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List song

January 01, 1970

A list song, also called a laundry list song or a catalog song, is a song based wholly or in part on a list.[1]: xiii [2][3][4][5][6] Unlike topical songs with a narrative and a cast of characters, list songs typically develop by working through a series of information, often comically, articulating their images additively, and sometimes use items of escalating absurdity.[7][8]

The form as a defining feature of an oral tradition dates back to early classical antiquity,[9][10] where it played an important part of early hexameter poetry for oral bards like Homer and Hesiod.[11][12]

In classical opera, the list song has its own genre, the catalogue aria, that was especially popular in Italian opera buffa and comic opera in the latter half of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Leporello's aria "Madamina, il catalogo è questo" (lit. '"Little lady, this is the catalogue"'), also nicknamed The Catalogue Aria,[13][14] is a prominent example, and often mentioned as a direct antecedent to the 20th-century musical's list song.[15][16][17][18]

The list song is a frequent element of 20th-century popular music and became a Broadway staple.[19] Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Noël Coward, and Stephen Sondheim are composers and lyricists who have used the form.[20][21] The very first commercial recording of a Cole Porter tune was his list song "I've a Shooting Box in Scotland" originally from See America First (1913).[22][23] Berlin followed soon after with the list song "When I Discovered You" from his first complete Broadway score Watch Your Step (1914).[24]

Porter would frequently return to the list song form, notable examples include "You're the Top" from the 1934 musical Anything Goes,[25][26][27] "Friendship", one of Porter's wittiest list songs, from DuBarry Was a Lady,[28]: 483  and "Farming" and "Let's Not Talk About Love" both from Let's Face It! (1942), and both written for Danny Kaye to showcase his ability with tongue-twisting lyrics.[29] In "You're the Top", Porter pays tribute to his colleague Irving Berlin by including the item "You're the top! You're a Berlin ballad."[30][31][32]

Irving Berlin would likewise often write songs in the genre; notable examples include "My Beautiful Rhinestone Girl" from Face the Music (1932), a list song that starts off with a sequence of negative similes,[33] "Outside of That I Love You" from Louisiana Purchase,[34] and "Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better)" a challenge-duet, and Berlin's starkest antithesis-driven list song,[35] "You Can't Get a Man with a Gun",[36] and "Doin' What Comes Natur'lly",[37] all three from the 1946 musical Annie Get Your Gun.

Examples of list songs, and their composers/performers, include the following. Songs are in alphabetical order by title (omitting the definite article where not important to the title).

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Patter songs edit

Many patter songs fall into this genre such as:

References edit

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  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Citron, S. (1997). The Musical from the Inside Out. Ivan R. Dee. pp. 195 ff. ISBN 978-1-4617-2096-6. Retrieved 3 August 2018. LIST SONGS The list song has been a useful tool of musical theatre ever since earliest operatic times. One of the "hits' of Mozart's day was to be found in Don Giovanni at the spot where Da Ponte's libretto calls for the Don's servant to list all the ...
  3. ^ a b Hischak, T.S.; Robinson, M.A. (2009). The Disney Song Encyclopedia. Scarecrow Press. p. 316. ISBN 978-0-8108-6938-7. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  4. ^ Konas, G.P. (1993). From Gershwin to Sondheim: The Pulitzer Prize-winning Musicals. University of California, Davis. p. 287. Retrieved 3 August 2018. laundry-list song—As the name suggests, this song type catalogs a list.
  5. ^ The Musical Mainstream. Division for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress. 1979. p. 63. Retrieved 3 August 2018. ... commanding attention and involving the listener. Gives examples of categories of songs ranging from the love song through the laundry-list song to the novelty song such as "Speedy Gonzales." Gives blueprints for writing and assignments.
  6. ^ a b c d Forbes, A. (2013). Songlab: A Songwriting Playbook for Teens. Blackstone Publishing. p. 34. ISBN 978-1-62064-248-1. Retrieved 3 August 2018. The Laundry List Song. These songs run down a list of many items that all add up to one big aha! moment. The chorus, hook and/or title usually reveal the juicy nugget of truth that all the things in the list add up to. A great example is "Before He ...
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  9. ^ Minchin, Elizabeth (1996). "The Performance of Lists and Catalogues in the Homeric Epics". In Worthington, I. (ed.). Voice Into Text: Orality and Literacy in Ancient Greece; [... Chapters Were ... Delivered as Papers at a Conference Entitled 'Voice Into Text' ... Hobart, Australia from 3rd-8th July 1994.]. Handbook of Oriental Studies: Section 1; The Near and Middle East. E.J. Brill. p. 7. ISBN 978-90-04-10431-0. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
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  16. ^ Out. Out Pub., Incorporated. 2004. p. 19. Retrieved 3 August 2018. What would the West's greatest epic, The Iliad, be without its catalogue of ships and Mozart's greatest opera, Don Giovanni, without Leporello's list aria and America's greatest songwriter, Cole Porter, without list-based ditties like "You're the Top" ...
  17. ^ Croxall, T.H. (1956). Kierkegaard Commentary (in Dutch). Harper. p. 57. Retrieved 3 August 2018. He praises Mozart for conjoining Leporello's first aria to the Overture, because the two characters are closely joined in the opera. Next, Leporello's List Song, 'the most epic moment in the opera', is singled out. But this is not, Kierkegaard ...
  18. ^ McBrien, W. (1998). Cole Porter: a definitive biography. HarperCollins. p. 48. ISBN 9780002154956. Retrieved 3 August 2018. It is a list song reminiscent of Leporello's boastful enumeration of his master's conquests in Mozart's Don Giovanni: Esmerelda, Then Griselda, And the third was Rosalie. Lovely Lakme Tried to track me, But I fell for fair Marie. Eleanora ...
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  26. ^ Hischak, T.S. (1991). Word crazy: Broadway lyricists from Cohan to Sondheim. PRAEGER FREDERICK A. p. 60. ISBN 978-0-275-93849-9. Retrieved 3 August 2018. Porter wrote the most effective list songs because their energy was matched by their cleverness. "You're the Top" is considered Porter's (or anyone else's) best list song. The enthusiasm for describing the person who is "the top" moves from the ...
  27. ^ Flinn, D.M. (1997). Musical!: A Grand Tour : the Rise, Glory, and Fall of an American Institution. Schirmer Books. p. 389. ISBN 978-0-02-864610-7. Retrieved 3 August 2018. Porter was also the king of the "list song," featuring his characteristic clever rhymes, contemporary references, and comic metaphors: You're the top! You're an Arrow collar You're the top! You're a Coolidge dollar You're the nimble tread of the ...
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  31. ^ Corbett, W. (1998). New York Literary Lights: William Corbett. Graywolf Press. p. 24. ISBN 978-1-55597-272-1. Retrieved 3 August 2018. In his list of things that are "the top" Cole Porter included a "Berlin ballad."
  32. ^ Everett, W.A.; Laird, P.R. (2009). The A to Z of the Broadway Musical. The A to Z Guide Series. Scarecrow Press. p. 25. ISBN 978-0-8108-7044-4. Retrieved 3 August 2018. Furthermore, Cole Porter included "a Berlin ballad" among the superlatives lavishly listed in his alliterative lyrics for "You're the Top." A Russian immigrant and son of a Jewish cantor, Berlin achieved tremendous fame in 1911 for "Alexander's ...
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January 01, 1970
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A list song also called a laundry list song or a catalog song is a song based wholly or in part on a list 1 xiii 2 3 4 5 6 Unlike topical songs with a narrative and a cast of characters list songs typically develop by working through a series of information often comically articulating their images additively and sometimes use items of escalating absurdity 7 8 The form as a defining feature of an oral tradition dates back to early classical antiquity 9 10 where it played an important part of early hexameter poetry for oral bards like Homer and Hesiod 11 12 In classical opera the list song has its own genre the catalogue aria that was especially popular in Italian opera buffa and comic opera in the latter half of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Leporello s aria Madamina il catalogo e questo lit Little lady this is the catalogue also nicknamed The Catalogue Aria 13 14 is a prominent example and often mentioned as a direct antecedent to the 20th century musical s list song 15 16 17 18 The list song is a frequent element of 20th century popular music and became a Broadway staple 19 Cole Porter Irving Berlin Noel Coward and Stephen Sondheim are composers and lyricists who have used the form 20 21 The very first commercial recording of a Cole Porter tune was his list song I ve a Shooting Box in Scotland originally from See America First 1913 22 23 Berlin followed soon after with the list song When I Discovered You from his first complete Broadway score Watch Your Step 1914 24 Porter would frequently return to the list song form notable examples include You re the Top from the 1934 musical Anything Goes 25 26 27 Friendship one of Porter s wittiest list songs from DuBarry Was a Lady 28 483 and Farming and Let s Not Talk About Love both from Let s Face It 1942 and both written for Danny Kaye to showcase his ability with tongue twisting lyrics 29 In You re the Top Porter pays tribute to his colleague Irving Berlin by including the item You re the top You re a Berlin ballad 30 31 32 Irving Berlin would likewise often write songs in the genre notable examples include My Beautiful Rhinestone Girl from Face the Music 1932 a list song that starts off with a sequence of negative similes 33 Outside of That I Love You from Louisiana Purchase 34 and Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better a challenge duet and Berlin s starkest antithesis driven list song 35 You Can t Get a Man with a Gun 36 and Doin What Comes Natur lly 37 all three from the 1946 musical Annie Get Your Gun Examples of list songs and their composers performers include the following Songs are in alphabetical order by title omitting the definite article where not important to the title Contents 1 amp 2 A 3 B 4 C 5 D 6 E 7 F 8 G 9 H 10 I 11 J L 12 M 13 N 14 O Q 15 R 16 S 17 T 18 U W 19 X Z 20 Patter songs 21 References amp edit amp Tally Hall A edit A You re Adorable Sid Lippman Buddy Kaye and Fred Wise 38 A Boy Without a Girl 1960 by Anthony Newley 39 A Hard Rain s a Gonna Fall Bob Dylan 40 A Little Priest by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler from Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 41 42 A Little Something Refreshing Eric Stefani performed by No Doubt A Simple Desultory Philippic Or How I Was Robert McNamara d Into Submission Paul Simon performed by Simon and Garfunkel A13 Trunk Road to the Sea by Billy Bragg first released in 1991 on The Peel Sessions Album based on Get Your Kicks on Route 66 by Bobby Troup Ah Paris by Stephen Sondheim a geographical list song for the 1971 musical Follies 43 All I Really Want to Do a song written by Bob Dylan and featured on his Tom Wilson produced 1964 album Another Side of Bob Dylan 44 Area Codes Ludacris 45 Around the World Red Hot Chili Peppers Art Eats Art Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark lists many historical arts figures 46 A Well Dressed Hobbit Rie Sheridan Rose Marc Gunn Ain t Got No from the musical Hair 47 All My Ex s Live in Texas George Strait and Whitey Shafer American Bad ass Kid Rock All the Words in the English Language from Animaniacs Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better 35 As Some Day It May Happen from The Mikado by Gilbert amp Sullivan 48 At Long Last Love by Cole Porter for his 1938 musical You Never Know 49 50 At the Hop Danny and the Juniors lists many popular dances of the late 1950s B edit The Bad Touch Bloodhound Gang lists many euphemisms for sexual acts The Bare Necessities from the animated 1967 Disney film The Jungle Book 3 Bahay Kubo traditional lists vegetables found in the surrounding of a farm Before He Cheats 6 The Begat Burton Lane and E Y Harburg 51 Better Than Anything David Buck Wheat amp Bill Loughborough lists all the things love is better than The Big Bamboo traditional Caribbean Black Boys from the musical Hair 52 Blue from the 2014 musical Heathers The Musical with music lyrics and a book by Laurence O Keefe and Kevin Murphy 53 BOB a song on Poodle Hat Weird Al Yankovic lists palindromes in a parody of Subterranean Homesick Blues by Bob Dylan The Booklovers The Divine Comedy 54 55 Break My Soul The Queens Remix interpolates Vogue by Madonna listing black cultural icons and ballroom houses Brothers and Sisters Blur 56 Brush Up Your Shakespeare Cole Porter from Kiss Me Kate 57 58 But In The Morning No Cole Porter from DuBarry Was a LadyC edit California Girls The Beach Boys Can U Dig It Pop Will Eat Itself Carol Brown Flight of the Conchords Cherry Pies Ought to Be You with music and lyrics by Cole Porter for his 1950 musical Out of This World 2 196 Coda I Have A Dream King Crimson Chop Suey music by Richard Rodgers words by Oscar Hammerstein II introduced by Juanita Hall and Patrick Adiarte in Flower Drum Song Coded Language Krust Saul Williams Collection of Stamps I m from Barcelona Come Back To Me with lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner for Burton Lane s On a Clear Day You Can See Forever 59 Come Together The Beatles 60 Come To the Supermarket In Old Peking Cole Porter Comedy Tonight from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum by Stephen Sondheim 61 2 131 Conga music by Leonard Bernstein words by Betty Comden and Adolph Green introduced by Rosalind Russell in Wonderful Town Could I Leave You by Stephen Sondheim for the 1971 musical Follies 43 Count It Up from Field Music s 2018 album Open Here 62 Cuntry Boner Puscifer D edit Datura Tori Amos Daves I Know Bruce McCulloch Destroy Rock amp Roll Mylo Dinner with Friends Kacey Musgraves Disappointing John Grant DJ Bombay Michael V list down things that are sold by Indian nationals in the Philippines Do I Love You Cole Porter from DuBarry Was a Lady 28 483 Done Too Soon Neil Diamond Don t Let s Be Beastly to the Germans Noel Coward 2 Don t Put Your Daughter on the Stage Mrs Worthington Noel Coward 2 Do You Remember These The Statler Brothers DuBarry Was a Lady Cole Porter from DuBarry Was a Lady 28 483 E edit Eclipse Pink Floyd Eight Easy Steps Alanis Morissette 88 Lines About 44 Women The Nails 63 The Elements Tom Lehrer 64 Elephant Talk King Crimson Endless Art A House Every Tube Station Song Jay Foreman 65 Everybody Knows 1988 by Leonard Cohen 66 Everybody Loves Raymond Lemon Demon Everything Is Alright Motion City Soundtrack F edit Far Out Blur Farming by Cole Porter from Let s Face It 1942 29 F E A R Ian Brown Female from Keith Urban s 2018 album Graffiti U 67 50 Things You Should Think About to Stop You Doing Your Beans Kunt and the Gang 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover Paul Simon 6 68 50 Ways to Say Goodbye Train 52 Girls B 52s Forever Young Bob Dylan Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo The Bloodhound Gang Friendship Cole Porter from DuBarry Was a Lady 69 G edit Gee Officer Krupke by Stephen Sondheim lyrics and Leonard Bernstein music from West Side Story 2 198 Get Me Bodied Beyonce Girl of 100 Lists Go Go s Gin Soaked Boy The Divine Comedy God John Lennon God Bless Combichrist lists infamous murderers and cult leaders Going Nowhere Slow The Bloodhound Gang lists cities across the USA Good Doctor Robbie Williams The Green Grass Grows All Around Traditional Green Grow the Rushes O Traditional H edit Hair from the musical Hair Hank Williams Said it Best Guy Clark Hardware Store Weird Al Yankovic Hashish from the musical Hair Hello The Beloved High Tech Redneck George Jones Hippopotamus Sparks Hot Topic Le Tigre How About You Burton Lane Ralph Freed 70 414 71 Hungarian Goulash No 5 Lyrics by Alan Sherman music is Hungarian Dance No 5 in F minor written by Johannes Brahms Hypersonic Missiles Sam FenderI edit I Can t Get Started With You Ira Gershwin and Vernon Duke 72 I Dreamed Of A Hillbilly Heaven Tex Ritter I Get a Kick Out of You by Cole Porter first sung in the 1934 musical Anything Goes 2 198 I Got Life from the musical Hair I Like It Cardi B I Started a Blog Nobody Read Sprites If I Were a Boy Beyonce 6 I m Black Ain t Got No from the musical Hair 73 I m Proud of the BBC Mitch Benn I m Still Here Stephen Sondheim 70 48 43 I m Trying from Adam Gwon s 2008 musical Ordinary Days 74 Imperfect List Big Hard Excellent Fish Ironic Bo Burnham Isang Linggong Pag Ibig Imelda Papin It Ain t Necessarily So with lyrics by Ira Gershwin from George Gershwin s opera Porgy and Bess 73 It s an Elk from the 2013 musical Bubble Boy with music and lyrics by Cinco Paul 75 It s Grim Up North The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu It s the End of the World as We Know It And I Feel Fine R E M 63 I ve a Shooting Box in Scotland Cole Porter from See America First 22 I ve Been Everywhere Lucky Starr original Geoff Mack U S A adaptation J L edit Jung Talent Time TISM Kidney Bingos Wire Kokomo song The Beach Boys La Vie Boheme Jonathan Larson The Lady Is a Tramp from the 1937 Rodgers and Hart musical Babes in Arms 2 198 Let em In Wings Let s Call the Whole Thing Off George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin Let s Do It Let s Fall in Love Cole Porter 2 196 Let s Not Talk About Love by Cole Porter from Let s Face It 1942 29 Liaisons by Stephen Sondheim from A Little Night Music 2 198 Life Is a Rock But the Radio Rolled Me Reunion Lime Jello Marshmallow Cottage Cheese Surprise William Bolcom performed by Joan Morris List of Films Nick Helm Losing My Edge LCD Soundsystem Lost Property The Divine Comedy Love Is Bo Burnham Love Your Love the Most Eric Church Lists everything he loves Lower 48 The Gourds Lydia the Tattooed Lady by Groucho Marx from At The CircusM edit Mad Dogs and Englishmen Noel Coward Madamina il catalogo e questo Mozart The Catalogue Aria from Don Giovanni Mambo No 5 performed by Lou Bega and Perez Prado Man on the Moon R E M Manhattan Richard Rodgers Lorenz Hart Marz John Grant Matangi M I A Merry Christmas Everyone Shakin Stevens 76 MfG Die Fantastischen Vier Miracles Insane Clown Posse Miss Sarajevo U2 Mistletoe and Wine Cliff Richard 76 Mr Goldstone music Jule Styne lyrics Stephen Sondheim Modern Industry Fishbone Moments to Remember Robert Allen and Al Stillman Money for Dope They Might Be Giants Mope The Bloodhound Gang My Favorite Things Rodgers and Hammerstein 77 73 My Kind of Town Chicago Is Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn Big hit for Frank Sinatra extolling the virtues of Chicago My Funny Valentine Richard Rodgers 78 My Ship music by Kurt Weill and lyrics by Ira Gershwin 79 N edit Name Game Shirley Ellis Napoleon with lyrics by Yip Harburg and music by Harold Arlen from Jamaica 28 316 80 Never Gonna Give You Up Rick Astley New Direction Sugar Ray lists things you can do to make yourself a better person New Math Bo Burnham New Rules Dua Lipa No Hay Nadie Como Tu Calle 13 Not Big Thief Numb U2 Nunal Vincent Daffalong O Q edit Occupation Sparks One By the Venom Finn Andrews One Hundred Easy Ways To Lose a Man from Leonard Bernstein s 1953 musical Wonderful Town 81 One Bourbon One Scotch One Beer Rudy Toombs One More Minute Weird Al Yankovic One Week Barenaked Ladies Overdrive Eraserheads mentions places in the Philippines Paren de Venir The Sacados Pencil Full of Lead Paolo Nutini Penny Lane 77 People Who Died Jim Carroll Pennsylvania The Bloodhound Gang Pepper Butthole Surfers Perfume Sparks The Physician with music and lyrics by Cole Porter for his 1933 musical Nymph Errant 2 196 Plane Too Loudon Wainwright III Play with Me Extreme band Pokerap Pokemon Polkamon Weird Al Yankovic Poor Young Millionaire Cole Porter 82 Porn Star Dancing My Darkest Days featuring Zakk Wylde and Chad Kroeger Portobello Road from Walt Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks Poster Child Red Hot Chili Peppers The Pride Five Finger Death Punch Questions and Answers The Three B s from the musical On Your Toes Rodgers and Hart R edit Raise Up Petey Pablo Ramblin Man Lemon Jelly The Rattlin Bog Traditional Reasons to be Cheerful Part 3 Ian Dury amp the Blockheads 83 Red Taylor Swift The Referee s Alphabet Half Man Half Biscuit Rickets Deftones Rhode Island Is Famous For You with lyrics by Howard Dietz and music by Arthur Schwartz from Inside U S A 28 309 Rock amp Roll Heaven The Righteous Brothers Rock Lobster The B 52 s Get Your Kicks on Route 66 Bobby Troup Royals Lorde lists subjects of modern pop songsS edit Sad Bo Burnham The Saga of Jenny with music by Kurt Weill and lyrics by Ira Gershwin written for the 1941 Broadway musical Lady in the Dark 29 Said the Hobbit to the Horse Marc Gunn The Sample Song Dorothy Shay Short Memory Midnight Oil Show Me What You Got Limp Bizkit Seven Curses Bob Dylan 7 Things Miley Cyrus Sidekick Heaven Riders in the Sky band Sinaktan mo ang puso ko Michael V lists down the hurtful things that his lover did Sixteen Reasons Bill and Doree Post 3 hit for Connie Stevens in 1960 Slow Train Flanders and Swann Sodomy from the musical Hair Soldier s Things Tom Waits Song for Whoever The Beautiful South Stairway to Cleveland We Do What We Want Jefferson Starship Starfish and Coffee Prince Stars on 45 Stars on 45 Start Button Private Thoughts in Public Places featuring Streamer on As Heard On Radio Soulwax Pt 2 The Stately Homes of England by Noel Coward from his 1938 musical Operette 2 Subterranean Homesick Blues Bob Dylan Super Supper March Nigel Pilkington T edit Tschaikowsky and Other Russians with lyrics by Ira Gershwin and music by Kurt Weill lists the names of fifty three composers of Tsarist and Soviet Russia 84 The chorus of Tam Pierce Widdecombe Fair lists all the people accompanying the narrator to the fair Teachers Daft Punk Technologic Daft Punk Telecide The Tubes Telefonbuchpolka Georg Kreisler Ten Commandments of Love The Moonglows Ten Crack Commandments The Notorious B I G That Is the End of the News by Noel Coward from his 1945 musical revue Sigh No More 2 That Funny Feeling Bo Burnham That s a Rectangle Storybots That s Country Bro Toby Keith There Ain t No Easy Run Dave Dudley There Is Nothing Like a Dame Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II 85 These Foolish Things Eric Maschwitz and Jack Strachey They All Fall In Love Cole Porter They All Laughed George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin They Are Night Zombies They Are Neighbors They Have Come Back from the Dead Ahhhh Sufjan Stevens Things I Won t Get FFS Things In My Jeep The Lonely Island and Linkin Park Things to Do I ve Tried David Byrne The Things You Left Behind by The Nails 1986 63 Third Uncle Brian Eno Brian Turrington Thou Shalt Always Kill Dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip Thou Shalt Not with lyrics by Don Black and music by Jule Styne from Bar Mitzvah Boy 28 48 Till the End of Time Buddy Kaye and Ted Mossman 1 371 To Keep My Love Alive composed by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Lorenz Hart for the musical A Connecticut Yankee 2 198 To Kokoraki the Cockerel Flanders and Swann Too Much Monkey Business Chuck Berry Transmetropolitan The Pogues Turn a Blind Eye Half Man Half Biscuit Turn Turn Turn Pete Seeger after King Solomon Ecclesiastes The Twelve Days of Christmas Traditional 21 Things I Want in a Lover Alanis Morissette The Unthinkable Boom Bip U W edit Van Lingle Mungo Dave Frishberg Vinyl Records Todd Snider Vitamin Kraftwerk Vogue Madonna Vuelve Shakira Wakko s America from Animaniacs Walk Away Franz Ferdinand Waters of March Antonio Carlos Jobim Welcome to the Internet Bo Burnham We Care a Lot Faith No More We Didn t Start the Fire Billy Joel 63 We Didn t Start the Fire Fall Out Boy We re All Gonna Die Baby FuzZ What a Wonderful World Thiele and Weiss When I Had a Uniform On Cole Porter 82 White Woman s Instagram Bo Burnham Who s Gonna Fill Their Shoes George Jones Who s Next Tom Lehrer lists countries acquiring nuclear weapons The Whole World Lost its Head Go Go s White Boys from the musical Hair 52 Why Do the Wrong People Travel by Noel Coward from the 1961 musical Sail Away 2 The Windmills of Your Mind Michel Legrand Eddy Marnay Alan and Marilyn Bergman Wish Komm Zu Mir From the film Run Lola Run Thomas D Wishlist Pearl Jam Wonderful World Sam Cooke X Z edit Yakko s World from Animaniacs You Are What You Wear from American Psycho You Can t Get a Man with a Gun from Annie Get Your Gun 86 You re Moving Out Today Carole Bayer Sager You re the Top Cole Porter You ve Seen Harlem at Its Best by Ethel Waters Zip Rodgers and Hart Patter songs editMany patter songs fall into this genre such as KoKo s Little list song from The Mikado see As Some Day It May Happen above Tschaikowsky and Other Russians Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin see Tschaikowsky above The Major General s Song Gilbert and Sullivan If You Want a Receipt from Patience Gilbert and Sullivan References edit a b Hischak T S 2002 The Tin Pan Alley Song Encyclopedia Greenwood Press ISBN 978 0 313 31992 1 Retrieved 3 August 2018 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Citron S 1997 The Musical from the Inside Out Ivan R Dee pp 195 ff ISBN 978 1 4617 2096 6 Retrieved 3 August 2018 LIST SONGS The list song has been a useful tool of musical theatre ever since earliest operatic times One of the hits of Mozart s day was to be found in Don Giovanni at the spot where Da Ponte s libretto calls for the Don s servant to list all the a b Hischak T S Robinson M A 2009 The Disney Song Encyclopedia Scarecrow Press p 316 ISBN 978 0 8108 6938 7 Retrieved 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