 | Love by The Beatles
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $7.00 LENNON/McCARTNEY wrote almost ALL Beatles songs.Best songwriting:IN MY LIFE,I WILL, AND I LOVE HER, HERE THERE & EVERYWHERE, IF I FELL, THINGS WE SAID TODAY. YESTERDAY is most recorded song in history.Other than above,they really didn't write many songs that have become standards for others, they wrote mostly hit tunes well done by themselves only.(Look at their anthologies and you'll see.
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 | Tribute to Burt Bacharach and Hal David by Burt Bacharach
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $34.06 BACHARACH/DAVID: Story of My Life, Magic Moments,, Walk on By, I Say a Little Prayer,Close to You, 24 Hours From Tulsa,Only Love Can Break a Heart, Blue on Blue,
What The World Needs Now, Look of Love, Wishin'and Hopin', Raindrops Keep Falling(Yuk!) etc etc.
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 | 100 Best Loved Hymns by Various Artists
Buy used from: $14.99 FANNY J. CROSBY(blind lyricist)with
tunesmith WILLIAM H. DOANE wrote 5 timeless hymns...To God Be The Glory, Near The Cross, Pass Me Not, I Am Thine Oh Lord, and Rescue The Perishing. With other melodists, and under other pseodonyms, she wrote many more.
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 | Livingston & Evans Songbook: Michael Feinstein by Michael Feinstein
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $1.37 LIVINGSTON/EVANS: Tammy, Silver Bells,Que Sera, Bonanza theme and others.Added beautiful lyrics to Spanish hit
Eres Tu to produce English hit That's You(for Perry Como).
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 | Rodgers & Hammerstein: Songbook for Orchestra (Orchestral Suites)
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $7.77 RODGERS/HAMMERSTEIN.3 from Sound of Music: My Favorite Things, Climb Every Mountain,Edelweiss.3 from Oklahoma: title song, O What a Beautiful Morning, Surrey With The Fringe. Plus:Blue Moon,You'll Never Walk Alone,Some Enchanted Evening,Put Your Dreams Away,Getting to Know You,Hello Young Lovers.Plus several musicals(beloved by people who like musicals, that is...)
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 | Gershwin Greatest Hits
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $0.75 GEORGE AND IRA GERSHWIN. Two gems:Someone To Watch Over Me, and Rhapsody in Blue. Several others including They Can't Take That Away From Me.(I guess Rhapsody isn't really a song,having no lyrics, but it IS a masterpiece).
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 | Legends
HAROLD ARLEN/JOHNNY MERCER. Somewhere Over The Rainbow, voted the most loved song of all time. Also: Get Happy, Accentuate the Positive, That Old Black Magic. Autumn Leaves, One For My Baby, Charade, World On A String,Paper Moon and others.
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 | Sings the Select Sammy Cahn by Frank Sinatra
Buy used from: $1.62 SAMMY CAHN/JAMES VAN HEUSEN. Several long-lasting songs: Swing On A Star,All The Way, High Hopes,Tender Trap, Love and Marriage, The Second Time Around, Come Fly With Me,
Call Me Irresponsible, Three Coins in the Fountain
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 | Alleluia: Songs of Worship by Bill & Gloria Gaither
Buy new: $12.97 / Used from: $8.99 Gospelsongwriting husband and wife team BILL and GLORIA GAITHER. Such as: Because He Lives, Family of God, Something About That Name, The Longer I Serve Him, The King is Coming ...and others.
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 | Lerner & Loewe Songbook for Orchestra by Frederick Loewe
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $4.98 LERNER & LOEWE. One of my all-time favorite melodies is Wandering Star from Paint Your Wagon. Others: On the Street Where You Live, I've Grown Accustomed to her Face, I Remember It Well, On A Clear Day, What Did I Have?(Several other famous musicals too.)
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 | Smokey Joe's Cafe: Songs of Leiber & Stoller
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $14.82 Several songs that have become classics: On Broadway, Stand By Me, Spanish Harlem, Hound Dog, Jailhouse Rock,
Charlie Brown. Pretty light fluff, but timeless.
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