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Arley Dealey's 50 favorite songs

The Top 10 (in alphabetical order after #1)
Song Artist Notes
1 Redemption Song Bob Marley Yep, no question. My #1 favorite song ever.
2 Ballad of a Thin Man Bob Dylan Is it any wonder "Highway 61 Revisited" is my favorite album?
3 Desolation Row Bob Dylan
4 Highway 61 Revisited Bob Dylan
5 Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues Bob Dylan
6 Plane Wreck at Los Gatos Arlo Guthrie Written by Woody Guthrie
7 Power & the Glory Phil Ochs  
8 Serenade to a Cuckoo Rahsaan Roland Kirk  
9 Sidi Brahim John Renbourn Group  
10 Sympathy for the Devil Rolling Stones  

 

The Rest - Alphabetical by song name
(This list was going to be Top 25 but Tom Waits & Thelonious Monk blew that idea out of the water.)
Song Artist Notes
11 16 Shells from a Thirty-Ought Six Tom Waits  
12 Bemsha Swing Thelonious Monk  
13 Blue Monk Thelonious Monk  
14 Burma Shave Tom Waits  
15 Christmas in Washington Steve Earle  
16 Clap Hands Tom Waits  
17 Come On Up to the House Tom Waits  
18 Diamonds on my Windshield Tom Waits  
19 Eyes on the Prize Bruce Springsteen traditional
20 Get Behind the Mule Tom Waits  
21 Goodbye Pork Pie Hat Charles Mingus  
22 Greensleeves traditional  
23 Haitian Fight Song Charles Mingus  
24 Halleluja Leonard Cohen  
25 Hang on Saint Christopher Tom Waits  
26 Heart Attack & Vine Tom Waits  
27 I Don't Wanna Grow Up Tom Waits  
28 In Walked Bud Thelonious Monk  
29 Invitation to the Blues Tom Waits  
30 Jockey Full of Bourbon Tom Waits  
31 Me & Bobby McGee Janis Joplin  
32 Misterioso Thelonious Monk  
33 Pannonica Thelonious Monk  
34 Rhythm-A-Ning Thelonious Monk  
35 Round Midnight Thelonious Monk  
36 Ruby My Dear Thelonious Monk  
37 Sailing Down my Golden River Pete Seeger  
38 Simple Pleasures traditional  
39 Story of Isaac Judy Collins Written by Leonard Cohen
40 Straight, No Chaser Thelonious Monk  
41 Stand by Me Ben E. King Written by Ben E. King, Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller
42 Suzanne Leonard Cohen  
43 Take Five Dave Brubeck  
44 Take Me to the River Talking Heads  
45 Take Me to the Water Brian Auger  
46 Tecumseh Valley Nanci Griffith Written by Townes van Zandt
47 The Crucifixion Phil Ochs  
48 The Garden Song Pete Seeger Written by David Mallett
49 You've Lost That Loving Feeling Rusty Weir Written by Phil Spector, Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil
50 Wild Thing Jimi Hendrix

Arley Dealey's        favorite ten albums          50 favorite musicians