl, Wikipedia.

Calendar Girl by Neil Sedaka (1960)

California Dreaming (John Phillips & Michelle Phillips, 1963) (A, D & G)
California Dreaming, Wikipedia.

California Dreaming by Barry McGuire

California Dreaming by the Mamas and the Papas (1965)

California Dreaming by the Beach Boys (1986)

California Dreaming by America (1979)

Call Me The Breeze (J.J. Cale, 1971) (C & Nashville Notation)
This song first appeared on Cale's 1972 debut album "Naturally." It consists of a 12-bar blues guitar shuffle and features the early use of a drum machine. Like many Cale songs, this song has been covered numerous times by an assortment of musicians, most notably Lynyrd Skynyrd on their albums "Second Helping" (1974) and the live disc "One More from the Road" (1976). This was one of the few cover songs Skynyrd recorded, and the only one on the album a band member didn't write. Call Me The Breeze, Wikipedia

Call Me The Breeze by J. J. Cale from his first solo album, "Naturally" (1971)

Call Me The Breeze by Lynrd Skynrd

Call Me The Breeze by Bobby Bare

Call Me The Breeze by Johnny Cash

Call Me The Breeze by Johnny Mayer (2013)

Candle In The Wind (Elton John & Bernie Taupin, 1973) (C & G)
This song is a threnody (a song of mourning) with music and lyrics by Elton John and Bernie Taupin. It was originally written in 1973 in honor of Marilyn Monroe, who had died 11 years earlier. Taupin has said the song is about "the idea of fame or youth or somebody being cut short in the prime of their life. The song could have been about James Dean, it could have been about Montgomery Clift, it could have been about Jim Morrison ... how we glamorise death, how we immortalise people." Taupin was inspired to write the song's lyrics after hearing the phrase "candle in the wind" used in tribute to Janis Joplin.
Taupin re-wrote the lyrics in 1997 as a tribute to Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales, with the title "Candle in the Wind 1997" or "Goodbye England's Rose". It peaked at #1 in the United Kingdom, becoming John's fourth #1 single. It also peaked at No. 1 in several other countries. The Guinness Book of Records in 2007 stated that "Candle in the Wind 1997" is the biggest-selling single "since records began", but that Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" has sold the most copies.
This version is ranked #347 on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Candle In The Wind, Wikipedia.

Candle In The Wind by Elton John from the album "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" (1974)

Candle In The Wind by Elton John from his album "Live In Australia With The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra." The video is from Elton’s 1986 concert at the Sydney Entertainment Centre. The sound of applause is the audience responding to the orchestra lighting candles, unbeknownst to Elton.

Candle In The Wind 1997 / Goodbye England's Rose by Elton John as re-written by Bernie Taupin to honor Princess Diane. The video is from the funeral service, September 6, 1997. Music begins at 1:02.

Can't You See (Toy Caldwell, 1973)

Can't You See by The Marshall Tucker Band (1973)

Car Wash Blues (Jim Croce, 1974) (C & G)

Workin' at the Car Wash Blues, Wikipedia.

Workin' at the Car Wash Blues by Jim Croce

Workin' at the Car Wash Blues by Jim Croce (Video)

Cast Your Fate To The Wind (Vince Guaraldi & Carel Werber, 1963) (C & G)
This song is an American jazz instrumental selection by Vince Guaraldi; later, a lyric was written by Carel Werber. It won a Grammy Award for Best Original Jazz Composition in 1963. It was included on the album "Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus," with credit to the Vince Guaraldi Trio, released by Fantasy Records on April 18, 1962. Cast Your Fate To The Wind, Wikipedia

Cast Your Fate To The Wind by the Vince Guaraldi Trio (1963)

Cast Your Fate To The Wind by Johnny Rivers

Cast Your Fate To The Wind by We Five

Cast Your Fate To The Wind by The Sandpipers

Catch The Wind (Donovan Leitch) (C & G)
"Catch the Wind" was the first release by Donovan. It reached No. 4 in the United Kingdom singles chart and No. 23 in the United States Billboard Hot 100. The single version featured Donovan's vocals with echo and a string section. The song was re-recorded for Donovan's first album "What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid," without the vocal echo and strings and with a harmonica solo added.
When Epic Records was compiling Donovan's Greatest Hits in 1968, the label was either unable or unwilling to secure the rights to the original recordings of "Catch the Wind" and Donovan's follow-up single, "Colours". Donovan re-recorded both songs for the album, with a full backing band including Big Jim Sullivan playing guitar and Mickie Most producing. Catch The Wind, Wikipedia

Catch The Wind by Donovan (First US release on Hickory Records, 1965)

Catch The Wind by Donovan from "What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid" (1965)

Catch The Wind by Donovan from "Greatest Hits" (1968)

Cat's In The Cradle (Harry Chapin, 1974) (A, C & G)

Cat's In The Cradle, Wikipedia.

Cat's In The Cradle by Harry Chapin (1974)

Centerfield (John Fogerty, 1985)
"Centerfield" is the title track from John Fogerty's album "Centerfield." Originally the b-side of the album's second single, "Rock and Roll Girls" (#16 US, Spring 1985), the song is now commonly played at baseball games across the United States. Along with "Take Me Out to the Ball Game," it is one of the best-known of the thousands of baseball songs. On July 25, 2010, Fogerty became the only musician to be celebrated when "Centerfield" was honored at the National Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, where song now plays continuously. Fogerty performed it at the induction ceremonies to commemorate the Hall of Fame's 25th anniversary, with Willie Mays in attendance.
According to Fogerty, he drew his inspiration from center field at Yankee Stadium where "the #1 guy seemed to be a center fielder, and he seemed to play in Yankee Stadium." The song was also inspired by his frustration watching a struggling team on TV, where he would imagine himself to be a rookie sitting on a bench, "I would always yell at the TV, 'Put me in coach, put me in!' "
Famous center fielders include Joe DiMaggio, Willie Mays, and Ty Cobb. In a 2015 interview, Fogerty said that he always pictured Jackie Robinson as the "brown-eyed handsome man" who was "rounding third, headed for home." Centerfield (song), Wikipedia.

Centerfield by John Fogerty (1985)

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)

Cold As Ice (Em) & Cold as Ice (Am)
(Lou Gramm & Mick Jones, 1976)
Cold as Ice" is a 1977 song by British-American rock band Foreigner from their debut album. It became one of the best known songs of the band in the US, peaking at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100. Classic Rock History critic Janey Roberts ranked "Cold as Ice" as Foreigner's 4th greatest song, stating that the piano hook that opens the song "will always go down as one of the signature riffs in classic rock history." Cold As Ice, Wikipedia.

Cold As Ice by Foreigner (1977)

Color My World (C) & Color My World (G) (Tony Hatch & Jackie Trent, 1966)

Color My World by Petula Clark (1966)

Colours (C, G, Nashville Notation) (Donovan Leitch, 1965)
Donovan followed up the success of "Catch the Wind" with "Colours", which featured a similar folk style. The single matched the success of "Catch the Wind" in the United Kingdom, reaching No. 4 on the charts. In the United States, "Colours" reached No.61.

Colours by Donovan Ukulele Play Along, The Fiveys

Colours by Donovan

Colours by Donovan and Joan Baez

Columbia the Gem of the Ocean (Thomas A'Becket, Sr., ca. 1843)
The song invokes the historic informal name "Columbia" for the United States and borrows and modifies the phrase "land of the free and the home of the brave" from Francis Scott Key's earlier "Star-Spangled Banner" as "the home of the brave and the free".
It is believed that Thomas A'Becket, Sr., wrote the lyrics – and possibly the melody – at the request of David Shaw for his performance at a benefit concert, in the autumn of 1843. Shaw subsequently published the song under his own name, though A'Becket later claimed sole authorship.
There a question as to whether "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean" is an appropriation of the British "Britannia, the Pride of the Ocean" or vise versa. Both songs have occasionally been referred to by the alternate name "The Red, White and Blue".
"Columbia the Gem of the Ocean" vied with other songs in the American "Patriotic Big Five" -- including "Hail, Columbia", the "Star-Spangled Banner", "Yankee Doodle", and "My Country Tis of Thee" -- for use as a national anthem before the adoption of "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the official U.S. national anthem in 1931. Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean, Wikipedia.

Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean by The Robert Shaw Chorale with the RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra (1962)

Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean by The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square

Cracklin' Rosie (Neil Diamond,  ca. 1970)

Recorded in LA with instrumentals by "The Wrecking Crew," it was his first #1 hit and 3rd million copy seller. Neil Diamond heard a story about a native Canadian tribe while doing an interview in Toronto, Canada – the tribe had more men than women, so the lonely men of the tribe would sit around the fire and drink their wine together, specifically "Crackling Rosé," an inexpensive sparkling wine once produced by Andres Wines of British Columbia, Canada. Cracklin' Rosie, Wikipedia; Cracklin' Rosie, Songfacts.

Cracklin' Rosie by Neil Diamond from his album "Tap Root Manuscript" (1970)

Cracklin' Rosie by Neil Diamond (Live performance with the story behind the song, 1971)

Crayola Doesn't Make a Color for Your Eyes (Kristin Andreassen & Megan Downes, 2006-2007) (B♭ & F)

2007 winner of the John Lennon Songwriting Contest, Children's Category. Kristin Andreassen, Wikipedia

Crayola Doesn't Make a Color for Your Eyes by Kristin Andreassen from the album "Kiss Me Hello" (2007)

Crazy Love (Van Morrison, 1969)
This romantic ballad is from Van Morrison's 1970 album, "Moondance." The cover of the single shows Morrison with his then-wife, Janet "Planet" Rigsbee. The photograph was taken by Elliot Landy, the official photographer of the 1969 Woodstock festival.
Helen Reddy scored her first Adult Contemporary Billboard Top 10 hit with her cover version. "Crazy Love" was later covered by Canadian singer Michael Bublé, and released as the fourth single from his fourth studio album, Crazy Love (2009).
It is also known for the beginning of the refrain: "She gave me love, love, love, love, crazy love." Crazy Love (Van Morrison song), Wikipedia

Crazy Love by Van Morrison from the 1970 album "Moondance."

Crazy Love by Helen Reddy (1971)

Crazy Love by Michael Bublé from his 209 album "Crazy Love" (Music video)

Crazy Love (Rusty Young, 1978)
Introduced on the 1978 album "Legend," it was the first single by Poco to reach the Top 40 and remained the group's biggest hit. It was ranked by Billboard as the #1 Adult Contemporary hit for the year 1979. Young would later recall : "I was living in Los Angeles, working on my house one day. I was paneling a wall and looking out over the valley in L.A. and the chorus came into my head. I always had a guitar close at hand. It took about thirty minutes to write that song, because it was all there. It was kind of a gift." Crazy Love (Poco song), Wikipedia

Crazy Love by Poco from the 1979 album "Legend"

Cruel Summer (Steve Jolley, Tony Swain, Sara Dallin, Siobhan Fahey and Keren Woodward, 1983) (Am & Dm)
"Cruel Summer" is a song recorded by the English girl group Bananarama. It was released as a single in 1983, but was subsequently included on their self-titled second album which was released a year later. The song reached #8 on the UK Singles Chart in 1983, and after its inclusion in the 1984 film "The Karate Kid" it reached #9 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. Between 1982 and 2009, Bananaram had 28 singles reach the Top 50 of the UK Singles Chart and 11 singles reach the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 (1983–1988), including the Top 10 hits "Cruel Summer" (1984) and "I Heard a Rumour" (1987).

Cruel Summer by Bananarama from their album "Cruel Summer [Live]" (1983)

Crying In The Rain (C) & Crying in the Rain (G) (Howard Greenfield & Carole King)
Originally recorded by The Everly Brothers, the single peaked at #6 on the U.S. pop charts in 1962. The song was the only collaboration between successful songwriters Greenfield (lyrics) and King (music), both of whom worked for Aldon Music at the time of the song's composition. On a whim, two Aldon songwriting partnerships decided to switch partners for a day – Gerry Goffin (who normally worked with King) partnered with Greenfield's frequent writing partner, Jack Keller, leaving King and Greenfield to pair up for the day. Despite the commercial success of their collaboration, King and Greenfield never wrote another song together. Crying In The Rain, Wikipedia

Crying In The Rain by Everly Brothers (1962)

Crying In The Rain by Tammy Wynette (1981)

Crying In The Rain by Crystal Gayle (1981)

Crying In The Rain by Art Garfunkel & James Taylor from the album Up 'til Now (1993)

Crying In The Rain by Carole King on her 1983 album "Speeding Time."

Daisy Bell (On a Bicycle Built for Two) (Harry Dacre, 1892) (C)
This a popular song is said to have been inspired by Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick, one of the many mistresses of King Edward VII. The song was originally recorded and released by Dan W. Quinn in 1893. It is the earliest song sung using computer speech synthesis by the IBM 7094 in 1961, a feat which was referenced in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).
David Ewen writes in American Popular Songs:
     When Dacre, an English popular composer, first came to the United States, he brought with him a bicycle, for which he was charged import duty. His friend William Jerome, another songwriter, remarked lightly: "It's lucky you didn't bring a bicycle built for two, otherwise you'd have to pay double duty." Dacre was so taken with the phrase "bicycle built for two" that he soon used it in a song. That song, "Daisy Bell," first became successful when sung by Katie Lawrence in a London music hall. Tony Pastor was the first to sing it in the United States. Its success in America began when Jennie Lindsay brought down the house with it at the Atlantic Gardens on the Bowery early in 1892.
Daisy Bell (On a Bicycle Built for Two), Wikipedia.

Daisy Bell (On a Bicycle Built for Two) by "Sheet Music Singer" (All 3 verses plus chorus)

Daisy Bell (On a Bicycle Built for Two) by The Elm City Four quartet (chorus and first verse)

Daisy Bell (On a Bicycle Built for Two) by The Eton Boys quartet (1930s) (Chorus and first verse ... )

Daisy Bell (On a Bicycle Built for Two) by Nat King Cole (1963) (Chorus)

Daisy Bell (On a Bicycle Built for Two) by a IBM 7094, the first computer to sing Daisy Bell (1961)

Daisy Bell by HAL 9000 from the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" as HAL is being "powered down" (Video clip)

Sheet Music (T.B. Harms & Co., New York):
Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built For Two) Sheet Music.pdf

Daisy Bell Parodies

Dance, Dance, Dance (Brenda Cooper, Joseph Cooper & Steve Miller, ca. 1975). Plus:

• Dance, Dance, Dance (Portrait) (C F & G)

• Dance, Dance, Dance (Landscape) (C F & G)

Dance, Dance, Dance by Steve Miller Band, from the album "Fly Like An Eagle" (1976)

Dancing In the Moonlight (Sherman Kelly, 1969) (Am, Dm, Em)
Written by Sherman Kelly while recovering from a vicious attack by a gang, he “envisioned an alternate reality, the dream of a peaceful and joyful celebration of life”. He recorded it singing lead with his band Boffalongo. It later became hits by King Harvest and Toploader. Dancing In the Moonlight, Wikipedia.

Dancing In the Moonlight by King Harvest (1973)

Dancing In the Moonlight by Boffalongo (1970; first recording)

Dancing In the Moonlight by Sherman Kelly (2008)

Dancing In the Moonlight by Toploader (2000, Official Video)

Dark As A Dungeon (Merle Travis, 1946) (C & G)

Dark As A Dungeon, Wikipedia

Dark As A Dungeon by Merle Travis (1951)

Dark As A Dungeon by Johnny Cash (Folsom Prison, 1968)

Daydream (John Sebastian, 1966) (C, F, G) (P) (Week 23)
Daydream (John Sebastian, 1966) (C & G) (L) (Week 7)
"Daydream" originated with Sebastian's attempt to rewrite The Supremes' "Baby Love". Sebastian did his own whistling in the instrumental section plus the coda before the song's fade. The song reached #2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, behind "(You're My) Soul and Inspiration" by The Righteous Brothers. Daydream (The Lovin' Spoonful song), Wikipedia

Daydream by The Lovin' Spoonful from their album "Daydream" (1966)

Daydream Believer (John Stewart) (G)
Daydream Believer, Wikipedia.

Daydream Believer by the Monkees (1967)

Daydream Believer by Anne Murray (1979)

Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road (Loudon Wainwright III) (C & G)
This song was inspired by a flattened little stinker on a suburban New York road. When it was released, there were a number of alternative interpretations of the meaning of this song's lyrics ranging from man's destruction of nature to an allegory about president Nixon. When asked about these differing readings by the London Times July 26, 2008, Wainwright replied with open palms: "Well, OK. But for me, it was just about a dead skunk lying there in the highway."
Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road, Songfacts.com

Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road by Loudon Wainwright III (1972)

December, 1963 (Oh What a Night) (Bob Gaudio & Judy Parker, 1975)
"December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)" is a song originally performed by The Four Seasons, written by original Four Seasons keyboard player Bob Gaudio and his future wife Judy Parker, produced by Gaudio, and included on the group's album, Who Loves You (1975). December 1963 (Oh, What A Night), Wikipedia.

December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night) by Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons (Official Video)

December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night) by Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons (Official Music Video)

Deep Purple (G) & Deep Purple (C) (Peter DeRose, ca. 1933, & Mitchell Parish, 1938)
"Deep Purple" was the biggest hit written by pianist Peter DeRose, who broadcast, 1923 to 1939, with May Singhi as "The Sweethearts of the Air" on the NBC radio network. "Deep Purple" was published in 1933 as a piano composition, but became so popular in sheet music sales that Mitchell Parish added lyrics in 1938.
Larry Clinton and His Orchestra recorded one of the most popular versions of the song in 1938, featuring vocalist Bea Wain; it was number one on the U.S. popular music charts for nine consecutive weeks in 1939.
The second most popular version, which hit number one on the U.S. pop charts, in November 1963 and also won that year's Grammy Award for Best Rock and Roll Record, was recorded by brother and sister Nino Tempo & April Stevens. It remained in the Top 40 for twelve weeks and was #1 on the Hot 100 the week before John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
Another brother-and-sister team, Donny and Marie Osmond, revived "Deep Purple" in 1975 and took it into the Top 20 on the U.S. and Canadian pop charts. Deep Purple, Wikipedia

Deep Purple by Larry Clinton and His Orchestra with Bea Wain (1939)

Deep Purple by Nino Tempo & April Stevens (1963)

Deep Purple by Donny and Marie Osmond (1975)

Desperado (Glenn Frey & Don Henley, 1973). Plus:

Desperado: Portrait format, two-page, in C & G.

Desperado by The Eagles, Live At The Summit, Houston, 1976

Desperado by Linda Ronstadt

Devil With a Blue Dress (Shorty Long & William "Mickey" Stevenson, ca. 1964) (G)
First recorded by Long in 1964, but failed to chart. Two years later, Mitch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels recorded the song as a medley with an original arrangement of Little Richard's "Good Golly, Miss Molly". Their version was notably more up-tempo than Long's more blues-influenced rendition. Reaching #4 on the Hot 100, their version of the track would end up becoming their most well-known and highest charting hit in the United States.
The Duke University basketball pep band plays this song during Blue Devil home games at Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, North Carolina. Devil with a Blue Dress, Wikipedia.

Devil with a Blue Dress by Shorty Long (1964)

Devil with a Blue Dress-Good Golly Miss Molly by Mitch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels  (1966)

Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor_Original (Lonnie Donegan, 1959)

Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor_Alt

Released and charted in the UK in 1959, it was released in the US, where it also hit the charts.

Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor by Lonnie Donegan (1959)

Don't Dream It's Over (Neil Finn, 1986) (C & G)
Don't Dream It's Over, Wikipedia.

Don't Dream It's Over by Crowded House (1986)

Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue (Richard Leigh, ca. 1976) (C)
The song became a worldwide hit single. In the US, it topped the Billboard country music chart, and was Gayle's first (and biggest) crossover pop hit, reaching #1 on the Cashbox Top 100 for two weeks, and #2 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album received Platinum status, the first by a female country singer. In 1978, the song won Gayle a Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance. The song became Gayle's signature piece throughout her career. Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue, Wikipedia.

Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue by Crystal Gayle (1976)

Don't Let The Rain Come Down (G) & Don't Let The Rain Come Down (C) (Ersel Hickey and Ed E. Miller)
This folk music single was the debut recording by the Serendipity Singers in 1964. The song was based on the English nursery rhyme "There Was a Crooked Man". It was first recorded as "Crooked Little House" by Jimmie Rodgers in 1960, on his album "At Home with Jimmie Rodgers - An Evening of Folk Songs," on which the songwriting was credited to Ersel Hickey and Ed E. Miller. It reached #2 on the U.S. Adult Contemporary chart and #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 in May 1964, in the middle of Beatlemania. Don't Let The Rain Come Down (Crooked Little Man), Wikipedia

Don't Let The Rain Come Down (Crooked Little Man) by Serendipity Singers (1964)

Don't Let The Rain Come Down (Crooked Little Man) by The Brothers Four

Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying (Gerry Marsden, Freddie Marsden, Les Chadwick and Les Maguire, ca. 1964) (C & G)
Written by the members of British beat group Gerry and the Pacemakers, it was first recorded and issued as a single in early 1964 by Louise Cordet singer who had previously toured with the group. After Cordet's version failed to chart, the song was recorded by Gerry and The Pacemakers in April 1964. It became an international hit, and remains one of their best known singles. They performed the song on their first US television show, The Ed Sullivan Show, on 3 May 1964. Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying, Wikipedia

Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying by Gerry And The Pacemakers (1964)

Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying by Gerry And The Pacemakers (Recorded performance, 1964)

Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying by Louise Cordet (1964)

Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying by Jose Feliciano (1968)

Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying by Gloria Estefan (1994)

Don't Stop Believin' - Journey (Steve Perry & Neal Schon, 1981)
It was not their biggest hit, but it is by far Journey's most famous song. It is the best-selling digital track from the 20th century, with over 7 million copies sold in the United States. It appeared in the 2003 movie "Monster," and in 2007, it was used in the famous final scene of HBO's "The Sopranos" series finale. The song was also used in the Broadway musical "Rock of Ages" (2009-2015), and in a 2012 movie starring Tom Cruise. During the 2020 pandemic, some hospitals used the song as a rallying call for patients recovering from COVID-19 and those treating them. Don't Stop Believin', Wikipedia, and Don't Stop Believin', Songfacts.

Don't Stop Believin' by Journey (1981)

Don't Stop Believin' by Journey (1981) (In the key of D; Capo on 2nd to play along)

Don't Stop (Thinking About Tomorrow) - Fleetwood Mac  (Christine McVie, 1977)
One of the band's most enduring hits, it reflects Christine McVie's feelings after her separation from Fleetwood Mac's bass guitarist, John McVie, after eight years of marriage. The song was also the theme music for United States presidential candidate Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign. Don't Stop, Wikipedia.

Don't Stop by Fleetwood Mac, "Rumours" (1977) (Original audio)

Don't Stop by Fleetwood Mac (Live performance video)

Dream (Dolores O'Riordan & Noel Hogan, 1992) (C & G)
Dream (The Cranberries song), Wikipedia.

Dream by the Cranberries (1993)

Dream A Little Dream Of Me (Fabian Andre, Gus Kahn & Wilbur Schwandt, 1931) (F)
Dream A Little Dream Of Me, Wikipedia.

Dream A Little Dream Of Me by Ozzie Nelson & his Orchestra (1931) (First recording; vocals by Ozzie Nelson)

Dream A Little Dream Of Me by The Mamas and the Papas with lead vocals by Cass Elliot (1968)

Dream A Little Dream Of Me by Kate Smith (1931)

Dream A Little Dream Of Me by the Nat King Cole Trio (1947)

Dream A Little Dream Of Me by Doris Day

Dream A Little Dream Of Me by Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong

Dream A Little Dream of Me by Gail Herrera (2021)

Dream Baby (Cindy Walker (1918-2006), ca. 1962) (NN)
She originally had little confidence in "Dream Baby", but Orbison's recording was a hit in both the US and Britain in 1962, and was a hit again in 1971 for Glen Campbell and in 1983 for Lacy J. Dalton. It has been estimated that more than 500 of Walker's songs have been recorded and that her songs made the Top 40 charts (country or pop) more than 400 times. Cindy Walker, Wikipedia; Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream), Wikipedia

Dream Baby by Roy Orbison (1962)

Dream Baby by Glen Campbell (1971)

Dream Baby by Lacy J. Dalton (1983) (good bass line)

Dream Baby by Hootie and the Blowfish (1995)

Dream Lover (Bobby Darin, 1959) (C)
Dream Lover, Wikipedia.

Dream Lover by Bobby Darin (1959)

Dream Lover by Dion (1961)

Dreams (Stevie Nicks, 1977) (Am & Dm)
Dreams (Fleetwood Mac song), Wikipedia.

Dreams by Fleetwood Mac (1977)

Dreams by Stevie Nicks (Live in Chicago)

Drive (Ric Ocasek, 1984)
The song is most associated with the July 1985 Live Aid event, where it was performed by Benjamin Orr during the Philadelphia event; previously, the song was used as the background music to a montage of clips depicting the contemporaneous Ethiopian famine during the London event, which was introduced by English musician David Bowie. Following the concert, it re-entered the UK Singles Chart and peaked at No. 4 in August 1985. Proceeds from the sales of the re-released song raised nearly £160,000 for the Band Aid Trust. Drive (The Cars), Wikipedia.

Drive by The Cars (1984)

Drive by The Cars (1984) (Official Music Video)

Drive My Car (John Lennon & Paul McCartney, 1965) (C, D & G)
The song's male narrator is told by a woman that she is going to be a famous movie star, and she offers him the opportunity to be her chauffeur, adding: "and maybe I'll love you". When he objects that his "prospects [are] good", she retorts, "Working for peanuts is all very fine / But I can show you a better time." When he agrees to her proposal, she admits, "I got no car and it's breakin' my heart / But I've found a driver and that's a start."
When McCartney arrived at Lennon's Weybridge home for a writing session, he had the tune in his head, but "the lyrics were disastrous, and I knew it." Lennon dismissed the lyrics as "crap" and "too soft" and they began to rewrite the lyrics. After some difficulty, they settled on the "drive my car" theme (credited to Lennon) and the rest of the lyrics flowed easily from that. Drive My Car (Beatles), Wikipedia.

Drive My Car by the Beatles from "Rubber Soul" (1965)

Dust in the Wind (C) & Dust in the Wind (G) (Kerry Livgren, 1977). Earlier arrangements:

• Dust in the Wind (C) (Landscape)

• Dust in the Wind (C & G) (Portrait)

A meditation on mortality and the inevitability of death, the lyrical theme bears a striking resemblance to the well-known biblical passages Genesis 3:19 ("...for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.") and Ecclesiastes 3:20 ("All go to one place. All are from the dust, and to dust all return."), and from a book of Native American poetry, which includes the line "for all we are is dust in the wind."

This song was originally devised as a finger exercise for learning fingerpicking. His wife, Vicci, heard what he was doing, remarked that the melody was nice, and encouraged him to write lyrics for it. It was subsequently recorded by Kansas, hitting #6 on Billboard's Hot 100 in 1978. Dust In The Wind, Wikipedia.

Dust in the Wind by Kansas from their LP "Point of Know Return" (1977)

Dust in the Wind by Kansas (1977)

Dust in the Wind by Kansas (Official Video)

Early Morning Rain (C) & Early Morning Rain (G) (Gordon Lightfoot, 1964)
Written in 1964, but its genesis was his 1960 sojourn in Westlake, Los Angeles. Throughout this time, Lightfoot sometimes became homesick and would go out to the Los Angeles International Airport on rainy days to watch the approaching aircraft. The imagery of the flights taking off into the overcast sky was still with him when, in 1964, he was caring for his 5-month-old baby son and he thought, "I’ll put him over here in his crib, and I’ll write myself a tune." "Early Morning Rain" was the result.
The general narrative of the song can be taken as a jet-age musical allegory to a hobo of yesteryear lurking around a railroad yard attempting to surreptitiously board and ride a freight train to get home. Early Morning Rain, Wikipedia

Early Morning Rain by Gordon Lightfoot from "Lightfoot!" (1966)

Early Morning Rain by Ian & Sylvia (1965)

Early Morning Rain by Peter, Paul and Mary (1965)

Early Morning Rain by Chad & Jeremy (1966)

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 three 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, &d Gerome Ragni, 1967) (C)
From the 1967 rock musical "Hair." The original recording of the musical featured Lynn Kellogg, who performed the role of Sheila on stage in the musical. It was first covered by Three Dog Night on their 1969 album "Suitable for Framing," with the lead vocal part sung by Chuck Negron. This version reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1969.

Easy To Be Hard by Three Dog Night from their album "Suitable for Framing" (1969)

Easy To Be Hard by Lynn Kellogg from soundtrack of the rock musical "Hair" (1968)

Eight Days a Week (Paul McCartney & John Lennon, 1964) (C, D & G)
The song was the band's seventh #1 single on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1965, and the last song by the Beatles to do so over a one-year period, marking an all-time record for a single act. Eight Days A Week, Wikipedia

Eight Days A Week by The Beatles from the album "Beatles for Sale" (1964); in North America, released in "Beatles VI" (1965)

Eight Days A Week performed by Sir Paul McCartney, Tokyo (2013)

England Swings (Roger Miller, 1965)  (C, D, & G)

England Swings by Roger Miller (1965)

Everybody's Workin' for the Weekend (Paul Dean, Matt Frenette & Mike Reno, 1981) (A)

Everybody's Workin' for the Weekend, Wikipedia.

Everybody's Workin' for the Weekend by Loverboy (1981)

Everyone's Gone to the Moon (Kenneth George King, performing as Jonathan King, 1965) (C & G)
It was released while King was still an undergraduate at England's Cambridge University. Everyone's Gone to the Moon, Wikipedia.

Everyone's Gone to the Moon by Jonathan King

Faithless Love (John David Souther, 1976) (C) (P)
"Faithless Love" is a song written by J.D. Souther and first recorded and released by Linda Ronstadt on her 1974 album "Heart Like a Wheel." Souther's recording appears on his 1976 album "Black Rose." American country music artist Glen Campbell's version of the song was released in June 1984 as the lead single from the album "Letter to Home." The tune reached #10 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.

Faithless Love by Linda Ronstadt on her album "Heart Like a Wheel" (1974), with vocal harmony by the song's writer, John David Souther.

Faithless Love by J. D. Souther on his album "Black Rose" (1976)

Faithless Love by Glen Campbell from the album "Letter to Home" (1976)

Fields Of Gold (Sting, 1992) (Am, Em & Dm)

Fields Of Gold by Sting his 1993 album "Ten Summoner's Tales"

Fire (G) & Fire (C) (Bruce Springsteen, 1977)
Bruce Springsteen envisioned "Fire" as a song which could be recorded by his idol Elvis Presley. It was written after Springsteen saw Presley perform at a May 28, 1977 concert at the Spectrum in Philadelphia. Springsteen said, "I sent [Elvis] a demo of it but he died before it arrived." The song had its highest profile as a 1978 single release by the Pointer Sisters, reaching #2 in February 1979. Although omitted from the "Darkness on the Edge of Town" album, "Fire" was included in the set list of the Darkness Tour and has been a Springsteen concert staple since then. Fire (Springsteen), Wikipedia.

Fire by by the Pointer Sisters (1978)

Fire by by the Pointer Sisters (Live, 1981)

Fire by Bruce Springsteen

Fire by Bruce Springsteen, Live on The River Tour, Tempe, AZ (1980)

Fire and Rain (G) & Fire and Rain (C) (James Taylor, 1970)
Released as a single from his second album, the song follows Taylor's reaction to the suicide of Suzanne Schnerr, a childhood friend, and his experiences with drug addiction, fame, and the failure of his band The Flying Machine (hence the line: "Sweet dreams and Flying Machines in pieces on the ground").
Concerning the death of Susan Schnerr, Taylor said: "I always felt rather bad about the line, 'The plans they made put an end to you,' because 'they' only meant 'ye gods,' or basically 'the Fates.' "
After its release, "Fire and Rain" peaked at number two on RPM's Canada Top Singles chart and at number three on the Billboard Hot 100.
Carole King has stated that her song "You've Got a Friend," was a response to the line in the refrain that "I’ve seen lonely times when I could not find a friend." Fire and Rain, Wikipedia; Fire And Rain, Songfacts.com; 'Fire And Rain', National Public Radio (NPR).

Fire and Rain by James Taylor (Official Audio) originally from his 1970 "Sweet Baby James"

Fire and Rain by James Taylor (Live, 1970)

Fire and Rain by James Taylor (Live at the Beacon Theater, 1998)

Fire On The Mountain (Am-Em) (George McCorkle, 1975) (Marshall Tucker Band)

Fire on the Mountain by the Marshall Tucker Band

Fire on the Mountain by the Marshall Tucker Band (Live, 1981)

Fire on the Mountain (B & NN) (Robert Hunter & Mickey Hart, 1976-1977) (Grateful Dead)

Fire on the Mountain by The Grateful Dead (Studio Version)

Fire on the Mountain by The Grateful Dead (Live, 1980)

Fish and Poi (Mama No Scold Me) (Jack Pitman & Bob Magoon, Jr., 1953) ("Mama don't scold me, I no go work today")

Fish And Poi by Andy Bright and The Moana Hawaiians featuring Jules Keiliikuihonua Ah See (MP3 recording from the Internet Archive)

Fish Song (Jimmie Fadden, 1971)

Fish Song by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band from their 1971 album "Stars And Stripes Forever"

Five O'Clock World (Allen Reynolds, 1965) (C & G)

Five O'Clock World, Wikipedia.

Five O'Clock World by The Vogues

Fly Me to the Moon (Bart Howard, 1954) (Am)
First recorded by Kaye Ballard in 1954 with it's original title "In Other Words," Frank Sinatra's 1964 version was closely associated with the Apollo missions to the Moon. In 1999, the Songwriters Hall of Fame honored "Fly Me to the Moon" by inducting it as a "Towering Song". By 1995, the song had been recorded more than 300 times. Fly Me to the Moon, Wikipedia.

In Other Words by Kaye Ballard (3/4 Time) (1954)

Fly Me to the Moon by Peggy Lee (3/4 Time) (1960)

Fly Me to the Moon by Frank Sinatra with Count Basie, arranged by Quincy Jones (4/4 Time) (1964)

Fly Me to the Moon by Tony Bennett  from his "If I Ruled The World: Songs For The Jet Set" (1965)

Forty Shades Of Green (Johnny Cash, 1959) (C & G)
Cash began writing 'Forty Shades of Green' in 1959 during a trip to Ireland and completed it in 1961 as a B-side on his record 'The Rebel – Johnny Yuma.'
While he lists a number of the most popular destinations in Ireland – Dublin, Shannon, Dingle, Skibbereen – local lore has it that he got the initial inspiration for the song in the Kockmealdown Mountains in Co. Tipperary. Cash allegedly asked his Irish contacts where he could go to get a look at the true beauty of Ireland and was told to head for the Vee Pass, which divides the Knockmealdown and Galtee mountains in southern Tipperary. He kept that stunning view in his mind and sought to capture the lush greenery and beauty of the Irish landscape in song.
Cash once recalled performing the song in Ireland and being told by an old man afterwards that it must have been an old Irish folk tune.
The legendary singer continued to perform the song throughout the rest of his career.
Forty Shades of Green, Wikipedia; Johnny Cash’s 'Forty Shades of Green' inspired by this Irish landscape, Irish Central.com

Forty Shades of Green by Johnny Cash from 'Cash In Ireland' concert with Sandy Kelly, Kris Kristofferson, & The Carter Family

Forty Shades of Green by Rosanne Cash live in concert.

Forty Shades of Green by Daniel O'Donnell from "The Irish Album: 40 Classic Songs"

Fun Fun Fun (Brian Wilson and Mike Love, ca. 1963)
According to Salt Lake City radio manager Bill "Daddy-O" Hesterman of KNAK, an early promoter of the Beach Boys who brought them to Utah for appearances and concerts, the song was inspired by an incident involving Shirley Johnson, the station owner's daughter. Johnson had borrowed her father's 1963 Thunderbird, which had a University of Utah parking sticker, ostensibly to go study at the University library. Instead, she went to a drive-in theater. When the deception came to light, her driving privileges were revoked. In 2007, Johnson told KSL News that she was complaining loudly about the incident at the radio station, where she worked as a part-time secretary, when the Beach Boys happened to be there for an interview. Hesterman said that Wilson and Love, amused by the incident, jotted down the beginnings of the song as he took them to the airport that afternoon. Fun Fun Fun, Wikipedia.

Fun Fun Fun by The Beach Boys

Fun Fun Fun by Jan and Dean

Garden Party (Rick Nelson, 1971-72)
The song tells the story of Nelson being booed at a concert at Madison Square Garden. On October 15, 1971, Richard Nader's Rock 'n Roll Revival concert was given at Madison Square Garden in New York City and included many greats of the early rock era, including Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, and Bobby Rydell. Nelson came on stage dressed in the then-current fashion, wearing bell-bottoms and a purple velvet shirt, with his hair hanging down to his shoulders. He started playing his older songs like "Hello Mary Lou", but then he played the Rolling Stones' "Country Honk" (a country version of their hit song "Honky Tonk Women") and the crowd began to boo. Some reports say that the booing was caused by police action in the back of the audience, but Nelson thought it was directed at him. He sang one other song and then left the building. The song is rich with lyrical references (Mr. Hughes was a pseudonym for neighbor and good friend, George Harrison). "Garden Party" reached number six on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the fall of 1972; it was Nelson's last top 40 hit on the US pop charts. He died in a plane crash on December 31, 1985, flying from Guntersville, Alabama, to Dallas, Texas, for a concert. Garden Party (Rick Nelson song), Wikipedia.

Garden Party by Rick Nelson and the Stone Canyon Band (1972)

Garden Party by Rick Nelson and the Stone Canyon Band (Live performance on The Midnight Special, introduced by Wolfman Jack, 1978)

Gentle On My Mind (John Hartford, ca. 1965-66) (C & F) (P)
"Gentle on My Mind" is a song written by John Hartford, which won four 1968 Grammy Awards. Hartford won the award for Best Folk Performance and Best Country & Western Song (Songwriter). The other two awards -- Best Country & Western Solo Vocal Performance, and Male and Best Country & Western Recording --went to American country music singer Glen Campbell for his version of Hartford's song.
The song was released in June 1967 as the only single from the album of the same name. It was re-released in July 1968 to more success. Glen Campbell's version has received over 5 million plays on the radio. Campbell used "Gentle on My Mind" as the theme to his television variety show, The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour between 1969 and 1972. The song was ranked #16 on BMI's Top 100 Songs of the Century.
Hartford reported that he was inspired to write the song after seeing the film Doctor Zhivago when his own memories took over, and that it took about thirty minutes to write down. Hartford said of the writing:
"I went to see the movie Doctor Zhivago the night I wrote it. ... I know it gave me a feeling that caused me to start writing, but as far as saying it came from that, I don't know. It just came from experience. While I was writing it, if I had any idea that was going to be a hit, it probably would have come out differently and it wouldn't have been a hit. That just came real fast, a blaze, a blur."

Gentle On My Mind by John Hartford from the album "Earthwords & Music" (1967)

Gentle On My Mind by John Hartford on the live broadcast of the Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour TV show, September, 1988; Glen joins in with the last verse.

Gentle On My Mind by John Hartford and Glen Campbell, an undated video. Great work by John on the banjo, for my money; Glen is on a nice looking 12-string guitar.

Gentle On My Mind by Glen Campbell, the title song from the 1967 album.

Georgia on My Mind (Hoagy Carmichael & Stuart Gorrell, 1930)
Hoagy Carmichael recorded "Georgia on My Mind" in 1930 with Bix Beiderbecke on cornet, Eddie Lang on guitar, Joe Venuti on violin, Jimmy Dorsey on clarinet, and Charles Winters on double bass in September 15, 1930, in New York City. This was part of Beiderbecke's last recording session. Frankie Trumbauer had the first hit recording in 1931 when it reached the top ten on the charts.
Georgia native Ray Charles is closely identified with the song and in 2003, "Rolling Stone" magazine named the 1960 Ray Charles version the 44th greatest song of all time.
The 1978 Willie Nelson version peaked at #1 on a country chart and earned Nelson won a Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance. Georgia on My Mind, Wikipedia.

Georgia On My Mind by Ray Charles on his 1960 album "The Genius Hits the Road"

Georgia On My Mind by Ray Charles (Live on the TV show "The Midnight Express," 1976)

Georgia On My Mind by Hoagy Carmichael (1930)

Georgia On My Mind by Willie Nelson from his 1978 album "Stardust"

Girl From The North Country (Bob Dylan, 1962)

Girl From The North Country, Wikipedia.

Girl From The North Country by Bob Dylan (1963)

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)

God Bless The U.S.A. ("Proud To Be An American") (Lee Greenwood, 1983)
Written and recorded by Lee Greenwood, it is considered to be his signature song. He wrote the song in response to his feelings about the shooting down of Korean Air Lines Flight 007. It first appeared on his 1984 album "You've Got a Good Love Comin'". It reached #7 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart when originally released in the spring of 1984; it was re-released as a single in 2001, re-entering the country music charts at #16 and peaking at #16 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart.
It was played at the 1984 Republican National Convention with President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan in attendance, but the song gained greater prominence during the Gulf War in 1990 and 1991. The popularity of the song rose sharply after the September 11 attacks and during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
It has been covered by many artists, notably by Dolly Parton and Beyoncé. The a cappella group Home Free has been performing the song ever since the band's inception in 2000, and in 2020, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, they worked in the studio with Greenwood and re-recorded the song with him and the United States Air Force Band Singing Sergeants. The music video is set to release in time for the July 4 holiday. God Bless the U.S.A., Wikipedia. And see Don Gonyea, 'God Bless The U.S.A.,' A Country Anthem With Enduring Political Power, National Public Radio (NPR), September 11, 2018

God Bless The U.S.A. by Lee Greenwood (1983)

God Bless the U.S.A. by Home Free (Video)

God Bless the U.S.A. by Beyoncé (Video, July 2011)

God Bless the U.S.A. by Dolly Parton (Official audio)

Golden Slumbers - Carry That Weight - The End (Am)

Golden Slumbers - Carry That Weight - The End (Em)

(Lennon & McCartney, 1968)

Golden Slumbers - Carry That Weight by The Beatles from "Abbey Road" (1969)

Good Day Sunshine (Paul McCartney & John Lennon, 1966)
McCartney said that he was influenced by the Lovin' Spoonful: the song's "old-timey vaudevillian feel" particularly recalls the Spoonful's hit "Daydream", to which "Good Day Sunshine" bears some harmonic resemblance. McCartney sang the lead vocal and played piano, accompanied by Ringo Starr on drums, and then overdubbed the bass guitar. Lennon and George Harrison add harmony vocals during the choruses. George Martin played the piano solo.
Leonard Bernstein praised the song for its construction in a 1967 CBS News documentary. Richie Unterberger of AllMusic said the song "radiates optimism and good vibes." Ian MacDonald said it is "superbly sung by McCartney and exquisitely produced by George Martin and his team" and that it shows the Beatles "at their effortless best." Good Day Sunshine, Wikipedia. See: Notes on "Good Day Sunshine" by Alan W. Pollack.

Good Day Sunshine by The Beatles from their "Revolver" (1966)

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Elton John & Bernie Taupin, 1973)
The title track on Elton John's 1973 album, whose musical style and production was heavily influenced by 1970s soft rock. Widely praised by critics, some have named it Elton John's best song.
When released it entered the Top Ten in both the UK and the US. It surpassed the previous single, "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting", in sales and popularity quickly following its release. In the US, it was certified Gold in January 1974, Platinum in September 1995, and 2x Platinum in March 2020. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Wikipedia.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John (1973)

Grandma's Feather Bed (Jim Connor, 1964)
Gadsden native Jim Connor said the song began as a poem to his grandmother, who operated a boarding house in the Woodlawn area of Birmingham. Conner joined Bob Shane & Pat Horine as the New Kingston Trio in 1969 and the song was used in the group's act.
Andy Powell, "Connor's 'Grandma's Feather Bed' almost wasn't recorded," The Gadsden Times (June 2, 2011)

Grandma's Feather Bed by John Denver on his album "Back Home Again" (1974)

Grandma's Feather Bed by John Denver (Live From 1991 TV special "Montana Christmas Skies," 1991)

Grandma's Feather Bed by The New Kingston Trio, featuring Jim Connor on the banjo, from "'The Best of The New Kingston Trio 1968-1972"

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, Green (Barry McGuire & Randy Sparks, 1963)

Green, Green by The New Christy Minstrels from their 1963 album "Ramblin'"

Green, Green Grass of Home (Claude “Curly” Putman, Jr., 1964) (D & G)
Curley Putman,  Jr., was born in Princeton, Alabama, and was an American songwriter who wrote a great number of songs, but whose greatest success was this song. It was first recorded by Johnny Darrell in 1965 but was made famous by Porter Wagoner the same year. It's been covered by a large number of artists. Curley was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1976 and the Alabama Music Hall of Fame in 1993. He passed away in 2016. Green, Green Grass of Home, Wikipedia; Curly Putman, Wikipedia

Green, Green Grass of Home by Johnny Darrell (1965)

Green, Green Grass of Home by Porter Wagoner (1965)

Green, Green Grass of Home by Jerry Lee Lewis (1965)

Green Green Grass of Home by Tom Jones (1966)

Green, Green Grass of Home by Johnny Cash live at Folsom Prison (1968)

Green, Green Grass of Home by Elvis Presley (1975)

Green, Green Grass of Home by Joan Baez live on the Smothers Brothers TV show (undated).

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."

Green River (John Cameron Fogerty, 1969). Plus:

Green River: Portrait format in the key of E and Nashville Notation.
"What really happened is that I used a setting like New Orleans, but I would actually be talking about thing from my own life. Certainly a song like "Green River" – which you may think would fit seamlessly into the Bayou vibe, but it's actually about the Green River, as I named it – it was actually called Putah Creek by Winters, California. It wasn't called Green River, but in my mind I always sort of called it Green River. All those little anecdotes are part of my childhood, those are things that happened to me actually, I just wrote about them and the audience shifted at the time and place." Green River, Wikipedia

Green River by Creedence Clearwater Revival (1969)

Green River by John Fogerty from "Premonition (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)" (1998)

Green Rose Hula (Laida Paia & John Kameaaloha Almeida) (C, F & G)
The green rose is called the "leaf rose". Laida Paia, Mrs. James Keoni Willis, a member of John Almeida's trio composed this mele although it has always been attributed to Almeida. John acknowledged and always gave her due credit when he performed it, especially when Laida's son Koko or other members of her family were in the audience.  Green Rose Hula, Huapala.org

Green Rose Hula by John Kameaaloha Almeida as John K. Almeida's Hawaiians (trio)

Green Rose Hula by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole from "Live from Manoa Valley!"

Green Rose Hula by Halau Hula Olana from the 2008 album "Halau Hula Olana"

Green Tambourine (Paul Leka & Shelley Pinz, 1966) (C & G)

Green Tambourine by The Lemon Pipers (1967)

Greenback Dollar (Hoyt Axton & Ken Ramsey, 1962) (Am & Em)

Greenback Dollar by The Kingston Trio (1962)

Greenfields (Terry Gilkyson, Rich Dehr, and Frank Miller, 1956) (Am & Em)
First recorded by Terry Gilkyson & the Easy Riders, October 23, 1957.

Greenfields by The Brothers Four (1960)

Greenfields by Terry Gilkyson & the Easy Riders (1957)

Greensleeves (Traditional English folk song) (Am)
A broadside ballad by the name "A Newe Northen Dittye of ye Ladye Greene Sleves" was registered by Richard Jones at the London Stationer's Company in September 1580, and was followed by six more songs within the year. The tune is found in several late-16th-century and early-17th-century sources, such as Ballet's MS Lute Book and Het Luitboek van Thysius, as well as various manuscripts preserved in the Seeley Historical Library in the University of Cambridge. There is a persistent myth that Greensleeves was composed by Henry VIII for his lover and future queen consort Anne Boleyn. William Shakespeare mentions this song by name twice in The Merry Wives of Windsor.
Christmas and New Year texts were associated with the tune from as early as 1686, and by the 19th century almost every printed collection of Christmas carols included some version of words and music together, most of them ending with the refrain "On Christmas Day in the morning". One of the most popular of these is "What Child Is This?", written in 1865 by William Chatterton Dix. Greensleeves, Wikipedia; Greensleeves, Songfacts.com; Greensleeves, The Hymns And Carols of Christmas quoting from William Chappell, The Ballad Literature and Popular Music of the Olden Time (London: Chappell & Co., 1859).

Greensleeves by The King's Singers from the 2008 BBC Proms concert in the Royal Albert Hall London

Greensleeves by Karliene Reynolds

Greensleeves by The Baltimore Consort

Hanalei Moon (Bob Nelson, 1974) (C, F & G)
Robert Edward Lin Nelson was a Hawaiian songwriter, composer, pianist, and singer. In 1976 "Hanalei Moon" received the award for Best New Song at the first Nani Awards, the predecessor to the Na Hoku Hanohano Awards. In 1978 he was nominated for Best Composer, and his song "Maui Waltz" was nominated for Best Song, at the very first Na Hoku Hanohano Awards. "Hanalei Moon" and "Maui Waltz" are among the most popular songs in Hawaii.
A staunch defender of the copyrights and royalties of Hawaiian songwriters and composers, he served on advisory boards at ASCAP for two decades. In 2013 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Hawaii Academy of Recording Arts. Bob Nelson (songwriter), Wikipedia

Hanalei Moon by Bob Nelson (1974)

Happy Birthday - Hawaiian Verse (Arrangement by Mele Fong aka "Ukulele Mele")

Mele has a lot of resources for ukulele. Find her at Facebook, her Blog, or her Website.

Happy Birthday - Hawaiian by Mele Fong

The Story Behind The Song by Mele Fong

Harvest Moon (Neil Percival Young, 1992) (Bb, C, F & G)
The first single from "Harvest Moon", the 19th studio album by Canadian-American musician Neil Young, released on November 2, 1992, and recorded with 1970s-era analogue equipment instead of digital equipment, in order to achieve a "warmer" feel.
The song uses a moon motif, which Young has mentioned as being very important to him and having quasi-religious undertones. It is a tribute to his wife Pegi Young, and the two are dancing in a bar in the music video. Linda Ronstadt provides the backing vocals. According to the sheet music published at Musicnotes.com by Sony/ATV Music Publishing, the song is composed in the key of D Major with Young's vocal range spanning from D3 to F#4. Harvest Moon (song), Wikipedia; Harvest Moon (album), Wikipedia.

Harvest Moon by Neil Young (1992)

Harvest Moon by Neil Young (Official Video)

Harvest Moon by Jazz singer Cassandra Wilson for her 1995 album "New Moon Daughter"

Harvest Moon by Josh Groban performing the song live at Young's award ceremony for MusiCares Person of the Year in 2010.

Have You Ever Seen The Rain (C) & Have You Ever Seen the Rain (G) (John Fogardy, ca. 1970)
Written by John Fogerty, it was released as a single in 1971 from the album "Pendulum" (1970) by Creedence Clearwater Revival. The song charted highest in Canada, reaching number 1 on the RPM 100 national singles chart in March 1971. In the U.S., in the same year it peaked at number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart
Fogerty said that the song is about rising tension within CCR and the imminent departure of his brother Tom from the band. In an interview, Fogerty stated that the song was written about the fact that they were on the top of the charts, and had surpassed all of their wildest expectations of fame and fortune. They were rich and famous, but somehow all of the members of the band at the time were depressed and unhappy; thus the line "Have you ever seen the rain, coming down on a sunny day?". The band split up in October the following year after the release of the album "Mardi Gras." Have You Ever Seen The Rain, Wikipedia

Have You Ever Seen The Rain by John Fogardy (Live)

Have You Ever Seen The Rain by Creedence Clearwater Revival (1971)

Have You Ever Seen The Rain by Willie Nelson

Hawaii (Brian Wilson & Mike Love, 1963)

Recorded in July 1963, it is one of the first Beach Boys songs that Hal Blaine played on. The single didn't chart in the US but reached the Australian Top Ten during the Beach Boys' tour of Australia in February 1964. Hawaii (Beach Boys song), Wikipedia.

Hawaii by The Beach Boys from their 1963 album "Surfer Girl"

Hawaii by The Beach Boys in a live appearance in San Francisco, 1963

Hawaii Calls (Harry Owens, 1935)

This was the theme song for the radio program of the same name. The show introduced and popularized Hawaiian music, both traditional and hapa-haole styles, around the world. A Version with Dick McIntire and His Harmony Hawaiians, featuring Ray Kinney, is at Archive.org (with an impossibly long URL).

Hawaii Calls (Instrumental) by Harry Owens & His Royal Hawaiians – Hawaii, 1950

Hawaii Calls by Jesse Tinsley

Hawaii Calls by Nathan Aweau and Jeff Peterson

Hawaiian Eyes (Jon Osorio & Randy Borden, 1981)

Winner of the 1981 Na Hoku Hanohano Award Song of the Year. Jon & Randy have been described as "a legendary contemporary Hawaiian duo," and were part of the “Hawaiian Renaissance” in local music scene in the 1970s and early 1980s. Jon Osorio, PhD, is dean of the Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, and received a lifetime achievement award in 2019 for his contributions to Hawaiʻi’s music and recording industry by the Hawaiʻi Academy of Recording Arts. Randy Kamuela Borden died at the age of 45 in October, 1997; he was born on Molokai. Hawaiian Eyes, Nā Mea Hawaiʻi; Lifetime achievement award for Hawaiʻinuiākea Dean Osorio, University of Hawaii News, October 28 2019; Randy Borden, Hawaiian Athlete, Singer, The Seattle Times (Nov 1 1997).

Hawaiian Eyes by Jon & Randy from their album "Hawaiian Eyes" (1981)

Hawaiian Eyes by Nā Leo · Nā Leo Pilimehana

Heart Like a Wheel (Anna McGarrigle, ca. 1972)
The title song from the fifth solo studio album by Linda Ronstadt, released in November 1974, it was her first to reach the top of the Billboard 200, winning a Grammy Award, and is considered to be Ronstadt's breakthrough album. In his review for AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine described it as "a landmark of '70s mainstream pop/rock." John Lingan claimed in his review for Pitchfork that "[Ronstadt] had one power, but it was a superpower. Viewed from one angle, Linda Ronstadt’s career is the story of a woman gradually recognizing the power of her own voice. She had the tone early, but you can hear her control improve in each successive album. Her breaths sound more natural, her vibrato becomes more pronounced. By Heart Like a Wheel, she’d mastered it." In 2006, CMT ranked "Heart Like a Wheel" No. 34 on its list of the 40 greatest albums in country music. Heart Like a Wheel (album), Wikipedia.

Heart Like A Wheel by Linda Ronstadt (1974)

Heart Like A Wheel by the Kate & Anna McGarrigle (1975)

Heart of Gold (Portrait-Em), Heart of Gold_(Landscape-Em), Heart of Gold (Portrait) (Am & Em) (Neil Young, ca. 1971)
"Heart of Gold" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young. Released from the 1972 album Harvest, it is so far Young's only U.S. #1 single. In 2010, Rolling Stone ranked it #303 on their list of the 500 greatest songs of all time. The song features backup vocals by James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt. As a result of a back injury. Young unable to stand for long periods of time, and so returned to his acoustic guitar, which he could play sitting down. He also played his harmonica during the three instrumental portions, including the introduction to the song. Heart of Gold, Wikipedia.

Heart of Gold by Neil Young (Live from 1971); released on his album “Harvest” (1972)

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)

Hello Mary Lou (Gene Pitney, 1960, with co-writing credit to Cayet Mangiaracina)
Ricky Nelson's version was issued as a double A-side with his #1 hit "Travelin' Man", reached #9 on the Billboard music charts on May 28, 1961. The song features an influential guitar solo by James Burton, often cited by later guitarists such as Brian May. Hello Mary Lou, Wikipedia.

Hello Mary Lou by Johnny Duncan (1960)

Hello Mary Lou by Ricky Nelson, later included on his 1961 album "Rick Is 21."

Hello Mary Lou by Gene Pitney for his debut 1962 album "The Many Sides of Gene Pitney."

Hello Mary Lou by Creedence Clearwater Revival

Hello Mary Lou by Queen, "Live At Wembley Stadium, 1986"

Here Comes Summer (Jerry Keller, 1959) (C)
In 1959 it spent 13 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, reaching #14, while spending one week at #1 on the UK's New Musical Express chart, reaching #8 on Norway's VG-lista, and #4 on Canada's CHUM Hit Parade. It was Keller's only hit either side of the Atlantic. A popular misconception is that this song quotes the line "the sun shines bright" from the Stephen Foster song "My Old Kentucky Home", but this is untrue as the line contained in "Here Comes Summer" is "oh, let the sun shine bright".

Here Comes Summer by Jerry Keller (1959)

Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again (Roger Frederick Cook, Roger John Reginald Greenaway & Tony Macaulay, 1971) (C & G)
This was the third U.S. Top 40 hit for The Fortunes in 1971. This sad song is about the singer experiencing a rainy day feeling, with his tears falling like rain as if it were always a Monday, rather than a sunny Sunday spent with his girlfriend. Part of the lead vocal passages are similar to a Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons song.
The song reached number 15 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and number 8 on the Cash Box Top 100. It was also a hit in Canada and charted in Australia. Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again, Wikipedia

Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again by The Fortunes (1971)

Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again by Sonny & Cher appearing on the Glen Campbell Good-time Hour TV Show (1971)

Here Comes The Rain Again (Am) & Here Comes The Rain Again (Em) (Annie Lennox & David Allan Stewart, 1983)
Dave Stewart revealed that the lyrics to the song came into being after an argument between him and Lennox while they were doing some songwriting in New York City's Columbus Hotel. The basic melody had already been written and Lennox looked out the window after their fight and noticed it was starting to rain. She announced, "Here comes the rain again."
In the UK, the single became Eurythmics' fifth Top 10 hit, peaking at #8. It was the duo's second Top 10 hit in the US. The string arrangements by Michael Kamen were performed by members of the British Philharmonic Orchestra. Here Comes The Rain Again, Wikipedia.

Here Comes The Rain Again by the Eurythmics from their 1983 album "Touch"

Here Comes The Rain Again by the Eurythmics (Official Video, December 1983)

Here Comes the Sun (George Harrison, 1969) (D & G)
The Beatles recorded "Here Comes the Sun" at London's EMI Studios in the summer of 1969. Led by Harrison's acoustic guitar, the track features Moog synthesizer, which he had introduced to the band's sound after acquiring an early model of the instrument in California. Reflecting the continued influence of Indian classical music on Harrison's writing, the composition includes several time signature changes. "Here Comes the Sun" has received acclaim from music critics, and combined with his other contribution to Abbey Road, "Something", it gained for Harrison the level of recognition as a songwriter that had previously been reserved for his bandmates John Lennon and Paul McCartney. As of September 2019, it was the most streamed Beatles song in the United Kingdom, with over 50 million plays.

Here Comes the Sun by The Beatles from "Abbey Road" (1969) (Official Video)

Here Comes the Sun by George Harrison with Ringo Starr, Elton John, Phil Collin, Eric Clapton and a few others. (Live)

Here Comes the Sun by George Harrison with Paul Simon (Live)

Here Comes the Sun by David Crosby, Graham Nash, and Paul Simon (Live)

Hey Baby (Bruce Channel & Margaret Cobb, 1959)
The version by Bruce Channel went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1962 as well as to #2 on the R&B Chart and the U.K. singles chart. “Hey! Baby” was featured in the film Dirty Dancing. The 1982 cover by Anne Murray went to #7 on the US Country Singles chart and #26 on the Adult Contemporary chart. According to a CNN article from 2002, while touring the UK in 1962 with The Beatles, McClinton met John Lennon and gave him some harmonica tips. Lennon put the lessons to use right away on "Love Me Do" and later "Please Please Me". Hey! Baby, Wikipedia

Hey! Baby by Bruce Channel (1962)

Hey Baby by the Ban-Lons (1959)

Hey! Baby by Anne Murray (1982)

Honey You Don't Know My Mind (Jimmy Skinner, ca. 1950)

Honey, You Don't Know My Mind by Jimmy Martin (1957)

You Don't Know My Mind by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band From "Will The Circle Be Unbroken" (1972)

Honolulu Blue And Green (Melveen Leed) (D & F)

Honolulu Blue and Green by Copper Nickel (1971)

Honolulu Blue and Green by Melveen Leed (1975)

Honolulu City Lights (Keola Beamer, early 1970s)

Keola and Kapono Beamer were part of the “Hawaiian Renaissance” in local music scene beginning in the 1970s. The "Honolulu City Lights" album won several of the Hawaiian music industry's Na Hoku Hanohano Awards in 1979, among them for Best Contemporary Hawaiian Album, and both the song and the album went on to become among the most popular and most played works of contemporary Hawaiian music. Richard and Karen Carpenter were vacationing in Hawaii in 1977 when they heard "Honolulu City Lights." The 1978 recording was not released until 1986, three years after Karen's death. Honolulu City Lights, Wikipedia.
It was named #1 in the June, 2004, Honolulu Magazine article The 50 Greatest Hawai‘i Albums of All Time. Authors Ronna Bolante and Michael Keany wrote: "Few albums have become so completely integrated into the consciousness of local culture as Keola and Kapono Beamer’s 'Honolulu City Lights.' In the 26 years since its release, its songs have become the soundtrack to Hawai‘i."

Honolulu City Lights by Keola and Kapono Beamer from their album "Honolulu City Lights" (1979)

Honolulu City Lights by the Carpenters (1986) from their album "Lovelines" (1989)

Honolulu Lulu (Jan Berry, Roger Christian, Lou Adler, 1963)

Honolulu Lulu by Jan And Dean (1990 stereo remaster)

Honolulu Lulu by Jan And Dean, a live performance in 1987.

Horse With No Name  (Dewey Bunnell, ca. 1970-71)
"A Horse with No Name" is a song by the folk rock band America and was the band's first and most successful single, released in late 1971 in Europe and early 1972 in the United States, topping the charts in Canada, Finland, and the United States. The lyrics were intended to capture the feel of the hot, dry desert that had been depicted at the studio from a Salvador Dalí painting, and the strange horse that had ridden out of an M. C. Escher picture. Writer Dewey Bunnell also says he remembered his childhood travels through the Arizona and New Mexico desert when his family lived at Vandenberg Air Force Base. Bunnell has explained that "A Horse with No Name" was "a metaphor for a vehicle to get away from life's confusion into a quiet, peaceful place". Horse With No Name, Wikipedia.

Horse With No Name by America (1971)

Hot Child in the City (C-G) (Nick Gilder, 1977)
Released in June 1978 as a single from the album "City Nights," it went to No. 1 both in Canada and in the US.
Despite the song's innocent and catchy pop stylings, the tune is based on Gilder's experiences witnessing child prostitution. "I've seen a lot of young girls, 15 and 16, walking down Hollywood Boulevard with their pimps. Their home environment drove them to distraction so they ran away, only to be trapped by something even worse. It hurts to see that so I tried writing from the perspective of a lecher – in the guise of an innocent pop song." Hot Child in the City, Wikipedia.

Hot Child in the City by Nick Gilder (1977)

Hula Heaven (Ralph Rainger & Leo Robin, 1937)

Originally one of several songs written for the 1937 Paramount movie "Waikiki Wedding," starring Bing Crosby, Bob Burns, Shirley Ross, and Martha Raye. Other songs included Harry Owens' "Sweet Leilani" and original compositions by Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger, and Don Hartman, namely, "Blue Hawaii," "Sweet Is the Word for You," and "Nani O Nā Pua." See: "Movies and Hawaiian Music" by George Kanahele from "Ha'ilono Mele," The Hawaiian Music Foundation, Vol. IV, Number 6 (June 1978), pp. 4-7.
"In A Little Hula Heaven" got a facelift when the lyrics were slightly altered by Teresa Bright and recorded under the title "Hula Heaven." Teresa, a native-Hawaiian entertainer, has received a Na Hoku Honohano Award three times, 1988, 1991, and 2009. Teresa Bright, Wikipedia.

Hula Heaven by Teresa Bright from her album "Self Portrait" (1990)

In A Little Hula Heaven by Bing Crosby with Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra from the movie "Waikiki Wedding" (1937)

I Can See Clearly Now  (Johnny Nash, 1972)
This was a single from the album of the same name and achieved success in the United States and the United Kingdom when it was released in 1972, reaching #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary Charts as well as #1 on the Cash Box chart. It has been covered by many artists throughout the years.
After Nash wrote and composed the original version, he recorded it in London with members of the Fabulous Five Inc. Its arrangements and style are both heavily laced with reggae influences. Nash had collaborated with Bob Marley in the past, and his approach drew strongly from Marley's reggae style. I Can See Clearly Now, Wikipedia

I Can See Clearly Now by Johnny Nash (1972)

I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues (Elton John, Davey Johnstone & Bernie Taupin, 1983). Plus these in Portrait format key of C, in single- or two-page formats:

• I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues (single-page format)

• I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues (two-page format)

I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues by Elton John from "Too Low for Zero" (1983)

I Heard It In The Graveyard-TM (Adaptation by Sunny of Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It Through The Grapevine")

I Heard It In The Graveyard by Sunny

I Heard It Through The Grapevine by Marvin Gaye

I Heard It Through The Grapevine by Creedence Clearwater Revival

I Just Called to Say I Love You (Stevie Wonder, 1984)
A ballad written, produced, and performed by Stevie Wonder. It remains Wonder's best-selling single to date, having topped a record 19 charts. The song's lyrics have Wonder surprising his love interest with an unexpected telephone call. Throughout the song, Wonder lists events in a yearly calendar that might prompt someone to call a loved one. Yet he explains no special annual event such as New Year's Day or Halloween spurred the call. He simply wants to tell her he loves her from the bottom of his heart. I Just Called to Say I Love You, Wikipedia.

I Just Called to Say I Love You by Stevie Wonder (1984)

I Like Bananas Because They Have No Bones (Chris Yacich & Lorraine Milne, 1936)

I Like Bananas Because They Have No Bones by The Hoosier Hot Shots (1936)

I Like Bananas Because They Have No Bones by George Formby accompanied by his ukulele

I Like Bananas Because They Have No Bones by George Elrick (1936)

I Melt With You (C) & I Melt With You (G)
(Michael Conroy, Stephen Walker, Robert Grey, Gary McDowell, Richard Brown, 1982)
This became the band's most successful single, largely in the United States, where it was featured in the film "Valley Girl" and on MTV. It reached number seven on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart in 1983 and a re-release reached number 76 on its Hot 100 chart in 1990 (after reaching number 78 in 1983).

I Melt with You by Modern English (Audio) (1982)

I Melt with You by Modern English (Official Video)

I Only Want To Be With You (Mike Hawker and Ivor Raymonde, 1961-2)

The debut solo single released by British singer Dusty Springfield peaked at #4 on the UK Singles chart in January 1964. In the US, Dusty Springfield was the second artist of the British Invasion, after the Beatles, to have a hit. Dusty had six top 20 singles on the US Billboard Hot 100 and sixteen on the UK Singles Chart from 1963 to 1989. Singer/songwriter Tom Springfield, best known as a member of The Seekers, was her older brother.
In the US on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, "I Only Want to Be with You" has been a Top 40 hit three times: Dusty Springfield, The Bay City Rollers, and Samantha Fox. The song was written by Mike Hawker as a love song to his recent bride, Jean Westwood. I Only Want to Be with You, Wikipedia.

I Only Want To Be With You by Dusty Springfield (1964)

I Only Want To Be With You by Bay City Rollers (1976)

I Only Want To Be With You by Tourists (1979)

I Only Want To Be With You by Samantha Fox (1989)

I Think Were Alone Now (Ritchie Cordell & Bo Gentry, 1966)

I Think Were Alone Now by Tommy James and the Shondells (1967)

I Think Were Alone Now by Tommy James and the Shondells, Live on Village Square (1967)

I Think Were Alone Now by Tiffany (Official Video, 1987)

I Washed My Hands In Muddy Water  (Cowboy Joe Babcock, ca. 1965).

I Washed My Hands In Muddy Water, Wikipedia.

I Washed My Hands In Muddy Water by Stonewall Jackson (1965)

I Washed My Hands In Muddy Water by Elvis Presley (1971)

I Will Remember You (Sarah McLachlan, Séamus Egan and Dave Merenda, ca. 1995)
"I Will Remember You" is a song written by Sarah McLachlan, Séamus Egan and Dave Merenda. The original inspiration came from Seamus Egan's instrumental song, "Weep Not for the Memories", which appeared on his album "A Week in January" (1990). McLachlan and Merenda added lyrics and modified the melody for her version. The song first appeared on the soundtrack for the movie “The Brothers McMullen” in 1995 and was released the same year, when it peaked at #65 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and #10 in Canada. It was also featured on McLachlan's 1996 remix album, “Rarities, B-Sides and Other Stuff.” The “Rarities“ version of the song has three verses, the first of which is omitted during live performances, as heard on her 1999 album “Mirrorball,” which peaked at #14 in the US and #10 in Canada and ranking #1 on the country's adult contemporary chart. The live version went Gold in the United States and earned McLachlan her second Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 2000 (after winning for "Building a Mystery" in 1998 and being nominated for "Adia" in 1999). McLachlan performed the song during an "in memoriam" slide show at the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards, held on September 20, 2009.
I Will Remember You (Sarah McLachlan, Séamus Egan and Dave Merenda), Wikipedia

I Will Remember You by Sarah McLachlan from "Rarities, B-Sides and Other Stuff" (1996)

I Will Remember You by Sarah McLachlan from "Mirrorball" (Live 1999)

I Will Remember You by Sarah McLachlan (Music Video)

I Wonder Where My Little Hula Girl Has Gone (Johnny Noble, Treve Bluett, & Walter Donaldson, 1938)

I Wonder Where My Little Hula Girl Has Gone by Sol K. Bright (Solomon Kekipi Bright, Sr.) and his Hollywaiians (1939)

I Wonder Where My Little Hula Girl Has Gone by Ian Whitcomb and The Bungalow Boys (2003)

I Wonder Where My Little Hula Girl Has Gone by Casey MacGiill & Orville Johnson from their album "Hawaii of My Dreams" (2014)

If You Could Read My Mind (Gordon Lightfoot, 1969)
An intensely personal song, Lightfoot has cited his divorce for inspiring the lyrics. In the liner notes of his boxed set, "Songbook," he says, "A song about the failure of marriage." The lyrics came to him as he was sitting in a vacant Toronto house one summer.
On release the song reached #1 in Canadian Singles Chart, reaching #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, reaching #27 in the Australian Singles Chart, an #30 in the United Kingdom. The song also reached #1 on the Billboard Easy Listening chart, the first of four Lightfoot releases to reach #1. If You Could Read My Mind, Wikipedia; If You Could Read My Mind, Gordon Lightfoot.com.

If You Could Read My Mind by Gordon Lightfoot from his 1970 album "Sit Down Young Stranger."

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.)

In the Summertime (Ray Dorset, 1970) (C)
The debut single by British rock band Mungo Jerry, celebrates the carefree days of summer. In 1970, it reached #1 in charts around the world, including seven weeks on the UK Singles Chart, two weeks on one of the Canadian charts, and #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the US. It became one of the best-selling singles of all-time, eventually selling 30 million copies.

In the Summertime by Mungo Jerry  (1970)

It Ain't Gonna Rain No More (Traditional) (Nashville Notation)
Earliest printed appearance was in 1919 in the Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore (1952), Volume 3: Folk Songs from North Carolina. It was recorded in 1923 by Wendell Woods Hall (1896–1969). There are two dozen or more known verses. It Ain't Gonna Rain No More, Folk Song Index; Ain't Gonna Rain No More, Version 1, Wendall Hall, Bluegrass Messengers

It Ain't Gonna Rain No More by Wendell Woods Hall (1923)

It Ain't Gonna Rain No More by The Osborne Brothers

It Ain't Gonna Rain No More by Jimmie Rodgers

It Doesn't Matter Anymore (C) (L) & It Doesn't Matter Anymore (C & F) (P) (Paul Anka, 1958)

The song reached #13 as a posthumous hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in early 1959, shortly after Holly was killed in a plane crash on February 3, 1959. Paul Anka wrote it specifically for Holly and donated his royalties from the song to Holly's wife. It Doesn't Matter Anymore, Wikipedia.

It Doesn't Matter Anymore by Buddy Holly (1958)

It Never Rains In Southern California (Albert Hammond & Mike Hazlewood, 1972) (C & G)
The song appears on Hammond's album "It Never Rains in Southern California" and peaked at number five on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song concerns the struggles of an actor who moves to California to pursue a career in Hollywood but does not have any success and deteriorates in the process. In the chorus, Hammond sings: "It never rains in California, but girl don't they warn ya. It pours, man, it pours."
Instrumental backing was provided by the famed L.A. session musicians, the Wrecking Crew. It Never Rains in Southern California, Wikipedia

It Never Rains in Southern California by Albert Hammond
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meDpNwem0Vo

It's Raining Men (Paul Jabara, Paul Shaffer, & Bob Esty, 1979)
Described as a Hi-NRG ("high energy") and Post-disco, incorporating elements of R&B, soul, and 1970s-style electronic dance music. Its lyrics describe an excitement and enjoyment of many different types of men. It was originally offered to Donna Summer, Diana Ross, Cher, and Barbra Streisand, all of whom decided to take a pass. It was a number-one dance hit in the US, the UK, Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, Poland, & Scotland, and reached the top ten in various other countries worldwide. VH1 listed it as one of the Greatest Songs of the 1980s and one of the Greatest Songs of the 2000s decade. It received a nomination at the 26th Annual Grammy Awards (1983).
It's Raining Men, Wikipedia

It's Raining Men by The Weather Girls (1983) (Official Video)

It's Raining Men by Geri Halliwell from her album, "Scream if You Wanna Go Faster" (2001)

It's Raining Men - Ukulele cover by Sharla Rae Stephens-Wiens (5:07)

Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini (C) & Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini (G) (Paul Vance & Lee Pockriss, 1960)
At a time when bikini bathing suits were seen as too risqué to be mainstream, this #1 hit for Brian Hyland prompted a sudden take off in bikini sales and is credited as being one of the earliest contributors to the acceptance of the bikini in society. The early 1960s saw a slew of surf movies and other film and television productions that rapidly built on the song's momentum. Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellowy Polka Dot Bikini, Wikipedia.

Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellowy Polka Dot Bikini by Brian Hyland (1960)

I'll Follow the Sun (Paul McCartney, 1958, and John Lennon, 1964)
When asked about the lyrics, McCartney commented: "I wrote that in my front parlour in Forthlin Road. I was about 16. 'I'll Follow the Sun' was one of those very early ones. I seem to remember writing it just after I'd had the flu and I had that cigarette. I remember standing in the parlour, with my guitar, looking out through the lace curtains of the window, and writing that one."
It was released in 1964 on the "Beatles for Sale" album in the United Kingdom and on "Beatles '65" in the United States.
I'll Follow The Sun, Wikipedia. See: Notes on "I'll Follow The Sun" by Alan W. Pollack.

I'll Follow The Sun by The Beatles

I'll Have To Say I Love You I A Song  (Jim Croce, ca. 1974)

A posthumously-released single by Croce. Originally released on his album "I Got a Name," it peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 at #9 in April 1974, becoming his fifth Top 10 hit. The song went to #1 on the Billboard adult contemporary chart and reached #68 on the Billboard country music chart, Croce's only song to chart there.

I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song by Jim Croce (1974)

I’ll Remember You (Kui Lee, 1964)
"l'll Remember You" is a song written by in 1964 by Kui Lee, a singer-songwriter and the 1960s golden boy artist of Hawaii. Many top artists including Elvis Presley, Andy Williams, Tony Bennett, Herb Alpert, and Tommy Sands in the 1968 "Hawaii Five-O" episode "No Blue Skies". Perhaps the most famous version was by his friend Don Ho, who was an aspiring singer at Honey's Nightclub, where Lee worked as a doorman and which was owned by Don Ho's mother.
After a visit to Honey's Nightclub, Nancy Sinatra reported Don's great connection with his audience to her dad, Frank, who had just started his own music label. In April, 1965, he recorded Don Ho and his musicians playing "Tiny Bubbles" and "I'll Remember You." Recording Kui's songs made Don a star, and it was from Don's on-stage patter that most people learned of Kui Lee. Onstage, Don gave Kui full credit for creating island music for a new generation.
Several years later, Don Ho was performing in Waikiki as the headliner of Duke's in the International Market Place. It was the hottest entertainment at the best prices in town, and often went on long after the club was scheduled to close.
Dukes was close to Fort Derussy, and for many U.S. military personnel bound for or returning from the Vietnam War, Hawaii was their staging ground, and also the location for a two-week leave in mid-tour where spouses would often visit. The lure of Hawaii's best entertainers and all one could drink for $5, made Duke's legendary.
Don often closed the "Suck 'em Up" show by performing the song "I'll Remember You". For those service personnel about to be sent back into war and their wives soon to be thousands of miles away, this song resonated with many. Elvis Presley had an affinity for the Islands and gave the song a broader audience in a stunning benefit concert in Honolulu in 1973, "Aloha from Hawaii Via Satellite," that catapulted the song's popularity. Within the next few years, the song had been recorded by several well-known singers of the period.
Kui Lee was a prolific composer, writing many songs popular in Hawaii. Knowing of a late-diagnosed terminal illness, this song was written & dedicated to his wife and three young daughters. Kui passed within a couple years of penning "I'll Remember You" at the young age of 34 years. I Will Remember You, Wikipedia; Kui Lee, Wikipedia.

I'll Remember You by Kui Lee from his album "The Extraordinary Kui Lee"

I'll Remember You by Don Ho

I'll Remember You by Elvis Presley from the 1973 "Aloha from Hawaii" concert which raised $75,000 for the Kui Lee Cancer Fund, which had been created shortly before the concert by Hawaii veteran newspaper columnist Eddie Sherman, to fund the cancer research going on at the University of Hawaii.

I'll Remember You by Makaha Sons of Ni'ihau from a 1988 TV special with the Makaha Sons featuring Israel Kamakawiwo`ole.

I'm Going to Go Back There Someday (C-G) (Paul Williams & Kenny Ascher, 1979)
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)

I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) (Charlie and Craig Reid, 1987)

I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) by The Proclaimers

I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) by Jim Malcolm & Darren Maclean (Live)

I'm In Love With A Big Blue Frog (Lester (Les) Braunstein, ca. 1967) (F)

I'm In Love With A Big Blue Frog by Peter, Paul and Mary (originally released on "Album 1700" in 1967)

I'm Moving On (Hank Snow, 1950)
"I'm Moving On" is a 1950 country standard written by Hank Snow. The song, a 12-bar blues, reached #1 on the Billboard country singles chart and stayed there for 21 weeks, tying a record for the most weeks atop the chart. It was the first of seven number-one Billboard country hits Snow scored throughout his career on that chart. The song's success led to Snow joining the Grand Ole Opry cast in 1950. "I'm Moving On" is one of three songs in the history of the Billboard country charts to spend 21 weeks at #1.
I'm Moving On (Hank Snow song), Wikipedia; 12-Bar Blues, Wikipedia. The basic form of the 12-Bar Blues song is C C C C F F C C G G C C (there are many variations).

I'm Moving On by Hank Snow and his Rainbow Ranch Boys (1950)

I'm Moving On by Johnny Cash (1963, 2000)

I'm Moving On by Willie Nelson

I'm Moving On by Emmylou Harris, went to No. 5 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart (1983)
 

I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry (attributed to Hank Williams, 1949). Plus:

I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry: Portrait format in the key of G

It is said that Paul Gilley (October 1, 1929 – June 16, 1957) wrote the song and sold all rights to Hank Williams. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry, Wikipedia. Paul Gilley, Wikipedia.

I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry by Hank Williams (1949)

I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes (attributed to A. P. Carter, ca. 1929)  (C & G)
A. P. Carter was a collector of old songs and lyrics, and this is one of these old songs he discovered. The song is set to traditional English folk music and became a hit in 1929. Often covered, some artists shorten the title to "Broken Ties" or "Broken Vows" or "Broken Hearted Lovers." I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes, Wikipedia.

I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes by The Carter Family (1929)

I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes by Dolly Parton

I've Been Working on the Railroad (American Traditional Folk Song) (C & NN)

I've Been Working on the Railroad, Wikipedia.

I've Been Working on the Railroad by Pete Seeger

I've Been Working on the Railroad by Johnny Cash (1974)

I've Been Working on the Railroad by John Denver

Jamaica Farewell (Lyrics by "Lord Burgess" [Irving Burgie], ca. 1956, using a Jamaican folk song melody)

Jamaica Farewell by Harry Belafonte (1957)

John Henry (revised Pete Seeger version of an American Traditional Folk Song, In Many Versions) (C, D & G)

John Henry, The Steel Driving Man, Lyrics To Several Versions

John Henry (folklore), Wikipedia.

John Henry by Pete Seeger

John Henry by Tennessee Ernie Ford

John Henry by Harry Belafonte

Just My Imagination (Norman Whitfield & Barrett Strong, 1970). Plus:

Just My Imagination: Portrait format in C & G.

Just My Imagination by The Temptations (1971)

Keep on the Sunny Side (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)

Laughter in the Rain (Neil Sedaka & Phil Cody, ca. 1974) (C & G)
Composed and recorded by Neil Sedaka, with lyrics by Phil Cody, it includes a 20-second saxophone solo by Jim Horn. The opening chord of the chorus was based on that used in Elton John's "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road", which Sedaka has described as a "drop-dead chord."
It was a #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, his first single to top the Hot 100 since 1962, and #1 on the adult contemporary chart. It was also a #1 hit in Canada and in the top 15 in the UK. Laughter in the Rain, Wikipedia.

Laughter in the Rain by Neil Sedaka from "Sedaka's Back" (1974)

Laughter in the Rain by Lea Roberts (1974)

Laughter in the Rain by Johnny Mathis on his 1975 album "When Will I See You Again"

Laughter in the Rain by The Ray Conniff Singers with a vocal harmony arrangement on their 1975 "Laughter in the Rain"

Laughter in the Rain by The Weather Girls on their 1985 album "Big Girls Don't Cry"

Leaves That Are Green (Paul Simon,1965) (C)

Leaves That Are Green by Simon & Garfunkel (1965)

Let It Be Me (as "Je t'appartiens," Pierre Delanoë & Gilbert Bécaud, 1955; the English language version by Manny Curtis, 1957)

Let It Be Me by The Everly Brothers (1960)

Let It Be Me by Jill Corey (1957)

Let It Be Me by Roberta Flack (1970)

Levon (Elton John & Bernie Taupin, ca. 1970-71) (C F, & G)

Levon (song), Wikipedia.

Levon by Elton John (1971)

Li'l Red Riding Hood (Ron Blackwell, 1966)  (Am)
The second top-10 hit by Sam The Sham And The Pharaohs, reaching No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in August, 1966, this song takes the point of view of the Wolf. "Little Red Riding Hood" is a European fairy tale whose origins can be traced back to the 10th century but whose best known version was written by Charles Perrault (1697). The song ends before the grandmother makes her entrance, and explicitly using the ambiguity of modern English between wolf, the carnivore, and wolf, a man with concealed sexual intentions. The effect, whether intentional or incidental, is to strip away the fairy tale's metaphorical device and present the relationship between the two characters without literary pretense.
Li'l Red Riding Hood (song), Wikipedia; Little Red Riding Hood, Wikipedia; Charles Perrault, Wikipedia.

Li'l Red Riding Hood by Sam The Sham And The Pharaohs (1966)

Life's Mountain Railway ["Life's Railway To Heaven"] (Lyrics by Rev. M. E. Abbey, music “El Paso” by Charlie D. Tillman, 1890) (C & G) (P)
First published in "The Revival #1," by Charlie D. Tillman (Atlanta, Georgia: Charlie D. Tillman, 1890), #8. Abbey had drawn from an earlier poem, "The Faithful Engineer," by William Shakespeare Hays. It was first recorded by Edward Allen and Charles Hart, April 1918. "Second Hand Songs" reports that it’s been recorded at least 99 times; "Hymnary" states that it has appeared in at least 74 hymnals. Members of the Western Writers of America chose the song as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.
Tillman was so recognized in his own time that, at the 1893 World Convention of Christian Workers in Boston, he served as songleader in place of Dwight L. Moody's associate Ira D. Sankey. Tillman's "Assembly Book" (1927) was selected by both Georgia and South Carolina for the musical scores used in public school programs. Tillman broke into radio early and performed regularly on Atlanta's radio station WSB 750 AM and he also recorded on Columbia Records. Tillman published 22 songbooks and is memorialized in the Southern Gospel Museum and Hall of Fame and was among the first individuals to be inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame. Life's Railway To Heaven, Hymnary; Life’s Railway To Heaven, Second Hand Songs; Charles Davis Tillman, Wikipedia

Life's Railway To Heaven by Patsy Cline

Life's Railway To Heaven by Jerry Lee Lewis

Life's Railway To Heaven by the Oak Ridge Boys

Life's Railway To Heaven by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

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)

Little Green Apples (Bobby Russell, ca. 1967) (Am)
This song was originally written for and released by Roger Miller in 1968; it was also a hit for Patti Page and O. C. Smith in 1968. Miller's version became a Top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and on the UK Singles Chart, while Page's version became her last Hot 100 entry and Smith's version became a No. 2 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. In 1969, the song earned Russell two Grammy Awards for Song of the Year and Best Country Song. Little Green Apples, Wikipedia.

Little Green Apples by Roger Miller  (1968)

Little Green Apples by Patti Page (1968)

Little Green Apples by O. C. Smith (1968)

Lockdown Blues (S.J. Nolan, 2020)

Written by S.J. "Suzie Que" Nolan for the lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2019-2020.

Lonely People & Lonely People (Portrait format in C & G) (Dan Peek and Catherine Peek, 1973).
Written as an optimistic response to the Beatles' song "Eleanor Rigby." Lonely People, Wikipedia. Sheet music from Stewart Greenhill's Ukulele Songbook.

Lonely People by America (1974)

Look What They've Done to My Song & Look What They’ve Done To My Song (Portrait format in C & G)  (Melanie Anne Safka-Schekeryk,  ca. 1970).

Look What They've Done To My Song by Melanie (1970)

Lydia the Tattooed Lady-02 (Yip Harburg and Harold Arlen, 1939)

Lydia the Tattooed Lady by Groucho Marx from "At The Circus" (1939)

Lydia the Tattooed Lady by Kermit the Frog, "The Muppet Show" (1977)

Lydia the Tattooed Lady by The Philadelphia Ukulele Orchestra (2010)

Lydia the Tattooed Lady by The New Tradition barbershop quartet, winning the 1985 International Barbershop Competition (from the 1994 Show of Champions).

Mahalo Nui (Words by Harold Roes; Music by Carol Roes and Lloyd Stone, 1956)

A "Mele Keiki" (children's Hawaiian song) used to help teach the hula. Over the years, she conducted numerous workshops for teachers on how her songs should be presented, including pronunciation of the Hawaiian lyrics, the music, and gestures or dance motions. For some years it was the traditional closing song of the Kailua Madrigal Singers.

Mahalo Nui by Bill Aliiloa Lincoln (Bill Lincoln, Lei Cypriano, Eddie Pang)

Mahalo Nui by Leeward (LCC) Kanikapila Singers, 2011 LCC Spring Concert

Makin' Whoopee & Makin' Whoopee (Portrait format in C & G) (Gus Kahn & Walter Donaldson, 1928)

Makin' Whoopee by Eddie Cantar (1928)

Makin Whoopee by Rudy Vallee (1929)

Makin' Whoopee by Frank Sinatra (1956)

Makin' Whoopee by Ella Fitzgerald (1958)

Man of Constant Sorrow (Dick Burnett, 1913) (C) (P)

"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.
The song was popularized by The Stanley Brothers in the 1950s; other recordings have been made by Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Peter, Paul and Mary, and Ginger Baker's Air Force, with vocals by Denny Laine. It appeared in the 2000 film "O Brother, Where Art Thou?," where it plays a central role in the plot, where it was 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)

Manuela Boy (Johnny Noble, 1937), with frequent additional verses. (C)

Additional notes: Manuela Boy - Notes on the Lyrics.

Manuela Boy by Hilo Hattie (Kalala Haili) and the Royal Hawaiian Girls Glee Club (Recorded 1937; Released 1938)

Manuela Boy by Atta Isaacs & Gabby Pahinui from the album "Two Slack Key Guitars" (2008)

Manuela Boy by Ledward Kaapana, live at Don Quixote's in Felton, California, September 28, 2010

Manuela Boy by Lito Arkangel (2017)

Margarita (Louis Prima & Sonny Skylar, copyright Aug, 21, 1946; previously registered under the title "Mama mia," Louis Prima & Harry Revel, Feb. 23, 1946) (G)

No recordings found.

Margaritaville (Jimmy Buffett, 1977)

Margaritaville by Jimmy Buffett from his album "Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes" (1977)

Marines' Hymn (From the Halls of Montezuma) (Original lyrics author unknown, adapted by Thomas Holcomb, 1942; Music by Jacques Offenbach, 1867; Adopted 1929)
Said to be the oldest official song in the United States Armed Forces, the "Marines' Hymn" is typically sung at the position of attention as a gesture of respect. However, the third verse is also used as a toast during formal events, such as the birthday ball and other ceremonies.
The lyrics refer to a number of pivotal events in the history of the U.S. Marine Corps including:

• "The Halls of Montezuma" refers to the Battle of Chapultepec on 12/13 September 1847 during the Mexican–American War, where a force of Marines stormed Chapultepec Castle.

• "To the shores of Tripoli" refers to the First Barbary War, and specifically the Battle of Derne in 1805.

The first version of the song was copyrighted, published and distributed in 1919 by "The Leatherneck," a Marine Corps magazine printed in Quantico, Virginia.
Marines' Hymn, Wikipedia; Marines' Hymn, Library of Congress.

Marines' Hymn by "The President's Own" U.S. Marine Band (2016)

Marines' Hymn by "The President's Own" U.S. Marine Band with an unnamed soloist.

Marines' Hymn by The Mormon Tabernacle Choir

The Marines' Hymn by by Kate Smith (1942 recording)

Maxwell's Silver Hammer (Lennon–McCartney, 1968-1969) (C & G)

Maxwell's Silver Hammer by The Beatles from their album "Abbey Road" (1969)

May Day Is Lei Day In Hawaii (Ruth and Leonard "Red" Hawk, ca. 1927-1929); Complete lyrics: May Day is Lei Day in Hawai'i
It was writer and poet Don Blanding who first suggested that a holiday should be dedicated to the Hawaiian tradition of making and wearing lei. And it was writer Grace Tower Warren who came up with the idea that the holiday should coincide with May Day. And so since the first Lei Day on May 1, 1928, Hawaii has continued the annual celebration.
The importance of the lei to the Hawaiian culture is that it is meant to represent the unspoken expression of aloha. The meaning of aloha can be interpreted in various ways including farewell, greeting, love, hope, joy, and other sentiments. The idea is that although the lei lasts only a while, the thought lasts forever. Each island has its own color and flower, its own way of celebrating the holiday, and different native vegetation that makes up the lei. When presented, the mana (spirit) of the lei maker is said to pass to its wearer.
Oahu hosts the state’s largest Lei Day event. No matter which day of the week May 1 falls on, the Lei Day Celebration takes place at Queen Kapiolani Park in Waikiki. The annual event features some of the most beautiful leis in the world, hula performances, demonstrations, craft and food vendors, and excellent live music by some of Hawaii’s top performers. Although the public celebration was cancelled in 2020 due to COVID-19, residents were urged to celebrate the day at their homes and display leis from front porches or mailboxes.
Each year, the Lei Royalty preside over the festivities. They are selected based on their lei making skills, hula proficiency, and Hawaiian language fluency. During the Lei Court Selection Event on Saturday, March 7, 2020, Jordan Kung Keonaonahiwahiwa‘okapuakenikeni‘iwili‘iameka‘u‘ilaha‘oleokalani Salis, was crowned as the 92nd Lei King, the first King in the nearly century-long tradition of the Lei Court! O‘ahu native Salis explained that his Hawaiian name means “the fond fragrance of the puakenikeni blossom that embraces the beauty of the Heavens”.

Sources:
May Day is Lei Day in Hawaii, Hawaii.com; Lei Day, Wikipedia; Celebrate Lei Day by showing gratitude to our first responders, The City & County of Honolulu, March 9, 2020; How May Day became Lei Day in Hawaii, Hawaii Magazine.

May Day is Lei Day in Hawaii by King Benny Nawahi's Hawaiians (June 2nd, 1930)

May Day is Lei Day in Hawaii by The Halekulani Girls (Alice Fredlund, Iwalani Kahalewai and Noenoe Chai) from the LP "Dreams Of Old Hawai'i" (1977)

May Day is Lei Day in Hawaii Day by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) Board of Trustees Staff.

2013 May Day Hawaii at Kapiolani Park video from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs

Telona & Telila dancing for May Day to the tune of "May Day is Lei Day in Hawaii"

May Day is Lei Day in Hawaii, 21 ladies perform the hula for the Lei Queen Contest 2010, Lei Aloha Festival in Tokyo

"Aloha" - Henry Kapono Shares A Positive Message and sings “May Day is Lei Day in Hawaii” (May 2, 2020)

Beach Walks with Rox, #70, 2006 Lei Day celebration video including dancers from Kapiʻolani Park. Song: "Aia La `o Pele" by Kamakele Bulla Ka`iliwai" from the album "Na Hulukupuna."

Maybellene (Chuck Berry, 1955)
Written and recorded in 1955 by Chuck Berry, it was adapted in part from the Western swing fiddle tune "Ida Red", as recorded by Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys in 1938. Berry's song told the story of a hot rod race and a broken romance', the lyrics describing a man driving a V8 Ford and chasing his unfaithful girlfriend in her Cadillac Coupe DeVille.
Berry's first single and his first hit, "Maybellene" is considered a pioneering rock and roll song. Rolling Stone magazine wrote of it, "Rock & roll guitar starts here." The record was an early instance of the complete rock and roll package: youthful subject matter; a small, guitar-driven combo; clear diction; and an atmosphere of unrelenting excitement. The song was a major hit with both black and white audiences. It has received numerous honors and awards. Soon after its initial release, cover versions were recorded by several other artists. In 1955, the song, a 12-bar blues, peaked at number five on the Billboard pop chart and was number one on the R&B chart. Maybellene, Wikipedia.

Maybellene by Chuck Berry (1955)

Maybellene by Marty Robbins (1955)

Maybellene by Johnny Rivers (1964), reached number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Mellow Yellow (C) & Mellow Yellow (G) (Donovan Leitch, 1966)
First released as a single in 1966 and re-released in 1967, "Mellow Yellow" reached the top 10 in both the US and UK. The rumour that one could get high from smoking dried banana skins was started by Country Joe McDonald in 1966, and Donovan heard the rumour three weeks before "Mellow Yellow" was released as a single. But the song isn't about smoking banana leaves; according to Donovan, "it's about being cool, laid-back." Mellow Yellow, Wikipedia.

Mellow Yellow by Donovan from his 4th album "Mellow Yellow" (1967)

Moon River (Henry Mancini & Johnny Mercer, 1961) (C, F & G)
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)

Moondance (Dm) & Moondance (Am) (Sir George Ivan "Van" Morrison, 1969)
The title song from his third studio album, recorded in 1969 and released in 1970. After the commercial failure of his first album "Astral Weeks" (1968), Morrison adapted a lively rhythm and blues/rock music style that he would become most known for in his career. The music incorporated soul, jazz, pop, and Irish folk sounds into songs about finding spiritual renewal and redemption in worldly matters such as nature, music, romantic love, and self-affirmation. The album was an immediate critical and commercial success.
The song is played mostly acoustic, anchored by a walking bass line (played on electric bass by John Klingberg), with accompaniment by piano, guitar, saxophones, and flute with the instruments played with a soft jazz swing. It's a song about autumn, the composer's favorite season, and is the song that Van Morrison plays most frequently in concert. The scale used in Jack Schroer's "Moondance" alto saxophone solo is A Aeolian (A, B, C, D, E, F, G). The Allmusic reviewer describes "Moondance" as "one of those rare songs that manages to implant itself on the collective consciousness of popular music, passing into the hallowed territory of a standard, a classic."
Morrison has been inducted into both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Moondance (song), Wikipedia; Moondance (Album), Wikipedia.

Moondance by Van Morrison (1969)

Moondance by Van Morrison on the "Midnight Special" with Etta James, George Benson, Carlos Santana, Dr. John & Tom Scott.

Moonlight Feels Right (Em) & Moonlight Feels Right (Am) (Bruce Blackman, 1975)
The debut single by the American band Starbuck, it was released in the first week of April 1976. The song features a prominent marimba solo by co-founding band member Bo Wagner. It was a top ten hit in the US and in Canada. Over the 1975-1976 winter the group hand-delivered the record to over 400 radio stations, but got no airplay. One station, WERC in Birmingham, Alabama, told them that it sounded like a spring song to them, so they would play it but would wait until spring to do so. WERC kept their promise and became the first station to play the song, which became a hit immediately following its first airing. Moonlight Feels Right, Wikipedia.

Moonlight Feels Right by Starbuck (1975)

Moonlight Feels Right by Starbuck, appearing on the "The Midnight Special" (July 23, 1976)

Moonshadow (C) & Moonshadow (G) (Cat Stevens, 1970)
First released as a single in the UK in 1970 and in the US on his 1971 album "Teaser and the Firecat." He considers this his favourite of his old songs. He talked about the composition: "I was on a holiday in Spain. I was a kid from the West End (of London) – bright lights, et cetera. I never got to see the moon on its own in the dark, there were always streetlamps. So there I was on the edge of the water on a beautiful night with the moon glowing, and suddenly I looked down and saw my shadow. I thought that was so cool, I'd never seen it before." Stevens has in recent years called this song the "Optimist's anthem." Moonshadow, Wikipedia.

Moonshadow by Cat Stevens (1971)

Moonshadow by Cat Stevens (Live)

Moonshadow by Labelle for their 1972 album, "Moon Shadow."

Mr. Sandman (Sept. 8) (Pat Ballard, 1954) (F)
Mr. Sandman, Wikipedia.

Mr. Sandman by Vaughn Monroe and His Orchestra (1954)

Mr. Sandman by the Chordettes (1954)

Mr. Sandman by the Four Tops (1954)

Mr. Sandman by Emmylou Harris (1981)

Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter (C) & Mrs. Brown, You've Got A Lovely Daughter (G) (Trevor Peacock, ca. 1963)
It was originally sung by actor Tom Courtenay in "The Lads," a British TV play of 1963, and released as a single on UK Decca. The best-known version of the song is by Herman's Hermits, who took it to number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 in May 1965, and #1 in Canada in April 1965. The single debuted on the Hot 100 at number twelve — the third highest debut of the decade (after the Beatles' "Hey Jude" and "Get Back"). The Hermits never released the track — or their other US 1965 number one, "I'm Henry VIII, I Am" — as a single in their native Britain. The band never dreamed it would be a single let alone hit number one in the US. According to Noone the song was well known to British bands who performed it for birthday parties and the like. Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter, Wikipedia.

Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter by Herman's Hermits

MTA (Landscape) & MTA (Portrait format in the key of G) (Jacqueline Steiner & Bess Lomax Hawes, 1949).
The song was originally recorded as a 1949 mayoral campaign song for Progressive Party candidate Walter A. O'Brien. The song was based on a much older version called "The Ship That Never Returned" (or its railroad successor, "Wreck of the Old 97"). A version of the song with the candidate's name changed became a 1959 hit when recorded and released by The Kingston Trio. The song has become so entrenched in Boston lore that the Boston-area transit authority named its electronic card-based fare collection system the "CharlieCard" as a tribute to this song. M.T.A. (song), Wikipedia.

MTA by The Kingston Trio (1959)

MTA by The Kingston Trio (Early live performance)

MTA by a Kingston Trio Tribute Group, live at the Savannah Center in The Villages FL, Feb 17, 2014. The banjoist, George Grove sang with original Trio. Notice the ukulele player in the background.

Mustang Sally (Mack Rice, 1965)
"Mustang Sally" is a rhythm and blues (R&B) song written and first recorded by Mack Rice in 1965. The song uses an AAB layout with a 24-bar structure. Rice was visiting singer Della Reese, who was considering buying a new Lincoln Continental for her drummer and band leader Calvin Shields for his birthday. Rice and other band members were teasing Shields about the pending gift, and Shields replied that he did not want a Lincoln; he wanted a Ford Mustang. Rice had never heard of the Mustang, which had just come out, but he teased Shields about wanting a smaller car. He decided there might be a song in the situation, changing it to be about a woman who doesn't want to do anything but ride around in her new car.
It gained greater popularity when Wilson Pickett covered it the following year on a single, a version that was also released on the 1966 album, "The Wicked Pickett." Mustang Sally, Wikipedia.

Mustang Sally by Wilson Pickett (1966)

Mustang Sally by Sir Mack Rice (1965)

Mustang Sally by The Coasters (1972)

My Country, 'Tis of Thee (America) (Lyrics by Samuel Francis Smith, 1831; music is British Traditional, ca. 1740s, primarily associated with the song "God Save The Queen.")
The lyrics were written by Samuel Francis Smith while he was studying at Andover Theological Seminary in 1831. Smith was approached by the famed organist and composer Lowell Mason. The song was debuted by Mason on July 4, 1831, at a children's service at the Park Street Church in Boston, Massachusetts.
The melody is the same as that of the national anthem of the United Kingdom, "God Save the Queen." The melody has been used and adapted by lyricists in many countries.
"My Country, 'Tis of Thee" served as one of the de facto national anthems of the United States before the adoption of "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the official U.S. national anthem in 1931.
Notable performances

• Marian Anderson performed the song at the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday, April 9, 1939.

• Martin Luther King Jr. recited the first verse of the song toward the end of his famous "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963.

• On January 20, 2009, Aretha Franklin sang the song at the first inauguration of Barack Obama.

• It was played at Senator John McCain's funeral service at the Washington National Cathedral on Sep 1, 2018.

America (My Country, 'Tis of Thee), Wikipedia; My Country 'Tis of Thee, Library of Congress.

America (My Country, 'Tis of Thee) by Marian Anderson, contralto, who was denied the right to perform at Constitution Hall by the DAR because of her color. Instead, and at the urging of Eleanor Roosevelt, she performed at the Lincoln Memorial on April 9, 1939.

America (My Country, 'Tis of Thee) by Aretha Franklin, the inauguration of Barack Obama, Jan. 20, 2009.

America (My Country, 'Tis of Thee) by The Soldiers' Chorus of The United States Army Field Band

America (My Country, 'Tis of Thee) by The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square

America (My Country, 'Tis of Thee) by The Robert Shaw Chorale

My Hula Girl (Randy Lorenzo, 1996) (C)

My Hula Girl (Randy Lorenzo, 1996) (C)

My Yellow Ginger Lei (Ku’u Lei ‘Awapuhi Melemele) (John Ka’onoho’i’okala Ke’awehawai’i, 1948) (C, F & G)

My Yellow Ginger Lei by The Richard Kauhi Quartet (1951)

My Yellow Ginger Lei by Bill Ali'iloa Lincoln and His Hawaiians (1955)

My Yellow Ginger Lei by Charles Kaipo and His Happy Hawaiians, from their album "Easy and Sophisticated Hulas" (1962)

My Yellow Ginger Lei by Makaha Sons Of Ni'ihau (1981)

My Yellow Ginger Lei by Dennis Pavao from his album "Sweet Leilani" (1997)

Nine Pound Hammer (Traditional "Hammer" Folk Song) (C & G)

Take This Hammer (Nine Pound Hammer), Wikipedia.

Nine Pound Hammer by Merle Travis

No One Like You (Rudolf Schenker & Klaus Meine, 1982)

No One Like You by the Scorpions (1982)

North Shore Serenade (Nalani Jenkins, 2005)

North Shore Serenade by Na Leo Pilimehana

North Shore Serenade by Na Leo

Ohio (Neil Young, 1970)
"Ohio" was written and composed by Neil Young in reaction to the Kent State shootings of May 4, 1970, when Ohio National Guardsmen shot and killed four students, injuring another nine. He wrote the lyrics after seeing the photos of the incident in "Life" magazine. The lyrics help evoke the turbulent mood of horror, outrage, and shock in the wake of the shootings, especially the line "four dead in Ohio," repeated throughout the song.

It was recorded by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, released as a single, peaking at #14 on the US Billboard Hot 100. In 2009, the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

Kent State photojournalism student John Filo photographed Mary Ann Vecchio screaming over the dead body of Jeffrey Miller. The photograph, which won a Pulitzer Prize, became the most enduring image of the events, and one of the more enduring images of the anti-Vietnam War movement.

In the years that followed, the U.S. Army began developing less lethal means of dispersing demonstrators, and changed its crowd control and riot tactics to attempt to avoid casualties among demonstrators. Many of those changes are used today by police and military forces in the United States.

Ohio, Wikipedia; Kent State Shootings, Wikipedia

Ohio by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young from the album "So Far" (1971)

Ohio by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young with montage of photographs

Ol' 55 (Tom Waites, 1973)
The opening track and lead single from Waites' debut studio album, Closing Time, released in March 1973 on Asylum Records. Written by Waits and produced by Jerry Yester, "Ol' '55" was a minor hit. It has been described as more conventional than Waits' later songs. The song has been covered by numerous artists, most notably by the Eagles for their 1974 album On The Border. In a 1975 interview, Waits was critical of the Eagles' cover version of his song, admitting that he was "not that particularly crazy about (their) rendition of it ... I thought their version was a little antiseptic." Ol' 55 (Tom Waites), Wikipedia

Ol' 55 by Tom Waites (1973)

Ol' 55 by The Eagles (1974)

Ol' 55 by Sarah McLachlan (1994)

On The Beach At Waikiki (Or "The Golden Hula") (G. H. Stover & Henry Kailimai, 1916)
 A best selling Hawaiian song, it earned the composer and publisher $50,000 in royalties.

On The Beach At Waikiki by Helen Louise and Frank Ferera (Instrumental, 1915)

On The Beach At Waikiki by Tau Moe, Rose Moe and Lani Moe (followed by "Out on the Beach at Waikiki" by Charles Kaipo)

On The Beach At Waikiki by the Four Hawaiians (four Danes who do a pretty good job (1960)

On The Beach At Waikiki by Weldon Kekauoha

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)

Our House (Graham Nash, ca. 1969)
"Our House" is a song written by British singer-songwriter Graham Nash while Nash was living with Joni Mitchell (and her two cats) in her house in Laurel Canyon, and recorded by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young on their album "Déjà Vu" (1970).
In an October 2013 interview, Graham explained the circumstances:
"Well, it's an ordinary moment. What happened is that Joni [Mitchell] and I – I don't know whether you know anything about Los Angeles, but on Ventura Boulevard in the Valley, there's a very famous deli called Art's Deli. And we'd been to breakfast there. We're going to get into Joan's car, and we pass an antique store. And we're looking in the window, and she saw a very beautiful vase that she wanted to buy ... I persuaded her to buy this vase. It wasn't very expensive, and we took it home. It was a very grey, kind of sleety, drizzly L.A. morning. And we got to the house in Laurel Canyon, and I said – got through the front door and I said, you know what? I'll light a fire. Why don't you put some flowers in that vase that you just bought? Well, she was in the garden getting flowers. That meant she was not at her piano, but I was ... And an hour later 'Our House' was born, out of an incredibly ordinary moment that many, many people have experienced."
Our House (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young song), Wikipedia.

Our House by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young from their 1970 album "Déjà Vu."

Panama Red (Peter Rowan, 1973) (Am, Dm & Em)
Originally this song was played by Jerry Garcia (on pedal steel guitar) with Peter Rowan and others who were members of the 1973 bluegrass group "Old And In The Way." Garcia also played banjo with the group. Panama Red, Songfacts.com

Panama Red by The New Riders of the Purple Sage from the 1973 LP "The Adventures of Panama Red," which was the best selling bluegrass album of all time  for many years, until the 2000 soundtrack album for "O Brother, Where Art Thou" surpassed its sales.

Panama Red by The New Riders of the Purple Sage (1975 live performance)

Panama Red by the bluegrass group "Old & In The Way" (co-founded by Jerry Garcia), live recording at California State College Sonoma - Cotati, CA (November 4, 1973)

Papa Was a Rolling Stone (Norman Whitfield & Barrett Strong, 1971)
Originally recorded by the Motown group "The Undisputed Truth," it was remade it as a 12-minute track for the Temptations, included on their 1972 album "All Directions." The shorter 7" single release of this Temptations version was a number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and won three Grammy Awards in 1973. While the original Undisputed Truth version of the song has been largely forgotten, the Temptations' versions of the song have been enduring and influential soul classics. Papa Was a Rollin' Stone, Wikipedia.

Papa Was a Rollin' Stone by The Temptations (1972)

Pencil Thin Moustache_(Landscape) (Jimmy Buffett, ca. 1973)

Pencil Thin Moustache by Jimmy Buffett from his album "Living and Dying in 3/4 Time" (1974; recorded in 1973)

Pidgin Engkish Hula (Charles E. King, 1933)

Although early Chinese immigrants to Hawai'i spoke Hawaiian to a degree, it is likely that Chinese and Hawaiian people developed a Pidgin Hawaiian when Portuguese workers arrived in the 1870s. Because these immigrants learned a little Hawaiian, a Pidgin Hawaiian language developed to allow for intercultural communication, especially on the plantations. This evolved into a kind of Hawai‘i Creole, when the second generation of plantation workers were born and when Japanese children began to attend public schools in the 1880s, because of the need for a common language.

Source: Social Relations on Plantations: The Origins of Pidgin, Department of Second Language Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa 2009, 2010, citing Kent Sakoda & Jeff Siegel, Pidgin Grammar: An introduction to the Creole Language of Hawai‘i (Bess Press, 2003).

Pidgin Engkish Hula by Sol Hoopii and his Novelty Quartet (1935)

Pidgin Engkish Hula by Hilo Hattie and the Royal Hawaiian (Hotel) Girls Glee Club (1937)

Pidgin Engkish Hula by the Mākaha Sons of Niʻihau (Retro Video)

Pidgin Engkish Hula by Alvin And The Chipmonks (David Seville) (1960)

Pidgin Engkish Hula by The Surfers (with an introduction together with a spoken translation)

Play With Fire (Am & Em) ("Nanker Phelge," 1965)
The author's name is a pseudonym used when tracks were composed by the entire Rolling Stones band. The title refers to the idiom "If you play with fire, you will get burned." Play With Fire, Wikipedia

Play With Fire by The Rolling Stones (Audio, 1965)

Play With Fire by The Rolling Stones (Live, 1965)

Play With Fire by The Rolling Stones (Live, 2019)

Proud To Be An American (See "God Bless The USA," above) (Lee Hazelwood, 1983)

God Bless The U.S.A. by Lee Greenwood (1983)

God Bless the U.S.A. by Home Free (Video)

God Bless the U.S.A. by Beyoncé (Video, July 2011)

God Bless the U.S.A. by Dolly Parton (Official audio)

Proud Mary (John Fogerty, 1968)
In a 1969 interview, Fogerty said that he wrote it in the two days after he was discharged from the National Guard.
     "Proud Mary's" singer, a low-wage earner, leaves what he considers a "good job," which he might define as steady work, even though for long hours under a dictatorial boss. He decides to follow his impulse and imagination and hitches a ride on a riverboat queen, bidding farewell to the city. Only when the boat pulls out does he see the "good side of the city" — which, for him, is one in the distance, far removed from his life. Down by the river and on the boat, the singer finds protection from "the man" and salvation from his working-class pains in the nurturing spirit and generosity of simple people who "are happy to give" even "if you have no money." The river in Fogerty and traditionally in literature and song is a place holding biblical and epical implications. ... Indeed, the river in "Proud Mary" offers not only escape but also rebirth to the singer.
From the liner notes for the 2008 expanded reissue of Bayou Country by Joel Selvin. Proud Mary, Wikipedia; John Fogerty: On “Proud Mary” 50 Years On, American Songwriter.com.

Proud Mary by Creedence Clearwater Revival (1968)

Proud Mary by Ike and Tina Turner (1971), reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and won a Grammy Award. Fogerty had never heard their version, which starts slow and then gets seriously funky, until it was released. He was thrilled by it.

Rain (G) & Rain (C) (John Lennon & Paul McCartney, 1966)
Its inspiration came from the band's arrival in Sydney, Australia, marked by rain and poor weather. Lennon said, "I've never seen rain as hard as that, except in Tahiti", and later explained that "Rain" was "about people moaning about the weather all the time". In the United States, the song peaked at number 23 on the Billboard Hot 100 on 9 July 1966.
The song also was the first appearance of two techniques that the Beatles would use in later songs:
1. They recorded the rhythm track of ‘Rain’ at a fast tempo, then slowed the tape down so the song was a tone lower.
2. John Lennon’s backwards vocals, heard during the coda at the song’s end. Rain (Beatles), Wikipedia; Rain, The Beatles Bible.

Rain by Beatles from "Hey Jude" (1970)

Rainbow Connection (Paul Williams & Kenneth Ascher, 1978) (C F & G)
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)

Raindrops (C) & Raindrops (G) (Dee Clark, 1961)
This ballad is about a man who tries to convince himself that the tears he is crying since his lover's departure are raindrops since "a man ain't supposed to cry." Clark was reportedly inspired to write the song after a late night drive through a heavy rainstorm. The song peaked at #2 on the Hot 100 and at #3 on the R&B chart. Raindrops (Dee Clark song), Wikipedia.

Raindrops by Dee Clark (1961)

Raindrops by Tony Orlando and Dawn (1974)

Raindrops by David Cassidy (1992)

Raindrops by Narvel Felts (1974), a Top 40 country hit

Raindrops by Jan & Dean covered the song on their album, Save For A Rainy Day (1966)

Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head (C) & Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head (G) (Burt Bacharach & Hal David)
Written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach for the 1969 film "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." 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

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."

Rainy Day People (G) & Rainy Day People (C) (Gordon Lightfoot, 1975)
This song went to number 26 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was the last of his four songs to reach #1 on the Easy Listening chart. Rainy Day People, Wikipedia

Rainy Day People by Gordon Lightfoot his 1975 album, "Cold on the Shoulder"

Rapid Roy (Jim Croce, 1972)

Jim Croce, Wikipedia; Jim Croce Official Site; You Don't Mess Around With Jim (Album), Wikipedia; Jim Croce, The Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Rapid Roy by Jim Croce from "You Don't Mess Around with Jim," his third studio album, released in April of 1972.

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

Red Roses for a Blue Lady (C) & Red Roses for a Blue Lady (G) (Sid Tepper & Roy C. Bennett, 1948)
First released by John Laurenz in 1948, rising to #2 on the weekly “Your Hit Parade” radio survey in the spring of 1949. Covered by numerous artists, the best-selling recording was made by Vaughn Monroe and his Orchestra (1948). The song was revived during the winter of 1965 by vocalists Vic Dana and Wayne Newton and instrumentalist Bert Kaempfert, all three versions charting simultaneously. Dana's rendition was the most successful, peaking at #10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Kaempfert's recording peaked at #11 on the same chart, while Newton's reached #23. All three versions were also listed on Billboard′s Easy Listening survey, reaching #2, #3, and #4 respectively. Red Roses for a Blue Lady, Wikipedia.

Red Roses for a Blue Lady by John Laurenz (1948)

Red Roses for a Blue Lady by Vaughn Monroe and his Orchestra (1948)

Red Roses for a Blue Lady by Vic Dana (1965)

Red Roses for a Blue Lady by Wayne Newton (1965)

Rhythm Of The Rain (John Claude Gummoe, 1962) (C & G)
In 1963, it rose to #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on Billboard's Easy Listening chart. It was a #1 single in Ireland and Canada, and was a top 5 hit in the UK. The song arrangement features distinctive use of a celesta (also called a bell-piano). The Cascades' recording was used in the soundtrack of the 1979 film "Quadrophenia," and included in its soundtrack album. Rhythm of the Rain, Wikipedia; Celesta, Wikipedia.

Rhythm of the Rain by The Cascades (1963)

Riders On the Storm (John Densmore, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek, Jim Morrison, 1970) (Am & Em)
This was the last song recorded by all four members of the Doors, as well as Morrison's last recorded song to be released in his lifetime. The single was released in June 1971 and entered the Billboard Hot 100 the week ending July 3, 1971, the same week that Morrison died. It reached #14 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US, #22 on the UK Singles Chart and #7 in the Netherlands.
Written in the key of E Minor, it was partly inspired by the country song "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend." Another inspiration was philosopher Martin Heidegger's concept of human existence as a basic state, hence, "Into this world we're thrown." Morrison became aware of Heidegger in a 1963 lecture at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Morrison recorded his main vocals and then whispered the lyrics over them to create an echo effect. Riders On the Storm, Wikipedia.

Riders On the Storm by The Doors from their album "L.A. Woman" (1971) (Official Audio)

Riders On the Storm by The Doors (Extended version, remastered)

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

Roses Are Red My Love (C) & Roses Are Red My Love (G) (Al Byron and Paul Evans, ca. 1961)
Vinton found the song in a reject pile at Epic Records. He first recorded it as an R&B number, but was allowed to re-record it in a slower more dramatic arrangement, with strings and a vocal choir added. It was his first hit - the first of 16 Top 10 hits -- reaching #1 in Australia, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, and the US. The single was also the first number-one hit for Epic Records. Roses Are Red My Love, Wikipedia

Roses Are Red My Love by Bobby Vinton from the 1962 album "Roses Are Red"

Runnin' Down a Dream (Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne & Mike Campbell, 1987-88), plus Runnin' Down A Dream (C & G) (Week 23)
In this song, Petty sings about driving into the great wide open, with nothing but glorious possibility in his path. Petty started running down his dream of being a rocker in 1961 when he met Elvis Presley. Petty, 11 years old, came to the Ocala, Florida set where Elvis was working on the film Follow That Dream - a title Tom took to heart. In a brief encounter, Petty saw how Elvis captivated onlookers and made the girls go crazy. Petty became fascinated with Elvis and set out to follow his path. Runnin' Down a Dream, Songfacts.com

Runnin' Down a Dream by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (1989)

Save The Last Dance For Me (Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman, ca. 1960)

Save The Last Dance For Me by the Drifters, with Ben E. King on lead vocals (1960)

Save The Last Dance For Me by Michael Bublé from his album "It's Time" (2005)

Scarlet Ribbons (G) & Scarlet Ribbons (C & G) plus Scarlet Ribbons Version 2 (includes notes on different lyrics, in A, E & G) (Evelyn Danzig & Jack Segal, 1949)

Scarlet Ribbons by Jo Stafford (first recording, 1949)

Scarlet Ribbons by Harry Belafonte (recorded in 1952, it didn't become a hit until 1956)

Scarlet Ribbons by Joan Baez, from "Joan Baez In San Francisco" (1958); Joan was a 17-year-old high school student at the time of this recording.

Scarlet Ribbons by The Browns (1959), the most successful recording.

Scarlet Ribbons by Willie Nelson from "Stardust" (1978)

See You in September (Am & Em) (Sid Wayne and Sherman Edwards, 1959)
First recorded by the Pittsburgh vocal group The Tempos, it peaked at #23 in the summer of 1959. But the most popular take on "See You In September" was by The Happenings in 1966, which reached #3. See You in September, Wikipedia.

See You in September by The Happenings (1966)

See You in September by the Tempos (1959)

See You in September by Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons

Semper Paratus (The U.S. Coast Guard March) (Original lyrics Francis Saltus Van Boskerck, 1922; Current lyrics by Homer Smith and Walton Butterfield, 1969; Music by Francis Saltus Van Boskerck, 1927; Adopted 1928)
"Semper Paratus" is a Latin phrase, meaning "Always Ready". It is the official motto of the United States Coast Guard, as well as the name of its official march. The precise origin of the phrase is obscure; the U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office notes the first use was in 1836 by the "New Orleans Bee" newspaper in reference to the actions of the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service during the "Ingham incident."
The original lyrics were written by Captain Francis Saltus Van Boskerck in 1922, at the cabin of USCGC Yamacraw in Savannah, Georgia; he wrote the music in 1927, on a "beat-up old piano" in Unalaska, Alaska
The current verse, as well as a second chorus, were written by Homer Smith, 3rd Naval District Coast Guard quartet, Chief Cole, and Lieutenant Walton Butterfield in 1943. In 1969, the first line of the chorus was changed from “So here's the Coast Guard marching song, We sing on land and sea.” to “We're always ready for the call, We place our trust in Thee.”
The Coast Guard hymn, “Eternal Father, Lord of Hosts,” while used throughout the Coast Guard, was not printed in any hymnal until the publication of the "Book of Worship for United States Forces" in 1974. In that hymnal it is included as stanza 10 of hymn #196, “Eternal Father, Strong To Save.”
Semper Paratus (march), Wikipedia; Semper Paratus, Wikipedia; Coast Guard Hymn, US Coast Guard History-Frequently Asked Questions

Semper Paratus by the United States Coast Guard Band

Semper Paratus by Rudy Vallee & His U.S. Coast Guard Band

Semper Paratus by The Arrowhead Chorale from their album "From the Sea".

September in the Rain (C & G) (Harry Warren & Al Dubin, 1937)
The song was introduced by James Melton in the film "Melody for Two." It has become a standard, having been recorded by many artists since. In 1937, three recordings of the song appeared in the record chart: Guy Lombardo, James Melton, and the Rhythm Wreckers (vocal by Pauline Byrns). September in the Rain, Wikipedia.

September in the Rain by Frank Sinatra

September in the Rain by Dinah Washington

September in the Rain by The Beatles

Shaving Cream (Benny Bell, 1946)
First sung by Paul Wynn (pseudonym for Phil Winston)

Originally released on a "party record," Dr. Demento played it on his radio show in the 1970s, Vanguard Records reissued the song in 1975, and it became a hit, peaking at #30 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. A remake of "Shaving Cream" performed as a duet with Dr. Demento was released on the albums Dr. Demento's "Dementia Royale" and "Dr. Demento's 25th Anniversary Collection."

Shaving Cream by Paul Wynn (1946)

Shaving Cream by Benny Bell

Shaving Cream duet with "Weird Al" Yankovic and Dr. Demento

Shaving Cream by Dr. Demento from "The Very Best of Dr. Demento"

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

Silver Threads And Golden Needles (G) & Silver Threads And Golden Needles (C) (Dick Reynolds and Jack Rhodes, ca. 1956)
Wanda Jackson's 1956 recording made this song into a pop standard in short order. The Springfields had a 1962 hit which peaked at #20 on the Billboard Top 40, the first single by a British group to reach the American Billboard top 20. Silver Threads and Golden Needles, Wikipedia.

Silver Threads and Golden Needles by The Springfields (1962)

Silver Threads and Golden Needles by Linda Ronstadt (1969)

Silver Threads and Golden Needles by The Grateful Dead at the Fillmore East (5/15/1970)

Silver Threads and Golden Needles by Dolly Parton, Tammy Wynette and Loretta Lynn

Since I Met You Baby (Ivory Joe Hunter, 1956)

Since I Met You Baby by Ivory Joe Hunter

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" (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.

• Singin' in the Rain (song), Wikipedia

• Singin' in the Rain (movie), Wikipedia

• The Hollywood Revue of 1929, Wikipedia

• AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs, American Film Institute (2004)

• AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition), American Film Institute (2007)

• AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals, American Film Institute (2006)

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"

Sixteen Tons (Merle Travis, 1946) (Am & Dm)

Sixteen Tons, Wikipedia.

Sixteen Tons by Merle Travis (1947)

Sixteen Tons by Tennessee Ernie Ford (1955)

Sixteen Tons by Johnny Cash (1987)

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)

Smooth (Am-Dm)  (Robert Thomas & Itaal Shur, 1999)
"Smooth" is a collaboration between Latin rock band Santana and Matchbox Twenty vocalist Rob Thomas. The lyrics, written by Rob Thomas, were for his wife, Marisol Maldonado. In the United States, it topped the Billboard Hot 100 for 12 weeks; it was the final number-one hit of the 1990s and the first number-one hit of the 2000s. "Smooth" is the only song to appear on two decade-end Billboard charts. As of 2018, "Smooth" is ranked the second most successful song of all time by Billboard. It won three Grammy Awards: Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals. Worldwide, the song reached number one in Canada and the top 10 in Australia, Austria, Ireland and the United Kingdom. Smooth, Wikipedia

Smooth by Santana and Rob Thomas, originally on the album "Supernatural" (1999) (Official Video)

Soak Up the Sun (Sheryl Crow, 2002)
Released in March 2002 as the lead single from her album "C'mon C'mon," the song peaked at #1 on the Billboard Adult Top 40 chart, #1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart, reached #5 on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart, and #17 on the Hot 100 chart.
The video was shot on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii, and features Crow performing on the beach, as well as various vacationers surfing in the ocean and jumping off a waterfall.
Soak Up the Sun, Wikipedia.

Soak Up the Sun by Sheryl Crow

Some Like It Hot (Am-Em) (Andy Taylor, John Taylor, Robert Palmer, ca. 1985)
Recorded by the Power Station and the first singled from the group's 1985 debut album, the song features heavy drum beats from Tony Thompson and vocals from Robert Palmer. It was the band's biggest hit, peaking at number six on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and number four in Canada and Australia. Some Like it Hot, Wikipedia

Some Like it Hot by Power Station (1985)

Someone to Lava (Raphael Martins, 2014) (C)

Someone To Lava (Raphael Martins) from Pixar's short film "Lava"

Song Sung Blue (C) & Song Sung Blue (C & G with an optional Outro) (Neil Diamond, 1972)
Inspired by the second movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto #21 ("Elvira Madigan," 1785).

Song Sung Blue by Neil Diamond from "Moods" (1972)

Spooky Scary Skeletons by Andrew Gold (1996)

Spooky, Scary Skeletons by Andrew Gold from his 1996 album "Halloween Howls"

Spooky, Scary Skeletons by Andrew Gold, the "Undead Tombstone Remix Extended"

Spooky, Scary Skeletons, Gold's 1996 song superimposed on the 1929 Walt Disney cartoon "The Skeleton Dance"

Spooky, Scary Skeletons (Andrew Gold) performed by Kirk Jones

Spooky, Scary Skeletons (Andrew Gold) tutorial by Eric Blackmon

Spooky, Scary Skeletons (Andrew Gold) dance by TicToc (2019) (slo-mo at 1:58)

Spooky, Scary Skeletons (Andrew Gold) performed by the Fairlands Dance Crew, a children’s dance group (2018)

Spooky Ukey based on Wooly Bully, words by UkeJenny

Wooly Bully (Domingo "Sam" Samudio, 1964)
"Wooly Bully" is a song originally recorded by novelty rock and roll band Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs in 1965. Based on a standard 12-bar blues progression, it was written by the band's frontman, Domingo "Sam" Samudio. "Wooly Bully" was the band's first and biggest hit. It became a worldwide success, selling three million copies and reaching No. 2 on the American Hot 100 chart on June 5–12, 1965. The song was the first American record to sell a million copies during the British Invasion and was influenced by the British rock sound which was mixed with traditional Mexican-American conjunto rhythms. It stayed in the Hot 100 for 18 weeks, the longest time for any song in 1965, and was nominated for a Grammy Award. It was named Billboard's number-one song of the year despite never reaching No. 1 on a weekly Hot 100. The warning, "Let's not be L-7", means "Let's not be square", from the shape formed by the fingers making an L on one hand and a 7 on the other. Wooly Bully, Wikipedia.

Wooly Bully by Sam The Sham And The Pharoahs (1965)

Wooly Bully by Sam The Sham And The Pharoahs (Live performance)

Wooly Bully by Sam The Sham And The Pharoahs (Live, 2002)

Start Me Up (Mick Jagger & Keith Richards, ca. 1977)
The basic track "Start Me Up" was recorded during the January and March 1978 sessions for the Rolling Stones' album Some Girls. The song began as a reggae-rock track named "Never Stop", but after dozens of takes it was abandoned. "Start Me Up" was not chosen for the album and was saved for later use. Richards commented:
"It was one of those things we cut a lot of times; one of those cuts that you can play forever and ever in the studio. Twenty minutes go by and you're still locked into those two chords ... Sometimes you become conscious of the fact that, 'Oh, it's "Brown Sugar" again,' so you begin to explore other rhythmic possibilities. It's basically trial and error. As I said, that one was pretty locked into a reggae rhythm for quite a few weeks. We were cutting it for Emotional Rescue, but it was nowhere near coming through, and we put it aside and almost forgot about it."
Microsoft paid about US$3 million [another source says $10 Million] to use this song in their Windows 95 marketing campaign. This was the first time that the Rolling Stones allowed a company to use their songs in an advertising campaign. Start Me Up, Wikipedia; Start Me Up by The Rolling Stones, Songfacts.com.

Start Me Up by The Rolling Stones (1981)

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)

Suddenly Last Summer (Martha Emily Davis & Ronald Czajkowski, 1983) (A & G)
A hit song by new wave band the Motels, it was the lead-off single from their RIAA Gold-certified fourth album "Little Robbers." The single entered the Hot 100 at #60 on September 3, 1983 and peaked at #9 on November 19, 1983. Martha Davis has said that the song touches upon themes such as the loss of virginity and innocence. She has also mentioned how the inspiration came from knowing that "...summer is ending when you hear the ice cream truck go by for the last time and you know he won't be back for a while".

Suddenly Last Summer by The Motels (1983)

Summer Breeze (Jim Seals & Dash Crofts, 1972)
Released on their 1972 "Summer Breeze" album, Seals and Crofts' original version reached #6 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in the US that same year and was ranked #13 in Rolling Stone′s "Best Summer Songs of All Time". Bruce Eder of AllMusic referred to it as "one of those relentlessly appealing 1970s harmony-rock anthems ... appropriately ubiquitous on the radio and in the memory". The album charted at #7, sold over one million copies, and was awarded an R.I.A.A. Gold Disc in December 1972.
The song was covered in a harder rock-soulful style by The Isley Brothers as a single in 1974. It reached #60 on the pop chart, #10 the R&B chart, and #16 on the UK Singles Chart. The Isleys' version is notable not only for the harmonies of the three vocal Isleys, O'Kelly, Rudolph, and lead singer Ronald, but also for the guitar solo by younger brother Ernie.
Summer Breeze (song), Wikipedia.

Summer Breeze by Seals and Crofts from the album "Summer Breeze" (1972)

Summer Breeze by The Isley Brothers (1974)

Summer in the City  (John Sebastian, Mark Sebastian, and Steve Boone, 1966) (Dm)
It appeared on their album "Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful" and reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, in August 1966, for three consecutive weeks. The song features car horns and jackhammer noises during the instrumental bridge, to represent the sounds of a noisy city street. The song became a gold record and it is ranked #401 on Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time."

Summer in the City by The Lovin' Spoonful (1966)

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"

Summer of 69 (Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance, 1985) (D & G)
This up-tempo rock song is about a dilemma between settling down or trying to become a rock star. It was released in June 1985 by A&M Records.

Summer of 69 by Bryan Adams from his fourth album, "Reckless" (1985)

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".

Summertime Blues (Eddie Cochran & Jerry Capehart, 1958) (C)
This song, originally a single B-side, became a surprise hit, peaking at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 on September 29, 1958 and #18 on the UK Singles Chart; Cochran's version was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999 and the song is ranked #73 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time." It has been covered by many artists, including being a #1 hit for country music artist Alan Jackson, and scoring notable hits in versions by Blue Cheer, The Who, and Brian Setzer, the last of whom recorded his version for the 1987 film "La Bamba," where he portrayed Cochran.

Summertime Blues by Eddie Cochran (1958)

Summertime Blues by Alan Jackson

Summertime Blues by Blue Cheer (1968)

Summertime Blues by The Who (Live, the Monterey Pop Festival, 1967). It was performed during the 1967 US tour, from which the first known Who recordings of the song were made, including a June 1967 date at the Monterey Pop Festival.

Summertime Blues by Brian Setzer, Video from "La Bamba" (1987)

Summertime, Summertime (Tom Jameson, 1958)
First released in 1958 it reached #26 on the US Billboard Hot 100, and when re-released in 1962, it peaked at #38. It has been described as doo-wop, because of their time period and their a cappella harmonies. It has been covered by a number of artists and appeared in commercials and the 1978 movie "Fingers."  Summertime, Summertime, Wikipedia.

Summertime, Summertime by the Jamies (1958)

Sunny (Bobby Hebb, 1963) (Am & Dm)
"Sunny" is one of the most performed and recorded popular songs, with hundreds of versions released. BMI rates "Sunny" #25 in its "Top 100 songs of the century". Hebb wrote the song in the 48 hours following a double tragedy on November 22, 1963: the day U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and Hebb's older brother Harold was also stabbed to death outside a Nashville nightclub. Hebb was devastated by both events and many critics say that they, and critically the loss of his older brother, inspired the lyrics and tune. According to Hebb, he merely wrote the song as an expression of a preference for a "sunny" disposition over a "lousy" disposition following the murder of his brother.
It reached #3 on the R&B charts, #2 on the Billboard Hot 100, and #12 in the United Kingdom. When Hebb toured with The Beatles in 1966 his "Sunny" was, at the time of the tour, ranked higher than any Beatles song then on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. BMI rated "Sunny" #25 in its "Top 100 songs of the century." Sunny (Bobby Hebb song), Wikipedia. Bobby Hebb, Wikipedia

Sunny by Bobby Hebb (1966)

Sundown (Gordon Lightfoot, 1974) (A C & G)
Title song from the album of the same name, released as a single in March 1974. It reached #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and easy listening charts and #13 on the Hot Country singles chart, as well as #1 in Canada on RPM's national singles chart. It was Lightfoot's only single to reach #1 on the Hot 100.
The song's lyrics describe a troubled romantic relationship, with the narrator recounting an affair with a "hard-loving woman [who's] got me feeling mean". In a 2008 interview, Lightfoot said:
"I think my girlfriend was out with her friends one night at a bar while I was at home writing songs. I thought, 'I wonder what she’s doing with her friends at that bar!' It’s that kind of a feeling. 'Where is my true love tonight? What is my true love doing?' " Sundown, Wikipedia.

Sundown by Gordon Lightfoot (Official Audio)

Sunny Afternoon (Ray Davies, 1966) (Am)
Like its contemporary "Taxman" by The Beatles, the song references the high levels of progressive tax taken by the British Labour government of Harold Wilson. Its strong music hall flavour and lyrical focus was part of a stylistic departure for the band (begun with 1965's "A Well Respected Man"), which had risen to fame in 1964–65 with a series of hard-driving, power-chord rock hits. It went to #1 on the UK Singles Chart, #1 in Ireland, and #14 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Sunny Afternoon, Wikipedia

Sunny Afternoon by The Kinks (1966)

Sunny Skies (James Taylor, 1968)
Taylor wrote "Sunny Skies" during his treatment at Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, a psychiatric hospital. The melody is cheerful, which is ironic given the lyrics. Taylor's biographer, Timothy White, describes the melody as "a deceptively upbeat, skiffle-flavored shuffle". The author Stephen Davis describes the song as "jazzy but disconsolate" and James Perrone compares the melody to John Sebastian's song "Daydream". Taylor accompanies himself on acoustic guitar.
The title "Sunny Skies" actually refers to the title character of the song, who "sleeps in the morning", "weeps in the evening", "doesn't know when to rise" and has no friends. The last verse links the title character to the singer, who sings that he looks out of his own window to see snow and trees, and wonders if he should let the world pass him by, just like the title character.
Taylor, a five-time Grammy Award winner, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000.
Sunny Skies (song), Wikipedia; James Taylor, Wikipedia.

Sunny Skies by James Taylor (1968)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpRwpHfPWnY

Sunrise, Sunset (Jerry Bock & Sheldon Harnick, 1964) (Am & Dm)
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

Sunshine On My Shoulders (John Denver, Dick Kniss, Mike Taylor, 1971)
Denver described how he wrote "Sunshine on My Shoulders": "I wrote the song in Minnesota at the time I call 'late winter, early spring'. It was a dreary day, gray and slushy. The snow was melting and it was too cold to go outside and have fun, but God, you're ready for spring. You want to get outdoors again and you're waiting for that sun to shine, and you remember how sometimes just the sun itself can make you feel good. And in that very melancholy frame of mind I wrote 'Sunshine on My Shoulders'."
It was originally released as an album track on 1971's "Poems, Prayers & Promises" and later, as a single in the Spring of 1973, the B-side of one of his earlier songs, "I'd Rather Be a Cowboy," but was re-released in October, 1973 as the A-side. It went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the U.S. in early 1974 — Denver's first #1 -- and also topped the adult contemporary chart. Billboard ranked it as the #18 song for 1974. His “Leaving On A Jet Plane,” a #1 in 1969, but not for Denver; that version was recorded by Peter, Paul & Mary (and was their only #1 hit). Denver’s song “Take Me Home, Country Roads” peaked at #2.
Sunshine on My Shoulders, Wikipedia.

Sunshine on My Shoulders by John Denver from "Poems, Prayers & Promises" (1971)

Sunshine Superman (Donovan Philips Leitch, 1966)
It has been described as "(one of the) classics of the era" by Stephen Thomas Erlewine at Allmusic, and as "the quintessential bright summer sing along" by critic John Bush. It has also been described as one of the first psychedelic pop records.
"Sunshine Superman" reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States — and was his only single to reach #1  —  and subsequently became the title track of Donovan's third album. It charted at #2 in the UK. Donovan was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012 and the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2014.
Sunshine Superman, Wikipedia.

Sunshine Superman by Donovan (1966)

Surf City (Brian Wilson and Jan Berry, 1963) (C)
This song is about a fictitious surf spot where there are "two girls for every boy." It was first recorded and made popular by the American duo Jan and Dean in 1963, and their single became the first surf song to become a national number-one hit; ironically, the Beach Boys had yet to have a #1 of their own when this song hit #1. Hal Blaine, Glen Campbell, Earl Palmer, Bill Pitman, Ray Pohlman and Billy Strange are identified as players for the single per the American Federation of Musicians contract.
The success of "Surf City" gave Jan and Dean a unique sound and identity as pioneers of the California Sound which would be followed by six more top 40 hits inspired by Los Angeles surf or hot rod life including Honolulu Lulu (1963), Drag City (1963), The New Girl in School (1964), Dead Man's Curve (1964) (inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2008), The Little Old Lady from Pasadena (1964), Ride The Wild Surf (1964), and Sidewalk Surfin' (1964). From 1958–1966, they had sixteen Top 40 hits on the Billboard and Cashbox charts for a total of 26 chart hits over that eight-year period.
In 1991, after moving to Huntington Beach, California, Dean Torrence helped convince elected officials that the town be officially nicknamed Surf City, USA. Surf City, Wikipedia; This Day In History: Jan and Dean’s “Surf City” hits #1, History.com

Surf City by Jan and Dean (1963)

Similar: Ride The Wild Surf by Jan and Dean (1964)

Susie Q (Dale Hawkins, Robert Chaisson, Stan Lewis, Stan Lewis, ca. 1957)

Hawkins cut "Susie Q" at the KWKH Radio station in Shreveport, Louisiana. "Susie Q" was a late rockabilly song which captured the spirit of Louisiana and featured guitar work by James Burton, who also worked with Ricky Nelson and later with Elvis Presley, among others. Susie Q (song), Wikipedia.

Susie Q by Dale Hawkins (1957) (Remastered)

Susie Q by Creedence Clearwater Revived (1968). The band's only Top 40 hit not written by John Fogerty.

Suzanne & Suzanne (Portrait format in C & G) (Leonard Cohen, 1966).

Suzanne by The Stormy Clovers (1966)

Suzanne by Judy Collins (1967)

Suzanne by Leonard Cohen (1967)

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.

Sweet Lady of Waihole (Bruddah Waltah, 2005) (C & F)

The woman who inspired this song was Fujiko Shimabukuro, born in Kohala, Hawai‘i on March 18, 1914. The family moved to Okinawa when she was 3 and returned to Hawai‘i at 18. She married Koji Matayoshi and lived in Kahalu‘u, where they had eight children, five daughters and three sons. They eventually moved from Kahalu‘u to Waiāhole, where her husband and her husband’s father started farming a 10-acre plot of land that was leased to them by the McCandless family. After her husband died, Fujiko needed a way to support her children, so every day, she would gather all her fruits in a wheelbarrow and wheel them down to sell on Kamehameha Highway. Source: "Sweet Lady of Waiāhole" by Lisa Yamada-Son, FluxHawaii.com (May 7, 2012)

Sweet Lady of Waiahole (Bruddah Waltah)

Sweet Violets & Sweet Violets (Portrait format in C) ("Adapted from a folk song" by Cy Coben & Charles Grean, 1951).
The chorus is taken nearly verbatim from the song "Sweet Violets" by Joseph Emmet, from his 1882 play "Fritz Among the Gypsies." Numerous other versions exist, some of which could not be played on the radio or TV, including a version by the Sons of the Pioneers (1936), one by the Sweet Violet Boys (the Prairie Ramblers, 1935). These were sold and distributed as "Party Records." Sweet Violets, Wikipedia, and the Mudcat Cafe.

Sweet Violets by Dinah Shore (1951)

Sweet Violets by Dorothy Collins (1951), recorded from "Your Hit Parade" TV program (NBC)

Sweet Violets by Mitch Miller & The Gang (1958)

Take It Easy (Jackson Browne, 1971, & Glenn Frey, 1972)
This was the band's first single, released on May 1, 1972. It peaked at No. 12 on the July 22, 1972, Billboard Hot 100 chart. It also was the opening track on the band's debut album "Eagles" and it has become one of their signature songs, included on all of their live and compilation albums. It is listed as one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.
Jackson Browne later recorded the song as the lead track on his second album, "For Everyman" (1973), and released it as a single as well, although it did not chart.
Browne told a version of the story in a radio interview: "I knew Glenn Frey from playing these clubs - we kept showing up at the same clubs and singing on the open-mic nights. Glenn happened to come by to say 'hi,' and to hang around when I was in the studio, and I showed him the beginnings of that song, and he asked if I was going to put it on my record and I said it wouldn't be ready in time. He said 'well, we'll put it on, we'll do it,' 'cause he liked it," Browne explained. "But it wasn't finished, and he kept after me to finish it, and finally offered to finish it himself. And after a couple of times when I declined to have him finish my song, I said, 'all right.' I finally thought, 'This is ridiculous. Go ahead and finish it. Do it.' And he finished it in spectacular fashion. And, what's more, arranged it in a way that was far superior to what I had written." Take It Easy, Wikipedia.

Take It Easy by The Eagles (1972)

Take It Easy by The Eagles (Live)

Take Me Out to the Ball Game (Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer, 1908)
This Tin Pan Alley song has become the official anthem of North American baseball, although neither of its authors had attended a game prior to writing the song (Norworth and Von Tilzer finally saw their first Major League Baseball games 32 and 20 years later, respectively); the original 1908 lyrics were re-written in 1927.
The inspiration? Jack Norworth was riding a subway train when he saw a sign that said: "Baseball Today – Polo Grounds" (then home of baseball's New York Giants, relocated to San Francisco in 1957).
It was played at a ballpark for the first known time in 1934, at a high-school game in Los Angeles; it was played later that year during the fourth game of the 1934 World Series. The song's chorus is traditionally sung during the middle of the seventh inning of a baseball game.
The song was first sung by Norworth's then-wife Nora Bayes and popularized by many other vaudeville acts. The first recorded version was by Edward Meeker for the Edison Phonograph Company. The first verse of the 1927 version is sung by Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra at the start of the MGM musical film, "Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949)."  Louisiana singer-songwriter Dr. John and pop singer Carly Simon both recorded versions of the song for the PBS documentary series "Baseball," by Ken Burns.
In 2001, “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” was named the #8 song on the “Songs of the Century” list. In 2008, the song won the Songwriters Hall of Fame "Towering Song" Award.
By the way, "Cracker Jacks" was an instant hit when introduced at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair by a local popcorn company and were first sold at some ballparks in 1907; once the product was inexplicably linked with baseball in Norworth's 1908 lyrics, sales of the crunchy concoction skyrocketed.
Take Me Out to the Ballgame, Wikipedia; Take Me Out to the Ballgame, Library of Congress.

Take Me Out to the Ballgame by Edward Meeker (1908)

Take Me Out to the Ballgame by by Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra (1949)

Take Me Out to the Ballgame by Dr. John

Take Me Out to the Ballgame by Carly Simon

Take Me Out to the Ballgame by Eddie Vedder, Game 5 of the 2016 World Series

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)

Talking In Your Sleep (George Canler, James Marinos, Michael Skill, Peter Solley, Walter Palamarchuk) (Am & Dm)
Talking In Your Sleep (The Romantics song), Wikipedia.

Talking In Your Sleep by The Romantics (1984)

Tell Laura I Love Her (Jeff Barry & Ben Raleigh, 1960)
The tragic story of a teenage boy named Tommy who is desperately in love with a girl named Laura. Although they are only teenagers, he wants to marry her, so he enters a stock car race, hoping to win, and use the prize money to buy Laura a wedding ring. The second verse tells how the boy's car overturned and burst into flames. Tommy is fatally injured and his last words are "Tell Laura I love her... My love for her will never die." In the final verse, Laura prays inside the chapel, where a church organ is heard, and where she can still hear Tommy's voice intoning the title one more time, before it fades out. Tell Laura I Love Her, Wikipedia.

Tell Laura I Love Her by Ray Peterson (1960)

Tell Laura I Love Her by Ricky Valance (UK, 1960)

Tennessee Stud (Landscape) (Jimmy Driftwood, ca. 1959)
Jimmie Driftwood (James Corbitt Morris, 1907 – 1998) was an American folk music songwriter and musician, most famous for his songs "The Battle of New Orleans" and "Tennessee Stud," considered to be Driftwood's most recorded song. Driftwood wrote more than 6,000 folk songs, of which more than 300 were recorded by various musicians. Jimmy Driftwood, Wikipedia

Tennessee Stud by Jimmy Driftwood (1959)

Tennessee Stud by Eddy Arnold (a Top 5 hit on the Billboard Country Singles chart in 1959, and was nominated for a Grammy in both country and folk categories the same year)

Tennessee Stud by Doc Watson from his 1966 album "Southbound."

Tennessee Stud by Doc Watson with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band in "Will The Circle Be Unbroken" (1972).

Tennessee Stud by Doc Watson (Live performance, 1979)

Tennessee Stud by Johnny Cash (Live in New York, 1994)

Tennessee Whiskey  (Dean Dillon and Linda Hargrove, 1981)
The song was first offered to George Strait, who turned it down. The first recording was by David Allen Coe, but it was the recording by George Jones that went to the top 5 on the Country charts. The version by Chris Stapleton was a breakthrough hit for him. Tennessee Whiskey, Wikipedia.

Tennessee Whiskey by David Allen Coe (1981)

Tennessee Whiskey by George Jones (1983)

Tennessee Whiskey by Chris Stapleton and Justin Timberlake

Tennessee Whiskey by Chris Stapleton (2015)

The Caisson Song & The Army Goes Rolling Along (Lyrics by Harold W. Arberg, November 1956, adapted from lyrics by 1Lt. Edmund L. Gruber, 1908; Music by John Philip Sousa, 1917; Adopted November 11, 1956)
This is the official song of the United States Army and is typically called "The Army Song". The original version of this song was titled "As the caissons go rolling along," and was soon adapted as the "U.S. Field Artillery March". The lyrics are different from those in the present official version.
In both 1948 and 1952, the US Army sought a suitable official song, without success. But in 1956, a soldier music adviser in the Adjutant General's office was asked to try his hand at it. As a result, H.W. Arberg adapted "The Caisson Song" to become the official U.S. Army song, "The Army Goes Rolling Along."
The song is played at the conclusion of most U.S. Army ceremonies, and all soldiers are expected to stand at attention and sing.
When more than one service song is played, they are played in the order specified by Department of Defense directive: Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard.
The Army Goes Rolling Along, Wikipedia; The Army Goes Rolling Along - The Official Song of The United States Army.

The Army Song, The United States Army Field Band and Chorus

The Army Goes Rolling Along, The US Army Military Academy Band

The US Air Force The U.S. Air Force ("Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder) (Original first verse and melody: Robert MacArthur Crawford, 1939; Adopted 1947).
In 1937, Brig. Gen. Henry H. "Hap" Arnold persuaded the Chief of the Air Corps, Maj. Gen. Oscar Westover, that the Air Corps needed an official song. A nation-wide search was conducted, over 700 compositions were evaluated, but none were satisfactory. But two days before the deadline, a sound recording was submitted, which proved to be a unanimous winner.
Originally, the song was titled "Army Air Corps." Robert MacArthur Crawford wrote the initial first verse and the basic melody line in May 1939. Crawford himself publicly sang the song for the first time over national radio from the 1939 National Air Races
During World War II, the service was renamed "Army Air Forces" due to the re-naming of the Army's air arm in mid-1941, and the song title changed to agree. In 1947, when the Air Force became a separate service, the song was re-titled, "The U.S. Air Force."
Most commonly, only the first verse is performed, though in professional performances all four verses may be presented. The third verse ("Here's a toast...") has a different melody, and a more reverent mood than the rest of the song to commemorate those who have fallen in the service of the Air Force and the United States. This verse is sometimes performed independently of the other verses.
On 29 May 2020, all stanzas of the Air Force song have been updated to better capture and represent the valor and heritage of the 73-year-old service while also recognizing the diversity and contributions of today’s Total Force regardless of gender.
The U.S. Air Force (song), Wikipedia.

The U.S. Air Force by USAF Band Choir and Chorus

The U.S. Air Force by the United States Air Force Band, a surprise performance at the Air Force Association Air and Space Conference, Sept. 15, 2015.

The United States Air Force (or, The Army Air Corps Song) by The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square (1973)

80th Birthday of "The U.S. Air Force Song" by the USAF Band & Chorus

Tequila Sunrise (Don Henley & Glenn Frey, 1973) (C & G)
It was the first single from the band's second album, "Desperado." The song peaked at number 64 on the Billboard Hot 100. According to Frey, he was lying on a couch playing the guitar, and came up with a guitar riff he described as "kinda Roy Orbison, kinda Mexican". He showed Henley the guitar riff and said: "Maybe we should write something to this." The title refers to a cocktail named Tequila Sunrise that was then popular. In the liner notes of 2003's "The Very Best Of," Henley had this to say about the song:
I beleve that was a Glenn title. I think he was ambivalent about it because he thought that it was a bit too obvious or too much of a cliché because of the drink that was so popular then. I said, 'No-Look at it from a different point of view. You've been drinking straight tequila all night and the sun is coming up!' It turned out to be a really great song."
According to Billboard, the theme of the song is " one man's efforts at survival and having to take 'a shot of courage.'" Tequila Sunrise, Wikipedia.

Tequila Sunrise by the Eagles from Live at The Summit, Houston, 1976)

Tequila Sunrise by Alan Jackson (1993)

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)
This song was performed and co-written by actor Robert Mitchum in 1957, as the theme song of the movie "Thunder Road." 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 Boxer (Paul Simon, 1968), (Landscape). This version has the additional verse from the concert in Central Park. Also available is a version without that verse, The Boxer (C & G) (Portrait)

This folk rock ballad variously takes the form of a first-person lament as well as a third-person sketch of a boxer. The lyrics are largely autobiographical and partially inspired by the Bible, and were written during a time when Simon felt he was being unfairly criticized. The song's lyrics discuss poverty and loneliness. It is particularly known for its plaintive refrain, in which they sing 'lie-la-lie', accompanied by a heavily reverbed snare drum. The original recording of the song is one of the duo's most highly produced, and took over 100 hours to record. The recording was performed at multiple locations, including St. Paul's Chapel (Columbia University) in New York City and Columbia studios in Nashville.
 During a New York City concert in October 2010, Paul Simon stopped singing midway through "The Boxer" to tell the story of a woman who stopped him on the street to tell him that she edits the song when singing it to her young child, removing the words "the whores" and altering the song to say, "I get no offers, just a come-on from toy stores on Seventh Avenue." Simon laughingly commented that he felt that it was "a better line." The Boxer, Wikipedia.

The Boxer by Simon and Garfunkel from "The Concert In Central Park" (1981)

The Boxer by Simon and Garfunkel from the album "Bridge Over Covered Waters" (1969)

The Little Old Lady (From Pasadena) (Don Altfeld, Jan Berry and Roger Christian, 1964)
The origins of this song are from a very popular Dodge ad campaign in southern California that launched in early 1964. Starring actress Kathryn Minner, the commercials showed the white-haired elderly lady speeding down the street (and sometimes a drag strip) driving a modified Dodge. She would stop, look out the window and say "Put a Dodge in your garage, Hon-ey!". The song soon followed and Minner enjoyed great popularity until she died in 1969. She was the red shawl wearing little old lady on the cover of the 1964 Jan and Dean album "The Little Old Lady from Pasadena".
"The Little Old Lady (from Pasadena)" was a folk archetype in Southern California in the mid-20th century. Part of this lore was that many an elderly man who died in Pasadena would leave his widow with a powerful car that she rarely, if ever, drove, such as an old Buick Roadmaster, or a vintage 1950s Cadillac, Ford, Packard, Studebaker, DeSoto, or La Salle. According to the story, used car salesmen would tell prospective buyers that the previous owner of a vehicle was "a little old lady from Pasadena who only drove it to church on Sundays," thus suggesting the car had little wear. The Little Old Lady From Pasadena, Wikipedia.

The Little Old Lady From Pasadena by Jan and Dean

The Little Old Lady From Pasadena by Jan and Dean (1965 color video)

The Little Old Lady From Pasadena by Jan and Dean (1979 live performance)

Kathryn Minner with Jan and Dean (1964).

Similar is: The Anaheim, Azusa & Cucamonga Sewing Circle, Book Review, and Timing Association by Jan & Dean (1964)

The Music Of The Night (C) & The Music Of The Night (F)  (Andrew Lloyd Webber & Charles Hart, 1986)
A major song from the 1986 musical "The Phantom of the Opera," this song 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 Way (Tony Scalzo, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, Jewel Kilcher, Shep Pettibone, Madonna, Ciccone, 1997)
Front man Tony Scalzo of the group Fastball came up with the idea for the song after reading articles which described the June 1997 disappearance of an elderly married couple, Lela and Raymond Howard from Salado, Texas, who left home to attend the Pioneer Day festival at nearby Temple, Texas, despite Lela's Alzheimer’s and Raymond recently recovering from brain surgery. About the song, Scalzo said that "It's a romanticized take on what happened" - he "pictured them taking off to have fun, like they did when they first met." The song was written immediately after their disappearance but before the couple was found dead at the bottom of a ravine near Hot Springs, Arkansas, hundreds of miles off their intended route. The Way (Fastball song), Wikipedia

The Way by Fastball (1997)

The Wayward Wind (Herbert Newman & Stanley R. Lebowsky, 1955) (C & G)
The song is about a sad tale of a lover who became the next of kin to the restless wandering wayward wind. The other lover lived in a shack by the railroad track in their younger days; however, the lover hoped to settle down with the other, but, resumed to keep on wandering, leaving the lover alone with a broken heart.
In 1956, versions were recorded by Gogi Grant, Tex Ritter, and Jimmy Young, of which Grant's was the biggest seller in the United States and Ritter's in the United Kingdom. Grant's version reached #1 on the Billboard chart, and the top 50 when reissued in 1961. Ritter used the song to open his stage shows.
The Wayward Wind, Wikipedia.

The Wayward Wind by Gogi Grant (1956)

The Wayward Wind by Patsy Cline

The Wayward Wind by Tex Ritter (1956)

The Wayward Wind by Jimmy Young (1956)

The Wayward Wind by Crystal Gayle

The Weight (Robbie Robertson, ca. 1968)
Highly regarded, "The Weight" was not a significant hit single for the group but is one of The Band's best known songs, due to considerable album-oriented rock airplay. It was listed as #41 on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" published in 2004. It has been widely covered. The "Nazareth" is the Pennsylvania home of Martin Guitars. The Weight, Wikipedia

The Weight by The Band (1968)

They Call the Wind Maria (Alan J. Lerner & Frederick Loewe, 1951) (C & F)
"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

Third Rate Romance (Howard Russell Smith, ca. 1974)
First recorded in Montreal in 1974 by Jesse Winchester and his band the Rhythm Aces, it became a hit the following year by the newly re-formed Amazing Rhythm Aces on its 1975 album "Stacked Deck." It was the band's debut single, reaching #11 on the U.S. country singles chart and #14 on the Billboard Hot 100, as well as #1 on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks and Top Singles charts. Third Rate Romance, Wikipedia.

Third Rate Romance by The Amazing Rhythm Aces (1975)

Third Rate Romance by Jesse Winchester and the Rhythm Aces (1974)

Third Rate Romance by Sammy Kershaw (Official Video, 2004)

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.
This Land Is Your Land, Wikipedia.

This Land Is Your Land by Woody Guthrie (1940)

This Masquerade (Leon Russell, 1972)
This Masquerade, Wikipedia.

This Masquerade by Leon Russell (1972)

This Masquerade by Helen Reddy (Live at the Palladium, 1978)

This Masquerade by The Carpenters (1973)

This Masquerade by George Benson from the album "Breezin'" (1976). Benson's rendition is the only charting version of the song in the U.S. It reached number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number three on the Hot Soul Singles chart.

Those Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days Of Summer (Hans Bradtke, Hans Carste, 1962, with English lyrics by Charles Tobias, 1963) - Keys of C & G
"Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer" is a popular song originally written as "Du spielst 'ne tolle Rolle". The title is roughly translated as " You play a great role in the memoirs;" it has little or nothing to do with summer.
In 1963, it was recorded by Nat King Cole, on a theme of summer nostalgia. Cole's version reached # 6 on the US pop chart. It was the opening track of Cole's 1963 album of the same name, which reached #14 on the Billboard LP chart.
Nat King Cole, a musician who first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist, was born in Montgomery, Ala. and raised in Chicago. Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer (song), Wikipedia

Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer by Nat King Cole

Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer by Nat King Cole (Nat King Cole live in HD from the 1963 BBC special "An Evening With Nat King Cole"; Nat is holding an 8 string ukulele but isn't playing it.)

Three Little Birds (Bob Marley, ca. 1977)
Originally on the 1977 album "Exodus" and was released as a single in 1980. The song is often thought to be named "Don't Worry About a Thing" or "Every Little Thing is Gonna Be Alright", because of the prominent and repeated use of these phrases in the chorus. Three Little Birds, Wikipedia.

Three Little Birds by Bob Marley and the Wailers from "Exodus" (1977)

Three Little Birds by Bob Marley and the Wailers (Official Music Video)

Tie A Yellow Ribbon (Irwin Levine & L. Russell Brown, 1972)
The origin of the idea of a yellow ribbon as remembrance may have been the 19th-century practice that some women allegedly had of wearing a yellow ribbon in their hair to signify their devotion to a husband or sweetheart serving in the U.S. Cavalry. The song "'Round Her Neck She Wears a Yeller Ribbon", tracing back centuries but copyrighted by George A. Norton in 1917, and later inspiring the John Wayne movie "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon." The symbol of a yellow ribbon became widely known in civilian life in the 1970s as a reminder that an absent loved one, either in the military or in jail, would be welcomed home on their return.
"Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" was recorded by Tony Orlando and Dawn (Telma Hopkins, Joyce Vincent Wilson, and Pamela Vincent) and was a worldwide hit for the group in 1973. The single reached the top 10 in ten countries, in eight of which it topped the charts, reaching #1 on the US, UK, Australian, and New Zealand charts. It was the top-selling single in 1973 in both the US and UK. In 2008, Billboard ranked the song as the 37th biggest song of all time in its issue celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Hot 100. Tie a Yellow Ribbon, Wikipedia

Tie a Yellow Ribbon by Tony Orlando and Dawn

Time of the Season  (Rod Argent, 1967)
"Time of the Season," by the British rock band the Zombies, was featured on their 1968 album "Odessey and Oracle." Written by keyboard player Rod Argent and recorded at Abbey Road Studios in August 1967, it was more than a year after its original release that the track became a surprise hit in the United States, rising to number three on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the Cashbox chart. It has become one of the Zombies' most popular and recognizable songs. Time of the Season, Wikipedia.

Time of the Season by The Zombies (1968)

Tonight You Belong to Me & Tonight You Belong To Me (C & G, with additional Outro) (Billy Rose and Lee David, 1926).

First recorded by Irving Kaufman in 1926 and made a hit by Gene Austin in 1927.

Tonight You Belong to Me by Patience and Prudence (1956)

Tonight You Belong To Me by Nancy Sinatra (1962) from "Bubblegum Girl," Vol. 2 (2005), a compilation including some previously unreleased material. A Top Ten hit in Japan in 1963.

Tonight You Belong to Me by The Lennon Sisters with Lawrence Welk (1964)

Tonight You Belong to Me by Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters from "The Jerk" (1979)

Tonight You Belong to Me by by Eddie Vedder & Chan Marshall from "Ukulele Songs" (2011)

Top of the World (Richard Carpenter and John Bettis, 1972)
The Carpenters originally intended the song to be only an album cut. However, country singer Lynn Anderson covered the song In 1973 and it became a #2 hit on the country charts. The Carpenters quickly reconsidered and released their 1972 recording, which topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart in late 1973, becoming the duo's second of three #1 singles, following "(They Long to Be) Close to You" and preceding "Please Mr. Postman."
Top of the World (The Carpenters song)

Top Of The World by the Carpenters (1972)

Top Of The World by The Carpenters, a live performance at the 'Grand Gala du Disque', 15 February 1974, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Top Of The World by Lynn Anderson (1973)

Touch of Grey (Landscape in C & G) & Touch of Grey (Portrait in C & G) (Robert Hunter, ca. 1980, Jerry Garcia, ca. 1982)
This song is known for its refrain "I will get by / I will survive", combining dark lyrics in the verses with upbeat pop instrumentation. Peaking at #9, the song was – and remains to this day – the only Grateful Dead song to reach the Billboard Top Ten. Or even the Top 40. Or even the Top 50. (“Truckin’”— the Dead’s highest charting song prior to “Touch of Grey”— peaked at #64.) The Dead performed “Touch of Grey” live for the first time on September 15, 1982, at the Capital Centre in Landover, Maryland, almost five years before the song appeared on any Grateful Dead studio album. Lyricist Robert Hunter is the great-great-grandson of Scottish poet Robert Burns. Touch of Grey, Wikipedia; Touch of Grey, Like Totally 80s.com (2017).

Touch of Gray by The Grateful Dead from their 1987 album "In the Dark"

Trip Around The Sun (Stephen Bruton, Al Anderson & Sharon Vaughn, 1998)
It was originally recorded by Stephen Bruton in 1998 on his album "Nothing But the Truth" but gained additional popularity when covered by Martina McBride and Jimmy Buffett as the second single from Buffett's 2004 album "License to Chill." Trip Around the Sun, Wikipedia

Trip Around the Sun by Stephen Bruton (1998)

Trip Around the Sun by Martina McBride and Jimmy Buffett (2004 recording)

Trip Around the Sun by Martina McBride and Jimmy Buffett (2004 music video)

True Colors (Am) & True Colors (Em) (Billy Steinberg & Tom Kelly, 1983)

True Colors by Cyndi Lauper (1983)

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 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)

Tulsa Time (Danny Flowers, 1978)
It was released in October 1978 as the first single from the album Expressions. It was Williams' eighth number one on the country chart, spending a single week at number one and eleven weeks in the top 40. It was also recorded by Eric Clapton for his 1978 album Backless and a live version by Clapton from his album Just One Night became a #30 Billboard hit in 1980. Tulsa Time, Wikipedia.

Tulsa Time by Don Williams (1982)

Tulsa Time by Eric Clapton

Tulsa Time by Reba McEntire

Tulsa Time by Brothers Osborne

Ukulele Lady (Gus Kahn & Richard A. Whiting, 1925)
A popular standard, the song was first made famous by Vaughn De Leath in 1925 and recorded by a number of artists since then.

Ukulele Lady by Vaughn De Leath (1925), popular star on the radio in the 1920s. She invented the "crooning" style of singing, and was an accomplished ukulele player.

Ukulele Lady by the Paul Whiteman Orchestra with vocals by the Southern Fall Colored Quartet (1925); lengthy instrumental introduction.

Ukulele Lady by Lee Morse (1925)

Ukulele Lady by by Kermit the Frog (playing the ukulele) and Miss Piggy in the second season of The Muppet Show, Episode 15.

Ukulele Lady by Arlo Guthrie on his 1972 album "Hobo's Lullaby"

Ukulele Lady by Bette Midler, first performed live in the 1997 TV special "Diva Las Vegas" as a tribute to her native Hawaii. Midler later recorded the song for her album "Bathhouse Betty."

Un Poco Loco (Adrian Molina & Germaine Franco) (C & G)
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"

Under the Boardwalk (Kenny Young & Arthur Resnick, 1964) (C)
"Under the Boardwalk" describes a tryst between a man and his beloved in a seaside town, who plan to privately meet "out of the sun" and out of sight from everyone else under a boardwalk; it charted at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on August 22, 1964. The song has since been covered by many other artists, with versions by Billy Joel, Bette Midler, the Tom Tom Club, The Rolling Stones, Billy Joe Royal, Bruce Willis, and Lynn Anderson all charting in the United States or overseas. The song ranked #489 on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Under The Boardwalk, Wikipedia.

Under the Boardwalk by The Drifters (1964)

Up On the Roof (Gerry Goffin & Carole King, 1962)

After Carole King suggested that he write lyrics for the tune which had occurred to her while she was out driving, with King suggesting "My Secret Place" as the title, Goffin kept King's suggested focus of a haven, modifying it with his enthusiasm for the movie musical West Side Story which contained several striking scenes set on the rooftops of Upper West Side tenements. In April 2010, The Drifters' "Up on the Roof" was named #114 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list. It is one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. Up On The Roof (song), Wikipedia.

Up On The Roof by The Drifters (1962)

Up On The Roof by Carole King and James Taylor, Live at the Troubadour, Los Angeles (Video, 2010)

Venus in Blue Jeans (Howard Greenfield and Jack Keller, ca. 1962) (C, F & G)
The "Venus" in this song was a lady being dated by co-writer, Jack Keller. Venus in Blue Jeans, Wikipedia

Venus in Blue Jeans by Jimmy Clanton from the 1962 album of the same name.

Wagon Wheel (Bob Dylan, 1973, and Ketch Secor, ca, 1998)
"Wagon Wheel" is a song co-written by Bob Dylan and Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show. Dylan recorded the chorus in 1973; Secor added verses 25 years later. Old Crow Medicine Show's final version was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in April 2013.
The song describes a hitchhiking journey south along the eastern coast of the United States from New England in the northeast through Roanoke, Virginia, with the intended destination of Raleigh, North Carolina, where the narrator hopes to see his lover. As the narrator is walking south of Roanoke, he meets (but does not likely travel far with) a trucker who is traveling from Philadelphia through Virginia westward toward the Cumberland Gap and Johnson City, Tennessee.
Old Crow Medicine Show's version of the song is in 2/4 time signature, with an approximate tempo of 76 half notes per minute. It uses the I–V–vi–IV pattern in the key of A major, with the main chord pattern of A–E–F♯m–D.
The song has been covered numerous times, notably by Nathan Carter in 2012 and Darius Rucker with Lady Antebellum in 2013. Rucker's version reached No. 1 on the Hot Country Songs chart and was certified triple Platinum by the RIAA in March 2014. Wagon Wheel, Wikipedia.

Wagon Wheel by Old Crow Medicine Show (1998)

Wagon Wheel by Old Crow Medicine Show (Official Music Video)

Wagon Wheel by Nathan Carter (2012)

Wagon Wheel by Darius Rucker (2013)

Wagon Wheels (C & G) (Billy Hill & Peter DeRose, the early 1930s)
Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. The song was used as the title song in the 1934 western movie Wagon Wheels, starring Randolph Scott and Gail Patrick. It was sung by Everett Marshall in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1934. Wagon Wheels, Wikipedia.

Wagon Wheels by The Platters

Wagon Wheels by Sons of the Pioneers

Wagon Wheels by Paul Robeson (1934, 1948)

Waikiki (Andrew Kealoha Cummings, 1938)

One of the most enduring and popular of the 'place name' songs and regarded by some as the greatest Hapa Haole song of them all. Andy Cummings, a respected and well-loved composer and musician, had a severe attack of homesickness and wrote this song while in Lansing, Michigan on tour with The Paradise Islands revue. "It was a cold and foggy night in November 1938 and we were walking back to our hotel from the theatre. I thought of Waikiki with its rolling surf, warm sunshine, palm trees, and…"  Waikiki, Huapala.org; Waikiki, Squareone.org, citing Tony Todaro, The Golden Years of Hawaiian Entertainment (Tony Todaro Pub., 1974)

Waikiki by Andy Cummings & his Hawaiian Serenaders (David Nalu, Gabby Pahinui, Joe Diamond, Ralph Alapa'i, 1946)

Waikiki by Na Leo Pilimehana from their first album "Local Boys"

Waikiki by the Brothers Cazimero

Wake Me Up When September Ends (Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt & Tré Cool, 2004) (C & G)

"Wake Me Up When September Ends" was written by American rock band 'Green Day' frontman Billie Joe Armstrong about his father, who died from esophageal cancer in September 1982, when Armstrong was 10 years old. Wake Me Up When September Ends, Wikipedia; Green Day, Wikipedia.

Wake Me Up When September Ends by Green Day (2005)

Wake Me Up When September Ends by Green Day (Official Music Video)

We'll Meet Again (Ross Parker and Hughie Charles, 1939) - Key of C
The 1939 recording by Vera Lynn is one of the most famous of the Second World War era, because it deeply resonated with soldiers going off to fight as well as their families and sweethearts. It was described by The Guardian as "an anthem of hope and resilience." Other songs associated with her are "The White Cliffs of Dover," "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square," and "There'll Always Be an England."
She was widely referred to as the "Forces' Sweetheart" and gave outdoor concerts for the troops in Egypt, India and Burma during the war.
In 2009, at the age of 92, she became the oldest living artist to top the UK Albums Chart with the compilation album "We'll Meet Again: The Very Best of Vera Lynn." In 2017, she released "Vera Lynn 100," which became a #3 hit, making her the first centenarian performer to have a Top 10 album in the charts.
On 5 April 2020, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland referenced the song in a rare televised address that aired in the U.K., where she expressed her gratitude for the efforts people are taking to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic virus and acknowledged the severe challenges being faced by families across the world.
Dame Vera Lynn died on 18 June 2020, not long after she celebrated her 103rd birthday. We'll Meet Again, Wikipedia.

We'll Meet Again by Vera Lynn accompanied by Arthur Young on Novachord, the world's first commercial polyphonic synthesizer. (Recorded September 28, 1939)

We'll Meet Again by Vera Lynn from the 1943 film of the same name, filmed in a concert before soldiers who were joining in; the best-known version of the song.

We'll Meet Again by Vera Lynn (1953) accompanied by Roland Shaw & His Orchestra and the Sailors, Soldiers & Airmen of Her Majesty's Forces

We'll Meet Again by Vera Lynn (1995), the 50th anniversary of VE Day

We'll Meet Again by the D-Day Darlings, a nine-woman group - in period costumes, make-up and hair styles - appearing on "Britain's Got Talent," 2018. They received a standing ovation from the audience. Their official video, We'll Meet Again, was filmed in front of an Avro Lancaster, a heavy bomber flown by the Royal Air Force during World War II

(What Did) Delaware (Irving Gordon, 1959)

Delaware by Perry Como with The Ray Charles Singers and Mitchell Ayres & his Orchestra (1959)

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 (A. P. Carter, 1931)

• Cups (You're Gonna Miss Me) by Lulu And The Lampshades

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)

White Rabbit (Key of B) & White Rabbit (Key of E) (Grace Slick, 1965-1966)
Released as a single, it became the band's second top-10 success, peaking at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was ranked number 478 on Rolling Stone's list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" and appears on The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's "500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll."
It was written and performed while she was still with the "Great Society." Slick quit them and joined Jefferson Airplane to replace their departing female singer, Signe Toly Anderson, who left the band with the birth of her child. The first album Slick recorded with Jefferson Airplane was "Surrealistic Pillow," and Slick provided two songs from her previous group: her own "White Rabbit" and "Somebody to Love", written by her brother-in-law Darby Slick and which also was ranked in the Top 10. White Rabbit, Wikipedia.

White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane from the 1967 album "Surrealistic Pillow"

Who Threw the Overalls in Mrs. Murphy's Chowder (George L. Geifer, 1898) First recorded by Edward M. Favor in 1901.

Who Threw the Overalls in Mrs. Murphy's Chowder by Bing Crosby (1945)

Who Threw the Overalls in Mrs. Murphy's Chowder by Julie Andrews (1962)

Whole World in His Hands (described as a traditional African American spiritual, first published in 1927; possibly written by Master Sergeant Obie Edwin Philpot)

He’s Got the Whole World by Laurie London (1957)

He's Got The Whole World by Mahalia Jackson

He’s Got the Whole World by Tanya Tucker

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
 

Wichita Lineman (Jimmy Webb, 1968) (F)

Wichita Lineman, Wikipedia

Wichita Lineman by Glen Campbell (1968)

Willin' (Emmylou Harris, Jill Cuniff, Daryl Johnson) (C & G) (P)

Willin' by Linda Ronstadt (1974)

Willin' by Emmylou Harris & Linda Ronstadt

Winchester Cathedral & Winchester Cathedral (Portrait in G) (Geoff Stephens, ca. 1966)

Winchester Cathedral by The New Vaudeville Band (1966)

Winchester Cathedral by Rudy Vallee (1967)

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 and Windmills of Your Mind (Am) (Michel Legrand and Eddy Marnay, "Les Moulins de mon cœur"; English lyrics by Americans Alan and Marilyn Bergman, 1968)
The song (with the English lyrics) was introduced in the film "The Thomas Crown Affair" (1968), and 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

Workin' in the Coal Mine (Allen Toussaint, 1965)  (Nashville Notation)

Working in the Coal Mine, Wikipedia.

Working in the Coal Mine by Lee Dorsey (1966)

Working On The Chain Gang (Sam Cooke, ca. 1959)

Chain Gang by Sam Cooke (1960)

Yankee Doodle (Lyrics by a British Army surgeon Dr. Richard Shuckburgh, 1755; Melody, a folk song from Medieval Europe)
While primarily associated with the Revolutionary War, the early versions of the song date to before the Seven Years' War (1756 until 1763). The song was originally sung by British military officers to mock the disheveled, disorganized colonial "Yankees" with whom they served in the French and Indian War (1754–1763). It was written around 1755 by British Army surgeon Dr. Richard Shuckburgh while campaigning in upper New York, and the British troops sang it to make fun of their stereotype of the American soldier as a Yankee simpleton who thought that he was stylish ("macaroni") if he simply stuck a feather in his cap. The expression "macaroni" was used to describe a man who dressed and spoke in an outlandishly affected and effeminate manner and who "exceeded the ordinary bounds of fashion" in terms of fastidious eating, gambling, and clothes, including tall, powdered wigs with a chapeau bras on top that could only be removed on the point of a sword.
It became popular among the Americans as a song of defiance, and they added verses to it that mocked the British troops and hailed George Washington as the Commander of the Continental army. By 1781, Yankee Doodle had turned from being an insult to being a song of national pride.
It is often sung patriotically in the United States today and is the state anthem of Connecticut.
Yankee Doodle, Wikipedia; Macaroni (fashion), Wikipedia.

Yankee Doodle by the 97th Regimental String Band (1999)

Yankee Doodle Boy (George M. Cohan &  Kenneth Elkinson, 1904)
This is a patriotic song from the Broadway musical "Little Johnny Jones" written by George M. Cohan; 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

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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.

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. 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)

Yesterday's Gone (Chad Stuart, 1962) (C)
Stuart's first song, it remained unrecorded until Stuart and Jeremy Clyde began performing as a duo, eventually recording "Yesterday's Gone" in July 1963 in a session at Abbey Road Studios produced and arranged by John Barry, who'd discovered Chad & Jeremy at a London club. Oddly, "Yesterday's Gone" wound up being their only UK hit. However, it was the first of eleven singles to chart in America, rising to #21 on the Billboard Hot 100 in July 1964. Chad & Jeremy would subsequently place three singles in the US Top 20, but only their one Top Ten hit, "A Summer Song", rivals "Yesterday's Gone" as the duo's signature song. Yesterday's Gone (song), Wikipedia.

Yesterday's Gone by Chad and Jeremy (1963)

Chad and Jeremy:

• Video Performance (1964)

• 50th Anniversary Performance (2013)

You Are The Sunshine Of My Life (Stevie Wonder, 1973) (C)
A 1973 single by Stevie Wonder, it became Wonder's third #1 single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and his first #1 on the Easy Listening chart. It won Wonder a Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, and was nominated for both Record of the Year and Song of the Year. Rolling Stone ranked the song number 287 on their list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time". Billboard called it "a soft, haunting ballad with outstanding electric piano runs and outstanding production work." You Are The Sunshine Of My Life, Wikipedia.

You Are The Sunshine Of My Life by Stevie Wonder (1973)

You Ku'uipo (Lyrics by Gilbert Belmudez, Music by William Awihilima Kahaiali'i, ca. 1990)
Willie K hosted the annual Maui Blues Festival until his untimely death in at the age of 59 on May 18, 2020. He was known affectionately as Uncle Willie. In 1993, Willie began a collaboration with Amy Hānaialiʻi Gilliom that would last for nine years. The pair recorded, performed, and toured together, and also shared a personal relationship. Their recordings won seven Na Hoku Hanohano Awards, part of Willie's total of 19 Hokus as a musician and producer. Willie K, Wikipedia; Hawaiian music legend Willie K dies at age 59 after 2-year battle with cancer - Honolulu Star-Advertiser.

You Ku'uipo by Willie K (William Kahaiali'i)
from his album "The Uncle In Me, Volume 1" (2000).

You Were On My Mind (Landscape in C) & You Were On My Mind (Portrait in C & G) (Sylvia Fricker, 1962)
First recorded by Ian and Sylvia, it became a Top 5 hit on the Billboard 100 by the We Five; it also got to #1 on Cashbox and #1 on the Billboard easy listening chart. It also charted in 1966 by Crispian St Peters. The 12-string Rickenbacker guitar in the We Five version was by the late Bob Jones.

You Were On My Mind by Ian & Sylvia (1964)

You Were On My Mind by The We Five (1966)

You Were On My Mind by Crispian St Peters (1966)

You're a Grand Old Flag (George M. Cohan, 1906)
Cohan wrote this spirited march in 1906 for his stage musical "George Washington, Jr." In addition to obvious references to the flag, it incorporates snippets of other popular songs, including one of his own ("The Yankee Doodle Boy").
According to Cohan, the original lyric came from an encounter he had with a Civil War veteran who fought at Gettysburg. The two men found themselves next to each other and Cohan noticed the vet held a carefully folded but ragged old flag. The man reportedly then turned to Cohan and said, "She's a grand old rag." Cohan thought it was a great line and originally named his tune "You're a Grand Old Rag." So many groups and individuals objected to calling the flag a "rag," however, that he "gave 'em what they wanted" and switched words, renaming the song "You're a Grand Old Flag."
George M. Cohan was already a Broadway star in 1906, but when he introduced an upbeat, patriotic song called "You’re a Grand Old Rag" in his new musical George Washington, Jr., he became a nationwide sensation. Soon it was being sung in homes, social clubs, and taverns throughout the U.S. When the nation experienced a surge of patriotism on entering World War I in 1917, "You’re a Grand Old Flag" surged with it and became the first song from a musical to sell over a million pieces of sheet music. You're a Grand Old Flag, Wikipedia; You're a Grand Old Flag, Library of Congress; You’re a Grand Old Flag By George M. Cohan, Library of Congress.

You're a Grand Old Flag by Billy Murray (1906) (Original lyrics)

You're a Grand Old Flag by James Cagney from the movie "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (1942)

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Full Lyrics: You're a Grand Old Flag

Sheet Music: You're A Grand Old Flag.pdf

The Zip file of the full lyrics and sheet music (from the Library of Congress): You're a Grand Old Flag.zip

These files are not included in the "All Songs" compilations.

You're No Good (Clint Ballard, Jr., ca. 1963; arr. Linda Ronstade, 1974) (Am & Dm) (P)

You're No Good by Clint Ballard

You're No Good by Dee Dee Warwick (1963)

You're No Good by Betty Everett (1963)

You're No Good by The Swinging Blue Jeans (1964)

You're No Good by Linda Ronstadt (1975)