As a fan of a wide variety of popular (and not-so-popular) music from the 1950s (and sometimes even earlier) up through the present, one of my bucket list projects for years has been to put together a list of my 100 favorite songs of all time. At some point I decided that, once I got around to figuring that out, I could put it out on a blog, for the infinitesimally small proportion of the Internet world that might be interested. So, here we are. While the Top 100 will be a major focus, I also plan to post on a variety of other musical (and occasionally non-musical) topics, in which you may or may not be interested. (If a particular posting doesn’t ring your bell, you’re only a few clicks away from a dancing cat video on YouTube.)

Saturday, February 28, 2026

Shuffle #188 (February 23, 2026)

Feel It Still – Portugal. The Man

Happy Jack – The Who

Without Love – Tom Jones

Jolly Mon Sing – Jimmy Buffett

Stone Cold Sober – Del Amitri

Hercules  – Aaron Neville

Another Star – Stevie Wonder

Orange-Coloured Sky – Richard Thompson

True Love Part 2 – X

Cross My Heart – Billy Stewart

Summer Kisses, Winter Tears – Elvis Presley

Sealed With A Kiss – Brian Hyland

Harbor Lights – The Platters

Conga – Gloria Estefan

Cheatin' Songs – Midland

When I Grow Up – Michelle Shocked

The Promised Land – Bruce Springsteen

Can't Get There From Here – R.E.M.

Dedication to My Ex (Miss That) – Lloyd

Don't Play That Song – Bruce Springsteen

Gone Again – Quicksilver Messenger Service

California Love – 2Pac

When the Feeling Comes Around – Jennifer Warnes

You'll Never Get to Heaven (If You Break My Heart) – The Stylistics

If You Could Read My Mind – Gordon Lightfoot

What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? – The Orioles

Sail Away – Randy Newman

California Sun – Gin Blossoms

3 comments:

  1. Never a big fan of Sedaka, although he made a big contribution pre-British invasion. Amazingly, he grew up in the same Jewish Brooklyn neighborhood about the same time as these contemporaries: Carole King (of course), Neil Diamond, Barbra Streisand, and Barry Manilow.
    Anyway:
    1. Laughter in the Rain
    2. Bad Blood
    3. Next Door to an Angel
    4. Breaking Up is Hard to Do
    5. Calendar Girl

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    1. I wasn't a huge fan either, although I did like his remake of Breaking Up is Hard to Do.

      Ken Emerson wrote a great book, Always Magic in the Air, about Sedaka/Greenfield and 6 other great songwriting duos of the era.

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    2. Ouch -- not sure how I forgot this classic.
      https://ramblingrhoads.blogspot.com/2016/02/103-rainy-day-bells-globetrotters-1970.html

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