In May 2019, we asked Acoustic Guitar community members to review a list of 125 songs which had been requested multiple times in an earlier survey. Here are the Top 100, ranked in order of preference.
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1 | Sultans of Swing | Dire Straits |
2 | Georgia | Ray Charles |
3 | In My Life | The Beatles |
4 | Fire & Rain | James Taylor |
5 | While My Guitar Gently Weeps | The Beatles |
6 | Summer in the City | Lovin’ Spoonful |
7 | If You Could Read My Mind | Gordon Lightfoot |
8 | Carolina in my Mind | James Taylor |
9 | Tangled Up in Blue | Bob Dylan |
10 | Girl from Ipanema | Antonio Carlos Jobim |
11 | Stardust | Willie Nelson |
12 | Crazy | Willie Nelson |
13 | Black Water | Doobie Brothers |
14 | Candy Man | John Hurt |
15 | Blue Bayou | Roy Orbison |
16 | Classical Gas | Mason Williams |
17 | What´s Going On | Marvin Gaye |
18 | Time In A Bottle | Jim Croce |
19 | Here Comes the Sun | The Beatles |
20 | Hotel California | The Eagles |
21 | Blue Eyes | Willie Nelson |
22 | Heard It Through the Grapevine | Marvin Gaye |
23 | Sweet Baby James | James Taylor |
24 | Harvest Moon | Neil Young |
25 | Tennessee Stud | Doc Watson |
26 | Nuages | Django Reinhardt |
27 | The Boxer | Paul Simon |
28 | Down on the Corner | Creedence Clearwater Revival |
29 | Old Man | Neil Young |
30 | Lodi | Creedence Clearwater Revival |
31 | You’ve Got A Friend | James Taylor |
32 | Turn! Turn! Turn! | The Byrds |
33 | Sounds Of Silence | Simon & Garfunkel |
34 | Moonshadow | Cat Stevens |
35 | Tears in Heaven | Eric Clapton |
36 | Ramble On | Led Zeppelin |
37 | Light My Fire | Jose Feliciano |
38 | Desperado | The Eagles |
39 | Heart of Gold | Neil Young |
40 | California Dreaming | The Mamas and Papas |
41 | Crying | Roy Orbison |
42 | Over the Hills and Far Away | Led Zeppelin |
43 | Oh, Pretty Woman | Roy Orbison |
44 | Sunny Afternoon | The Kinks |
45 | You Are the Sunshine of My Life | Stevie Wonder |
46 | Goin’ to California | Led Zeppelin |
47 | Let It Be | The Beatles |
48 | Solsbury Hill | Peter Gabriel |
49 | Daydream | Lovin’ Spoonful |
50 | Behind Blue Eyes | The Who |
51 | Vincent | Don McLean |
52 | Blackbird | The Beatles |
53 | The Needle and the Damage Done | Neil Young |
54 | Eight Miles High | The Byrds |
55 | Angie | The Rolling Stones |
56 | Wild World | Cat Stevens |
57 | Mexico | James Taylor |
58 | I Can’t Stop Loving You | Ray Charles |
59 | Simple Twist of Fate | Bob Dylan |
60 | The Heart of Saturday Night | Tom Waits |
61 | Take It Easy | The Eagles |
62 | Daydream Believer | The Monkees |
63 | Brown Eyed Girl | Van Morrison |
64 | From the Beginning | Emerson, Lake & Palmer |
65 | Pamela Brown | Leo Kottke |
66 | Mama Tried | Merle Haggard |
67 | Free Falling | Tom Petty |
68 | Father and Son | Cat Stevens |
69 | Mack the Knife | Bobby Darin |
70 | Rocky Mountain High | John Denver |
71 | Taxi | Harry Chapin |
72 | 1952 Vincent Black Lightning | Richard Thompson |
73 | Urge for Going | Joni Mitchell |
74 | Lola | The Kinks |
75 | Give a Little Bit | Supertramp |
76 | Don’t Think Twice (It’s Alright) | Bob Dylan |
77 | Wish You Were Here | Pink Floyd |
78 | Wonderful Tonight | Eric Clapton |
79 | Genesis | Jorma Kaukonen |
80 | El Paso | Marty Robbins |
81 | Wildfire | Martin Michael Murphy |
82 | Waterloo Sunset | The Kinks |
83 | Tired of Waiting | The Kinks |
84 | Dimming of the Day | Richard Thompson |
85 | Last Train To Clarksville | The Monkees |
86 | Magic Bus | The Who |
87 | Chain Of Fools | Aretha Franklin |
88 | Mr. Tambourine Man | Bob Dylan |
89 | King of the Road | Roger Miller |
90 | Make You Feel My Love | Bob Dylan |
91 | Part of the Plan | Dan Fogelberg |
92 | Annie’s Song | John Denver |
93 | Dust in the Wind | Kansas |
94 | Jolene | Dolly Parton |
95 | Stairway to Heaven | Led Zeppelin |
96 | Beeswing | Richard Thompson |
97 | Pink Moon | Nick Drake |
98 | Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag | James Brown |
99 | Squeeze Box | The Who |
100 | If We Were Vampires | Jason Isbell |