Some Songs in My Head…

Can these be the 50 hottest (and coolest) numbers ever crafted by Western syncopation…?

(List in no particular order and by no means complete.)

1. Ram-Pam-Pam (Josephine Baker)
2. Get Rhythm (Johnny Cash)
3. Toot, Toot, Tootsie, Good-bye (Al Jolson)
4. No Dimenticar (Nat King Cole)
5. Don’t Let me be Misunderstood (Nina Simone)
6. I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm (The Mills Brothers)
7. Lover Lover Lover (Leonard Cohen)
8. Ain’t Nobody’s Business if I Do (Billie Holiday)
9. Put Another Nickel In (Teresa Brewer)
10. Big Spender (Shirley Bassey)
11. Wheel of Fortune (Kay Starr)
12. Ragtime Travesty on Il Trovatore (Carleton Colby)
13. Hyena Stomp (Jelly Roll Morton)
14. The Wizard (Black Sabbath)
15. Love Me or Leave Me (Nina Simone)
16. Steppin’ Out (Al Jolson)
17. Bei Mir Bist Du Schön (Andrews Sisters)
18. Bye Bye Baby (Mary Wells)
19. Undecided (The Ames Brothers)
20. The Latin Quarter (Rudy Vallee)
21. Flat Foot Floogie (The Mills Brothers)
22. More Love (Smokey Robinson and the Miracles)
23. I’ll Try Anything (Dusty Springfield)
24. Le Vie en Rose (Louis Armstrong)
25. Kitty from Kansas City (Rudy Vallee)
26. Via con me (Paolo Conte)
27. Blue Moon (Harpo Marx)
28. The Birth of the Blues (Sammy Davis, Jr.)
29. Rastaman Chant (The Wailers)
30. I Put a Spell on You (Nina Simone)
31. Love Man (Otis Redding)
32. Two to Tango (Ray Charles)
33. Chiquita Madame (Josephine Baker)
34. I’m Ka-Razy for You (Al Jolson)
35. Diamonds in the Mine (Leonard Cohen)
36. The Nonsense Song (Charlie Chaplin)
37. Is This What you Wanted? (Leonard Cohen)
38. Lover Man (Billie Holiday)
39. Crawfish (Elvis Presley)
40. Both Sides Now (Joni Mitchell)
41. Girl from Ipanema (Stan Getz)
42. Subterranean Blues (Bob Dylan)
43. Verlaine (Charles Trenet)
44. Those Were the Days (Mary Hopkins)
45. Never My Love (Etta James)
46. Not Fade Away (Buddy Holly)
47. Battle of New Orleans (Johnny Horton)
48. If Somebody Loves You (Frank Sinatra)
49. A Blossom Fell (Nat King Cole)
50. The Captain (Leonard Cohen)

Discuss.