Top Ten All-Time Favorite Songs

Ask someone to name his favorite song and you'll get hemming and hawing. Ask "what are your top ten favorite songs?" and you can learn something interesting.

My Top Ten All-Time Favorite Songs:

Angie Stone featuring D'Angelo, Everyday.
Ella Fitzgerald, Bewitched.
Dave Brubeck Quartet, Blue Rondo A La Turk.
D'Angelo, Me and Those Dreamin' Eyes of Mine.
Donny Hathway, Love Love Love.
Stevie Wonder, As.
dead prez, Hip Hop.
Charlie Hunter Trio, More Than This.
Al Green, Let's Stay Together.
Alicia Keys, If I Ain't Got You.

(At any time, one of these could earn a spot including D'Angelo's The Root and One Mo Gin, Donny Hathaway's Someday We'll All Be Free and A Song For You, Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto's It Might As Well Be Spring, Marvin Gaye's What's Going On and Ain't No Mountain High Enough (with Tammi Terrell), The Pharcyde's Passin Me By and I'm That Type of N****, Tribe Called Quest's Left My Wallet in El Segundo, Stevie Wonder's Knocks Me Off My Feet, EWF 's After the Love is Gone.)

A's Top Ten All-Time Favorite Songs:

Charlie Hunter Trio, A Street Fight Could Break Out.
Various, Someday My Prince Will Come.
Medeski Martin & Wood, Shuck It Up.
Joshua Redman, Jazz Crimes.
Take 6, This Is Another Day.
Jane Monheit, It Might As Well Be Spring.
dead prez, Hip Hop.
Tower of Power, You're Still a Young Man.
Brian McKnight, Is the Feeling Gone.
Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, You're All I Need.

Check out a few samples below, buy the songs on Amazon and iTunes, and add your top 10 to the comments (or email me, as I know you will).

Angie Stone featuring D'Angelo, Everyday.

D'Angelo, Me and Those Dreamin' Eyes of Mine.

dead prez, Hip Hop.

Stan Getz, Joao & Astrud Gilberto, It Might As Well Be Spring.