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64 Songs You Need To Listen To If You're An Old Soul

I just like my music without autotune, ya know?

Brittany Kiss
Mar 30, 2017
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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64 Songs You Need To Listen To If You're An Old Soul
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I am convinced I was born in the wrong era. I like black and white movies, classic novels, timeless attire, and listening to my music on records- not the vinyls the kids get from Urban Outfitters, records. Ones that are scratchy and take a minute to catch. The kind that just sound more genuine and raw than the Spotify version. I’ve compiled a list of songs that you need to listen to if you’re like me and like that vintage feel. And if you’re not, you should listen to them anyway because they’re just classics.

1. "Can’t Buy Me Love" - The Beatles


2. "All Shook Up" -Elvis Presley


3. "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" -Marvin Gaye

4. "I’ll Be Seeing You" -Billie Holiday

5. "Eleanor Rigby" -The Beatles

6. "Fly Me To The Moon" -Frank Sinatra

7. "Summertime" -Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald


8. "Cherry Wine" -Esther Phillips

9. "Cold, Cold Heart" -Hank Williams

10. "Battle of New Orleans" -Johnny Horton

11. "New York, New York" -Duke Ellington

12. "At Last" -Etta James

13. "Mean to Me" -Sarah Vaughan

14. "Can't Help Falling In Love" -Elvis Presley

15. "Penny Lane" -The Beatles


16. "Lola" -The Kinks

17. "Live And Let Die" -Paul McCartney

18. "Dream A Little Dream Of Me" -Ella Fitzgerald

19. "Get Ready" -The Temptations

20. "Let’s Face the Music and Dance" -Fred Astaire

21. "The Candy Man" -Sammy Davis Jr.

22. "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" -The Beatles

23. "When I Fall In Love" -Nat King Cole

24. "Every Time We Say Goodbye" -Cole Porter

25. "Jailhouse Rock" -Elvis Presley

26. "They Can’t Take That Away From Me" -Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong

27. "Lavender Blue" -Sammy Turner

28. "Strange Fruit" -Billie Holiday

29. "Twist and Shout" -The Beatles

30. "(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear" -Elvis Presley

31. "Sugar Sugar" -The Archies

32. "I Fall In Love Too Easily" -Chet Baker

33. "Second Hand News" -Fleetwood Mac

34. "All of Me" -Billie Holiday


35. "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps" -Doris Day

36. "Never Going Back Again" -Fleetwood Mac

37. "He’s a Tramp" -Peggy Lee

38. "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" -Frank Sinatra

39. "La vie en rose" -Édith Piaf

40. "Easy Living" -Billie Holiday

41. "Go Your Own Way" -Fleetwood Mac

42. "He Touched Me" -Elvis Presley

43. "Cheek to Cheek" -Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong

44. "Somethin’ Stupid" -Frank Sinatra

45. "Secret Love" -Doris Day

46. "I Don’t Want To Know" -Fleetwood Mac

47. "Kokomo" -The Beach Boys


48. "A Sunday Kind Of Love" -Etta James

49. "That’s Amore" -Dean Martin

50. "Magic Moments" -Perry Como

51. "Hey Jude" -The Beatles

52. "Barbara Ann" -The Beach Boys

53. "L-O-V-E" -Nat King Cole

54. "I Put A Spell On You" -Nina Simone

55. "Volare" -Dean Martin

56. "Botch-A-Me" -Rosemary Clooney


57. "We’ll Meet Again" -Vera Lynn

58. "One For My Baby (And One More For the Road)" -Etta James

59. "Dancing In the Moonlight" -King Harvest

60. "Sway" -Dean Martin

61. "Mambo Italiano" -Dean Martin

62. "Is You Is Or Is You Ain’t My Baby" -Dinah Washington

63. "My Girl" -The Temptations

64. "Love Me Tender" -Elvis Presley


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