LIST OF MY FAVORITE SONGS, WITH YOUTUBE LINKS (1-Click “Shopping”), Part 1 (A-D)
Rock, Soul, Blues, Country, Rockabilly, Jazz, Pop, and Classical Genres Featured
16 Tons – Merle Travis
59th Street Bridge Song - Simon & Garfunkel
A Better Man - Clint Black (very Haggardesque – which is a good thing!)
A Pirate Looks at 40 - Jimmy Buffett
A Taste of Honey – Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass
Ah! May The Red Rose Live Always – Suzy Bogguss (written by Stephen Foster)
Ain’t No Brakeman – John Mayall
Air on a G String - J.S. Bach
All I Have To Do Is Dream - Everly Brothers
All My Loving – The Beatles
Already Gone - The Eagles
Always on My Mind - Willie Nelson
Amarillo by Morning - George Strait
Authority Song - John "Cougar" Mellencamp
Baby Please Don’t Go – Dwight Yoakam and Sheryl Crowe
Back Home Again - John Denver
Bad Time – Grand Funk
Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers - ZZ Top
Before the Deluge - Jackson Browne
Begin the Beguine - Artie Shaw (written by Cole Porter)
Big City – Merle Haggard
Big Iron – Kingfish
Blind Eye - Uriah Heep
Blue Sky - The Allman Brothers
Boogie On Reggae Woman - Stevie Wonder
Born on the Wrong Side of Time – Taste (featuring Rory Gallagher)
Born to be Wild – Steppenwolf
Brahm’s Lullaby
Breaker Breaker - the Outlaws
Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison
Can't Buy Me Love - The Beatles
Can't Help Falling in Love With You - Elvis Presley
Candle in the Wind - Elton John
Canon in D (composed by Johannes Pachelbel) - Brooklyn Duo
Canon in D (composed by Johannes Pachelbel) - Laura Lace
Can't Take My Eyes Off of You - Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons
Cathy's Clown - the Everly Brothers
Choo Choo Ch'Boogie - Louis Jordan
City of New Orleans – Arlo Guthrie
Closer to Free – BoDeans
Cold Cold Heart - Hank Williams
Come On, Let's Go - Ritchie Valens
Cotton Fields – CCR (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
Dance Little Jean – Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Dancing in the Dark – Bruce Springsteen
Danny's Song - Loggins & Messina (this was "our song" when my wife was pregnant with our firstborn, Kelvin Caleb Mordecai Shannon, 12/28/1983 – 3/17/2012)
Day of the Eagle - Robin Trower (vocals by James Dewar)
Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) - Woody Guthrie
Desperado - The Eagles
Dollar Got the Blues - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
Don't Cry for Me, Argentina – Madonna
Don't Cry for Me, Argentina - Karen Carpenter
Don't Cry for Me, Argentina - Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Don't Fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult (with just enough cowbell)
Don't Look Back - Boston
Donna – Ritchie Valens
Drift Away - Dobie Gray
Dust in the Wind – Kansas
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I hope you enjoyed this listing and even hopefully discovered something new.
Besides being an inveterate and semi-obsessive compiler of lists, I am also a writer of both fiction and non-.
When writing nonfiction, I use my birth name, B. Clay Shannon
When writing fiction, I use the nom de guerre Blackbird Crow Raven
An example of my fictional work is the Zany Time Travels of Warble McGorkle, which is being serialized here on sub stack. You can find it in its entirety here.