WHET signature songs?

Don Rickles - The Matador

I can't think of anyone alive with a signature song.

"Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours" — Stevie Wonder

Everyone is trash now. Skanks with skanky songs

All I want for Christmas-Mariah Carey? Raise Your Glass-Pink?

Bad Romance.

Friday

Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk, maybe?

Bobby Darin’s Mack the Knife

Sinatra’s My Way

Jerry Lewis singing Smile

Judy’s Over the Rainbow

Marlene Dieterich’s See What the Boys in the Backroom Will Have

Dame Vera Lynn’s There’ll Always Be an England

Kate Smith’s When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain

Heaven Is A Place On Earth

Girls Just...

Cardi B has 'WAP'.

Love in Bloom, Jack Benny

Everything's Coming Up Roses, Jack Parr

Once in Love with Amy, Ray Bolger

Donald Trump - YMCA (picture him non-rhythmically dancing with that overbite)

Duh! I have 15 signature song which are loved by my fans!

Brandy: I Wanna Be Down, Baby, Sittin' Up In My Room, The Boy Is Mine

Toni Braxton: Another Sad Love Song, Breathe Again, You Mean The World To Me, You Makin' Me High, Unbreak My Heart, He Wasn't Man Enough

Monica: Miss Thang, The Boy Is Mine

[quote] Dame Vera Lynn’s There’ll Always Be an England

On what planet is that Dame Vera's signature hit?! That title definitely belongs to a little song called "We'll Meet Again".

Babs: People, The Way We Were, Ageless and Evergreen, Papa Can You Bear Me?

Jen Holiday, And I'm Tellin' You I'm Not Goin'

Petula- Downtown

Connie Francis - Where The Boys Are

There's No Business Like Show Business, Ethel Merman

The Cuckoo Song, Laurel & Hardy

Funeral March of a Marionette, Alfred Hitchcock

Elizabeth Taylor- The Wedding March

R15 Doesn’t understand the question and he won’t answer it.

Dean Martin That’s Amoré

Madonna: Like A Virgin

Whitney: I Will Always Love You

Britney: Hit Me Baby One More Time

Prince: Doves Cry

Boy George: Do You Really Want To Hurt Me

Bing Crosby White Christmas

Tiny Tim Tiptoe Through the Tulips

The only one I can think of from the last several decades is Time After Time by Cyndi Lauper.

Dame Shirley Bassey - Goldfinger

Sir Tom Jones - It's Not Unusal

Lulu's "To Sir, With Love"

Patti LuPone and "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina"

Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline" but for a long time it was "America"

"People" was considered Barbra's signature song until the 1980s or so, I don't think it is anymore, no one remembers it

Wayne Newton and "Danke Schoen"

Jennifer Holiday and Jennifer Hudson: And I’m Telling You I’m not Leaving

Elaine Stritch: Ladies Who Lunch

Gladys Knight and Midnight Train to Georgia.

Yes, I know she sang it with The Pips but most people think of it as a Gladys Knight song.

Ricky Valens: La Bamba

Chubby Checker: The Twist

Tammy Wynette: Stand by Your Man

I’d say Like a Prayer is Madonna’s

Dolly Parton - Thanks for the mammaries

We’ve been discussing this.

Boyaaka 619 - Rey Mysterio

Madonna: Vogue or Like a Prayer

Rihanna: Umbrella or Stay

Lady Gaga: Bad Romance or Poker Face

Taylor: Shake It Off or Love Story

Adele: Someone Like You or Hello

Whitney: I Will Always Love You or The Greatest Love of All

Bey: Single Ladies or Crazy in Love

I'll cover some of the other bases...

Snoop Dogg: What's My Name

Nas: NY State Of Mind

The Notorious B.I.G.: Big Poppa

2Pac: California Love

Jay-Z: Empire State Of Mind

Eminem: Debatable... My Name Is or Cleaning Out My Closet

50 Cent: In Da Club

Lil Wayne: A Milli

Drake: Hotline Bling (debatable)

Kendrick Lamar: King Kunta (but should be Swimming Pools or m.a.a.d. City)

R30 meet r18 so you can get the title right.

Billy Joel Piano Man

Dee Dee Sharp Mashed Potato Time

Roy Orbison Pretty Woman

Liza Cabaret

Ol Blue Eyes has two fairly strong contenders, r8

Tony Bennett - 'I Left My Heart in San Francisco'

Mary Martin - 'My Heart Belongs to Daddy'

Anthony Newley - 'What Kind of Fool Am I?'

Charlie Brown - Linus and Lucy

DMX: Stayin’ Alive.

Rainbow Connection- Kermit the Frog

Inkadoo- Jimmy Durante

Happy Days Are Here Again, FDR

Missouri Waltz, HST

Hello Lyndon, LBJ (should be Waist Deep in the Big Muddy)

r39, NY State of Mind is MINE!

Janis Joplin: Piece of My Heart or Me And Bobby McGee

Rob Zombie: Dragula

Miley Cyrus: Wrecking Ball

Christina Aguilera: Beautiful

Cher: Believe or If I Could turn Back Time

Janet Jackson - Rhythm Nation

Sia - Chandelier

Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U

Jeff Stryker - “Pop You In The Pooper”

Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On

Ray Charles, "What'd I Say"

Smile, Charlie Chaplin

Bubbles in the Wine, Lawrence Welk

Moon River, Andy Williams

Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights

Bob Dylan - Like a rolling stone

Michael Jackson - Billie Jean

Prince - Purple rain

I would say Cloudbursting is Kate’s signature song.

Don Ho - Tiny Bubbles

Release Me - Englebert Humperdinck

We've Only Just Begun - Carpenters

Love Will Keep Us Together - Captain & Tennille

Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana

Chances Are - Johnny Mathis

Heart of Glass - Blondie

Blitzkrieg Bop - The Ramones

God Save the Queen - The Sex Pistols

I Am Woman - Helen Reddy

[quote] There's No Business Like Show Business, Ethel Merman

You could argue that Merman had 3 signature songs.

Early in her career it was 'I Got Rhythm'.

Then it became "Everything's Comin' Up Roses", which she sang at two presidential inauguration galas and in the spoof of herself in the movie AIRPLANE!

Finally the aforementioned 'Show Business', which she did not really introduce (it was sung to her in ANNIE GET YOUR GUN; she had only two lines, one of which was "There's no business like show business if you tell me it's so") but became widely associated with her because she sang it in the movie by the same name in 1954.

Madonna's is actually "MateriaLl Girl" (which is how she sued to always, ALWAYS be referred to on MTV and VH1), but she hates that that song is associated with her and disavows it.

I always thin k it's cool that the song orchestras always play for awards shows when Meryl Streep is ushered on is almost always "I See Me" from DEATH BECOMES HER. It's a hilarious song, but it's also kind of catchy as something for an orchestra to play in that situation.

I always associate Dick Cavett with the overture to Candide.

R24 , Dean Martin's hit was EVERYBODY LOVES SOMEBODY SOMETIME .

Madonna's had tons of hits but she doesn't really have a signature song. We've discussed this on DL before.

You Light Up My Life

HELLO DOLLY !!!

Madonna - Like a virgin

R56 Cloudbusting is my favourite Kate Bush song but I’ve found it’s not well known among non-fans. On the other hand, Wuthering Heights and Running Up That Hill most definitely are, and either one is a signature—probably Wuthering Heights for its utter uniqueness

Gaga - Born this way

Miley - Wrecking Ball

Janet Jackson - Together Again

R68 For many of us in the US, and I’m the one who said Cloudbursting, Wuthering Heights is a Pat Benatar song. And once you’ve seen the Kate’s video for Cloudbursting it becomes indelible with her.

Luther Vandross - Never too much

Dionne Warwick - Say a little prayer

Diana Ross - Ain’t no mountain high enough

[quote] Madonna's had tons of hits but she doesn't really have a signature song. We've discussed this on DL before.

Mary, get OVER yourself.

You did not decide it for all time, nor does anyone give a shit as to what was said in a previous thread.

R71 It’s cloudbusting

^Haha BIG fail for a so called Kate Bush fan

R73 The fact that FOUR different songs have already been mentioned in this thread as her supposed signature hit is the best proof that she doesn't have one definitive one.

[quote]I always associate Dick Cavett with the overture to Candide.

R62,As you probably already know, "Glitter and Be Gay" was the theme song for the Dick Cavett Show.

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

John Denver - Take me home, Country Roads

Yackety Sax, Benny Hill

A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody, Bess Myerson

Melancholy Serenade, Jackie Gleason

Vicki Lawrence The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia

Carol Burnett - I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together

Steve Allen - This Could be the Start of Something Big

Liza - New York, New York

Kitty Carlisle wanted "Love in Bloom" as her signature song.

My neck, my back, lick my pussy and my crack

Khia

Gloria Gaynor I Will Survive

Village People YMCA

Sister Sledge We Are Family

Donna Summer Last Dance (even though I Feel Love was appropriated by the entire techno movement).

Liza has two: New York, New York and Cabaret

Barbra has three: People, Don't Rain on My Parade, and The Way We Were. (Evergreen and Papa can You hear Me?, which someone listed above, have not really lingered like the other songs have.)

Julie Andrews: A Spoonful of Sugar, The Sound of Music, Wouldn't It Be Loverly?

Patti LuPone: Don't Cry for Me, Argentina

Betty Buckley: Memory

Jennifer Holiday: And I Am Telling You

Adele Nazeem: Let it Go and Defying Gravity

I've been told this is my signature song, but I've never sung it, so i don't know why.

CeCe Peniston, "Finally"

Haddaway, "What is Love?"

Crystal Waters, "Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless)"

Cathy Dennis, "Touch Me (All Night Long)"

Lisa Stansfield, "All Around the World"

C+C Music Factory, "Gonna Make You Sweat"

I don't think a band can have a signature song--I think only a person can.

Marlene Dietrich always had "La vie en rose" played when she walked on at concerts, although I would have thought she was more associated with both "Lili Marleen" or "Falling in Love Again." But the former is a march (and not romantic), and the latter is too sad.

Wherever she appeared, Hedy Lamarr would walk on to the strains of "The Most beautiful Girl in the World" (Richard Rodgers', not Prince's) because that was the appellation her studio promoted her under.

Aretha - Respect

James Brown - I feel good

Lens = The Alfred Hitchcock theme as warbled by Beaky Buzzard.

Goot Eve-a-ning

Elton John - Your song

Billy Joel - Piano man

Barry Manilow - Mandy

Olivia Newton John - Xanadu

Venus Williams, Save the Best for Last

r98, I bet you're British or European. "Xanadu" was much bigger across the Atlantic than it was in the US.

I think her US audience would say her signature songs are more likely her #1 hits here: "I Honestly Love You," "Have You Never Been Mellow," "Magic" and "Physical" (the latter an enormous hit in the US), and her duets from "Grease" with Travolta, "Summer Nights" and "You're the One That I Want."

"Let Me Be There," "If You Love Me (Let Me Know)," "Please Mr. Please," "Hopelessly Devoted to You," and even "Make a Move on Me," "Heart Attack," and "Twist of Fate" all did better than "Xanadu" did in the US.

Ethel sang the reprise of ...Show Business by herself, later in the show.

It's Glitter and Be Gay for Cavett. GABG is used in the Candide Overture but Cavett didn't use anything else from that. Just GABG.

Robert Goulet: If Ever I Would Leave You

Bobbie Gentry: Ode to Billie Joe

Righteous Brothers: Unchained Melody

R100 Xanadu is a gay anthem and a DL fave whereas Physical is an embarassment.

Freak Like Me for Adina Howard, the Duchess of Hip Hop Soul.

"Bonnie Raitt For The Thing Called Love", Bonnie Raitt

"My Heart Will Go On", Celine Delon

"This Will Be", Natalie Cole

Richard Tauber - Wien, du Stadt meiner Träume

Fritzi Scheff - Kiss Me Again

Walter Huston - September Song

Louis Armstrong - Hello Dolly

Mistinguett - Mon Homme

Piaf - Mon Homme

Fanny Brice - My Man (aka Mon Homme)

You So Vain for Carly Simon

Waltzing Matilda, Australia

Achy Breaky Heart for Billie Ray Cyrus

If You Love Me for Brownstone

Constant Cravin' for KDLang

Back and Forth for Aaliyah

Lady Marmalade for Patti LaBelle

Summertime for Fantasia

Since U Bin Gone for Kelly

Jody Watley - Looking for a new love

Peabo Bryson - If ever you’re in my arms again

James Ingram - Just once

Freddie Jackson - Rock me tonight

Jeffrey Osborne - Love ballad

QE II - God Save the Queen

Barry White - You’re the first, the last, my everything

Isaac Hayes - Theme from Shaft

Curtis Mayfield - Move on up

Teddy Pendergrass - The whole town’s laughing at me

Shirley Brown - Woman to woman

Betty Wright - Clean up woman

Jean Carne - Don’t let it go to your head

Phyllis Hyman - You know how to love me

Anita Baker - Sweet love

Tori Amos - Silent all these years

Tony Orlando - Tie a Yellow Ribbons Round the Old Oak Tree

Ringo Starr - With a Little Help From My Friends

Tony Bennett - I Left My Heart in San Francisco

Connie Francis -Who's Sorry Now

No More Drama for the Queen of Hip Hop Soul, Miss Mary J. Blige

R117. Haha that’s a late album

Bette Davis - “I’ve Written A Letter To Daddy”

Joan Crawford - “Two-Faced Woman” (in blackface, dubbed)

Faye Dunaway - the Lloyd Webber show, whatever songs

Helen Reddy: I am Woman.

JLo - Jenny from the Block

"Molly, You In Danger, Gurl", Whoopi Goldberg's smash number one hit from the "Ghost" OST.

Bee Gees - Stayin Alive

Andy Gibb - Shadow dancing

Mary Wilson -

(Uh, um, er....never mind! LOL)

Miss Ross at R124, I thought Mary! 's signature was "Dirty Diana".

Everyone’s favorite Madonna song is ‘Live to Tell’

We Got The Beat...

[quote] [R100] Xanadu is a gay anthem and a DL fave

That has nothing to do with anything when talking about someone's signature song--sorry.

Spice Girls "Wannabe"

Tina Turner - Simply the Best

Tina Turner - What’s love got to do with it

Can't wait for the Bette Middler fan saying she is the best Signature Songs artist, whatever that means.

And you can’t even spell her name lol

r116, my Connie Francis signature song is "Everybody's Somebody's Fool."

Sonny and Cher - I Got You, Babe

Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Waters

Jimmy Eat World - The middle

George Burns "Love Nest"

Nora Bayes - Shine on Harvest Moon

Alice Faye - You'll Never Know

Judy - Not only Over the Rainbow but also The Man That Got Away

John Prine - Hobo song

Peter, Paul & Mary... Puff the Magic Dragon.

Born Free (and died too young), Matt Monro

Patti Page "Tennessee Waltz"

Pat Boone "April Love"

Rosemary Clooney "Come on-a My House"

Elton John : either Your Song or Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Bee Gees: You Should Be Dancing or Stayin Alive

Donna Summer: Last Dance or She Works Hard For The Money

Carpenters: We've Only Just Begun

Billy Joel: Piano Man

Supremes: Stop! In The Name Of Love

Diana Ross: Ain't No Mountain High Enough

Nancy Sinatra, Jr: - These Boots Are Made for Walkin'

Jerry Lee Lewis: Great Balls of Fire

Lynn Anderson: Rose Garden

Glen Campbell: Rhinestone Cowboy

Paul Robson: Ol’ Man River

Helen Morgan: Bill

John Raitt: Soliloquy

Bonnie Franklin: Applause

Maurice Chevalier: Thank Heaven for Little Girls

Ed Ames: The Impossible Dream

Judy Garland: The Trolley Song, The Boy Next Door, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

Elvis Presley: Hound Dog

Harry Belafonte: Day O!

The Day the Rains Came, Jane Morgan

With a Song in My Heart, Jane Froman

Georgy Girl, Judith Durham

Kylie Minogue: Can't Get You Out Of My Head

Kylie - I should be so lucky

Lotte Lenya - Pirate Jenny

Kirsten Flagstad - Ho Jo To Ho!

I like how sometimes a song has a signature person instead!

Julie London: Cry Me A River

God, this is great.

Grace Jones: Slave To The Rhythm and her version of La Vie En Rose.

Enya: Orinoco Flow

The B-52s: Love Shack

Such varied and great responses. Some artists, like Garland, can have more than one signature song and some songs, like My Man/Mon Homme, can be signatures for more than one artist.

Doris Day: Que Sera, Sera

Johnny Mathis: Chances Are

Pia Zadora....uh....

Pia Zadora doesn’t have a signature song, she does have a signature phrase though: “She’s in the attic!”

Modern English: I Melt With You.

btw - The band did it separated while in quarantine last summer. Still sound great.

Actually, Pia Zadora has a signature song which she shares with Jermaine Jackson.

Helen Lawson: I'll Plant My Own Tree

Boppity bop!

Sammy Davis Jr. The Candy Man, What Kind of Fool Am I?

Al Jolson: MAMMY!

Debbie Reynolds: Tammy

PULEEEEEZE RELEASE ME, LETTTT ME GO...

The smell of fossils on this thread is overwhelming.

As is an infant's inability to control their shitting, R167

We can smell your diaper from here.

TLC Waterfalls

Edith Piaf "La Vie en Rose"

Non, je ne regrette rien, Edith Piaf

Stranger on the Shore, Acker Bilk

Sixteen Tons, Tennessee Ernie Ford

Fever, Peggy Lee

Jim Reeves - Hell have to go

^He’ll

Bing Crosby - White Christmas

Jambalaya On the Bayou, Hank Williams

Ring of Fire, Johnny Cash

Wichita Lineman, Glenn Campbell

This Land Is Your Land, Woody Guthrie

[quote] Bing Crosby - White Christmas

Although 'White Christmas' was his best selling song, for obvious reasons, Crosby did not open his radio show with 'White Christmas'. Instead, he used "Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day)"

[quote] By 1936, he replaced his former boss, Paul Whiteman, as host of the weekly NBC radio program Kraft Music Hall, where he remained for the next ten years. "Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day)," with his trademark whistling, became his theme song and signature tune.