Bridges
Loc: Memphis, Charleston SC, now Nazareth PA
There are some songs I hear from time to time on radio or parts of songs in commercials, or as soundtracks in movies and they are as welcoming and nice to hear as when they were recorded sometimes decades ago. Here are a few I have liked through the years -- I'm sure many of you can relate to this and have special songs that you also like and will most likely never tire of hearing.
Carly Simon -- You're So Vain
Animals -- House of the Rising Sun
Bon Jovi -- Living on a Prayer
Queen with David Bowie -- Under Pressure
Fiona Apple -- Criminal
The Mamas & The Papas -- California Dreaming
Booker T & The MGs -- Green Onion
Lynyrd Skynyrd -- Free Bird
Bill Withers -- Lovely Day, Lean On Me
Fleetwood Mac -- Go Your Own Way
The Kinks -- Lola
Eurythmics -- Sweet Dreams
The Zombies -- Time of the Season
The Monkees -- I'm a Believer and Pleasant Valley Sunday
Billy Joel -- Piano Man, Uptown Girl, It's Still Rock & Roll to Me, You May Be Right, Allentown
Tears for Fears -- Everybody Wants to Rule the World
The Eagles -- Hotel California, Take It Easy, Desperado
The Doors -- Light My Fire
The Animals -- House of the Risin Sun
The Turtles -- Happy Together
Steppenwolf -- Magic Carpet Ride
Bill Withers -- Aint No Sunshine
The Police -- Every Breath You Take
Bob Seger -- Like a Rock, Still the Same, Against the Wind, We've Got Tonight
Phil Collins -- In the Air Tonight
Abba -- Dancing Queen
Leonard Cohen -- Suzanne, Hallelujah
Roberta Flack -- Killing Me Softly With His Song
Procol Harum -- A Whiter Shade of Pale
Cream -- White Room
Righteous Brothers -- Unchained Melody
Neil Young -- Four Strong Winds, Heart of Gold
Willie Nelson -- Always on My Mind, Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain, Highwayman
Jimi Hendrix -- Purple Rain, All Along the Watchtower
The Who -- My Generation
CCR -- Looking Out My Backdoor, Fortunate Son, Who'll Stop the Rain
Joni Mitchel -- Both Sides Now
Helen Reddy -- Send in the Clowns
Tom Petty -- Free Fallin, Last Dance With Mary Jane
Wilson Pickett -- In the Midnight Hour
Boston -- More Than a Feeling
Don Henly -- Boys of Summer
Glen Campbell -- Wichita Lineman, By the Time I Get to Phoenix Galveston, Gentle on My Mind
Elton John -- Your Song
Johnny Cash -- Ring of Fire, I Walk the Line
Patsy Cline -- Crazy
Bobbie Gentry -- Ode to Billy Jo
Simon and Garfunkel -- Sounds of Silence, Bridge Over Troubled Water, Parsley - Sage - Rosemary and Thyme
Louis Armstrong -- What a Wonderful World
The Kingsmen -- Louie, Louie
James Taylor -- Fire and Rain, Up On the Roof, Mexico, Handyman, You've Got a Friend
Buddy Holly -- That'll Be the Day, Everyday
Blondie -- Heart of Glass
Whitney Houston -- I Will Always Love you
The Four Tops -- Reach Out
The Beach Boys -- California Dreaming, California Girls, Good Vibrations, Sloop John B, Kokomo
Led Zeppelin -- Stairway to Heaven, Kashmir
Michael Jackson -- Billie Jean
Otis Redding -- Sitting On the Dock of the Bay, Time in a Bottle
Prince -- When Doves Cry, Purple Rain
Bruce Springsteen -- Born to Run, Secret Garden, Born in the USA, Streets of Philadelphia
John Lennon -- Imagine
Gordon Lightfoot -- Sundown, Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald, If You Could Read My Mind
Queen -- Bohemian Rhapsody, We Will Rock You, Another One Bites the Dust
Kansas -- Dust In the Wind, Carry On Wayward Son
Bob Dylan -- Like a Rolling Stone, Rainy Day Women, Mr. Tambourine Man, A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall, The Times They Are A-Channing
Cream -- Sunshine of Your Love, White Room, Badge, Crossroads
Jefferson Airplane -- White Rabbit, Somebody to Love, Lather, We Built This City
Iron Butterfly -- In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Don McClean -- Vincent, American Pie, Winter Wood
Cosby, Stills, Nash & Young -- Teach Your Children, Ohio, Southern Cross, Love the One You're With, Our House, Suite - Judy Blue Eyes
Joan Baez -- Diamonds and Rust, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, Forever Young
Chicago -- Color My World, 25 or 6 to 4, Saturday in the Park, Hard to Say I'm Sorry
Bruce Hornsby and the Range -- Mandolin Rain, Every Little Kiss, On the Western Skyline
Beatles -- Too many to list but my choice of forever songs with them: Hey Jude, A Day in the Life, Strawberry Fields Forever, Let It Be, Come Together, Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds, Norwegian Wood, Elanor Rigby, Penny Lane, And Your Bird Can Sing, Eight Days A Week, Lady Madonna, In My Life, Paperback Writer, Only A Northern Song, You've Got to Hide Your Love Away, When I'm 64
Bridges wrote:
There are some songs I hear from time to time on radio or parts of songs in commercials, or as soundtracks in movies and they are as welcoming and nice to hear as when they were recorded sometimes decades ago. Here are a few I have liked through the years -- I'm sure many of you can relate to this and have special songs that you also like and will most likely never tire of hearing.
Carly Simon -- You're So Vain
Animals -- House of the Rising Sun
Bon Jovi -- Living on a Prayer
Queen with David Bowie -- Under Pressure
Fiona Apple -- Criminal
The Mamas & The Papas -- California Dreaming
Booker T & The MGs -- Green Onion
Lynyrd Skynyrd -- Free Bird
Bill Withers -- Lovely Day, Lean On Me
Fleetwood Mac -- Go Your Own Way
The Kinks -- Lola
Eurythmics -- Sweet Dreams
The Zombies -- Time of the Season
The Monkees -- I'm a Believer and Pleasant Valley Sunday
Billy Joel -- Piano Man, Uptown Girl, It's Still Rock & Roll to Me, You May Be Right, Allentown
Tears for Fears -- Everybody Wants to Rule the World
The Eagles -- Hotel California, Take It Easy, Desperado
The Doors -- Light My Fire
The Animals -- House of the Risin Sun
The Turtles -- Happy Together
Steppenwolf -- Magic Carpet Ride
Bill Withers -- Aint No Sunshine
The Police -- Every Breath You Take
Bob Seger -- Like a Rock, Still the Same, Against the Wind, We've Got Tonight
Phil Collins -- In the Air Tonight
Abba -- Dancing Queen
Leonard Cohen -- Suzanne, Hallelujah
Roberta Flack -- Killing Me Softly With His Song
Procol Harum -- A Whiter Shade of Pale
Cream -- White Room
Righteous Brothers -- Unchained Melody
Neil Young -- Four Strong Winds, Heart of Gold
Willie Nelson -- Always on My Mind, Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain, Highwayman
Jimi Hendrix -- Purple Rain, All Along the Watchtower
The Who -- My Generation
CCR -- Looking Out My Backdoor, Fortunate Son, Who'll Stop the Rain
Joni Mitchel -- Both Sides Now
Helen Reddy -- Send in the Clowns
Tom Petty -- Free Fallin, Last Dance With Mary Jane
Wilson Pickett -- In the Midnight Hour
Boston -- More Than a Feeling
Don Henly -- Boys of Summer
Glen Campbell -- Wichita Lineman, By the Time I Get to Phoenix Galveston, Gentle on My Mind
Elton John -- Your Song
Johnny Cash -- Ring of Fire, I Walk the Line
Patsy Cline -- Crazy
Bobbie Gentry -- Ode to Billy Jo
Simon and Garfunkel -- Sounds of Silence, Bridge Over Troubled Water, Parsley - Sage - Rosemary and Thyme
Louis Armstrong -- What a Wonderful World
The Kingsmen -- Louie, Louie
James Taylor -- Fire and Rain, Up On the Roof, Mexico, Handyman, You've Got a Friend
Buddy Holly -- That'll Be the Day, Everyday
Blondie -- Heart of Glass
Whitney Houston -- I Will Always Love you
The Four Tops -- Reach Out
The Beach Boys -- California Dreaming, California Girls, Good Vibrations, Sloop John B, Kokomo
Led Zeppelin -- Stairway to Heaven, Kashmir
Michael Jackson -- Billie Jean
Otis Redding -- Sitting On the Dock of the Bay, Time in a Bottle
Prince -- When Doves Cry, Purple Rain
Bruce Springsteen -- Born to Run, Secret Garden, Born in the USA, Streets of Philadelphia
John Lennon -- Imagine
Gordon Lightfoot -- Sundown, Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald, If You Could Read My Mind
Queen -- Bohemian Rhapsody, We Will Rock You, Another One Bites the Dust
Kansas -- Dust In the Wind, Carry On Wayward Son
Bob Dylan -- Like a Rolling Stone, Rainy Day Women, Mr. Tambourine Man, A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall, The Times They Are A-Channing
Cream -- Sunshine of Your Love, White Room, Badge, Crossroads
Jefferson Airplane -- White Rabbit, Somebody to Love, Lather, We Built This City
Iron Butterfly -- In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Don McClean -- Vincent, American Pie, Winter Wood
Cosby, Stills, Nash & Young -- Teach Your Children, Ohio, Southern Cross, Love the One You're With, Our House, Suite - Judy Blue Eyes
Joan Baez -- Diamonds and Rust, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, Forever Young
Chicago -- Color My World, 25 or 6 to 4, Saturday in the Park, Hard to Say I'm Sorry
Bruce Hornsby and the Range -- Mandolin Rain, Every Little Kiss, On the Western Skyline
Beatles -- Too many to list but my choice of forever songs with them: Hey Jude, A Day in the Life, Strawberry Fields Forever, Let It Be, Come Together, Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds, Norwegian Wood, Elanor Rigby, Penny Lane, And Your Bird Can Sing, Eight Days A Week, Lady Madonna, In My Life, Paperback Writer, Only A Northern Song, You've Got to Hide Your Love Away, When I'm 64
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What a great list. Thanks
You have excellent taste!
Thats one hell of a list. I to love them all if I could have remembered that many. Thanks for sharing.
That’s quite a “few” but I get it. I have a playlist of “favorites” that at last check had around 40 hours of music. Figuring on about 3 minutes per song, that works out to about 800 songs. Guess I’m not very picky😂
Some great ones on your list Mike.
Don
Good list. What about tunes which are connected to photography, even tangentially. On second thought, that might not be a good idea, all I can come up with is that one by Simon and Garfunkel.
Love your list; quite a compilation! Just when I saw Otis Redding with "Time in A Bottle", I'm thinking that was Jim Croce whose "I've Got a Name", is also on my list. ("Time in a Bottle" was written 5 years after Otis died, I just found out.) Thanks for posting; so many oldies I keep finding on Youtube that I had forgotten about. Never had seen them performed back in the day. Modern technology does have its benefits!
Great list, love them all. Like to add Jimmie Buffet Marguretiville and Leanard Cohen Hallalueaha
I quit listening to radio in the late 80s because the stations I have heard play the same tunes over and over again so its like "well, I've only heard that song 250,000.00 times",so most of those times I could care less if I ever hear them again, but I have always had thirsty ears and continually look for new bands.
Indi
Loc: L. I., NY, Palm Beach Cty when it's cold.
Styx…”Come Sail Away?”
Thanks. Great list.
…my 4 cents…?
Van Morrison: Brown Eye Girl, Moondance
Eric Clapton: Change The World
Joan Jett (&the Blackhearts): I Love Rock 'N Roll
Rickie Lee Jones: Chuck E's In Love
srron wrote:
I quit listening to radio in the late 80s because the stations I have heard play the same tunes over and over again so its like "well, I've only heard that song 250,000.00 times",so most of those times I could care less if I ever hear them again, but I have always had thirsty ears and continually look for new bands.
I only listen to radio when riding in my wife's car. Otherwise I stream Pandora+ ($5.99/month) - No boring disc jockeys or commercials. Pandora does a great job choosing music that I like. I tell Pandora the bands I like. It chooses from their songs and others it thinks I'll like.
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