45s.com -- ASCAP's Top 25 Songs of the Century

The following is a list of the top 25 songs of the 20th Century, according to ASCAP.  The names shown are the names of the songwriters.

"As Time Goes By" (Herman Hupfeld)
"Blue Moon" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart)
"The Christmas Song" (Mel Torme, Robert Wells)
"Happy Birthday to You" (Mildred J. Hill, Patty Hill)
"Hello Dolly" (Jerry Herman)
"I Could Have Danced All Night" (Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lerner)
"I Got Rhythm" (George & Ira Gershwin)
"I Left My Heart in San Francisco" (Douglass Cross, George C. Corey, Jr.)
"I Only Have Eyes for You" ((Harry Warren, Al Dubin)
"Misty" (Erroll Garner, Johnny Burke")
"Moon River" (Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer)
"Night and Day" (Cole Porter)
"Over the Rainbow" (Harold Arlen, E.Y. "Yip" Harburg)
"Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David)
"Rhapsody in Blue" (George Gershwin)
"Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie)
"Stardust" (Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish)
"Sweet Georgia Brown" (Ben Bernie, Kenneth Casey, Maceo Pinkard)
"Tea for Two" (Irving Caesar, Vincent Youmans)
"That Old Black Magic" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer)
"Theme from the Three Penny Opera (Mack the Knife)" (Kurt Weill, Berthold Brecht, Marc Blitzstein)
"Unchained Melody" (Alex North, Hy Zaret)
"The Way We Were" (Marvin Hamlisch, Alan & Marilyn Bergman)
"White Christmas" (Irving Berlin)
"Winter Wonderland" (Felix Bernard, Richard B. Smith)

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