Wednesday, July 4, 2007

B. Morgan Martin: 40 Musical Favorites

1. “Toccata and Fugue in D Minor” by J.S. Bach
2. “Fanfare for the Common Man” by Aaron Copland
3. “Sheep May Safely Graze” by J.S. Bach
4. “America the Beautiful” by Charles Ives
5. “Dona Nobis Pacem” by Ralph Vaughn Williams
6. “Sneakers” score by James Horner
7. "Everything" by Bernard Hermann
8. “Aladdin” score by Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, & Tim Rice
9. “Trumpet Voluntary” by Arcangelo Corelli
10. “Princess Ida” by W.S. Gilbert & Sir Arthur Sullivan
11. “The Fall of the Roman Empire” score by Dimitri Tiomkin
12. “Ave Maria” sung by Dale Evans
13. “Inch Worm” by Frank Loesser
14. “Nanny McPhee” theme and last scene music by Patrick Doyle
15. “Trial By Jury” by W.S. Gilbert & Sir Arthur Sullivan
16. “Abraxas” album by Carlos Santana
17. “One Toke Over the Line” by Brewer & Shipley
18. “Once Upon a Time in the West” score by Ennio Morricone
19. “Once Upon a Mattress” musical with Carol Burnett by Mary Rodgers & Marshall Barer
20. “Nessun Dorma” as sung by Bruce Sledge in “The Sum of All Fears”
21. “National Emblem March” by E.E. Bagley as played by Gus Farney at the Bray Organ Loft
22. “Tales from the Vienna Woods” by Johann Strauss
23. “White Bird” by It’s a Beautiful Day
24. All songs by The Capitol Steps
25. “The Tide Is High” by Blondie
26. “It Don’t Matter to Me”
27. Most songs recorded by the Chad Mitchell Trio including “The John Birch Society”, “The Ides of Texas”, and “The First Time Ever (I Saw Your Face)”
28. “Midnight Cowboy” as recorded by Ferrante & Teicher
29. “Holiday for Strings” as recorded by the David Rose orchestra
30. “Without You” as recorded by Harry Nillson
31. “The Planets” by Gustav Holst
32. Theme from “All In the Family”
33. “2nd Piano Concerto” by Sergei Rachmaninoff
34. “Rhapsody In Blue” by What’s His Name
35. “Bohemian Rhapsody” by Queen
36. “We Are the Champions” as recorded by Queen
37. “Wunderbar” by Cole Porter (the first song I ever heard in stereo)
38. “In the Still of the Night” by Cole Porter
39. “The Nutcracker” by Peter Tchaikovshy
40. “Song of the Indian Guest” by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
40a.“Pictures at an Exhibition” by Modest Mussorgsky
40a.“Polovetsian Dances” by Alexander Borodin
40b.“March of the Three oranges” by Sergei Prokokiev
40c.“Dance Macabre” by Camille Saint-Saens
40d.“Also Sprach Zarathustra” by Richard Strauss
40e. “Canon in D” by Pachelbel (Also called “Taco Bell’s Canon”)
40f. “Auf Wiedersehen My Dear” played by Gus Farney
And many more

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