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| S’Wonderful | Glenn Miller | 1945 | Ira & George Gershwin, 1927 |
| Sad Eyes | Robert John | 1979 | Robert John |
| Sad Movies Make Me Cry | Sue Thompson | 1961 | (#5) John Loudermilk |
| Saga Begins, The | "Weird Al" Yankovic | 1998 | Parody lyric by "Weird Al" Yankovic to Don MacLean’s "American Pie" |
| Sail Along Silvery Moon | Billy Vaughn | 1957 | (#2) Harry Tobias, Percy Weinrich, 1937 |
| Sail On | Commodores, The | ||
| Sailing | Christopher Cross | 1980 | (#1) |
| Sailor (Your Home is the Sea) | Lolita | 1960 | (#5) Eng. Alan Holt, Werner Scharfenberger |
| Sally Go Round the Roses | Jaynettes, The | 1963 | (#2) Lona Spector, Zell Sanders |
| Sam’s Song | Mills Brothers, The | 1950 | Jack Elliott, Lew Quadling |
| Samba de Orpheus | 1959 | Luiz Bonfa, Antonio Maria; from "Black Orpheus" | |
| Same Old Lang Syne | Dan Fogelberg | Dan Fogelberg | |
| Same Old Saturday Night | Frank Sinatra | 1955 | (#13) |
| San Antonio Rose | Bob Wills | 1938 | Bob Wills |
| San Francisco (Wear Some Flowers) | Scott McKenzie | 1967 | (#4) John Phillips (Mamas & Papas) |
| San Francisco Bay Blues | Eric Clapton | 1992 | Jerry Fuller, 1954; on Unplugged |
| San Miguel | Kingston Trio, The | 1959 | arr. Jane Bowers |
| Sand and the Sea, The | Nat "King" Cole | 1955 | (#23) |
| Santa Baby | Eartha Kitt | 1953 | Joan Javits, Phil Springer & Tony Springer |
| Santa Claus Is Coming To Town | Gene Autry | 1934 | J. Fred Coots*, Haven Gillespie (*also wrote Love Letters in the Sand) |
| Sara Smile | Hall & Oates | 1976 | (#4) Daryl Hall, John Oates; about Sara Allen, Daryl’s girlfriend |
| Satin Doll | Duke Ellington | 1953 | Music by Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn, words by Johnny Mercer |
| Satisfaction | Rolling Stones, The | 1965 | (#1) |
| Saturday in the Park | Chicago | 1972 | (#3) Robert Lamm |
| Saturday Night in Toledo, Ohio | John Denver | 1975 | Randy Sparks |
| Saturday Night | New Christy Minstrels, The | 1963 | (#29) Randy Sparks |
| Save It For a Rainy Day | Stephen Bishop | 1978 | Stephen Bishop |
| Save the Best for Last | 1989 | Phil Galdstone, John Ling, Wendy Waldman | |
| Save the Last Dance For Me | Drifters, The | 1960 | (#1) Jerome "Doc" Pomus, Mort Shuman |
| Say You're Mine Again | Perry Como | 1953 | (#3) Charles Nathan, Dave Heisler |
| Scarborough Fair/Canticle | Simon & Garfunkel | 1968 | (#11) Paul Simon |
| Scarlet Ribbons | Harry Belafonte | 1956 | Jack Segal, Evelyn Danzig, 1949 (Kinston Trio 1958 & The Browns 1959) |
| School Day | Chuck Berry | 1957 | (#8) Chuck Berry |
| School Days | 1907 | Gus Edwards, Will Cobb | |
| Scotch ‘n Soda | Kingston Trio, The | 1962 | (#81) Dave Guard (flip side was "Jane") Guard died 3/22/91 of lymphoma |
| Sea Cruise | Frankie Ford | 1959 | (#14) |
| Sea of Love | Phil Phillips | 1959 | (#2) George Khoury, Philip Baptiste |
| Sealed With a Kiss | Brian Hyland | 1962 | (#3) Gary Geld, Peter Udell |
| Search Is Over, The | Survivor | 1984 | (#4) |
| Searchin’ | Coasters, The | 1957 | (#3) Jerry Lieber, Mike Stoller |
| Seasons in the Sun | Terry Jacks | 1974 | (#1) Jacques Brel, Rod McKuen |
| Second Time Around, The | Frank Sinatra | 1961 | (#50) James Van Heusen & Sam Grant Clarke, Sammy Cahn, in The Joker Is Wild |
| Second-Hand Rose | Barbra Streisand | 1965 | (#32) Grant Clarke & James F. Hanley |
| Secret Agent Man | Johnny Rivers | 1966 | (#3) |
| Secret Love | Doris Day | 1954 | (#1) Paul Webster, Sammy Fain; in Calamity Jane; Oscar winner 1953 |
| Secretly | Jimmie Rodgers | 1958 | (#3) Al Hoffman, Dick Manning, Mark Markwell |
| See the Funny Little Clown | Bobby Goldsboro | 1964 | (#9) |
| See You In September | Tempos, The | 1959 | (#23) Sherman Edwards, Sid Wayne (also #3 for The Happenings in 1966) |
| See You Later Alligator | Bill Haley | 1956 | (#6) Rogert Guidry |
| Seems Like Old Times | Four Freshmen, The | 1956 | Edward Heyman (lyr), Carmen Lombardo & John Jacob Loeb; Arthur Godfrey’s TV theme song |
| Send for Me | Nat "King" Cole | 1957 | (#6) Ollie Owens |
| Send In the Clowns | Joni Mitchell | 1975 | Stephen Sondheim, in A Little Night Music; Grammy winner 1975 (song) |
| Send Me the Pillow That You Dream On | Dean Martin | 1965 | (#22) (also Johnny Tillotson, #17 in 1962) |
| Sentimental Journey | Les Brown Orchestra | 1944 | Bud Green, Les Brown & Ben Howard; Les Brown’s theme song |
| Sentimental Me | Ames Brothers | 1950 | (#1) Jim Morehead, Jimmy Cassin, 1944 |
| September In The Rain | Dinah Waehington | 1961 | (#23) Al Dubin, Harry Warren, 1937; also #1 for Guy Lombardo in 1937; Goerge Shearing’s 1st hit, 1949 |
| September Morn | Neil Diamond | 1979 | Neil Diamond, Gilbert Becaud |
| September Song | Bing Crosby | 1946 | Maxwell Anderson, Kurt Weill, 1938 (Maurice Chevalier, ‘60) |
| Serenade In Blue | Glenn Miller | 1942 | Mack Gordon, Harry Warren; written for the movie "Orchestra Wives" |
| Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band | Beatles, The | 1967 | John Lennon, Paul McCartney |
| Seven Little Girls Sitting In the Back Seat | Paul Evans & The Curls | 1959 | (#9) |
| Seventeen | Fontane Sisters, The | 1955 | (#3) Boyd Bennett, Jack Young, Chuck Gorman |
| Seventh Son | Johnny Rivers | 1965 | (#7) |
| Seventy-Six Trombones | Robert Preston | 1957 | Meredith Wilson, in The Music Man |
| Sex Song, The | |||
| Shadow of Your Smile, The | Tony Bennett | 1965 | (#95) Johnny Mandel & Paul Webster; in The Sandpiper, Oscar winner, 1965; Grammy 1965 (song) |
| Shadrack, Meshack, Abednigo | Brook Benton | 1962 | (#19) Robert MacGimsey, 1931; Benton d 1988 |
| Shake | Sam Cooke | 1965 | (#7) |
| Shake, Rattle and Roll | Bill Haley & His Comets | 1954 | (#7) Charles Calhoun |
| Shambala | Three Dog Night | 1973 | (#3) Daniel Moore |
| Shangri-La | Four Coins, The | 1957 | (#11) Carl Sigmon, Matt Malneck & Robert Maxwell, 1946 (also The Lettermen ‘69) |
| Shanghai Breezes | John Denver | John Denver, on "Seasons of the Heart" | |
| Shannon | Henry Gross | 1976 | Henry Gross |
| Shape of Things, The | Kingston Trio, The | 1962 | Sheldon, Harnick |
| Share The Land | Guess Who, The | 1970 | (#10) |
| Sh-Boom | Crew-Cuts, The | 1954 | (#1) Jimmy Keyes, Claude & Carl Feaster (The Chords--1st recording), F. McRae & J. Edwards |
| She Believes in Me | Kenny Rogers | 1979 | (#5) Steve Gibb |
| She Can’t Find Her Keys | Paul Petersen | 1962 | (#19) |
| She Cried | Jay & The Americans | 1962 | (#5) |
| She Loves You | Beatles, The | 1964 | (#1) John Lennon, Paul McCartney |
| She Was Five and He Was Ten | Mills Brothers, The | 1954 | (#27) |
| She’d Rather Be With Me | Turtles, The | 1967 | (#3) Gary Bonner, Alan Gordon |
| She’s A Lady | Tom Jones | 1971 | (#2) Paul Anka |
| She’s A Woman | Beatles, The | 1964 | (#4) John Lennon, Paul McCartney |
| She’s Gone | Hall & Oates | 1976 | Darryl Hall, John Oates |
| She’s Got You | Patsy Cline | 1962 | (#14) Hank Cochran |
| She’s Leaving Home | Beatles, The | 1967 | John Lennon, Paul McCartney, on "Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band" |
| She’s Not There | Zombies, The | 1964 | (#2) Rod Argent |
| Sheila | Tommy Roe | 1962 | (#1) Tommy Roe |
| She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain | Traditional | Traditional, ca 1899 | |
| Shenandoah | 1826 | Traditional, from a sea chantey but later associated with the American West | |
| Sherry | Four Seasons, The | 1962 | (#1) Bob Gaudio |
| She's About A Mover | Sir Douglas Quintet | 1965 | (#13) |
| She's Just My Style | Gary Lewis & The Playboys | 1965 | (#3) |
| Shifting, Whispering Sands, The | Rusty Draper | 1955 | (#3) V.C.Gilbert, Mary Hadler (inst. version by Billy Vaughn #5) |
| Shilo | Neil Diamond | 1971 | Neil Diamond |
| Shimmy Shimmy Ko-Ko-Bop | Little Anthony & The Imperials | 1959 | (#24) |
| Shine On Harvest Moon | Nora Bayes, Jack Norworth | 1908 | Nora Bayes, Jack Norworth (husband & wife) |
| Shining Star | 1976 | Maurice White, Philip Bailey, Larry Dunn | |
| Shipmates and Cheyenne | John Denver | 1975 | Joe Henry, John Denver; on "Windsong" |
| Shop Around | Miracles, The | 1960 | (#2) Barry Gordy, Smokie Robinson |
| Short Fat Fannie | Larry Williams | 1957 | (#5) |
| Short People | Randy Newman | 1977 | Randy Newman |
| Short Shorts | Royal Teens | 1958 | (#3) Thomas Austin, Bill Crandell, Bill Dalton, Bob Gaudio |
| Shotgun | Junior. Walker & The All-Stars | 1965 | (#4) |
| Shout | Joey Dee & The Starliters | 1962 | (#6) |
| Show And Tell | 1974 | Jerry Fuller | |
| Show Me The Way to Go Home | Perry’s Hot Dogs | 1925 | Irving King (a pseudonym for the team of Reginald Connelly and Jimmy Campbell) adapted from a Canadian folk song |
| Shower The People | James Taylor | 1976 | (#22) James Taylor |
| Shrimp Boats | Jo Stafford | 1951 | Paul Mason Howard, Paul Weston |
| Side By Side | Kay Starr | 1953 | Harry Woods, 1927; first recorded by Paul Whiteman; Woods’ left hand had no fingers |
| Sidewalks of New York, The | 1894 | James Blake, Charles Lawler | |
| Silence Is Golden | Tremeloes, The | 1967 | (#11) |
| Silent Night | Traditional | Josheph Mohr, Franz Gruber, 1818; written for guitar because church organ was too rusted to be playable | |
| Silhouettes | Diamonds, The | 1957 | (#10) Frank Slay, Bob Crewe; (later by Herman’s Hermits, #5 in 1965; 1st by The Rays, 1957) |
| Silly Love Songs | Paul McCartney & Wings | 1976 | Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney |
| Silver Bells | Bing Crosby | 1951 | Jay Livingston & Ray Evans |
| Silver Dollar | Teresa Brewer | 1955 | (#20) Clark Van Ness, Jack Palmer, 1950 |
| Silver Threads & Golden Needles | Springfields, The | 1962 | (#20) Jack Rhodes, Dick Reynolds (also Linda Ronstradt, #67 in 1974) |
| Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine | Gene Autry | ||
| Sin | Eddy Howard & His Orchestra | 1951 | (#1) |
| Sinbound Train | |||
| Since I Don’t Have You | Skyliners, The | 1959 | (#12) James Beaumont, Janet Vogel, Joseph Rock, et al |
| Since I Fell for You | Lenny Welch | 1963 | (#4) Buddy Johnson, 1948 |
| Since I Met You Baby | Ivory Joe Hunter | 1956 | (#12) Ivory Joe Hunter |
| Since You’ve Been Gone | Clyde McPhatter | 1959 | (#38) ; McPhatter d 1972 at 38 |
| Since You’ve Gone | Ferlin Husky | 1957 | (#4) |
| Sincerely | McGuire Sisters, The | 1955 | (#1 for 10 weeks) Harvey Fuqua, Alan Freed |
| Sing | Carpenters, The | 1973 | Joe Raposo; written for Sesame Street; Karen died 2/4/83 |
| Singin' in the Bath Tub | John Lithgow | 1999 | Herb Magidson, Ned Washington, Michael Cleary, 1929 |
| Singin’ For The Fun | Limelighters, The | ||
| Singin’ in the Rain | Gene Kelly | 1952 | Arthur Freed & Nacio Herb Brown, 1929; in An American in Paris |
| Singing the Blues | Guy Mitchell | 1956 | (#1) Marvin Endsley (Marty Robbins #17) |
| Sink the Bismarck | Johnny Horton | 1960 | (#3) Johnny Horton, Tillman Franks; Horton married Hank Williams’ widow, then died young 11/15/70 |
| Sinking of the Reuben James, The | Almanac Singers | Lyrics Woody Gurthrie, music from Wildwood Flower | |
| Sir Duke | Stevie Wonder | 1977 | (#1 for 3 weeks) tribute to Duke Ellington |
| Sister Golden Hair | America | 1975 | (#1) (on charts for 16 weeks) Gerald Beckley |
| Sisters | Rosemary & Betty Clooney | 1951 | (#30) |
| Sittin’ in the Balcony | Eddie Cochran | 1957 | (#18) John D. Loudermilk (also recorded) |
| Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay | Otis Redding | 1968 | (#1) (rec. 3 wks before his death) Otis Redding, Steve Cropper; Grammy winner 1968 (R&B) |
| Six Days On the Road | Dave Dudley | 1963 | (#32) |
| Sixteen Candles | Crests, The | 1958 | (#2) Luther Dixon, Allyson Khent |
| Sixteen Going On Seventeen | 1959 | Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers, in The Sound of Music | |
| Sixteen Reasons | Connie Stevens | 1960 | (#3) Stevens was "Cricket" Blake from 77 Sunset Strip |
| Sixteen Tons | "Tennessee" Ernie Ford | 1955 | (#1) Merle Travis, 1947 |
| Sixty Minute Man | Billy Ward and His Dominoes | 1951 | (#17) |
| Skin | Allan Sherman | 1963 | Parody words by Alan Sherman, music (You've Gotta Have Heart) Richard Adler/Jerry Ross from "Damn Yankees" |
| Skokian | Ralph Marterie & His Orchestra | 1954 | (#3) Tom Glazer, August Musarurtgwa (also by The Four Lads, #7) |
| Sky Pilot | Animals, The | Eric Burdon, Briggs, Weider, Jenkins & McCulloch | |
| Skylark | Linda Ronstadt | 1984 | Johnny Mercer, Hoagy Carmichael, 1941; previously recorded by Helen Forrest |
| Slaughter on Tenth Avenue | Ventures, The | 1964 | (#35) Richard Rodgers |
| Sleep Walk | Santo & Johnny (Farina) | 1959 | (#1) Don Wolf, Johnny Santo, Ann Farina |
| Sleepy Lagoon | Harry James | 1940 | (#1) Jack Lawrence & Eric Coates |
| Sleigh Ride | 1950 | Mitchell Parish (later), Leroy Anderson | |
| Slip Slidin’ Away | Paul Simon | 1977 | (#5) Paul Simon |
| Slippin’ and Slidin’ (Peepin’ and a-Hidin’) | Little Richard | 1956 | (#33) |
| Sloop John B. | Kingston Trio, The | 1958 | Lee Hays, Carl Sandburg , based on Bahamian song ca 1927 (Beach Boys, #3 ‘66) |
| Slow Boat to China | Kay Kyser | 1948 | Frank Loesser |
| Slow Dancin’ | Johnny Rivers | 1977 | (#10) |
| Slow Poke | Pee Wee King & Golden West Cowboys 1952 | #1) Pee Wee King, Redd Stewart, Chilton Prince | |
| Small World | Johnny Mathis | 1959 | (#20) Stephen Sondheim, Jule Styne, in the movie Gypsy |
| Smelly Cat | Performed by "Phoebe" on the TV show Friends | ||
| Smile | Tony Bennett | 1959 | (#70) John Turner, Geoffrey Parsons, Charlie Chaplin, for Modern Times |
| Smiles | Benny Goodman | 1936 | (#21) J. Will Callahan, Lee Roberts, 1917; also rec. by Crazy Otto, 1955 (#21) |
| Smoke From a Distant Fire | Sanford/Townsend Band, The | 1977 | (#9) Ed Sanford, John Townsend, Steven Stewart |
| Smoke Gets In Your Eyes | Platters, The | 1958 | (#1) Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern, 1933, in Roberta |
| Smoke On the Water | Deep Purple | 1973 | Richard Blackmore, Ian Gillan, et al |
| Smokin' In the Boys' Room | Brownsville Station | 1974 | (#3) Michael Koda, Michael Lutz |
| Snap Your Fingers | Joe Henderson | 1962 | Grady Martin & Alex Zanetis |
| Snowbird | Anne Murray | 1970 | (#8) Gene MacLellan (Gene L. Graham?) |
| So Far Away | Carole King | 1971 | (#14) Carole King (flip side "Smackwater Jack") |
| So Into You | Atlanta Rhythm Section, The | 1977 | Buddy Buie, Dean Daughtry, Robert Nix |
| So Long, It’s Been Good To Know Ya | Weavers, The | 1950 | Woody Guthrie, 1935 |
| So Much In Love | Tymes, The | 1963 | (#1) Roy Straigis, William Jackson III, George Williams |
| So Rare | Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra | 1957 | (#2) John Rufus (Jack) Sharpe, Jerry Herst (first recorded 1937); Dorsey’s last hit; d 1957, 1 year after brother Tommy |
| Society’s Child | Janis Ian | 1967 | (#14) Janis Ian |
| Sock It To Me Baby | Mitch Ryder & Detroit Wheels | 1967 | (#10) Brown & Crewe |
| Softly She Comes | Gordon Lightfoot | Gordon Lightfoot | |
| Softly, As I Leave You | Frank Sinatra | 1964 | (#27) Eng. Hal Shaper, A. deVita, 1962 |
| Soldier Boy | Shirelles, The | 1962 | (#1 for 3 weeks) Luther Dixon, Florence Green |
| Solitaire | Carpenters, The | 1975 | Neil Sedaka, Phil Cody; Karen died 2/4/83 |
| Solitary Man | Neil Diamond | 1966 | (#55) Neil Diamond; this was his first hit |
| Some Day | Frankie Laine | 1954 | (#14) Brian Hooker, Rudolf Friml, 1925, in The Vagabond King |
| Some Enchanted Evening | Jay & The Americans | 1965 | (#13) Richard Rogers & Oscar Hammerstein, in South Pacific, 1949, vocal by Ezio Pinza |
| Some I Wrote | Statler Brothers, The | Don Reid, Harold Reid | |
| Some of These Days | Sophie Tucker | 1910 | Shelton Brooks; Sophie Tucker's theme song |
| Some Sunday Morning | Helen Forrest & Dick Haymes | 1945 | (#9) M.K. Jerome & Ray Heindorf |
| Somebody Bad Stole De Wedding Bell | Eartha Kitt | 1954 | (#16) Bob Hilliard |
| Somebody Loves Me | Errol Garner | 1944 | B.G. DeSylva, Ballard MacDonald, George Gershwin, 1924 |
| Somebody to Love | Jefferson Airplane | 1967 | (#5) Grace Slick, Darby Slick, Jerry Slick |
| Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You) | Mills Brothers, the | 1949 | Jimmy Hodges, 1946 |
| Someday Soon | Judy Collins | 1969 | Ian Tyson |
| Someday We’ll Be Together | Supremes, The | 1969 | (#1) Harvey Fuqua, Jackey Beavers, Johny Bristol; The Supremes’ last hit |
| Someone Else's Love Song | Georgie Shaw | 1954 | (#29) |
| Someone Saved My Life Tonight | Elton John | 1975 | (#4) Elton John, Bernie Taupin |
| Someone to Watch Over Me | 1949 | George & Ira Gershwin, 1926; in John Loves Mary, 1949 | |
| Someone You Love | Nat "King" Cole | 1955 | (#13) |
| Somethin’ Stupid | Frank & Nancy Sinatra | 1967 | Carson C. Parks (#1 for 4 weeks) |
| Something to Remember You By | 1930 | Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz | |
| Something Wonderful | 1951 | Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers, in The King And I | |
| Something’s Got a Hold on Me | Etta James | 1962 | (#37) |
| Something's Gotta Give | McGuire Sisters, The | 1955 | (#5) Johnny Mercer |
| Somewhere (There’s A Place for Us) | 1957 | Stephen Sondheim, Leonard Bernstein; from West Side Story | |
| Somewhere My Love (Lara’s Theme) | Ray Conniff | 1966 | (#9) Maurice Jarre & Paul Webster in Dr. Zhivago |
| Somewhere There Is Someone | Lou Monte | 1954 | (#21) |
| Son of a Preacher Man | Dusty Springfield | 1968 | John Hurley, Ronnie Wilkins |
| Song From Moulin Rouge (Where Is Your Heart) | Percy Faith & His Orchestra | 1953 | (#1) William Engvick, Georges Auric |
| Song Of The Barefoot Contessa | Hugo Winterhalter | 1954 | (#25) Mario Nascimbene |
| Song Of the Dreamer | Eddie Fisher | 1955 | (#11) |
| Song Sung Blue | Neil Diamond | 1972 | (#1) Neil Diamond |
| Songbird | Barbra Streisand | 1978 | (#25) D. Wolfson & S. Nelson |
| Soon It’s Gonna Rain | Barbra Streisand | 1963 | Tom Jones, Harvey Schmidt, in The Fantasticks |
| Sophisticated Lady | Linda Ronstadt | 1984 | Irving Mills, Mitchell Parish, Duke Ellington, 1933; on Ronstadt’s Lush Life |
| Sorcerer’s Apprentice, The | 1897 | Paul Dukas; used in the movie Fantasia | |
| Sorry (I Ran All the Way Home) | Impalas, The | 1959 | (#2) Harry Giosasi, Artie Zwirm |
| Soul Finger | Bar-Kays, the | 1967 | (#7) James Alexander, et al; the band's only hit; 4 members died in airplane crash with Otis Redding, 1967 |
| Soul Man | Sam & Dave | 1967 | (#2) Isaac Hayes, David Porter; later (1989) in Blues Brothers by John Belushi & Dan Aykroyd |
| Sound of Music, The | 1959 | Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, from the musical of the same name | |
| Sounds of Silence, The | Simon & Garfunkel | 1965 | (#1) Paul Simon |
| South Coast | Kingston Trio, The | 1959 | Lillian Bos2 Ross, Sam Eskin, Richard Dehr, Frank Miller |
| South of the Border (Down Mexico Way) | Frank Sinatra | 1953 | (#18) Jimmy Kennedy, Michael Carr |
| Southern Corss | Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young | 1982 | on "Daylight Again" |
| Southern Nights | Glen Campbell | 1977 | (#1) Allen Toussaint |
| Space Oddity | David Bowie | 1970 | David Bowie |
| Spanish Eyes | Al Martino | 1965 | (#15) Bert Kaempfert, Eddie Snyder (Eng.), Charles Singleton; originally rec. by Kaempfert as "Moon Over Naples" |
| Spanish Flea | Herb Alpert | 1966 | (#27) Cissy Wechter, Julius Wechter (used as theme for The Dating Game) |
| Spanish Harlem | Ben E. King | 1960 | (#10) Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, Phil Spector |
| Speak Softly Love | Andy Williams | 1972 | Larry Kusic, Nino Rota |
| Speedoo | The Cadillacs | 1955 | (#17) |
| Speedy Gonzales | Pat Boone | 1962 | (#6) |
| Spiders & Snakes | Jim Stafford | 1973 | (#3) David Bellamy, Jim Stafford |
| Spinning Wheel | Blood, Sweat & Tears | 1969 | (#2) David Clayton Thomas |
| Spirit In the Sky | Norman Greenbaum | 1970 | (#3) |
| Splish Splash | Bobby Darin | 1958 | (#3) Jean Murray, Bobby Darin (Darin died in 1973 in heart surgery at age 37) |
| Spooky | Buddy Buie, J.R. Cobb, Harry Middlebrooks, Mike Shapiro | ||
| Springhill Mining Disaster, The | Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger | ||
| St. George and the Dragonet | Stan Freeberg | 1953 | (#1) Stan Freeberg |
| St. James Infirmary | Cab Calloway | 1930 | Joe Primrose, 1930; possibly known as early as 1890-99 as "Bambler’s Blues" |
| St. Louis Blues | 1914 | W.C. (William Christopher) Handy | |
| Stagger Lee | Lloyd Price | 1958 | (#1 for 4 weeks) Harold Logan, Lloyd Price (based on a traditional folksong) |
| Stairway to the Stars | Glenn Miller | 1938 | Mitchell Parish, Matt Malneck |
| Stand By Me | Ben E. King | 1961 | (#4) (also #9 in 1986 from the movie) |
| Stand By Your Man | Tanny Wynette | 1968 | Tammy Wynette, Billy Sherrill |
| Standing On the Corner | Four Lads, The | 1956 | (#3) Frank Loesser (on charts 20 weeks); from the movie Most Happy Fella |
| Standing Still | Association, The | Ted Bluechel, Jr. | |
| Star Dust | Nat "King" Cole | 1957 | (#79) Hoagy Carmichael (1927) & Mitchell Parish (1929); Nino Tempo & April Stevens, #32 in 1964 |
| Star Eyes | Helen O’Connell | 1940 | Don Raye & Gene DePaul |
| Stars Fell on Alabama | Woody Herman | Mitchell Parish (later), Frank Perkins, 1934 | |
| Stay | Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs | 1960 | (#1) Maurice Williams (later by The Four Seasons, #16 in 1964) |
| Stayin’ Alive | Bee Gees, The | 1977 | Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, Maurice Gibb |
| Steam Heat | Patti Page | 1954 | (#8) Richard Adler, Jerry Ross |
| Steel Rail Blues | Gordon Lightfoot | 1966 | Gordon Lightfoot (also rec. George Hamilton IV) |
| Stella By Starlight | 1946 | Ned Washington, Victor Young | |
| Step by Step | Crests, The | 1960 | (#14) Ollie Jones, Billy Dawn Smith, 1959 |
| Stewball | Peter, Paul & Mary | 1963 | (#35) Ralph Rinzler, John Herald, Bob Yellin (the Greenbriar Boys) |
| Still The One | Orleans | 1975 | (#5) John Hall, Johanna Hall |
| Still The Same | Bob Seger | 1978 | (#4) |
| Stompin’ at the Savoy | Benny Goodman Orchestra | 1936 | Benny Goodman |
| Stoned Soul Picnic | Fifth Dimension, The | 1968 | Laura Nyro (d 1997 at 49) |
| Stoney End | Barbra Streisand | 1970 | (#6) Laura Nyro (d 1997 at 49) |
| Stood Up | Ricky Nelson | 1957 | (#2) |
| Stop and Smell the Roses | Mac Davis | 1974 | (#9) Mac Davis, Doc Severinson |
| Stop! in the Name of Love | Supremes, The | 1965 | (#1) Eddie Holland, Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier |
| Stormy Weather | Lena Horne | 1943 | Ted Hoehler, Harold Arlen, 1933 (intro’d at Cotton Club and first popularized by Ethel Waters) |
| Stormy | Santana | 1979 | (#32) |
| Story Untold, A | Crew-Cuts, The | 1955 | (#16) |
| Stouthearted Men | Nelson Eddy | 1928 | Sigmund Romberg & Oscar Hammerstein II, in New Moon |
| Stranger In Paradise | Tony Bennett | 1953 | (#2) Robert Wright, George Forrest, in Kismet; based on Borodin’s "Polovetsian Dances" in Prince Igor, 1888 |
| Stranger On the Shore | Mr. Acker Bilk | 1962 | (#1) Acker Bilk, Robert Mellin (Also Andy Williams, #38) |
| Strangers In My Soup | Allan Sherman | Lyr Allan Sherman to "Strangers in the Night" by Charles Singleton, Eddie Saur, Bert Kaempfert | |
| Strangers in the Night | Frank Sinatra | 1966 | (#1) Charles Singleton, Eddie Saur, Bert Kaempfert; 2 Grammies 1966 (record, album) |
| Strawberry Fields Forever | Beatles, The | John Lennon, Paul McCartney | |
| Streak, The | Ray Stevens | 1974 | Ray Stevens |
| String of Pearls | 1942 | Eddie DeLang, Johnny Gray, in The Glenn Miller Story | |
| Stripper, The | David Rose & His Orchestra | 1962 | (#1) David Rose (instrumental) |
| Stroll, The | Diamonds, The | 1957 | (#4) Nancy Lee, Clyde Otis, Brook Benton |
| Strollin' Is Back In Style | |||
| Strut | Sheena Easton | 1984 | (#7) |
| Stuck in the Middle With You | Stealers Wheel | 1973 | (#6) Gerry Rafferty, Joe Egan; Rafferty later went solo |
| Stuck on You | Elvis Presley | 1960 | (#1) Aaron Schroeder, J. Leslie McFarland |
| Stupid Cupid | Connie Francis | 1958 | (#14) Neil Sedaka, Howard Greenfield |
| Subterranean Homesick Blues | Bob Dylan | 1965 | (#39) Bob Dylan |
| Such a Night | Elvis Presley | 1964 | (#16) (earlier by Johnny Ray, #19 in 1954) |
| Such Is Love | Peter, Paul & Mary | Peter Yarrow | |
| Suddenly There’s a Valley | Gogi Grant | 1955 | (#9) Charles Meyer, Biff Jones |
| Sugar Shack | Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs | 1963 | (#1) Keith McCormack, Faye Voss |
| Sugar Sugar | Archies, The | 1969 | Jeff Barry, Andy Kim |
| Sugar Town | Nancy Sinatra | 1966 | (#5) Lee Hazelwood |
| Sugar Walls | Sheena Easton | 1984 | (#9) |
| Sugartime | McGuire Sisters, The | 1957 | (#1 for 4 weeks) Charlie Phillips, Odis Echols |
| Suite — Judy Blue Eyes | Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young | ||
| Sukiyaki | Kyu Sakamoto | 1963 | (#1 for 3 weeks) El Rohusuke, Hachidai Nakamura |
| Sultans of Swing | 1979 | Mark Knopfler | |
| Summer | John Denver | 1975 | John Denver, Mike Taylor, Dick Kniss, 1972 |
| Summer Breeze | Seals & Crofts | 1971 | James Seals, Darrell Crofts (#6) |
| Summer Days Alone | Brothers Four, The | ||
| Summer In The City | Lovin’ Spoonful, The | 1966 | (#1 for 3 weeks) John Sebastian, Mark Sebastian, Steve Boche |
| Summer Knows, The | Summer of ‘42 | 1971 | Alan & Marilyn Bergman, in Summer of ‘42 |
| Summer Rain | Johnny Rivers | 1967 | (#14) James Hendricks |
| Summer Set | Monty Kelly | 1960 | (#30) Acker Bilk, David Collett |
| Summer Wind, The | Frank Sinatra | 1966 | (#25) Hans Bradtke (Eng. by Johnny Mercer), Henry Mayer |
| Summertime Blues, The | Eddie Cochran | 1958 | (#8) Eddie Cochran; Cochran d 1960 at age 22 |
| Summertime | From Porgy & Bess | 1935 | DuBose Howard, George Gershwin in Porgy & Bess |
| Summertime, Summertime | Jamies, The | 1958 | (#26) Sherm Feller & Tom Jameson(re-charted 1962, #38) |
| Sunday Kind of Love | Jo Stafford | 1947 | Barbara Belle, Louis Brima, Anita Leonard & Stan Rhodes |
| Sunday, Monday or Always | Bing Crosby | 1943 | Johnny Burke & Jimmy Van Heusen; in the movie "Dixie" |
| Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down | Kris Kristofferson | Kris Kristofferson | |
| Sunday Will Never Be the Same | Spanky & Our Gang | 1967 | (#9) Gene Pistilli, Terry Cashman |
| Sundown | Gordon Lightfoot | 1974 | (#1 for 18 weeks) Gordon Lightfoot |
| Sunny | Bobby Hebb | 1966 | (#2) Bobby Hebb |
| Sunrise, Sunset | Topol | 1964 | Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick, from Fiddler On The Roof |
| Sunrise Serenade | Glenn Miller Orchestra | 1939 | Frankie Carle |
| Sunshine Of Your Love | Cream | 1967 | Jack Bruce, Pete Brown, Eric Clapton |
| Sunshine On My Shoulders | John Denver | 1974 | (#1) (ranked 18 wks) John Denver, Richard Kniss, Michael Taylor |
| Sunshine Superman | Donovan | 1966 | (#1) |
| Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows | Leslie Gore | 1965 | Howard Liebling, Marvin Hamlisch |
| Superstar | Carpenters, The | ||
| Superstition | Stevie Wonder | 1972 | (#1) Stevie Wonder; Grammy Winner, 1973 (R&B) (album "Innervisions" also won) |
| Surf City | Jan & Dean | 1963 | (#1) Brian Wilson, Jan Gerry |
| Surfer Girl | Beach Boys, The | 1963 | (#7) Brian Wilson |
| Surfin’ Bird | Trashmen, The | 1963 | (#4) |
| Surfin’ Safari | Beach Boys, The | 1962 | (#14) Mike Love, Brian Wilson |
| Surfin’ U.S.A. | Beach Boys, The | 1963 | (#3) Chuck Berry |
| Susan | Holvay, Beisbier & Guercio | ||
| Susie Darlin’ | Robin Luke | 1958 | (#5) |
| Suspician | Terry Stafford | 1964 | (#3) Jerome "Doc" Pomus, Mort Shuman |
| Suzanne | Judy Collins | 1966 | Leonard Cohen |
| Suzie Q | Dale Hawkins | 1957 | (#27) Dale Hawkins (James Burton claims co-authorship) |
| Swamp Witch | Jim Stafford | 1973 | (#39) |
| Sway | Dean Martin | 1954 | (#15) Norman Gimbel, Pablo Ruiz (also by Bobby Rydell, #14 in 1960) |
| Swearin’ to God | Frankie Valli | 1975 | (#6) Bob Crewe, Danny Randall |
| Sweet Adeline | 1903 | Harry Armstrong, Richard Gerrard | |
| Sweet and Gentle | Alan Dale | 1955 | (#10) Otillio Portal, George Thorn |
| Sweet Baby James | James Taylor | James Taylor | |
| Sweet Caroline | Neil Diamond | 1969 | (#4) Neil Diamond |
| Sweet Cherry Wine | Tommy James | 1969 | (#7) |
| Sweet City Woman | Stampeders, The | 1971 | (#8) |
| Sweet Dreams of You | Patsy Cline | 1963 | (#44) Don Gibson, 1955 |
| Sweet Georgia Brown | Ben Bernie | 1925 | Kenneth Casey, Maceo Pinkard; theme song of the Harlem Globetrotters |
| Sweet Home Alabama | Lynyrd Skynyrd | ||
| Sweet Little Sixteen | Chuck Berry | 1958 | (#2) Chuck Berry |
| Sweet Lorraine | Nat "King" Cole | 1940 | Mitchell Parrish & Cliff Burwell |
| Sweet Love | Anita Baker | 1990 | (#3) Anita Baker & Bias |
| Sweet Nothin’s | Brenda Lee | 1959 | (#4) Ronnie Self |
| Sweet Old Fashioned Girl, A | Teresa Brewer | 1956 | (#7) Bob Merrill |
| Sweet Pea | Tommy Roe | 1966 | (#8) Tommy Roe |
| Sweet Surrender | John Denver | 1974 | John Denver; from the Walt Disney production "The Bears And I" |
| Sweet Talkin’ Guy | Chiffons, The | 1966 | (#10) |
| Sweet Violets | Doris Day | 1951 | W.C. Powell, 1908 |
| Sweetest Sounds, The | Sarah Vaughan | 1963 | Richard Rodgers; from the musical "No Strings" |
| Sweetest Thing I’ve Ever Known, The | Juice Newton | 1981 | (#7) |
| Sweetheart Tree | Henry Mancini | 1965 | Henry Mancini; used in the movie "The Great Race" |
| Swing Low, Sweet Chariot | Traditional, ca 1873; arranged by Henry Thacker Burleigh, 1917 | ||
| Swingin’ On a Star | Bing Crosby | 1944 | Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen; in Going My Way; Oscar winner, 1944; written especially for Crosby |
| Swingin’ Safari, A | Billy Vaughn & His Orchestra | 1962 | (#13) (instrumental) |
| Swingin’ Shepherd Blues, The | Moe Koffman Quartette | 1958 | (#23) Rhoda Roberts, Kenny Jacobson, Moe Kossman |
| Sylvia’s Mother | Dr. Hook | 1971 | Shel Silverstein |
| Syncopated Clock | 1950 | Mitchell Parish, Leroy Anderson | |
| Take A Chance On Me | Abba | 1977 | (#14) |
| Take A Letter Maria | 1969 | R.B.Greaves | |
| Take A Message To Mary | Everly Brothers, The | 1959 | (#16) |
| Take Five | Dave Brubeck Quartet | 1961 | (#25) Dave Brubeck |
| Take Good Care Of Her | Adam Wade | 1961 | (#7) |
| Take Good Care of My Baby | Bobby Vee | 1961 | (#1 for 3 weeks) Gerry Goffin, Carole King |
| Take It Easy | Eagles, The | 1972 | (#12) Jackson Browne, Glenn Frey |
| Take It to the Limit | Eagles, The | 1975 | Randy Meisner, Don Henley, Glenn Frey |
| Take Me Home Country Roads | John Denver | 1971 | (#2) (on charts 23 weeks) Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert, John Denver |
| Take Me Out To The Ball Game | 1908 | Jack Norworth (saw 1st game 20 years later), Albert Von Tilzer | |
| Take The "A" Train | Duke Ellington | 1941 | Billy Strayhorn |
| Take The Long Way Home | Supertramp | 1979 | (#10) |
| Take These Chains From My Heart | Ray Charles | 1963 | (#8) |
| Takin’ Care of Business | Bachman Turner Overdrive | 1974 | (#12) Randy Bachman |
| Taking A Chance on Love | Benny Goodman | 1943 | (#1) L:John Latouche & Ted Fetter; m: Vernon Duke; From "Cabin In the Sky" (film version, 1943) |
| Talk Back Trembling Lips | Johnny Tillotson | 1963 | (#7) |
| Talk to the Animals | Rex Harrison | 1967 | Leslie Briccuse, in Doctor Doolittle, Oscar winner, 1967 |
| Talkin' In Your Sleep | Crystal Gayle | 1978 | Roger Cook, Bobby Ray Wood |
| Tall Cool One | Wailers, The | 1959 | (#36) |
| Tall Paul | Annette with The Afterbeats | 1959 | (#7) |
| Tallahassee Lassie | Freddy Cannon | 1959 | (#6) Written by Cannon’s mother (Picariello) |
| Tammy | Debbie Reynolds | 1957 | (#1) Jay Livingston & Ray Evans (also by The Ames Brothers, #5) |
| Tangerine | Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra | 1942 | Johnny Mercer, Victor Schertzinger; Bob Eberly & Helen O’Connell vocal |
| Tapestry | Carole King | 1971 | Carole King, Tapestry (the all-time Best-Selling Album) |
| Tara’s Theme (My Own True Love) | 1954 | Mack David, Max Steiner (theme from Gone With the Wind, 1939) | |
| Taxi | Harry Chapin | 1972 | (#24) |
| Taxman | Beatles, The | George Harrison | |
| Tea for Two | 1925 | Irving Ceaser, Vincent Youmans; written for "No, No, Nanette" | |
| Teach Me Tonight | Jo Stafford | 1953 | Sammy Cahn, Gene DePaul |
| Teach Your Children | Crosby, Stills & Nash | 1970 | (#16) Graham Nash |
| Teacher’s Pet | Doris Day | 1958 | (#56) Joe Lubin, 1956 |
| Tear Fell, A | Teresa Brewer | 1956 | (#5) Dorian Burton, Eugene Randolph |
| Tears In Heaven | Eric Clapton | 1992 | (#2) Eric Clapton, on "Unplugged"; allegedly inspired by the death of his infant son, Conor; won 6 grammies |
| Tears of a Clown | Miracles, The | 1970 | (#1) Harry Cosby, Steveland Horris (Stevie Wonder), Smokey Robinson |
| Tears on My Pillow | Little Anthony & The Imperials | 1958 | (#4) Sylvester Bradford, Al Lewis |
| Teddy Bears’ Picnic | Burl Ives (?) | lyr. Jimmy Kennedy (1947), m. John W. Bratton (1907) | |
| Teen Age Prayer, A | Gale Storm | 1955 | (#6) Bix Reichner, Bernie Lowe |
| Teen Angel | Mark Dinning | 1959 | (#1) Jean Surrey, Red Surrey; Dinning is Patti Page’s brother |
| Teen Beat | Sandy Nelson | 1959 | (#4) |
| Teenage Crush | Tommy Sands | 1956 | (#2) Audrey Allison, Joe Allison (first performed on Kraft Theater on NBC-TV) |
| Teenager In Love, A | Dion & The Belmonts | 1959 | (#5) Jerome "Doc" Pomus, Mort Shuman |
| Tell Her About It | Billy Joel | 1983 | (#1) |
| Tell Her No | Zombies, The | 1965 | (#6) |
| Tell Him | Exciters, The | 1963 | (#4) |
| Tell It Like It Is | Aaron Neville | 1966 | (#2) George Davis, Lee Diamond |
| Tell It on the Mountain | Peter, Paul & Mary | 1964 | (#33) |
| Tell Laura I Love Her | Ray Peterson | 1960 | (#7) Jeff Berry, Ben Raleigh |
| Tell Me Why | Four Aces, The | 1951 | Words by Al Alberts (leader & soloist of the group), music by Marty Gold (of The Three Suns) |
| Tell Me Why | Beatles, The | John Lennon, Paul McCartney | |
| Telstar | Tornadoes, The | 1962 | (#1 for 3 weeks) Joe Meek |
| Temptation Eyes | Grass Roots, The | 1971 | (#15) Harvey Price, Dan Walsh |
| Ten At Two | Willie Nelson | M.Vickery, J.Mack, B.Roberts, B.Nosworthy | |
| Tender Trap, The | Frank Sinatra | 1955 | (#7) Sammy Cahn, James Van Heusen |
| Tenderly | Rosemare Clooney | 1952 | (#17) Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence, 1947 |
| Tennessee Stud | Eddie Arnold | 1959 | Jimmy Driftwood |
| Tennessee Waltz, The | Patti Page | 1951 | (#1 for 13 weeks) Redd Stewart & Pee Wee King, 1948 |
| Tequila Sunrise | Eagles, The | 1973 | (#64) |
| Tequila | Champs, The | 1958 | (#1 for 5 weeks, on charts 15) Chuck Rio; Grammy Winner, 1958 (R&B song) |
| Thank God I’m A Country Boy | John Denver | 1974 | John Martin Sommers |
| Thank Heaven for Little Girls | Maurice Chevalier | 1958 | Alan J. Lerner, Frederick Loewe; in Gigi |
| Thank You | Sly & The Family Stone | 1970 | (#1) |
| Thank You for Calling | Jo Stafford | 1954 | (#12) |
| Thanks for the Memory | Benny Goodman | 1938 | Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger; Bob Hope’s theme song; in Big Broadcase of 1938, Oscar winner, 1938 |
| That Lucky Old Sun | Ray Charles | 1963 | (#20) Haven Gillespie, Beasley Smith, 1949 |
| That Old Black Magic | Louis Prima & Keely Smith | 1958 | Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen, 1942 (#18) (Sammy Davis #13, 1955); Oscar nominee, 1942 |
| That Old Feeling | Frank Sinatra | 1943 | Lew Brown, Sammy Fain (#3 on Hit Parade, 1937) |
| That Old Gang of Mine | Four Aces | 1954 | (#22) Billy Rose, Mort Dixon, Ron Henderson, 1923 |
| That Sunday, That Summer | Nat "King" Cole | 1963 | (#12) |
| That’ll Be the Day | Buddy Holly | 1957 | (#1) Buddy Holly, Norman Petty; inspired by John Wayne’s tag-line in The Searchers |
| That’s All I Want from You | Jaye P. Morgan | 1954 | (#3) M. Rotha, Fritz Rotter |
| That’s All | Nat "King" Cole | 1957 | Alan Brandt, Bob Haymes, 1953 |
| That’s Amore | Dean Martin | 1953 | (#2) Jack Brooks, Harry Warren |
| That’s Life | Frank Sinatra | 1966 | (#4) Dean Kay & Kelly Gordon |
| That’s My Boy | Stan Freberg | 1951 | (#30) |
| That’s Old Fashioned | Everly Brothers, The | 1962 | (#9) |
| That’s The Way I’ve Always Heard | Carly Simon | 1971 | (#10) Jacob Brackman; Carly Simon is daughter of Simon & Schuster |
| That’s What I Like | Don, Dick & Jimmy | 1954 | (#14) |
| Theme from "A Summer Place" | Percy Faith & His Orchestra | 1960 | (#1 for 9 wks, charted 21) Max Steiner (The Lettermen, #16, 1965) Grammy, 1960 (record) |
| Theme from "Ben Casey" | Valjean | 1962 | (#28) (instrumental) |
| Theme from "Exodus" | Ferrante & Teicher | 1960 | (#2) Ernest Gold & Pat Boone (singer); (on charts 21 weeks) Grammy Winner, 1960 (song) |
| Theme from "Hatari" | Henry Mancini | 1962 | (#95) Henry Mancini |
| Theme from "Hawaii Five-O" | Ventures, The | 1969 | (#4) |
| Theme from "Hill Street Blues" | Mike Post | 1981 | (#10) Mike Post |
| Theme from "Love Story" | Henry Mancini | 1971 | (#13) |
| Theme from "M*A*S*H" | 1972 | Johnny Mandel & Mike Altman | |
| Theme from "Magnum P.I." | Mike Post | 1982 | (#25) Mike Post |
| Theme from "Mission Impossible" | Lalo Schifrin | 1968 | (#41) Lalo Schifrin |
| Theme from "Peter Gunn" | Ray Anthony | 1959 | (#8) Henry Mancini |
| Theme from "Rawhide" | Frankie Laine | 1959 | Ned Washington, Dimitri Tiomkin |
| Theme from "Romeo & Juliet" | Henry Mancini | 1969 | (#1) |
| Theme from "Route 66" | Nelson Riddle Orchestra | 1962 | (#30) Nelson Riddle |
| Theme from "The Apartment" | Ferrante & Teicher | 1960 | (#10) Charles Williams |
| Theme from "The Magnificent Seven" | Al Caiola & His Orchestra | 1960 | (#35) (instrumental) |
| Theme from "The Man with the Golden Arm" | Richard Maltby & His Orchestra | 1956 | (#14) (inst) |
| Theme from "The Pink Panther" | Henry Mancini | 1964 | (#31) Henry Mancini |
| Theme from "The Rockford Files" | Mike Post | 1975 | (#10) Mike Post |
| Theme from "The Third Man" | Anton Karas | 1950 | (#1) Anton Karas |
| Theme from "Valley of the Dolls" | Dionne Warwick | 1968 | (#2 for 4 weeks) |
| Then Came You | Spinners, The | Pugh & Marshall | |
| Then He Kissed Me | Crystals, The | 1963 | (#6) Phil Spector, Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry |
| Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye | Casinos, The | 1967 | (#6) John D. Loudermilk |
| There Are Such Things | Tommy Dorsey Orchestra | ||
| There But For Fortune | Joan Baez | 1965 | (#50) Phil Ochs |
| There Goes My Baby | Drifters, The | 1959 | (#2) Benjamin Nelson, Lover Patterson, Ben E. King et al (including Leiber & Stoller as "Elmo Glick") |
| There Goes My Everything | Engelbert Humperdink | 1967 | (#20) Dallas Frazier |
| There Goes My Heart | Joni James | 1958 | (#19) Benny Davis & Abner Silver |
| There I Go | Sarah Vaughan | 1940 | (#1) Hy Zaret & Irving Weiser |
| There I Said It Again | Bobby Vinton | 1963 | (#1) Redd Evans, Dave Mann, 1941; Vinton’s was this song’s third trip to the charts |
| There Is Love (The Wedding Song) | Paul Stookey | Paul Stookey | |
| There Never Was A Night So Beautiful | Perry Como | 1954 | (#21) John Rox |
| There She Goes | Jerry Wallace | 1960 | (#26) |
| There Was a Tall Oak Tree | Dorsey Burnette | 1960 | (#23) brother of Johnny Burnette ("Dreamin’"); dorwned at 30, 1964; brother died at 47 of heart attack, 1979 |
| There Will Never Be Another You | Nat "King" Cole | 1943 | Mack Gordon, Harry Warren |
| There’ll Be Some Changes Made | Boswell Sisters, The | ||
| There’s A Kind of A Hush | Herman’s Hermits | 1967 | (#4) Reed Stephens, Geoff Stephens |
| There’s A Moon Out Tonight | Capris, The | 1961 | (#3) only hit by this group |
| There’s Got to Be a Morning After | Maureen McGovern | 1973 | (#1) Al Kasha, Joel Hirshhorn; from The Poseiden Adventure, Oscar winner 1972 |
| There’s Never Been Anyone Else But You | Ricky Nelson | 1956 | Paul Francis Webster, Dimitri Tiomkin |
| There’s No Gettin’ Over Me | Ronnie Milsap | 1981 | (#5) |
| There’s No Tomorrow | Tony Bennett | 1949 | (to "O Sole Mio" by de Capua, 1899 — also borrowed by "It’s Now or Never") |
| There’s Something Up the Chimney | |||
| There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight | Tony Bennett | 1954 | (#7) Hank Williams |
| There's A Big Blue Cloud (Next To Heaven) | Perry Como | 1951 | (#25) Ervin Drake, Hans Lengsfelder, Paul McGrane |
| There's No Place Like Home for the Holidays | Perry Como | 1954 | (#8) Al Stillman, Robert Allen |
| These Boots Are Made for Walkin’ | Nancy Sinatra | 1966 | (#1) Lee Hazelwood |
| These Eyes | Guess Who, The | 1969 | (#6) |
| These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You) | Ella Fitzgerald | 1956 | w. Holt Marvell (Eric Maschwitz), m. Jack Strachey & Harry Link (Link questionable) (#3 on Hit Parade, 1936) |
| They Call the Wind Mariah | Harve Presnell | 1969 | Alan J. Lerner & Frederick Loewe, from Paint Your Wagon, 1952 |
| They Can't Take That Away From Me | Perry Como | 1956 | Ira & George Gershwin |
| They Didn't Believe Me | Julie London | 1960 | Herbert Reynolds & Jerome Kern, 1914 |
| They Say That Falling In Love Is Wonderful | Perry Como | 1946 | Irving Berlin |
| They Were Doin' the Mambo | Vaughn Monroe | 1954 | (#7) |
| Thing, The | Phil Harris | 1950 | (#1) Charles Randolph Grean |
| Things | Bobby Darin | 1962 | (#3) Bobby Darin (Darin died in 1973 in heart surgery at age 37) |
| Things I Didn't Do, The | Perry Como | 1954 | (#22) Fred Jacobson, Ira Kosloff, Irving Reid |
| Things That I Used to Do | Guitar Slim | 1954 | (#23) |
| Things We Said Today, The | Beatles, The | 1964 | John Lennon, Paul McCartney |
| Things We Did Last Summer, The | Nat "King" Cole | 1946 | Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne |
| Things We Do For Love, The | Ten CC | 1977 | (#5) Graham Gouldman, Eric Stewart |
| Think For Yourself | Beatles, The | 1965 | George Harrison |
| This Boy | Beatles, The | John Lennon, Paul McCartney; on Hard Day’s Night | |
| This Diamond Ring | Gary Lewis & The Playboys | 1965 | (#1) Bob Brass, Irwin Levine, Al Kooper |
| This Guy’s In Love With You | Bert Bacharach | 1968 | Burt Bacharach |
| This Is All I Ask | Tony Bennett | 1963 | (#70) Gordon Jenkins |
| This Is For All The Lonely People | America | 1974 | (#5) |
| This Is My Song | Petula Clark | 1967 | Charles Chaplin |
| This Land Is Your Land | New Christy Minstrels, The | 1962 | (#93) Woody Guthrie |
| This Love of Mine | Frank Sinatra | 1941 | Frank Sinatra, Sol Parker &Henry Sanicola |
| This Magic Moment | Drifters, The | 1960 | (#16) (also Jay & the Americans, 1968) |
| This Masquerade | George Benson | 1976 | (#10) Leon Russell; Grammy Winner 1976 (record); first song ever to be #1 in pop, jazz and R&B |
| This Nearly Was Mine | Ezio Pinza | 1949 | Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, in South Pacific |
| This Old Riverboat | New Christy Minstrels, The | From the movie "Advance to the Rear" | |
| This Ole House | Rosemary Clooney | 1954 | (#1) Stuart Hamblen |
| This Train | Peter, Paul & Mary | 196 | Woody Guthrie (as "This Train Is Bound for Glory") |
| Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days Of Summer | Nat "King" Cole | 1963 | (#6) Hans Carste, Charles Tobias |
| Those Were The Days | Mary Hopkin | 1968 | (#2) Gene Raskin; from a Russian song called "Darogoi Dlimmoyo" , c 1920; 1st rec. by The Limelighters) |
| Thousand Stars, A | Kathy Young & The Innocents | 1960 | (#3) |
| Three Bells, The | Three Browns, The | 1959 | (#1) Jean Villard as "Les Trois Cloches", 1943, by Edith Piaf; Eng. Bert Reisfield, 1948 |
| Three Coins In the Fountain | Four Aces | 1954 | (#1) Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne; in movie of same name; Oscar winner, 1954 |
| Three Jolly Coachmen | Kingston Trio, The | From "Landlord Fill The Bowl" , ca 1750 | |
| Three Stars Will Shine Tonight | Richard Chamberlain | 1962 | (#10) Theme from "Dr. Kildare" |
| Thrill Is Gone, The | B.B. King | 1969 | |
| Through the Years | Kenny Rogers | S. Dorff & M. Panzer | |
| Throw Mama from the Train A Kiss | Patti Page | 1956 | (#11) |
| Thunder Road | Robert Mitchum | 1958 | (#62) |
| Thunder Rolls, The | Garth Brooks | 1991 | (#1) Pat Alger, Garth Brooks |
| Thunderball | Tom Jones | 1965 | (#25) |
| Ticket To Ride | Beatles, The | 1965 | (#1) John Lennon, Paul McCartney |
| Tie A Yellow Ribbon | Tony Orlando & Dawn | 1973 | Irvwn Levine, L. Russel Brown |
| Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport | Rolf Harris | 1963 | (#3) Rolf Harris |
| Tigger’s Song | Paul Winchel | Richard Sherman, Robert Sherman; in Walt Disney’s "Winnie the Pooh" | |
| Tijuana Jail | Kingston Trio, The | 1959 | (#12) Denny Thompson |
| Tijuana Taxi | Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass | 1965 | (#38) (instrumental) |
| Til Death Do Us Part | Bob Braun | 1962 | (#26) |
| Til I Kissed You | Everly Brothers, The | 1959 | (#4) Don Everly |
| Til Then | Mills Brothers, The | 1944 | Eddie Seiler, Sol Marcus & Guy Wood; also by The Hilltoppers, #10, 1954; and The Classics, 1963 (#20) |
| Til There Was You | Anita Bryant | 1959 | (#30) Meredith Wilson; from The Music Man |
| Till | Tony Bennett | 1957 | Carl Sigman, Charles Danvers |
| Till I Waltz Again With You | Teresa Brewer | 1952 | (#1) Sidney Prosen |
| Till the End of Time | |||
| Time After Time | Frank Sinatra | 1958 | Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne, 1947 |
| Time In A Bottle | Jim Croce | 1973 | (#1) Jim Croce; Croce died (age 30) in a plane crash less than 3 months after recording this, before it hit #1 |
| Time Is on My Side | Rolling Stones, The | 1964 | (#6) Jerry Ragovoy |
| Time of My Life, The | Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes | 1987 | (#1) from Dirty Dancing |
| Time of the Season, The | Zombies, The | 1969 | (#3) |
| Time Passages | Al Stewart | 1978 | (#7) Al Stewart, Peter White |
| Time Won’t Let Me | Outsiders, The | 1966 | (#5) |
| Times of Your Life | Paul Anka | 1975 | (#7) Paul Anka (a re-lyric from a Kodak commercial) |
| Times They Are A-Changin’, The | Peter, Paul & Mary | 1963 | Bob Dylan |
| Tin Man | America | 1974 | (#4) Dewey Bunnell |
| Tiny Bubbles | Don Ho | 1966 | (#57) Leon Pober |
| Tired of Waiting for You | Kinks, The | 1965 | (#6) |
| Tis Autumn | Nat "King" Cole | 1949 | Henry Nemo, 1941 |
| To Beat the Devil | Kris Kristopherson | Kris Kristopherson | |
| To Each His Own | Platters, The | 1960 | Jay Livingston, Ray Evans (#21) (also Eddy Howard Orch., 1946) |
| To Ev'ry Girl, To Ev'ry Boy | Johnnie Ray | 1954 | (#26) |
| To Know Him Is to Love Him | Teddy Bears, The | 1958 | (#1 for 3 weeks) w/m by Phil Spector |
| Tobacco Road | Nashville Teens, The | 1964 | (#14) John D. Loudermilk |
| Today | New Christy Minstrels, The | 1964 | (#17) Randy Sparks; from Advance to the Rear |
| Together | Connie Francis | 1961 | Buddy DeSylva, Lew Brown, Ray Henderson, 1928 |
| Tom Dooley | Kingston Trio, The | 1958 | (#1-only) (1st hit) F.Warner, J.Lomax, A.Lomax; "Tom Dula" ca 1868, by Frank Proffitt (?); Grammy ‘58 (C&W) |
| Tonight You Belong to Me | Patience & Prudence (McIntyre) | 1956 | (#4) Billy Rose, Lee David, 1926; singers were bandleader’s daughters, ages 11 & 14 |
| Tonight | Ferrante & Teicher | 1961 | (#8) Stephen Sondheim, Leonard Bernstein, in West Side Story |
| Tonight’s the Night | Rod Stewart | 1976 | (#1 for 8 weeks) Rod Stewart |
| Too Many Rivers | Brenda Lee | 1965 | (#13) Harlan Howard |
| Too Marvelous For Words | Frank Sinatra | 1956 | Johnny Mercer & Richard Whiting |
| Too Much | Elvis Presley | 1957 | (#1) Lee Rosenberg, Bernard Weinman |
| Too Much, Too Little, Too Late | J.Mathis, | 1978 | Nat Kipner, John Vallins |
| Too Old To Cut The Mustard | Rosemary Clooney & Marlene Dietrich | 1952 | (#12) Bill Carlisle |
| Too Young | Nat "King" Cole | 1951 | (#1 for 5 weeks) Sylvia Dee & Sid Lippman; also by Donny Osmond, 1972 (#13) |
| Top of the World | Carpenters, The | 1973 | Richard Carpenter, John Bettis; Karen died 2/4/83 |
| Torquay | Fireballs, The | 1959 | (#39) (instrumental) |
| Tossin’ and Turnin’ | Bobby Lewis | 1961 | (#1) Malou Rene, Ritchie Adams |
| Touch Me In the Morning | Diana Ross | 1973 | Michael Masser, Ron Miller |
| Tower of Strenth, A | Gene McDaniels | 1961 | (#5) Lived in Omaha |
| Town Without Pity | Gene Pitney | 1961 | (#13) |
| Traces | 1969 | Buddy Buie, Emory Gordy Jr., James Cobb Jr. | |
| Tracks of My Tears, The | Miracles, The | 1965 | (#16) Warren Moore, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Tarpin |
| Tragedy | Fleetwoods, The | 1961 | (#10) |
| Transfusion | Nervous Norvus | 1956 | (#8) Jimmy Drake |
| Travelin’ Man | Ricky Nelson | 1961 | (#1) Jerry Fuller (also wrote S.F.Bay Blues) (flip side "Hello, Mary Lou" was #9) |
| Treat Her Like a Lady | Eddie Cornelius | ||
| True Love | Bing Crosby & Grace Kelly | 1956 | (#3) Cole Porter; form the movie "High Society" |
| True Love Ways | Peter & Gordon | 1965 | (#14) |
| Try a Little Tenderness | Frank Sinatra | 1960 | Harry Woods, Jimmy Campbell, Reginald Connelly |
| Try to Remember | Ed Ames | 1965 | (#73) Tom Jones & Harvey Schmidt, in The Fantasticks |
| Try | Stan Freberg | 1952 | (#15) |
| Tubular Bells | Mike Oldfield | 1974 | (#7) from the movie The Exorcist |
| Tulips and Heather | Perry Como | 1952 | (#16) Milton Carson |
| Tumblin’ Tumbleweeds | Sons of the Pioneers, The | 1944 | Bob Nolan, In Hollywood Canteen, 1944 (first in 1934, #13) |
| Turn Around | Harry Belafonte | 1958 | Malvina Reynolds, Allen Greene & Harry Belafonte |
| Turn Around, Look At Me | Vogues, The | 1968 | (#7) Les Reed, Barry Mason |
| Turn Down Day | Cyrckle, The | 1966 | (#16) David Blume, Jerry Keller |
| Turn the World Around the Other Way | Eddy Arnold | 1967 | (#66) |
| Turn Your Love Arund | George Benson | 1981 | (#5) |
| Turn Your Radio On | Ray Stevens | 1970 | (#1 for 3 weeks) Albert Brumley, 1959 |
| Turn, Turn, Turn | Byrds, The | 1965 | (#1 for 3 weeks - 2nd #1 that year) Pete Seeger |
| Tutti Frutti | Little Richard | 1956 | (#17) (Pat Boone version #12) |
| Tuxedo Junction | Glenn Miller Orchestra | 1934 | Erskine Hawkins |
| Tweedlee Dee | Georgia Gibbs | 1955 | (#2) Winfield Scott |
| Twelfth of Never, The | Johnny Mathis | 1957 | (#9) Paul Webster & Jerry Livingston |
| Twelve Days of Christmas, The | Traditional | 16th Century | |
| Twelve-Thirty | Mamas & Papas | 1967 | (#20) John Phillips |
| Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa | Gene Pitney | 1963 | (#17) |
| Twenty-Five or Six to Four | Chicago | ||
| Twenty-Six Miles (Santa Catalina) | Four Preps, The | 1958 | (#2 for 3 weeks, on charts 20) |
| Twilight Time | Platters, The | 1958 | (#1) Buck Ram, Al & Marty Nevins, & Artie Dunn (Nevins & Dunn were "The Three Suns")(1944) |
| Twine Time | Alvin Cash & The Crawlers | 1965 | (#14) (instrumental) |
| Twist and Shout | Beatles, The | 1964 | (#2) Bert Russell, Phillip Medley(previously by The Isley Brothers, #17 in 1962) |
| Twist, The | Chubby Checker | 1962 | (#1) Hank Ballard (Ballard, The Midnighters, also recorded it, 1960, #28); Checker’s real name is Ernest Evans |
| Twixt Twelve and Twenty | Pat Boone | 1959 | (#17) |
| Two Different Worlds | Don Rondo | 1956 | (#11) A. Frisch & S. Wayne |
| Two Doors Down | Dolly Parton | 1978 | (#19) Dolly Parton |
| Two Faces Have I | Lou Christie | 1963 | (#6) |
| Two Hearts | Pat Boone | 1955 | (#16) |
| Two Lost Souls | Perry Como & Jaye P. Morgan | 1955 | (#18) Richard Adler, Jerry Ross; from the musical "Damn Yankees" |
| Two Purple Shadows | Jerry Vale | 1954 | (#20) |
| Two Sleepy People | Bing Crosby | 1944 | Hoagy Carmichael, Frank Loesser |
| Typewriter, The | Leroy Anderson | 1953 | (#1) Leroy Anderson |