[yankeedame]

Sorry,gang,forgot to jot down the web address for this place. But here's how to get there:

www.bbc.com > entertainment > towards the bottom of the page you'll see this story> at the bottom of the story is a form (of sorts) to nominate your own "best song in the world".

My favorite? Like most folks that changes all the time. Right now I'm grovin' on St. James Infirmary w/ Cab Calloway & Louis Armstrong. "I went down to St. James Infirmary. Saw my baby there..."

[winodog]

Paradise by the dashboard light? by Meatloaf

[Denver Ditdat]

If this isn't limited by genre or era, I'd vote for Verdi's "Va, Pensiero" from "Nabucco". Never heard it? Listen to the MP3

[SamAdams76]

Any attempt to pick a "top song" or even a "top 10 songs" is meaningless. There are just too many subjective tastes in music out there and too many songs - hundreds of thousands of them - to choose from.

It is amusing however to see the songs that ultimately get picked from these surveys. "We Don't Talk Anymore" by Cliff Richard from 1979 as top song ever in Europe? I just don't understand. It was a decent enough tune and even made the top 10 here in the USA. But I just don't see how it could be voted the best song ever.

BTW, Joan Jett, and not Britney Spears, recorded "I Love Rock & Roll." It was a number one hit in 1982.

[Revolting cat!]

You're all wrong! The best song in the world is and forever will remain: (There's) No Room to Rhumba in a Sports Car (Words & music by Fred Wise - Dick Manning ), sung by the best Elvis impersonator, the one and only Elvis Presley, in the movie Fun in Acapulco (another winner!)

[brewcrew]

Billy Don't be a Hero by Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods.

[Redbob]

"Heilige Nacht, Stille Nacht"

First song ever written for guitar.

[Chi-townChief]

Lately, I've got to go with "I Can't Get Started" by Bunny Berigan.

"I've flown around the world in a plane,
I've settled revolutions in Spain,
And the North Pole I have charted
Still I can't get started with you ..."

Charlie Parker's instrumental version is killer also!

[NCLou]

My three favorite.

"Just Like Me" by Paul Revere and the Raiders
"Son of a Preacher Man" by Dusty Springfield
"Sweet Child O Mine" by Guns and Roses

Hon mention: "New Mother Nature" by the Guess Who

Of course ask me tomorrow and it will probably be different. But if someone told me I had to listen to the same three songs none stop 24 hours a day for 6 straight weeks, I would choose these three, with a smile.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

I vote for Bad Company's Allright Now (or any songs by the original Bad Company).

[Charles Henrickson]

Favorite Big Band song:

"Sing, Sing, Sing" by the Benny Goodman Orchestra (with Gene Krupa on drums).

A few favorite classical pieces, just off the top of my head:

"The William Tell Overture" by Rossini (the Lone Ranger theme)

"The 1812 Overture" by Tchaikovsky (the "This is the cereal that's shot from guns" theme)

"Pomp and Circumstance" by Elgar (the graduation/Macho Man Savage theme)

[big gray tabby]

The "Horst Wessel" Song.

Wait. Am I at the Searchlight?

Oops, sorry.

[beckett]

The Top 12 (Judge's Decision is Final)

1. Danny Boy - Various Artists
2. Just My Imagination - The Temptations
3. Peaceful Easy Feeling - The Eagles
4. My Back Pages - Bob Dylan
5. Mr Tambourine Man - Bob Dylan
6. Pancho & Lefty - Merle Haggard & Willie Nelson
7. What a Fool Believes - The Doobie Brothers
8. Fields of Gold - Sting (sung by Eva Cassidy)
9. Bird on a Wire - Leonard Cohen (sung by Jennifer Warnes)
10. Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison
11. Angel Eyes - Jeff Healey
12. Same Auld Lang Syne - Dan Fogelberg

[killjoy]

Death Or Glory by The Clash... or anything else on London Calling for that matter.

[Ken H]

"Hot Rod Lincoln"

My pappy said, "Son you're going to drive me to drinkin'
if you don't stop driving that hot....rod....Lincoln."

It's a real tear jerker.

[ijcr]

"Au fond du temple saint", Jussi Bjorling and Robert Merrill RCA Orchestra 1950.Here is the gloriosity, the magic, the inspiration the absolute perfection of two voices singing as one.Although a Mono recording it has yet to be improved on.

[GSWarrior]

The best song?

Isn't Stardust, by Hoagy Carmichael unofficially thought to be the best song ever written?

[Luis Gonzalez]

This long and winding article is quite possibly indicative of the author's many wasted days and wasted nights, instead of trying to get people to line up behind their favorite silly love songs, or maybe even get them to shout out loud "I love rock and roll", this man simply needs to sit back and listen to the music.

Me? I believe in music, and that the greatest love of all, is when a man loves a woman.

So, to those of you who wish to say that your song is the rock of ages, I say: let it be.

[kellynla]

"God Bless America" God bless America, land that I love.
Stand beside her and guide her. Through the night with the light from above. From the mountains. To the prairies, to the ocean white with foam. God bless America, my home sweet home. Semper Fi

[gilor]

" 'One in a Million' by Guns n Roses. A classic song with real MEANING " Don Black, USA

Great song!

[mrs. a]

"Folsom Prison Blues" by Johnny Cash

He shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.