Songs & Lyrics
BMI list of Most Popular Songs
from 1940-1990
New York, Sept 14, 1990 - BMI, the
world's largest performing rights organization, today announced the titles, writers and
publishers of the 50 most performed songs in the company's 50 year history.
- Yesterday...John
Lennon, Paul McCartney
- Never My Love...Donald
Addrisi, Richard Addrisi
- By The Time
I Get To Phoenix...Jim Webb
- Gentle On My
Mind...John Hartford
- More...Marcello
Cierciolini
- Something...George
Harrison
- Bridge Over
Troubled Water...Paul Simon
- You've Lost
That Lovin' Feelin'...Barry Mann, Phil Spector, Cynthia Weil
- Mrs.
Robinson...Paul Simon
- Georgia On
My Mind...Hoagy Carmichael, Stuart Gorrel
- I Can't Stop
Loving You...Don Gibson
- Strangers
In The Night...Bert Kaempfert, Charles Singleton, Eddie Snyder
- Everybody's
Talkin'...Fred Neil
- Michelle...John
Lennon, Paul McCartney
- Canadian
Sunset...Norman Gimbel, Eddie Heywood
- Can't Take My
Eyes Off Of You...Bob Crewe, Bob Gaudio
- Killing Me
Softly With His Song...Charles Fox, Norman Gimbel
- Sunny...Bobby
Hebb
- Snowbird...Gene
MacLellan
- Scarborough
Fair
- The Girl
From Ipanema...Vinicius De Moraes, Norman Gimbel, Antonio Carlos Jobim
- We've Only
Just Begun...Roger Nichols, Paul Williams
- (Sitting On)
The Dock Of The Bay...Steve Cropper, Otis Redding
- For The Good
Times...Kris Kristofferson
- Twilight
Time...Al Nevins, Morty Nevins, Buck Ram
- Stand By Me...Ben
E. King, Jery Leiber, Mike Stoller
- Up Up And Away...Jim
Webb
- Spanish Eyes...Bert
Kaempfert, Charles Singleton, Eddie Snyder
- Angel Of The
Morning...Chip Taylor
- Only You...
Ande Rand, Buck Ram
- The Most
Beautiful Girl...Rory Bourke, Billy Sherril, Morro Wilson
- Sound Of
Silence...Paul Simon
- Help Me Make
It Through The Night...Kris Kristofferson
- Traces...Buddy
Buie, J. R. Cobb, Emory Gordy, Jr.
- Goin' Out Of
My Head...Teddy Randazzo, Bobby Weinstein
- Release Me...Edia
Miller, Dub Williams, Robert Yount
- Both Sides Now...Joni
Mitchell
- All I Have To
Do Is Dream...Boudleaux Bryant
- Cherish...Terry
Kirkman
- Tennessee
Waltz...Pee Wee King, Redd Stewart
- (I Never
Promised You A) Rose Garden...Joe South
- My Cherie
Amour...Sylvia Moy, Henry Cosby, Stevie Wonder
- I Honestly
Love You...Peter Allen, Jeff Barry
- Tie A Yellow
Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree... L. Russell Brown, Irwin Levine
- Breaking Up
Is Hard To Do...Howard Greenfield, Neil Sedaka
- For All We Know...Jimmy
Griffin, Fred Karlin, Robb Wilson
- Never On
Sunday...Manos Hadjidakis, Billy Towne
- Blue Bayou...Joe
Melson, Roy Orbison
- Behind Closed
Doors...Kenny O'Dell
- My Way...Paul
Anka, Claude Francois, Jacques Revaux, Gilles Thibaut
Rock on folks !
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