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     Updated 1 September 1998. URL is http://our.tentativetimes.net/opine/songs.html

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This page is meant to inspire you to make your own songs list.

The Categories

  1. Top 10
  2. Top 20 (second 10)
  3. My A list
  4. My B list
  5. My C List
  6. Favorite Artists with many hits, not necessarily included above

If some song’s naught Scottish to you, it’s still Scottish to me. (Hey Mikey.)

I was feeling sort of crabbity and out of sorts. Bad things had happened to some of my friends.

From a distance I thought I heard a voice call. I listened…. It sounded like Bob Seger singing **someday lady, you’ll accomp’ny me.**

Then I knew I was suffering from a music deficit. I remembered an old file I had made way back in February of 1995 B.I. (Before -{i discovered the} – Internet). It listed many of my favorite albums and singers. When I got the Internet, I could only play CDs on my computer, so I missed all my old favorites, the songs that about make me run off the road when I’m driving. So here they are, brought to you by the magic of bits of bytes, and I will have a ball adding links on this page over the next few months. This page is pure nostalgia.If I am ever an old lady in a nursing home, (perish the thought) and I hear any of these songs, I will be out on the floor dancing before the first chorus. I had thought maybe people would think "ewwwww, I won’t read her stuff any more. I don’t like her music." Then I thought so be it. Let’s rock.

I’m listing the performer I’m familiar with, with the song title. Any details you would like to contribute, I will cheerfully add.

Top Ten

  • Betty Lou, Bob Seger

  • Bow Down, Feel

    (from a Coca-Cola contest compilation record from an Indianapolis Radio Station in the 1980s.)
  • Cadillac Ranch, Bruce Springsteen

  • Feel Like A Number, Bob Seger

  • Get Out Of Denver, Bob Seger

  • Kentucky Avenue, Tom Waits; Tom Waits Digest

  • Second Hand News, Fleetwood Mac

  • Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through, Meat Loaf or Jim Steinman, either one.

    Another major Steinman site.
  • Tired Of Toeing The Line, Rocky Burnette

  • Wild Age, Warren Zevon

Top 20 (second Ten)

  • White Rabbit, Jefferson Airplane

  • Light Of A Clear Blue Morning, Dolly Parton

  • Native North American Child, Buffy Saint Marie

  • People Got To Be Free, Fifth Dimension

  • Rock and Roll Heaven, Righteous Brothers
  • I couldn’t finish this, ’cause there were too many candidates from the A List. I still can’t finish it.

My A List

  • Boulder To Burmingham, Starland Vocal Band

  • Carry Me Carrie, Dr. Hook

  • Cripple Creek, The Band

  • Dancin’ In The Streets, Bowie and Jagger

  • Darlin’ Be Home Soon, Joe Cockerin memory of Heather

  • Downhill Stuff, John Denver

  • Heartache Tonight, Eagles
  • I Need A Lover, John Mellencamp

  • Jersey Girl, Tom Waits

  • Little Willie (won’t go home), Sweet

  • Love’s Been A Little Bit Hard On Me, Juice Newton? 1982

  • Lover Please, Clyde McPhatter

  • Me and Bobby McGee, Janice Joplin

  • Mockingbird, Carly Simon and James Taylor

  • Mony Mony, Billy Idol

  • Night Moves, Bob Seger

  • Pink Cadillac, Bruce Springsteen

  • Proud Mary, Tina Turner

  • Sailing, Christopher Cross

  • Send Lawyers, Guns and Money, Warren Zevon

  • She Talks To Angels, Black Crowes

  • Start Me Up, Rolling Stones

  • Sunshine [Go Away Today], Jonathan Edwards (thanks to Andy for the info)

  • They Call The Wind Mariah which I finally have the words for

  • Talk To You Later, Tubes

  • Time For Me To Fly, REO Speedwagon

  • Truckin’, Grateful Dead

  • Werewolves of London, Warren Zevon

  • Wild Wild West, Escape Club

  • Willie And The Hand Jive, ______ (1950’s?)

  • Willie and the Poor Boys, Creedence Clearwater Revival, award winning site

  • You Can’t Always Get What You Want, Bette Midler

  • You Give Love a Bad Name, Bon Jovi

My B List

  • Arizona, Mark Lindsay

  • Authority Song, John Mellencamp

  • Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, Bette Middler

  • California Dreaming, Mamas and the Papas

  • City of New Orleans, Arlo Guthrie

    written by Steve Goodman of Chicago, a folk singer who died in 1984. Thanks to Richard Biever rbiever@indremcs.orgof the Sons of Dylan organization. (No website yet.) I had thought it was Bob Dylan’s song.
  • Cool Change, Little River Band 1979-80

  • Delta Lady, Joe Cocker

    Heather, we miss you.
  • Don’t Try Suicide, Queen

  • Dont Worry, Be Happy, Bobby McFerrin

  • Every Rose Has Its Thorn, Poison

  • Feelin’ Satisfied, Boston

  • Free Will, Rush

  • Hand To Hold On To, John Mellencamp

  • Heard You’re Getting Married, Fifth Dimension

  • Hurts So Good, John Mellencamp

  • I Hear You Knocking, Smiley Lewis 1955 R & B; Dave Edmunds 1971

  • Jet Airliner, Steve Miller Band

  • Lean On Me, Bill Withers (?)

  • Life Is A Rock (But The Radio Rolled Me) , Reunion 1974

  • Little Old Lady From Pasadena, Jan and Dean

  • Loves Me Like A Rock, Paul Simon

  • Low Rider, War

  • Marie LaVeau, Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs

  • Midnight Blue, Lou Graham

  • Midnight Man, Cdr. Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen

  • Mississippi Queen, Mountain

  • Mixed Emotions, Rolling Stones

  • Oh! Jesse, Dr. Hook

  • Ohio, CSN&Y;

  • One More Time Around Rosie, Manhattan Transfer

  • Peaceful Easy Feeling, Eagles 1973

  • Quarter To Three, U.S. Bonds

  • Rock Island Line, Lonnie Donegan and his Skiffle Group

  • Rough Boys (Fight In The Streets), Peter Townsend

  • Running On Empty, Jackson Brown

  • Seven Bridges Road, Eagles

  • Sister Golden Hair, America

  • Soul and Inspiration (You’re My), Righteous Brothers

  • South Street, The Orlons (It’s a long story, why I like it…)

  • St. Croix Saturday Night, Starland Vocal Band

  • St. Elmo’s Fire (Man In Motion), John Parr

  • Stealin’ At The 7-11, Cdr. Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen

  • Take It To The Limit, Eagles 1976

  • Talk Dirty To Me, Poison

  • We Built This City, Starship

  • Wedding Bell Blues, Fifth Dimension

My C List

  • Barbara Ann, Beach Boys studio cut with Dean Torrence
  • Black Boys/ White Boys, cast of Hair

  • Centerfield, Creedence Clearwater Revival, award winning site

  • Crimson and Clover, Tommy James and the Shondells
  • Desperado, Linda Ronstadt

  • Devil in a Blue Dress, Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels
  • Feeling Alright, Joe Cocker

  • Get a Job, Silhouettes 1958

  • Got My Mojo Working, _________
  • Halls of Shambala, Three Dog Night

  • Heaven is a Place On Earth, Belinda Carlisle
  • I Got Hair, cast of Hair

  • I Will Choose Free Will, Rush

  • Juke Box Hero, Foreigner

  • Leaving On A Jet Plane, Starland Vocal Band

  • Life In The Fast Lane, Eagles

  • The Load Out (and Stay), Jackson Brown

  • Mountain Of Love, Harold Dorman (1960)

  • Nightbird, Patti LaBelle

  • Nothing Ever Goes As Planned, _____ (is title Mother Nature’s Blues???)

  • Palisades Park, Freddy Cannon(sp?)

  • Party Town, Glen Frye

  • Personality, Lloyd Price

  • Playin’ In A Travelin’ Band, Creedence Clearwater Revival, award winning site

  • Poison Ivy, The Coasters   Carl Gardners’s own page!! Don’t miss it.

  • Professor Longhair, David Clayton Thomas

  • Roll Over Beethoven, Chuck Berry

  • She’s Not There, Zombies

  • Sidewalk Surfing, Jan and Dean

  • Stone Soul Picnic, Fifth Dimension

  • Tallahassee Lassie, maybe this was Freddy Cannon?
  • Teenage Wasteland, (actually named, said Ashley, Baba O’Reiley,) The Who

  • Time of the Season, Zombies

  • We’re An American Band, Grand Funk Railroad

  • White Punks On Dope, the Tubes

  • Whiter Shade Of Pale, Procol Harum

  • Why Do Fools Fall In Love, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers

  • Wild Thing, Troggs

  • You Can’t Sit Down, the Dovells, 1963

Favorite Artists

Little Richard

  • Good Golly Miss Molly 1958

  • Jenny Jenny 1957

  • Keep A Knockin’ 1957

  • Long Tall Sally 1956

  • Rip It Up 1956

  • Slippin’ And Slidin’ 1956

  • Tutti Frutti 1956

Elton John

  • Bitch Is Back

  • Daniel
  • Don’t Go Breakin’ My Heart

  • Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me

  • Goodbye Norma Jean
  • Part Time Love

  • Philadelphia Freedom

  • Rocket Man

  • Sad Songs Say So Much

  • Tiny Dancer

REO Speedwagon

  • Don’t Let Him Go

  • Take It On The Run

  • Keep The Fire Burnin’

Rolling Stones

  • It’s Only Rock and Roll

  • Brown Sugar

Sparks, including "Cool Places"

And **Stevie Nicks** Imperial Hotel, Talk To Me, Leather and Lace, etc.

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And then the list just stopped. I don’t see any changes I’d make, now that 25 months have passed, in March ’97.. Oh, I’d add in Graceland and Hootie, Three Blue Teardrops, and some contemporary songs, but I still like my old list.

And absolutely I’d add Letta Mbulu doing Sacred Drum and Music Man (not the Broadway show Music Man.) And **Stevie Nicks** Imperial Hotel, to the second Top Ten.

And Jimmy Buffett’s whole album of Son of a Son of a Sailor

And The Proclaimer’s I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)

Please get inspired to make your own song list! Rock on.

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Links Out

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I’m Sandra Weinhardt and I wrote this from my heart.

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