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

srg

What a great list. Thanks

gpc

You have excellent taste!

bbradford Loc: Wake Forest NC

Thats one hell of a list. I to love them all if I could have remembered that many. Thanks for sharing.

Dannj

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😂

PAR4DCR Loc: A Sunny Place

Some great ones on your list Mike.

Don

RodeoMan Loc: St Joseph, Missouri

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.

tcthome Loc: NJ

ELNikkor

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!

sodapop Loc: Bel Air, MD

Great list, love them all. Like to add Jimmie Buffet Marguretiville and Leanard Cohen Hallalueaha

corpsol Loc: Cape Cod

No Stones?

srron Loc: Courtice,On.

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.

SkyKing Loc: Thompson Ridge, NY

…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

gpc

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.