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1. Thunder Road, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band (Springsteen)

2. Like a Rolling Stone, Bob Dylan (Dylan)

3. All Along the Watchtower, The Jimi Hendrix Experience (Dylan)

4. Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band (Springsteen)

5. The Sound of Silence, Simon and Garfunkel (Simon)

6. (Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay, Otis Redding (Redding)

7. What a Wonderful World, Louis Armstrong ( Thiele/Weiss)

8. What’s Goin’ On, Marvin Gaye (Benson/Cleveland/Gaye)

9. Layla, Derek and the Dominos (Clapton)

10. Tangled Up in Blue, Bob Dylan (Dylan)  

11. Yesterday, The Beatles (McCartney)

12. Brown Eyed Girl, Van Morrison (Morrison)

13. Respect, Aretha Franklin (Redding)

14. Johnny B. Goode, Chuck Berry (Berry)

15. Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right, Bob Dylan (Dylan/Clayton)

16. Redemption Song, Bob Marley and the Wailers (Marley)

17. Strawberry Fields Forever, The Beatles (Lennon)

18. Theme From Shaft, Isaac Hayes (Hayes)

19. London Calling, The Clash (Jones/Strummer)  

20. And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda, Eric Bogle (Bogle)  

21. Purple Haze, The Jimi Hendrix Experience (Hendrix)

22. American Pie, Don McLean (McLean)

23. Stairway to Heaven, Led Zeppelin (Page/Plant)

24. Sympathy for the Devil, The Rolling Stones (Jagger/Richards)

25. Imagine, John Lennon (Lennon)

26. Hotel California, The Eagles (Felder/Frey/Henley)  

27. Both Sides, Now, Joni Mitchell (Mitchell)

28. My Girl, The Temptations (Robinson/White)

29. People Get Ready, The Impressions (Mayfield)

30. Girl From the North Country, Bob Dylan (Trad., arr. Dylan)

31. A Change Is Gonna Come, Sam Cooke (Cooke)  

32. I Got You (I Feel Good), James Brown (Brown)

33. Here Comes the Sun, The Beatles (Harrison)  

34. Blowin’ in the Wind, Bob Dylan (Dylan)

35. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown), The Beatles (Lennon)  

36. It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine), R.E.M. (Berry/Buck/Mills/Stipe)  

37. Lose Yourself, Eminem (Mathers)  

38. Hound Dog, Elvis Presley (Lieber/Stoller)

39. One Love (People Get Ready), Bob Marley and the Wailers (Mayfield/Marley)  

40. Good Vibrations, The Beach Boys (Wilson/Love)

41. Peggy Sue, Buddy Holly (Allison/Holly)

42. Hey Jude, The Beatles (McCartney)

43. (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction, The Rolling Stones (Jagger/Richards)

44. Blue Suede Shoes, Carl Perkins (Perkins)

45. Maybellene, Chuck Berry (Berry)

46. I Wanna Be Sedated, The Ramones (Colvin/Cummings/Hyman)

47. I Want to Hold Your Hand, The Beatles (Lennon/McCartney)

48. Heartbreak Hotel, Elvis Presley (Axton/Durden)

49. Baba O’Riley, The Who (Townshend)

50. Rapper’s Delight, The Sugarhill Gang (Edwards/Rodgers)

51. Stand By Me, Ben E. King (King/Lieber/Stoller)

52. Rosalita (Come Out Tonight), Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band (Springsteen)

53. Midnight Train to Georgia, Gladys Knight and the Pips (Weatherly)

54. All Shook Up, Elvis Presley (Blackwell)

55. Me and Bobby McGee, Big Brother and the Holding Company (Kristofferson)

56. Because the Night, Patti Smith Group (Springsteen/Smith)

57. Free Bird, Lynyrd Skynyrd (Collins/Van Zant)

58. Eleanor Rigby, The Beatles (Lennon/McCartney)

59. Remember the Mountain Bed, Wilco (Guthrie/Tweedy/Bennett)

60. Tracks of My Tears, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles (Moore/Robinson/Tarplin)

61. Proud Mary, Creedence Clearwater Revival (Fogerty)

62. Superstition, Stevie Wonder (Wonder)  

63. Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Gordon Lightfoot (Lightfoot)

64. Great Balls of Fire, Jerry Lee Lewis (Blackwell/Hammer)

65. Oh Boy, Buddy Holly (Allison/Holly)

66. Mr. Tambourine Man, Bob Dylan (Dylan)  

67. 1865 (96 Degrees in the Shade), Third World (Cooper/Coore)

68. Ojalá, Silvio Rodríguez (Rodríguez)

69. (You Make Me Feel Like a) Natural Woman, Aretha Franklin (Goffin/King/Wexler)

70. That’s All Right, Mama, Elvis Presley (Crudup)

71. La Bamba, Ritchie Valens (Trad., arr. Clauson/Valenzuela)

72. Biko, Peter Gabriel (Gabriel)

73. For What It’s Worth, Buffalo Springfield (Stills)

74. Better Man, Pearl Jam (Vedder)

75. Born in the USA, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band (Springsteen)

76. Pancho and Lefty, Townes Van Zandt (Van Zandt)

77. Oye Como Va, Santana (Puente)

78. America, Simon and Garfunkel (Simon)

79. The Times They Are A-Changin’, Bob Dylan (Dylan)

80. I Ain’t Marching Anymore, Phil Ochs (Ochs)

81. Fight the Power, Public Enemy (Ridenhour/Sadler/Shocklee)

82. Volunteers, Jefferson Airplane (Balin/Kantner)

83. Fortunate Son, Creedence Clearwater Revival (Fogerty)  

84. Jump, Van Halen (Anthony/Roth/Van Halen/Van Halen)

85. Mrs. Robinson, Simon and Garfunkel (Simon)

86. Piano Man, Billy Joel (Joel)

87. Roll On Mississippi, Charley Pride (Fleming/Morgan)

88. Who'll Stop the Rain, Creedence Clearwater Revival (Fogerty)

89. Crying, Roy Orbison (Orbison/Melson)

90. Get Up Stand Up, Bob Marley and the Wailers (Marley/Tosh)

91. Jeremy, Pearl Jam (Vedder/Ament)

92. Penny Lane, The Beatles (McCartney)

93. I Don’t Want to Go Home, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes (Van Zandt)

94. For What It’s Worth (He Got Game), Public Enemy with Stephen Stills (Stills/Ridenhour/Leap)

95. Ruby Tuesday, The Rolling Stones (Jagger/Richards)

96. Ohio, Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young (Young)

97. Stop the War Now, Edwin Starr (Strong/Whitfield)

98. (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding, Elvis Costello (Lowe)  

99. El Paso, Marty Robbins (Robbins)

100. Daydream Believer, The Monkees (Stewart)

R A N D O M   N O T E S

 Performers With Two or More Songs in the Top 100:

• The Beatles                              8

• Bob Dylan                                7

• Elvis Presley                            4

• Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band    4

• Creedence Clearwater Revival             3

• Bob Marley                               3

• The Rolling Stones                       3

• Simon and Garfunkel                      3

• Chuck Berry                              2    

• Aretha Franklin                          2

• Jimi Hendrix                             2

• Buddy Holly                              2

• Pearl Jam                                2

• Public Enemy                             2

Songs Appearing Twice in the Top 100

• People Get Ready (#29 by Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions, #39 by Bob Marley)

• For What It’s Worth (#73 by Buffalo Springfield, #94 by Public Enemy with Stephen Stills)

Songs in the Top 100 Written by People Named Van Zandt:

• Free Bird, #57 written by Allen Collins and Ronnie Van Zant

• Pancho and Lefty, #76 written by Townes Van Zandt

• I Don’t Want to Go Home, #93 written by Miami Steve Van Zandt

Last Five Songs to Miss the Cut

• 101. Dancing in the Street, Martha and the Vandellas (Gaye/Hunter/Stevenson)  

• 102. Wake Up Little Susie, The Everly Brothers (Bryant/Bryant)  

• 103. Up On Cripple Creek, The Band (Robertson)  

• 104. White Rabbit, Jefferson Airplane (Slick)  

• 105. Jessica, The Allman Brothers Band (Betts)  

Songwriters With Two or More Songs in the Top 100: (*)

• Bob Dylan              8

• John Lennon            5

• Paul McCartney         5

• Bruce Springsteen      5

• John Fogerty           3

• Mick Jagger            3

• Bob Marley             3

• Keith Richards         3

• Paul Simon             3

• Jerry Allison          2

• Chuck Berry            2

• Otis Blackwell         2

• Chuck D                2

• Marvin Gaye            2

• Buddy Holly            2

• Jerry Lieber           2

• Curtis Mayfield        2

• Otis Redding           2

• Smokey Robinson        2

• Stephen Stills         2

• Mike Stoller           2

• Eddie Vedder           2

*This only includes individuals who actually wrote the songs in question, regardless of official songwriting credits. Thus, John Lennon and Paul McCartney only get credit for the songs they each actually wrote. "Songwriters" who received bogus writing credits, such as Elvis Presley, are not included. In addition, people who actually wrote a song but received no official credit for doing so (such as Paul Clayton, co-author of Bob Dylan's "Don't Think Twice") are included here. 

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