Best Top 40 Songs: ’50s to ’70s

Alfred’s Best series centers around impeccable piano/vocal/guitar arrangements of the most loved and recognizable songs in modern music. Best Top 40 Songs: 49 Hits from the ’50s to ’70s highlights tunes from such varied artists as Fats Domino, Simon and Garfunkel, The Beatles, Chicago, Sam Cooke, and more. Titles: 96 Tears (? and the Mysterians) * Ain’t That a Shame (Fats Domino) * Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In (The 5th Dimension) * Blinded by the Light (Manfred Mann’s Earth Band) * Blue Velvet (Bobby Vinton) * Born to Run (Bruce Springsteen) * Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon and Garfunkel) * Build Me Up Buttercup (The Foundations) * Chain Gang (Sam Cooke) * Colour My World (Chicago) * Dancing in the Moonlight (King Harvest) * Do You Want to Know a Secret (The Beatles) * Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? (Chicago) * Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue (Crystal Gayle) * Easy to Be Hard (from Hair) (Three Dog Night) * Elusive Butterfly (Bob Lind) * The End of the World (Skeeter Davis) * Go Your Own Way (Fleetwood Mac) * Hair (from Hair) (The Cowsills) * Help Me (Joni Mitchell) * Hold Your Head Up (Argent) * I Saw Her Standing There (The Beatles) * If You Leave Me Now (Chicago) * Kind of a Drag (The Buckinghams) * Knock Three Times (Tony Orlando and Dawn) * Leaving on a Jet Plane (Peter, Paul, and Mary) * Let’s Spend the Night Together (The Rolling Stones) * The Letter (The Box Tops) * Marrakesh Express (Crosby, Stills and Nash) * Mustang Sally (Wilson Pickett) * Our House (Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young) * Pinball Wizard (The Who) * (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction (The Rolling Stones) * Saturday in the Park (Chicago) * Scarborough Fair/Canticle (Simon and Garfunkel) * She Loves You (The Beatles) * Shower the People (James Taylor) * Stand by Your Man (Tammy Wynette) * Sunshine on My Shoulders (John Denver ) * Superstar (The Carpenters) * Take Me Home, Country Roads (John Denver) * A Taste of Honey (Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass) * Teach Your Children (Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young) * Tie a Yellow Ribbon ‘Round the Ole Oak Tree (Tony Orlando and Dawn) * Time of the Season (The Zombies) * What’s New Pussycat? (Tom Jones) * Woodstock (Matthews Southern Comfort) * You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me (Dusty Springfield) * You Showed Me (The Turtles).