There are songs that seem to span decades. Like THIS one:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d22CiKMPpaY


Also Blue Moon. This is one of my favorite rendition of it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jQPxmtQREw


What are some others?



Cat

I think this one is timeless.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwS_YDzxH3M

At one time, Guinness World Records cited "Yesterday" with the most cover versions of any song ever written. The song remains popular today with more than 1,600 recorded cover versions.

I think this one is timeless.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwS_YDzxH3M

At one time, Guinness World Records cited "Yesterday" with the most cover versions of any song ever written. The song remains popular today with more than 1,600 recorded cover versions.



Yup. Very timeless-like many Beatles songs.


Here is another one I think is timeless (and the rendition that I REALLY like).


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7D8uxDt8dY



Cat

Yup. Very timeless-like many Beatles songs.


Here is another one I think is timeless (and the rendition that I REALLY like).


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7D8uxDt8dY


Cat

I have never heard this song before, CatwomanofV. It's nice.

I know (on some other boards/websites) people have a problem with Elton John because he's gay ( I think they are idiots if they do), but this is Your Song, a timeless song. One of the most wonderful songs ever written, IMO.
When a song is great, like this one. Does it matter whether he's gay or nor? Left handed or right? Wears glasses or not?. Black or White or Asian? It doesn't matter. If the song is great, regardless of who sings it, just listen to it and enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTa8U0Wa0q8

I surely hope I have not offended anyone. I'm mouthy at times.

I have never heard this song before, CatwomanofV. It's nice.

I know (on some other boards/websites) people have a problem with Elton John because he's gay ( I think they are idiots if they do), but this is Your Song, a timeless song. One of the most wonderful songs ever written, IMO.
When a song is great, like this one. Does it matter whether he's gay or nor? Left handed or right? Wears glasses or not?. Black or White or Asian? It doesn't matter. If the song is great, regardless of who sings it, just listen to it and enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTa8U0Wa0q8




Summertime is from Porgy & Bess. (And please, call me Cat.)


As for Sir Elton, I have a great respect for him. (It was funny because when he first became popular in the '70s, I didn't like him but he grew on me. ) When you get to know me better (like many people here on these boards), you will learn that to me it is a matter of WHO you are and not WHAT you are that matters. And yes Your Song is timeless.



Cat

As for Sir Elton, I have a great respect for him. (It was funny because when he first became popular in the '70s, I didn't like him but he grew on me. ) When you get to know me better (like many people here on these boards), you will learn that to me it is a matter of WHO you are and not WHAT you are that matters. And yes Your Song is timeless.


Cat

"you will learn that to me it is a matter of WHO you are and not WHAT you are that matters. And yes Your Song is timeless"
Hi Cat. Thanks for your support. I have always liked Elton John.  Sandwiched between the Beatles owning the 60s, and MJ owning the 80s, there was Elton who IMO owned the 70s. But there is a lot a dislike out there for Elton because of (sheesh) . That is so sad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xB4dbdNSXY&feature=related



Cat

These three popped right up when I saw this thread.

What A Wonderful World....Louis Armstrong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzJY96m3lkg

My Way....Frank Sinatra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K86QYtDuUpQ

The Devil Went Down To Georgia....The Charlie Daniels Band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgvfRSzmMoU&feature=related

These three popped right up when I saw this thread.

What A Wonderful World....Louis Armstrong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzJY96m3lkg

My Way....Frank Sinatra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K86QYtDuUpQ

The Devil Went Down To Georgia....The Charlie Daniels Band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgvfRSzmMoU&feature=related



I LOVE Louis and that song is definitely timeless. And even though I can't stand Frank, that song is timeless, too. The Devil Went Down To Georgia? As much as I love the song, I'm not too sure that I would agree with you that it is timeless but I do respect your opinion.



Cat

I LOVE Louis and that song is definitely timeless. And even though I can't stand Frank, that song is timeless, too. The Devil Went Down To Georgia? As much as I love the song, I'm not too sure that I would agree with you that it is timeless but I do respect your opinion.



Cat


I figured Charlie Daniels would be debated but to me timeless song just means a song that spans generations and for that it fits the criteria. Well that
and the fact that when my 6 year old granddaughter walks in singing, " I told you once you son of a b*tch I'm the best that's ever been." I think for
that it is a timeless song, either that or she is really arrogant.  ;D

I figured Charlie Daniels would be debated but to me timeless song just means a song that spans generations and for that it fits the criteria. Well that
and the fact that when my 6 year old granddaughter walks in singing, " I told you once you son of a b*tch I'm the best that's ever been." I think for
that it is a timeless song, either that or she is really arrogant.  ;D



;D ;D ;D ;D

But that line is OUTSTANDING!!!



Cat

I was getting ready to put up Louis Armstrong but Loki beat me to it.  I'll put in this instead

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_1LfT1MvzI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXcNfA4qebQ

Bing Crosby - White Christmas

First performance

White Christmas by Bing Crosby & Martha Mears in movie Holiday Inn (August 4, 1942)

http://www.secondhandsongs.com/work/2981



Jack Jones - Feeling Good

http://www.mrtzcmp3.net/Jack_Jones_Feeling_Good_2s.html

Note: First performance

Feeling Good by Cy Grant in stage production The Roar of the Greasepaint - The Smell of the crowd (1964)

http://www.secondhandsongs.com/performance/39582



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9saX9cF248

Elvis Presley - An American Trilogy

First release

An American Trilogy by Mickey Newbury on audio album 'Frisco Mabel Joy (1971)

http://www.secondhandsongs.com/work/27241




Dan

Speaking of What A Wonderful World, another Timeless great is 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' by Judy Garland.  I put both those together because in 2001, the great Sir Cliff Richard had a BIG hit in his homeland with a cover of 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' that was done as a medley of 'What A Wonderful World' and it was FANTASTIC.  My favourite version of both songs ...

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

Speaking of What A Wonderful World, another Timeless great is 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' by Judy Garland.  I put both those together because in 2001, the great Sir Cliff Richard had a BIG hit in his homeland with a cover of 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' that was done as a medley of 'What A Wonderful World' and it was FANTASTIC.  My favourite version of both songs ...


The 2nd best version of 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' was done by the late great Australian legend Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs in 1964 ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gJfNSn7RCo

I like so many of those already posted. Nice job.

No one has posted a Bieber song yet, OK then I will .. LOL...just joshin'.  :P

Another timeless song.

Turn Turn Turn. - Byrds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odj2kNn3_v0&feature=related

Bobby Darrin - 'Beyond the Sea'

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

Love him or hate him .... Michael Buble version of 'The Way You Look Tonight'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDh4GC7n0ig

Peggy Lee - 'Fever'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYxoAJ3Boyc

Frank Sinatra - I've Got You Under My Skin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1AHec7sfZ8

Tony Bennett - Fly Me To the Moon

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

Here are a few of mine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxiMrvDbq3s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJE-onnw2gM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN86d0CdgHQ

There are sooo many

gibbo & Don Carlos. Excellent choices.

Arlo Guthrie - City of New Orleans.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfxoM6trtZE

gibbo & Don Carlos. Excellent choices.

Arlo Guthrie - City of New Orleans.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfxoM6trtZE



I LOVE that song.



Cat

none of you cats will step up for the black sheep of all timeless songs? ok, i guess it's up to me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxMoesasza4

ironically,i i don't think i've heard the studio version of this song in at least 5 years. pretty much reinvented the clean-with-chorus guitar tone.

Although it's very famous, I never got into Stairway to Heaven. No idea why it's famous. If I were to start a thread titled "overrated songs", I'd put it there.

Here's another timeless one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqv5b0UjR4g

Elvis Presley - I can't help falling in love with you.

The Dutchman  a real love song


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBIBGOTSI94

Although it's very famous, I never got into Stairway to Heaven. No idea why it's famous. If I were to start a thread titled "overrated songs", I'd put it there.

Here's another timeless one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqv5b0UjR4g

Elvis Presley - I can't help falling in love with you.


OK!OK!OK!  This is so cool.  Sig and I went to a wedding when we had just made our relationship "official". A couple of us were standing up beside the table after just having left the dance floor and this song came on and a trussed up hen who made in quietly know she didn't approve of the relationship(it's a color thing) thought she was one step better than the rest of us remarked that this was one of those songs that she couldn't her husband to dance to, just as she said that Sig, who has probably never danced in his life, ever, got up and and made his way around the table and said "may I have this dance".  Her jaw hit the floor as she watched us walk over to the dance floor.  Can you say "Jerry Maguire moment"  It was perfect all the way around.  It is also the last time he has ever danced. :)

So many for me to think, since my tastes are eclectic...I'll go decade by decade.

For the 50's...

SBgQezOF8kY(The latest that this song is heard is from the Disney Film "Cars").

For the 60's...

Mb3iPP-tHdA(What could I say?...I really love Procol Harum)!

For the 70's...

irp8CNj9qBI(Even The Muppets have covered this song)!

For the 80's...

oRdxUFDoQe0(Obviously, The Album "Thriller" is timeless itself)!

For the 90's...

8QaI-M9sxW4(Originally...this was a Dolly Parton Song).

The Dutchman  a real love song


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBIBGOTSI94



I have a copy of that done by the Woods Tea Company.



Cat

Crew Cuts - Sh Boom., from the mid 1950s.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9G0-4TWwew

Although it's very famous, I never got into Stairway to Heaven. No idea why it's famous. If I were to start a thread titled "overrated songs", I'd put it there.

i think you had to be an old like me, who was around when it was radio rotation and hadn't yet been totally played to death unlike any other song before or since. it was a radio song, and it was cool to hear it when you were out and about (or, in my case, when your mom was driving you out and about) and you'd associate it with different things that happened or that you saw in your life. it was also neat because it had so many different moods in it. but you kinda had to have it forced into your life by the radio to learn to like it, i think. and then because it was such a good radio song, of course they played it 24/7 for 20 years and it became utterly ruined.

i think you had to be an old like me, who was around when it was radio rotation and hadn't yet been totally played to death unlike any other song before or since. it was a radio song, and it was cool to hear it when you were out and about (or, in my case, when your mom was driving you out and about) and you'd associate it with different things that happened or that you saw in your life. it was also neat because it had so many different moods in it. but you kinda had to have it forced into your life by the radio to learn to like it, i think. and then because it was such a good radio song, of course they played it 24/7 for 20 years and it became utterly ruined.



There was a radio station I used to listen to in Conn. (Can't remember the call letters). When one DJ would sign off at 10 minutes to midnight every night, he would ALWAYS play Stairway to Heaven. So, I would ALWAYS make sure I was listening at 10 minutes to midnight just so I could hear it.



Cat

i think you had to be an old like me, who was around when it was radio rotation and hadn't yet been totally played to death unlike any other song before or since. it was a radio song, and it was cool to hear it when you were out and about (or, in my case, when your mom was driving you out and about) and you'd associate it with different things that happened or that you saw in your life. it was also neat because it had so many different moods in it. but you kinda had to have it forced into your life by the radio to learn to like it, i think. and then because it was such a good radio song, of course they played it 24/7 for 20 years and it became utterly ruined.


Hi Tia, I was around when Stairway to heaven was playing. I'm old enough (sigh) I found the 2nd part too loud, long and I changed the dial, usually 1/2 way so I didn't have to hear the 2nd part.  The song never did anything for me. I prefer other Led Zeppelin songs.  I never dared say anything in high school, the song was popular/hot/saintly amongst my school mates.

Hi Tia, I was around when Stairway to heaven was playing. I'm old enough (sigh) I found the 2nd part too loud, long and I changed the dial, usually 1/2 way so I didn't have to hear the 2nd part.  The song never did anything for me. I prefer other Led Zeppelin songs.  I never dared say anything in high school, the song was popular/hot/saintly amongst my school mates.
about the loud part: i think that's not uncommon. (i'm kinda louder-the-better, so i actually got restless in the beginning bits sometimes.) i recall someone at one point trotted out a pop-format friendly remix that was like 3-minutes and change with the loud part removed. it never took off, but it definitely shows you weren't alone in not digging the heavy bit.

about the loud part: i think that's not uncommon. (i'm kinda louder-the-better, so i actually got restless in the beginning bits sometimes.) i recall someone at one point trotted out a pop-format friendly remix that was like 3-minutes and change with the loud part removed. it never took off, but it definitely shows you weren't alone in not digging the heavy bit.

The song starts off slow, flutes, pretty, melodic. It picks up steam, and the shy girl next door you thought was sweet tunrs into Wendy Williams from the plasmatics.  ;D

A very sexy song, IMO.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvzNeh4Mq1o&feature=related

The Tokens - The Lion Sleeps Tonight

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LBmUwi6mEo

You can't keep yourself from singing along

A-weem away, a-weem away, a-weem away, a-weem away

House of the rising sun - Animals

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S7hTvViZKY&feature=related

So many for me to think, since my tastes are eclectic...I'll go decade by decade.

For the 50's...

SBgQezOF8kY(The latest that this song is heard is from the Disney Film "Cars").


I love this song but I prefer The Crew Cuts version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9G0-4TWwew

For me, these songs are timeless. 'Stand by me' - Ben E King and 'When a man loves a woman' - Percy Sledge.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX--7gFHkU0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8raabzZNqw

Both of these songs were re-released in the UK in 1987.

The Tokens - The Lion Sleeps Tonight

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LBmUwi6mEo

You can't keep yourself from singing along

A-weem away, a-weem away, a-weem away, a-weem away


Great song! Even though I like the Tight Fit version from 1981, The Tokens original is the best.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cD9cBEaNBc

Of course, Tarzan isn't the true singer of this version. The real singer is the man in the gorilla outfit.  ;D

Turtles- Happy Together

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

Firstly, I thank Cat to start this "campfire chat", where we can talk, sing and listen to songs still alive though the ages and forever. Mainly for a foreigner like me who might not to have picked all those hits up beyond his little country's borderline.

Louis was timeless himself, furthermore, I add,  boundless as many songs along this thread.

Those tunes which came from films, kept stuck in our brains, from the fact of watching the plot as song goes along.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, with its rain drops keep falling on my head, caught up with me at first hit.

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


Songs we sing along as feelings remind from our soul. Sinatra, Bennett and suchlike love songs minstrels. Several of them I love their way to sing but I hate the way and suspiciuos manner they behaved. So I got you under my skin is a song I saw Homer singing from inside Burns' body, and boys it was...hilarious and nice. To abound on it I link "something stupid" with subtitles is Spanish, why not?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEiU1TxonJs

As to me, the very best timeless songs are those of liberty, convictions and hopes.
Stairway to heaven linked by Tia, was in the air all the time in an ex-socialist country, Bulgary, by the nineties,  when I happened to be there, just when people begun to breathe in liberty.

In this line I add Changes of wind, from Scorpions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KcRl1p2waM

I now bite one my favours about human beings, space, time convictions and beliefs...All we do is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hzv0TSSDgU

The string of timeless songs is endless as well, so I hope all of you and I never die, and draw some song-bead every now and then.

I guess I'm a sailor with fortune, being inthe00s, so I leave this one as a sort of parody of my own
but then again it's more true than mockery of me what it's said.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bESFXfJFsr0&feature=related

And I'm still going round but I'll always be a sailor inthe00s  ;)

gibbo & Don Carlos. Excellent choices.

Arlo Guthrie - City of New Orleans.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfxoM6trtZE


Yes king tut, a good song that nearly conveys some clickety-clack near our feet, and some disappearing dreams of childhood and youthfulness,
As timeless as the railroad I guess  ::) As a matter of fact, being far and away from the train's track.

Johnny Cash cover pleases to me the most among them I heard, really only three, ( Guthrie ) yours , Denver and mine ( Cash ),but God bless Goodman for to have it in mind.

I wonder if Solidarity forever is also timeless song or not  :-\\

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYiKdJoSsb8


It is true that in this time and age most of us only do low average, so we need some solidarity to cope with people who bought the world by paying off worthless credits and some false notes.

I didn't know Woody Guthrie until Don Carlos linked it, such as he did with Solidarity, as well as Arlo by King Tut.
Well this site is a bottomless well, where a drifting sailor can drink, as to his knowledge swells. :)

Bee Gees - How deep is your love

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

I consider this song timeless, it's such a soothing song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZpnDd8zFBg&feature=related

Enya - Only Time

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

I wonder if Solidarity forever is also timeless song or not  :-\\

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYiKdJoSsb8


It is true that in this time and age most of us only do low average, so we need some solidarity to cope with people who bought the world by paying off worthless credits and some false notes.

I didn't know Woody Guthrie until Don Carlos linked it, such as he did with Solidarity, as well as Arlo by King Tut.
Well this site is a bottomless well, where a drifting sailor can drink, as to his knowledge swells. :)



Karma for this one. This song is making a comeback here in the States as some are trying to bust unions.


Cat

Vicky Leandros - l'Amour Est Bleu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD4ib9-laGY

Of course, Paul Mauriat turned it into the classic instrumental as we all know it, but this is the original.

Another hit some perfiect foil, now that most of us  has to go and toil 
against the grain who'll stop the rain ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIPan-rEQJA

Also from the same as above.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BmEGm-mraE

Hummmm Philip, those days maybe gone  :\'(, but memories linger on  http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/04/elefant.gif

Hummmm Philip, those days maybe gone  :\'(, but memories linger on  http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/04/elefant.gif


It is timeless for me, I think of it every time there is a Full Moon.

Any bad memories out of it ? None I hope  Phillip.
In any case, it seems there's always a bad full moon on the rise.

Vicky Leandros - l'Amour Est Bleu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD4ib9-laGY

Of course, Paul Mauriat turned it into the classic instrumental as we all know it, but this is the original.


Timeless songs beyond languages ?

Well Henk I applause your attempt and eagerly join myself to this boundless music lover band, with no regrets.

Is there any other French voice more special than Edith Piaf ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3Kvu6Kgp88&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e3m_T-NMOs&feature=related

Just mother nature on the run, sad and hard to see.
Now I wonder who the chosen ones should  be.

I'll keep on trying as long as you follow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYv2pBpqzpM

But better than a pot of gold....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh44QPT1mPE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e3m_T-NMOs&feature=related

Just mother nature on the run, sad and hard to see.
Now I wonder who the chosen ones should  be.

A timeless song. (although it runs for 3:43)   ;)

Next:

Simon and Garfunkel - Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme

A Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thymless song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwldn3ET53E

Music can heal a hurting soul, these melodies bring us remembrances of a better chances on past lifetimes.
So your sweet song linked me to the cold north, where some of you probably, just like me, creepy crawl.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aSLMEKl8E4

Sweet sweet memories brought to me,
thanks King Tut,

though your ancient Egypt mustn't be, by now, much fun with this sad tug of war

Actually the whole world is on a tug of war, so I would like to add this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zLfCnGVeL4&feature=related

Timeless song, unhearable sound ?  :-[

Not only is Sweet Caroline a timeless classic but I also believe it's the closest thing America has to a drinking song.

Don't believe me? Try belting it out on a karaoke machine in a crowded bar on a Friday or Saturday night, I can almost guarantee that if you're good enough you'll have at least one or two tables full of drunk women singing along with you by the end.  :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKhL_dIw5K4&feature=fvst

Romance (Spanish guitar love song)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReSY-ZVBpqE

I'm glad to see how King Tut knows about the music of my little land, but just for knowing it better this is

El concierto de Aranjuez By Joaquin Rodrigo, played by one of the greatest guitarist of Spain, whom name I also bear.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZWO5ROq_aA&feature=related

Paco de Lucia has anotrher guitar hit named "entre dos aguas", more or less "Within two waters", did you know it ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvlrCKi-ss4&feature=related

I'm glad to see how King Tut knows about the music of my little land, but just for knowing it better this is

El concierto de Aranjuez By Joaquin Rodrigo, played by one of the greatest guitarist of Spain, whom name I also bear.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZWO5ROq_aA&feature=related

Paco de Lucia has anotrher guitar hit named "entre dos aguas", more or less "Within two waters", did you know it ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvlrCKi-ss4&feature=related



I LOVE Spanish guitar. Here is one everyone may recognized. (The Doors used a few bars of this in Spanish Caravan.)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEfFbuT3I6A



Cat

Beautiful Cat !!

just another real jewel of Spanish guitar  :)

Carpenters - Close to you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6inwzOooXRU

John Lennon - Imagine

Today was to be his 71st birthday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLgYAHHkPFs&feature=related

A man who had more talent and charisma and personality in his left ear than most of the new artists combined had over the last 25 years.
Imagine of John were still here. Just imagine...