jimmydanger wrote:I've heard that The Beatle's "Yesterday" is the most covered song in history. I've also heard people like Burt Bacharach call it the greatest song ever written. I myself have recorded a cover of it and play it live occasionally and I always get a positive reaction. I don't believe there can be any such thing as one greatest song, but if I've got two cents that's it.
Sooo sorry, but Besame Mucho a Mexican song written in 1940 by Consuelo Velázquez before her sixteenth birthday. It is factually the most covered song on planet earth. Nearly every latin singer has covered it, that thousands right there. Great song BTW.
For me the greatest song is the one I can revisit a hundred times and never tired of it. It must pack emotional punch lyrically and have a dynamite melody. I would have to say, and you will not expect this, but, "Somewhere" from West Side Story, is the greatest song ever written. It is not all about rock and roll. Until all you young turks learn that, you are all just a bunch of guitarists or drummers or vocalists, or what have you. You can consider yourselves musicians when you know all music, from classical to rock to country to jazz, yes, jazz, the best music of all time. What you play came from what was before it; you owe your appreciation to people who are dead now, never forget it.