Here are the songs that have appeared on this blog. Since I have been posting at least one song a week since 2008, there are now so many that I had to give later decades each a post of their own to stay under the 500-word limit.
* = post has a known broken YouTube link.
- -1400s
- …
- 1700s
- 1741: Handel’s Messiah
- 1758: Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
- 1800s
- 1900s
- 1901: Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto #2
- 1905: Lift Every Voice and Sing
- 1905: Debussy: Clair De Lune
- 1910s
- 1920s
- 1927: Bessie Smith: Backwater Blues
- 1928: Maurice Ravel: Boléro
- 1930s
- 1934: Josephine Baker: Haiti
- 1937: Robert Johnson: Love in Vain
- 1938: Sister Rosetta Tharpe ft Albert Ammons: That’s All
- 1938: Judy Garland: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
- 1938: Billie Holiday: My Man
- 1939: Billie Holiday: Strange Fruit
- 1939: Judy Garland: It Really Was No Miracle
- 1939: Vera Lynn: We’ll Meet Again
- 1940s
- 1941: Lorenzo Barcelata: El Cascabel
- 1943: Duke Ellington: Take the A Train
- 1944: Marian Anderson: Ave Maria (Schubert)
- 1944: Billie Holiday: I’ll Be Seeing You
- 1945: Doris Day: Sentimental Journey
- 1947: Leila Mourad: Ana albi dalili (ليلى مراد – انا قلبي دليلي)
- 1949: Charles Brown: Trouble Blues
- 1949: 1949 in 12 songs
- 1949: Anton Karas: The Third Man Theme
- 1949: Charlie Parker: Summertime
- 1949: Charles Brown: Trouble Blues
- 1949: Jimmy Witherspoon: Ain’t Nobody’s Business (Parts I & II)
- 1950s
- 1951: B.B. King: Three O’Clock Blues
- 1952: Navajo Night Chant
- 1954: Carmen Jones: Dat’s Love *
- 1956: Pat Boone: Tutti Frutti
- 1956: Harry Belafonte: The Banana Boat Song (Day-O)
- 1956: Little Richard: Long Tall Sally
- 1958: Chuck Berry: Johnny B. Goode
- 1958: Nina Simone: Little Girl Blue
- 1958: Nina Simone: My Baby Just Cares for Me
- 1958: Earl Grant: The End
- songs: the 1960s
- songs: the 1970s
- songs: the 1980s
- songs: the 1990s
- songs: the 2000s
- songs: the 2010s
- songs: the 2020s
– Abagond, 2016, 2020.
See also:
- books
- films
- Top R&B songs: 1946 to 2011 – the top-selling R&B song in the US for each year according to Billboard magazine
- Top 30 Brazilian songs of all time – according to Rolling Stone Brasil
- Best song of the year: 1964 to 2019 – the best song for each year according to me.
- In memoriam (those with music videos):
- 2016: In memoriam: David Bowie
- 2016: In memoriam: Natalie Cole
- 2012: In memoriam: Donna Summer
- 2012: In memoriam: Whitney Houston
- 2008: In memoriam: Bo Diddley
- Artists with four or more songs (get a quick idea what my tastes are):
- 8 Sade
- 7 Michael Jackson / Jackson 5
- 7 Beyonce
- 6 Temptations / David Ruffin / Dennis Edwards
- 6 Supremes / Diana Ross
- 5 Erykah Badu
- 5 Nina Simone
- 5 Solange
- 5 Jimi Hendrix
- 5 Alicia Keys
- 5 Prince
- 5 Lauryn Hill
- 5 Mary J. Blige
- 4 Deniece Williams
- 4 Jill Scott
- 4 Kanye West
- 4 Mariah Carey
- 4 Marvin Gaye
- 4 New Edition / Bobby Brown / Bell Biv DeVoe
- 4 U2
- 4 Bruce Springsteen
- Posts from my library – like this post, but for books and authors instead of songs.
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