The Twentieth Century's Top Ten Tunes?
Opinion Section ....
And now, the ten best songs of the twentieth century?
1 Georgia (Hoagy Carmichael): (I would suggest) the definitive song of the second half of the twentieth century?
2 Stardust (Hoagy Carmichael): the most popular tune of the swing era, ie: the first half of the twentieth century
3 Yesterday (McCartney)
4 As Time Goes By (Hupfeld)
5 The Man I Love (Gershwin)
6 These Foolish Things (Marvell-Strachey-Link)
[Lester Young, tenor sax 1944]
7 Manhattan (Rogers-Hart)
8 Body And Soul (Heyman-Green)
9 Mack The Knife (Weill)
10 Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No 2
The ten best "songs" or hits of the nineteenth century?:
1 Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata
2 Liszt's Liebestraum No 3
3 Tchaikovsky's Love Theme from "Romeo And Juliet"
4 Mendelsohn's Wedding March from "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
5 Schubert's "Standchen" (where is the umlaut?)
6 Schubert's Eighth Symphony (Second Movement)
7 O Sole Mio
8 Verdi's "La Donna Et Mobile" (they aren't all, are they?)
9 One of Chopin's Preludes
10 [Nominations to the email address on the home page]
The view northwest from atop the church in the historic south eastern English town of Rye, the surrounding areas of which are home to several famous performers including a certain ex Beatle with a studio in a windmill (the photo is as it happened)
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