Neil McCormick - musician and music critic for the Telegraph - recently listed, with comment, his 100 greatest popular songs of all time. "Any such list will always be personal rather than definitive," he wrote, "we all have songs that sing in our hearts."
Not only do we find the usual names from these sorts of lists - Bob Dylan, The Beatles, David Bowie, and so on - but also Vera Lynn, Chet Baker, Julie London, etc.
Way up there at the number 7 spot is a song from 1928: Louis Armstrong and "St. James Infirmary."
Ahhh, Neil, you are a man of taste.
Interested? Click HERE for the link.