Chris Tong Music

PERSONAL FAVORITES. I’ve been singing many songs over the last few years — all of which I find beautiful. I’ve put together the following sampler of my "20 personal favorites", that gives a feeling for the very wide variety of songs and singing styles I’ve been exploring — from the semi-operatic (The Sound of Music), to pop/rock duets (The Time of My Life and Somewhere Out There), to Latin (Sway), to R&B (On the Wings of Love), to songs with great harmonies (Who Loves You and Scarborough Fair), to songs from the Great American Songbook (The Way You Look Tonight and Once Upon a Time), to Christmas songs (Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas), to the Beatles (I Want To Hold Your Hand), to songs from a wide range of artists, including the Bee Gees (How Deep Is Your Love), Huey Lewis (The Power of Love), Jim Croce (I‘ll Have To Say I Love You In A Song), Neil Diamond (Play Me), the Bay City Rollers (I Only Want to Be With You), Richard Marx (Right Here Waiting), Petula Clark (My Love), Fred Astaire (The Way You Look Tonight), and Tony Bennett (I Left My Heart in San Francisco).

For an amusing way of seeing just how diverse these songs/singing styles are, I've listed the songs with the singers who made them famous below. So here's the humorous exercise: pick a singer's name in the left column, and try to imagine them singing particular songs in the second column! (I'll start you off. . . Julie Andrews singing The Power of Love, Jim Croce singing Sway, Huey Lewis singing The Sound of Music, etc.)

1. Dean Martin / Michael Bublé		Sway
2. The Bee Gees		How Deep Is Your Love
3. Bill Medley (Righteous Brothers) & Jennifer Warnes		The Time of My Life (duet)
4. Simon and Garfunkel		Scarborough Fair
5. Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons		Who Loves You
6. Neil Diamond		Play Me
7. Bay City Rollers / Dusty Springfield		I Only Want To Be With You
8. Julie Andrews		The Sound of Music
9. Richard Marx		Right Here Waiting
10. The Beatles		I Want To Hold Your Hand
11. Tony Bennett		I Left My Heart In San Francisco
12. Jim Croce		I'll Have to Say I Love You In a Song
13. Frank Sinatra		Fly Me To The Moon
14. Huey Lewis & the News		The Power of Love
15. Linda Rondstadt & James Ingram		Somewhere Out There (duet)
16. Hugh Martin and Ralph Blaine		Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
17. Fred Astaire		The Way You Look Tonight
18. Frank Sinatra		Once Upon a Time
19. Jeffrey Osborne		On the Wings of Love
20. Petula Clark		My Love