What is the best song that begins with the letter B? See rules in OP

Rules:

Submissions are limited to 5 per person.

Exclude articles such as “a”, “an”, “the”, etc. that begin the title. Example: “The Hokey Pokey” belongs in the H poll, not the T poll.

Exclude titles that begin with punctuation, such as an apostrophe, parenthesis, etc.

You must include the artist (not the composer, unless they are the same person) or your submission will not be counted.

Polls will appear in this thread once we reach 100 or 150 nominations, depending on when we hit a wall.

Classical releases are excluded.

Final poll, also in this thread, will narrow the field to 10.

Boxer, The - Simon & Garfunkel
Back Stabbers - The O’Jays
Because - The Dave Clark Five
Break On Through (To the Other Side) - The Doors
Betcha By Golly Wow - The Stylistics

Ballroom Blitz - The Sweet

Big John — Jimmy Dean

Benson, Arizona — Joe Bethancourt

Ballad of Big Blue — Gordon Lightfoot

Born Too Late — Poni-Tails

Big Boss Man - Jimmy Reed
Because the Night - Patti Smith Group
Baby’s on Fire - Eno
Baby Please Don’t Go - Muddy Waters

Be My Baby - The Ronettes
Back in the USSR - The Beatles
Birdhouse in Your Soul - They Might Be Giants
Blowing in the Wind - Bob Dylan
Blue Moon - The Marcels

Ballad of Gilligan’s Island — Wellingtons

Brown Street - Joe Zawinul Syndicate
Birdland - Weather Report
Boys from the Bay - Tower of Power
Bundle of Funk - the Count Basie Orchestra
Beyond the Sea - Jeff Krolick (Instrumental).

A question … Does the recording/version have to be a commercially released song,
or would a Youtube video of some amateur band be accepted ?

Another category that’s hard to winnow down, but:

Bachelorette - Björk. Big and sweeping.

Beggin’ - Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons (now with the Cyriak Harris video for extra value)

Beach Baby - First Class (despite or perhaps because of the blatant plagiarism from Sibelius’ Fifth Symphony)

Being Alive - Dean Jones (& Cast of Company). The last take of a long day and Jones gives it every last ounce he has left.

Buffalo Soldier - Bob Marley & The Wailers. Not sure whether the claim that the resemblance of one passage to the Banana Splits theme is deliberate is true or not, but it’s still a great song.

I think that would be ok if there is a link provided.

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You and I could hang out.

I just saw “Company” a couple weeks ago.

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Birdman - Ride
Beautiful Day - U2
Bel Air - Can
The Big Sky - Kate Bush
Bitter Sweet Symphony - The Verve

I’ll order the pizza. Meat lovers okay? With extra meat?

Bikini Girls With Machine Guns - The Cramps

Boogie Fever - Sylvers

Big Business - David Byrne / Talking Heads

Bright Lights - Gary Clark Jr.

Bullet With Butterfly Wings - Smashing Pumpkins

Polls are up for the letter K.

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Beeswing – Richard Thompson

Big Yellow Taxi – Joni Mitchell

Black Friday – Steely Dan

Bruised Orange (Chain of Sorrow) – John Prine

Buckets of Rain – Bob Dylan

Bad Motor Scooter- Montrose
Bus Driver- Muddy Waters
Big Black Mariah- Tom Waits
Black Napkins- Frank Zappa

Bad Romance - Lady Gaga

Back on the Chain Gang - The Pretenders

Born to Run - Springsteen

Begin the Begin - R.E.M.

Bring on the Night - The Police

Breakdown, the Alan Parsons Project
Baby Blue, Badfinger
Bus Stop, The Hollies
Burning for You, Blue Oyster Cult
Break It to Me Gently, Juice Newton