Songs – Popular, Love, etc. – Titles – R - S

Songs – Popular, Love, etc. – Titles –  R - S

Out of the many thousands of songs, these are some of those I like.  

I do NOT always agree with the basic philosophy behind the lyrics, but sometimes the music alone is compelling.

Rags to Riches  - Tony Bennett 

Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head  -  B. J. Thomas 

Rainy Days and Mondays  - The Carpenters

Rainy Night In Georgia  - Brook Benton

Ramblin' Rose

Ready to Take a Chance Again  - Barry Manilow

Red Red Wine  - Neil Diamond

Red River Valley 

Red Roses for a Blue Lady  - Andy Williams 

Red Sails in the Sunset

(Please) Release Me (let me go)  - Engelbert Humperdinck

Remember Me, Recuerde Me  - Paul Byrom

Return to Me (Ritorna-Me)  - Dean Martin

Return to Sender  - Elvis Presley 

Reuben James  - Kenny Rogers

Reunited  - Peaches and Herb

Reverend Mr. Black  - The Kingston Trio

Rhinestone Cowboy  - Glen Campbell 

Rhymes and Reasons  - John Denver 

Rhythm of the Falling Rain

Ring of Fire  - Johnny Cash

Rock Around the Clock  - Bill Haley & The Comets

Rock-A-Bye Your Baby (with A Dixie melody)

Rocket Man  - Elton John

Rocky Mountain High  - John Denver

Rocky Top   

Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town  - Kenny Rogers

Ruby Tuesday

Runaround Sue  - Dion

Save the Last Dance for Me  – The Drifters 

Say You’ll Stay Until Tomorrow  - Tom Jones

Scarborough Fair  - Simon and Garfunkel

Seasons in the Sun  - Terry Jacks, The Ray Conniff Singers

Secret Love  -  Doris Day 

Send in the Clowns

Send me the Pillow You Dream On  - Dean Martin

Separate Ways  - Elvis Presley

September Morn  - Neil Diamond

Seventy-Six Trombones

Shadows in the Moonlight  - Anne Murray

Shake You Down (I can give you all the lovin' you need...)  - Gregory Abbott  

She  - Paul Byrom 

She Believes in Me  - Kenny Rogers

Sherry  - Franki Valli & The Four Seasons

She's a Lady  - Tom Jones 

She's Like the Wind - Patrick Swayze

She Loves You  - The Beatles

Shimmy Shimmy Ko-Ko Pop  - Little Anthony & The Imperials

Shine On, Harvest Moon

(You are my) Shining Star  - The Manhattans

Shipmates and Cheyenne  - John Denver

Short Shorts

Sign of the Times  - Petula Clark

Since I Fell For You 

Sincerely  - The McGuire Sisters 

Sing, Sing a Song  - The Carpenters

Singin' in the Rain

Sixteen Going on Seventeen 

Sixteen Tons  - Tennessee Ernie Ford

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes  - The Platters 

Snowbird  Anne Murray

So In Love 

Softly As I Leave You

Solitary Man – Neil Diamond

Some Days are Diamonds (Some Days are Stones)  - John Denver

Some Enchanted Evening  - 

Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song  -  B. J. Thomas 

Somebody to Love – Jefferson Airplane

Someday My Prince Will Come 

Someone to Watch Over Me

Something (in the way she moves) – The Beatles, Elvis Presley

Something's Burning 

Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child 

Sometimes When We Touch  (the honesty's too much)  - Dan Hill 

Somewhere (there's a place for us)  -  Barbra Streisand 

Somewhere in the Night  - Barry Manilow

Somewhere There’s A Someone (for everyone) – Dean Martin

Somewhere Out There  - Linda Rondstadt and James Ingram

Song of Wyoming  - John Denver

Song Sung Blue  - Neil Diamond

Songbird  - Eva Cassidy

Sooner or Later (love’s gonna get ya) – The Grass Roots

Soul Food  (Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose) – Anita Baker

(You’re My) Soul & Inspiration  - The Righteous Brothers

Spanish Eyes

Speak Softly Love (from "The Godfather") - Andy Williams

Spirit  - John Denver 

Stand By Me  - Ben E. King

Standing on the Corner  (watching all the girls go by)  - The Four Lads, Dean Martin 

Stardust  - Nat King Cole

Starry, Starry Night (Vincent)

Stayin' Alive  - The Bee Gees

Steal Away  -  Celtic Thunder

Stop! In The Name of Love  -  The Supremes

Stormy Weather 

Straight From the Heart  -  Bryan Adams 

Stranger in Paradise 

Strangers In The Night 

Stuck in the Middle With You  - Stealers Wheel

Sugartime  - The McGuire Sisters

Sugar Moon  - Pat Boone

Sukiyaki

Summer Breeze (makes me feel fine)  - Seals & Crofts

Summer Wind

Summertime  (and the livin' is easy)  

Surfer Girl  - The Beach Boys

Sunday Will Never Be The Same  - Spanky & Our Gang

Sunrise, Sunset 

Sunshine on My Shoulders  - John Denver

Sunshine Superman  - Donovan

Suspicious Minds  - Elvis Presley 

Swanee  (How I Love You)

Sway  (dance with me)  - Dean Martin

Sweet Caroline  - Neil Diamond

Sweet Love  - Anita Baker

Sweet Seasons  - Carole King