^^Respect: I like your updated list. I'd make a few changes for my own list like adding Frank Sinatra back with "My Way." I'd change Streisand's song to "People", the Beatles to "A Hard Day's Night" (that was hard, tho) and with Marvin, I'd choose 'Heard It through the Grapevine' or "What's Going On.'
I made up another list of people I listened to on my parent's albums, or watched on TV in the Great Old Variety Show Days from childhood, through my teenage years and early 20's when I was buying my own albums and seeing artists live. I still listen to those albums today.
Nat King Cole Unforgettable
Mel Torme Blue Moon
Carpenters Close To You
Bette Midler Wind beneath my Wings
Dionne Warwick Walk on By
Barry Manilow At the Copa
Neil Sedaka Breaking Up is Hard to do
Tom Jones It’s Not Unusual
Frankie Lymon Why do Fools Fall In Love
Smokey Ooo, Baby, Baby
Lionel Richie Hello
Hall and Oates No Can Do
Linda Rondstadt Blue Bayou
Patsy Cline Crazy
Willie Nelson On the Road Again
Roy Orbison Pretty Woman
Captain and Tennille Love will Keep Us Together
Carly Simon You’re so Vain
Carole King Natural Woman
Petula Clark Downtown
Peggy Lee Is That All There Is
James Taylor You’ve Got a Friend
Johnny Mathis Misty
Sammy Davis Mr. Bojangles or What Kind of Fool Am I?
Luther Vandross A House is not a Home
5[SUP]th[/SUP] Dimension Up, Up and Away
Marilyn McCoo Wedding Bell Blues
Chicago 25 or 6 to 4
Garland Over the Rainbow
Liza Minnelli New York New York
The Mamas and the Papas Monday, Monday
Donna Summer Love to Love You Baby
Dean Martin You’re Nobody til Somebody Loves You
Frankie Laine Rawhide
Beach Boys California Girls
Harry Belafonte Banana Boat Song
Gladys Knight Midnight Train to Georgia
Ray Charles Georgia on my Mind
Sam Cooke You Send Me
Billie Holiday God Bless the Child
Ella Mack the Knife (OR EVERY SINGLE SONG ON THE ENTIRE VERVE COLLECTION!!)
