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Some of my favorite records...
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Here's a list of my 100 all-time favorite songs that were recorded between the years 1950 and 1977. There's lots of more recent music that I like, but on this list I decided to concentrate on songs that were recorded before I really got interested in music. |
1. Irma Thomas: Wish Someone Would Care
2. Bobby Bland: Cry Cry Cry
3. Maxine Brown: Funny
4. Sensational Nightingales: Burying Ground
5. Betty Everett: Chained to a Memory
6. Garnet Mimms: I'll Take Good Care Of You
7. Lovin' Spoonful: Do You Believe In Magic?
8. Timi Yuro: What's a Matter Baby
9. Five Blind Boys of Alabama: Oh Lord, Stand By Me
10. Guitar Slim: Things That I Used to Do
11. Sam Cooke: A Change Is Gonna Come
12. Nappy Brown: Didn't You Know
13. Little Willie John: You Hurt Me
14. Royalettes: I Want to Meet Him
15. Tracey Dey: I Won't Tell
16. Dorothy Berry: Crying On My Pillow
17. Dee Clark: Nobody But You
18. Barbara Lynn: You'll Lose a Good Thing
19. William Bell: I Forgot To Be Your Lover
20. Solomon Burke: The Price
21. Merry Clayton: Usher Boy
22. Bobby Bland: Ain't Nothing You Can Do
23. Irma Thomas: Take a Look
24. Joe Simon: Message From Maria
25. Jerry Butler: Need to Belong
26. Four Tops: Still Water (Love)
27. Walter Jackson: It's All Over
28. Impressions: People Get Ready
29. Joe Turner: Chains of Love
30. Ann Cole: Each Day
31. Ruby & the Romantics: Young Wings Can Fly
32. Sensational Nightingales: A Closer Walk With Thee
33. Freddie Scott: Hey Girl
34. Dusty Springfield: Some Of Your Loving
35. Lillian Leach & the Mellows: Moon of Silver
36. Irma Thomas: I'm Gonna Cry Until My Tears Run Dry
37. Tommy Hunt: Human
38. O.V.Wright: That's How Strong My Love Is
39. Four Seasons: Big Man In Town
40. Toussaint McCall: Nothing Takes the Place of You
41. Ivory Joe Hunter: I Almost Lost My Mind
42. Dee Dee Warwick: She Didn't Know (She Kept On Talking)
43. Vince Castro: Bong Bong
44. Flamingos: I Only Have Eyes For You
45. Johnny Ace: Pledging My Love
46. Cookies: I Never Dreamed
47. Shirley Matthews & the Big Town Girls: Big Town Boy
48. Etta James: All I Could Do Was Cry
49. Baby Washington: That's How Heartaches Are Made
50. Jake Porter & the Buzzards: Wine, Women and Gold
51. Impressions: Minstrel and Queen
52. Robins: Smokey Joe's Cafe
53. Etta James: Only Time Will Tell
54. Buddy Holly: Well, All Right
55. Sam Cooke: Having a Party
56. Victorians: What Makes Little Girls Cry
57. Soul Stirrers: Were You There
58. Dinah Washington: I Can't Face the Music
59. Patti Labelle & the Bluebelles: Academy Award
60. Jimmy Cliff: Many Rivers to Cross
61. Lesley Gore: What Am I Gonna Do With You
62. Al Green: Funny How Time Slips Away
63. Sweet Inspirations: Oh What a Fool I've Been
64. Flamingos: Golden Teardrops
65. Mitty Collier: No Faith, No Love
66. Originals: Baby I'm For Real
67. Betty Everett: Can I Get to Know You
68. Betty Lavette: Let Me Down Easy
69. Fantastic Four: I Love You Madly
70. Jerry Jackson: Tell Her Johnny Said Goodbye
71. Major Lance: Delilah
72. Gene Chandler: You Can't Hurt Me No More
73. Darlene Love: Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
74. Little Mary Staten: Helpless Girl
75. Garnet Mimms: One Girl
76. Dean & Jean: I Want to Be Loved
77. Moonglows: Sincerely
78. Juanita Williams: Baby Boy
79. Clyde McPhatter: Everybody Loves a Good Time
80. Julie London: Cry Me a River
81. Mary Wells: Dear Lover
82. Dramatics: Whatcha See Is What You Get
83. James Brown: There Was a Time
84. Barbara Lewis: Hello Stranger
85. Smiley Lewis: Caldonia's Party
86. Chuck Willis: I Feel So Bad
87. Pic & Bill: All I Need Is You
88. Dells: Love Is So Simple
89. Betty Harris: Nearer to You
90. Nutmegs: My Sweet Dreams
91. Theola Kilgore: This Is My Prayer
92. Superbs: Baby Baby All the Time
93. Latimore: Something 'Bout Cha
94. Bobby Powell: Childhood Days
95. Ronnie Hawkins: Who Do You Love
96. Betty Wright: Pure Love
97. Bo Diddley: Diddy Wah Diddy
98. Billy Ward & the Dominoes: These Foolish Things
99. Renee Medina: The Boy I Love
100.Bertha Tillman: Oh My Angel
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