This is a
list of the what I consider to be the best songs ever created. That
single handed change the shape of music for generations to come. In the
next posts you will start to see what i consider the greatest songs ever
wrote and recorded. These songs are in no particular order. These songs
are from the turn of the 20th century until today. This will be in
parts so look back often for future updates. This post is meant to
stimulate and evoke comment. Maybe you will remember some of your
favorite songs and listen to them again. Maybe you will see new songs
that become your favorite new songs. However, I hope you enjoy this blog
posting and thanks for looking. Long live music!
In
no particular order. Each song is accompanied by it's album cover or if
no album is available single, sheet music or record label picture.
Thanks and enjoy the posts. Feedback is welcomed. However, disagreements
are allowed but please be nice and no foul or lewd language.
201. Warren G. Feat. Nate Dogg - Regulate
Wikipedia:
"Regulate"
is a 1994 song performed by Warren G and Nate Dogg. Released in the
summer of 1994, the track appears on the soundtrack to the film Above
the Rim and later Warren G.'s album Regulate...G Funk Era. The song
reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #8 on the R&B/Hip-Hop
chart. It is considered the breakout single for both artists and makes
heavy use of a four-bar sample of the rhythm of Michael McDonald's song
"I Keep Forgettin' (Every Time You're Near)". Warren Griffin III is also Dr. Dre's step-brother.
4.28.1994     
Wikipedia:
"When
You Say Nothing at All" is a country song written by Paul Overstreet
and Don Schlitz. It is among the best-known hit songs for three
different performers: Keith Whitley, who took it to the top of the
Billboard Hot Country Singles chart on December 24, 1988; Alison Krauss,
whose version became her first solo top-10 country hit in 1995.
Krauss,
already a veteran bluegrass fiddler and vocalist at age 23, recorded
"When You Say Nothing at All" with her group, Union Station, in 1994 for
a tribute album to Whitley. After the song began to receive unsolicited
airplay, BNA Records, the label that had released the album, issued
Krauss' version to radio in January 1995.That version, also featured on
Krauss' compilation Now That I've Found You: A Collection, peaked at No.
3 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart, and a
commercial single reached No. 2 on the same magazine's Hot Country
Singles Sales chart. Its success, as well as that of the album, caught
Krauss by surprise. "It's a freak thing," she told a Los Angeles Times
reporter in March 1995. "It's kinda ticklin' us all. We haven't had
anything really chart before. At all. Isn't it funny though? We don't
know what's goin' on....The office said, 'Hey, it's charting,' and we're
like, 'Huh?'" While Krauss' version was on the charts, Mike Cromwell,
then the production director at WMIL-FM in Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
concocted a duet merging elements of Krauss' version with Whitley's
original hit version. The "duet" garnered national attention, and it
spread from at least Philadelphia to Albuquerque, and has been heard on
radio stations in California as well. It was never officially serviced
to radio and has never been available commercially. Krauss' recording
won the 1995 CMA award for "Single of the Year". The song has been
featured a couple of times in the soap opera The Young and the Restless.
 
7.1965
 
205. Lovin' Spoonful - Daydream
                         
Wikipedia:
"Rocket
88" (originally written as Rocket "88") is a rhythm and blues song that
was first recorded at Sam Phillips' recording studio in Memphis,
Tennessee, on 3 March or 5 March 1951 (accounts differ). It has been
claimed by Phillips and some music critics to be the "first rock and
roll song".
The
original version of the 12-bar blues song was credited to Jackie
Brenston and his Delta Cats, who took the song to number one on the
R&B charts.The band did not actually exist and the song was put
together by Ike Turner and his band in rehearsals at the Riverside Hotel
in Clarksdale, Mississippi, and recorded by Turner's Kings of Rhythm.
Brenston, who was a saxophonist with Turner, also sang the vocal on
"Rocket 88", a hymn of praise to the joys of the Oldsmobile "Rocket 88"
automobile, which had recently been introduced. The song was based on
the 1947 song "Cadillac Boogie" by Jimmy Liggins. It was also preceded
and influenced by Pete Johnson's "Rocket 88 Boogie" Parts 1 and 2, an
instrumental, originally recorded for the Los Angeles-based Swing Time
Records label in 1949.
According to Bill Dahl at Allmusic:
Determining
the first actual rock & roll record is a truly impossible task. But
you can't go too far wrong citing Jackie Brenston's 1951 Chess waxing
of "Rocket 88," a seminal piece of rock's fascinating history with all
the prerequisite elements firmly in place: practically indecipherable
lyrics about cars, booze, and women; Raymond Hill's booting tenor sax,
and a churning, beat-heavy rhythmic bottom.
219. Prince and The Revolution - 1999 (Album Version)
         
225. Quincy Jones - Streetbeater (Theme from the TV sitcom Sanford and Son)
  226. Ray Charles - America, The Beautiful          
Wikipedia:
"It
Was Almost Like a Song" is a song made famous by country music singer
Ronnie Milsap. Released originally during 1977 by him, the song became
one of the greatest successes of his recording career. His
eighth No. 1 song on the Billboard magazine Hot Country Songs chart
during July 1977, "It Was Almost Like a Song" became Milsap's greatest
success to that time of his career. The song also became his first
Billboard Hot 100 chart entry, eventually scoring No. 16. The song also
scored on Billboard's Hot Adult Contemporary Singles chart, where it
maximized at No. 7.
 
Wikipedia:
"Soldier
of Love" is a single from the English recording group Sade. It
premiered worldwide on 8 December 2009, and it was released on iTunes
digitally on 12 January 2010. It is also the band's first new material
in almost ten years, preceding their long awaited sixth studio album of
the same name which was released worldwide on 8 February 2010. The song
was #1 on the Billboard Adult R&B. The song debuted at #58 on the
Billboard Hot 100 becoming the band's highest debut on the chart. It has
peaked at #52, making it the band's highest-peaking single on that
chart since 1992's "No Ordinary Love".The track won the Grammy for Best
R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals at the 53rd Grammy
Awards ceremony.
  
However, "The
Entertainer", a ragtime composition by Scott Joplin, which was lightly
adapted for the 1973 movie by Marvin Hamlisch (and became a top-ten
chart single for Hamlisch, when released as a single from the film's
soundtrack). The film's success encouraged a surge of popularity and
critical acclaim for Joplin's work.
234. Diana Ross & Lionel Richie - Endless Love
 
Wikipedia:
"Iko
Iko" is a much-covered New Orleans song that tells of a parade
collision between two "tribes" of Mardi Gras Indians and the traditional
confrontation. The song, under the original title "Jock-A-Mo", was
written in 1953 by James "Sugar Boy" Crawford in New Orleans. The story
tells of a "spy boy" (i.e. a lookout for one band of Indians)
encountering the "flag boy" or guidon carrier for another "tribe". He
threatens to "set the flag on fire".
Crawford
set phrases chanted by Mardi Gras Indians to music for the song.
Crawford himself states that he has no idea what the words mean, and
that he originally sang the phrase "Chock-a-mo", but the title was
misheard by Chess Records and Checker Records president Leonard Chess,
who misspelled it as "Jock-a-mo" for the record's release.
"Jock-a-mo"
was the original version of the song "Iko Iko" recorded by The Dixie
Cups in 1965. Their version came about by accident. They were in a New
York City studio for a recording session when they began an impromptu
version of "Iko Iko", accompanied only by drumsticks on studio
ashtrays. "We were just clowning around with it during a session
using drumsticks on ashtrays," said Dixie Cup member Barbara Hawkins.
"We didn't realize that Jerry and Mike had the tapes running." Session
producers Leiber and Stoller added bass and drums and released it.
The
Belle Stars' version of "Iko Iko" is used in a trailer for 20th Century
Fox Family Features and in the opening scene of the 1988 film Rain Man.
In 1989, the Belle Stars finally had a big U.S. chart hit, when "Iko
Iko" reached number 14 on the Billboard Top 100 in March, after it was
included on the soundtrack of the film Rain Man, starring Tom Cruise and
Dustin Hoffman. The song had been a favourite of Hoffman's.
   (From the Rock, Rock, Rock film soundtrack) 4.16.1956  
Wikipedia:
Released
in 1974, this album has become one of the most sampled albums in Hip
Hop music with the drum break from Ashley's Roachclip being the basis of
many popular songs of the past twenty years.
238. Cilla Black - You're My World (II Mio Mondo)
Wikipedia:
"You're
My World" is a ballad originally recorded in 1963 as "II Mio Mondo"
("My World") by Umberto Bindi, who co-wrote the Italian-language version
with Gino Paoli. Rendered with English lyrics by Carl Sigman as "You're
My World", the song has reached No. 1 in Australia (twice), Belgium,
Mexico, Netherlands, South Africa and United Kingdom via recordings by
Cilla Black, Daryl Braithwaite, Guys 'n' Dolls and Helen Reddy. (Black's
and Reddy's versions reached the US Top 40 in 1964 and 1977,
respectively.) The song also went to No. 1 in France and Spain via the
respective translations "Ce monde" and "Mi Mundo", both sung by Richard
Anthony.
Although
the original Italian version by composer Umberto Bindi was not a hit,
even in Italy, the song came to the attention of UK record producer
George Martin, who commissioned an English version to be recorded by his
protégée Cilla Black. Black cut the song — translated as "You're My World" "You're
My World" reached #1 in Britain on the chart dated 30 May 1964 and
remained there for a total of four weeks, one week more than Black's
preceding single "Anyone Who Had a Heart". Although Black would return
to the UK Top Ten eight times, "You're My World" would be her final #1. "You're
My World" was the first track by Black to be released in the US, where
the singer was signed to Capitol Records. Peaking at #26 in August 1964,
"You're My World" would become Black's only Top 40 hit in the United
States.
Originally a single only track until it was found on the 1968 release "The Best of Cilla Black"
You're
My World" became a Top 20 hit in the US in 1977 via a remake by Helen
Reddy introduced on her album Ear Candy. You're
My World" was a more melodramatic number than was usually associated
with Reddy for whom the song represented a considerable comeback: its
Billboard Hot 100 peak of #18 in July 1977 (when Cash Box ranked it
#16). "You're My World" would prove to be Reddy's last major
hit. "You're My World" did give Reddy a #1 hit in Mexico, spending six
months in the Top Ten from October 1977 to March 1978.
239. Afrika Bambatta & The Soul Sonic Force - Planet Rock
Wikipedia:
"Planet
Rock" is a 1982 song by Afrika Bambaataa & the Soulsonic Force. The
background and hooks featured Marvella Murray, Yvette Murray, Melissa
Johnson and Sandra Wheeler. Although it was only a minor hit in the
United States, Canada, and UK, it helped change the foundations of
hip-hop and dance music. It is credited with developing the electro
style, building on the work of Kraftwerk and Yellow Magic Orchestra, and
helped pave the way for other genres such as techno, house, and trance.
In November 2004, the "Planet Rock" placed at #237 on Rolling Stone's
list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Planet Rock"
peaked at number four on the soul chart and number forty-eight on the
Hot 100,and went to number three on the dance charts. The main
melody of "Planet Rock" is interpolated from the title track of
Kraftwerk's influential album Trans-Europe Express, while the drum
pattern resembles "Numbers" from the 1981 Kraftwerk album Computer
World, another popular underground club record. The borrowings
eventually resulted in an out-of-court settlement between Kraftwerk and
Tommy Boy Records head Tom Silverman.
Afrika
Bambaataa has acknowledged a debt to Kraftwerk, but has expressed that
their contributions to his aesthetic have been over-emphasized.
Bambaataa stated that "Kraftwerk was one part of a sound," while citing
Yellow Magic Orchestra and Gary Numan as the other major influences on
his work. Yellow Magic Orchestra in particular was the first band to
utilize the Roland TR-808 programmable drum machine in 1980, and they
anticipated the beats and sounds of electro music with "Riot in Lagos"
that same year. The influence of "Planet Rock" can still be heard in
hip-hop sub-genres such G-funk and in the work of producers such as the
Neptunes, which use electro-based sounds in its productions.
240. Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express
Wikipedia:
Trans-Europe
Express" is the title track of Kraftwerk's 1977 album of the same name,
and released as a single at the time.The track is ostensibly about the
Trans Europ Express rail system, with technology and transport both
being common themes in Kraftwerk's ouvre. The track has since found
further influence, both in hip-hop by its interpolation by Afrika
Bambaata (via Arthur Baker) on the seminal "Planet Rock"
241. Beastie Boys - (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party!)
Wikipedia:
The
Beastie Boys are an American hip hop trio from Brooklyn, New York
City.The group consists of Mike D (Michael Diamond) (vocals, drums), MCA
(Adam Yauch) (vocals, bass), and Ad-Rock (Adam Horovitz) (vocals,
guitar). The Beastie Boys began as hardcore punk band in 1979, first
appearing on the compilation cassette New York Thrash before releasing
their first EP, Polly Wog Stew, in 1982. After achieving moderate local
success with the 1983 release of their experimental hip hop 12" Cooky
Puss, they made the transition to hip hop in 1984 and a string of
successful 12" singles followed by their debut album Licensed to Ill in
1986 which received international critical acclaim and commercial
success. As of 2010, they have sold 22 million albums in the United
States and 40 million albums worldwide. They are one of the longest
lived hip hop acts worldwide and continue to enjoy commercial and
critical success in 2011, nearly 25 years after the release of their
debut album. The group has been selected as part of the 2012 induction
class into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, after being eligible since
2007.The band recorded Licensed to Ill in 1986 and released the album at
the end of the year. The album was well-received, and was favorably
reviewed by Rolling Stone magazine with the now-famous headline, "Three
Idiots Create a Masterpiece." Licensed to Ill became the best selling
rap album of the 1980s and the first rap album to go No.1 on the
Billboard album chart, where it stayed for five weeks. It also reached
No.2 on the Urban album charts. It was Def Jam's fastest selling debut
record to date and sold over five million copies. The first single from
the album, "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)", reached No.7
on the Billboard Hot 100, and the video (directed by Ric Menello)
became an MTV staple. The song was later named one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.
242. Bill Conti - Gonna Fly Now (Theme From Rocky)
243. Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin'
244. Boyz II Men - A Song For Mama
245. Brandy - Brokenhearted
1995 US Billboard Hot 100 #9
and also on the Year-end charts US Billboard Hot 100 #77
Wikipedia:
The
idea for a duet version of the album original came up, while Brandy was
on a two-month stint as the opening act on Boyz II Men's national tour
in early 1995. Both artists were on the airplane on the way to another
city, when Morris got his hand's on a copy of Brandy's debut album: "I
was listening to her album on the plane and I was like, 'Yo, we should
do a duet of 'Brokenhearted'," Wanya told MTV News the following year.
"Brokenhearted" [Soulpower Groove Mix] (Brandy & Wanya Morris) is feated on the album below.
246. Bread - If
The
song charted at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 when released as a
single in 1971. The song also spent three weeks at number one on the
Easy Listening chart.
The
Telly Savalas version reached number one on the UK Singles Chart for
two weeks in March 1975 and has the shortest title of any song to reach
number one in the UK. The Telly Savalas version is a speaking track. The
track has the background instrumentation of the song IF with Telly
speaking the words of the song instead of singing them.
247. Patsy Cline - Crazy
Wikipedia: "Crazy" is a ballad composed by Willie Nelson. It has been recorded by several artists, most notably by Patsy Cline. Partly due to the genre-blending nature of the song, it has been covered by dozens of artists in several genres over the years; Nevertheless, the song remains inextricably linked with Cline. Cline's version is #85 on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles #2 U.S. Billboard Easy Listening #2 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 #9 U.K. Singles Chart #14 
248. Patsy Cline - I Fall To Pieces
Wikipedia: "I Fall to Pieces" is a single released by Patsy Cline in 1961, and was featured on her 1961 studio album, Patsy Cline Showcase. "I Fall to Pieces" was Cline's first #1 hit on the Country charts, and her second hit single to cross over onto the Pop charts. It was the first of a string of songs that would be written by Hank Cochran and Harlan Howard (not always collaborating) for Cline."I Fall to Pieces" became one of Cline's most-recognizable hit singles. It has also been classified as a country music standard. U.S. Billboard Hot C&W Sides #1 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 #12 U.S. Billboard Easy Listening #6 
249. Paul Hardcastle - 19
Wikipedia:
"19"
is a song by British musician Paul Hardcastle released as the first
single from his self-titled third studio album Paul Hardcastle (1985).
The song has a strong anti-war message, focussing on America's
involvement in the Vietnam War and the effect it had on the soldiers who
served. The track was notable for early use of sampled and processed
speech, in particular a stutter effect used on the words
"n-n-n-n-nineteen" and "d-d-d-d-destruction". It also includes various
non-speech samples such as crowd noise and a military bugle call. "19"
features sampled narration (by Peter Thomas), interview dialogue ("I
wasn't really sure what was going on") and news reports from Vietnam
Requiem, an ABC television documentary about the post-traumatic stress
disorder suffered by veterans. In 2009, the song placed at 73 on VH1's
100 Greatest One-Hit Wonders of the 80s. Hardcastle was later sued by
ABC for his unauthorized use of samples from the documentary. Nineteen
topped the pop charts in the UK for five weeks, and reached the top
twenty in the US, where it also topped the dance chart. For a while, it
was the top selling single in thirteen countries (helped by the fact
that versions of the song were recorded in French, Spanish, German and
Japanese), and it received the Ivor Novello award for Bestselling Single
Of 1985. The song's English language release came in three different
12" versions ("Extended Version", "Destruction Mix" and "The Final
Story"), each with an alternative cover design.
1985 Austrian Singles Chart #1
Canadian RPM Top Singles #2
German Singles Chart #1
Irish Singles Chart #1
Italian Singles Chart #1
Dutch Top 40 #1
New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart #1
Norwegian Singles Chart #1 1
Swedish Singles Chart #1
Swiss Singles Chart #1
Top 10 Veracruz Stereo Medellin, Colombia #1
UK Singles Chart #1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 #15
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play #1
250. Pavarotti & Friends For Guatemala and Kosovo - We Are The World
(September 21, 1999)
251. Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas?
Adam Clayton (U2)
Phil Collins (Genesis)
Bob Geldof (The Boomtown Rats)
Steve Norman (Spandau Ballet)
Chris Cross (Ultravox)
John Taylor (Duran Duran)
Paul Young
Tony Hadley (Spandau Ballet)
Glenn Gregory (Heaven 17)
Simon Le Bon (Duran Duran)
Simon Crowe (The Boomtown Rats)
Marilyn
Keren Woodward (Bananarama)
Martin Kemp (Spandau Ballet)
Jody Watley (Shalamar)
Bono (U2)
Paul Weller (The Style Council)
James "J.T." Taylor (Kool & the Gang)
George Michael (Wham!)
Midge Ure (Ultravox)
Martyn Ware (Heaven 17)
John Keeble (Spandau Ballet)
Gary Kemp (Spandau Ballet)
Roger Taylor (Duran Duran)
Sara Dallin (Bananarama)
Siobhan Fahey (Bananarama)
Pete Briquette (The Boomtown Rats)
Francis Rossi (Status Quo)
Robert 'Kool' Bell (Kool & the Gang)
Dennis J. T. Thomas (Kool & the Gang)
Andy Taylor (Duran Duran)
Jon Moss (Culture Club)
Sting (The Police)
Rick Parfitt (Status Quo)
Nick Rhodes (Duran Duran)
Johnny Fingers (The Boomtown Rats)
David Bowie
Boy George (Culture Club)
Holly Johnson (Frankie Goes to Hollywood)
Paul McCartney
Stuart Adamson (Big Country)
Bruce Watson (Big Country)
Tony Butler (Big Country)
Mark Brzezicki (Big Country)
Wikipedia:
Do
They Know It's Christmas?" is a song written by Bob Geldof and Midge
Ure in 1984 to raise money for relief of the 1983–1985 famine in
Ethiopia. The original version was produced by Midge Ure and released by
Band Aid on 29 November 1984. The 1984 original became the biggest
selling single in UK Singles Chart history, selling a million copies in
the first week alone. It stayed at Number 1 for five weeks, becoming
Christmas number one, and sold more than 3.5 million copies
domestically.
In
the United States, the video was played on MTV frequently throughout
the holiday season. It sold more than a million copies in the U.S. but
did not reach #1 there, due to the more complex nature of the chart
system, which counted airplay as well as sales. Despite outselling the
official #1 by four to one, it did not make the Top Ten due to a lack of
airplay, ultimately peaking at #13 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Twelve
months later, "Do They Know It's Christmas?" returned to the UK charts,
reaching #3 in the week after Christmas of 1985, with only songs by
Whitney Houston and Shakin' Stevens preventing its return to the top
merely 47 weeks after it had left the #1 spot.
252. Band Aid II - Do They Know It's Christmas
A
new version was recorded under the name of Band Aid II in 1989,
produced by the popular Hit Factory team of Stock, Aitken and Waterman
and featuring a number of the year's most accessible artists, including:
Kylie Minogue
Jason Donovan
Lisa Stansfield
Cliff Richard
Jimmy Somerville
Wet Wet Wet
Bros.
Bananarama
Cathy Dennis
D Mob
Kevin Godley
Glen Goldsmith
The Pasadenas
Chris Rea
Technotronic
Sonia
Sarah Dallin and Keren Woodward the only artists to appear on both versions.
The
lyrics were rearranged for a more traditional "verse and chrorus"
structure, with the opening verse being split in two with a short repeat
of the ending chorus being played at the end of both, followed by the
"here's to you" section and a final lengthened version of the closing
chorus (with commentary by Michael Buerk played over the closing in the
music video).
The
song again reached #1 for Christmas, raising more money and also making
it the final number-one single of the 1980s. It was also the final song
to be played on Top of the Pops in the Eighties.
253. Band Aid 20 - Do They Know It's Christmas?
Keane
Paul McCartney
The Sugababes
Sky(Morcheeba)
Robbie Williams
Dido
Bono(U2)
Jamelia
Justin Hawkins(Darkness)
Chris Martin(Coldplay)
Fran Healy(Travis)
Beverley Knight
Busted
Ms. Dynamite
Danny Goffey(Supergrass)
Katie Melua
Will Young
Natasha Bedingfield
Snow Patrol
Shaznay Lewis
Joss Stone
Daniel Bedingfield
Rachael Stevens
The Thrills
Roisin Murphy(Moloko)
Lemar
Estelle
Neil Hannon(Divine Comedy
Feeder
Dizzee Rascal
Wikipedia:
Band
Aid 20 recorded a third version of the song in November 2004 for the
twentieth anniversary of the original recording, and again got to #1.
The idea was prompted by Coldplay singer Chris Martin, although Geldof
and Ure both got quickly involved. Geldof did the publicity and educated
the younger artists on the issues (some of the artists weren't born
when the original was recorded) while Ure assisted producer Nigel
Godrich and filmed the event for the corresponding dsocumentary.
While
the 1989 and 2004 versions of "Do They Know It's Christmas?" had
notable chart success (despite both being criticized for their very
"pop" oriented sound which lacked the earnestness of the original
recording), the popularity of the 1984 recording has remained unmatched
and the record has seen numerous re-releases in small numbers around
Christmas over the years.
254. The Who - Pinball Wizard
Wikipedia:
"Pinball
Wizard" is a song written by Pete Townshend and performed by the
English rock band The Who, and featured on their 1969 rock opera album
Tommy. The original recording was released as a single in 1969 and
reached No. 4 in the UK charts and No. 19 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.
255. Paul McCartney - Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey
"Uncle
Albert/Admiral Halsey" is a song by Paul and Linda McCartney from the
album Ram. Released in the United States as a single on 2 August 1971,
it reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in September 1971. Paul
McCartney won the Grammy Award for Best Arrangement Accompanying
Vocalists in 1971 for the song. The single was certified Gold by the
Recording Industry Association of America for sales of over one million
copies.
256. Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall Part 2
Australian Singles Chart #1
Austrian Singles Chart #1
Canadian RPM Singles Chart #1
Danish Singles Chart #1
French Singles Chart #1
German Singles Chart #1
Italian Singles Chart #2
Spanish Singles Chart #1
Swedish Singles Chart #1
Swiss Singles Chart #1
UK Singles Chart #1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 #1
257. Young Jezzy Feat. Nas - My President Is Black
Wikipedia:
"My
President" is the fourth official single from rapper Young Jeezy's
third studio album, The Recession. The song also features rapper Nas and
is produced by Tha Bizness. This song was number 16 on Rolling Stone's
list of the 100 Best Songs of 2008.[2] Jeezy and Nas recorded the song
on the day Barack Obama clinched the Democratic nomination for the
Presidency. "My President" also is notable for the unified collaboration
between the two artists, who had been having a feud since the 2006
release of Nas' album "Hip Hop Is Dead", which contained statements to
which Young Jeezy took offense.
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 #53
U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs #45
U.S. Billboard Hot Rap Tracks #13
258. Billy Joel - We Didn't Start The Fire
Wikipedia:
"We
Didn't Start the Fire" is a song by Billy Joel. Its lyrics are made up
from rapid-fire brief allusions to over a hundred headline events
between March 1949 (Joel was born on May 9 of that year) and 1989, when
the song was released on his album Storm Front. The song was a
number-one hit in the US, and has often been parodied since.
The
song and music video have been interpreted as a rebuttal to criticism
of Joel's Baby Boomer generation. The song's title and refrain mention
"the fire", an allusion to conflict and societal turmoil; Joel asserts
that these can't be blamed on his generation alone - "we didn't start
the fire, it was always burning since the world's been turning".
What The Lyrics Mean:
1940s
1949
Harry
Truman is inaugurated as U.S. president after being elected in 1948 to
his own term; previously he was sworn in following the death of Franklin
D. Roosevelt. He authorized the use of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki, Japan during World War II, on August 6 and August 9, 1945,
respectively.
Doris
Day enters the public spotlight with the films My Dream Is Yours and
It's a Great Feeling as well as popular songs like "It's Magic";
divorces her second husband.
Red China as the Communist Party of China wins the Chinese Civil War, establishing the People's Republic of China.
Johnnie Ray signs his first recording contract with Okeh Records, although he would not become popular for another two years.
South Pacific, the prize-winning musical, opens on Broadway on April 7.
Walter Winchell is an aggressive radio and newspaper journalist credited with inventing the gossip column.
Joe DiMaggio and the New York Yankees go to the World Series five times in the 1940s, winning four of them.
1950s
1950
Joe McCarthy, the US Senator, gains national attention and begins his anti-communist crusade with his Lincoln Day speech.
Richard Nixon is first elected to the United States Senate.
Studebaker, a popular car company, begins its financial downfall.
Television is becoming widespread (in black and white format) and becomes the most popular means of advertising.
North Korea and South Korea declare war after Northern forces stream south on June 25.
Marilyn
Monroe soars in popularity with five new movies, including The Asphalt
Jungle and All About Eve, and attempts suicide after the death of friend
Johnny Hyde who asked to marry her several times, but she refused
respectfully . Monroe would later (1954) be married for a brief time to
Joe DiMaggio (mentioned in the previous verse).
1951
The Rosenbergs, Ethel and Julius, were convicted on March 29 for espionage.
H-Bomb is in the middle of its development as a nuclear weapon, announced in early 1950 and first tested in late 1952.
Sugar Ray Robinson, a champion welterweight boxer.
Panmunjom, the border village in Korea, is the location of truce talks between the parties of the Korean War.
Marlon Brando is nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in A Streetcar Named Desire.
The King and I, musical, opens on Broadway on March 29.
The Catcher in the Rye, a controversial novel by J. D. Salinger, is published.
1952
Dwight D. Eisenhower is first elected as U.S. president, winning by a landslide margin of 442 to 89 electoral votes.
The vaccine for polio is privately tested by Jonas Salk.
England's
got a new queen: Queen Elizabeth II succeeds to the throne of the
United Kingdom and the Commonwealth Realms upon the death of George VI
of the United Kingdom and is crowned the next year.
Rocky Marciano defeats Jersey Joe Walcott, becoming the world Heavyweight champion.
Liberace has a popular 1950s television show for his musical entertainment.
Santayana goodbye: George Santayana, philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, dies on September 26.
1953
Joseph Stalin dies on March 5, yielding his position as leader of the Soviet Union.
Georgy
Maksimilianovich Malenkov succeeds Stalin for six months following his
death. Malenkov had presided over Stalin's purges of party "enemies",
but would be spared a similar fate by Nikita Khrushchev mentioned later
in verse.
Gamal Abdel Nasser acts as the true power behind the new Egyptian nation as Muhammad Naguib's minister of the interior.
Sergei Prokofiev, the composer, dies on March 5, the same day as Stalin.
Winthrop
Rockefeller and his wife Barbara are involved in a highly publicized
divorce, culminating in 1954 with a record-breaking $5.5 million
settlement.[9]
Roy
Campanella, an African-American baseball catcher for the Brooklyn
Dodgers, receives the National League's Most Valuable Player award for
the second time.
Communist
bloc is a group of communist nations dominated by the Soviet Union at
this time. Probably a reference to the Uprising of 1953 in East Germany.
1954
Roy Cohn resigns as Joseph McCarthy's chief counsel and enters private practice with the fall of McCarthy.
Juan Perón spends his last full year as President of Argentina before a September 1955 coup.
Arturo
Toscanini is at the height of his fame as a conductor, performing
regularly with the NBC Symphony Orchestra on national radio.
Dacron is an early artificial fiber made from the same plastic as polyester.
Dien
Bien Phu falls. A village in North Vietnam falls to Viet Minh forces
under Vo Nguyen Giap, leading to the creation of North Vietnam and South
Vietnam as separate states.
"Rock
Around the Clock" is a hit single released by Bill Haley & His
Comets in May, spurring worldwide interest in rock and roll music.
1955
Albert Einstein dies on April 18 at the age of 76.
James
Dean achieves success with East of Eden and Rebel Without a Cause, gets
nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor, and dies in a car
accident on September 30 at the age of 24.
Brooklyn's got a winning team: The Brooklyn Dodgers win the World Series for the only time before their move to Los Angeles.
Davy
Crockett is a Disney television series about the legendary frontiersman
of the same name. The show was a huge hit with young boys and inspired a
short-lived "coonskin cap" craze.
Peter
Pan is broadcast on TV live and in color from the 1954 version of the
stage musical starring Mary Martin on March 7. Disney released an
animated version the previous year.
Elvis Presley signs with RCA Records on November 21, beginning his pop career.
Disneyland opens on July 17 as Walt Disney's first theme park.
1956
Brigitte
Bardot appears in her first mainstream film And God Created Woman and
establishes an international reputation as a French "sex kitten".
Budapest is the site of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
Alabama
is the site of the Montgomery Bus Boycott which ultimately led to the
removal of the last race laws in the USA. Rosa Parks and Martin Luther
King, Jr figure prominently.
Nikita Khrushchev makes his famous Secret Speech denouncing Stalin's "cult of personality" on February 23.
Princess Grace Kelly releases her last film, High Society, and marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco.
Peyton
Place, the best-selling novel by Grace Metalious, is published. Though
mild compared to today's prime time, it shocked the reserved values of
the '50s.
Trouble in the Suez: The Suez Crisis boils as Egypt nationalizes the Suez Canal on October 29.
1957
Little
Rock, Arkansas is the site of an anti-integration standoff, as Governor
Orval Faubus stops the Little Rock Nine from attending Little Rock
Central High School and President Dwight D. Eisenhower deploys the 101st
Airborne Division to counteract him.
Boris Pasternak, the Russian author, publishes his famous novel Doctor Zhivago.
Mickey
Mantle is in the middle of his career as a famous New York Yankees
outfielder and American League All-Star for the sixth year in a row.
Jack Kerouac publishes his first novel in seven years, On the Road.
Sputnik becomes the first artificial satellite, launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, marking the start of the space race.
Chou
En-Lai, Premier of the People's Republic of China, survives an
assassination attempt on the charter airliner Kashmir Princess.
Bridge on the River Kwai is released as a film adaptation of the 1954 novel and receives seven Academy Awards.[10]
1958
Lebanon is engulfed in a political and religious crisis that eventually involves U.S. intervention.
Charles de Gaulle is elected first president of the French Fifth Republic following the Algerian Crisis.
California
baseball begins as the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants move to
California and become the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants.
They are the first major league teams west of Kansas City.
Charles
Starkweather homicides capture the attention of Americans, killing
eleven people before he is caught in a massive manhunt in Douglas,
Wyoming.
Children
of Thalidomide: Mothers taking the drug Thalidomide had children born
with congenital birth defects caused by the sleeping aid and antiemetic,
which was also used at times to treat morning sickness.
1959
Buddy
Holly dies in a plane crash on February 3 with Ritchie Valens and The
Big Bopper, in a day that had a devastating impact on the country and
youth culture.
Ben-Hur, a film based around the New Testament starring Charlton Heston, wins eleven Academy Awards.
Space Monkey: Able and Miss Baker return to Earth from space aboard the flight Jupiter AM-18.
Mafia
are the center of attention for the FBI and public attention builds to
this organized crime society with a historically Sicilian-American
origin.
Hula hoops reach 100 million in sales as the latest toy fad.
Fidel
Castro comes to power after a revolution in Cuba and visits the United
States later that year on an unofficial twelve-day tour.
Edsel is a no-go: Production of this car marque ends after only three years due to poor sales.
1960s
1960
U-2:
An American U-2 spy plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers was shot down
over the Soviet Union, causing the U-2 Crisis of 1960.
Syngman
Rhee was rescued by the CIA after being forced to resign as leader of
South Korea for allegedly fixing an election and embezzling more than
twenty million U.S. dollars.
Payola,
illegal payments for radio broadcasting of songs, was publicized due to
Dick Clark's testimony before Congress and Alan Freed's public
disgrace.
John F. Kennedy beats Richard Nixon in the November 8 general election.
Chubby Checker popularizes the dance The Twist with his song of the same name.
Psycho:
An Alfred Hitchcock thriller, based on a pulp novel by Robert Bloch and
adapted by Joseph Stefano, which becomes a landmark in graphic violence
and cinema sensationalism. The screeching violins heard briefly in the
background of the song are a trademark of the film's soundtrack.
Belgians
in the Congo: The Democratic Republic of the Congo was declared
independent of Belgium on June 30, with Joseph Kasavubu as President and
Patrice Lumumba as Prime Minister.
1961
Ernest Hemingway commits suicide on July 2 after a long battle with depression.
Adolf
Eichmann, a "most wanted" Nazi war criminal, is traced to Argentina and
captured by Mossad agents. He is covertly taken to Israel where he is
put on trial for crimes against humanity in Germany during World War II,
convicted, and hanged.
Stranger
in a Strange Land: Written by Robert A. Heinlein, is a breakthrough
best-seller with themes of sexual freedom and liberation.
Bob Dylan: After a New York Times review by critic Robert Shelton, Bob Dylan is signed to Columbia Records.
Berlin:
The Berlin Wall, which forcibly separated West Berlin from East Berlin
and the rest of East Germany, was erected on August 13 to prevent
citizens escaping to the West.
Bay of Pigs Invasion: Failed attempt by United States-trained Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro.
1962
Lawrence
of Arabia: The Academy Award-winning film based on the life of T. E.
Lawrence starring Peter O'Toole premieres in America on December 16.
British
Beatlemania: The Beatles, a British rock group, gain Ringo Starr as
drummer and Brian Epstein as manager, and join the EMI's Parlophone
label. They soon become the world's most famous rock band , with the
word "Beatlemania" adopted by the press for their fans' unprecedented
enthusiasm. It also began the British Invasion in the United States.
Ole' Miss: James Meredith integrates the University of Mississippi
John Glenn: Flew the first American manned orbital mission termed "Friendship 7" on February 20.
Liston
beats Patterson: Sonny Liston and Floyd Patterson fight for the world
heavyweight championship on September 25, ending in a first-round
knockout. This match marked the first time Patterson had ever been
knocked out and one of only eight losses in his 20-year professional
career.
1963
Pope Paul VI: Cardinal Giovanni Montini is elected to the papacy and takes the regnal name of Paul VI.
Malcolm
X makes his infamous statement "The chickens have come home to roost"
about the Kennedy assassination, thus causing the Nation of Islam to
censor him.
British
politician sex: The British Secretary of State for War has a
relationship with a showgirl, and then lies when questioned about it
before the House of Commons. When the truth came out, it led to his own
resignation and undermined the credibility of the Prime Minister.
JFK,
blown away! What else do I have to say?: President John F. Kennedy is
assassinated on November 22 while riding in an open convertible through
Dallas.
1965
Birth
control: In the early 1960s, oral contraceptives, popularly known as
"the pill", first go on the market and are extremely popular. Griswold
v. Connecticut in 1965 challenged a Connecticut law prohibiting
contraceptives. In 1968, Pope Paul VI released a papal encyclical
entitled Humanae Vitae which declared artificial birth control a sin.
Ho
Chi Minh: A Vietnamese communist, who served as President of Vietnam
from 1954–1969. March 2 Operation Rolling Thunder begins bombing of the
Ho Chi Minh Trail supply line from North Vietnam to the Vietcong rebels
in the south. On March 8, the first U.S. combat troops, 3,500 marines,
land in South Vietnam.
1968
Richard Nixon back again: Former Vice President Nixon is elected in the 1968 presidential election of the United States
1969
Moonshot: Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing, successfully lands on the moon.
Woodstock: Famous rock and roll festival of 1969 that came to be the epitome of the counterculture movement.
1970s
1974
Watergate:
Political scandal that began when the Democratic National Committee's
headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, DC was
broken into. After the break-in, word began to spread that President
Richard Nixon (a Republican) may have known about the break-in, and
tried to cover it up. The scandal would ultimately result in the
resignation of President Nixon, and to date, this remains the only time
that anyone has ever resigned the United States Presidency.
Punk rock: The Ramones form, with the Sex Pistols following in 1975, bringing in the punk era.
1977
(Note that these two items, while later chronologically than the two 1976 items, come immediately before them in the song.)
Menachem Begin becomes Prime Minister of Israel in 1977 and negotiates the Camp David Accords with Egypt's president in 1978.
Ronald Reagan: President of the United States from 1981 to 1989; first attempted in 1976 to run for president.
1976
(Note that these two items, while earlier chronologically than the two 1977 items, come immediately after them in the song)
Palestine: a United Nations resolution that calls for an independent Palestinian state and to end the Israeli occupation.
Terror
on the airline: Numerous aircraft hijackings took place, specifically,
the Palestinian hijack of Air France Flight 139 and the subsequent
Operation Entebbe in Uganda.
1979
Ayatollah's
in Iran: During the Iranian Revolution of 1979, the West-backed and
U.S.-installed Shah is overthrown as the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
gains power after years in exile.
Russians in Afghanistan: Following their move into Afghanistan, Soviet forces fight a ten-year war, from 1979 to 1989.
1980s
1983
Wheel of Fortune: A hit television game show which has been TV's highest-rated syndicated program since 1983.
Sally
Ride: In 1983 she becomes the first American woman in space. Dr. Ride's
quip from space "Better than an E-ticket", harkens back to the opening
of Disneyland mentioned earlier, with the E-ticket purchase needed for
the best rides.
Heavy
metal suicide: In the 1980s Ozzy Osbourne and the bands Judas Priest
and Metallica were brought to court by parents who accused the musicians
of hiding subliminal pro-suicide messages in their music.
Foreign debts: Persistent U.S. trade deficits
Homeless
vets: Veterans of the Vietnam War, including many disabled ex-military,
are reported to be left homeless and impoverished, the country unable
to yet handle its failure to succeed.
AIDS:
A collection of symptoms and infections in humans resulting from the
specific damage to the immune system caused by infection with the human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV). It is first detected and recognized in the
1980s, and was on its way to becoming a pandemic.
Crack cocaine use surged in the mid-to-late 1980s.
1984
Bernie
Goetz: On December 22, Mr. Goetz shot four young men who he said were
threatening him on a New York City subway. Goetz was charged with
attempted murder but was acquitted of the charges, though convicted of
carrying an unlicensed gun.
1988
Hypodermics
on the shore: Medical waste was found washed up on beaches in New
Jersey after being illegally dumped at sea. Before this event, waste
dumped in the oceans was an "out of sight, out of mind" affair. This has
been cited as one of the crucial turning points in popular opinion on
environmentalism.
1989
China's
under martial law: On May 20, China declares martial law, enabling them
to use force of arms against protesting students to end the Tiananmen
Square protests.
Rock-and-roller
cola wars, I can't take it anymore!: Soft drink giants Coke and Pepsi
each run marketing campaigns using rock & roll and popular music
stars to reach the young adult demographic.
Of
the 56 individuals mentioned by name in the song, the following nine
are still alive as of January 2012: Queen Elizabeth II, Brigitte Bardot,
Fidel Castro, Chubby Checker, Bob Dylan, John Glenn, Doris Day, Sally
Ride, and Bernhard Goetz.
Johnnie
Ray, Joe DiMaggio, Richard Nixon, Roy Campanella, Mickey Mantle, Floyd
Patterson, Marlon Brando, Menachem Begin, Ronald Reagan and J. D.
Salinger were all alive when the song was released but have died since.
Two individuals, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, are mentioned by name twice in the song.
The
U.S. Presidents in office from 1949 to 1989 not mentioned in the song
are Lyndon Johnson, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and George H. W. Bush.
The
Dodgers are mentioned twice, but only in reference to their homes
rather than by name: "Brooklyn's got a winning team", concerning their
1955 World Series victory, and "California baseball" about the Dodgers'
and Giants' move from New York to California in 1958.
259. Ben Bernie and His Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra - Sweet Georgia Brown
Later
spawned the below hit that was eventually used as the theme to
the exhibition novelty basketball team the Harlem Globetrotters.
260. Bobby Caldwell - Take Me/I'll Follow You
261. Cannon's Jug Stompers - Walk Right In
Spawned the popular version by the rooftop singers
262. Carpenters - (They Long To Be) Close To You
263. Carpenters - Only Yesterday
264. Carpenters - Top Of The World
265. Cat Stevens - Morning Has Broken
266. Nat King Cole - Smile
First vocal version of the composition written by Charlie Chaplin for the film Modern Times
267. Neil & Dara Sedaka - Should've Never Let You Go (Neil and Dara are father and daughter)
268. Natalie Cole and Nat King Cole - Unforgettable (Natalie and Nat are father and daughter)
 Wikipedia: In her autobiography Lady Sings the Blues Holiday indicated an argument with her mother over money led to the song. She indicated that during the argument she said the line "God bless the child that's got his own." The anger over the incident led her to turn that line into a starting point for a song, which she worked out in conjunction with Herzog. references the Bible while indicating that religion seems to have no effect in making people treat each other better. The lyrics refer to an unspecified Biblical verse: "Them that's got shall get, them that don't shall lose, so the Bible says, and it still is news. . . . " This likely refers to Matthew 25:29 or Luke 8:18. 
270. Michael Jackson - Heal The World
271. Michael Jackson - Earth Song
272. Green Day - Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)
 a.k.a. Georgia On My Mind. This is the original version as made popular later by Ray Charles    
277. Dinah Shore - Buttons And Bows
278. Louis Armstrong - West End Blues
279. Bing Crosby - Beautiful Dreamer
280. Martkia - Toy Soilders
281. Carpenters - Sing
282. Marion Harris - It Had To Be You
Recorded March 28, 1924
283. Marvin Gaye - Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology)
  
286. Phil Collins - Another Day In Paradise
287. Earth, Wind & Fire - System of Survival
288. John Mellencamp - Pop Singer
 I do however believe in God but the song does make ya think. Wikipedia: The first verse and closing line are sung by the then eight-year-old Jasmine Veillette, the daughter of a friend of producer Todd Rundgren. In the video a boy lip-syncs her vocals. The lyrics are addressed to God, and vividly describe the range of human suffering, which the narrator attributes to God. The singer concludes every verse with the line "I can't believe in you". Despite the prayer-like quality, the lyrics strongly imply doubt as to the existence of God ("Did you make mankind after we made you?"), omnibenevolence ("The wars you bring, the babes you drown, those lost at sea and never found"), and the value of the Bible as God's word ("Us crazy humans wrote it Still believin' that junk is true / well, I know it ain't and so do you"). In the UK, when the song was originally released as a single many record shops refused to stock the track, fearing a religious backlash. It is ranked #62 on VH1's 100 Greatest One Hit Wonders of the 80s despite never having charted on the Billboard Hot 100 and despite peaking at #37 on the Billboard Album Rock Chart, and the band had larger hits on both charts and the later Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart.  Wikipedia: The song is a pastiche of The Beatles and was produced in a style reminiscent of their late 1960s output. The song was written in 1987, during the week of the 1987 General Election in the UK, in which Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher won her third term in office. The election prompted Roland Orzabal who comes from a working class background to take an interest in politics and socialism, and at the time of its release, he considered this to be the most overtly political song that Tears For Fears had ever recorded. The song's title was inspired by a radio programme that Orzabal had heard at the time about a man who was putting together a collection of traditional English folk songs. One of the more obscure songs was called "The Seeds of Love" which he had learned about from a gardener called Mr. England (reflected in the lyric "Mr England sowing the seeds of love"). The song borrows synthesizer elements of the 1971 piece "Sekoilu Seestyy" by Finnish artist Pekka Pohjola, also sampled by DJ Shadow for his track "Midnight In A Perfect World".   Wikipedia: "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?", also sung as "Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime?", is one of the best-known American songs of the Great Depression. Written in 1931 by lyricist E. Y. "Yip" Harburg and composer Jay Gorney, "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" was part of the 1932 musical New Americana; the melody is based on a Russian lullaby Gorney heard as a child. It became best known, however, through recordings by Bing Crosby and Rudy Vallee. Both versions were released right before Franklin Delano Roosevelt's election to the presidency and both became number one hits on the charts. The Brunswick Crosby recording became the best-selling record of its period, and came to be viewed as an anthem of the shattered dreams of the era.   Wikipedia: The words to "Kyrie" were written by lyricist John Lang who co-wrote the songs on all of Mr. Mister's albums. The music was composed by Richard Page and Steve George while on tour with Adam Ant.
295. The Wailers - Get Up, Stand Up
(Pre Bob Marley & The Wailers feat. Robert Nesta Marley (Bob Marley), Peter Tosh & Neville Livingston (Bunny Wailer)
Wikipedia:
Marley
wrote the song while flying out of Haiti, deeply moved by its poverty
and the lives of Haitians, according his then-girlfriend Esther
Anderson.
  297. Everlast - What It's Like
Wikipedia:
Structurally, the song consists of three verses, a chorus and a
bridge. The last line of the chorus varies in accordance with the
particular situation faced by the character in the preceding verse. Each
character is presented in a sympathetic light as a victim of
circumstance and as being an object of derision. Each verse ends with
the line God forbid you ever had to walk a mile in his/her shoes (in the third verse, "...you ever had to wake up to hear the news") and Cause then you really might know what it's like to,
with the action varying depending on what the character has to do (sing
the blues, have to choose, and have to lose, respectively).
The characters are:
At the end of the music video
for the song, all of the characters (along with other people) are
crowded around a window. Behind the window, an idyllic family is having
an enjoyable dinner, oblivious to the less fortunate who are outside.
298. The Youngbloods - Get Together
Wikipedia:
The song was originally recorded as "Let's Get Together" by The Kingston Trio and released on June 1, 1964, on their album Back in Town.
While it was not released as a single, this version was the first to
bring the song to the attention of the general public. The Kingston Trio
often performed it live.
The song is an appeal for peace and brotherhood, presenting the polarity of love versus fear, and the choice to be made between them. It is best remembered for the impassioned plea in the lines of its refrain, which is repeated several times in succession to bring the song to its conclusion. 
299. Alexander Vertinsky - Dorogoi dlinnoyu (Дорогой длинною - By the Long Road)
Wikipedia:
In
1926 Vertinsky made one of the earliest recordings of the song
"Dorogoi dlinnoyu" ("Дорогой длинною" or "Endless Road"), written by
Boris Fomin (1900–1948) with words by the poet Konstantin Podrevskii,
which, with English lyrics by Gene Raskin, was a major hit for Mary
Hopkin in 1968 as Those Were the Days.
300. Sam Cooke - A Change is Gonna Come
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