What is the best song that begins with the letter S? See rules in OP. Polls will appear in this thread

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What are your favorite S songs POLL, part II. Select up to 10.

  • Some Are – David Bowie
  • Some Like it Hot – The Power Station
  • Something – The Beatles
  • Soon – My Bloody Valentine
  • The Sound of Silence – Simon & Garfunkel
  • South Street – The Orlons
  • Southern Man – Neil Young
  • Space Oddity – David Bowie
  • Spirit in the Sky – Norman Greenbaum
  • Stairway to Heaven – Led Zeppelin
  • Stardust – Hoagy Carmichael
  • Stardust – Nat King Cole
  • Starman – David Bowie
  • Starship Troopers – Yes
  • State Trooper – Bruce Springsteen
  • Steppin’ Out – Joe Jackson
  • Steven’s Last Night in Town – Ben Folds Five
  • A Stones Throw Away – Barbara Keith
  • Strong Hand of Love – Mark Heard
  • Stumpo Knee Grinder – Didjits
  • Style – Taylor Swift
  • Sultans of Swing – Dire Straits
  • Summer in the City – The Lovin’ Spoonful
  • Summertime – Billie Holiday
  • Summertime – Miles Davis and Gil Evans
  • Summertime Blues – The Who
  • Sun Comes Up, It’s Tuesday Morning – Cowboy Junkies
  • Sunday, Bloody Sunday – U2
  • Sunny – Bobby Hebb
  • Sunny Afternoon – The Kinks
  • Sunrise – The Who
  • Super Freak – Rick James
  • Super Womble – Mike Batt
  • Superstar – The Carpenters
  • Superstition – Stevie Wonder
  • Sure Nuff and Yes I Do – Captain Beefheart
  • Surfin’ Bird – The Trashmen
  • Surfin’ Safari – The Beach Boys
  • Surfin’ U.S.A. – The Beach Boys
  • Surrender – Cheap Trick
  • Suspicious Minds – Elvis Presley
  • Suzanne – Leonard Cohen
  • Sweat Loaf – Butthole Surfers
  • Sweet Caroline – Neil Diamond
  • Sweet Child O’ Mine – Guns N’ Roses
  • Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - Eurythmics
  • Sweet Home Alabama – Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Sweet Jane – The Velvet Underground
  • Sweet Old World – Lucinda Williams
  • Sympathy for the Devil – The Rolling Stones
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Is there a reason “Sir Duke” didn’t make it onto the polls? (I intended to vote for it.)

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Looking at it now, I somehow missed @Q.Q.Switcheroo’s post and all 3 of their submissions: Sir Duke, Scarborough Fair, and Shotgun.

These are all excellent submissions, I’m very sorry, Q.Q.!

(howsabout I give you 6 entries for the next letter?)

mmm

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Sounds good - no harm done!

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Okay, just so you know I’d have given a vote to Scarborough Fair.

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Wish that I had remembered to mention Stoney End–Barbra Streisand.

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And I’m upset at myself for not thinking of Southern Cross by Crosby, Stills, & Nash.

mmm

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That just means you add another poll titled “Shit We ALL Forgot.”

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What about Sweet Baby James, by James Taylor, in post # 27? I don’t see it in either of the polls :frowning:

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Crap! You get a bonus selection next round, @gkster. Sorry!

I promise to be more careful in the future.

(I would have voted for Sweet Baby James, just played it today in fact)

mmm

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Thank you mmm!

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Thanks! :slightly_smiling_face:

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Now that the nominations are over and the voting has begun, here are some of the other S songs I thought of:

Sara Smile - Hall and Oates
Say It Isn’t So - Hall and Oates
Send in the Clowns - Judy Collins
Shambala - Three Dog Night
She’s Not There - The Zombies
Shining Star - Earth, Wind and Fire
Shout - The Isley Brothers
The Show Must Go On - Leo Sayer
Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I’m Yours - Stevie Wonder
Sister Golden Hair - America
Smile a Little Smile for Me - Flying Machine
So Very Hard to Go - Tower of Power
Somebody to Love - Jefferson Airplane
Son of a Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield
Stand by Me - Ben E. King
Strange Magic - Electric Light Orchestra
Stuck in the Middle with You - Stealer’s Wheel
Suite: Judy Blue Eyes - Crosby, Stills & Nash
Sunshine of Your Love - Cream

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^Great list!

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It’s going to be quite the challenge when you get to ‘X’.

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Dang, many of those are iconic!

Olivia Newton John is giddy with anticipation. :slight_smile:

mmm

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More from the late arrivals - unsurprisingly, S provides an abundance of options:

Sailing By (Ronald Binge/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra)
Save Me (Dave Matthews)
Scenes From An Italian Restaurant (Billy Joel)
School Revolution (Voice of Baceprot)
Science Fiction/Double Feature (Richard O’Brien)
Season of the Witch (Donovan)
Secret Agent Man (Johnny Rivers)
Seduced (Leon Redbone)
Seven Nation Army (White Stripes)
Shake a Tail Feather (Ray Charles/Blues Brothers)
Sharkey’s Day (Laurie Anderson)
Sharon (David Bromberg)
She’s A Rainbow (Rolling Stones)
Shipbuilding (Elvis Costello)
Short Ride in a Fast Machine (John Adams/orchestra of your choice)
Shout (Tears for Fears)
Signs (Five Man Electrical Band)
Silence is Golden (Tremeloes)
Sinnerman (Nina Simone)
Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ The Boat (Stubby Kaye)
Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (Richard Rodgers/Hollywood Bowl Orchestra)
A Slow Song (Joe Jackson)
Smalltown Boy (Bronski Beat)
Smiling Faces Sometimes (The Temptations)
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (Dinah Washington)
The Snake (Al Wilson)
Solace - A Mexican Serenade (Scott Joplin/ pianist of your choice)
Song 2 (Blur)
Songs of Love (Divine Comedy)
Sophisticated Lady (Billie Holiday)
Soul Man (Sam & Dave)
Spirit in the Sky (Norman Greenbaum)
Stagger Lee (Lloyd Price)
Stand By Your Man (Tammy Wynette)
Start Wearing Purple (Gogol Bordello)
Still Alive (Jonathan Coulton/Aperture Science Psychoacoustic Laboratories)
The Stripper (David Rose and His Orchestra)
Subterranean Homesick Blues (Bob Dylan)
Sunday Morning (Velvet Underground)
Surface Pressure (Jessica Darrow)
Sway (Rosemany Clooney)
Sweet Georgia Brown (I prefer Anita O’Day, but there are a lot of excellent versions)
Swords of a Thousand Men (Tenpole Tudor)

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I’ve got six on my Spotify playlist, none of which are ONJ’s offering. But most of them are pretty obscure.

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[slaps forehead]

mmm

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Yeah, I limited myself to three, but I thought of a lot more strong contenders, including
She Loves You - The Beatles
Seven Year Ache - Rosanne Cash
Senses Working Overtime - XTC
The Safety Dance - Men Without Hats
Sweet Talkin’ Woman - ELO
Scattered - The Kinks
Strangers - The Kinks
Soul Man - The Blues Brothers