Phil's Top 500 Songs
Not only hit songs, but milestones in the progress of popular music
| Song | Artist | Year | Notes | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ain't Misbehavin' | Fats Waller | 1929 | YouTube | |
| Minnie The Moocher | Cab Calloway | 1931 | YouTube | |
| Moonlight Serenade | Glenn Miller Orchestra | 1939 | YouTube | |
| Take The 'A' Train | Duke Ellington and his Orchestra | 1943 | vocals Betty Roche | YouTube |
| Caldonia | Louis Jordan | 1945 | YouTube | |
| La Mer | Charles Trenet | 1946 | YouTube | |
| Riders In The Sky | Vaughn Monroe | 1949 | YouTube | |
| Dust My Broom | Elmore James | 1952 | YouTube | |
| Mack The Knife | Louis Armstrong | 1955 | from The Threepenny Opera | YouTube |
| Bo Diddley | Bo Diddley | 1955 | YouTube | |
| Just A Gigolo | Louis Prima and Keely Smith | 1956 | YouTube | |
| Be Bop A Lula | Gene Vincent | 1956 | YouTube | |
| Ain't That A Shame | Fats Domino | 1956 | YouTube | |
| Blue Suede Shoes | Carl Perkins | 1956 | YouTube | |
| Heartbreak Hotel | Elvis Presley | 1956 | YouTube | |
| Jamaica Farewell | Harry Belafonte | 1956 | YouTube | |
| Reet Petite | Jackie Wilson | 1957 | YouTube | |
| You Send Me | Sam Cooke | 1957 | YouTube | |
| Sweet Little Sixteen | Chuck Berry | 1958 | YouTube | |
| Rawhide | Frankie Laine | 1958 | TV theme | YouTube |
| Tequila | The Champs | 1958 | YouTube | |
| La Bamba | Ritchie Valens | 1958 | YouTube | |
| Well All Right | Buddy Holly | 1958 | YouTube | |
| What A Difference A Day Makes | Dinah Washington | 1959 | YouTube | |
| Wadda You Wanna Make Those Eyes | Emile Ford and the Checkmates | 1959 | YouTube | |
| Peter Gunn | Henry Mancini | 1959 | TV theme | YouTube |
| Smoke Gets In Your Eyes | The Platters | 1959 | YouTube | |
| North To Alaska | Johnny Horton | 1960 | movie theme | YouTube |
| Spanish Harlem | Ben E. King | 1960 | solo after leaving the Drifters | YouTube |
| Fools Rush In | Brook Benton | 1960 | YouTube | |
| Georgia On My Mind | Ray Charles | 1960 | YouTube | |
| Walk Don't Run | The Ventures | 1960 | YouTube | |
| The Lion Sleeps Tonight | The Tokens | 1961 | YouTube | |
| Where The Boys Are | Connie Francis | 1961 | YouTube | |
| Runaround Sue | Dion DiMucci | 1961 | aka. Dion and the Belmonts | YouTube |
| Travelin' Man | Ricky Nelson | 1961 | YouTube | |
| Runaway | Del Shannon | 1961 | YouTube | |
| Liberty Valance | Gene Pitney | 1962 | YouTube | |
| Island Of Dreams | The Springfields | 1962 | Dusty Springfield went solo in 1963 | YouTube |
| Wonderful Land | The Shadows | 1962 | YouTube | |
| Midnight In Moscow | Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen | 1962 | YouTube | |
| The Lonely Bull | Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass | 1962 | YouTube | |
| Greenback Dollar | The Kingston Trio | 1962 | YouTube | |
| He's So Fine | The Chiffons | 1963 | YouTube | |
| Da Doo Ron Ron | The Crystals | 1963 | YouTube | |
| Little Deuce Coupe | The Beach Boys | 1963 | YouTube | |
| Be My Baby | The Ronettes | 1963 | YouTube | |
| Washington Square | The Village Stompers | 1963 | YouTube | |
| Louie Louie | The Kingsmen | 1963 | YouTube | |
| Pipeline | The Chantays | 1963 | YouTube | |
| Walk On By | Dionne Warwick | 1964 | YouTube | |
| The Shoop Shoop Song | Betty Everett | 1964 | YouTube | |
| Baby Love | The Supremes | 1964 | YouTube | |
| Leader Of The Pack | The Shangri-Las | 1964 | YouTube | |
| Saturday Night At The Movies | The Drifters | 1964 | YouTube | |
| The Girl From Ipanema | Astrud Gilberto | 1964 | YouTube | |
| Ticket To Ride | The Beatles | 1964 | YouTube | |
| Needle In A Haystack | The Velvelettes | 1964 | YouTube | |
| She's Not There | The Zombies | 1964 | YouTube | |
| Nowhere To Run | Martha Reeves and the Vandellas | 1965 | YouTube | |
| Mr Tambourine Man | The Byrds | 1965 | shortened version of Dylan's song | YouTube |
| You Were On My Mind | We Five | 1965 | YouTube | |
| Secret Agent Man | Johnny Rivers | 1965 | YouTube | |
| The Sound Of Silence | Simon and Garfunkel | 1965 | YouTube | |
| Some Enchanted Evening | Jay and the Americans | 1965 | from the musical South Pacific | YouTube |
| Queen Jane Approximately | Bob Dylan | 1965 | YouTube | |
| Ooh Baby Baby | Smokey Robinson | 1965 | YouTube | |
| We Gotta Get Outa This Place | The Animals | 1965 | YouTube | |
| Unchained Melody | Righteous Brothers | 1965 | YouTube | |
| Heart Full Of Soul | The Yardbirds | 1965 | YouTube | |
| Baby Please Don't Go | Them | 1965 | feat. Van Morrison | YouTube |
| Keep On Running | Spencer Davis Group | 1965 | feat. Steve Winwood | YouTube |
| California Dreamin' | The Mamas & The Papas | 1965 | YouTube | |
| Mas Que Nada | Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66 | 1966 | YouTube | |
| 19th Nervous Breakdown | The Rolling Stones | 1966 | YouTube | |
| Mellow Yellow | Donovan | 1966 | YouTube | |
| Sunny Afternoon | The Kinks | 1966 | YouTube | |
| Look Through Any Window | The Hollies | 1966 | YouTube | |
| Out Of Time | Chris Farlowe | 1966 | YouTube | |
| River Deep Mountain High | Ike & Tina Turner | 1966 | You Tube | |
| Walk Away Renée | Left Banke | 1966 | YouTube | |
| A Whiter Shade Of Pale | Procol Harum | 1967 | YouTube | |
| Tin Soldier | Small Faces | 1967 | with P.P. Arnold | YouTube |
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Last Updated 10-Oct-22