This unique reference covers every aspect of the literature of popular somjs from the 16th century to 1987. Compiling 11,000 songs from the English-speaking world, The Great Song Thesaurus, Second Edition, Updated & Expanded provides pertinent information about each entry— including year of popularity, composer, lyricist, record sales, Hit Parade and air ranking, and the names of artists who recorded the ‘‘Top Hit” songs since 1940— and indexes these song titles by subject, key word, key lyric line and category. Completely cross-referenced throughout, information associated with each song is easily accessible in any of the book’s ten parts. Listing virtually every song written in the last 400 years, the Thesaurus includes the most popular and distinguished songs listed by year of popularity (up through 1987); songs from theatre scores and musical and non-musical films, televi­ sion, and radio; British and American award-winning songs; entertainers’ and performers’ theme, trademark, and signa­ ture songs; advertising jingles; song plagiarisms, adaptations, and revivals; college and university songs; political campaign songs; church chimes and carillons; and American bugle calls. The Great Song Thesaurus, Second Edition, Updated & Expanded • Chronicles the popular song from 1558 to the present • Furnishes 100 to 150 new song listings for each year from 1980 to 1987. • Allows recall, through a new key lyric line index, of 3,025 song titles • Compiles vast popular song informa­ tion for those in radio, television, and advertising • Covers a vast range of songs: from liturgical hymns to disco, folk songs, and lieder; from sea chanteys to commer­ cial jingles, theme songs, and award winners The Great Song Thesaurus The G reat Song Thesaurus ROGER LAX FREDERICK SMITH Second Edition Updated and Expanded New York OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1989 Oxford University Press Oxford New York Toronto Delhi Bombay Calcutta Madras Karachi Petaling Jaya Singapore Hong Kong Tokyo Nairobi Dar es Salaam Cape Town Melbourne Auckland and associated companies in Berlin Ibadan Copyright © 1984, 1989 by Roger Lax and The Estate of Frederick Smith Published by Oxford University Press, Inc. 200 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016 Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior permission of Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lax, Roger. The great song thesaurus / Roger Lax, Frederick Smith.—2nd ed., updated and expanded, p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-19-505408-3 1. Popular music—Indexes. I. Smith, Frederick. II. Title. ML128.S3L4 1989 784.5'0016—del9 88-31267 CIP MN 246 8 97 5 3 1 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper For my mother and in memory of my father R.L. Acknowledgments For her unswerving tenacity during the plague of crises surrounding the com­ pletion of this book, I thank my literary agent Maria Carvainis, who for five years served equally well in the capacity of dear friend. At the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, Michael Kerker offered continued assistance in locating oftentimes unpublished and al­ most unobtainable information through ASCAP’s excellent indexing staff. I wish also to extend my appreciation to Sheldon Meyer, Leona Capeless, and Joellyn Ausanka for their suggestions and assistance during the preparation of the manuscript. For the tolerance of those who during my last year of assembling research and preparing the manuscript patiently cooked my meals, withstood my endless complaints, and saved both sanity and spirit, my deepest appreciation to Toni Goldin, Ian Ross Jenkins, Christian Ghigliotti, and Edward Howard. The preparation of this Revised Edition proved very much a different task, for which I would like to thank additionally David Ascher for his generosity and expertise in helping me prepare the final manuscript. And for their limitless support and generosity, my parents, Harrison and Arline, and grandmother Rose displayed those family qualities reserved for only a lucky few. To them I will be forever grateful. ROGER LAX Contents Authors’ Notes, xi List of Abbreviations, xv I The Greatest Songs, 3 II The Award Winners, 143 III Themes, Trademarks, and Signatures, 165 IV Elegant Plagiarisms, 173 V Song Titles, 179 VI British Song Titles, 437 VII Lyricists and Composers, 463 Vili American and British Theatre, Film, Radio, and Television, 577 IX Thesaurus of Song Titles by Subject, Key Word, and Category, 621 X Lyric Key Lines, 721