In a few cases we inserted the songwriter for the sake of cultural advancement, or changed the occasional lapse (that was Whitney Houston who sang "I'll Always Love You," Carol, not Mariah Carey).
All told the Beatles did very well, as did the Stones, U2, Don McLean, Hank Williams and Willie Nelson, who wrote several of Patsy Cline's biggest hits.
Now on with the show:
John Massoud:
Great article by the way. Of course you do know that this, and who was the best team of all time, is the best way to start an argument, but it's a great and healthy way to spend time, I say.
1. Little T&A Rolling Stones
2. Here, There and Everywhere Beatles
3. Big Ten Inch Record Aerosmith
4. Love Child Supremes
5. Can't Help Falling in Love Elvis Presley
6. Wild Horses Rolling Stones
7. Song for America Kansas
8. If I Can't Have You Yvonne Elliman
9. I Will Beatles
10. Born to Run Bruce Springsteen
Pamela Heywood:
1. The Woman I Am Chaka Khan
This is the amazing title track from her 1992 album, with huge production by Marcus Miller, words and music by Brenda Russell, Dyan Cannon and Chaka Khan.
2. Let's Stay Together Al Green
3. Ain't Nobody Rufus & Chaka Khan
4. I Don't Wanna Fight Tina Turner
5. No Woman, No Cry Bob Marley (live at the Lyceum, London I was
there!)
6. Summer Breeze Isley Brothers
7. Why Can't We Live Together Timmy Thomas (Lasting Peace mix)
8. Joy & Pain Maze featuring Frankie Beverley (live version)
9. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For U2 (live gospel version from
the album "Rattle and Hum," recorded live at Madison Square Garden, September 28th, 1987, with New Voices of Freedom)
10. Sing Our Own Song UB 40
Frederick Alfredo:
1. A Little Help From My
Friends Beatles
2. Smiling Face James Taylor
3. The Way You Look Tonight Tony Bennett
4. Betcha by Golly Wow Prince
5. Faith George Michael
6. Yesterday Beatles)
7. With or Without You U2
8. Suburbia Depeche Mode
9. Do They Know It's Christmas Band Aid
10. American Pie Madonna
Yvonne Beebe:
1. Time Is on My Side Rolling Stones
2. Sitting on the Dock of the Bay Otis Redding
3. Dazed and Confused Led Zeppelin
4. Heard It Through the Grapevine Marvin Gaye
5. Under the Boardwalk
6. To Love Somebody Janis Joplin
7. You've Lost that Loving Feeling Righteous Brothers
8. Tracks of My Tears Smokey Robinson & Miracles
9. River Deep, Mountain High Animals
10. House of the Rising Sun Animals
Richard Sayers:
1. Heroin Velvet Underground
2. Comfortably Numb Pink Floyd
3. White Room Cream
4. Free Bird Lynyrd Skynyrd
5. Won't Get Fooled Again The Who
6. Hey Joe Jimi Hendrix Experience
7. Sympathy for the Devil The Rolling Stones
8. Subterranean Homesick Blues Bob Dylan
9. Kozmic Blues Janis Joplin
10. The Boxer Simon and Garfunkel
Tom Green:
All those who believe in pyscho-kinesis raise my hand.
1. In My Life Beatles (actually you could insert just about any later
Beatles song here such as "Yesterday," "Let It Be," etc.)
2. Crazy Patsy Cline (written by Willie Nelson)
3. Every Breath You Take Sting/Police
4. Satisfaction Rolling Stones
5. Be My Baby Ronnie Spector & Ronettes
6. Stairway to Heaven Led Zeppelin
7. In the Mood Glen Miller
8. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry Hank Williams
9. Born to Run Springsteen
10. The Times They Are a Changin' Bob Dylan
Mike Staunton:
1. American Pie Don McLean
2. Red Rubber Ball Cyrkle (written by Paul Simon)
3. A Day in the Life Beatles
4. Father and Son Cat Stevens
5. Honesty Billy Joel
6. Taxi Harry Chapin
7. Mr. Bojangles Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
8. I Started a Joke Bee Gees
9. Thunder Road Bruce Springsteen
10. Alice's Restaurant Arlo Guthrie
Dennis Harris:
1. Wildest Dreams Moody Blues
2. The Flame Cheap Trick
3. Peggy Sue Buddy Holly
4. Pretty Woman Roy Orbison
5. Dust in the Wind Kansas
6. Barracuda Heart
7. Money Pink Floyd
8. D'yer Maker Led Zeppelin
9. Stop Dragging my Heart Around Stevie Nicks
10. Werewolves of London Warren Zevon
Carol E. Jones:
1. When a Man Loves a Woman Percy Sledge
2. Sweet Dreams Patsy Cline
3. I'll Always Love You Whitney Houston
4. Walking After Midnight Patsy Cline
5. Are You Lonesome Tonight Elvis Presley
6. I Did It My Way Frank Sinatra
7. I'm So Lonesome, I Could Cry Hank Williams
8. I Can't Make You Love Me Bonnie Raitt
9. You've Lost That Loving Feeling Righteous Bros.
10. It's Crying Time Again Ray Charles
Mike Wasylycia:
1. With Or Without You U2
2. Patience Guns 'N Roses
3. Can't Help Falling In Love Elvis Presley
4. Smells Like Teen Spirit Nirvana
5. Revolution Beatles
6. You've Lost That Loving Feeling Righteous Brothers
7. Mysterious Ways U2
8. Man In The Mirror Michael Jackson
9. Paranoid Black Sabbath
10. Sister Awake The Tea Party
G. Perez-Arguello:
1. As Time Goes By Tony Bennett
2. Fascination Nat "King" Cole
3. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes Platters
4. Yesterday Beatles
5. Crying Roy Orbison
6. American Pie Don McLean
7. If I Can Dream Elvis Presley
8. Till There Was You Beatles (written by Lanford Willson, from "The Music Man")
9. Young Girl Union Gap
10. Everyday Buddy Holly
Timothy McKernan:
1. Here Comes the Sun George Harrison
2. Almost Blue Miles Davis
3. I Am a Rock Paul Simon
4. London Calling The Clash)
5. All Along the Watchtower Bob Dylan
6. It Don't Come Easy Ringo
7. Tracks of My Tears Smokey Robinson
8. Oh Boy Buddy Holly
9. Oliver's Army Elvis Costello
10. Age of Aquarius 5th Dimension
Tom McMahon:
1. Like a Rolling Stone Bob Dylan
2. Hellhound on My Trail Robert Johnson
3. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry Hank Williams
4. Solitude Duke Ellington
5. This Land is Your Land Woody Guthrie
6. Shake, Rattle and Roll Charles Calhoun (Joe Turner's recording)
7. Johnny B. Goode Chuck Berry
8. I Am the Walrus Beatles
9. Street Fighting Man Rolling Stones
10. Amazing Grace John Newton
Sasaki McLeod:
1. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
2. What We Did For Love from "A Chorus Line"
3. What a Fool Believes
4. Too Long in the Wind Rita Coolidge
5. Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow Carole King
6. Martin Marvin Gaye
7. Friendly Persuasion Pat Boone
8. Graceland Paul Simon
9. Soulful Strut Grover Washington Jr.
10. You Gotta Be Real 3rd Force
M. G. Goodwin
1. Get Back Lennon/McCartney
2. The Chain Lindsey Buckingham/Mick Fleetwood
3. Aja Donald Fagen/Walter Becker
4. Sleepwalk Santo Farina/John Farina/Ann Farina
5. The Girl from Ipanema (The Lounge Lizard Song) Jobim
6. You Belong to Me Michael McDonald
7. Don't You (Forget About Me) Forsey/Shiff (Simple Minds)
8. Superstitious Stevie Wonder
9. Honky Tonk Women Jagger/Richard
10. Free Falling Tom Petty
"Vince":
1. Smoke gets in Your Eyes
2. Why? Annie Lennox
3. Linger Cranberries
4. Save Me Aimee Mann
5. Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For U2
6. In All the Right Places Lisa Stansfield
7. Time of Your Life Green Day
8. Streets of Philadelphia Bruce Springsteen
9. I Can't Make You Love Me Bonnie Raitt
10. Landslide Fleetwood Mac
Jack Gleason:
1. The Battle Hymn of the Republic
2. In the Mood
3. Little Things Mean a Lot
4. Shanty in Old Shanty Town
5. White Christmas
6. Silent Night
7. Green Door
8. San Antonio Rose
9. Love Me Tender
10. Oh, Johnny
Peter McFadyen:
1. The Celebration of the Lizard Doors
2. Cortez the Killer Neil Young
3. I'm Going Home Ten Years After
4. Tobacco Road Edgar Winter
5. Shine On You Crazy Diamond Pink Floyd
6. Won't You Try/Saturday Afternoon Jefferson Airplane
7. Love Sick Bob Dylan
8. Jam 1 Derek and the Dominos
9. Laurel Canyon Home John Mayall
10. White Wedding Billy Idol
Karl Schatz:
1. "Abbey Road," side 2 (it's one long rock 'n' roll symphony in several movements)
2. Bridge Over Troubled Water Paul Simon
3. Someone to Watch Over Me Gershwin
4. Watching the Detectives Elvis Costello
5. The Weight The Band
6. Fourth of July Aimee Mann
7. Ohio CSNY
8. So Lonely The Police
9. Brian Wilson Barenaked Ladies
10. Ruby Tuesday Rolling Stones
Steven Smith:
Not necessarily in order of importance:
1. Heartbreak Hotel Elvis Presley
2. Rock Around the Clock Bill Haley
3. Your Cheating Heart Hank Williams
4. America the Beautiful
5. Amazing Grace
6. Yesterday Beatles
7. Over the Rainbow
8. If I Fell Beatles
9. Take Five Dave Brubeck
10. Any of Ella Fitzgerald's major hits
John Garwig:
1. China Grove Doobie Brothers
2. If You Leave Me Now Chicago
3. Killin' Time Clint Black
4. Hit Me With Your Best Shot Pat Benatar
5. Boogie Fever The Silvers
6. Start Me Up Rolling Stones
7. Born To Be Wild Three Dog Night
8. Don't Go Breakin' My Heart Elton John/Kiki Dee
9. Signs First National Band
10. Unbreak My Heart Toni Braxton
"Squarebird":
1. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry Hank Williams
2. Pretty Woman Roy Orbison
3. Blue Moon of Kentucky Elvis Presley
4. Memphis, Tennessee Chuck Berry
5. Jungle Fever Charlie Feathers
6. Blue Tattoo Teri Joyce (Marti Brom version)
7. Over and Over Frank Sinatra
8. She Said Hasil Adkins
9. Honky Tonkin' Hank Williams
10 The Wanderer Dion
Erika Eberle:
Ten songs from the Beatles, who are the best band that ever was or will be. And they're not even of my generation!
1. Come Together
2. In My Life
3. Revolution
4. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
5. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
6. I'll Follow the Sun
7. She Came in Through the Bathroom Window
8. Eleanor Rigby
9. I Wanna Hold Your Hand
10. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Barry Wright:
1. Good Vibrations Beach Boys
2. Witchcraft Frank Sinatra
3. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry Hank Williams
4. Christmas Song (Chestnuts...) Mel Torme
5. Bring Him Home (from "Les Miserables")
6. Beat It Michael Jackson
7. Basics of Life 4 Him
8. It Had To Be You Harry Connick, Jr.
9. More Than a Feeling Boston
10. Desperado Eagles
Andrew Louden:
1. Is This Love Bob Marley and the Wailers
2. With or Without You U2
3. Head Over Feet Alanis Morissette
4. You'll See Madonna
5. I Can See Clearly Now Jimmy Cliff
6. Grease Frankie Valli
7. Oh Girl Paul Young
8. Little Red Corvette Prince
9. Off the Wall Michael Jackson
10. Stir It Up Bob Marley and the Wailers
Pipo Valderrey:
1. Hotel California Eagles
2. A Day in the Life Beatles
3. Sultans of Swing Dire Straits
4. Time Pink Floyd
5. Message in a Bottle The Police
6. The Boxer Simon & Garfunkel
7. Highway Star Deep Purple
8. Jealous Guy John Lennon
9. The River Bruce Springsteen
10. Nights in White Satin Moody Blues
Carol Price:
Not in any particular order:
1. Cats in the Cradle Harry Chapin
2. A Time for Us Barbra Streisand
3. Puff, the Magic Dragon Peter, Paul, and Mary
4. My Song Elton John
5. 10,000 Miles Mary Chapin Carpenter
6. Landslide Fleetwood Mac
7. Over the Rainbow Judy Garland
8. Smooth Santana
9. Classical Gas Mason Williams
10. I Can't Make You Love Me Bonnie Raitt
Victoria Hewell:
1. Layla Derek and the Dominoes
2. Anything by the Allman Bros.
3. Suite: Judy Blue Eyes CSNY
4. Gimme Shelter Rolling Stones
5. What's Love Got to Do With It? Tina Turner
6. Piece of My Heart Janis Joplin
7. Cowgirl in the Sand Neil Young
8. Love Shack B-52's
9. Purple Haze Jimi Hendrix
10. Chan Chan Buena Vista Social Club
David Hannes:
1. Rhapsody in Blue George Gershwin
2. God Only Knows Brian Wilson
3. If I Fell Lennnon/McCartney
4. Boys of Summer Don Henley
5. Let's Stay Together Al Green
6. Us and Them Roger Waters
7. All the Way Van Heusen/Cahn
8. Innocent Man Billy Joel
9. American Pie Don McLean
10. Crazy Willie Nelson
Tan Yee Kun:
1. Final Countdown Europe
2. Blowing In the Wind Bob Dylan
3. Unchained Melody Everly Brothers
4. Longer Dan Fogelberg
5. Bitter Sweet Symphony The Verve
6. Any Dream Will Do Lloyd Webber/Rice (from "Joseph and the
Technicolor Dreamcoat")
7. Zombie The Cranberries
8. Eternal Flame Bangles
9. Jailhouse Rock Elvis Presley
10. The Sounds of Silence Simon and Garfunkel
Ichiro Murata:
1. Here Comes the Sun Beatles
2. American Pie Don McLean
3. Like a Rolling Stone Bob Dylan
4. I Can See Clearly Now Johnny Nash
5. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face Roberta Flack
6. If Bread
7. Your Song Elton John
8. I Get Around Beach Boys
9. Hound Dog Elvis Presley
10. I Want to Hold Your Hand Beatles
Steve Cohen:
1. Cherish The Association
2. Pretty Woman Roy Orbison
3. Hang On Sloopy McCoys
4. The Lion Sleeps Tonight
5. Happy Together Turtles
6. Love Potion #9 Leiber/Stoller
7. She Loves You Beatles
8. Bridge Over Troubled Waters Simon & Garfunkel
9. Ride my See-saw Moody Blues
10. Unchained Melody Righteous Brothers
Rich Davidson:
1. Yesterday Beatles
2. Ave Maria Bach
3. Caribbean Blue Enya
4. You Were On My Mind We 5
5. White Bird It's a Beautiful Day
6. Memory Lloyd Webber
7. Eleanor Rigby Beatles
8. Country Roads John Denver
9. Desperado Eagles
10. Feed the Birds (Tuppence a Bag) Rodgers & Hammerstein
Ricardo Lassala:
1. Give Me Some Truth John Lennon
2. Pride (in the name of love) U2
3. Just Like a Woman Bob Dylan
4. Walking on the Moon The Police
5. Pets Porno for Pyros
6. Wild Horses Rolling Stones
7. Scorpiorising Paul Ryan
8. The Perfectionist Saga
9 Surrender Cheap Trick
10. Ashes to Ashes David Bowie
"Mayhew":
1. Jungleland Bruce Springsteen
2. Christmas Song Mel Torme
3. Somewhere Over The Rainbow
4. Fire and Rain James Taylor
5. Rosalita Bruce Springsteen
6. A Better Place to Be Harry Chapin
7. Celebrate Me Home Kenny Loggins
8. Thunder Road Springsteen
9. Born to Run Springsteen
10. Taxi Harry Chapin
Linda A.:
1. Nights in White Satin Moody Blues
2. White Wedding Billy Idol
3. Layla Derek and the Dominoes
4. Smooth Santana
5. Broken Wings Mister Mister
6. Here Comes the Sun Beatles
7. Lay Lady Lay Bob Dylan
8. Long Cool Woman Hollies
9. Billie Jean Michael Jackson
10. Whiter Shade of Pale Procol Harum
Joe Tegreene:
1. A Day in the Life Beatles
2. Satisfaction Stones
3. Like a Rolling Stone Dylan
4. Born to Run Springsteen
5. Respect Aretha
6. What's Goin' On Marvin Gaye
7. Piece of my Heart Janis Joplin
8. Purple Haze Hendrix
9. Rave On Buddy Holly
10. Tutti Frutti Little Richard
James Scott:
1. Pretty Woman Roy Orbison
2. I Did It My Way Sinatra
3. Your Cheatin' Heart H. Williams
4. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes Irene Dunn
(Roberta)
5. Like a Rolling Stone Dylan
6. Satisfaction Rolling Stones
7. Memory Lloyd Webber
8. Evergreen Barbra Streisand (from "A Star Is Born")
9. As Time Goes By from "Casablanca"
10. Lily Marlene Marlene Dietrich
Todd Hallidy:
1. Hey Jude Lennon/McCartney
2. Imagine John Lennon
3. The Boxer Paul Simon
4. I Heard It Through the Grapevine Marvin
Gaye
5. Sing Sing Sing Benny Goodman
6. Maybe I'm Amazed Paul McCartney
7. Summertime George Gershwin/DuBose Heyward
8. Thunder Road Bruce Springsteen
9. God Only Knows Brian Wilson
10. Unchained Melody
Betsy Jones:
This is hard. These are not in order. This list would be different tomorrow.
1. Tangled Up In Blue Bob Dylan
2. Kiss Prince (tied with "Paisley Park")
3. Happy Jagger/Richard
4. Jolene Dolly Parton
5. Passionate Kisses Lucinda Williams
6. I Fall to Pieces Harlan Howard/Hank Cochran
7. Angel From Montgomery John Prine
8. Tennessee Stud Doc Watson version
9. Pretty in Pink Psychedelic Furs
10. Avalon Roxy Music
Bob Turner:
Well, who can pick just 10?
But how about these:
1. A Day in the Life Beatles
2. Like a Rolling Stone Dylan
3. Suspicious Minds Elvis
4. Born to Run Bruce Springsteen
5. Good Vibrations Beach Boys
6. Baba O'Riley The Who
7. Sense of Wonder Van Morrison
8. With or Without You U2
9. Satisfaction Rolling Stones
10. Righteous Bros You've Lost that Lovin' Feeling
Phillip Coory:
1. Little Wing Hendrix
2. A Day in the Life Lennon/McCartney
3. Suite: Judy Blue Eyes Stills
4. Mais Que Nada Jorge Ben
5. Bold as Love Hendrix
6. She's Not There Rod Argent
7. Eight Miles High McGuinn/Crosby/Clark
8. Burning of the Midnight Lamp Hendrix
9. White Room Bruce/Brown
10. Something Harrison
Paul Dion:
1. Stardust
2. Over the Waves
3. Rred River Valley
4. Big Bouquet of Roses
5. Bridge Over Troubled Water
6. Volare
7. Dahil Sa'Iyo (Because of You)
8. Love me Tender
9. El Paso
And who can say that "Rock a Bye Baby" isn't the best song in the world?
Roger Ababon:
1. Imagine John Lennon
2. Yesterday Beatles
3. It's a Good Life Tony Bennett
4. Mack the Knife Bobby Darin
5. La Vie en rose Edith Piaf
6. Man in the Mirror Michael Jackson
7. A Little Help From My Friends Joe Cocker
8. Respect Aretha Franklin
9. Nessun Dorma Luciano Pavarotti
10. New York, New York Liza Minnelli
Garry Butz:
Some songs are great for their lyrics and melody, some for what they mean to a generation, and some for what they mean to me!
1. God Bless the Child Billie Holiday
2. Good Vibrations Beach Boys
3. Faded Love Bob Wills
4. Summer Wind Frank's version
5. Stardust Hoagy Carmichael
7. The Big Hurt Toni Fisher We're not talking baseball here.
8. I Can't Stop Loving You Don Gibson ("They say that time heals a broken
heart, but time's stood still since we've been apart." Gonna be a bad life.)
9. White Cliffs of Dover If you're old and British, you'll understand.
10. Over There George M. Cohan Defined a mission for the first and second generations who fought a global conflict. Written and sung when patriotism was still cool.
Tim Howard:
1. Europa Carlos Santana
2. Wooden Ships Crosby, Stills, & Nash
3. Shine On You Crazy Diamond Pink Floyd
4. Low Spark Of High-Heeled Boys Traffic
5. Wonderful Tonight Eric Clapton
6. In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed The Allman Brothers
7. The Pusher Steppenwolf
8. The Rain Song Led Zeppelin
9. Little Wing Jimi Hendrix
10. Down By the River Neil Young
Mike Enright:
I feel dirty and ashamed. Yet I must still participate...
1. Someone to Watch Over Me George & Ira Gershwin (performed by anyone
except Elton John)
2. The Way You Look Tonight Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields (performed by Fred Astaire)
3. (Don't Fear) The Reaper Donald Roeser (performed, of course, by
Blue Oyster Cult)
4. Your Cheating Heart Williams by Williams
5. Round Midnight Thelonious by Thelonious (most particularly the solo
piano version)
6. He's a Quiet Guy Supposedly by Phil Spector with Poncia/Andreoli Phil
probably had nothing to do with it; performed by Darlene Love on the
B side of "Stumble and Fall"
7. Telstar Joe Meek (performed by the Tornados in Meek's
production)
8. Stroll On Sort of by the Yardbirds (plagiarized from Johnny Burnett and
His Rock and Roll Trio's "Train Kept A-Rollin'"; the Yardbirds' performance in Antonioni's "Blow Up" is the one that changed the course
of human events)
9. Cherry Cherry Coupe Brian Wilson and Roger Christian
10. I'll Be Around Alec Wilder (performed by Sinatra; the one my wife
calls "the stalker song": "I'll be around/no matter how/you treat me now/I'll be around from now on")
Francis Desiderio:
1. Bridges Kevin Lethau
2. Fly Me to the Moon Frank Sinatra
3. Moon River Perry Como
4. All Out of Love Air Supply
5. Daisy Jane America
6. Perhaps Love John Denver
7. The Only One Lionel Ritchie
8. If I Fell Beatles
9. House at Pooh Corner Kenny Loggins
10. Hero Mariah Carey
Amylou3:
1. I've Got You Under My Skin Cole Porter
2. And I Love Her Lennon/McCartney
3. Have I Told You Lately That I Love You? Van Morrison
4. I Can Love You Like That All-4-One
5. Crazy Patsy Cline
6. So Far Away Carly Simon
7. Just the Way You Are Billy Joel
8. They Can't Take That Away From Me
Gershwin
(Amy is working on the last two, we hope)