(shameless vanity) Top 3 Songs ever recorded?

http://freerepublic.com | 04/01/2018 | heterosupremacist

[heterosupremacist]

I had an interesting conversation with friends, and was inspired to ask my Friends for their comments...

I first chose an American classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzPLQpLAxc4 ~ Nat King Cole ~ Stardust!

I then chose the Irish Philharmonic Orchestra ~ Irish Philharmonic Orchestra ~ Holy God We praise Thy Name(3:36)

Finally, I decided on a blues classic:

(1975 Dublin) Thin Lizzy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=261uidoVOVk

[Captain Compassion]

There can be no top recorded song list without this being #1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XulvnXo6BJk

#2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9QLn7gM-hY

#3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DoPvujMaZE

[Eddie01]

Marshall Tucker Band
“Can’t You See”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlc6xCPx60U

Outlaws
“Green Grass and High Tides”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIaS_vYIQ_A

Three Dog Night
“Never Been to Spain”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm6qw_yeo6o

...as of 8:05pm on Sunday night

[Eddie01]

Cheap Trick
Just Got Back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGG1qZIGAcY

Nazareth
“Please Don’t Judas Me”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtmJZ1ATFKM

Devil
It’s Been a Long Time Willie Brown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m5gqDGe5xc

as of 8:30pm Sunday Night

[Scarpetta]

Love Stagger Lee. My 3 eclectic picks:

The Beach Boys “Oh Darlin”
Diana Ross “The Boss”
Deep Purple “Highway Star,” the best live rock song ever recorded.

[CaptainK]

but there are issues of the heart attached to "Galveston"

When you put it that way, it would explain my choice.

And yes they are close.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto #3 - Jon Nakamatsu/Rochester Philharmonic (Harmonia Mundi)
Saint-Saens - Symphony #3 (Organ) - Jane Parker-Smith/London Philharmonic (EMI Classics)
Strauss - A Hero's Life - Fritz Reiner/Chicago Symphony (RCA Victor)....

[Pappy Smear]

I'm Not In Love 10CC

Photograph Def Leppard

Mrs. Robinson Simon and Garfunkel

I'll have a different opinion in 20 minutes.

[Eddie01]

manmana ‘69
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2P68iML-VM

Here’s a piece of vinyl no human should be without...

Quincy Jones
Bossa Nova album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5ALPzS0QfQ

[Fiji Hill]

Arthur Godfrey, “Back in Nagasaki”

I like Nat and Frank's version:

Nagasaki--Nat Shilkret & the Victor Orchestra; vocal by Frank Crumit (1928)
--note the reference to the 1923 Tokyo earthquake ("the earth shakes...")

[Fiji Hill]

I’m throwing in “At Last” by Etta James. Talk about soulful, winsome, hopeful, relieved.

Glenn did my favorite version of that tune:

At Last--Glenn Miller (1941)

Here's my favorite opus by Etta:

Good Rockin' Daddy--Etta James (1955)

[Fiji Hill]

I'd place Wichita Lineman ahead of Galveston.

I do, too. I didn't like Galveston when it was popular because it's an anti-Vietnam War song, and I still don't. But being a football fan, I like Wichita Lineman, a football song.

[Songcraft]

1. "Chug-A-Lug" - Roger Miller

2. "Dang Me" - Roger Miller

3. "I'm A Nut" - Roger Miller

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(April Fools!!!)

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[Mr. Lucky]

“Fools Rush In” The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra with Frank Sinatra on the vocals.

[Fiji Hill]

My top three:

1. Rhapsody in Blue--Paul Whiteman & His Concert Orchestra (1927)

2. Auch Du Wirst Mich Einmal Betrügen (you, too, will betray me some day)--Ilya Livshakoff & His Orchestra; vocal by Leo Monosson (1930)

3. Slue Foot--The Coon-Sanders Nighthawks (1928)

[Fiji Hill]

I went to high school with Terry Stafford

He got a lot of airplay over Los Angeles rock stations.

[Big Red Clay]

Unchained Van Halen
Eminence Front The Who
Luckenbach Texas Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson

[YogicCowboy]

Good choice!

[JennysCool]

Oh, I’ll go with you there. Love that album.

Forgot to mention “Skateaway” earlier. That’s a beaut as well.

[dfwgator]

Czeslaw Niemen - Bema pamieci zalobny rapsod (Mournful Rhapsody)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzGqBZFAx80

[JennysCool]

By the way, “Desperados Under the Eaves” by Warren Zevon, which I mentioned, has awesome ending harmonies by Carl Wilson, and features what may be the best stanza Warren ever wrote:

If California slides into the ocean
Like the mystics and statistics say it will
I predict this motel will be standing
until I pay my bill