The Best Ballads of All Time
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- The Beatles
- The Righteous Brothers
- 3The Beatles
- 4
The Sounds of Silence, Simon and Garfunkel
- 5
Bridge Over Troubled Water, Simon and Garfunkel
- Judy Garland
Judy Garland
- 7
Have You Ever Seen the Rain
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Patsy Cline
- 9
Stairway to Heaven
Led Zeppelin - 10The Beatles, George Harrison
- The Beatles
- 12
Hey Jude
The Beatles - The Beatles
- 14
Oh, Pretty Woman, Roy Orbison
- The Plastic Ono Band, John Lennon, The Flux Fiddlers
- 16Cyndi Lauper
- 17
What a Wonderful World
k.d. lang, Tony Bennett - Neil Young, Stray Gators
- The Beatles
- The Temptations, Smokey Robinson
- 21Foreigner
- 22
Total Eclipse of the Heart
Bonnie Tyler - 23
Are You Lonesome Tonight, Elvis Presley
- Simon and Garfunkel
- Dolly Parton
- Lesley Gore
- The Beatles
- Roy Orbison
- Simon and Garfunkel, Paul Simon
- 30The Rolling Stones
- The Everly Brothers
- 32
Happy Together, The Turtles
- 33
Baby I Need Your Lovin’, The Four Tops
- The Beatles
- The Beatles
- 36
Wonderful World
Otis Redding - The Beatles
- The Who
- 39
Only the Lonely, Roy Orbison
- Paul McCartney
- The Beatles
- 42
Michelle, The Beatles
- The Flamingos
- The Association
- 45
Never My Love
The Association - The Beatles
- 47
In My Room, The Beach Boys
- 48
Earth Angel, The Penguins
- 49
This Is My Song, Petula Clark
- The Motels
- 51
Oh Donna, Ritchie Valens
- 52
Michelle, The Beatles
- 53
Surfer Girl, The Beach Boys
- John Lennon, Paul McCartney
The Beatles
- The Beach Boys, The Everly Brothers
- 56
The Sounds of Silence
Joe Locke - We Five
- 58
Nowhere Man, The Beatles
- 59
Surfer Girl, The Beach Boys
- 60
You Can't Always Get What You Want
The Rolling Stones