Thanks to YouTube we can listen to our favorite songs and renditions with just a click of a link. For opera arias go to Links to Video Performances of Great Arias.

• Show and movie songs:
  Memory
  Send in the Clowns [1] (Judy Collins), [2] (Barbra Streisand), [3] (Frank Sinatra), [4] (Sumi Jo), [5] (Ruthie Henshall), [6] (Sally Ann Howes), [7] (Cleo Laine)
  Music of the Night [1] (Colm Wilkinson), [2] (Luca Velletri), [3] (Michael Crawford), [4] (Peter Hofmann)
  Don't Cry For Me Argentina [1] (Jane Zhang). [2] (Elaine Paige), [3] (Marti Webb), [4] (Patti LuPone), [5] (Lea Salonga)
  I Dreamed a Dream [1] (Ruthie Henshall), [2] (Lea Salonga)
  Bring Him Home (Philip Quast)
  On My Own (Lea Salonga)
  As If We Never Said Goodbye [1] (Glenn Close), [2] (Barbra Streisand), [3] (Shirley Bassey)
  Something wonderful/Being alive [1] (Barbra Streisand), [2] (Lea Salonga)
  I Have Dreamed (Lea Salonga / Peabo Bryson)
  Ol' Man River [1] (William Warfield), [2] (Samuel Ramey), [3] (Paul Robeson)
  Make Believe (Kathryn Grayson / Howard Keel)
  Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (Patti Austin)
  Some Ehanted Evening(Ezio Pinza / Mary Martin)
  Younger than Springtime (Mandy Patinkin)
  If I Loved You [1] (Mario Lanza), [2] (Barbra Streisand)
  You'll Never Walk Alone [1] (Katherine Jenkins), [2] (Mario Lanza)
  Be My Love (Joseph Calleja / Tatiana Lisnic)
  Street Where You Live [1] (Placido Domingo), [2] (Nat King Cole)
  I Could Have Danced All Night [1] (Julie Andrews), [2] (Angela Gheorghiu)
  The Heart is slow to learn (Kiri te Kanawa)
  Climb Every Mountain (Kiri te Kanawa)
  Tonight [1] (Placido Domingo / Julia Migenes), [2] (Angela Gheorghiu / Roberto Alagna)
  I Could Have Danced All Night [1] (Birgit Nilsson), [2] (Angela Gheorghiu )
  The Lullaby of Broadway (Jerry Orbach)
  Camelot [1] (Richard Harris), [2] (Julie Andrews)
  Mack the Knife [1] (Lotte Lenya), [2] (Louis Armstrong), [3] (Ella fitzgerald), [4] (Dinah Shore / Pearl Bailey)
  The Blues in the Night (Rosemary Clooney)
  Stormy Weather (Lena Horne)
  Speak Low [1] (Anne Sofie von Otter), [2] (Barbra Streisand)
  When I Fall In Love [1] (Céline Dion), [2] (Nat King Cole)
  Born Free (Matt Monro, the British Sinatra)
  Goodnight My Someone (Kristin Chenoweth)
  Long Ago and Far Away [1] (Mario Lanza), [2] (Richard Tauber), [3] (Johnny Desmond)
  The Man I Love (Joyce DiDonato)

• Folk songs:
  Greensleeves (Paula Bär-Giese)
  The Volga Boatmen (Paul Robeson)
  Tumbalalaika (Dumbala Laika) (Pete Seeger / Ruth Rubin)
  O Mary, Don't You Weep (Pete Seeger, B.J. Reagon, Jean Ritchie)
  On the Sea of Galilee (Emmylou Harris / Peasall Sisters)
  Jackson (Johnny Cash / June Carter)
  Blow the Wind Southerly [1] (Kathleen Ferrier), [2] (Maureen Forrester)
  Adieu Angelina (Nana Mouskouri)
  Where has all the hair gone? [1] (Peter Paul and Mary), [2] (Marlene Dietrich)
  If I Had a Hammer (Peter Paul and Mary)
  Torna a Surriento (Luciano Pavarotti)
  Core 'ngrato [1] (Jose Carreras), [2] (Dmitri Hvorostovsky), [3] (a neapolitan singer), [4] (Francesco Valpa), [5] (Franco Corelli), [6] (Luciano Pavarotti), [7] (Placido Domingo), [8] (Ramón Vargas), [9] (Beniamino Gigli), [10] (Mario Lanza), [11] (Enrico Caruso)
  Marechiare (Beniamino Gigli)
  Mattinata (Jose Carreras)
  Those Evening Bells [1] (Nicolai Gedda), [2] (Ivan Rebroff)
  Little Bell (Dmitri Hvorostovsky)
  Moscow Nights (Dmitri Hvorostovsky)
  Kak molody my byli... (Dmitri Hvorostovsky)
  Dark Eyes (Ivan Rebroff)
  Slumber my darling (Alison Krauss)

• Religious songs:
  Panis Angelicus [1] (Elina Garanca), [2] (Renee Fleming), [3] (Luciano Pavarotti), [3] (Corelli Pio)
  Bach/Gounod, Ave Maria [1] (Renata Tebaldi), [2] (Kathleen Battle)
  Schubert, Ave Maria [1] (Lara Fabian), [2] (Luciano Pavarotti)
  Caccini, Ave Maria [1] (Inessa Galante), [2] (Sumi Jo)
  Liberame Domine, Verdi Requiem (Renee Fleming)
  Brahms Requiem - Mvt. 1 (Choir)
  Brahms Requiem - Mvt. 5 (Barbara Bonney)
  Amazing Grace [1] (Judy Collins), [2] (Mahalia Jackson), [3] (Elvis Presley)
  Like an Angel Passing Through My Room (Anne Sofie von Otter)
  Just a Closer with Thee (Mahalia Jackson)
  He's Got the Whole World in His Hands (Mahalia Jackson)
  He's Got The Whole World in His Hands [1] (Marian Anderson), [2] (Mahalia Jackson)
  Swing Low, Sweet Chariot [1] (Kathleen Battle), [2] (Beyonce), [3] (Etta James), [4] (Paul Robeson), [5] (Bill Medley), [6] (Dolly Parton), [7] (The Jordanaires)
  Swing Down Sweet Chariot (Elvis Presley)
  Exsultate Jubilate (Olga Peretyatko)
  Laudate Dominum (Genia Kühmeier)
  

• Art songs:
  Liebst du um Schönheit, Mahler (Monica Groop)
  An die Musik, Schubert [1] (Janet Baker), [2] (Elisabeth Schwarzkopf), [3] (Felicity Lott), [4] (Kathleen Ferrier), [5] (Erich Kunz), [6] (Thomas Quasthoff), [7] (Fritz Wunderlich)
  Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (Kathleen Ferrier)
  Die Junge Nonne, Schubert (Janet Baker)
  An die Musik (Elza van den Heever)

• Other songs:
  Plaisir d'amour [1] (Nana Mouskouri), [2] (Joan Baez), [3] (Catherine McKinnon), [4] (Beverly Sills), [5] (Jose van Dam)
  My Way (Shirley Bassey)
  Yesterday When I Was Young [1] (Charles Aznavour), [2] (Shirley Bassey), [3] (Elvis Presley), [4] (Nora Aunor), [5] (Glenn Campbell)
  Ti voglio tanto bene (Ion Buzea)
  Exultate Jubilate, Mozart (Erika Miklosa)
  Mandoline (Joyce DiDonato)
  Delilah (Tom Jones)
  Vocalise, Rachmaninoff (Kiri Te Kanawa)
  Cuius animam gementem, Stabat Mater [1] (Juan Diego Flórez), [2] (Lawrence Brownlee), [3] (Luciano Pavarotti), [5] (Dalmacio Gonzalez), [6] (Stephen Costello)
  Amarilli [1] (Cecilia Bartoli), [2] (Janet Baker)
  When a Man Loves a Woman (Michael Bolton)
  The Last Rose of Summer (Rita Streich)
  I will Always Love You [1] (Whitney Houston), [2] (Vince Gill / Dolly Parton)
  Time to Say Goodbye (Tito Beltran / Carola Häggkvist)
  Espana Rhapsody (Rebeca Olvera / Carry Persson)
  Alla Notte - Adagio (Miriam Stockley)
  L'Amore Sei Tu (I Will Always Love You) (Katherine Jenkins)
  Lile Marlene (Vera Lynn)
  Strangers In The Night (Vera Lynn)
  The Prayer (Chiara & Joseph Calleja)
  Laudate Dominum (Lucia Popp)
  Let the Bright Seraphim [1](Kiri te Kanawa), [2] (Kathleen Battle), [3] (Renee Fleming), [4] (Joan Sutherland), [5] (Beverly Sills), [6] (Danielle De Niese), [7] (Judith Blegen), [8] (Ingrid Kertesi), [9] (Edita Gruberova), [10] ()
  A Bach cantata (Emma Kirby)
  Vorrei Spiegarvi, o Dio! [1] (Natalie Dessay), [2] (Patricia Petibon), [3] (Diana Damrau), [4] (Judith Blegen), [5] (Edita Gruberová), [6] (Sumi Jo), [7] (Reri Grist)

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