AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs is a list of the top 100 songs in American cinema of the 20th century. The list was unveiled by the American Film Institute on June 22, 2004, in a CBS television special hosted by John Travolta, who appeared in two films honored by the list, Saturday Night Fever and Grease. The list was created by a panel of jurors selected by AFI, who voted from a list of 400 nominated songs.^[1]

Most represented films

Singin' in the Rain, The Sound of Music, and West Side Story each have three songs on the list,^[2] while The Wizard of Oz, A Star Is Born (#11 & #16) from the 1954 and 1976 film versions, Funny Girl, and Meet Me in St. Louis each have two entries.

Most represented composers

• Richard Rodgers – 6 songs
• Harold Arlen – 5 songs
• Leonard Bernstein – 4 songs
• Jule Styne – 3 songs
• Irving Berlin – 3 songs
• George Gershwin – 3 songs
• Nacio Herb Brown – 3 songs
• John Kander – 3 songs
• Jerome Kern – 3 songs

Most represented lyricists

• Oscar Hammerstein II – 6
• Ira Gershwin – 4
• Irving Berlin – 3
• Stephen Sondheim – 3
• Arthur Freed – 3
• Fred Ebb – 3

Most represented singers

Judy Garland (also listed in first place for "Over the Rainbow") and Gene Kelly are tied with five songs each; all of Garland's songs and two of Kelly's are solos. Julie Andrews, Fred Astaire, Marni Nixon, and Barbra Streisand follow Garland and Kelly with four songs each. Astaire was co-credited for three out of his four songs listed, while Streisand performed all four of her songs by herself.

The list

References

External links

• AFI's list of the 400 nominated songs (PDF)