Honorable mention:
“Babe” by Styx.
In the Smooth Jazz category, I’d like to suggest:
Bali Run by Four Play
Forgot one. Darn it.
Y’all better start voting on Bust a Move. How many songs can legit get five generations up on a dance floor?
Hear! Hear!
Let’s refresh their memories.
^With Flea playing bass.
Nice fun list.
I did. Old Skool rap.
Not that it’ll matter, but Google says that the Gordon Lightfoot Ballad of Big Blue is actually titled Ode to Big Blue. Alexa concurs.
Thread for next letter here.
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More B songs:
Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me - Mac Davis
Baby, I Love Your Way - Peter Frampton
Baby I Need Your Loving - The Four Tops
Baby Love - The Supremes
Baby, What a Big Surprise - Chicago
Back Home Again - John Denver
Back in the U.S.A. - Chuck Berry
Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor) - Robert Palmer
Bad Luck - Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes
Banana Boat Song - Harry Belafonte
Band of Gold - Freda Payne
Be Thankful for What You’ve Got - William DeVaughn
Beast of Burden - The Rolling Stones
Beautiful Morning - The Rascals
Because - The Beatles
Before the Next Teardrop Falls - Freddy Fender
Best of My Love - The Eagles
Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes
Big Girls Don’t Cry - The Four Seasons
The Bitch Is Back - Elton John
Black Is Black - Los Bravos
Blue Velvet - Bobby Vinton
Blueberry Hill - Fats Domino
Born in the U.S.A. - Bruce Springsteen
Bottle of Wine - The Fireballs
The Boy from New York City - The Ad Libs
The Boys Are Back in Town - Thin Lizzy
Brand New Key - Melanie
Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison
Build Me Up Buttercup - The Foundations
But It’s Alright - J.J. Jackson
By the Time I Get to Phoenix - Glen Campbell
Yeah, there are lots of “B” songs. I thought of way more than my allotted 5 and had to narrow down my list. Even now, there are iconic songs that haven’t been mentioned in this thread (“Breakfast In America,” for one example).
I forgot one of my favourites, that I only listened to again last week - Breakaway by Big Pig.
Also, Breakdown by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
Just a heads up on a new rule: Please do not post title suggestions for others to submit. This takes a little of the fun out of the process.
It is ok, after the polls are posted, to name some titles that have been overlooked.
Thanks,
mmm
More:
Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing - Chris Isaak
Baby Got Back - either Sir Mix-A-Lot or Jonathan Coulton
Babylon - Don McLean
Back Water Blues - LaVern Baker
bad guy - Billie Eilish
Ballad of the Runaway Horse - Rob Wasserman, Jennifer Warnes
Ball N’ Chain - Big Mama Thornton
Bananaphone - Raffi
Bang on the Drum All Day - Todd Rundgren
Barefootin’ - Robert Parker
The Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton
Beasley Street - John Cooper Clarke
Beep Beep - The Playmates
Bela Lugosi’s Dead - Bauhaus
Believer - Imagine Dragons
Bethlehem Down - Peter Warlock / various choirs (doesn’t matter now)
Better Off With The Blues - Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown
Between the Lines - Janis Ian
Big Ten Inch Record - Bull Moose Jackson (later covered by Aerosmith IIRC)
Bitch - Meredith Brooks
Black Betty - Ram Jam
Blackbird - Beatles
Blue Moon Revisited (Song For Elvis) - The Cowboy Junkies
Blue Rondo a la Turk - The Dave Bruberk Quartet
Bohemian Like You - Dandy Warhols
Boogie Nights - Heatwave
Boombastic - Shaggy
Boom Boom - John Lee Hooker
Born, Never Asked - Laurie Anderson
Boum! - Charles Trenet
A Boy Named Sue - Johnny Cash
Bring Me Sunshine - Morecambe & Wise
Bug Powder Dust - Bomb the Bass
bury a friend - Billie Eilish
Busted - Candace and Vanessa from Phineas & Ferb - (shut up, I love this song)
Final poll – What is the best B song? Select up to 3.
Best B Song
- Baba O’Reilly – The Who
- Back in the U.S.S.R. – The Beatles
- Back on the Chain Gang – The Pretenders
- Bad Moon Rising – Creedence Clearwater Revival
- Because the Night – Patti Smith Group
- Big Yellow Taxi – Joni Mitchell
- Blowin’ in the Wind – Bob Dylan
- Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen
- Born on the Bayou – Creedence Clearwater Revival
- Born to be Wild – Steppenwolf
- Born to Run – Bruce Springsteen
- Bridge Over Troubled Water – Simon & Garfunkel
- The Boxer – Simon & Garfunkel
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Serious oversight :-
Bloody well right - Supertramp
Never mind.
Just listened to this, had not heard it before. It’s brilliant.
Thank you for your service.
mmm
Hey, thank you! You’re doing the heavy lifting here, and these polls have expanded my musical horizons too.
I hope you watched the video as well - any Dylan fan would spot it right off the bat.