(Finished January 30th, 2020) The Best of Burt Bacharach

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These are the best written songs by Burt Bacharach, this came from my search for the best cover songs ever made. Everyone of these songs have a co-writer. Some of the co-writers include Hal David, Mack David, Christopher Cross and Carole Bayer Sager.

1) Michael McDonald and Patti Labelle "On My Own":

2) Dionne Warwick, Elton John, Stevie Wonder and Gladys Knight "That's What Friends Are For":

3) Neil Diamond "Heartlight":

4) "Arthur's Theme (The Best You Can Do)":

5) B.J. Thomas "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head":

6) Dionne Warwick "Do You Know The Way To San Jose":

7) The Fifth Dimension "One Less Bell To Answer":

8) Dionne Warwick "I Say A Little Prayer":

9) Tom Jones "What's New Pussycat":

10) Jackie DeShannon "What The World Needs Now":

11) Naked Eyes "There's Always Something There To Remind Me":

12) Dionne Warwick "Walk On By":

13) The Carpenters "They Long To Be Close To You":

14) "Don't Make Me Over":

15) "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance":

16) Marty Robbins "The Story Of My Life":

17) The Drifters "Please Stay";

18) Gene McDaniels "Tower of Strength":

19) Shirelles "Baby It's You":

20) Dusty Springfield "The Look of Love":

21) Tevin Campbell "Don't Say Goodbye Girl":

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(Updated January 31st, 2021) Selected Best Cover Songs of All-Time: H-K, Songs 34-50

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An interesting twist on Lady Gaga's original, but not as good as her version.

Halestorm 34) "Bad Romance":

From the amazing Soundgarden, easily one of the coolest rock band names ever.
Halestorm 35) "Fell On Black Days":

Originated and perfected by the Righteous Brothers and decently covered by
36) Hall and Oates "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling":

37) M.C. Hammer "Have You Seen Her":

From the pen of Bob Dylan, this is Jimi Hendrix's fantastic 38) "All Along The Watchtower":

Obviously the Fleetwood Mac classic, but these ladies equal the original. Both versions are absolutely amazing. 39) The Highwomen "The Chain":

40) The Honeydrippers "The Sea of Love":

From the "Chess" Original Broadway Soundtrack. 41) Whitney and Cissy Houston "I Know Him So Well":

"The Greatest Love Of All" was originally performed by George Benson, this is 42) Whitney Houston's amazing version: 

Jody Reynolds wrote and sang this song in 1956. 43) Billy Idol "Endless Sleep":

Tommy James and the Shondells first sang this song. 44) Billy Idol "Mony, Mony":

The Marshall Tucker Band first sang this song. 45) Waylon Jennings "Can't You See":

Another original song from Tommy James and the Shondells. 46) Joan Jett and the Blackhearts 

"Crimson and Clover":

Roger Miller first sang this song. 47) Janis Joplin "Me and Bobby McGee":

This song was originated by Tears For Fears. 48) Gary Jules "Mad World":

Jasmine Thompson's amazing cover of the Tears For Fears classic:

First it was Dio, then it was 49) Killswitch Engage "Holy Diver":

Bananarama covered Shocking Blue's "Venus", later 50) Kari Kimmel covered Bananarama's "Cruel Summer":

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(Finished January 29th, 2020) Selected Best Cover Songs of All-Time: C-G, Songs 19-33

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The Clash covered the song that the Bobby Fuller Four popularized.
19) The Clash "I Fought The Law":

This song was on The Beatles "Sargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and sung by Ringo Starr. 20) Joe Cocker "With A Little Help From My Friends":



From the musical "A Little Night Music" and one of the first singers of this song was the great Frank Sinatra. 21) Judy Collins "Send In The Clowns":

This classic song was written by Nick Lowe and first recorded by Brinsley Schwartz.
22) Elvis Costello "What's So Funny About Peace, Love and Understanding":

Joni Mitchell first recorded this song followed by CSNY, both in 1970. 23) Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young "Woodstock":

This song was recorded by six different musicians in 1940 before Fats Domino made it his own in 1956. 24) Fats Domino "Blueberry Hill":

It's hard to believe that the Queen of Soul wasn't the first person to sing this song, because when she sang the song she took over ownership of it. 25) Aretha Franklin "Respect":

Roberta Flack brought this song to fame, both mentioned versions of this song are very good. 

This live video actually features Roberta Flack, that's pretty cool. Can I just say I love Lauryn Hill, she's so amazing. It's a shame she hasn't released more songs. 26) Fugees "Killing Me Softly":

27) Ghost "It's A Sin":

This song was first made famous by the one and only Elvis Presley.
28) Grannis, Kina "Can't Help Falling In Love":

29) Obviously a cover of one of the best songs of the greatest rock band of all-time, do I even need to say their name? "Great White "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You";

Originally performed by the Ian Hunter Band. 30) Great White "Once Bitten, Twice Shy":

In my opinion this is the best version of this song by anyone who has sang it ever.

31) Greta Van Fleet "A Change Is Gonna Come":

32) Guns N' Roses "Live and Let Die":

33) Guns N' Roses "Knockin' On Heaven's Door":

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(Finished January 28th, 2020) Selected Best Cover Songs of All-Time: A-C

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I'm leaving room to add songs to these blogs as I think of more songs.

All three of these amazing covers are by Adele:

Bonnie Raitt's amazing version was our first introduction to this song. Both of these ladies were born to sing this song. 1) Adele "I Can't Make You Love Me":

This song originates with The Steel Drivers. 2) "If It Hadn't Been For Love":

This song comes from the pen of Bob Dylan and was first commercially released by Billy Joel.

3) "Make You Feel My Love":

The original was by The King of Pop, Michael Jackson. 4) Alien Ant Farm "Smooth Criminal":

The original song was by Prince. 5) Art of Noise featuring Tom Jones "Kiss":

Both versions of this song are amazing, the original is by Don Henley. 

6) Ataris "Boys of Summer":

From the Bangles originally. 7) Atomic Kitten "Eternal Flame":

Simon & Garfunkel had many amazing songs, but their version of this song isn't so good.

The only bad thing about this song is that it's not longer. 8) Bangles "Hazy Shade of Winter":

Shocking Blue originated this song, this version is so much better. 9) Bananarama "Venus":

The original song was by The Isley Brothers. 10) Beatles "Twist and Shout":

Otis Redding sang the original version of this classic. 11) The Black Crowes "Hard To Handle":

The Spencer Davis Band first performed this song with amazing vocals by Steve Winwood.
12) The Blues Brothers "Gimme Some Lovin'":



From the great Muddy Waters. 13) Tyler Bryant and the Shakedown "Got My Mojo Working":



Although not quite as good as Nine Inch Nail's classic original, this is still a pretty good version. Buckcherry's singer sounds a bit like Trent Reznor. 14) Buckcherry "Head Like A Hole":

Jimmy Webb wrote and delivered an incomplete version of this song.

15) Glen Campbell "Wichita Lineman":

Prince wrote and performed the best version of this song, but this definitely is the best version of this song. 16) Chaka Kahn "I Feel For You":

Cher covered her own song, 21 years after she originally released it. I prefer the rock version much more. 17) Cher "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)":

Essentially covering his own song, from when he was with Derek and the Dominoes, when this song was first released. I prefer this slowed down version though. 18) Eric Clapton "Layla":

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(Updated January 26th, 2020) The Best Songs 2010-2019 Part 13: Songs 245-260

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This started out as the best mellow of the decade just ending and then it started to expand into the best songs of 2010-2019. These songs are in no particular order. And I've expanded way beyond the best mellow songs to the best songs of 2010-2019. I was trying to resist going with the best songs from 2010-2019. However I've given up on that, now it's just the best songs.

As these blogs continue on I'm going to try and diversify the genres in each one of these blogs.

They have a new CD coming out in 2020. All of these songs are by AWOLNATION:

245) "Some Kind of Joke":

246) "Burn It Down":

247) "Guilty Filthy Soul":

248) "Kill Your Heroes":

249) "Not Your Fault":

250) "Run":

228,000 YouTube views for a fan made video, that's respectable. 251) "Jailbreak":

All of these songs are by Skillet:

252) "Lions":

253) "Out of Hell":

254) "Undefeated":

255) "Rise":

256) "Sick Of It":

257) Monster Truck "Witch":

258) Monster Truck "Things Get Better":

259) Monster Truck "Don't Tell Me How":

260) Foxy Shazam "Streets":

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(Finished February 12th, 2020) The Light and Dark Songs of Amazing Musicians, Part 4

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This blog was inspired by a previous blog about joyful songs. Along with Roxette's "Joyride". I also wanted to add "It Must Have Been Love", but I just couldn't justify it. So I thought that I could post both the joyful and darker songs by the same musician. I'm starting with the previously mentioned Roxette, but a different joyful song.

48,022 YouTube views, that number seems low. 57) Debbie Gibson "Out of the Blue":



10,215,517 YouTube views, which seems about what I expected. 58) Debbie Gibson "Foolish Beat":

10,892 YouTube views. That number seems low for such a great song. However this isn't the original video for this song, so perhaps that low view count isn't so surprising?
59) Jackson Browne "Somebody's Baby":

117,153 YouTube views, seems about the right number. This song couldn't be any more relevant than when it was first released. 60) Jackson Browne "Lives In The Balance":

168,018 YouTube page views. 61) Gordon Lightfoot "Beautiful":

2,958,599 YouTube views. This is such a great song, but such a sad tragedy.
62) Gordon Lightfoot "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald":

2,482,799 YouTube videos, I'm guessing this will have a lot more views than the other Sarah song. 63) Sarah Brightman "Phantom of the Opera":

109,386 YouTube views, no shock not as many views as the above song. About two weeks later this song now has 112, 881 YouTube views. She has such a pretty fantastic voice.
64) Sarah Brightman "Eden":

Only 6,890 YouTube views. 65) Michael Crawford "And The Money Kept Rolling In":

15,529 YouTube views. 66) Michael Crawford "What A Strange Way To Save The World":



159,540,022 YouTube views. 67) AC/DC "You Shook Me All Night Long":

5,119,398 YouTube views. 68) AC/DC "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap":



345,295 YouTube views. 69) Metallica "Atlas Rise":



2,603,584 YouTube views. 70) Metallica "The Unforgiven":



112,569,649 YouTube views. I read recently that Tyler doesn't like to sing this song. This is one of Aerosmith's Top 10 best songs easily. 71) Aerosmith "Angel":



58 million YouTube views. 72) Aerosmith "Livin' On The Edge":



204 million YouTube views. 73) Alicia Keys "If I Ain't Got You":



511,394 YouTube views. This is such a great song! 74) Alicia Keys "Samsonite Man":

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(Updated January 24th, 2020) The Random Song Blog Generator: The Obscure Songs

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These are some of the best and famous songs that have been percolating in my head or songs I've been reminded of lately. These are songs that are great, but a bit more obscure. Honestly I'm not sure why any of these songs are obscure, they all should be much more well known.

"Barbie Girl" wasn't their only great song. 1) Aqua "Lollipop (Candyman)":

You might know "St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion)", but you may not know this more obscure song. 

2) John Parr "Naughty, Naughty":

If you know any songs by the great rock band Sugarcult you probably know their song "Los Angeles". That's just one of their many great songs, this is another great song 3) "Riot":

If you know any songs by these dudes, then you have been digging deep in music.
4) Gratitude "Sadie":

5) Hollywood Undead "Usual Suspects":

6) Goldfinger "Mabel":

You may know "Peak A Boo" or "Kiss Them For Me", but this is another one of their great songs.
7) Siouxsie and the Banshees "Tearing Apart":

8) Black Stone Cherry "Blame It On The Boom Boom":

9) Redlight King "Bullet In My Hand":

10) Cobra Starship "Pete Wentz Is The Only Reason We're Famous":

11) Throw Me The Statute "Ancestors":

12) "Save The Last Dance For Me":

13) Tenacious D "Tribute":

14) Mary Hopkins "Those Were The Days":

15) Stephen Kellog "The 4th of July":

16) "Disco Ghetto":

17) "Miss April":

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(Finished January 22nd, 2020) The Random Song Blog Generator: The Hits

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These are some of the best and famous songs that have been percolating in my head or songs I've been reminded of lately. Potentially my next blog will be songs that are great, but a more obscure.

1) Madonna "Vogue":

2) Echosmith "Cool Kids":

My favorite song from the last several months. 3) Little Big Town "Sugar Coat":

I hope it's true that Rihanna will actually have new music out in 2020. 

4) Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris "We Found Love";

5) Train "Drive By":

6) Brothers Osbourne "It Ain't My Fault":

7) Bon Jovi and Jennifer Nettles "You Can't Go Home":

8) Rush "Subdivisions":

The last several days I've been reveling in the amazing music of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Phantom of the Opera". 9) Emmy Rossum "Think Of Me":

10) Sarah Brightman and Michael Crawford "The Phantom of The Opera":

11) Emmy Rossum "Angel of Music":

12) Jackson Browne "Somebody's Baby":

13) Boys 2 Men "Motownphilly":

14) Madonna "Express Yourself":



15) Metallica "Nothing Else Matters":



"There is a house in New Orleans..." 16) The Animals "The House Of The Rising Sun":



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(Started January 21st, 2020) The Light and Dark Songs of Amazing Musicians, Part 3

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37) Sufjan Stevens "Jacksonville":

One of my all-time favorite songs. 38) Sufjan Stevens "Casimir Pulaski Day":

39) Dua Lipa "Blow Your Mind (Mwah)":

40) Dua Lipa "IDGAF":

41) Fleetwood Mac "You Make Loving Fun":

42) Fleetwood Mac "The Chain":

43) Tears For Fears "Advice For The Young At Heart":

This is back when they were really really young. 44) Tears For Fears "Pale Shelter":

45) Little Big Town "Boondocks":

Thanks to Youtube for introducing me to this amazing song. 46) Little Big Town "Sugarcoat":

47) Donna Summer "On The Radio":

48) Donna Summer "MacArthur Park":

49) Madonna "Like A Virgin":

50) Madonna "The Power of Goodbye":

51) Madonna "Celebration":

52) Madonna "Live To Tell":

53) Def Leppard "Heaven Is":

54) Def Leppard "Gods of War":

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(Finished January 20th, 2020) The 49ers On Their Way To Super Bowl 54 Playlist, Part 1

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Following a convincing win over the Green Bay Packers in the NFC Championship the 49ers are now moving on to Miami for Super Bowl 54.

Here's a playlist honoring the 49ers as they're on their way to their sixth Super Bowl title and their first Super Bowl title since 1995.

R.I. P. Whitney!! 1) Whitney Houston "One Moment In Time":

I know that Patrick Mahomes is the real deal, but so is the 49ers defense. The Chiefs don't want any part of that rock defense. 2) Queen "We Will Rock You/We Are The Champions":

This is what I'll be doing following the Super Bowl!! 3) Kool and the Gang "Celebration":

4) Calvin Harris "Blame":

5) Calvin Harris featuring Firebeats "It Was You":

"I gotta feeling that it's going to be a good night" on February 2nd. Yup. 6) Black Eyed Peas "I Gotta A Feeling":

7) Bill Conti Theme From Rocky "Gonna Fly Now":

After getting very little respect for the season, it will be fun to have this song title in my head following the 49ers big win in the 54th Super Bowl. 8) Tina Turner "Simply The Best":

9) Corey Hart "Never Surrender":

10) U2 "Beautiful Day":

11) Vangelis "Chariots of Fire":

12) Winning "Santana":

13) Black Eyed Peas "Let's Get It Started":

This could be a name for that 49ers defense. 14) The Commodores "Brick House":

15) Rednex "Cotton Eye Joe":

16) Rihanna "Don't Stop The Music":

17) C+C Music Factory "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)":

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(Finished January 20th, 2020) The Light and Dark Songs of Amazing Musicians, Part 2

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This blog was inspired by a previous blog about joyful songs. Along with Roxette's "Joyride". I also wanted to add "It Must Have Been Love", but I just couldn't justify it. So I thought that I could post both the joyful and darker songs by the same musician. I'm starting with the previously mentioned Roxette, but a different joyful song.

19) Belinda Carlisle "I Get Weak":

20) Belinda Carlisle "Circle In The Sand":

21) Black Eyed Peas "Let's Get It Started":

22) Black Eyed Peas "Don't Phunk With My Heart":



23) C+C Music Factory "Here We Go":



24) C+C Music Factory "Things That Make You Go Hmmmm....":



25) Alanis Morissette "Head Over Feet":



26) Alanis Morissette "You Oughta Know":



27) A*Teens "Floorfiller":



28) A*Teens "Hi and Goodbye":



29) Sugarland "Baby Girl":



30) Sugarland "Stay":



31) David Bowie "Modern Love":



32) David Bowie "Space Oddity":



33) Lady Gaga featuring Colby O'Donis "Just Dance":



34) Lady Gaga "Angel Down":



35) Cat Stevens "Another Saturday Night":



Not dark so much but this is the least happy of his songs, plus it's just a really great song.
36) Cat Stevens "Morning Has Broken":

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(Finished March 29th, 2020) The Most Joyful Songs, Part 2 Songs 18-34

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18) for King and Country "Angels We Have Heard On High":

19) Bee Gees "Stayin' Alive":

20) Boys 2 Men "Motownphilly":



21) Bananarama "Venus":



22) Expose "Point of No Return":



23) Martika "I Feel The Earth Move":



24) Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch "Good Vibrations":



24) Katy Perry "I Kissed A Girl":



25) The B-52's "Love Shack":



26) Belinda Carlisle "Heaven's A Place On Earth":



27) Walk The Moon "Shut Up and Dance":



28) Ed Sheeran "The Shape of You":



29) Black Eyed Peas "Rock That Body":



30) Jet "Are You Gonna Be My Girl":



31) The Big Bopper "Chantilly Lace":



32) Bobby Brown "Every Little Step":



33) C+C Music Factory "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)":



34) Black Box "Strike It Up":

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(Started January 18th, 2020) The Light and Dark Songs of Amazing Musicians

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This blog was inspired by a previous blog about joyful songs. Along with Roxette's "Joyride". I also wanted to add "It Must Have Been Love", but I just couldn't justify it. So I thought that I could post both the joyful and darker songs by the same musician. I'm starting with the previously mentioned Roxette, but a different joyful song.

1) "The Look":

2) "It Must Have Been Love":

3) Lauryn Hill "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You":

4) Lauryn Hill "Ex-Factor":

5) No Doubt "Hella Good":

6) No Doubt "Just A Girl":

7) Expose "Come Go With Me":

8) Expose "Seasons Change":

9) Chicago "Along Comes A Woman":

10) Chicago "Look Away":

11) Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons "My Eyes Adored You":

12) Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons "Dawn":

It's a pretty rare occurrence that I have The Spinners on my blog, that's just not right.

 13) The Spinners "Cupid":

14) The Spinners "Working My Way Back To You":

15) The Cars "Tonight":

16) The Cars "Bye Bye Love":

17) Alan Jackson "Chattahoochee":

18) Alan Jackson "She's Got The Rhythm (And I Got The Blues)":

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(Finished March 29th, 2020) The Most Joyful Songs, Part 1

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1)  Michael Crawford, Sarah Brightman and that note at the end of the song sent me into work yesterday riding a wave of joy. "Phantom of the Opera":

2) Roxette "Joyride":

3) The Turtles "Happy Together":

4) The Beach Boys "Good Vibrations":

5) James Brown "I Feel Good":

6) Oasis "Wonderwall":

7) No Doubt "Hey Baby":

8) Carly Rae Jepson "Call Me Maybe":

9) Abba "Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight)":

10) Shepherd "Geronimo":

Featuring some very dark lyrics, this is still a joyful song. 11) Jason Mraz "The Remedy (I Won't Worry)":

More songs should have "hot damn" in it. 12) Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars "Uptown Funk":

13) Fountains of Wayne "Stacy's Mom":

14) Outcast "Hey Ya":

15) Michael Jackson "The Way You Make Me Feel":

16) Smash Mouth "All Star":

17) Three Dog Night "Joy To The World":

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(Updated January 16th, 2021) The Best Songs 2010-2019 Part 13: Songs 228-244

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This started out as the best mellow of the decade just ending and then it started to expand into the best songs of 2010-2019. These songs are in no particular order. And I've expanded way beyond the best mellow songs to the best songs of 2010-2019. I was trying to resist going with the best songs from 2010-2019. However I've given up on that, now it's just the best songs.

As these blogs continue on I'm going to try and diversify the genres in each one of these blogs.

228) American Authors "Think About It":

229) American Authors "Home":

230) American Authors "What We Live For":

231) American Authors "I'm Born To Run":

232) American Authors "Nothing Better":

233) American Authors "The Best Day of My Life":

234) In This Moment "Roots":

235) In This Moment "Sex Metal Barbie":

236) In This Moment "Black Widow":

237) In This Moment "Sick Like Me":

238) In This Moment "Adrenalize":

239) In This Moment "Black Wedding":

All of these songs are by AWOLNATION:

240) "Table For One":

241) "Passion":

242) "Miracle Man":

243) "My Molasses":

244) "Stop That Train":

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