Top Ten Songs of all Time!

[Daniel]

Difficult one for me... there are so many good ones... Hmmm.

There is a Light That Never Goes Out by The Smiths.

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The Winner Takes All by ABBA.

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I Have A Dream by ABBA.

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Evanescence, the Gregorian version, by Masters of Chant. (Originally by Evanescence).

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The Sound of Silence, the Gregorian version, by Masters of Chant. (Originally by Simon and Garfunkel) (actually I would really appreciate an overlapping of both this version and the original one... sometimes the lyrics are lost in the ambience in the Gregorian version.)

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Scarborough Faire, the Gregorian version, by Masters of Chant. (Originally by Simon and Garfunkel).

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Beneath a Phrygian Sky, by Loreena McKennitt.

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Never Ending Road, by Loreena McKennitt.

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Top of the World, by The Carpenters.

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Sorry, I could only find a Karaoke version.

Queen of the Night by Mozart.

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This was made a little more famous by the film Amadeus, in which the singer June Anderson sings it a half step above the original.

Tell Me Why by Declan Galbraith

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Declan Galbraith is 11 at the time of this recording.

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- Just a cute little Carpenters number that fits the board.

EDIT: Knew I shouldn't have gotten in on this board... Add to this list anything by Angelis, several pieces by Bach including Air on a G String. just about everything by Libera.

[moremojo]

I just LOVE these songs by Simon and Garfunkel!! I've never heard the Gregorian versions though ... I'll have to see if I can find them on Youtube .. you've got me intrigued now!

Susie

I'm fond of Marianne Faithfull's rendition of Scarborough Fair as well. Faithfull's entire LP 'Broken English' would merit inclusion on a top favorites list of mine.

[Daniel]

I inserted videotubes for anyone who wants to hear those....

[loneleeb3]

Scarborough Fair

I love this song!
My Scottish Great Grandmother used to sing this to all of us when we were wee lads and lassies as she would say.
That and going to the rye. (I think thats the name of the song)

[Daniel]

I love the subtext (the interwoven Canticle) that is included in both S&G's and Gregorian's.

Are you going to scarborough fair?
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme.
Remember me to one who lives there.
She once was a true love of mine.

Tell her to make me a cambric shirt,
     A hill in the deep forest green
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme;
     tracing of sparrow on snow-crested brown
Without no seams nor needle work,
     blankets and bedclothes - the child of the mountain
Then she'll be a true love of mine.
     sleeps unaware of the clarion call

Tell her to find me an acre of land,
     on the side of a hill a sprinkling of leaves
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme;
     washes the grave with her silvery tears
Between the salt water and the sea strand,
     a soldier cleans and polishes a gun
Then she'll be a true love of mine.

Tell her to reap it with a sickle of leather,
     war bellows blazing in scarlet battalions
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme;
     generals order their soldiers to kill
And gather it all in a bunch of heather,
     and to fight for a cause they have long ago forgotten
Then she'll be a true love of mine.

Are you going to Scarborough fair?
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme.
Remember me to one who lives there.
She once was a true love of mine.

[southendmd]

I love this song!
My Scottish Great Grandmother used to sing this to all of us when we were wee lads and lassies as she would say.
That and going to the rye. (I think thats the name of the song)

I think you mean "Comin' thro' the rye".

[Ellemeno]

Here are some of mine, from my "Now Playing" thread:

An American Tune, by Paul Simon
And So it Goes, by Billy Joel, video tribute to Kurt Vonnegut
Drowned, by Pete Townsend
Hello in There, by John Prine
Leaving on a Jet Plane, by John Denver, performed by John Denver & Mama Cass Elliot
Mad World, by Michael Andrews, sung by Gary Jules
Moon River, by Henry Mancini, performed by Audrey Hepburn
Mr. Tambourine Man, by Bob Dylan
Ne Me Quitte Pas, English version performed by Dusty Springfield
Thank U, by Alanis Morissette
The Babysitter's Here, by Dar Williams
The Moldau, by Smetana, performed by a Czech street band
Tom's Diner, by Suzanne Vega
Unconditional, by Kristy Karen Smith
While My Guitar Gently Weeps, a simple acoustic version by George Harrison, and one on ukelele by Jake Shimabukuro

[Daniel]

I'm putting this up for a friend of mine, and for anyone else who wants to hear it. Paul Schwartz arrangement of Caccini's Ave Maria

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[jstephens9]

I will have to join in on this one although I need to think of my choices