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Words and music by Mack David and Louiguy in 1950.
This is a 1927 song with words by Edgar Leslie and music by Horatio Nicholls (an alias for British composer Frederick Lawrence Wright).
Written in 1926 by Roy Turk and Lou Hardman.
Words and music by Larry Weiss.
"For Sentimental Reasons" is a song by Abner Silver, Al Sherman and Edward Heyman, first released on October 18, 1936. It was recorded by Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra .
Words and music by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield in 1971.
Words and music by Paul Simon.
Words and music by Seymour Sims and Gerald Marks in 1931.
by Roy Orbison & Joe Melson.
George David Weiss, Hugo Peretti and Luigi Creatore in 1961.
Music by Dick Jurgens and Walter Donovan, lyrics by Roger Lewis and Country Joe Washburn.
Words and music by George and Ira Gershwin 1937.
Music by Duke Ellington, lyrics by Johnny Mercer and Billy Strayhorn.
By Johnny Burke and Jimmy van Heusen.
Music by Michael Masser, Lyrics by Gerry Goffin.
This popular American torch song was written by Arthur Hamilton in 1953 and made famous in 1955 with a superb version by Julie London.
Mel Torme and Robert Wells 1945.
Originally written in 1865 as "Aura Lee" by G R Poulton, lyrics by W W Fosdick.
Re-written in 1956 by Elvis Presley and Vera Matson as "love Me Tender".
Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman
Music by Joseph Kosma, lyrics by Jacques Prevert in 1945.
Music by Enric Madriguera, English Words by Eddie Woods in 1931.
Composed in 1977 by the Gibb Brothers.
Written in 1946.
Music by Matt Dennis, lyrics by Earl Brent.
Written by Mitch Murray in 1963. it was recorded by Gerry and the Pacemakers, and became their debut single.
Music by Antonio Carlos Jobim in 1964.
English lyrics by Gene Lees.
ABBA 1980.
Say no more.
Musi by Joseph Kosma, lyrics by the late and great Johnny Mercer 1945.
Otherwise known as "Cuando Caliente El Sol" 1961.
A hit record for the Ray Charles singers in 1964.
Music by Rafael Gaston Perezi.
English lyrics by Michael Vaughan.
Music by Horatio Nichole, lyrics by Edgar Leslie in 1927.
Otherwise known as Manha da Carnaval or Black Orpheus.
Music by Louis Bonia, Lyrics by Carl Sigma in 1959.
"Old Cape Cod" is a song written by Claire Rothrock, Milton Yakus and Allan Jeffrey that was published in 1957.
The single, as recorded by Patti Page, became a gold record, having sold more than a million copies.
Music by Dick Jurges and Walter Donovan, lyrics by Roger Lewis and "Country" Joe Washburn in 1971.
Gerry Goffin and Carole King 1961, and seriously popularised by Bobby Vee.
Music by Bronislav Kaper, lyrics by Ned Washington in 1947.
Music by Burton Lane, lyrics by E Y Haarburg in 1946.
Music by Antonio Carlos Jobim, lyrics by Gene Lees 1958.
This is a 1942 composition by Composer Ogden Kurt Weill and lyricist Ogden Nash.
This was a great 1974 hit by Neil Sedaka & Philip Cody.
Music by Sadie Vimmerstedt, lyrics by the late and great Johnny Mercer.
Excerpt from Wikipedia:-
"Vimmerstedt was a grandmother and housewife and a beautician in Youngstown, Ohio, who sent Mercer an idea for the song in 1957, as well as giving Mercer the opening line ("I want to be around to pick up the pieces, when somebody breaks your heart"). Sh...
Music by Henry Mancini, lyrics by the great Johnny Mercer. 1962.
Words and music by Bobby Troup.
In February 1942, Troup's song "Snootie Little Cutie" was recorded by Frank Sinatra and Connie Haines with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and the Pied Pipers.
Composed by Stuart Gorrell and Hoagy Carmichael in 1930.
1928. Words and music by Buddy de Sylva, Ray Henderson and Lew Brown.
Music and Spanish Lyrics by Marcos A Jimenez in 1925.
English lyrics by Ben Raleigh.
Made famous in the 1930's by trumpeter Bunny Berigan.
1955 Music by R Rascel, Lyrics by Carl Sigman.
Cole Porter 1953.
I remember Esther Williams who starred in the film of the same name.
By John Lennon and Paul McCartney of course.
Music by Gilbert Becaud, French words by Pierre De Lanoe, English words by Mann Curtis 1955.
It was first introduced in Samuel Goldwyn's 1955 cinematic adaptation of the musical "Guys And Dolls"
I've no idea who wrote this one.
Words and music by Frank Loesser from the musical "Guys and Dolls".
Music by Charles Fox, lyrics by Norman Gimbel in 1972.
Written in 1952 by Gerhard Winkler and Fred Eauch.
English lyrics by Carl Sigman.
Both words and music by Cole Porter.
Words and music by Peter Bellotti, Harold Faltermayer and Keida Forsey.
A song by composer Donald Kahn and lyricist Stanley Styne, first recorded by Ella Fitzgerald, 1956
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