I have so many favorites when it comes to music, so I'm going to make a list of them according to genre. But first, here are some of my favorite songs... (and please keep in mind that these lists will be constantly changing because one can never know if they stumble upon someone that they really love and simply
must add them to their favorites list!)...
- Sleepwalk (Santo and Johnny)
- Stardust (the Billy Ward version)
- For Sentimental Reasons (Tommy Dorsey)
- Moonlight Serenade (Glenn Miller Orchestra)
- La Mer (Charles Trenet)
- This Magic Moment (The Drifters)
- Paper Moon (the Nat "King" Cole version)
- Cheek to Cheek (Fred Astaire)
- Big Rock Candy Mountain (Harry McClintock)
- It Was So Beautiful (Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grapelli)
- What'll I Do (the Allison Krauss version)
- Walkin' After Midnight (Patsy Cline)
And here are some of my favorite songs and artists, according to genre, and they are in no particular order (and some of them might repeat, if they had meddled in different genres).
- Jazz and Big Band
- Artists
- Scott Joplin
- Tommy Dorsey
- Glenn Miller
- Django Reinhardt
- Artie Shaw
- Bunny Berigan
- Duke Ellington
- Louis Armstrong
- Miles Davis
- Dave Brubeck
- Songs
- The Easy Winners (Scott Joplin)
- For Sentimental Reasons (Tommy Dorsey)
- Song of India (Tommy Dorsey)
- I'm Getting Sentimental over You (Tommy Dorsey)
- In the Mood (Glenn Miller)
- Moonlight Serenade (Glenn Miller)
- Djangology (Django Reinhardt)
- Stardust (Django Reinhardt)
- It Was So Beautiful (Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grapelli)
- I Got Rhythm (Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grapelli)
- Stardust (Artie Shaw)
- Deep Purple (Artie Shaw)
- Nightmare (Artie Shaw)
- I Can't Get Started (Bunny Berigan)
- Don't Get Around Much Anymore (Duke Ellington)
- Take the "A" Train (Duke Ellington)
- West End Blues (Louis Armstrong)
- La Vie En Rose (Louis Armstrong)
- The entire "Kind of Blue" album by Miles Davis
- The entire "Take Five" album by Dave Brubeck
- Songs from the Fifties (Doo-Wop, Early Rock 'n Roll, etc)
- Artists
- The Clovers
- The Chords
- The Drifters (Both with and without Ben E. King)
- The Robins
- The Coasters
- The Platters
- The Penguins
- The Moonglows
- Billy Ward and His Dominoes
- Little Richard
- Chuck Berry
- Bill Doggett
- Songs
- Love Potion No. 9 (The Clovers)
- Ting-a-Ling (The Clovers)
- Blue Velvet (The Clovers)
- Sh-Boom (The Chords)
- Up on the Roof (The Drifters)
- This Magic Moment (The Drifters)
- Rose in Spanish Harlem (The Drifters)
- Save the Last Dance for Me (The Drifters)
- Under the Boardwalk (The Drifters)
- Smokey Joe's Cafe (The Robins)
- Searchin' (The Coasters)
- Zing! Went the Strings of my Heart (The Coasters)
- Only You (The Platters)
- The Great Pretender (The Platters)
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (The Platters)
- Earth Angel (The Penguins)
- Sincerely (The Moonglows)
- Stardust (Billy Ward and His Dominoes)
- Tutti Frutti (Little Richard)
- Slippin' and Slidin' (Little Richard)
- Long Tall Sally (Little Richard)
- Good Golly Miss Molly (Little Richard)
- Johnny B. Goode (Chuck Berry)
- Honkey Tonk (Bill Doggett)
- Quaker City (Bill Doggett)
- Vocals (I'm not quite sure where to put these artists and songs so I'll put them in their own category)
- Artists
- Edith Piaf
- The Andrews Sisters
- Billie Holiday
- Charles Trenet
- Bobby Darin
- Bing Crosby
- Ella Fitzgerald
- The Ink Spots
- Irving Berlin
- Nat "King" Cole
- Vera Lynn
- Willie Nelson (even though his music, at first glance, sounds like country (which I don't particularly like) it's actually traditional music that cowboys used to sing)
- Songs
- La Vie En Rose (Edith Piaf)
- Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien (Edith Piaf)
- Oh, Johnny, Oh Johnny (The Andrews Sisters)
- Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B (The Andrews Sisters)
- Blue Moon (Billie Holiday)
- Strange Fruit (Billie Holiday)
- La Mer (Charles Trenet)
- Beyond the Sea (Bobby Darin)
- The Way You Look Tonight (Bing Crosby)
- Paper Moon (Ella Fitzgerald)
- Dream a Little Dream of Me (Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong)
- I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire (The Ink Spots)
- When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano (The Ink Spots)
- The Gypsy (The Ink Spots)
- What'll I Do (Irving Berlin)
- Mona Lisa (Nat "King" Cole)
- It's Only a Paper Moon (Nat "King" Cole)
- Stardust (Nat "King" Cole)
- L-O-V-E (Nat "King" Cole)
- We'll Meet Again (Vera Lynn)
- The entire "Red Headed Stranger" album by Willie Nelson
Phew! That took a long time to compose that list! :)
