# Singers' Signature Songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 24, 2011, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singers-signature-songs/568731 "2011-01-24T03:05:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singers-signature-songs/568731/22 "2011-01-24T16:47:47Z")
[QUOTE=Floater] Oh no, it’s _I Hold Your Hand In Mine_. [/QUOTE] I think _The Elements_ is a better candidate. But I’d say it’s really a toss up between _Poisoning Pidgeons in the Park_ and _National Brotherhood Week_. Loudon Wainwright III - One Man Guy Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode Kate Bush - [space to be filled in by **gaffa**] though it’s obviously Wuthering Heights I had more but I thought to draw a distinction between a ‘signature’ song and ‘biggest hit’ or ‘most well known song’. Example: For Joni Mitchell what? Big Yellow Taxi probably but I bet she hasn’t played that in decades. John Lennon, Imagine? hardly typical of his output. That said I will chuck in: Zeppelin - Stairway The 'orrible Oo - My Generation\* Sabbath - Paranoid Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water \*Argh, Im tying myself in knots here. I suppose these days it’d be one of the CSI themes, oh well. ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singers-signature-songs/568731/23 "2011-01-24T16:49:02Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > Janis Joplin - Summertime Really? ---
**Author:** ![SeldomSeen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@SeldomSeen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeldomSeen)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singers-signature-songs/568731/24 "2011-01-24T17:15:01Z")
A few from the “classic country” realm… Johnny Cash - I walk the Line (already been mentioned) Willie Nelson - Blue eyes crying in the Rain Hank Williams - Your cheatin’ heart Waylon Jennings - Theme from “Dukes of Hazzard” Marty Robbins - El Paso Patsy Cline - Crazy Ray Price - For the good Times Kris Kristofferson - Why me Lord John Denver - Country Roads ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singers-signature-songs/568731/25 "2011-01-24T17:30:41Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > Janis Joplin - Summertime > [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](#): > > Really? I’d say Me and Bobby McGee or maybe Piece of My Heart. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singers-signature-songs/568731/26 "2011-01-24T17:36:36Z")
Rosemary Clooney - “Come on-a My House” Jimmy Durante - “Inka Dinka Doo” Sting - “Roxanne” (he revamps it and reworks it regularly, but he never drops it from his set, because he KNOWS it’s expected and he KNOWS it’s become his signature song, even though it’s an older song from before he became a solo act) Eric Clapton - “Layla” (same principle as Sting) Tammy wynette - “Stand By Your Man” ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singers-signature-songs/568731/27 "2011-01-24T17:47:27Z")
Barry Manilow–At the Copa, Copacabana ABBA–Dancing Queen Murray Head–One Night in Bangkok Beyoune–Single Ladies (Put a Ring on it). I am no fan of her type of music, but the first time I heard that song, I was blown away. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singers-signature-songs/568731/28 "2011-01-24T18:55:59Z")
Freddie Mercury – Bohemian Rhapsody ---
**Author:** ![Rain\_Soaked](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19adc/32.png) [@Rain\_Soaked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rain_Soaked)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singers-signature-songs/568731/29 "2011-01-24T19:13:49Z")
Mark Knopfler - Sultans of Swing Meatloaf - Paradise by the Dashboard Light ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singers-signature-songs/568731/30 "2011-01-24T19:24:54Z")
Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl – Which is quite unfortunate because almost every other song of his is better. But this the one you always hear. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singers-signature-songs/568731/31 "2011-01-24T20:38:32Z")
Don Ho - Tiny Bubbles ---
**Author:** ![Aeris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Aeris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeris)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singers-signature-songs/568731/32 "2011-01-24T20:56:59Z")
> [@NetTrekker](#): > > Frank Sinatra…Strangers in the Night (or is it NY, NY?) Yeah I would have said New York, New York, Fly Me to the Moon, or My Way. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singers-signature-songs/568731/33 "2011-01-24T20:58:10Z")
Re; Janis > [@Marley23](#): > > I’d say Me and Bobby McGee or maybe Piece of My Heart. I stand corrupted. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singers-signature-songs/568731/34 "2011-01-24T21:48:11Z")
Ella Fitzgerald: \*Lady Be Good \*(both fast and slow versions) Bing Crosby: \*White Christmas. \* Shirley Bassey: \*Goldfinger. \* Marilyn Monroe: \*Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friends. \* Johnny Mathis: \*Misty. \* Connie Francis: \*Where the Boys Are. \* Leslie Gore: \*It’s My Party. \* Liza Minnelli: \*Cabaret. \* ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singers-signature-songs/568731/35 "2011-01-25T03:45:11Z")
Dr. Dre: Ain’t Nothin’ but a G Thang ABBA: Dancing Queen Spice Girls: Wannabe Righteous Brothers: You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singers-signature-songs/568731/36 "2011-01-25T15:25:51Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Freddie Mercury – Bohemian Rhapsody What about We Are The Champions ---
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> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > What about We Are The Champions That’d be a close #2, in my book, at least. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singers-signature-songs/568731/38 "2011-01-25T15:58:11Z")
> [@NetTrekker](#): > > Frank Sinatra…Strangers in the Night (or is it NY, NY?) I would go with “My Way”. Bon Jovi - Living on a Prayer The Clash - London Calling Dave Mathews Band - Ants Marching Eminem - Lose Yourself ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singers-signature-songs/568731/39 "2011-01-25T16:04:10Z")
Two that should have been mentioned by now: Arlo Guthrie–Alice’s Restaurant Gordon Lightfoot–The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald I’d add Tom Paxton’s “Rambling Boy,” except nobody believes he actually wrote it. It’s often credited as a Traditional Folk Song. ---
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Roy Orbison: Oh Pretty Woman Madonna: Material Girl (or maybe Like a Virgin?) Grandmaster Flash: The Message ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2011, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singers-signature-songs/568731/41 "2011-01-26T05:26:09Z")
> [@KRC](#): > > No, Tom Lehrer’s signature song is _The Irish Ballad._ I’d be lying if I didn’t say that. No no! Cows with Guns! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singers-signature-songs/568731.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singers-signature-songs/568731.md?page=3)