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Songs you can play 100o times

                     "Live, Just Live for Love"  Tony Bennett
"The Canadian Railway Trilogy"  Gordon Lightfoot
"Cherokee" Charlie Barnett
"Save the Country" the Fifth Dimension
"Circle 'Round the Sun"  James Taylor
"Symphony of Strings"
"Emily" and "I Love My Wife"  Frank Sinatra
"A Nightingale Sung in Berkely Square"  Bobby Darrin
Henry Fonda narrating Aaron Copland's Gettysburg Address (Lincoln)
"Stevie Wonder Medley" The Cashion Brothers                   


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Re: Songs you can play 100o times

                     Midnight Train to Georgia - Gladys Knight and the Pips.
Disney Girls - The Beach Boys
I Got it Bad and That Ain't Good - Ella Fitzgerald
Easy Living - Billie Holliday
Do You Know The Way to San Jose - Dionne Warwick
Ain't That A Kick in the Head - Dean Martin
La Vie En Rose- Edith Piaf
A Lovely Way To Spend an Evening- Frank Sinatra
Summer Breeze - Isley Brothers

And... probably some more *goes off to inspect record collection*.                   


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Re: Songs you can play 100o times

                     "Witchcraft" Frank Sinatra
"Superstition" Stevie Wonder
"More" Bobby Darin
"Cry Me a River" Julie London
"His Latest Flame" Elvis Presley
"Peter Gunn" Henry Mancini
"Volare" Dean Martin
"That Ol Black Magic" Louis Prima and Keely Smith and/or Sammy Davis Jr.
"Swamp Fire" Martin Denny
"Voodoo Dreams" Les Baxter
"Taboo" Arthur Lyman or The South Sea Sernaders
"Moon Mist" The Out Islanders
"Oyo Como Va" Santana
"Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White" Perez Prado
"A Taste of Honey" Herb Alpert
"I Put a Spell on You" Screamin' Jay Hawkins
"Since I Fell For You" Lenny Welch
"Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye" the Casinos
"Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me" Mel Carter
"The Best is Yet To Come" Frank Sinatra or Jackie Gleason
"King of the Road" Roger Miller or Dean Martin
"El Paso" Marty Robbins
"Ain't That a Kick in the Head" Dean Martin
"Trouble" Elvis Presley
"Crying" Roy Orbison
"Angel Eyes" Frank Sinatra
"Jump Red Jump" Red Prysock
"Honky Tonk" Bill Doggett
"Pipeline" the Chantays
"Mona Lisa" Nat King Cole
"The Good Life" Tony Bennett
"Stranger on the Shore" Acker Bilk
"Dream Lover" Bobby Darin
"Can't Get Next to You" Temptations
"Ooo Baby Baby" Smokey Robinson
"Let's Get it On" Marvin Gaye
"Be Bop a Lula" Gene Vincent
"Snoke Gets in Your Eyes" The Platters or the Mallet Men
"Sleepwalk" Santo and Johnny or Henry Rene


and about 10,000 more....                   


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Re: Songs you can play 100o times

                     Oh, yea, just after I hit "post", I remembered:

"She's a Lady" Tom Jones
"Boulevard of Broken Dreams" Esquivel, Tony Bennett or The Naughty Ones
and of course my "theme song", "You're My Thrill," Julie London, Dolores Grey or George Auld                   


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Re: Songs you can play 100o times

                     Oh my god, how could I forget Bobby Darin? Beyond the Sea, and I'm Beginning to See the Light. And the theme from Come September.
Also:
Sunny Afternoon - The Kinks
Anything on 'Hunky Dory' - David Bowie
Anything on 'Pet Sounds' - The Beach Boys
Anything on 'Songs For Swingin' Lovers' - Frank Sinatra
Um.... oh dear. There's a song, it's instrumental, and I think it's 60's but I could be wrong that goes *humming* doo doo duh duh duh doo doo duh duh duh doo doo, doo doo doo, dah doo doo dee doo dee doo bee doo doo bee doo... doo bee doo doo bee doo ... DEE DAH DUH DOO dee dah duh doo doo doo dee doo dah dah duh dah doo bee doo bee dooo doo bee doo bee doo doo etc. Anyone recognise it?                   


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Re: Songs you can play 100o times

                     "A Taste of Honey"
Beatles
Temps TCB album
others live or studio all the Temptations versions are good. 
The Beatles record is on the same label that had "Anna" another great cover they did.                   


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Re: Songs you can play 100o times

                     Any version of "Old Cape Cod."                   


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Re: Songs you can play 100o times

                     Bonnie Raitts early recording (for her) of "Since I Fell."  Before she was famous.                   


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Re: Songs you can play 100o times

                     Not an exhaustive list, but a sampling anyway:

Cupid - Sam Cooke
Night Train - James Brown
Waltz Across Texas - Ernest Tubb
Blue Miss Monday - Devics
Border Radio - The Blasters
Red Cadillac and Black Mustache - Bob Luman
I'm Ready - Muddy Waters
Stormy Weather - Billie Holiday
Mama Don't Allow - The Inkspots
Me and my Chaueffer - Memphis Minnie                   


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Re: Songs you can play 100o times

                     "Sing Sing Sing"
"Leapfrog"-Les Brown & his Band of Renown
"Ignition" and "68 (?) Comeback Special"--BSO
"Big Bad VooDoo Daddy"(the album)-BBVD
"I Want You, I Need You, I Love You"-Elvis
"One Night With You"-Elvis
"Black Magic"-Louis Prima & Keely Smith
"Ain't That a Kick in the Head"-Dean Martin
"That's Amore"-Dean Martin
"Loco Gringos Like to Party"-Rev. Horton Heat
"It's Martini Time!"-Rev. Horton Heat
8O um, um, um......*goes into panic attack mode as she tries to remember more w/out the aid of the boyfriend* 8O                   


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Re: Songs you can play 100o times

                     •Sleepwalk - Brian Setzer or Santo and Johnny
•sing sing sing - anybody
•Just about anything Brian Setzer, Tori Amos, Dizzy Gilespie, or Ella Fitzerald.
•Caught in the Act Live- RCR
I know there's more...i'm afraid my brain isn't working...
*giggle*
big_smile
Cori                   


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Re: Songs you can play 100o times

                     "Manhattan Serenade" Tommy Dorsey and Jo Stafford (1942)
"Be Careful, It's My Heart" Tommy Dorsey and Frank Sinatra (1942)
"In the Still of Evening" see above
"Saturday Night Is the Lonliest Night of the Week" Frank Sinatra (1944)
"Dancing in the Dark" Artie Shaw (1941)
"Temptation" Artie Shaw (1940)
"Flyin' Home" Glenn Miller (1944)
"Moonlight on the Ganges" Benny Goodman (1940)
"Stealin' Apples" Benny Goodman (1939)
"I Want a Sunday Kind of Love" Claude Thornhill and Fran Warren (1945)
"Stardust" Charlie Spivak (1944)
"Moonglow" Benny Goodman (1936)
"Non-Stop Flight" Artie Shaw (1938)
"Ridin' High" Benny Goodman (1937)

As with all lists, it's too short and too long at the same time, and subject to change varying with the day, hour, or mood of the compiler.                   


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Re: Songs you can play 100o times

                     Tony Bennet

"Live, Just Live for Life"  (Seize the Day)
"Moonlight in Vermont"
"Tangerine"
"My Chere Amour"

Miles Davis
"The Duke"  with Gil Evans                   


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Re: Songs you can play 100o times

                     
here goes...

"sing sing sing" - louis prima
"it don't mean a thing" - louis armstrong
"sandiego serenade" - tom waits
"shake your lovemaker" - cherry poppin' daddies
"so long toots" - cherry poppin' daddies
"jack's valentine" - over the rhine
"pink lemonade" - jump little children
"underground elite" - jump little children
"baby's makin' duck" - the flying neutrinos
"mobilhomme" -paris combo

and the list goes on and on and on...                   


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Re: Songs you can play 100o times

                     at the moment i can only think of two:

moonlight serenade---Glenn miller

on the outside        ----sheryl crow                   


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Re: Songs you can play 100o times

                     I'm more of an album guy, but here are some songs I've played a thrillion times:

"Be Careful, It's My Heart"- Frank Sinatra (1961 version)
"Yesterdays"- Billie Holiday
"Milestones"- Miles Davis
"Come Rain or Come Shine"- The Four Freshmen
"Greenfields"- The Brothers Four
"Down By the Borderline"- Tim Buckley
"On An Evening In Roma"- Dean Martin
"Style"- Frank, Dean and Bing
"House Is Haunted By the Echo of Your Last Goodbye"- Mel Tormé 
"So What"- Miles Davis
"Round Midnight"- Miles Davis
"Once Upon a Time"- Tony Bennett
"Theme From Papillon"- Soundtrack (Jerry Goldsmith)
"Goodbye Pork Pie Hat"- Charles Mingus
"This Nearly Was Mine"- Bobby Darin
"Charade"- Henry Mancini


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La Vie En Rose- Edith Piaf
This song always makes me think of Sabrina. big_smile

Okay, here's my list of unforgettables:(I'm choosing albums & songs not in order of favorite)

Music for Airports - Brian Eno
Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys
In The City - The Jam
David Bowie - David Bowie
Scary Monsters - David Bowie
The Kids Are Alright - The Who
One Step Beyond, Absolutely,- Madness
African Roots, Foundation Ska - The Skatalites
Revolver, Rubber Soul, Abbey Road - The Beatles
I'm a Man - Bo Diddley
Maybellene, Brown Eyed Handsome Man - Chuck Berry
...will continue in a bit...                   


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Re: Songs you can play 100o times

                     "Darn That Dream"  - Dexter Gordon
"Lush Life" - Johnny Hartman with Coltrane
"Everyday I Have the Blues" - Joe Williams & Basie
"Parker's Blues"  - King Pleasure
"Django"  Modern Jazz Quartet (or Grant Green's version)
"Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" - Mingus Big Band

I can only think of one rock tune that I can't live without...Bowie's "Life on Mars".                   


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                     "Sing Sing Sing" - Benny Goodman
"Swingtime In The Rockies" - Benny Goodman
"Whispering" - Benny Goodman Quartet
"Swing That Music" - Louis Armstrong
"In The Mood" - Glenn Miller
"Moonlight Serenade" - Glenn Miller
"Blues In The Night" - Tommy Dorsey
"Man From Mars" - Artie Shaw
"Take The A Train" - Duke Ellington
"Cotton Club Stomp" - Duke Ellington
"Cotton Tail" - Duke Ellington
"At The Woodchopper's Ball" - Woody Herman
"Jumpin' Jive" - Glenn Miller
"Egyptian Barn Dance" - Raymond Scott
"Flyin' Home" - Lionel Hampton
"Everybody Loves My Baby" - Fats Waller
"Roll 'Em" - Benny Goodman
"Embraceable You" - Tommy Dorsey
"Down By The Ohio" - The Andrews Sisters
"Pistol Packin' Mama" - The Andrews Sisters
"Mairzy Doats" - The Merry Macs
"Night And Day" - Artie Shaw
"Leap Frog" - Les Brown
"Blue Lou" - Chick Webb
(Long isn't it?)
"Moten Swing" - Count Basie
"Jumpin' At The Woodside" - Count Basie
"In A Little Spanish Town" - Glenn Miller
"Drummin' Man" - Gene Krupa
"Stardust" - Glenn Miller
"Madhouse" - Benny Goodman
"Skyliner" - Charlie Barnett
"Harlem Congo" - Chick Webb
"String Of Pearls" - Glenn Miller
"Tuxedo Junction" - Glenn Miller
"I've Got A Gal in Kalamazoo" - Glenn Miller
"Chattanooga Choo Choo" - Glenn Miller
"Indian Summer" - Kay Kyser
"White Christmas" - Bing Crosby
"Christmas Night In Harlem" - Raymond Scott
"Twilight In Turkey" - Raymond Scott
"Reckless Night On Board An Ocean Liner" - Raymond Scott
"Powerhouse" - Raymond Scott
"The Penguin" - Raymod Scott

well, those are the ones I can remember right now.                   


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                     I must be feeling mischievous today...I want to go back and edit everyone's list to include "Xanadu" by Olivia Newton-John.                   


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Oh my god, how could I forget Bobby Darin? Beyond the Sea, and I'm Beginning to See the Light. And the theme from Come September.
Also:  
Sunny Afternoon - The Kinks
Anything on 'Hunky Dory' - David Bowie
Anything on 'Pet Sounds' - The Beach Boys
Anything on 'Songs For Swingin' Lovers' - Frank Sinatra
Um.... oh dear. There's a song, it's instrumental, and I think it's 60's but I could be wrong that goes *humming* doo doo duh duh duh doo doo duh duh duh doo doo, doo doo doo, dah doo doo dee doo dee doo bee doo doo bee doo... doo bee doo doo bee doo ... DEE DAH DUH DOO dee dah duh doo doo doo dee doo dah dah duh dah doo bee doo bee dooo doo bee doo bee doo doo etc. Anyone recognise it?
I think it's a Sam Cooke song.                   


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                     [By the way, this is a great thread...keep it going in the "Welcome" forum!]                   


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Re: Songs you can play 100o times

                     Here's more
"Gentle on My Mind" Glenn Cambell
"You Go to My Head" Earl Bostic
"Ferry Cross the Mercy"  Gerry and the Pacemakers
"Mame" Steve and Eydie
"Promises, Promises" Dionne Warwick
"Only Make Believe" Lester Lanin                   


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"Only Make Believe" Lester Lanin
My grandpa played for the Lester Lanin Orchestra!  You just made me smile.                   


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                     Nature Boy by Nat King Cole! I never tire of that song.                   


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