What is your alsolute favorite song?

[Amy Jeanne]

"Run Run Away" by Slade for ALL TIME favourite.

"If I Had A Talking Picture Of You" for an all-time favourite oldie.

I'm also quite fond of a certain 1931 song by Harry Roy & His Bat Club Boys!!!

 

[Sweet Caroline]

Not my absolute favorites but...

"Mr.Sandman" ~ it always puts a smile on my face
"Girl from Ipomena" (specifically the Astrud Gilberto version)~ Her voice is hypnotizing!

 

[davidraphael]

Very hard to say.

September Song?
Stardust?
I'll See You in My Dreams?
Body and Soul?


so many! Impossible to choose!

 

[Derek WC]

Bump.

 

[Chas]

"Solitude" ~ Duke Ellington, 1941 - solo piano. They will be playing that at my funeral.
"Stardust" ~ Ben Webster...no, Artie Shaw's uptempo version...no...Satchmo's version....I give up.
"The Big Noise From Winnetka" ~ Ray Beauduc & Bob Haggart
"Lavender Coffin" ~ Lionel Hampton
"That's My Desire" ~ Hadda Brooks

Impossible question.

 

[SteveAS]

Astrud Gilberto's version of The Girl from Ipanema.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

I'm In Love With You (1929)
I've Got A Feeling I'm Falling (1929)
Mean To Me (1929)
Mi Buenos Aires Querido (tango) (1934)
Melancholy Lou (1925)
Por Una Cabeza (tango) (1935)
Someday Sweetheart (1926)
Sweetheart, We Need Each Other (1928)
Sweet Man (1925)
The Moment I Saw You (1933)
There's A Tear For Every Smile In Hollywood (1930)
There's Something In Your Eyes (tango) (1932)
You're The Cream In My Coffee (1929)
You've Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me (1930)

 

[Shangas]

My favourite song changes on a daily, dare I say, hourly basis. But almost anything from the 1900s-1950s.

 

[Danny Ocean]

Trying to pinpoint one favourite is difficult, but these two from Francis Albert Sinatra, are consistently in my top 5:

"Mack The Knife"
"I've got you, under my skin"

Danny O

 

[Warden]

I have so many from the golden age, but this tune is one of my tip top favourites.

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[V.C. Brunswick]

Alone At Last (1925)

In my opinion the definitive recording of this song is the version by the Coon-Sanders Nighthawk Orchestra. While Alone At Last is more of a ballad, the Coon-Sanders version has a much jazzier sound to it.

Lyrics:
There was I waiting all alone
Wondering why I was all alone
Wondering when I would find you, dear
You were near, oh so far, oh so dear

Then we met and we've never known
What it means being all alone
Hold me close, time is flying fast
Till we are all alone at last

The Same Old Moon (circa 1929)

Lyrics
We're back together, dear, where we first met
We've been apart far too long
We're back together, dear, kissing and yet,
Sweetheart, there's something wrong

I see the same old moon, the same old June
But not the same old you
The same old place, the same embrace
But not the thrill I knew

You love someone, who can it be?
Please tell me, hon, because I can see
That it's the same old moon, the same old June
But not the same old you.

 

[Weston]

Definitely "Pocketful of Dreams" by Bing Crosby.

 

[Neophyte]

"Cat People (Putting Out Fire/Gasoline)" by David Bowie, specifically the faster version used for the movie of the same name:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRbuxshYvtg

 

[in/y]

Choosing a single song is near impossible.

Looking over everyone else’s choices (and some great ones too), I find that there are two ways of looking at this question. First would be a favorite song that remains great no matter who played it as well as in almost any musical style (swing or bebop or doo-wop or easy listening, etc.)… well almost anyone and any style.

With this type of song, my kids will certainly tell you that “Pennies From Heaven” is my favorite. “Pennies From Heaven” is the tune with the most versions on my iPod (23 versions at present). I’d say Della Reese’s version from the LP A Date With Della Reese is at the top of the “Pennies” list right now.

Cole Porter’s “Easy To Love” is a close second with 21 versions on the iPod right now. Charlie Parker’s version with strings for Verve still sends chills up my spine and throughout my scalp 35 years after I first heard it.

The second way to view this is the definitive version of a song. In this case, the tune though great may not always hold up as well when done by others or in various musical styles. Still one performance of the song can be outstanding which could easily be an absolute favorite. For me, Billy Eckstine’s version of “My Silent Love” (hear it at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoFGbBYuDns) has always been a tops with me (as is the more obscure “I Gotta Know” by The Human Switchboard).

 

[Mr Vim]

Astrud Gilberto's version of The Girl from Ipanema.

YES!

That and for me,

anything from Benny Goodman, I know, I know, its not one song but you try and name one of Benny's songs that better than the other.

 

[W4ASZ]

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition !

Nor this gem from Brazil :

Minha Alma by Maria Rita.

Power altos in Portuguese ? They exist.

 

[scottyrocks]

My favorite song, since 1976, when I first heard it, standing in the empty waiters' bunk at camp, is Thunder Road by Bruce Springsteen. The counselor had put it on while shaving, and I was mesmerized. I asked him if I could hear it again, and I replaced the tone arm back to the record's edge, just standing in the middle of the floor, creating the lyrical images in my head.