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There are some seriously good songs already here. I'm not in the mood for serious though. So...

In The Summertime ~ Mungo Jerry....The last summer I spent living in Southern California, having as big a blowout summer you can when you're 14 with no parents around. This song played all summer.

Wipeout ~ The Surfaris....If you're from my generation, and especially the guys should know, you were nothin' if you couldn't drum Wipeout on the desk or the dashboard.

Hey, that "Wipeout" sounds like it could be a surfing song!!

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THANKS TO ALL WHO NOMINATED. I DON'T THINK WE'VE EVER HAD 60 SONGS BEFORE. PLEASE START VOTING WHENEVER YOU LIKE. GOOD LUCK !

An American Dream - The(Nitty Gritty)Dirt Band

Avalon - Roxy Music

Ball Of Confusion (That's What The World Is Today) - The Temptations

Be Thankful For What You Got - William DeVaughn

Brighton Rock - Queen

City Of New Orleans, The - Arlo Guthrie

Cocaine- Eric Clapton

Crazy - Gnarls Barkley

Cry Like A Baby - The Box Tops

Dance The Night Away - Van Halen

Dirty Water - The Standells

Dirty Work - Steely Dan

Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've) - The Buzzcocks

Glycerine - Bush

Great Gig In The Sky - Pink Floyd

House Is Rockin', The - Stevie Ray Vaughan

In The Summertime - Mungo Jerry

Innuendo - Queen

Laid - James

Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan

Love Her Madly - The Doors

Mary Jane's Last Dance - Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers

Me And Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin

Memphis Tennessee - Chuck Berry

Moondance - Van Morrison

Mystery Train - Elvis Presley

Nature's Way - Spirit

New York Groove - Ace Frehley

No Reply - The Beatles

Only Happy When it Rains - Garbage

One More Try - George Michael

Pride Of Man - Quicksilver Messenger Service

Red House - Jimi Hendrix

Reeling In The Years - Steely Dan

River Deep-Mountain High - Ike & Tina Turner

Rocky Mountain High - John Denver

Roll On Down The Highway - Bachman-Turner Overdrive

Roundabout - Yes

Save Me - Shinedown

Save The Last Dance For Me - The Drifters

September Gurls - Big Star

So Into You - Atlanta Rhythm Section

Some Kind of Wonderful - Grand Funk

Soul Man - Sam & Dave

Spirit In The Sky - Norman Greenbaum

Substitute - The Who

Summer Breeze - Seals And Crofts

Sunshine Of Your Love - Cream

Sweets For My Sweet - The Searchers

Theologians - Wilco

Three Days - Jane's Addiction

To Be With You - Mr. Big

Ventura Highway - America

Venus - Shocking Blue

Way, The - Fastball

White Bird - It's A Beautiful Day

Wipeout - The Surfaris

You Belong To Me - Bob Dylan

You've Got A Friend - James Taylor

Zombie - The Cranberries

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Another tough task Darryl. I got down to 14 and then it got tough. The last one I eliminated was "The City Of New Orleans." A great song about a Americana. So here goes my list.

1. Spirit In The Sky. I had to go with this as my number one. It takes me back like a lot of our songs do to a carefree time when I was in college. This song played on the car radio the entire time that the Marshall U. geology department was travelling on a field trip to Georgia and other spots in the southeast. The year was 1970 and the month was March. We returned from the trip back to Huntington on Easter Sunday with about 6 inches of snow on the ground.

2. Cry Like a Baby. I "dig" the Box Tops.

3. Me and Bobby McGee. Janice's signature song IMO.

4. Wipeout. I can still see my buddy,David, in high school doing the wipeout thing with pencils on his desk in Physics class.

5. Soul Man. An interesting side story to this one. Sam and Dave were to appear at one of Marshall's homecoming concerts in the late 60's. The bad news was that only one of them showed up.

6. Ventura Highway. The group America was one of the hottest groups in the early 70's. Ventura Highway is my second favorite of America behind A Horse With No Name.

7. Venus. A good solid rock hit. I can't help but think of the ladies venus razor commercial when I hear this tune.

8. In The Summertime. One of the favorites of my dear departed father. He loved the "swoosh, swoosh" sound effect.

9. Roll on Down The Highway. A great travelling hit to play. I can cut an hour off my trip to Mrytle Beach by playing this tune.

10. Some Kind Of Wonderfull. It was between this one and City of New Orleans for my last spot. I love both. This time Grand Funk won out.

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Norman Greenbaum is now a goat farmer.

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Ouch. I had to leave off Dirty Work, In The Summertime, and Venus.

1. You've Got A Friend ~ James Taylor

2. City Of New Orleans ~ Arlo Guthrie (I just love this guy :grin:)

3. Cocaine ~ Eric Clapton

4. Roll On Down The Highway ~ BTO

5. So Into You ~ ARS

6. Some Kind Of Wonderful ~ Grand Funk

7. Spirit In The Sky ~ Norman Greenbaum

8. Love Her Madly ~ Doors

9. Rocky Mountain High ~ John Denver (He definitely deserves recognition)

10. Summer Breeze ~ Seals and Crofts

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1. Great Gig In The Sky- Pink Floyd

2. Dirty Water- The Standells (Go Sox!)

3. Reelin' In the Years-Steely Dan (One of my favorite songs)

4. Mary Janes Last Dance- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

5. Substitute- The Who

6. Crazy- Gnarls Barkley

7. Sunshine of Your Love- Cream

8. Red House- Hendrix

9. Ventura Highway- America

10. Wipeout- The Surfaris

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I've got a heck of a time span going here....

1.In The Summertime - Mungo Jerry

2.Wipeout - The Surfaris

3.Red House - Jimi Hendrix

4.Ventura Highway - America

5.Dirty Work - Steely Dan

6.So Into You - Atlanta Rhythm Section

7.Zombie - The Cranberries

8.City of New Orleans,The - Arlo Guthrie

9.Cry Like A Baby - The Box Tops

10.Crazy - Gnarls Barkley

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1. Innuendo - Queen

2. Sunshine Of Your Love - Cream

3. Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan

4. Substitute - The Who

5. Cocaine- Eric Clapton

6. Great Gig In The Sky - Pink Floyd

7. Red House - Jimi Hendrix

8. Zombie - The Cranberries

9. Venus - Shocking Blue

10. Way, The - Fastball

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1- Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan

2- Summer Breeze - Seals And Crofts

3- Venus - Shocking Blue

4- River Deep-Mountain High - Ike & Tina Turner

5- Great Gig In The Sky - Pink Floyd

6- Love Her Madly - The Doors

7- City Of New Orleans, The - Arlo Guthrie

8- You've Got A Friend - James Taylor

9- No Reply - The Beatles

10- Roundabout - Yes

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I'm glad I was familiar with a few this time.

1: House Is Rockin', The - Stevie Ray Vaughan

2: Save Me - Shinedown

3: Soul Man - Sam & Dave

4: You've Got A Friend - James Taylor

5: Some Kind of Wonderful - Grand Funk

6: Sunshine Of Your Love - Cream

7: Rocky Mountain High - John Denver

8: Crazy - Gnarls Barkley

9: No Reply - The Beatles

10: Venus - Shocking Blue

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1. An American Dream - The (Nitty Gritty) Dirt Band

2. Sweets For My Sweet - The Searchers

3. City Of New Orleans, The - Arlo Guthrie

4. Me And Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin

5. Save The Last Dance For Me - The Drifters

6. Venus - Shocking Blue

7. Memphis Tennessee - Chuck Berry

8. Some Kind of Wonderful - Grand Funk

9. In The Summertime - Mungo Jerry

10. Wipeout - The Surfaris

Too bad I am not familiar with songs that have already won votes above.

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1. Zombie - The Cranberries

2. Spirit In The Sky - Norman Greenbaum

3. Brighton Rock - Queen

4. Great Gig In The Sky - Pink Floyd

5. Some Kind of Wonderful - Grand Funk

6. Crazy - Gnarls Barkley

7. To Be With You - Mr. Big

8. New York Groove - Ace Frehley

9. In The Summertime - Mungo Jerry

10.Only Happy When it Rains - Garbage

Sorry to all that didn't make it...

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1. Glycerine - Bush

2. Love Her Madly - The Doors

3. Great Gig In The Sky - Pink Floyd

4. Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've) - The Buzzcocks

5. Me And Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin

6. Only Happy When it Rains - Garbage

7. Way, The - Fastball

8. Spirit In The Sky - Norman Greenbaum

9. Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan

10. Zombie - The Cranberries

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1. September Gurls - Big Star

2. No Reply - The Beatles

3. Substitute - The Who

4. Cry Like A Baby - The Box Tops

5. Brighton Rock - Queen

6. Sunshine Of Your Love - Cream

7. Love Her Madly - The Doors

8. Spirit In The Sky - Norman Greenbaum

9. Avalon - Roxy Music

10. New York Groove - Ace Frehley

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1. No Reply - The Beatles

2. You Belong To Me - Bob Dylan

3. Substitute - The Who

4. Moondance - Van Morrison

5. Great Gig In The Sky - Pink Floyd

6. Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan

7. Love Her Madly - The Doors

8. Avalon - Roxy Music

9. Me And Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin

10. Mystery Train - Elvis Presley

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1.You Belong To Me - Bob Dylan

2.Laid - James

3.Cocaine- Eric Clapton

4.Innuendo - Queen

5.Glycerine - Bush

6.Mary Jane's Last Dance - Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers

7.Zombie - The Cranberries

8.Way, The - Fastball

9.Only Happy When it Rains - Garbage

10.To Be With You - Mr. Big

If it had been Nelly Furtado's version of Crazy, I so would have voted for it - but if I hear Crazy once more on the radio... :stars: :mad:

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