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My Way: English lyrics Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
Over the Rainbow (voted the 20th century's No. 1 song by the Recording Industry Association of America and the National Endowment for the Arts) Music Click to show or hide the answer
Lyrics Click to show or hide the answer
Walk On By, Anyone Who Had a Heart, Alfie, Say a Little Prayer, I'll Never Fall in Love Again, Do You Know the Way to San Jose? (all for Dionne Warwick)Click for more information Music Click to show or hide the answer
What's New, Pussycat?, The Look of Love, This Guy's in Love with You, Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head, (They Long to Be) Close to You Lyrics Click to show or hide the answer
Living Doll, Little White Bull, Fings Ain't Wot They Used t'Be, From Russia with Love Click to show or hide the answer
Bright Eyes (Art Garfunkel, from Watership Down); Nine Million Bicycles (Katie Melua); A Winter's Tale (David Essex) Click to show or hide the answer
White Christmas, Alexander's Ragtime Band, Cheek to Cheek, Let's Face the Music and Dance, A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody, God Bless America Click to show or hide the answer
Born to be Wild (real name Dennis Edmonton) Click to show or hide the answer
Tea for Two: lyrics (died 1996) Click to show or hide the answer
Stardust, Georgia on my Mind, Lazybones, My Resistance is Low, Lazy River, Two Sleepy People, Thanks for the Memory, The Old Music Master: music by Click to show or hide the answer
Long–term Robbie Williams collaborator, and his songwriting partner on Rock DJ, Millennium, Let Me Entertain You and Angels Click to show or hide the answer
This is My Song (UK No. 1 for Petula Clark and No. 2 for Harry Secombe, both in 1967) Click to show or hide the answer
We'll Meet Again, There'll Always Be an England (died 1995) Click to show or hide the answer
I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy, Give my Regards to Broadway Click to show or hide the answer
Collaborated with Burt Bacharach on God Give Me Strength (featured in the 1996 film Grace of My Heart), T Bone Burnett on The Scarlet Tide (from Cold Mountain, 2003) and with Paul McCartney on several songs including Back On My Feet, Veronica, and My Brave Face Click to show or hide the answer
I'll See You Again, Mad Dogs and Englishmen, London Pride, (Don't Put Your Daughter on the Stage) Mrs. Worthington, Poor Little Rich Girl, The Stately Homes of England, Don't Let's be Beastly to the Germans Click to show or hide the answer
Handbags and Gladrags – a No. 33 hit in 1967 for Chris Farlowe, and No. 4 in 2001 for Stereophonics; an arrangement was used as the theme to The Office (BBC2, 2001–3) Click to show or hide the answer
Daisy Bell (Daisy, Daisy) Click to show or hide the answer
Received songwriting credits on Can't Get You Out of My Head (Kylie Minogue), Toxic (Britney Spears), I Kissed a Girl (Katy Perry)Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
I'm a Believer, Red Red Wine, The Boat that I Row Click to show or hide the answer
If Not For You (covered by George Harrison on his 1970 triple album All Things Must Pass, and a Top Ten hit for Olivia Newton–John in 1971) Click to show or hide the answer
It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing): composer Click to show or hide the answer
Spread a Little Happiness (died 1996) Click to show or hide the answer
Old Folks at Home, O Susannah, My Old Kentucky Home, Beautiful Dreamer, Camptown Races, Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair, Hard Times Click to show or hide the answer
Summertime Click to show or hide the answer
Let's Call the Whole Thing Off, They Can't Take That Away From Me, Embraceable You, I Got Rhythm Click to show or hide the answer
This Land is Your Land Click to show or hide the answer
St. Louis Blues Click to show or hide the answer
To Celia (Drink to me only with thine eyes) Click to show or hide the answer
Smoke Gets in your Eyes Click to show or hide the answer
The One And Only (5 weeks at No. 1 for Chesney Hawkes, 1991) Click to show or hide the answer
The Locomotion, Pleasant Valley Sunday, One Fine Day, You've got a Friend Click to show or hide the answer
Help me Make it Through the Night, Me & Bobby McGee Click to show or hide the answer
Keep Right On to the End of the Road Click to show or hide the answer
World Without Love (No. 1 for Peter & Gordon, 1964) Click to show or hide the answer
Seaside Shuffle (UK No. 2 for Terry Dactyl & the Dinosaurs, 1972) – real name John Lewis Click to show or hide the answer
Dirty Old Town, The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face Click to show or hide the answer
Woman (pseudonymously as Bernard Webb) – US hit for Peter & Gordon Click to show or hide the answer
American Pie Click to show or hide the answer
The Streets of London Click to show or hide the answer
Moon River, Days of Wine and Roses: music Click to show or hide the answer
Moon River, Days of Wine and Roses, Jeepers Creepers: lyrics Click to show or hide the answer
English actor and singer: wrote many songs with Leslie Bricusse, including What Kind of Fool Am I? and the theme to Goldfinger Click to show or hide the answer
Simon Smith and His Amazing Dancing Bear, Mama Told Me Not to Come Click to show or hide the answer
Keep the Home Fires Burning, We'll Gather Lilacs Click to show or hide the answer
I Will Always Love You Click to show or hide the answer
Waltzing Matilda: lyrics Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
Blue Suede Shoes; Honey Don't, Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby (both covered by the Beatles) Click to show or hide the answer
Anything Goes, Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye, I Get a Kick out of You, Let's Do It, Miss Otis Regrets, Night and Day, What Is This Thing Called Love, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Click to show or hide the answer
Manic Monday (the Bangles' first hit – No. 2 in the UK, USA, Canada, Ireland, Germany and Austria, 1986) – using the pseudonym "Christopher" Click for more information Click to show or hide the answer
Respect (made famous by Aretha Franklin) Click to show or hide the answer
Where Have All the Flowers Gone, We Shall Overcome, Little Boxes Click to show or hide the answer
Blinded by the Light – a Top Ten hit in the UK, and No. 1 in the USA, for Manfred Mann's Earth Band in 1976 Click to show or hide the answer
Bat out of Hell, Dead Ringer for Love, Two Out of Three Ain't Bad, I Would Do Anything for Love (but I won't do that) – all for Meat Loaf Click to show or hide the answer
Total Eclipse of the Heart, Faster than the Speed of Night (for Bonnie Tyler)
The First Cut is the Deepest Click to show or hide the answer
Collaborated with Mark Knopfler in writing the Dire Straits hit Money for Nothing Click to show or hide the answer
Put tunes to various poems from the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, to create the song cycle The Road Goes Ever On (published in 1967) Click to show or hide the answer
Elton John's lyricist Click to show or hide the answer
Do They Know It's Christmas? Bob Geldof and Click to show or hide the answer
Moonlight Becomes You, Swinging on a Star, High Hopes Click to show or hide the answer
The Christmas Song ("Chestnuts roasting on an open fire") – US jazz singer, in collaboration with one Bob Wells Click to show or hide the answer
Can't Take My Eyes Off You (a Top Ten hit for Andy Williams in 1968) Click to show or hide the answer
Up, Up and Away, By the Time I Get to Phoenix, Wichita Lineman, Galveston, Macarthur Park Click to show or hide the answer
Jambalaya, Your Cheatin' Heart Click to show or hide the answer
Roses of Picardy Click to show or hide the answer
It's All Over Now (the Rolling Stones' first No. 1 hit) Click to show or hide the answer
Marching Through Georgia, My Grandfather's Clock Click to show or hide the answer
I Want To Be Happy, Tea for Two Click to show or hide the answer

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