What is your favorite (Or top 3) favorite songs of all time?

hollydolly said:
I'm in shock...you've never heard of Eva Cassidy ?... I can't believe it !😲

She became much more famous after her death.... ..and for the first 5 years , her covers of various songs were played almost continually on the radio stations...

she was 33 years old when she died, and basically unknown to the vast majority of the public ... until someone discovered her music..

this song was pretty much the first song the radio stations started playing...
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Lovely, but I'd never heard it before.

My favorite version of Over the Rainbow has to be that of Israel Kamakawiwo'ole. Another talent who left us far too soon. 38 years old.

 
I saw someone list their top 100 songs of all time with a limit of one song per artist a few years back and came up with my own. Here are my top three songs. They aren't very popular or well known like most of my favorite music. (BTW the group The New Pornographers have nothing to do with pornography)




 
StarSong said:
@MoBeans, thank you, thank you, thank you for posting this song. I'd never heard of her nor heard her version but agree with you and Sting. Her rendition of "Fields of God" song brought tears to my eyes. Simply beautiful.
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It makes everyone I know tear up. Once you know her story it makes it even more poignant. She was painfully shy and self-conscious, and never really considered making a living as a professional musician. Her friends had to encourage her to get on stage. She developed melanoma and died at age 33. She was virtually unknown outside her native Washington, D.C. area at the time of her death. Two years later, BBC Radio played her versions of "Fields of Gold" and "Over the Rainbow," and the response was overwhelming. Her posthumously released recordings have since sold over 12 million copies, and in early 2001 her album Songbird reached #1 on the UK album charts. Check out her other songs on that album Songbird. She has the most beautiful voice I have ever heard.
 
hollydolly said:
I'm in shock...you've never heard of Eva Cassidy ?... I can't believe it !😲

She became much more famous after her death.... ..and for the first 5 years , her covers of various songs were played almost continually on the radio stations...

she was 33 years old when she died, and basically unknown to the vast majority of the public ... until someone discovered her music..

this song was pretty much the first song the radio stations started playing...


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I have never heard a voice like hers. That album Songbird has a permanent place in my collection. Ironically this song has played at a few funerals I have gone to. She was famous in the UK thanks to the BBC long before she became known back here where she was from. The US stations never played her until much later. She mostly played small venues in Washington DC. She only released 2 albums in her lifetime, she had 12 more compliation albums released after she died.
 
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MoBeans said:
I have never heard a voice like hers. That album Songbird has a permanent place in my collection. Ironically this song has played at a few funerals I have gone to. She was famous in the UK thanks to the BBC long before she became known back here where she was from. The US stations never played her until much later. She mostly played small venues in Washington DC. She only released 2 albums in her lifetime, she had 12 more compliation albums released after she died.
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yes but she was unknown while she was alive.... it was only after she died someone dicovered her music and started playing it on our BBC radio stations
 
It's difficult to pick 3 favorites, I enjoy different types of music at different times. However, my best thought today, in no particular order:
Blue Sky - The Allman Brothers
Dire Straits - many of their songs
Can you understand - Renaissance (or almost any song with Annie Haslam singing - Ocean Gypsy, Mother Russia, etc.)

 
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