It's Only Make Believe -- Conway Twitty [[1957), numerous covers
It's Only Make Believe -- Conway Twitty [[1957), numerous covers
Let's Pretend - The Raspberries
My Pretending Days Are Over - The Dells
Brilliant Disguise - Bruce Springsteen
Drop The Mask - Diana Ross
If You Could See Me Now - Billy Eckstine
If My Friends Could See Me Now -- Gwen Verdon [[1966) in the musical Sweet Charity.
Shirley MacLaine in the 1969 film adaptation. Covered by many artists.
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It's Bad For Me To See You - Yvonne Fair, Gladys Knight & The Pips
All of Me -- Billie Holiday [[1941); Frank Sinatra; Willie Nelson
Can't you see
I'm no good without you
See Me Feel Me - The Who
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me -- Karen Chandler [[1952); Mel Carter [[1955); Gloria Estefan [[1994)
Anything You Wanna Do - The Marvelettes
Anything You Can Do [[I Can Do Better) -- Ethel Merman and Ray Middleton [[1946) in Annie Get Your Gun; The duet is covered over the years by many artists.
I Can Do Anything - The Emotions
I'll Do Anything [[He Wants Me To Do) - Doris Troy
I'll Do Anything -- various characters in the play Oliver [[1960) or the movie [[1968)
For you dear anything
For you mean everything to me.
I'll Do Anything for You - Denroy Morgan
Everybody's Doin' It -- 1911 ragtime song by Irving Berlin
Not to be confused with Everybody's Doing It by Tommy Dorsey [[1935) or about seven other songs using this lyric.
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Do Something - Robert "Goodie" Whitfield
Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved - James Brown
Something's Gotta Give -- Fred Astaire [[1955) covered and charted by Sammy Davis Jr. and also The McGuire Sisters.
Giving In - Aretha Franklin
Giving Up - Donny Hathaway
Got To Give It Up - Marvin Gaye
Give It Up In Vain - Sylvia Robinson
Never Give Up -- Sia [[2016) from the film Lion. Nominated for a Grammy for Best Song Written for Visual Media.
Combining posts #140373 & #140372...
Giving Up, Giving In - The 3 Degrees
Surrender -- Diana Ross [[The Funk Brothers, Ashford & Simpson and Joshie Armstead) 1971
White Flag - Dido
Help! -- The Beatles [[1965)
Save Me - Aretha Franklin
Save the Last Dance For Me -- The Drifters with Ben E. King [[1960); Emmylou Harris; Dolly Partin
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Dance With Me - The Drifters
Dance Wit Me - Rick James
Come On Do The Jerk - The Miracles
Pull My Strings - Lakeside
The Young New Mexican Puppeteer - Tom Jones
I'm a Marionette -- Abba [[1977)
I'm Your Puppet - James & Bobby Purify
I've Got No Strings -- from the animated film Pinocchio [[1940) covered by The Andrews Sisters, Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross, as well as the Chipettes with Alvin and the Chipmunks
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The Toy Guitar - Earl Klugh
While My Guitar Gently Weeps -- The Beatles, written by George Harrison [[1968)
"Come back to me again and play your sad guitar"
Superstar - The Carpenters
Guitar - Prince
Baby Guitar - Melanie Safka
Johnny B. Goode -- Chuck Berry [[1958)
Where lived a country boy named Johnny B. Goode
Who never ever learned to read or write so well
But he could play a guitar just like a-ringin' a bell
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Johnny, Johnny Please Come Home - Claudja Barry
Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh! -- Written in 1917 World War 1 patriotic version. Other versions recorded by Ella Fitzgerald, The Andrew Sisters, Peggy Lee and Bonnie Baker.
Johnny One Note - Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland....
Frankie and Johnny -- First published version in 1904. 256 recordings by a zillion artists, including Elvis Presley [[1966). Jazz standard by many of the top bands and instrumentalists.
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