| My Way: English lyrics |
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Paul Anka |
| 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 |
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Harold Arlen |
| Lyrics |
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E. Y. ('Yip') Harburg |
| 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) |
Music |
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Burt Bacharach |
| 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 |
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Hal David |
| Living Doll, Little White Bull, Fings Ain't Wot They Used t'Be, From Russia with Love |
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Lionel Bart |
| Bright Eyes (Art Garfunkel, from Watership Down); Nine Million Bicycles (Katie Melua);
A Winter's Tale (David Essex) |
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Mike Batt |
| 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 |
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Irving Berlin |
| Born to be Wild (real name Dennis Edmonton) |
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Mars Bonfire |
| Tea for Two: lyrics (died 1996) |
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Irving Caesar |
| 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 |
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Hoagy Carmichael |
| Long–term Robbie Williams collaborator, and his songwriting partner on Rock DJ, Millennium, Let
Me Entertain You and Angels |
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Guy Chambers |
| This is My Song (UK No. 1 for Petula Clark and No. 2 for Harry Secombe, both in 1967) |
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Charlie Chaplin |
| We'll Meet Again, There'll Always Be an England (died 1995) |
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Hugh Charles |
| I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy, Give my Regards to Broadway |
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George M. Cohan |
| 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 |
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Elvis Costello |
| 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 |
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Noel Coward |
| 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) |
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Mike d'Abo |
| Daisy Bell (Daisy, Daisy) |
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Harry Dacre |
| Received songwriting credits on Can't Get You Out of My Head (Kylie Minogue), Toxic (Britney Spears), I Kissed
a Girl (Katy Perry) |
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Cathy Dennis |
| I'm a Believer, Red Red Wine, The Boat that I Row |
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Neil Diamond |
| 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) |
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Bob Dylan |
| It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing): composer |
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Duke Ellington |
| Spread a Little Happiness (died 1996) |
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Vivian Ellis |
| Old Folks at Home, O Susannah, My Old Kentucky Home, Beautiful Dreamer, Camptown Races, Jeannie with the
Light Brown Hair, Hard Times |
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Stephen Foster |
| Summertime |
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George Gershwin |
| Let's Call the Whole Thing Off, They Can't Take That Away From Me, Embraceable You, I Got Rhythm |
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George & Ira Gershwin |
| This Land is Your Land |
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Woody Guthrie |
| St. Louis Blues |
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W. C. Handy |
| To Celia (Drink to me only with thine eyes) |
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Ben Jonson |
| Smoke Gets in your Eyes |
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Jerome Kern |
| The One And Only (5 weeks at No. 1 for Chesney Hawkes, 1991) |
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Nik Kershaw |
| The Locomotion, Pleasant Valley Sunday, One Fine Day, You've got a Friend |
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Carole King |
| Help me Make it Through the Night, Me & Bobby McGee |
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Kris Kristofferson |
| Keep Right On to the End of the Road |
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Sir Harry Lauder |
| World Without Love (No. 1 for Peter & Gordon, 1964) |
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Lennon & McCartney |
| Seaside Shuffle (UK No. 2 for Terry Dactyl & the Dinosaurs, 1972) – real name John Lewis |
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Jona Lewie |
| Dirty Old Town, The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face |
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Ewan MacColl |
| Woman (pseudonymously as Bernard Webb) – US hit for Peter & Gordon |
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Paul McCartney |
| American Pie |
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Don McLean |
| The Streets of London |
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Ralph McTell |
| Moon River, Days of Wine and Roses: music |
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Henry Mancini |
| Moon River, Days of Wine and Roses, Jeepers Creepers: lyrics |
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Johnny Mercer |
| English actor and singer: wrote many songs with Leslie Bricusse, including What Kind of Fool Am I?
and the theme to Goldfinger |
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Anthony Newley |
| Simon Smith and His Amazing Dancing Bear, Mama Told Me Not to Come |
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Randy Newman |
| Keep the Home Fires Burning, We'll Gather Lilacs |
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Ivor Novello |
| I Will Always Love You |
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Dolly Parton |
| Waltzing Matilda: lyrics |
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Banjo Paterson |
| Blue Suede Shoes; Honey Don't, Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby (both covered by the Beatles) |
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Carl Perkins |
| 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? |
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Cole Porter |
| Manic Monday (the Bangles' first hit – No. 2 in the UK, USA, Canada, Ireland, Germany and Austria, 1986)
– using the pseudonym "Christopher" |
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Prince |
| Respect (made famous by Aretha Franklin) |
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Otis Redding |
| Where Have All the Flowers Gone, We Shall Overcome, Little Boxes |
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Pete Seeger |
| 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 |
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Bruce Springsteen |
| 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 |
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Jim Steinman |
| Total Eclipse of the Heart, Faster than the Speed of Night (for Bonnie Tyler) |
| The First Cut is the Deepest |
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Cat Stevens |
| Collaborated with Mark Knopfler in writing the Dire Straits hit Money for Nothing |
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Sting |
| 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) |
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Donald Swann |
| Elton John's lyricist |
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Bernie Taupin |
| Do They Know It's Christmas? Bob Geldof and |
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Midge Ure |
| Moonlight Becomes You, Swinging on a Star, High Hopes |
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Jimmy van Heusen |
| The Christmas Song ("Chestnuts roasting on an open fire") – US jazz singer, in
collaboration with one Bob Wells |
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Mel Tormé |
| Can't Take My Eyes Off You (a Top Ten hit for Andy Williams in 1968) |
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Frankie Valli |
| Up, Up and Away, By the Time I Get to Phoenix, Wichita Lineman, Galveston, Macarthur Park |
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Jimmy Webb |
| Jambalaya, Your Cheatin' Heart |
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Hank Williams |
| Roses of Picardy |
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Haydn Wood |
| It's All Over Now (the Rolling Stones' first No. 1 hit) |
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Bobby Womack |
| Marching Through Georgia, My Grandfather's Clock |
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Henry Clay Work |
| I Want To Be Happy, Tea for Two |
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Vincent Youmans |
