My surplus T tunes:
Truth - Brian Auger
Time Again - Asia
Transmaniacon MC - Blue Oyster Cult
This Time Tomorrow - Kinks
Tunnel Of Love - Dire Straits
Thinking - Roger Daltrey
More T songs:
TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia) - MFSB
Take It to the Limit - The Eagles
Take My Breath Away - Berlin
Takin’ Care of Business - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Tear the Roof Off the Sucker (Give up the Funk) - Parliament
Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton
The Tears of a Clown - Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
Tell Her About It - Billy Joel
Tequila - The Champs
That Old Black Magic - Louis Prima and Keely Smith
That’s Life - Frank Sinatra
That’s What Friends Are For - Dionne Warwick & Friends
Theme from A Summer Place - Percy Faith
Theme from The Greatest American Hero - Joey Scarbury
Theme from New York, New York - Frank Sinatra
Theme from Summer of '42 - Peter Nero
Then Came You - Dionne Warwick & The Spinners
There Is a Mountain - Donovan
There Will Never Be Another You - The Seekers
There’s a Kind of Hush (All Over the World) - Herman’s Hermits
The Things We Do for Love - 10 cc
Third Rate Romance - The Amazing Rhythm Aces
This Bitter Earth - Dinah Washington
This Guy’s in Love with You - Herb Alpert
This Magic Moment - The Drifters
This Masquerade - George Benson
Tijuana Taxi - Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass
Tin Man - America
Too Hot - Kool & the Gang
Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield
Turn Me On, I’m a Radio - Joni Mitchell
Turning Japanese - The Vapors
Tusk - Fleetwood Mac
Tutti Frutti - Little Richard
Was on my list but didn’t make my 5 nominees.
Also:
Take Me Home Tonight/Be My Baby - Eddie Money
Tainted Love - Soft Cell
Train In Vain (Stand By Me) - The Clash
Tequila - The Champs
Taxman! Sheerly on the strength of that omission we need to play this one again.
That was, again, a bit frustrating. One choice for Poll I, 2 for II…and 11 for III, had to delete the Boss.
Take The Long Way Home - Supertramp
This Song Has No Title - Elton John
Talk About the Passion - REM
Texarkana - REM
Tom Sawyer - Rush
Theme For Great Cities - Simple Minds
This Corrosion - Sisters of Mercy
The Temple of Love - Sisters of Mercy
Twenty Four Hours - Joy Division
Turquoise Days- Echo and the Bunnymen
Ten Years Gone - Led Zeppelin
Take A Chance With Me - Roxy Music
Well, some of you guys’s leftovers overlapped with some of mine, but here are mine that I didn’t see:
Take the Long Way Home - Supertramp
Take the Money and Run - Steve Miller Band
Take Out the Trash - They Might Be Giants
Tale O’ the Twister - Chagall Guevara
Tall Trees - Michael Roe
Tears Before Bedtime - Elvis Costello and the Attractions
Tears You Can’t Hide - Madness
Tell Him - Linda Ronstadt
Tell Me How You Feel - Phil Keaggy
Temporary Secretary - Paul McCartney
Ten Gallon Hat - Terry Scott Taylor
Tenderly - Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem
They’ll Need a Crane - They Might Be Giants
This Girl - Jordan Zevon
This Man He Weeps Tonight - The Kinks
This Night - Billy Joel
This Year’s Girl - Elvis Costello
Till My Head Falls Off - They Might Be Giants
Time Passages - Al Stewart
Too Late For Goodbyes - Julian Lennon
Too Much Heaven - The Bee Gees
Tough It Out - Webb Wilder
This is the one I kept hoping someone would nominate.
Also on my wishlist.
Love those.
I wouldn’t have minded seeing some version of Tonight from West Side Story.
One of my favourites is from the Smooth Jazz genre;
T-Jam by George Duke.
I prefer the Jasper version.
My also-rans:
Toxic - Britney Spears
This Is the Life - Amy MacDonald (unless “this” = “the”)
Try Again - Aaliyah
Torn - Natalie Imbruglia
Tous les Cris, les SOS - Daniel Balavoine
Most of my list has already been captured by others, but here’s a few more, some of which really are glaring omissions:
Take Love Easy - Ella Fitzgerald
Talk Of The Town - Kate Walsh
Tally - BLACKPINK
Tangled Up In Plaid - Queens of the Stone Age
Tango Til They’re Sore - Holly Cole (or the Tom Waits original)
Taxi - Nova Twins
Tear My Stillhouse Down - Gillian Welch
Teenage Kicks - The Undertones
Teenagers - My Chemical Romance
Telephone and Rubber Band - Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Telephone Man - Meri Wilson
Thank You, Baked Potato - Matt Lucas (sorry - had to)
Thank You, Republic Airlines - Tom Paxton
That’s All Right - Elvis Presley
Theme From Mahogany (Do You Know Where You’re Going To) - Diana Ross
Theme From Rawhide - Blues Brothers
Theme From Shaft - Isaac Hayes
Therapy - Andrew Garfield/Vanessa Hudgens (from Tick Tick Boom!)
There Are Bad Times Just Around The Corner - Noel Coward
There’s A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He’s Elvis - Kirsty MacColl (if you haven’t heard this one, you really should)
There’s More To Life Than This - Bjork
They’re Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Haaaa! - Napoleon XIV
Thief - Belly
This Is The Picture (Excellent Birds) - Peter Gabriel/Laurie Anderson
Three Is A Magic Number - Bob Dorough/Schoolhouse Rock
Tiger Rag - Art Tatum
Time Will Crawl - David Bowie
Tip Toe Thru’ the Tulips With Me - Tiny Tim
Title of the Song - Da Vinci’s Notebook
Toe Jam - The BPA/David Byrne/Dizzee Rascal
Tom’s Diner - Suzanne Vega
Tom Traubert’s Blues - Tom Waits
Too Much, Too Little, Too Late - Johnny Mathis / Deniece Williams
Traffic Jam - James Taylor
Transfusion - Nervous Norvus
Transylvanian Concubine - Rasputina
Trouble Man - Marvin Gaye
Try Some, Buy Some - Ronnie Spector
The Tunnel of Love - Fun Boy Three
Turn The World Around - Harry Belafonte
Twenty Five Miles - Edwin Starr
Twisted - Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
We could have four more polls with all that material.
Although there was much overlap with earlier posts, I still have these left:
Turn Me On I’m A Radio - Joni Mitchell
Two Young Lovers - Dire Straits
Theme For An Imaginary Western - Jack Bruce
Tried So Hard - Flying Burrito Brothers (it was hard to leave this out because I love it so much)
This Flight Tonight - Joni Mitchell or Nazareth
Tombstone Shadow - CCR
Tin Soldier - The Small Faces
Twenty Flight Rock - Eddie Cochran
Till I Die - The Beach Boys
Too Much On My Mind - The Kinks
Tower Of Song - Leonard Cohen
Tomorrow Is A Long Time - Bob Dylan
Tired Of Waiting - The Kinks
There She Goes Again - The Velvet Underground
TCV-15 - David Bowie
Not sure how that would work in the big picture.
And don’t call me Sheerly.
mmm
Sure, why not?
The Unofficial, Does Not Count, Will Not Affect The Final Results T Song Poll, Part 1/5
- Touch Me - The Doors
- A Thousand Miles - Vanessa Carlton
- Tainted Love - Soft Cell
- Take A Chance With Me - Roxy Music
- Take It On The Run - REO Speedwagon
- Take It to the Limit - The Eagles
- Take Love Easy - Ella Fitzgerald
- Take Me Back To Tulsa – Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
- Take Me Home Tonight/Be My Baby - Eddie Money
- Take Me to the Pilot – Elton John
- Take Me to the River – Al Green
- Take My Breath Away - Berlin
- Take Out the Trash - They Might Be Giants
- Take The Long Way Home - Supertramp
- Take the Money and Run - Steve Miller Band
- Take These Chains From My Heart – Hank Williams
- Take This Waltz – Leonard Cohen
- Takin’ Care of Business - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
- Tale O’ the Twister - Chagall Guevara
- Talk About the Passion - REM
- Talk Of The Town - Kate Walsh
- Tall Boy – Abby Webster
- Tall Trees - Michael Roe
- Tally - BLACKPINK
- Taneytown – Steve Earle
- Tangled Up In Plaid - Queens of the Stone Age
- Tango Til They’re Sore - Holly Cole (or the Tom Waits original)
- Taste of Honey, A – Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass
- Taxi - Nova Twins
- Taxman – The Beatles
- TCV-15 - David Bowie
- Tear My Stillhouse Down - Gillian Welch
- Tear the Roof Off the Sucker (Give up the Funk) - Parliament
- Tears Before Bedtime - Elvis Costello and the Attractions
- Tears Dry On Their Own – Amy Winehouse
- Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton
- Tears You Can’t Hide - Madness
- Teenage Kicks - The Undertones
- Teenagers - My Chemical Romance
- Telephone and Rubber Band - Penguin Cafe Orchestra
- Telephone Man - Meri Wilson
- Telephone Road – Steve Earle
- Tell Her About It - Billy Joel
- Tell Him - Linda Ronstadt
- Tell It Like It Is – Aaron Neville
- Tell Mama – Etta James
- Tell Me How You Feel - Phil Keaggy
- Tell Me When Did Things Go So Wrong – The Smithereens
- Tell Me Why – Neil Young
- Temporary Secretary - Paul McCartney
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- Ten Gallon Hat - Terry Scott Taylor
- Ten Years Gone - Led Zeppelin
- Tender Years - John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band
- Tenderly - Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem
- Tenderness on the Block – Warren Zevon
- Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out – Bruce Springsteen
- Tequila - The Champs
- Texarkana - REM
- Thank U - Alanis Morisette
- Thank You, Baked Potato - Matt Lucas
- Thank You, Republic Airlines - Tom Paxton
- That Girl Could Sing - Jackson Browne
- That Lady (Part 1) – The Isley Brothers
- That Old Black Hole – Dr. Dog
- That Old Black Magic - Louis Prima and Keely Smith
- That Smell – Lynyrd Skynyrd
- That’s All Right - Elvis Presley
- That’s Life – Frank Sinatra
- That’s Life – Lauren Ruth Ward
- That’s What Friends Are For - Dionne Warwick & Friends
- The Tears of a Clown – Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
- The Temple of Love - Sisters of Mercy
- The Things We Do for Love - 10 cc
- The Tide Is High – Blondie
- The Tunnel of Love - Fun Boy Three
- Theme For An Imaginary Western - Jack Bruce
- Theme For Great Cities - Simple Minds
- Theme from A Summer Place - Jasper
- Theme from A Summer Place - Percy Faith
- Theme From Mahogany (Do You Know Where You’re Going To) - Diana Ross
- Theme from New York, New York - Frank Sinatra
- Theme From Rawhide - Blues Brothers
- Theme From Shaft - Isaac Hayes
- Theme from Summer of '42 - Peter Nero
- Theme from The Greatest American Hero - Joey Scarbury
- Then Came You - Dionne Warwick & The Spinners
- Then He Kissed Me – The Crystals
- Therapy - Andrew Garfield/Vanessa Hudgens (from Tick Tick Boom!)
- There Are Bad Times Just Around The Corner - Noel Coward
- There Is a Mountain - Donovan
- There She Goes Again - The Velvet Underground
- There Will Never Be Another You - The Seekers
- There’s A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He’s Elvis - Kirsty MacColl
- There’s a Kind of Hush (All Over the World) - Herman’s Hermits
- There’s More To Life Than This - Bjork
- These Eyes – The Guess Who
- They Don’t Know – Kirsty MacColl
- They Don’t Shine – Tedeschi Trucks Band
- They’ll Need a Crane - They Might Be Giants
- They’re Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Haaaa! - Napoleon XIV
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- Thief - Belly
- Thing You Left Behind – The Nails
- Things Can Only Get Better - Howard Jones
- Things We Said Today – The Beatles
- Thinking - Roger Daltrey
- Third Rate Romance - The Amazing Rhythm Aces
- This Bitter Earth - Dinah Washington
- This Boy – The Beatles
- This Corrosion - Sisters of Mercy
- This Flight Tonight - Joni Mitchell or Nazareth
- This Girl - Jordan Zevon
- This Guy’s in Love with You – Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass
- This House is Empty Now – Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach
- This Is the Life - Amy MacDonald
- This Is The Picture (Excellent Birds) - Peter Gabriel/Laurie Anderson
- This Is The Way Love Is - 77s
- This Live – Vampire Weekend
- This Magic Moment - The Drifters
- This Man He Weeps Tonight - The Kinks
- This Masquerade - George Benson
- This Night - Billy Joel
- This Song Has No Title - Elton John
- This Time Tomorrow - Kinks
- This Wheels On Fire – Julie Driscoll
- This Year’s Girl - Elvis Costello
- Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer – Nat King Cole
- Those Were the Days – Mary Hopkin
- Three Is A Magic Number - Bob Dorough/Schoolhouse Rock
- Through The Fire And Flame – Dragonforce
- Tiger Mountain Peasant Song – First Aid Kit
- Tiger Rag - Art Tatum
- Tightrope – LP
- Tijuana Taxi - Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass
- Till I Die - The Beach Boys
- Till My Head Falls Off - They Might Be Giants
- Time Again - Asia
- Time Is on My Side – The Rolling Stones
- Time of the Preacher – Willie Nelson
- Time Passages - Al Stewart
- Time Will Crawl - David Bowie
- Timothy – The Buoys
- Tin Man - America
- Tin Soldier - The Small Faces
- Tiny Montgomery – Bob Dylan & the Band
- Tip Toe Thru’ the Tulips With Me - Tiny Tim
- Tired of Being Alone – Al Green
- Tired Of Waiting - The Kinks
- Titanium - Sia
- Title of the Song - Da Vinci’s Notebook
- T-Jam by George Duke.
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- To Be Young, Gifted and Black – Nina Simone
- To Daddy – Dolly Parton
- To Live and Die in L.A. - Wang Chung
- To Love Somebody – Gram Parsons
- To Love Somebody – Nina Simone
- To Love Somebody – The Bee Gees
- To Sir with Love – Lulu
- Today – Smashing Pumpkins
- Today I Started Loving You Again – Merle Haggard
- Toe Jam - The BPA/David Byrne/Dizzee Rascal
- Together Again – Emmylou Harris
- Together Forever - Rick Astley
- Tokyo Storm Warning – Elvis Costello
- Tom Sawyer - Rush
- Tom Traubert’s Blues - Tom Waits
- Tom’s Diner - Suzanne Vega
- Tombstone Shadow - CCR
- Tomorrow Is A Long Time - Bob Dylan
- Tomorrow Wendy – Concrete Blonde
- Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down – Waylon Jennings
- Tonight from West Side Story
- Tonight’s the Night – Neil Young
- Too Hot - Kool & the Gang
- Too Late For Goodbyes - Julian Lennon
- Too Late To Turn Back Now - Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose
- Too Many People – Paul McCartney
- Too Much Heaven - The Bee Gees
- Too Much On My Mind - The Kinks
- Too Much Time On My Hands - Styx
- Too Much, Too Little, Too Late - Johnny Mathis / Deniece Williams
- Top of the World – The Chicks
- Torn - Natalie Imbruglia
- Total Destruction To Your Mind – Stoneground
- Touch Me in the Morning – Diana Ross
- Tough It Out - Webb Wilder
- Tous les Cris, les SOS - Daniel Balavoine
- Tower Of Song - Leonard Cohen
- Town Without Pity – Gene Pitney
- Toxic - Britney Spears
- Traffic Jam - James Taylor
- Train In Vain (Stand By Me) - The Clash
- Train Kep A Rollin’ – Imelda May
- Transfusion - Nervous Norvus
- Transmaniacon MC - Blue Oyster Cult
- Transylvanian Concubine - Rasputina
- Trapped - Bruce Springsteen
- Travelin’ Man – Ricky Nelson
- Treat Her Like a Lady – Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose
- Tried So Hard - Flying Burrito Brothers
- Trouble – Ray LaMontagne
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