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Bob Dylan’s “Blowing in the Wind” is a significant song from his early career. Released in 1963 as part of *Freewheelin'*, it utilizes a distinctive triple-meter waltz rhythm. The lyrics address themes of peace and social justice, becoming an iconic protest anthem associated with the American civil...
“Norwegian Wood” is a Beatles’ waltz composed by John Lennon. Released on *Rubber Soul* in 1965, it stands out for its distinctive triple-meter rhythm and incorporation of sitar, an instrument relatively new to Western popular music at the time. The song's melancholic melody and innovative instrumen...
The title track of Bob Dylan's 1964 album, this waltz-time folk protest song became a generational anthem of social and political change in 1960s America.
A Lennon-McCartney ballad in waltz time from the 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, scored entirely for string orchestra with no rock instruments.
The waltz from Fiddler on the Roof comes from Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick's 1964 Broadway musical depicting Jewish life in a pre-revolutionary Russian shtetl, which ran for 3,242 performances.
Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick wrote this waltz for the 1964 Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof, where it accompanies Tzeitel's wedding ceremony in Act II.
Jimi Hendrix's 1967 track from Are You Experienced is one of rock's most prominent songs in 3/4 waltz time, built on a heavy blues-rock riff and drum groove.
Frederick Loewe composed and Alan Jay Lerner wrote lyrics for this number from the 1956 Broadway musical My Fair Lady, sung by Eliza Doolittle in Act I.
When I'm Sixty-Four is a waltz-influenced song written by Paul McCartney and recorded by The Beatles for their landmark 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
A traditional English melody documented from at least the late 16th century, often arranged in waltz time and popularly—but without firm evidence—attributed to Henry VIII.
A traditional English ballad of uncertain medieval origin, brought to worldwide attention by Simon and Garfunkel's 1966 arrangement on Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme.
Stephen Foster's last major song, published posthumously in 1864, is a waltz-time serenade considered one of his most lyrical and refined compositions.
The third piece of Tchaikovsky's Op. 42 set Souvenir d'un lieu cher (1878), originally written for violin and piano as a lyrical evocation of a cherished remembered place.
Waltzing Matilda is an Australian bush ballad with lyrics by A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson (1895) set to a melody adapted by Marie Cowan, widely regarded as Australia's unofficial national anthem.
Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones wrote this waltz-time opening number for The Fantasticks (1960), which went on to become the world's longest-running musical production.
John Denver wrote this waltz-time love song in 1974, reportedly inspired on a ski lift and dedicated to his wife Annie; it topped the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart.
Leaving on a Jet Plane was written by John Denver in 1966 and released by Peter, Paul and Mary in 1969, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and becoming one of Denver's signature songs.
Harry Dacre's 1892 music-hall waltz became a Victorian parlor standard and gained modern fame as the first song performed by a computer, an IBM 7094, in 1961.
Happy Birthday to You originated as 'Good Morning to All,' composed by Mildred and Patty Hill in 1893, and became the most widely recognized song in the English language.
Shine On Harvest Moon is a 1908 Tin Pan Alley waltz by vaudeville performers Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth that became one of the most enduring standards of early American popular music.
God Save the King is the British national anthem of uncertain origin, first publicly performed in London in 1745, and serves as the royal anthem for the United Kingdom and Commonwealth realms.
Back Home Again in Indiana, written by James F. Hanley and Ballard MacDonald in 1917, became an unofficial anthem of Indiana and a beloved jazz standard associated with the Indianapolis 500.
Toyland is a waltz song from Victor Herbert's 1903 operetta Babes in Toyland that became a perennial American Christmas season standard performed and recorded across many generations.
I Love You Truly is a parlor ballad composed by Carrie Jacobs-Bond in 1901 that became one of the most popular American wedding and sentimental songs of the early twentieth century.
Alice Blue Gown is the signature number from Harry Tierney and Joseph McCarthy's 1919 Broadway musical Irene, named for the distinctive pale blue color associated with Alice Roosevelt Longworth.
The waltz from Camelot is from Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner's 1960 Broadway musical based on T.H. White's Arthurian novel The Once and Future King, starring Richard Burton and Julie Andrews.
My Country 'Tis of Thee is a patriotic American hymn with lyrics written by Samuel Francis Smith in 1831, set to the same melody as the British national anthem God Save the King.
An English parlor song pairing a traditional melody with verses adapted from Ben Jonson's 1616 poem To Celia, long established as a choral and waltz standard.
The waltz from Brigadoon is from the 1947 Lerner and Loewe Broadway musical set in a mythical Scottish village that reappears for one day every hundred years, winning the Tony for Best Musical.
Down by the Old Mill Stream is a 1910 American parlor and barbershop song by Tell Taylor that became one of the most commercially successful songs of its decade and a barbershop staple.
