Customer Reviews

The Best Songs Ever, 7th Edition (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook)

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Excellent selection of favourites. It contains:

A String Of Pearls

A Time For Us (Love Theme)

A Whole New World (Aladdin's Theme)

All I Ask Of You

All The Things You Are

Always

Bewitched

Blue Skies

Body And Soul

Born Free

Call Me Irresponsible

Can You Feel The Love Tonight

Can't Help Falling In Love

Chariots Of Fire

Climb Ev'ry Mountain

Crazy

Don't Cry For Me Argentina

Edelweiss

Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words)

Georgia On My Mind

Here's That Rainy Day

How Deep Is The Ocean (How High Is The Sky)

I Left My Heart In San Francisco

I Write The Songs

I'll Be Seeing You

Imagine

Isn't It Romantic?

It Might As Well Be Spring

Just The Way You Are

Let It Be

Love Me Tender

Lullaby Of The Leaves

Memory

Mona Lisa

Mood Indigo

Moon River

Moonglow

Moonlight In Vermont

More (Ti Guardero' Nel Cuore)

My Favorite Things

My Funny Valentine

Ol' Man River

On The Street Where You Live

People

Piano Man

Satin Doll

Save The Best For Last

September Song

Some Day My Prince Will Come

Somewhere Out There

Spanish Eyes

Speak Softly, Love (Love Theme)

Star Dust

Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All The Time)

Strangers In The Night

Tears In Heaven

The Girl From Ipanema (Garota De Ipanema)

The Lady Is A Tramp

The Rainbow Connection

The Sound Of Music

The Way We Were

Three Coins In The Fountain

Unchained Melody

Unforgettable

What A Wonderful World

What Kind Of Fool Am I?

When I Fall In Love

When You Wish Upon A Star

Where Do I Begin (Love Theme)

Yesterday

You've Got A Friend

Your Song

This book has a wonderful selection of songs and the music in it is not too difficult. The music is complicated enough to sound good, but easy enough for not-so-talented people such as myself to be able to play it. With piano, guitar, and vocal music it's great for people with various musical backgrounds.

This collections of over 70 songs includes not only the lyrics, but music for piano and guitar as well. This book has been useful for me several times, such as when needing a song to sing at an audition or for an improvised, non-rehearsed performance. Some of the songs include:

All I Ask of You

Blue Skies

Can You Feel the Love Tonight

Climb Ev'ry Mountain

Imagine

The Lady Is a Tramp

Let It Be

Love Me Tender

Memory

My Favorite Things

My Funny Valentine

Ol' Man River

Piano Man

The Rainbow Connection

Somewhere Out There

Star Dust

Unchained Melody

When I Fall in Love

A Whole New World

Yesterday

This is just a small list because there are a total of 73 songs. A great song book.

I play for my own enjoyment and this book is great! It's easy playing and you sound like a pro. I highly recommend it.

This book is overloaded with broadway tunes. I would like more variety in the selections. Hal threw in a few Beatle tunes for variety. Could use more movie tracks and popular songs outside of the New York circle.
There are a lot of songs in this book that I don't like or don't like enough to want to play them.
The book is well made and the music is not terribly difficult. The words, vocal line, and cords are provided along with the piano line. Arrangements are mediocre.

If you want to play like the pianist in a good restaurant, this is for you. The arrangements have a sophisticated sound without being terribly difficult. Most players need maybe five years of lessons/experience to handle them readily. And, usually the book lies flat on the music rack,

This is a good book with a lot of good selections of popular songs. However, I wish it was in a ring binder because it is difficult to keep it open. And like one of the other reviewers I would have liked to have seen a few more up to date songs and less Broadway songs. The songs that are in it are enjoyable to play and they do make you sound like a pro which makes me happy as it is so easy for me to NOT sound like a pro. An enjoyable book that I would recommend.

Love the songs in this book. Most are easy arrangements, a few require some practice for the leisure pianist. Definitely recommend it.

It's a struggle for me to read music. I play piano mostly by ear, mainly for my own entertainment, and use written music to determine the difficult chord progressions. "The Best Songs Ever by Hal Leonard Corporation" provided the easy to read music and the perfect songs within my experience and age group to learn. To help me along I used the book in combination with a basic keyboard chord dictionary for fingering, keyboard diagrams and varying style progressions. I enjoy the learning process much more than I imagined using "The Best Songs..." I plan to learn a song a month for a year. We'll see how that goes. If the above reflects what you'd like, I certainly reccomend this book.

I enjoy this book. It has a good variety of old songs so would surely suit most anyone who enjoys playing older songs....I would buy it again!!