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==Published popular music == * "[[77 Sunset Strip]]" {{abbr|w.m.|Words and music}} [[Mack David]] & [[Jerry Livingston]] * "[[Along Came Jones (song)|Along Came Jones]]" w.m. [[Jerry Leiber]] & [[Mike Stoller]] * "[[All My Tomorrows (song)|All My Tomorrows]]" w. [[Sammy Cahn]] m. [[Jimmy Van Heusen]], from the film ''[[A Hole in the Head]]'' * "[[Alvin's Harmonica]]" w.m. [[Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.|Ross Bagdasarian]] * "Angela Jones" w.m. [[John D. Loudermilk]] * "Anyone Would Love You" w.m. [[Harold Rome]]. Introduced by [[Andy Griffith]] and [[Dolores Gray]] in the musical ''[[Destry Rides Again]]'' * "[[The Battle of New Orleans]]" trad arr. [[Jimmy Driftwood]] * "[[The Best Is Yet to Come (song)|The Best Is Yet to Come]]" w. [[Carolyn Leigh]] m. [[Cy Coleman]] * "Best Of Everything" w. [[Sammy Cahn]] m. [[Lionel Newman]], from the film ''[[The Best of Everything (film)|The Best of Everything]]'' * "[[A Big Hunk o' Love]]" w. m. [[Aaron Schroeder]] & [[Sid Wyche]] * "[[Big Iron]]" w.m. [[Marty Robbins]] * "[[Breaking Up Is Hard To Do]]" w.m. [[Neil Sedaka]] & [[Howard Greenfield]] * "[[This Old Man|The Children's Marching Song]]" trad arr. Malcolm Arnold. Performed by [[Ingrid Bergman]] and The Orphans' Chorus in the film ''[[Inn of the Sixth Happiness]]'' * "China Doll" w.m. [[Cindy Walker]] * "Ciao, Ciao, Bambina" w.(Eng) Mitchell Parish (Ital) Eduardo Verde & [[Domenico Modugno]] m. [[Domenico Modugno]] * "[[Climb Ev'ry Mountain]]" w. [[Oscar Hammerstein II]] m. [[Richard Rodgers]]. Introduced by [[Patricia Neway]] in the musical ''[[Sound of Music]]'' * "[[Come Softly To Me]]" w.m. [[The Fleetwoods|Gary Troxel, Barbara Ellis & Gretchen Christopher]] * "[[Delaware (song)|Delaware]]" w.m. [[Irving Gordon]] * "[[Don't You Know?]]" w.m. adapt. [[Bobby Worth]] * "[[Do-Re-Mi]]" w. [[Oscar Hammerstein II]] m. [[Richard Rodgers]]. Introduced by [[Mary Martin]] in the musical ''[[Sound of Music]]''. Sung by [[Julie Andrews]] in the film version. * "[[Dream Lover]]" w.m. [[Bobby Darin]] * "Early In The Morning" adapt Bruce Belland & [[Glen A. Larson|Glen Larson]] * "[[Edelweiss (song)|Edelweiss]]" w. [[Oscar Hammerstein II]] m. [[Richard Rodgers]]. Introduced by [[Mary Martin]] in the musical ''[[Sound of Music]]''. Sung by [[Julie Andrews]] and [[Christopher Plummer]] in the film version. * "[[El Paso (song)|El Paso]]" w.m. [[Marty Robbins]] * "[[Endlessly (Brook Benton song)|Endlessly]]" w.m. [[Clyde Otis]] & [[Brook Benton]] * "[[Everything's Coming up Roses|Everything's Coming Up Roses]]" w. [[Stephen Sondheim]] m. [[Jule Styne]]. Introduced by [[Ethel Merman]] in the musical ''[[Gypsy: A Musical Fable|Gypsy]]''. Sung in the film version by [[Lisa Kirk]] dubbing for [[Rosalind Russell]]. * "[[Frankie (Connie Francis song)|Frankie]]" w. [[Howard Greenfield]] m. [[Neil Sedaka]] * "Game Of Poker" w. [[Johnny Mercer]] m. [[Harold Arlen]], from the musical ''[[Saratoga (musical)|Saratoga]]'' * "[[Goodbye Jimmy, Goodbye]]" w.m. Jack Vaughn * "[[Greenfields (song)|Greenfields]]" w.m. [[Terry Gilkyson]], Richard Dehr & [[Frank Miller (singer)|Frank Miller]] * "[[Handy Man (song)|Handy Man]]" w.m. [[Otis Blackwell]] & [[Jimmy Jones (singer)|Jimmy Jones]] * "[[The Hanging Tree (Marty Robbins song)|The Hanging Tree]]" w. [[Mack David]] m. [[Jerry Livingston]]. Introduced by [[Marty Robbins]] in the film ''[[The Hanging Tree (film)|The Hanging Tree]]'' * "[[Happy Anniversary (1959 song)|Happy Anniversary]]" w. [[Al Stillman]] m. [[Robert Allen (songwriter)|Robert Allen]] * "[[The Happy Organ]]" w.m. Kurt Wood, [[Dave "Baby" Cortez|David Clowney]] & James Kreigsmann * "[[Heartaches By The Number]]" w.m. [[Harlan Howard]] * "[[He'll Have to Go|He'll Have To Go]]" w.m. [[Joe Allison]] & [[Audrey Allison]] * "[[High Hopes (1959 song)|High Hopes]]" w. [[Sammy Cahn]] m. [[Jimmy Van Heusen]]. Introduced by [[Frank Sinatra]] and [[Eddie Hodges]] in the film ''[[A Hole in the Head]]''. * "[[I Ain't Never]]" w.m. [[Mel Tillis]] * "I Feel Sorry For The Girl" w.m. Glenn Paxton, Robert Goldman & George Weiss * "I Know" w.m. [[Carl Stutz]] & [[Edith Lindeman]] * "[[I Need Your Love Tonight]]" w.m. [[Sid Wayne]] & Bix Reichner * "[[I Wanna Be Around]]" w.m. [[Johnny Mercer]] & Sadie Vimmerstedt * "If I Ever Fall In Love Again" w. Peter Wildeblood m. [[Peter Greenwell]] * "I'll Never Fall In Love Again" [[Johnnie Ray]] * "[[I'm Gonna Get Married]]" w.m. [[Lloyd Price]] & Harold Logan * "[[I'm Looking Out the Window]]" [[John Jacob Niles]], [[Don Raye]] * "I'm Never Gonna Tell" Hoffman, Manning, Markwell * "In A Little While" w. Marshall Barer m. [[Mary Rodgers]] * "[[It Doesn't Matter Anymore]]" w.m. [[Paul Anka]] * "[[Kansas City (Leiber and Stoller song)|Kansas City]]" w.m. [[Jerry Leiber]] & [[Mike Stoller]] * "[[Kookie, Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb)]]" w.m. [[Irving Taylor (songwriter)|Irving Taylor]] * "Let Me Entertain You" w. [[Stephen Sondheim]] m. [[Jule Styne]]. Introduced by [[Sandra Church]] and chorus in the musical ''[[Gypsy: A Musical Fable|Gypsy]]''. * "Like Young" m. [[André Previn]] * "[[Lipstick on Your Collar (song)|Lipstick On Your Collar]]" w. Eddie Lewis m. George Goehring * "[[Little Donkey]]" w.m. [[Eric Boswell (songwriter)|Eric Boswell]] * "[[The Little Drummer Boy]]" w.m. adapt. Henry Onorati, [[Katherine Kennicott Davis|Katherine Davis]] & [[Harry Simeone]] * "Little Tin Box" w. [[Sheldon Harnick]] m. [[Jerry Bock]] * "The Little White Bull" [[Lionel Bart]], [[Mike Pratt (actor)|Michael Pratt]], Jimmy Bennett * "[[Living Doll (song)|Living Doll]]" w.m. [[Lionel Bart]] * "Lock Up Your Daughters" w. [[Lionel Bart]] m. [[Laurie Johnson]] * "[[Lonely Blue Boy (song)|Lonely Blue Boy]]" [[Ben Weisman]], [[Fred Wise (songwriter)|Fred Wise]] * "[[Lonely Boy (Paul Anka song)|Lonely Boy]]" w.m. [[Paul Anka]] * "[[The Lonely Goatherd]]" w. [[Oscar Hammerstein II]] m. [[Richard Rodgers]]. Introduced by [[Mary Martin]] and the children in the musical ''[[Sound of Music]]''. Performed by [[Julie Andrews]] in the film version. * "[[Lonely Street (Carl Belew song)|Lonely Street]]" w.m. [[Carl Belew]], Kenny Sowder & W. S. Stevenson * "[[Love Potion No. 9 (song)|Love Potion No. 9]]" w.m. [[Jerry Leiber]] & [[Mike Stoller]] * "Love Will Find Out The Way" w.m. Glenn Paxton, Robert Goldman & George Weiss * "Lullaby In Ragtime" w.m. [[Sylvia Fine]]. Introduced by [[Danny Kaye]] in the film ''[[The Five Pennies]]''. * "[[M.T.A. (song)|The M.T.A.]]" w.m. adapt. [[Jacqueline Steiner]] & [[Bess Lomax Hawes|Bess Hawes]] * "[[Maria (1959 song)|Maria]]" w. [[Oscar Hammerstein II]] m. [[Richard Rodgers]]. Introduced by [[Patricia Neway]], [[Muriel O'Malley]], [[Elizabeth Howell]] and [[Karen Shepard]] in the musical ''[[Sound of Music]]''. * "Marina" w.(Eng) Ray Maxwell m. Rocco Granata * "The Mating Game" w. [[Lee Adams]] m. [[Charles Strouse]]. Theme song from the film ''[[The Mating Game (film)|The Mating Game]]'' * "[[May You Always]]" w.m. [[Larry Markes]] & [[Richard Charles Krieg|Dick Charles]] * "[[Memphis, Tennessee (song)|Memphis]]" w.m. [[Chuck Berry]] * "[[Milord (song)|Milord]]" w. (Eng) B. G. Lewis (Fr) Joseph Mustacchi m. [[Marguerite Monnot]] * "[[Morgen (Ivo Robić song)|Morgen]]" w. (Eng) [[Noel Sherman]] (Ger) Peter Mosser m. Peter Mosser * "[[Mr. Blue]]" w.m. Dewayne Blackwell * "[[My Favorite Things (song)|My Favorite Things]]" w. [[Oscar Hammerstein II]] m. [[Richard Rodgers]]. Introduced by [[Patricia Neway]] and [[Mary Martin]] in the musical ''[[Sound of Music]]''. Performed in the film version by [[Julie Andrews]]. * "[[My Heart Is an Open Book]]" w. [[Hal David]] m. [[Lee Pockriss]] * "My Wish Came True" w.m. [[Ivory Joe Hunter]] * "[[Oh! Carol]]" w. [[Howard Greenfield]] m. [[Neil Sedaka]] * "Only Love Me" w. (Eng) [[Mann Curtis]] (Ital) Pinchi m. V. Panzuti * "[[Only Sixteen]]" w.m. Barbara Campbell * "[[Personality (Lloyd Price song)|Personality]]" w.m. [[Lloyd Price]] & Harold Logan * "Pick Me Up On Your Way Down" w.m. [[Harlan Howard]] * "Pillow Talk" w.m. [[Buddy Pepper]] & [[Inez James]]. Introduced by [[Doris Day]] and [[Rock Hudson]] in the [[Pillow Talk (film)|film of the same name]]. * "La Plume De Ma Tante" w.m. Al Hoffman & Dick Manning * "[[Poison Ivy (song)|Poison Ivy]]" w.m. [[Jerry Leiber]] & [[Mike Stoller]] * "Promise Me A Rose" w.m. [[Bob Merrill]], introduced by [[Eileen Herlie]] in the musical ''[[Take Me Along]]'' * "[[Put Your Head on My Shoulder (song)|Put Your Head on My Shoulder]]" w.m. [[Paul Anka]] * "[[Quiet Village]]" m. [[Les Baxter]] * "[[Running Bear]]" w.m. [[The Big Bopper|J. P. Richardson]] * "[[The Same Old Me]]" F. Owen * "[[Sea of Love (Phil Phillips song)|Sea Of Love]]" w.m. [[George Khoury (record producer)|George Khoury]] & Phil Baptiste * "[[See You in September]]" w. [[Sid Wayne]] m. [[Sherman Edwards]] * "[[Seven Little Girls Sitting in the Backseat]]" w. [[Bob Hilliard]] m. [[Lee Pockriss]] * "[[Shout (The Isley Brothers song)|Shout]]" [[O'Kelly Isley]], [[Ronald Isley]], [[Rudolph Isley]] * "[[Side Saddle]]" m. [[Trevor Stanford|Trevor H. Stanford]] * "[[Sleep Walk]]" m. Ann Farina, [[Santo & Johnny|Johnny Farina & Santo Farina]] * "Small World" w. [[Stephen Sondheim]] m. [[Jule Styne]]. Introduced by [[Ethel Merman]] and [[Jack Klugman]] in the musical ''[[Gypsy: A Musical Fable|Gypsy]]'' * "[[Sorry (I Ran All the Way Home)]]" w.m. Harry Giosasi & Artie Zwirn * "[[The Sound Of Music (song)|The Sound Of Music]]" w. [[Oscar Hammerstein II]] m. [[Richard Rodgers]]. Introduced by [[Mary Martin]] in the musical ''[[Sound of Music]]''. * "Strange Are The Ways Of Love" w. [[Ned Washington]] m. [[Dimitri Tiomkin]], from the film western ''[[The Young Land]]'' * "Summertime Love" w.m. [[Frank Loesser]] * "[[Sweet Nothin's]]" [[Ronnie Self]] * "Take Me Along" w.m. [[Bob Merrill]]. Introduced by [[Jackie Gleason]] and [[Walter Pidgeon]] in the musical ''[[Take Me Along]]''. * "[[Tall Paul (song)|Tall Paul]]" w.m. Bob Roberts, [[Robert B. Sherman|Bob Sherman]] & [[Dick Sherman]] * "[[Tallahassee Lassie]]" w.m. [[Frank Slay|Frank C. Slay Jr]], [[Bob Crewe]] & [[Freddy Cannon|Frederick A. Picariello]] * "[[Teen Angel (song)|Teen Angel]]" w.m. [[Jean Dinning|Jean Surrey]] & Red Surrey * "[[A Teenager in Love]]" w.m. [[Doc Pomus|Jerome "Doc" Pomus]] & [[Mort Shuman]] * "[[There Goes My Baby (The Drifters song)|There Goes My Baby]]" w.m. [[Ben E. King|Benjamin Nelson]], Lover Patterson, [[George Treadwell]] * "[[This Magic Moment]]" w.m. [[Doc Pomus]] & [[Mort Shuman]] * "[[Three Steps to Heaven (song)|Three Steps to Heaven]]" [[Eddie Cochran]] * "[[The Tijuana Jail]]" w.m. Denny Thompson * " [[(Till) I Kissed You|('Til) I Kissed You]]" w.m. [[Don Everly]] * "Time And The River" w.m. [[Aaron Schroeder]] & [[Wally Gold]] * "Too Long At The Fair" w.m. [[Billy Barnes (composer)|Billy Barnes]] * "The Untouchables" m. [[Nelson Riddle]]. * "[[Venus (Frankie Avalon song)|Venus]]" w.m. Ed Marshall * "[[The Village of St. Bernadette (song)|The Village of St. Bernadette]]" w.m. Eula Parker * "[[Waterloo (Stonewall Jackson song)|Waterloo]]" w.m. [[John D. Loudermilk]] & [[Marijohn Wilkin]] * "[[We Got Love (Bobby Rydell song)|We Got Love]]" w. [[Kal Mann]] m. [[Bernie Lowe]] * "[[What Do You Want?]]" [[Les Vandyke]] * "[[What'd I Say]]" w.m. [[Ray Charles]] * "[[Why (Frankie Avalon song)|Why]]" w. [[Bob Marcucci]] m. Peter De Angelis * "[[The Wonder of You]]" w.m. [[Baker Knight]] * "A Worried Man" w.m. [[Dave Guard]] & [[Tom Glazer]] * "You're Starting To Get To Me" [[Sammy Cahn]], [[Jimmy Van Heusen]], from the film ''[[Say One for Me]]''
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