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'You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' ' Is Number One
BMI today announced the Top 100 Songs of the Century, listing the most played songs on American radio and television. Leading the list is the anthemic "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'," written by Barry Mann, Phil Spector and Cynthia Weil, which recently passed the historic 8 million performance plateau. It was originally recorded by The Righteous Brothers and produced by Spector.
The second, third and fourth place songs have all attained more than 7 million airplays. They are: "Never My Love," written by Donald and Richard Addrisi; "Yesterday" by John Lennon and Sir Paul McCartney; and "Stand By Me" by Ben E. King, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. Rounding out the Top 10 are the six-million-plateau performers: "Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You" by Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio; "Sitting On the Dock Of the Bay" by Otis Redding and Steve Cropper; Paul Simon's "Mrs. Robinson"; "Baby I Need Your Loving" by the legendary Motown writers Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland; John Gummoe's "Rhythm Of The Rain"; and the evergreen "Georgia On My Mind" written by Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell.
John Lennon and Paul Simon each have four songs in the Top 100. Lennon's contributions are his Beatles's classics "Yesterday," "Michelle" (#42), and "Let It Be" (#89), all co-written by McCartney, as well as his solo outing "Imagine" (#96). In addition to "Mrs. Robinson," Simon is represented on the list with "The Sound of Silence" (# 18), "Bridge Over Troubled Water" (#19), and "Scarborough Fair" (#31), co-written by his long-time partner Art Garfunkel. Other songwriters with multiple listings include, with three songs each, Norman Gimbel, Mark James, Barry Mann, McCartney and Roy Orbison, as well as the teams of Holland-Dozier-Holland and Sir Elton John-Bernie Taupin (PRS). Mann, co-writer of the #1 song, is also co-writer (with Dan Hill-SOCAN) of the #100 song, "Sometimes When We Touch." With two songs each, Sam Cooke, Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Kris Kristofferson, Joe Melson, J.D. Souther, Jimmy Webb and Cynthia Weil made the list, along with the teams of Leiber-Stoller and Bert Kaempfert (GEMA)-Eddie Snyder-Charles Singleton.
Most of the songs became hits several times over when they were "covered" by various artists. However, as performers of the Top 100, The Beatles and Simon & Garfunkel scored the most spots with four original versions of the songs. The Association was responsible for three ("Never My Love," "Cherish" #22 and "Windy" #61), as were The Drifters ("On Broadway" #45, "Save the Last Dance for Me" #49 and "Up On the Roof" #92), Elton John ("Your Song" #37, "Daniel" #66 and "Don't Let the Sun Go Down On Me" #76), and Roy Orbison ("Oh Pretty Woman" #26, "Crying" #74 and "Blue Bayou" #85).
BMI is a performing rights organization that represents more than 250,000 songwriters, composers and publishers with a repertoire of more than 3 million songs and compositions from around the world and in all genres of music. The company annually monitors approximately 450,000 hours of commercial and non-commercial radio airplay and more than 6,000,000 hours of television programming. BMI collects license fees from the commercial users of music and, after deducting operating costs, distributes those fees to its affiliates as royalties.
One million continuous performances of a song of the average length of 3 minutes represents 5.7 years of continuos airplay. The 8 million performances of "You've Lost that Lovin' Feeling' " equals more than 45 years of back-to-back play.
1. You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’ Barry Mann, Phil Spector, Cynthia Weil
2. Never My Love Donald & Richard Addrisi
3. Yesterday John Lennon & Paul McCartney
4. Stand By Me Ben E. King, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller
5. Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You Bob Crewe & Bob Gaudio
6. Sitting on the Dock of the Bay Steve Cropper & Otis Redding
7. Mrs. Robinson Paul Simon
8. Baby, I Need Your Loving Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland & Eddie Holland
9. Rhythm of the Rain John Gummoe
10. Georgia on My Mind Hoagy Carmichael & Stuart Gorrell
11. Killing Me Softly with His Song Charles Fox & Norman Gimbel
12. More Marcello Ciorciolini, Norman Newell, Nino Oliviero, Riz Ortolani
13. I Will Always Love You Dolly Parton
14. When A Man Loves A Woman Calvin Lewis & Andrew J. Wright
15. Every Breath You Take Sting
16. Gentle on My Mind John Hartford
17. Something George Harrison
18. Sounds of Silence Paul Simon
19. Bridge Over Troubled Water Paul Simon
20. By the Time I Get to Phoenix Jimmy Webb
21. Angel of the Morning Chip Taylor
22. Cherish Terry Kirkman
23. You Can’t Hurry Love Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland & Eddie Holland
24. Proud Mary John Fogerty
25. Sunny Bobby Hebb
26. Oh Pretty Woman William Dees & Roy Orbison
27. Everybody’s Talkin’ Fred Neil
28. I Heard It Through the Grapevine Barrett Strong & Norman Whitfield
29. Goin’ Out of My Head Teddy Randazzo & Bobby Weinstein
30. Suspicious Minds Mark James
31. Scarborough Fair Art Garfunkel & Paul Simon
32. Traces Buddy Buie, J.R. Cobb, Emory Gordy
33. All I Have to Do Is Dream Boudleaux Bryant
34. Only You Ande Rand & Buck Ram
35. Canadian Sunset Norman Gimbel & Eddie Heywood
36. Oh Girl Eugene Record
37. Your Song Elton John & Bernie Taupin
38. How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland & Eddie Holland
39. (Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher Gary Jackson, Raynard Miner & Carl William Smith
40. I Can’t Stop Loving You Don Gibson
41. Wind Beneath My Wings Larry Henley & Jeff Silbar
42. Michelle John Lennon & Paul McCartney
43. Up, Up and Away Jimmy Webb
44. Happy Together Garry Bonner & Alan Gordon
45. On Broadway Jerry Leiber, Barry Mann, Mike Stoller & Cynthia Weil
46. Twilight Time Al Nevins, Morty Nevins & Buck Ram
47. Strangers in the Night Bert Kaempfert, Charles Singleton & Eddie Snyder
48. Breaking Up Is Hard to Do Howard Greenfield & Neil Sedaka
49. Save the Last Dance for Me Doc Pomus & Mort Shuman
50. For the Good Times Kris Kristofferson
51. We’ve Only Just Begun Roger Nichols & Paul Williams
52. What a Wonderful World Lou Adler, Herb Alpert & Sam Cooke
53. Snowbird Gene MacLellan
54. Everlasting Love Buzz Cason & Mac Gayden
55. My Special Angel Jimmy Duncan
56. The Most Beautiful Girl Rory Bourke, Billy Sherrill & Norro Wilson
57. Brown Eyed Girl Van Morrison
58. Girl From Ipanema Vinicius DeMoraes, Norman Gimbel & Antonio Carlos Jobim
59. My Cherie Amour Sylvia Moy, Henry Cosby & Stevie Wonder
60. Always on My Mind Wayne Carson, Johnny Christopher & Mark James
61. Windy Ruthann Friedman
62. If You Don’t Know Me by Now Kenneth Gamble & Leon Huff
63. Margaritaville Jimmy Buffett
64. Spanish Eyes Bert Kaempfert, Charles Singleton & Eddie Snyder
65. Daydream Believer John Stewart
66. Daniel Elton John and Bernie Taupin
67. Take It Easy Glenn Frey & Jackson Browne
68. Let Your Love Flow Larry Williams
69. The Rose Amanda McBroom
70. The Heart of the Matter Don Henley, J.D. Souther & Mike Campbell
71. Don’t Be Cruel Otis Blackwell & Elvis Presley
72. Listen to the Music Tom Johnston
73. A Groovy Kind of Love Carole Bayer Sager & Toni Wine
74. Crying Joe Melson & Roy Orbison
75. Put A Little Love In Your Heart Jackie DeShannon, Jimmy Holiday & Randy Myers
76. Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me Elton John & Bernie Taupin
77. Help Me Make It Through the Night Kris Kristofferson
78. Best of My Love Glenn Frey, Don Henley & J.D. Souther
79. The Letter Wayne Carson
80. Dreams Stevie Nicks
81. Mr. Bojangles Jerry Jeff Walker
82. Fire and Rain James Taylor
83. Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye John D. Loudermilk
84. Hooked on a Feeling Mark James
85. Blue Bayou Joe Melson & Roy Orbison
86. Born Free John Barry & Don Black
87. Release Me Eddie Miller, Dub Williams & Robert Yount
88. It’s Just a Matter of Time Brook Benton, Belford Hendricks & Clyde Otis
89. Let It Be John Lennon & Paul McCartney
90. I’d Really Love to See You Tonight Parker McGee
91. (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
92. Up on the Roof Gerry Goffin & Carole King
93. Layla Eric Clapton & Jim Gordon
94. I Honestly Love You Peter Allen & Jeff Barry
95. California Girls Mike Love & Brian Wilson
96. Imagine John Lennon
97. You Send Me Sam Cooke
98. How Deep Is Your Love Barry, Maurice & Robin Gibb
99. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden Joe South
100. Sometimes When We Touch Barry Mann & Dan Hill
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