I found an old sheet of paper with a genre break downs of songs - I guess an essentials list? - that I must have made. It comes out to 111, so I suppose it was finished. It also seems to be exclusively 20th century, and definitely all American. Anyway, here it is:
Hip Hop
Bring the Noise - Public Enemy
Walk This Way - Run DMC ft. Aerosmith
The Message - Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
Stan - Eminem
Straight Outta Compton - NWA
Gangsta's Paradise - Coolio ft. LV
Tell Mama - 2Pac
Juicy - Notorious B.I.G.
High Plains Drifter - Beastie Boys
Rapper's Delight - Sugarhill Gang
Doo Wop (That Thing) - Lauryn Hill
Planet Rock - Afrika Bambaataa
R&B and Soul
What'd I Say - Ray Charles
Respect - Aretha Franklin
A Change Is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke
Papa's Got a Brand New Bag - James Brown
P. Funk - Parliament
When Doves Cry - Prince
Superstition - Stevie Wonder
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - The Platters
Let's Stay Together - Al Green
What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
Billie Jean - Michael Jackson (??? - Not R&B...)
I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston
Rock
Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley
Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
Like a Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan
Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
Blitzkrieg Bop - Ramones
Me and Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin
Hotel California - The Eagles
Purple Haze - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley and the Comets
Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns n' Roses
You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling - The Righteous Brothers
Popular
Take Me Out to the Ball Game - Edward Meeker
God Bless America - Kate Smith
Stardust - Hoagy Carmichael
Blue Skies - Irving Berlin
You Are My Sunshine - Jimmie Davis
This Land Is Your Land - Woody Guthrie
White Christmas - Bing Crosby
The Charleston - James P. Johnson
People Get Ready - The Impressions (This should be switched with MJ, above)
You Keep Me Hangin' On - The Supremes (Also hard to justify...)
Stayin' Alive - The Bee Gees
Moon River - Johnny Mercer and Henry Mancini
Ain't Misbehavin' - Fats Waller
Musicals
Somewhere Over the Rainbow - Judy Garland
There's No Business Like Show Business - Ethel Merman
Oklahoma! - Rodgers and Hammerstein
America - Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim
The Way You Look Tonight - Fred Astaire
People - Barbara Streisand
One - Marvin Hamlisch and Edward Kleban
When You Wish Upon a Star - Cliff Edwards
Luck Be a Lady Tonight - Frank Loesser
Ol' Man River - Paul Robeson
Singin' in the Rain - Gene Kelly
Toot Toot Tootsie - Al Jolson
Anything Goes - Cole Porter
Jazz
Sing Sing Sing - Benny Goodman
In the Mood - Glen Miller
Giant Steps - John Coltrane
Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday
Summertime - Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
Mood Indigo - Duke Ellington
Milestones - Miles Davis
Yardbird Suite - Charlie Parker
The Entertainer - Scott Joplin
Lonely Woman - Ornette Coleman
Take Five - Dave Brubeck
Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
Blues and Folk
Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground - Blind Willie Johnson
In the Pines - Leadbelly
Hoochie Coochie Man - Muddy Waters
Hellhound on My Trail - Robert Johnson
Everyday I Have the Blues - Memphis Slim
Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out - Bessie Smith
I've Got That Old Feeling - Alison Krauss
House of the Rising Sun - Clarence Ashley
We Shall Overcome - Pete Seeger
Foggy Mountain Breakdown - Flatt and Scruggs
The Thrill is Gone - BB King
Country
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry - Hank Williams
Crazy - Patsy Cline
Blue Moon of Kentucky - Bill Monroe
In the Jailhouse Now - Jimmie Rodgers
Mama Tried - Merle Haggard
Pancho and Lefty - Townes van Zandt
Coat of Many Colors - Dolly Parton
Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain - Willie Nelson
Can the Circle Be Unbroken - The Carter Family
I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash
Man of Constant Sorrow - The Soggy Bottom Boys
Ethnic (Um...)
Mardi Gras in New Orleans - Professor Longhair
Volar a Puerto Rico - Willie Colon
El Cantante - Hector Lavoe
Ya Ya - Buckwheat Zydeco
All in all... Not a terrible list, really. Maybe even not bad.
Hip Hop
Bring the Noise - Public Enemy
Walk This Way - Run DMC ft. Aerosmith
The Message - Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
Stan - Eminem
Straight Outta Compton - NWA
Gangsta's Paradise - Coolio ft. LV
Tell Mama - 2Pac
Juicy - Notorious B.I.G.
High Plains Drifter - Beastie Boys
Rapper's Delight - Sugarhill Gang
Doo Wop (That Thing) - Lauryn Hill
Planet Rock - Afrika Bambaataa
R&B and Soul
What'd I Say - Ray Charles
Respect - Aretha Franklin
A Change Is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke
Papa's Got a Brand New Bag - James Brown
P. Funk - Parliament
When Doves Cry - Prince
Superstition - Stevie Wonder
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - The Platters
Let's Stay Together - Al Green
What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
Billie Jean - Michael Jackson (??? - Not R&B...)
I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston
Rock
Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley
Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
Like a Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan
Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
Blitzkrieg Bop - Ramones
Me and Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin
Hotel California - The Eagles
Purple Haze - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley and the Comets
Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns n' Roses
You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling - The Righteous Brothers
Popular
Take Me Out to the Ball Game - Edward Meeker
God Bless America - Kate Smith
Stardust - Hoagy Carmichael
Blue Skies - Irving Berlin
You Are My Sunshine - Jimmie Davis
This Land Is Your Land - Woody Guthrie
White Christmas - Bing Crosby
The Charleston - James P. Johnson
People Get Ready - The Impressions (This should be switched with MJ, above)
You Keep Me Hangin' On - The Supremes (Also hard to justify...)
Stayin' Alive - The Bee Gees
Moon River - Johnny Mercer and Henry Mancini
Ain't Misbehavin' - Fats Waller
Musicals
Somewhere Over the Rainbow - Judy Garland
There's No Business Like Show Business - Ethel Merman
Oklahoma! - Rodgers and Hammerstein
America - Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim
The Way You Look Tonight - Fred Astaire
People - Barbara Streisand
One - Marvin Hamlisch and Edward Kleban
When You Wish Upon a Star - Cliff Edwards
Luck Be a Lady Tonight - Frank Loesser
Ol' Man River - Paul Robeson
Singin' in the Rain - Gene Kelly
Toot Toot Tootsie - Al Jolson
Anything Goes - Cole Porter
Jazz
Sing Sing Sing - Benny Goodman
In the Mood - Glen Miller
Giant Steps - John Coltrane
Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday
Summertime - Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
Mood Indigo - Duke Ellington
Milestones - Miles Davis
Yardbird Suite - Charlie Parker
The Entertainer - Scott Joplin
Lonely Woman - Ornette Coleman
Take Five - Dave Brubeck
Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
Blues and Folk
Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground - Blind Willie Johnson
In the Pines - Leadbelly
Hoochie Coochie Man - Muddy Waters
Hellhound on My Trail - Robert Johnson
Everyday I Have the Blues - Memphis Slim
Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out - Bessie Smith
I've Got That Old Feeling - Alison Krauss
House of the Rising Sun - Clarence Ashley
We Shall Overcome - Pete Seeger
Foggy Mountain Breakdown - Flatt and Scruggs
The Thrill is Gone - BB King
Country
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry - Hank Williams
Crazy - Patsy Cline
Blue Moon of Kentucky - Bill Monroe
In the Jailhouse Now - Jimmie Rodgers
Mama Tried - Merle Haggard
Pancho and Lefty - Townes van Zandt
Coat of Many Colors - Dolly Parton
Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain - Willie Nelson
Can the Circle Be Unbroken - The Carter Family
I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash
Man of Constant Sorrow - The Soggy Bottom Boys
Ethnic (Um...)
Mardi Gras in New Orleans - Professor Longhair
Volar a Puerto Rico - Willie Colon
El Cantante - Hector Lavoe
Ya Ya - Buckwheat Zydeco
All in all... Not a terrible list, really. Maybe even not bad.
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