Beyond the studio · 02
Songs I could hear 100 times
And never get tired of. Eclectic choices from my original favorites and iTunes playlist. I am always a sucker for a great melody.
130 selections · Alphabetical, not ranked. A dash means the original list did not identify the artist.
| Song | Artist |
|---|---|
| Ace of Spades | Motörhead |
| Adagio for Strings | Samuel Barber |
| All by Myself | Eric Carmen |
| All This Love | DeBarge |
| Angel of Mine | Monica |
| Any Day Now | Ronnie Milsap |
| Arthur’s Theme | Christopher Cross |
| As Time Goes By | From Casablanca |
| Automatic | The Pointer Sisters |
| Baloney Again | — |
| Belle | Al Green |
| The Best of Times | Styx |
| The Boys Are Back in Town | Thin Lizzy |
| Bring Him Home | Colm Wilkinson |
| Buffalo River Home | John Hiatt |
| Can’t Take My Eyes Off You | Lauryn Hill |
| The Captain of Her Heart | — |
| The Caves of Altamira | Steely Dan |
| Chain of Love | Kenny Loggins |
| Cherry Bomb | John Mellencamp |
| Christmas Time Is Here | Vince Guaraldi |
| The Circle | Burt Bacharach |
| (They Long to Be) Close to You | McCoy Tyner |
| Cool | Gwen Stefani |
| Day by Day | Rod Stewart |
| December | Collective Soul |
| Different Drum | Stone Poneys |
| Do I Do | Stevie Wonder |
| Don’t Answer Me | Alan Parsons |
| Don’t Cry Out Loud | — |
| Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right | — |
| Down by the Seaside | Led Zeppelin |
| Easy | Commodores |
| Elvis Presley Blues | Gillian Welch |
| Endgame | R.E.M. |
| Eye in the Sky | Alan Parsons |
| Family Affair | Sly and the Family Stone |
| Feel Like Makin’ Love | Roberta Flack |
| Feels Like Rain | John Hiatt |
| Free as a Bird | — |
| Game of Love | Jon Brion |
| Georgia | Boz Scaggs |
| Gimme Just a Little More Time | Chairmen of the Board |
| God Only Knows | Brian Wilson |
| Goodbye Girl | David Gates |
| Goodbye to Romance | Ozzy Osbourne |
| Grandpa (Tell Me ’Bout the Good Old Days) | The Judds |
| Hasbrook Heights | Burt Bacharach |
| Hate It or Love It | 50 Cent |
| Hearts | Marty Balin |
| Heaven Is 10 Zillion Light Years Away | Stevie Wonder |
| He’s So Shy | The Pointer Sisters |
| A House Is Not a Home | McCoy Tyner |
| How ’Bout Them Cowgirls | George Strait |
| I Can Still Make Cheyenne | George Strait |
| I Just Called | Tom Tough |
| I Love You More Today Than Yesterday | — |
| I Miss You | Randy Newman |
| If Hollywood Don’t Need You | Don Williams |
| If Not for You | — |
| If You Want My Love | Cheap Trick |
| In My Life | John Lennon |
| Isn’t It a Pity | George Harrison |
| It Goes Like It Goes | From Norma Rae |
| It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue | — |
| Song | Artist |
|---|---|
| I’ve Been Arrested by You | Rupert Hine |
| James | Billy Joel |
| Joy Inside My Tears | Stevie Wonder |
| Just Friends | Charlie Parker |
| Just to See You Smile | Tim |
| Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door | Guns N’ Roses |
| Lament on the Death of Ockeghem | Josquin des Prez |
| Landed | Ben Folds |
| Lay Lady Lay | — |
| Lead Me to the Cross | — |
| Let My Love Open the Door | Pete Townshend |
| Little Rock | Collin Raye |
| Lotta Love | Nicolette Larson |
| Love Walks In | — |
| Midnight at the Oasis | — |
| Never My Love | The Association |
| The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down | — |
| November Rain | Guns N’ Roses |
| Nuages | Claude Debussy |
| The Old Valley Road | Bruce Hornsby |
| Original Sin | Elton John |
| Overjoyed | Stevie Wonder |
| Overkill (Acoustic) | Colin Hay |
| Papillon | Chaka |
| Pity the Child | Colm Wilkinson |
| Plain Girl | Tom Tough |
| Pure | The Lightning Seeds |
| Radio Ga Ga | Queen |
| The Rain Song | Led Zeppelin |
| Rapper’s Delight | The Sugarhill Gang |
| Revelation (Mother Earth) | Randy Rhoads |
| Run for You | Billboard Contest |
| Saltwater | Julian Lennon |
| Say You’re Wrong | Julian Lennon |
| Send in the Clowns | Frank Sinatra |
| September Song | Willie Nelson |
| September Song | Jeff Lynne |
| Silly Love Songs | Wings |
| Songs of Life | Neil Diamond |
| St. Judy’s Comet | Paul Simon |
| Steppin’ Out | Joe Jackson |
| Studio Musician | Rupert Holmes |
| Suddenly | Billy Ocean |
| Summerfling | k.d. lang |
| Sunny | Bobby Hebb |
| Superwoman / Winter Came Around | Stevie Wonder |
| Sweet Freedom | Michael McDonald |
| Ten Years Gone | Led Zeppelin |
| These Days | Nico |
| They-Say Vision | Res |
| Think of Laura | Christopher Cross |
| Three Wooden Crosses | Randy Travis |
| Tighten Up | Archie Bell and the Drells |
| Time | The Alan Parsons Project |
| Tuesday’s Gone | Lynyrd Skynyrd |
| Violin Concerto | Erich Wolfgang Korngold |
| We’ll Do It All Again | Bleu |
| We’re All Alone | Boz Scaggs |
| What’s Happening Brother | Marvin Gaye |
| Widescreen | Rupert Holmes |
| Wonderful Christmastime | Wings |
| You Are the Sunshine of My Life | — |
| Young Turks | Rod Stewart |
| Your Mother Should Know | The Beatles |
| You’ll Accomp’ny Me | Bob Seger |