http://www.tabletmag.com/arts-and-culture/music/53984/songs-of-songs/

1. “Over the Rainbow” (1939)
2. “Hava Nagila” (1918)
3. “Highway 61 Revisited” (1965)
4. “Kol Nidre” (13th century)
5. “Hatikvah” (1888)
6. “My Mammy” (1918)
7. “Shema Yisrael” (19th century)
8. “White Christmas” (1942)
9. “Be My Baby” (1963)
10. “I Got Rhythm” (1930)
11. “Adon Olam” (11th century)
12. “God Bless America” (1938)
13. “The Internationale” (1871)
14. “Blitzkrieg Bop” (1976)
15. “Avinu Malkeinu” (1st century)
16. “Strange Fruit” (1936)
17. “In My Country There Is Problem (Throw the Jew Down the Well)” (2004)
18. “My Funny Valentine” (1937)
19. “Eli, Eli” (1896)
20. “I’m Against It” (1932)
21. “Ol’ Man River” (1927)
22. “If I Were a Rich Man” (1964)
23. “Oseh Shalom” (1974)
24. “Der Heyser Bulgar” (1923)
25. “Hallelujah” (1981)
26. “On Broadway” (1963)
27. “Summertime” (1935)
28. “Lekha Dodi” (16th century)
29. “Bei Mir Bist Du Shein” (1932)
30. “What the World Needs Now Is Love” (1965)
31. “Dayeinu” (9th century)
32. “I Wanna Be Black” (1978)
33. “Somewhere” (1957)
34. “Im Nin’alu” (1968)
35. “Walk This Way” (1986)
36. “The Way We Were” (1973)
37. “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” (1948)
38. “Rozhinkes mit Mandlen” (1882)
39. “Mayim Mayim” (1946)
40. “Nature Boy” (1947)
41. “Some of These Days” (1910)
42. “Rumania” (1925)
43. “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman” (1966)
44. “Los Bilbilicos” (Medieval Spain)
45. “Talkin’ Hava Negiliah Blues” (1963)
46. “Hound Dog” (1952)
47. “Tzena, Tzena” (1951)
48. “There’s No Business Like Show Business” (1946)
49. “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling” (1964)
50. “Lechi Lach” (1986)
51. “Mein Shtetele Belz” (1932)
52. “September Song” (1938)
53. “No Sleep Till Brooklyn” (1987)
54. “Ich Hob Dich Tzu Fil Lieb” (1934)
55. “I Say a Little Prayer” (1967)
56. “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” (1932)
57. “I Have a Little Dreidel” (20th century)
58. “Hallelujah” (1979)
59. “Oifn Pripitchik” (1899)
60. “America” (1980)
61. “You’re So Vain” (1972)
62. “Manhattan” (1925)
63. “La Rosa Enflorece” (16th century)
64. “Popcorn” (1969)
65. “Exodus (This Land Is Mine)” (1960)
66. “Yo Ya” (1973)
67. “The Chanukah Song” (1994)
68. “Copacabana” (1978)
69. “Je T’aime … Moi Non Plus” (1969)
70. “Yidl Mitn Fidl” (1936)
71. “My Yiddishe Mamme” (1925)
72. “Yerushalayim Shel Zahav” (1967)
73. “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” (1908)
74. “Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter From Camp)” (1963)
75. “Flash Light” (1977)
76. “Still Crazy After All These Years” (1975)
77. “Shir LaShalom” (1969)
78. “Pata Pata” (1967)
79. “King Without a Crown” (2004)
80. “Di Griene Cusiene” (1920s)
81. “Ray of Light” (1998)
82. “Tumbalalaika”
83. “Rehab” (2006)
84. “A Brivele Der Mammen” (1932)
85. “Rock and Roll All Nite” (1975)
86. “They Ain’t Making Jews Like Jesus Anymore” (1974)
87. “Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song)” (1977)
88. “Od Yavo Shalom Aleinu” (1998)
89. “Dunkin’ Bagel” (1946)
90. “Funkytown” (1980)
91. “Bashana Haba’ah” (1968)
92. “Second Hand Rose” (1921)
93. “I’ve Gotta Be Me” (1968)
94. “Neighborhood Bully” (1983)
95. “Eli’s Coming” (1968)
96. “National Brotherhood Week” (1965)
97. “This Undoing World” (1997)
98. “Dixie Flyer” (1988)
99. “Joseph, Joseph” (1923)
100. “Loser” (1993)

would this even be eligible?

It could be eligible, but then I need to get every non-Jewish song blanked. To decide which songs are Jewish and not is a too heavy task for me, I would probably have to look up the ethnoreligious group of almost every artist.

Funniest entry by far has to be White Christmas :-)

No Spirit In The Sky?

Most of this list is going by artist though, but is songwriter-based. Judy Garland wasn't Jewish, but Harold Arlen was. Beck is a well-known Scientologist. If you disregard songwriting credits & traditional anthems, the list gets shorter.


3. “Highway 61 Revisited” (1965) - Bob Dylan
6. “My Mammy” (1918) - Al Jolson
14. “Blitzkrieg Bop” (1976) - Ramones
17. “In My Country There Is Problem (Throw the Jew Down the Well)” (2004) - Sasha Baron Cohen
20. “I’m Against It” (1932) - The Marx Brothers
22. “If I Were a Rich Man” (1964) - Zero Mostel
23. “Oseh Shalom” (1974) - Nurit Hirsh
25. “Hallelujah” (1981) - Leonard Cohen
32. “I Wanna Be Black” (1978) - Lou Reed
36. “The Way We Were” (1973) - Barbara Streisand
41. “Some of These Days” (1910) - Sophie Tucker
45. “Talkin’ Hava Negiliah Blues” (1963) - Bob Dylan
53. “No Sleep Till Brooklyn” (1987) - Beastie Boys
58. “Hallelujah” (1979) - Gali Atari and Milk & Honey
60. “America” (1980) - Neil Diamond
61. “You’re So Vain” (1972) - Carly Simon
64. “Popcorn” (1969) - Gershon Kingsley
66. “Yo Ya” (1973) - Poogy
67. “The Chanukah Song” (1994) - Adam Sandler
68. “Copacabana” (1978) - Barry Manilow
69. “Je T’aime … Moi Non Plus” (1969) - Serge Gainsborough
74. “Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter From Camp)” (1963) - Allan Sherman
76. “Still Crazy After All These Years” (1975) - Paul Simon
79. “King Without a Crown” (2004) - Matisyahu
81. “Ray of Light” (1998) - Madonna
83. “Rehab” (2006) - Amy Winehouse
85. “Rock and Roll All Nite” (1975) - KISS
86. “They Ain’t Making Jews Like Jesus Anymore” (1974) - Kinky Friedman
87. “Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song)” (1977) - Billy Joel
90. “Funkytown” (1980) - Lipps, Inc.
93. “I’ve Gotta Be Me” (1968) - Sammy Davis Jr.
94. “Neighborhood Bully” (1983) - Bob Dylan
95. “Eli’s Coming” (1968) - Laura Nyro
98. “Dixie Flyer” (1988) - Randy Newman

Yeah, I thought so. That makes the eligible/ineligible categorization for all songs not on the list even more difficult. It just won't be done I think.