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The ideal adult standards format

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vchimpanzee

I used to think the ideal standards format would be just standards. But I don't even know where the line would be drawn. So many songs that are really oldies and not standards have been a part of the adult standards format since the very beginning. These songs still belong even if conservative oldies stations play them. some actual standards even get played on some oldies stations. Now, I believe there could be an ideal "adult standards" format that has a lot of oldies and even classic adult contemporary. It probably wouldn't be a commercial station. Maybe it wouldn't even be noncommercial. Maybe a station like this would just be online.

Back when I first learned The Villages had its own radio station, I pictured something like this.

I made a list of songs by artist mostly from what I have heard over the years on adult standards satellite formats. I decided not to include a lot from the 40s. The artists are in alphabetical order, except individuals (who might include orchestra leaders) are in order by last name, not first name. Duets or trios often include the partner or partners indented under the first member of the group. The name of a band or orchestra is in order by first word unless the first word is "The", and I don't even include "The" in some cases even if that word is included in the band's name. Song titles are in alphabetical order, under each artist, by the first word unless the first word is a, an or the.

I'll bet I've left some songs out. And it took two posts because there is a limit.
 
Morris Albert--Feelings

Herb Alpert--Cabaret, Casino Royale, Lonely Bull, Mexican Shuffle, Rise, Route 101, Spanish Flea, A Taste of Honey, This Guy's in Love with You, Tijuana Taxi, What Now My Love, Whipped Cream

Ed Ames--My Cup Runneth Over, Try to Remember

Ames Brothers--You You You

Lynn Anderson--I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Leroy Anderson--Blue Tango

Julie Andrews--The Sound of Music

Paul Anka--Having My Baby, Puppy Love, Put Your Head on My Shoulder, Times of Your Life

Ray Anthony--At Last, Blue Hawaii

Louis Armstrong--A Kiss to Build a Dream On, Hello Dolly, What a Wonderful World

- and Ella Fitzgerald--Let's Call the Whole Thing Off, Tenderly, The Nearness of You

Eddy Arnold--I Want to Go with You, Make the World Go Away, Turn the World Around, What's He Doing in My World

Asleep at the Wheel--Choo Choo Ch'Boogie

Association--Along Comes Mary, Cherish, Everything That Touches You, Never My Love, Windy

Fred Astaire--They Can't Take That Away from Me

Chet Atkins--Springtime

Frankie Avalon--Bobby Sox to Stockings

Baja Marimba Band--Comin' in the Back Door, Moonglow

Kenny Ball--Midnight in Moscow

Chris Barber--Petite Fleur

Les Baxter--Because of You, Poor People of Paris, Quiet Village, Theme from "The High and the Mighty", Unchained Melody

Beach Boys--God Only Knows, In My Room, Little Surfer Girl

Beatles--And I Love Her, Do You Want to Know a Secret, Here Comes the Sun, Here There and Everywhere, I'll Follow the Sun, Michelle, P.S. I Love You, There's a Place, When I'm Sixty-Four, Yesterday

Bee Gees--How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, How Deep Is Your Love, Love So Right, More Than a Woman, Too Much Heaven

Harry Belafonte--Jamaica Farewell

Tony Bennett--Because of You, Change in the Weather, The Good Life, I Left My Heart in San Francisco, I Wanna Be Around, If I Ruled the World, Rags to Riches, The Shadow of Your Smile, Something, Steppin' Out with My Baby, Stranger in Paradise, Who Can I Turn To

-and Natalie Cole--Watch What Happens

-and Lady Gaga--The Lady Is a Tramp

-and k.d. lang--Moonglow

-and Carrie Underwood--It Had to Be You

George Benson--Breezin'

Bent Fabric--Alley Cat

Bob Crewe Generation--Music to Watch Girls By

Booker T and the MGs--Green Onions, Time Is Tight

Brian Setzer Orchestra--Jump Jive and Wail

Brook Benton--Endlessly, Fools Rush In, It's Just a Matter of Time, Kiddio, Rainy Night in Georgia

-and Dinah Washington--You've Got What It Takes

Acker Bilk--Stranger on the Shore

Stephen Bishop--It Might Be You, On and On

Blackbyrds--Walking in Rhythm

Blood Sweat and Tears--Spinning Wheel, You Make Me So Very Happy

Booker T and the MGs--Green Onions, Time Is Tight

Debby Boone--You Light Up My Life

Pat Boone--April Love, Don't Forbid Me, Friendly Persuasion, Love Letters in the Sand, Moody River

Perry Botkin Jr. and Barry DeVorzon--Nadia's Theme

Chris Botti and Michael Buble--Let There Be Love

Susan Boyle--Cry Me a River, I Dreamed a Dream

Brasil 66--Fool on the Hill, Night and Day, Pretty World

The Brass Ring--Senza Fine

Bread--Aubrey, Baby I'm-A Want You, Diary, Everything I Own, If, It Don't Matter to Me, Make It with You

Teresa Brewer--Music Music Music

Brothers Four--Greenfields, The Green Leaves of Summer

Les Brown--Dream, I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm, Leap Frog

Dave Brubeck--Take Five

Anita Bryant--My Little Corner of the World, Paper Roses

Michael Buble--Come Dance with Me, Feeling Good, Lost, Me and Mrs. Jones, Moondance, Nevertheless I'm in Love with You, That's All, You Don't Know Me

Jerry Butler--Make It Easy On Yourself

Bobby Caldwell--I Get a Kick Out of You

Glen Campbell--By the Time I Get to Phoenix, Country Boy, Galveston, Gentle on My Mind, Rhinestone Cowboy, Southern Nights, Try a Little Kindness, Wichita Lineman

Captain and Tennille--Do That to Me One More Time, Love Will Keep Us Together, The Way That I Want to Touch You

Eric Carmen--All by Myself, Never Gonna Fall in Love Again

Carpenters--Close to You, For All We Know, Hurting Each Other, I Won't Last a Day Without You, It's Going to Take Some Time, Only Yesterday, Please Mr. Postman, Rainy Days and Mondays, Sing, Superstar, Sweet Sweet Smile, There's a Kind of Hush, Top of the World, We've Only Just Begun, Yesterday Once More

Vikki Carr--It Must Be Him, With Pen in Hand

Casinos--Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye

Champs--Tequila

Ray Charles--Born to Lose, Busted, Georgia on My Mind, Hit the Road Jack, I Can't Stop Lovin' You, Ruby, Take These Chains from My Heart, What'd I Say, Worried Mind, You Don't Know Me

Chad and Jeremy--A Summer Song, If I Loved You, Yesterday's Gone

Cher--The Way of Love

Chi-Lites--Oh Girl

Chicago--Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is, If You Leave Me Now

Petula Clark--Don't Sleep in the Subway, Downtown, This Is My Song

Classics--Till Then

Classics IV--Traces

Climax--Precious and Few

Rosemary Clooney--Come On-a My House, I'm Beginning to See the Light, Mambo Italiano

Nat King Cole--A Blossom Fell, A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square, Answer Me My Love, Around the World, Darling Je Vous Aime Beaucoup, I Can't Give You Anything but Love, If I May, L-O-V-E, Let There Be Love, Mona Lisa, Moonlight in Vermont, Night Lights, Non Dimenticar, Pretend, Ramblin' Rose, Route 66, Send for Me, Serenata, Smile, Stardust, Tenderly, That Sunday That Summer, The Very Thought of You, There Will Never Be Another You, Those Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer, To the End of the Earth, Too Young, Unforgettable, When I Fall in Love

-and Natalie Cole--Unforgettable, When I Fall in Love

Judy Collins--Send in the Clowns

Commodores--Still, Three Times a Lady

Perry Como--And I Love You So, Bali Ha'i, Catch a Falling Star, Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes, Dream Along with Me, Dream On, Hello Young Lovers, Hoop-De-Doo, Hot Diggety, It's Impossible, Magic Moments, No Other Love, Round and Round, Some Enchanted Evening, Wanted

Harry Connick Jr.--A Wink and a Smile, I Could Write a Book, It Had to Be You, Mona Lisa, Some Enchanted Evening, The Way You Look Tonight

Ray Conniff--Somewhere My Love

Sam Cooke--Chain Gang, Cupid, Wonderful World, You Send Me

Rita Coolidge--All Time High, Higher and Higher, I'd Rather Leave While I'm in Love, We're All Alone

Dave Cortez--The Happy Organ

Floyd Cramer--Last Date

Jim Croce--I Got a Name, I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song, Operator, Time in a Bottle

Christopher Cross--Arthur, Never Be the Same Again, Sailing

Xavier Cugat--Papa Loves Mambo

Crew-Cuts--Sh-boom

Bing Crosby--Dear Hearts and Gentle People, Far Away Places, Swinging on a Star

-and Grace Kelly--True Love

Vic Damone--An Affair to Remember, On the Street Where You Live

Vic Dana--Red Roses for a Blue Lady

Bobby Darin--Artificial Flowers, Beyond the Sea, 18 Yellow Roses, If I Were a Carpenter, Lazy River, Mack the Knife, My Darling Clementine

Paul Davis--Cool Night, I Go Crazy, Sweet Life

Sammy Davis Jr.--Candy Man, Hey There, I've Gotta Be Me, What Kind of Fool Am I

Skeeter Davis--The End of the World

Doris Day--Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered, Day by Day, Everybody Loves a Lover, Que Sera Sera, Secret Love, Sleepy Lagoon

John Denver--Annie's Song, Back Home Again, Calypso, Country Roads, My Sweet Lady, Rocky Mountain High, Thank God I'm a Country Boy

- and Olivia Newton-John--Fly Away

Neil Diamond--America,, Cracklin' Rose, Forever in Blue Jeans, Hello Again, Heartlight, Holly Holy, I Am I Said, Kentucky Woman, Longfellow Serenade, Play Me, September Morn, Shilo, Song Sung Blue, Sweet Caroline, Yesterday's Songs

- and Barbra Streisand--You Don't Bring Me Flowers

Celine Dion--At Seventeen, How Does a Moment Last Forever

Dion and the Belmonts--Tell Me Why, Where or When

Fats Domino--Blueberry Hill, I'm Walkin', Walking to New Orleans

Tommy Dorsey--Tea for Two

Drifters--Save the Last Dance for Me, Under the Boardwalk, Up on the Roof

Duprees--You Belong to Me

Jimmy Durante--As Time Goes By, I'll See You in My Dreams

Tommy Edwards--It's All in the Game, Please Love Me Forever, Please Mr. Sun

Les Elgart--Bandstand Boogie

Cass Elliot--Dream a Little Dream of Me

England Dan and John Ford Coley--I'd Really Love to See You Tonight, It's Sad to Belong, Love Is the Answer, We'll Never Have to Say Goodbye Again

Gloria Estefan--They Can't Take That Away from Me, You Made Me Love You, Young at Heart

Everly Brothers--All I Have to Do Is Dream, Cathy's Clown, I Kissed You, Let It Be Me, Problems

Shelley Fabares--Johnny Angel

Percy Faith--Delicado, Song from "Moulin Rouge", Theme from "A Summer Place"

Ferrante and Teicher--Exodus, Theme from "The Apartment", Theme from "Midnight Cowboy", Tonight

Firefall--You Are the Woman

Fifth Dimension--I Didn't Get to Sleep at All, One Less Bell to Answer, Up Up and Away, Wedding Bell Blues

Roberta Flack--Feel Like Makin' Love, The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, Killing Me Softly, Making Love

-and Peabo Bryson--Tonight I Celebrate My Love, You're Looking Like Love to Me

Flamingos--I Only Have Eyes for You

Fleetwoods--Come Softly to Me, Mr. Blue

Tennessee Ernie Ford--Sixteen Tons

Four Aces--Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, Tell Me Why, Three Coins in the Fountain

Four Coins--Shangri-La

Four Freshmen--In the Still of the Night

Four Lads--Moments to Remember, No Not Much

Four Preps--26 Miles

Connie Francis--Don't Break the Heart That Loves You, Everybody's Somebody's Fool, My Happiness, My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own, Where the Boys Are, Who's Sorry Now

Melody Gardot--Baby I'm a Fool

Art Garfunkel--Wonderful World

Crystal Gayle--Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue, Half the Way, Talking in Your Sleep,

Gerry and the Pacemakers--Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying, Ferry Cross the Mersey

Stan Getz--Desafinado

- and Astrud Gilberto--The Girl from Ipanema

Glenn Miller Orchestra--In the Mood

Robert Goulet--If Ever I Would Leave You, Try to Remember

Earl Grant--The End

Gogi Grant--The Wayward Wind

Vince Guaraldi--Cast Your Fate to the Wind, Linus and Lucy

Marvin Hamlisch--The Entertainer

Wilbert Harrison--Kansas City

Bobby Hebb--Sunny

Al Hirt--Cotton Candy, Java

Don Ho--Tiny Bubbles

Buddy Holly--Everyday, It Doesn't Matter Anymore, Maybe Baby, Oh Boy, Peggy Sue, That'll Be the Day

Hollyridge Strings--Strawberry Fields Forever

Mary Hopkin--Those Were the Days

Whitney Houston--Didn't We Almost Have It All, The Greatest Love of All, Saving All My Love for You

Engelbert Humperdinck--A Man Without Love, After the Lovin', Am I That Easy to Forget, Les Bicyclettes de Belsize, Quando Quando Quando, Release Me, Spanish Eyes, The Last Waltz, There Goes My Everything, Winter World of Love

Jorgen Ingman--Apache

James Ingram--Just Once

Bob James and Earl Klugh--I'll Never See You Smile Again

Etta James--At Last

Sonny James--Since I Met You Baby, Young Love

Al Jarreau--Moonlighting, Morning

Horst Jankowski--A Walk in the Black Forest

Billy Joel--Just the Way You Are, She's Always a Woman

Elton John--Daniel, Your Song

Michael Johnson--Bluer than Blue, This Night Won't Last Forever

Jack Jones--Call Me Irresponsible, Lollipops and Roses, The Impossible Dream, Wives and Lovers

Norah Jones--Come Away with Me, Don't Know Why

Tom Jones--Green Green Grass of Home, Help Yourself, I'll Never Fall in Love Again, It's Not Unusual, What's New Pussycat, Without Love

Bert Kaempfert--A Swingin' Safari, Afrikaan Beat, Bye Bye Blues, Red Roses for a Blue Lady, That Happy Feeling, Three O'Clock in the Morning, Wonderland by Night

Kitty Kallen--Little Things Mean a Lot

Israel Kamakawiwoʻole--Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Stacey Kent--One Note Samba

Ben E. King--Spanish Harlem, Stand by Me

Carole King--Anyone at All, It's Too Late, So Far Away

Jonathan King--Everyone's Gone to the Moon

Kingston Trio--Where Have All the Flowers Gone

Gladys Knight--Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me

Moe Koffman--Swinging Shepherd Blues

Diana Krall--Cry Me a River, Dancing in the Dark, I'll String Along with You, Pick Yourself Up, Summer Samba, The Boy from Ipanema, The Look of Love

Francis Lai--Un Homme et Une Femme

Steve Lawrence--Go Away Little Girl, I've Got the World on a String, Portrait of My Love, Pretty Blue Eyes

- and Eydie Gorme--Baby It's Cold Outside, Side by Side, This Could Be the Start of Something

LeBlanc and Carr--Falling

Brenda Lee--All Alone Am I, Fool #1, I Want to Be Wanted, I'm Sorry

Peggy Lee--Fever, It's a Good Day, Lover, You Gotta have Heart

Lettermen--Goin' Out of My Head/Can't Take My Eyes Off You, Hurts So Bad, Put Your Head on My Shoulder, Secretly, Shangri-La, The Way You Look Tonight, When I Fall in Love

Barbara Lewis--Baby I'm Yours

Gordon Lightfoot--Beautiful, Carefree Highway, If You Could Read My Mind, Rainy Day People, Sundown

Little Anthony and the Imperials--Going Out of My Head

Little Dippers--Forever

Julie London--There Will Never Be Another You

Los Indios Trabajaras--Maria Elena

Love Unlimited Orchestra--Love's Theme

Lulu--To Sir with Love

Vera Lynn--We'll Meet Again

Shelby Lynne--How Can I Be Sure
 
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Melissa Manchester--Don't Cry Out Loud, Midnight Blue, Through the Eyes of Love

Henry Mancini--Baby Elephant Walk, Charade, The Days of Wine and Roses, "Mr. Lucky" Theme, Moon River, Peter Gunn, Pink Panther Theme, Shot in the Dark, Where Do I Begin

Barbara Mandrell--I Don't Want to Be Right

Chuck Mangione--Feels So Good, Give It All You Got

Manhattan Transfer--Boy from New York City, Tuxedo Junction

Barry Manilow--Can't Smile Without You, Copacabana (1978), Could It Be Magic, Don't Get Around Much Anymore, Even Now, I Made It Through the Rain, I Write the Songs, It's a Miracle, Looks Like We Made It, Mandy, Ready to Take a Chance Again, Second Time Around, Ships, Somewhere Down the Road, Somewhere in the Night, This One's for You, Tryin' to Get the Feeling Again, Weekend in New England

Dean Martin--Ain't That a Kick in the Head, Everybody Loves Somebody, Houston, In the Misty Moonlight, Memories Are Made of This, My One and Only Love, Return to Me, That's Amore, Sway, Volare, You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You

Al Martino--Because You're Mine, Close to You, I Love You More and More Every Day, Listen to Your Heart, Love Where Are You Now, Mary in the Morning, No More, Spanish Eyes

Hugh Masekela--Grazing in the Grass

Johnny Mathis--A Certain Smile, Chances Are, Gina, It's Not for Me to Say, Maria, Misty, Small World, The Twelfth of Never, When I Am with You, When Sunny Gets Blue, Wonderful Wonderful

- and Deniece Williams--Too Much Too Little Too Late

Paul Mauriat--Love Is Blue

Van McCoy--The Hustle

Maureen McGovern--Torn Between Two Lovers

Don McLean--Crying, Vincent

Idina Menzel--Into the Unknown, Let It Go

Mercy--Love

Mitch Miller--The Yellow Rose of Texas

Frank Mills--Music Box Dancer

Mills Brothers--Cab Driver, Glow Worm, Opus One, You Always Hurt the One You Love, You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You

Ronnie Milsap--Any Day Now, He Got You, I Wouldn't Have Missed It for the World, It Was Almost Like a Song, Lost in the Fifties Tonight, Pure Love, Smoky Mountain Rain

Guy Mitchell--Singing the Blues

Domenico Modugno--Volare

Matt Monro--Born Free, From Russia with Love, I Will Wait for You, My Kind of Girl, Softly As I Leave You, Somewhere

Cris Montes--The More I See You

Maria Muldaur--Midnight at the Oasis

Anne Murray--Could I Have This Dance, Danny's Song, Daydream Believer, I Just Fall in Love Again, I'm Happy Just to Dance with You, Just Another Woman in Love, Love Song, Shadows in the Moonlight, Snowbird, You Needed Me

Anne Murray and Dave Loggins--Nobody Loves Me Like You Do

Ricky Nelson--Garden Party, It's Up to You, Lonesome Town, Never Be Anyone Else but You, Poor Little Fool, Travelin' Man, Young World

New Christy Minstrels--Today

Willie Nelson--All of Me, Always on My Mind, Blue Skies, City of New Orleans, On the Road Again, Stardust

Peter Nero--The Summer Knows

Aaron Neville and Linda Ronstadt--All My Life, Don't Know Much

Wayne Newton--Danke Schoen

Olivia Newton-John--Have You Never Been Mellow, Hopelessly Devoted to You, I Honestly Love You, If You Love Me Let Me Know, Let Me Be There

Harry Nilsson--Everybody's Talkin', How About You

Oliver--Jean

Renee Olstead--Hit the Road Jack, Hold Me Now

Roy Orbison--Crying, It's Over, Oh Pretty Woman, Only the Lonely, You Got It

Tony Orlando and Dawn--Candida, He Don't Love You, Knock Three Times, Say Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose, Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree, Who's in the Strawberry Patch with Sally

Paris Sisters--I Love How You Love Me

Les Paul and Mary Ford--Bye Bye Blues, How High the Moon, Opus One

Patti Page--Allegheny Moon, Old Cape Cod, Tennessee Waltz

Ray Parker Jr.--A Woman Needs Love

Dolly Parton--I Will Always Love You

Teddy Pendergrass and Whitney Houston--Hold Me

Peter and Gordon--I Go to Pieces, Lady Godiva, True Love Ways

Peter Paul and Mary--Blowin' in the Wind, If I Had a Hammer, Leaving on a Jet Plane, Marvelous Toy, Puff

Pied Pipers--Dream

Gene Pitney--Town Without Pity

Platters--Ebb Tide, Harbor Lights, My Prayer, Only You, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, The Magic Touch, Twilight Time

Perez Prado--Cherry Pink (and Apple Blossom White), Patricia

Elvis Presley--All Shook Up, Always on My Mind, Are You Lonesome Tonight, Can't Help Falling in Love, Crying in the Chapel, Don't Be Cruel, Good Luck Charm, It's Now or Never, Kentucky Rain, Love Me Tender, Loving You, Return to Sender, Suspicious Minds, Teddy Bear, Viva Las Vegas, The Wonder of You

Billy Preston and Syreeta--With You I'm Born Again

Andre Previn--Like Young

Ray Price--For the Good Times

Louis Prima--Just a Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody

Gary Puckett & The Union Gap--Lady Willpower, Over You, This Girl Is a Woman Now, Young Girl

Eddie Rabbitt and Crystal Gayle--You and I

Ramsey Lewis Trio--The In Crowd

Boots Randolph--Yakety Sax

Lou Rawls--Lady Love, You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine

Johnnie Ray--Please Mr. Sun

Ray Charles Singers--Love Me with All Your Heart

Helen Reddy--Emotion, Peaceful, You and Me Against the World

Della Reese--And That Reminds Me, Don't You Know

Jim Reeves--He'll Have to Go, Welcome to My World

Charlie Rich--A Very Special Love Song, Behind Closed Doors, The Most Beautiful Girl

Cliff Richard and Olivia Newton-John--Suddenly

Lionel Richie--My Love, Truly

Minnie Riperton--Loving You

Johnny Rivers--Poor Side of Town

-and Diana Ross--Endless Love

Nelson Riddle--Lisbon Antigua, Route 66

Righteous Brothers--Ebb Tide, Unchained Melody, You've Lost That Loving Feeling

Marty Robbins--El Paso, A White Sport Coat

Jimmie Rodgers--Honeycomb, Kisses Sweeter Than Wine, Oh-Oh I'm Falling In Love Again

Kenny Rogers--Lady, Love the World Away, She Believes in Me, The Gambler, Through the Years, You Decorated My Life

-and Dolly Parton--Islands in the stream

Linda Ronstadt--Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered, Blue Bayou, Can't We Be Friends, I Love You for Sentimental Reasons, I've Got a Crush on You, My Funny Valentine, Ooh Baby Baby, Perfidia, Straighten Up and Fly Right, What'll I Do, What's New, When You Wish upon a Star, You Took Advantage of Me

David Rose--Holiday for Strings, The Stripper

Isabel Rose--Peter Gunn

Diana Ross--It's My Turn, Theme from "Mahogany", Touch Me in the Morning

Ruby and the Romantics--Our Day Will Come

Sandpipers--Guantanamera

Santo & Johnny--Sleep Walk

Lalo Schfrin--Theme from "Mission: Impossible"

Neil Sedaka--Breaking Up Is Hard to Do (1975), Laughter in the Rain

Seekers--Georgy Girl, I'll Never Find Another You

Serendipity Singers--Don't Let the Rain Come Down

Shades of Blue--Oh How Happy

Dinah Shore--Blues in the Night, Buttons and Bows

Carly Simon--Moonlight Serenade, My Romance, Nobody Does It Better, That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be, The Right Thing to Do, You Belong to Me

Simon and Garfunkel--Bridge Over Troubled Water, Mrs. Robinson, Scarborough Fair, Sounds of Silence

Paul Simon--Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover, Slip Slidin' Away

Frank Sinatra-- All the Way, Autumn in New York, Chicago, Come Fly with Me, Five More Minutes, Fly Me to the Moon, Foggy Day, High Hopes, I Concentrate on You, I Have Dreamed, I'm Gonna Live Till I Die, I've Got the World on a String, In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning, It Was a Very Good Year, Just in Time, Love and Marriage, Luck Be a Lady, My Kind of Town, My Way, New York New York, Nice 'N Easy, Nice work If You Can Get It, Put Your Dreams Away, September Song, The Shadow of Your Smile, Softly As I Leave You, Strangers in the Night, Summer Wind, That Old Devil Moon, The Best Is Yet to Come, The Good Life, The Lady Is a Tramp, The Second Time Around, The Tender Trap, The Way You Look Tonight, They Can't Take That Away from Me, Time after Time, Watch What Happens, Witchcraft, You Make Me Feel So Young, Young at Heart

-and Nancy Sinatra--Somethin' Stupid

- and Steve and Eydie--Where or When

Nancy Sinatra--These Boots Are Made for Walkin'

Skyliners--Since I Don't Have You

Sounds Orchestral--Cast Your Fate to the Wind

Spanky and Our Gang--Lazy Day, Like to Get to Know You, Sunday Will Never Be the Same

Spyro Gyra--Morning Dance, Shaker Song

Jo Stafford--Jambalaya, Make Love to Me, You Belong to Me

Kay Starr--Rock and Roll Waltz, Wheel of Fortune

Rod Stewart--It Had to Be You, Just My Imagination, My Heart Stood Still, That's All, They Can't Take That Away from Me, Time After Time

- and Cher--Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered

Morris Stoloff--Moonglow/Theme from "Picnic"

Barbra Streisand--All I Ask of You, Coming in and Out of Your Life, Evergreen, Happy Days Are Here Again, Kiss Me in the Rain, Memory, My Heart Belongs to Me, People, Somewhere, Songbird, The Way We Were, Woman in Love

-and Barry Gibb--Guilty, What Kind of Fool

-and Michael Buble--It Had to Be You

- and Elvis Presley--Love Me Tender

Taco--Puttin' on the Ritz

James Taylor--Carolina in My Mind, Fire and Rain, Handy Man, How Sweet It Is to Be Loved by You, Shower the People, You've Got a Friend, Your Smiling Face

Teddy Bears--To Know Him Is to Love Him

Nino Tempo and April Stevens--Deep Purple

Temptations--Just My Imagination, My Girl

Three Degrees--When Will I See You Again

Toni Tennille--More Than You Know

B. J. Thomas--Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song, I Just Can't Help Believing, Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head

Steve Tyrell--Give Me the Simple Life, I've Got the World on a String

Art and Dotty Todd- Chanson d'Amour

Jerry Vale--Have You Looked into Your Heart, Old Cape Cod

Frankie Valli--Can't Take My Eyes off You, Grease, My Eyes Adored You

Bobby Vee--Take Good Care of My Baby

Ventures--Hawaii Five-O Theme, Walk Don't Run

Village Stompers--Washington Square

Bobby Vinton--Blue on Blue, Blue Velvet, I Love How You Love Me, Just As Much As Ever, Mr. Lonely, My Heart Belongs to Only You, My Melody of Love, Please Love Me Forever, Roses are Red, There! I've Said It Again

Vogues--If I Loved You, My Special Angel, Till, Turn Around Look at Me

Walker Brothers--Make It Easy on Yourself, Sun Ain't Gonna Shine

Jerry Wallace--Primrose Lane

Walter Wanderley--Summer Samba

Dionne Warwick--Alfie, I Say a Little Prayer, I'll Never Fall in Love Again, I'll Never Love This Way Again, Make It Easy on Yourself, Message to Michael, Promises Promises, Theme from "Valley of the Dolls", Walk on By, The Windows of the World, You'll Never Get to Heaven

-and Friends--That's What Friends are For

Dinah Washington--Destination Moon, Unforgettable, What a Diff'rence a Day Makes

Joan Weber--Let Me Go Lover

Lenny Welch--Since I Fell for You

Lawrence Welk--Calcutta

Roger Whittaker--Durham Town, New World in the Morning, The Last Farewell

Andy Williams--Born Free, Can't Get Used to Losing You, Canadian Sunset, Dear Heart, Hawaiian Wedding Song, In the Arms of Love, May Each Day, Moon River, Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars, Speak Softly Love, Under Paris Skies, Where Do I Begin

Mason Williams--Classical Gas

Roger Williams--Autumn Leaves, Born Free, Near You, Somewhere in Time

Hugo Winterhalter--Canadian Sunset

Nancy Wilson--How Glad I Am, My One and Only Love

Stevie Wonder--For Once in My Life, My Cherie Amour, You Are the Sunshine

John Paul Young--Love Is in the Air

Victor Young--Around the World

Young-Holt Unlimited--Soulful Strut
 
The idea adult standards format is one that its listeners pay for.

It's like discussing the ideal fringe to put on your horse and buggy.
 
Another possibility is a Sirius/XM channel with the above playlist, which there is not at this time.

I just remembered one song I intended to list, and now it's too late to edit. Oh, well. It will happen more than once. I'm keeping a master list and maybe I can post it somewhere else.
 
vchimpanzee said:
Another possibility is a Sirius/XM channel with the above playlist, which there is not at this time.

I just remembered one song I intended to list, and now it's too late to edit. Oh, well. It will happen more than once. I'm keeping a master list and maybe I can post it somewhere else.
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Lots of very good songs there but way overboard on Sinatra - unless your station is in Joisey.
 
b-turner said:
That's a great list and quite complete.
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Rod Stewart--It Had to Be You, Just My Imagination, My Heart Stood Still, That's All, They Can't Take That Away from Me, Time After Time

I don't recognize any of these songs as being done by Rod Stewart. Are they all on his various cover and Great American Songbook albums? Three of these titles, I immediately associate with the Temptations, Genesis and Cyndi Lauper, and if it's the 21st-century Rod croaking those tunes, then I'd much rather hear the originals. More logical Stewart selections for this "ideal station" would be the much more familiar "You're In My Heart," "Rhythm Of My Heart," "Downtown Train" and even "The Motown Song."
 
CTListener said:
Rod Stewart--It Had to Be You, Just My Imagination, My Heart Stood Still, That's All, They Can't Take That Away from Me, Time After Time

I don't recognize any of these songs as being done by Rod Stewart. Are they all on his various cover and Great American Songbook albums? Three of these titles, I immediately associate with the Temptations, Genesis and Cyndi Lauper, and if it's the 21st-century Rod croaking those tunes, then I'd much rather hear the originals. More logical Stewart selections for this "ideal station" would be the much more familiar "You're In My Heart," "Rhythm Of My Heart," "Downtown Train" and even "The Motown Song."
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The first song you list is on America's Best Music, which has fewer standards and more oldies and adult contemporary than I would prefer for a standards station, but I like the station anyway because there's a good mix of music, at least when they're doing it right like yesterday. I don't think America's Best Music plays the others you listed, but they play the ones I listed.

Edit: I wondered why you mentioned Genesis and Cyndi Lauper. I have read on this site but never heard for myself (maybe it's done during the news) that the Genesis song is played on America's Best Music. That is not the song Rod Stewart sang. Cyndi Lauper's song is on America's Best Music, but I wish it weren't, and Rod Stewart does another song with the same title.
 
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CTListener said:
Rod Stewart--It Had to Be You, Just My Imagination, My Heart Stood Still, That's All, They Can't Take That Away from Me, Time After Time

I don't recognize any of these songs as being done by Rod Stewart. Are they all on his various cover and Great American Songbook albums? Three of these titles, I immediately associate with the Temptations, Genesis and Cyndi Lauper, and if it's the 21st-century Rod croaking those tunes, then I'd much rather hear the originals. More logical Stewart selections for this "ideal station" would be the much more familiar "You're In My Heart," "Rhythm Of My Heart," "Downtown Train" and even "The Motown Song."
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If we are referring to Rod Stewart's take on a "Great American Songbook" song, it is not Cyndi Lauper's! It's this one, written by Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne in 1946 and originally performed by Sarah Vaughan: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?...16E96DC8578B71AA8FB216E96DC8578B&&FORM=VDRVRV When the Cyndi Lauper song was current, we had an older lady doing a talk show who got a call from a kid who was trying to convince her, what a great song it was. She agreed, saying that she had always liked it, having no awareness of the new song and thinking he meant the old standard!
 
semoochie said:
If we are referring to Rod Stewart's take on a "Great American Songbook" song, it is not Cyndi Lauper's! It's this one, written by Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne in 1946 and originally performed by Sarah Vaughan: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?...16E96DC8578B71AA8FB216E96DC8578B&&FORM=VDRVRV When the Cyndi Lauper song was current, we had an older lady doing a talk show who got a call from a kid who was trying to convince her, what a great song it was. She agreed, saying that she had always liked it, having no awareness of the new song and thinking he meant the old standard!
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Something just occurred to me: The Cyndi Lauper song came out in 1983, making it 37 years old, now. At that point, the other "Time After Time" was 37 years old! I can't begin to tell you how old I thought a 37 year old song was then and I was 30 myself!
 
semoochie said:
When the Cyndi Lauper song was current, we had an older lady doing a talk show who got a call from a kid who was trying to convince her, what a great song it was. She agreed, saying that she had always liked it, having no awareness of the new song and thinking he meant the old standard!
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Around that same time Sammy Cahn was doing interviews, saying that her song was causing confusion with his song in terms of royalties, because they had the same title. He admitted you can't copyright a song title, but felt the confusion was unnecessary. There are actually more than 11 songs with that same title.
 
semoochie said:
Something just occurred to me: The Cyndi Lauper song came out in 1983, making it 37 years old, now. At that point, the other "Time After Time" was 37 years old! I can't begin to tell you how old I thought a 37 year old song was then and I was 30 myself!
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Also, both songs are now played on adult standards radio.
 
More artists out of order, and more songs I left out. The number of times I keep having to add to the list reminds me of COVID-19 in NC in March.
 
TheBigA said:
Around that same time Sammy Cahn was doing interviews, saying that her song was causing confusion with his song in terms of royalties, because they had the same title. He admitted you can't copyright a song title, but felt the confusion was unnecessary. There are actually more than 11 songs with that same title.
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One more thing about the original, "Time After Time": Despite being first recorded by Sarah Vaughan, it was actually written FOR Frank Sinatra!
 
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