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500 songs that made the all-time hit parade.

Call Number

  • R 784.8 E57.1 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York, Bantam Books, 1964.

Physical Description

264 p. ; 18 cm.

Notes

Without music.

Missing pages 231-232.

Contents

  • A blossom fell
  • A dreamer's holiday
  • Alabamy bound
  • Almost like being in love
  • A nightingale sang in Berkeley Square
  • Animal crackers in my soup
  • Anniversary song
  • A penny a kiss-A penny a hug
  • As the girls go
  • As we walk into the sunset
  • A tree in the meadow
  • Bamboo
  • Beautiful love
  • Because they're young
  • Beer barrel polka (Roll out the barrel)
  • Beyond the blue horizon
  • Blame it on the bossa nova
  • Bless 'em all
  • Blue Hawaii
  • Blue velvet
  • Breaking in a brand new broken heart
  • Breathless
  • Breeze (Blow my baby back to me)
  • Brigadoon
  • Buttons and bows
  • The caissons go rolling along
  • Calendar girl
  • Call me irresponsible
  • Canadian sunset
  • Chains
  • The champagne waltz
  • Changing partners
  • Cocktails for two
  • Come to me, bend to me
  • Concerto for two
  • Croce di or (Cross of gold)
  • Cry
  • Dance with a dolly
  • Dolores.
  • (Contents con't.) Down by the winegar woiks
  • Down on MacConnachy Square
  • Dream lover
  • Empty saddles
  • English muffins and Irish stew
  • Especially for you
  • Ev'rybody's somebody's fool
  • Exactly like you
  • Falling in love again (Can't help it)
  • Fire down below
  • Footsteps
  • For the first time (I've fallen in love)
  • From this day on
  • Funny (Not much)
  • Gertie from Bizerte
  • Gidget
  • Give a broken heart a chance to cry
  • The glory of love
  • Go away, little girl
  • God bless America
  • Golden earrings
  • Good night, wherever you are
  • The guns of Navarone
  • The happy wanderer
  • Have you ever been lonely? (have you ever been blue)
  • Heartaches
  • Heart and soul
  • The heather on the hill
  • Hit the road to dreamland
  • I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream
  • I don't care if the sun don't shine
  • I don't know enough about you.
  • (Contents con't.) I don't know whether to laugh or cry over you
  • I don't want to walk without you
  • I double dare you
  • If
  • I feel like a feather in the breeze
  • If you knew Susie (like I know Susie)
  • I get along without you very well (except sometimes)
  • I guess I'll get the papers and go home
  • I heard you cried last night (and so did I)
  • I hear music
  • I'll always be in love with you
  • I'll go home with Bonnie Jean
  • I love my baby (my baby loves me)
  • I'm in love with someone (who is not in love with me)
  • Innamorata (Sweetheart)
  • In the blue of the evening
  • In the chapel in the moonlight
  • In the cool, cool, cool of the evening
  • In the mood
  • I remember you
  • Isn't it romantic?
  • It could happen to you
  • It's an old southern custom
  • It's easy to remember
  • It's the same old shillelagh
  • I wanna be loved
  • I wished on the moon
  • (I got spurs) jingle jangle jingle.
  • (Contents con't.) June in January
  • Just a little south of North Carolina
  • Just an old love of mine
  • Just one more chance
  • Keep your hands off my baby
  • Kiss the boys goodbye
  • Ko ko mo (I love you so)
  • Lady of Spain
  • The last round up
  • Left right out of your heart (Hi-lee hi-lo hi-lup-up-up)
  • Let's be sweethearts again
  • Let there be love
  • Lights out
  • Little swallow (I'm depending on you)
  • The loco-motion
  • The lonesome road
  • Lord, you made the night too long
  • Louise
  • Love in bloom
  • Love is just around the corner
  • Lover
  • Mammy Lou
  • The man from the South (with a big cigar in his mouth)
  • Memories of you
  • Mimi
  • Mississippi mud
  • Mister and Mississippi
  • Mona Lisa
  • Moonlight becomes you
  • Moon love
  • Moon river
  • My heart has a mind of its own
  • My ideal
  • My little corner of the world
  • My old flame
  • My prayer.
  • (Contents con't.) Nasty man
  • The nearness of you
  • Nola
  • Oh! Carol
  • Oh! ma-ma! (The butcher boy)
  • Oh! my pa-pa (O mein papa)
  • The old lamplighter
  • The old spinning wheel
  • Ole faithful
  • On, brave old army team (West Point football song)
  • One dozen roses
  • The one rose (that's left in my heart)
  • Only a rose
  • On the good ship lollipop
  • On the sunny side of the street
  • Paddlin' Madelin' home
  • Papa loves mambo
  • Patty cake, patty cake (Baker man)
  • Pennsylvania polka
  • Penny serenade
  • Penthouse serenade (when we're alone)
  • Pepe
  • Picnic (theme from Picnic)
  • Pistol packin' mama
  • Please
  • Please don't ask about Barbara
  • Poetry in motion
  • Poor little Rhode Island
  • Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!
  • The prisoner's song
  • Red sails in the sunset
  • Remember when
  • River, stay 'way from my door
  • Rugged but right
  • Run to him.
  • (Contents con't.) Sea of heartbreak
  • Semper paratus (Always ready)
  • S-h-i-n-e
  • Side by side
  • Sierra Sue
  • Silver bells
  • Sing, baby, sing
  • Sing you sinners
  • Small fry
  • So long --Somebody else is taking my place
  • Someone cares
  • Sound off
  • South of the border (down Mexico way)
  • The stroll
  • Stupid cupid
  • I love you, I love you, I love you sweetheart of all my dreams
  • Sweet Sue - just you
  • Swingin' school
  • Tangerine
  • Take good care of my baby
  • Thanks for the dream
  • Thanks for the memory
  • That old black magic
  • That old Irish mother of mine
  • That's amore (That's love)
  • That's for me
  • That's my weakness now
  • There but for you go I
  • There goes that song again
  • To each his own
  • Too fat polka (She's too fat for me)
  • Twilight time
  • Two sleepy people
  • Under your spell
  • Untouchable.
  • (Contents con't.) Waitin' for my dearie
  • Walk on the wild side
  • 'Way down yonder in New Orleans
  • When I take my sugar to tea
  • When my baby smiles at me
  • When the lights go on again (all over the world)
  • When you were sweet sixteen
  • Where the boys are
  • There'll be blue birds over the white cliffs of Dover
  • Who am I
  • Who put the bomp (in the bomp ba bomp ba bomp)
  • Who's you little who-zis!
  • Will you love me tomorrow?
  • With every breath I take
  • Wrap your troubles in dreams (and dreams your troubles away)
  • The wreck of the old 97
  • Yes! we have no bananas
  • You brought a new kind of love to me
  • You're all I want for Christmas
  • You're the only star (in my blue heaven)
  • You turned the tables on me
  • A bird in a gilded cage
  • Abdul Abulbul Amir
  • Abide with me
  • Absence makes the heart grow fonder
  • After the ball
  • Ah! so pure (Martha)
  • A-hunting we will go.
  • (Contents con't.) All alone
  • All through the night
  • Aloha oe (Hawaiian farewell song)
  • Alouette
  • Always leave them laughing when you say good-bye
  • America
  • America the beautiful
  • And her hgolden hair was hanging down her back
  • And the green grass grew all around
  • An Easter song
  • Animal fair
  • Annie Laurie
  • At a Georgia camp meeting
  • Auld lang syne
  • Aunt Rhody
  • Aura Lee (Army blue)
  • Ave Maria
  • A warrior bold
  • Away Rio
  • Baa! baa! black sheep
  • Baby bunting
  • The band played on
  • Barb'ra Allen
  • Battle hymn of the Republic
  • Beautiful dreamer
  • Because
  • Bedouin love song
  • Believe me, if all those endearing young charms
  • Ben Bolt (Sweet Alice)
  • Bill Bailey, won't you please come home?
  • Billy boy
  • Black is the color.
  • (Contents con't.) Blow the man down
  • The blue bells of Scotland
  • The blue-tail fly
  • Boll weevil
  • The bowery
  • A boy's best friend is his mother
  • Break the news to mother
  • Buffalo gals
  • Bury me not on the lone prairie
  • By the beautiful sea
  • The Campbells are coming
  • Camptown races
  • Cantique de nöel (O holy night)
  • A capital ship
  • Captain Jinks
  • Careless love
  • Carry me back to old Virginny
  • Casey Jones (The brave engineer)
  • Cindy
  • Clementine
  • Climbing up the golden stairs
  • Columbia, the gem of the ocean
  • Come back to Erin
  • Come down ma evenin' star
  • Come home, father!
  • Come, Josephine, in my flying machine
  • Comin' thru the rye
  • The cowboy's dream
  • Cradle song
  • Daisy Bell (A bicycle built for two)
  • Dark eyes
  • Darling Nelly Gray
  • Dear old girl
  • Deep river
  • Dixie
  • Down by the riverside
  • Down in the valley
  • Down on the farm.
  • (Contents con't.) Down went McGinty
  • Down where the Wurzburger flows
  • Drill, ye tarriers, drill!
  • Drink to me only with thine eyes
  • Emmet's lullaby
  • The Erie Canal
  • Evening prayer
  • The farmer in the dell
  • The first Noel
  • Flow gently, sweet Afton
  • Foggy, foggy dew
  • For he's a jolly good fellow
  • The fox
  • Frankie and Johnnie
  • Georgie Porgie
  • Get along, little dogies
  • The girl I left behind me
  • Give my regards to Broadway
  • The Glendy Burk
  • Golden vanity
  • Gold will buy 'most anything but a true girl's heart
  • Good-bye my lady love
  • Good-bye, my lover, good-bye
  • Good King Wenceslas
  • Good night ladies
  • Grandfather's clock
  • Greensleeves
  • Hail, Columbia
  • Hand me down my walking cane
  • Hark! the herald angels sing
  • The harp that once thro' Tara's halls
  • Has anybody here seen Kelly?
  • Heidelberg (Stein song).
  • (Contents con't.) Hello Central, give me Heaven
  • Hello! ma baby
  • Hey diddle diddle
  • Hickory, dickory dock
  • Home on the range
  • Home sweet home
  • Hot cross buns
  • Hot time in the old town tonight
  • How can I leave thee
  • How dry I am
  • Humpty Dumpty
  • Ida, sweet as apple cider
  • I don't want to play in your yard
  • I'll sing thee songs of Araby
  • I'll take you home again, Kathleen
  • I love a lassie
  • I love, I love, I love my wife (but oh you kid)
  • I love you truly
  • Indiana (Back home again in Indiana)
  • In my merry oldsmobile
  • In the baggage coach ahead
  • In the evening by the moonlight
  • In the evening by the moonlight, dear Louise
  • In the gloaming
  • In the good old summertime
  • In the shade of the old apple tree
  • In the sweet bye and bye
  • It came upon the midnight clear
  • I've been working on the railroad.
  • (Contents con't.) It came upon the midnight clear
  • I've been working on the railroad
  • I want a girl (just like the girl that married dear old dad)
  • Jeanie with the light brown hair
  • Jesse James
  • Jingle bells
  • John Brown's body
  • John Peel
  • Joy to the world
  • Juanita
  • Just because she made dem goo-goo eyes
  • Kafoozalem
  • Kathleen Mavourneen
  • Kentucky babe
  • Killarney
  • Kiss me again
  • La paloma
  • Lazy Mary, will you get up?
  • Lead, kindly light
  • Let me call you sweetheart (I'm in love with you)
  • Listen to the mocking bird
  • Little Annie Rooney
  • Little brown jug
  • The little lost child
  • Loch Lomond
  • The lone fish-ball
  • Long, long ago
  • Love's old sweet song
  • Lullaby (from "Erminie")
  • Ma blushin' Rose (Ma posie sweet)
  • The man on the flying trapeze
  • The man that broke the bank at Monte Carlo
  • Marching through Georgia
  • Marines' hymn
  • Maryland, my Maryland.
  • (Contents con't.) Mary's a grand old name
  • Massa's in de cold, cold ground
  • Meet me in St. Louis
  • Mighty lak'a rose
  • The minstrel boy
  • Mister Frog went a'court'n
  • Mother was a lady
  • The mulberry bush
  • My bonnie
  • My gal Sal
  • My old Kentucky home
  • My wild Irish rose
  • Nearer, my God, to Thee
  • Nellie Bly
  • Nelly was a lady
  • Nobody knows the trouble I've seen
  • O come,all ye faithful (Adeste fideles)
  • Oh, dear, what can the matter be?
  • Oh, dem golden slippers
  • Oh, didn't he ramble
  • Oh! Susanna
  • Old black Joe
  • Old Chisholm Trail
  • Old folks at home (Swanee River)
  • The old gray mare
  • Old King Cole
  • Old Macdonald had a farm
  • The old oaken bucket
  • Old Rosin, the beau
  • On a Sunday afternoon
  • On top of Old Smokey
  • Onward Christian soldiers
  • Paper of pins
  • The picture that is turned toward the wall
  • Please go 'way and let me sleep.
  • (Contents con't.) Polly put the kettle on
  • Polly-wolly-doodle
  • The preacher and the bear
  • Red river valley
  • The riddle song
  • Rock-a-bye baby
  • Rock of ages
  • Rose of Washington Square
  • Row, row, row
  • Sailing, sailing
  • Sally in our alley
  • Say "au revoir" but not goodbye
  • Seeing Nellie home
  • She is ma Daisy
  • She is more to be pitied than censured
  • She'll be comin' round the mountain
  • She may have seen better days
  • Shoo, fly, don't bother me!
  • Short'nin' bread
  • The sidewalks of New York (East side, west side)
  • Silver threads among the gold
  • Skip to my Lou
  • The streets of New York (In old New York)
  • Strike up the band (Here comes a sailor)
  • Sunbonnet Sue
  • Sweet Adeline
  • Sweet and low
  • Sweet Betsy from Pike
  • Sweet Genevieve
  • Sweet Rosie O'Grady
  • Swing low, sweet chariot.
  • (Contents con't.) Tammany
  • Ta-ra-ra boom-der-e
  • Tell me, pretty maiden
  • Ten little indians
  • Tenting tonight
  • That big rock candy mountain
  • Then you'll remember me
  • There is a tavern in the town
  • They always pick on me
  • Three blind mice
  • Throw him down, McCloskey
  • 'Tis the last rose of summer
  • Toyland
  • Tramp! tramp! tramp!
  • The trail of the lonesome pine
  • Turkey in the straw
  • 'Twas off the blue Canaries (My last cigar)
  • Twinkle,twinkle, little star
  • Under the yum yum tree
  • Upidee
  • Up in a balloon
  • Vive l'amour
  • Wait till the sun shines, Nellie
  • The wearing of the green
  • What you goin' to do when the rent comes 'round? (Rufus Rastus Johnson Brown)
  • When Johnny comes marching home
  • When the saints go marching in
  • When work is done this fall
  • When you and I were young, Maggie
  • Where did you get that hat?
  • Where is my little dog gone?
  • While strolling thru the park
  • Whispering hope.
  • (Contents con't.) Who threw the overalls in Mistress Murphy's chowder?
  • Won't you come over to my house
  • Woodman, spare that tree
  • Yankee Doodle
  • Yankee Doodle boy
  • Yellow rose of Texas
  • Yip-i-addy-i-ay
  • You can't keep a good man down - You never miss the water till the well runs dry
  • You're a grand old flag
  • You tell me your dream, I'll tell you mine.