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Wah Watusi
Words and music by Dave Appell and Kal Mann, 1963
Popularized by The Orlons
Quadrophenia (sung by The Orlons on record player, danced by kids at disco), 1979
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Wailing
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Wait and See
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Wait and See
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Wait for the Wagon
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Wait 'Til the Sun Shines Nellie
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The Waiter and the Porter and the Upstairs Maid
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Waitin' for Katy
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Waitin' for My Dearie
Words by Alan Jay Lerner, music by Frederick Loewe, 1947
Introduced in the stage musical "Brigadoon," 1947
Brigadoon (sung and danced by Cyd Charisse and Dee Turnell, dubbed by Carole Richards and Bonnie Murray, respectively), 1954
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Waitin' for the Sun to Rise
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Waiting at the Church
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Waiting at the End of the Road
Words and music by Irving Berlin
Hallelujah! (sung by Daniel L. Haynes and the Dixie Jubilee Singers, reprised by Daniel L. Haynes), 1929
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Waiting for Billy
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Waiting for the Robert E. Lee
Watch them shuff-lin' along,
See them shuff-lin' along!
Go take your best gal, real pal,
Go down to the levy, I said to the levy,
And join that shuff-lin' throng,
Hear that music and song!
It's simply great, mate, waitin' on the levy,
Waitin' for the Robert E. Lee!
Words by L. Wolfe Gilbert, music by Lewis F. Muir, 1912
Popularized by the Heidelberg Quintet
The Jazz Singer (sung by Bobby Gordon as Young Al Jolson), 1927
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (part of "Texas Tommy" danced by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers), 1939
Babes on Broadway (sung and danced by Virginia Weidler, Anne Rooney, Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Richard Quine, Ray McDonald and Chorus), 1941
Hellzapoppin' (sung by Jane Frazee, Martha Raye and Chorus), 1941
Cairo (excerpt part of medley sung by Ethel Waters, then sung by Jeanette MacDonald and The King's Men, shuffled and danced by Jeanette MacDonald), 1942
The Jolson Story (sung by Al Jolson dubbing for Larry Parks), 1946
Jolson Sings Again (sung by Al Jolson dubbing for Larry Parks), 1949
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Wake Up and Live
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Walk Through the World
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Walking in Space
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DIE WALKÜRE
("The Valkyrie")
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Walls Have Ears, The
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Waltz at Maxim's (She Is Not Thinking of Me)
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Waltz in Swing Time
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Waltz Is King
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Waltz Is Over, The
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Waltz of the Flowers
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Waltz Lives On, The
Words by Leo Robin, music by Ralph Rainger, 1938
The Big Broadcast of 1938 (sung and danced by Shirley Ross, Bob Hope and Chorus, includes segments of Waltzes, Polka, Can-Can, African Native dance, "At a
Georgia Camp Meeting [Cakewalk by Chorus], "Charleston" [danced by Ben Blue and Chorus], "Truckin' (They're Going Hollywood in Harlem)" [sung by Martha Raye dancing with Chorus]), 1938
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Waltzing in the Clouds
Words by Gus Kahn, music by Robert Stolz, ~1940
Spring Parade (sung by Bob Cummings, then by Deanna Durbin; danced by Bob and Deanna and by patrons at the cafe; in finale: sung by Deanna Durbin; danced by
Bob and Deanna and guests at the Emperor's ball), 1940
Nominated for Best Song Academy Award for 1940
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Waltzing in Venice (Take Off the Mask)
Words and music by Ronny Graham, ~1952
New Faces (sung and danced by Robert Clary, Alice Ghostley and Chorus), 1954
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Waltzing Matilda
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Wand'rin' Star
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Wanting You
Words by Oscar Hammerstein II, music by Sigmund Romberg, 1928
Introduced by Evelyn Herbert and Robert Halliday in the operetta "The New Moon," 1928
New Moon (Robert Tibbett and Grace Moore), 1930
New Moon (Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald), 1940
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War Dance of the Wooden Indians
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Warm As Wine
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Warm Hands Beguine
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Warmer Than a Whisper
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Warmest Baby in the Bunch, The
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Washington Square Dance
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Wasn't I There?
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Wash Your Necks with a Bar of Peck's
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Watch Out for the Devil
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Watch the Birdie
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Watch Your Footwork
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Way Down Upon the Swanee River
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Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
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Way He Makes Me Feel, The
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Way Out West
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Way They Do It in Paris, The
Words and music by Sigmund Romberg, 1927
Introduced in the operetta "The New Moon," 1927
New Moon (Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy and Chorus), 1940
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Way We Were, The
Words by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman, music by Marvin Hamlisch, 1973
Introduced by Barbra Streisand in the film The Way We Were, 1973
 Won Best Song Academy Award for 1973
Recorded and popularized by Barbra Streisand
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Way You Look Tonight, The
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We Always Get Our Girl
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We Are the Hacketts
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We Are the Roman Soldiers
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We Belong Together
Words and music by Ritchie Valens, 1958
Popularized by Ritchie Valens
La Bamba (Los Lobos dubbing for Lou Diamond Phillips), 1987
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We Did It Before and We Can Do It Again
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We Don't Want the Bacon, What We Want Is a Piece of the Rhine
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We Gather Together (To Ask the Lord's Blessing)
Hymn generally associated with Thanksgiving in the United States
Words originally from "Nederlandtsch Gedencklanck" (a Dutch song book), 1626
Set to music by Eduard Kremser, 1877
English translation by Theodore Baker, 1894
Seven Sweethearts (sung by Kathryn Grayson and Church Choir), 1942
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We Girls of the Chorus
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We Go Together
Words and music by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, 1972
Introduced in the stage musical "Grease," 1972
Grease (John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John and the Company), 1978
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We Got Annie
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We Gotta Keep Up with the Joneses
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We Hate to Leave
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We Have Been Around
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We Have Never Met as of Yet
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We Kiss in a Shadow
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Words by Lee Adams, music by Charles Strouse, 1963
Bye Bye Birdie ("We Love You Conrad" sung by the female Sweet Apple Teenagers; "We Hate You Conrad" sung by the male Sweet Apple Teenagers), 1963
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We May Never Love Like This Again
Words and music by Al Kasha and Joel Hirschorn, 1974
Introduced by Maureen McGovern in the film The Towering Inferno, 1974
 Won Best Song Academy Award for 1974
Recorded and popularized by Maureen McGovern
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We Mustn't Say Goodbye
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We Need a Little Christmas
Words and music by Jerry Herman, 1966
Introduced in the stage musical "Mame", 1966
Mame (sung and danced by Lucille Ball, Jane Connell, George Chiang, Kirby Furlong; reprised by Lucille Ball, Jane Connell, George Chiang, Kirby Furlong, Robert Preston), 1974
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We Never Talk Much (We Just Sit Around)
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We Open in Venice
Words and music by Cole Porter, 1948
Introduced in the stage musical "Kiss Me Kate," 1948
Kiss Me Kate (sung and danced by Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller and Tommy Rall), 1953
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We Saw the Sea
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We Should Be Together
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We Thank You Very Sweetly
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We the Cats Shall Hep You
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We Welcome You to Munchkinland
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We Were So Young
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We Will Always Be Sweethearts
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We Won't Be Happy Till We Get It
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We'd Like to Go on a Trip
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We'd Rather Be in College
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We'll Be Together
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We'll Dance Until Dawn
Written by Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHugh, 1931
Flying High (Busby Berkeley production number sung by Kathryn Crawford while dancing with Pat O'Brien, sung and danced by Girls Chorus and Mens Chorus with airplane propellers), 1931
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We'll Drink Every Drop in the Shop
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We'll Love Again
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We'll Make Hay While the Sun Shines
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We'll Never Change Them
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We're a Couple of Broadway Brothers
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We're Back in Circulation Again
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We're Coming in Loaded
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We're Doin' It for the Natives in Jamaica
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We're Doing Our Best
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We're Having a Baby
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We're in Business
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We're in the Navy
Words and music by Don Raye and Gene De Paul, 1941
In the Navy (sung by Dick Powell and Mens Chorus, reprised by The Andrews Sisters, Dick Powell and Mens Chorus), 1941
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We're Not Gonna Take It
Written by Pete Townshend, 1969
Tommy (performed by Caleb Quaye, Alan Ross, Nicky Hopkins, Mike Kelly, Fuzzy Samuels, Chris Stainton, John Entwistle, Roger Daltrey and Chorus), 1975
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We're Off to See the Wizard
Words by E.Y. Harburg, music by Harold Arlen, 1938
The Wizard of Oz (Judy Garland and Ray Bolger; later by Judy Garland, Ray Bolger and Buddy Ebsen; and still later by Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Buddy Ebsen and Bert Lahr), 1939
Buddy Ebsen was originally cast as the Tinman, but had an allergic reaction to the aluminum-based silver makeup, so he was replaced by Jack Haley. The musical sequences, "We're Off to See the
Wizard," were not re-recorded. If you listen closely to the film today (or soundtrack), you can hear Buddy Ebsen's voice!
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We're on Our Way to France
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We're Out of the Red
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We're Staying Home Tonight
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We're the Horror Boys of Hollywood
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We've Come a Long Way Together
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We've Come to Copa
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We've Got a Job to Do
Words and music by Vickie Knight
Private Buckaroo (Dick Foran and Mens Chorus, reprised by the Andrews Sisters with Harry James and His Music Makers), 1942
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We've Got Lots in Common
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Weary Blues
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Weave-O
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Wedding Cake Walk
Words and music by Cole Porter, 1941
You'll Never Get Rich (sung by Martha Tilton dubbing for Rita Hayworth; danced by Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth and Chorus), 1941
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Wedding Dance
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Wedding in the Spring
Written by Johnny Mercer and Jerome Kern, 1942
You Were Never Lovelier (sung by Leslie Brooks and Adele Mara at the piano; later sung and danced by Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth with Xavier Cugat and His
Orchestra [Nan Wynn dubbing for Rita Hayworth]), 1942
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Wedding of the Painted Doll
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Weekend in Havana, A
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Weekend in the Country, A
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Welcome
Written by Pete Townshend, 1969
Tommy (performed by Pete Townshend, Ann-Margret, Oliver Reed, Roger Daltrey and Chorus), 1975
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Welcome Burleigh
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Welcome Egghead
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Welcome to My Dream
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Welcome to the Diamond Horseshoe
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Well All Right
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Well, Did You Evah
Words and music by Cole Porter, 1939
Introduced by Betty Grable and Charles Walters in the stage musical "DuBarry Was a Lady," 1939
High Society (Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra), 1956
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Wells Fargo Wagon, The
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Were Thine That Special Face
Words and music by Cole Porter, 1948
Introduced in the stage musical "Kiss Me Kate," 1948
Kiss Me Kate (Howard Keel), 1953
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West Ain't Wild Anymore, The
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West O' the Wide Missouri
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Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met, The
Includes short passages of "Shortnin' Bread" (Traditional Negro Folk Song), Largo al factotum (from the opera THE BARBER OF SEVILLE), "Chi me frena" (The
Sextet from the opera LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR Pagliacci, Tristan und Isolde, Mefistófeles, "Mag der Himmel Euch Verbegen" (from the opera MARTHA)
Make Mine Music (sung by Nelson Eddy), 1946
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What a Comforting Thing to Know
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What a Dirty Shame
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What a Little Moonlight Can Do
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What a Little Thing Like a Wedding Ring Can Do
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What a Lot of Flowers
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What a Lovely Day for a Wedding
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What a Man
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What a Perfect Combination
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What a Rumba Does to Romance
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What a Wonderful Life
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What About the Boy
Written by Pete Townshend, 1969
Tommy (performed by Mike Kelly, Nicky Hopkins, Chris Stainton, Mick Ralphs, Caleb Quaye, Ann-Margret and Oliver Reed), 1975
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What Are New Yorkers Made Of
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What Are You Doin' the Rest of Your Life
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What Are You Going to Do About the Boys?
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What Can I Do for You?
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What Can You Do with a General
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What Chance Have I with Love?
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What Did I Have That I Don't Have?
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What Did Romeo Say to Juliet?
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What Do I Care for a Dame and a Ballet
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What Do I Do Now? (Gooch's Song)
Words and music by Jerry Herman, 1966
Introduced in the stage musical "Mame", 1966
Mame (sung by Jane Connell), 1974
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What Do the Simple Folk Do?
Words by Alan Jay Lerner, music by Frederick Loewe, 1960
Introduced by Richard Burton and Julie Andrews in the stage musical "Camelot," 1960
Camelot (sung by Richard Harris and Vanessa Redgrave), 1967
Camelot (sung by Richard Harris and Meg Bussert), 1982
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What Do You Think I Am
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What Do You Want with Money
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What Does an English Girl Think of a Yank?
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What Does He Look Like
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What Every Woman Lives For
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What France Needs
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What Gives Out Now?
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What Goes On Here (In My Heart)
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What Good Is a Gal Without a Guy?
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What Happened to the Conga
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What Has Love Got to Do with Getting Married?
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What Have You Done for Me Lately?
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What Is Love?
Words and music by Noel Coward, 1929
Introduced in the stage musical "Bitter Sweet," 1929
Bitter Sweet (Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald), 1940
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What Is This Thing Called Love
Words and music by Cole Porter, 1929
Introduced in the stage musical "Wake Up and Dream," 1929
Night and Day (Ginny Simms), 1946
Young Man with a Horn (Harry James and His Music Makers), 1950
Starlift (Gordon MacRae and Lucille Gordon), 1951
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What Kind of Love Is This?
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What Made the Red Man Red
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What Makes a WAVE?
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What Makes the Sunset
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What Shall I Do with Today?
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What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor
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What Was Your Name in the States?
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What Would I Do If I Could Feel?
Words and music by Charlie Smalls, 1975
Introduced in the stage musical "The Wiz," 1975
The Wiz (Nipsey Russell and Carousel Girls), 1978
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What Would Shakespeare Have Said
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What Would You Do?
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What Would You Do Without Us
Words and music by Lori McKelvey, 1987
Beauty and the Beast (Rebecca De Mornay, Michael Schneider, Carmela Marner, Ruth Harlap and Joseph Bee; reprised by Chorus), 1987
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What Wouldn't I Do for That Man
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What You Going to Do When the Rent Comes Round
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What'd I Say
Words and music by Ray Charles, 1959
Popularized by Ray Charles
Viva Las Vegas (sung and danced by Elvis Presley, Ann-Margaret and Ensemble), 1964
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What'll I Do
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What's Buzzin' Cousin?
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What's Good for General Bullmoose
Words by Johnny Mercer, music by Gene de Paul, 1956
Li'l Abner (various excerpts sung at different times by Stella Stevens, Ted Thurston, Stanley Simmonds and Bullmoose's Goons), 1959
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What's Right, What's Wrong
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What's She Really Like
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What's So Good About Good Morning
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What's the Matter with Father
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What's the Use of Wond'rin'
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What's Wrong with Me?
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What's Wrong with That!
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Whatever It Is, It's Grand
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Whatever Lola Wants (Lola Gets)
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Whatever Will Be, Will Be
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Wheels on My Heels
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When a Felon's Not Engaged in His Employment
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When a Maid Comes Knocking at Your Heart
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When a Man Has a Daughter
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When April Sings
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When Did You Leave Heaven?
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When Frederic Was a Little Lad
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When I Am Older
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When I Grow Too Old to Dream
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When I Grow Up
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When I Look at You
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When I Look in Your Eyes
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When I Love I Love
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When I'm Not Near the Girl I Love
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When I'm Out with the Belle of New York
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When I'm Queen of the Castle
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When I'm 64
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When I'm the President
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When I'm with You
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When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
When Irish eyes are smiling,
Sure, 'tis like the morn in Spring.
In the lilt of Irish laughter
You can hear the angels sing.
When Irish hearts are happy,
All the world seems bright and gay.
And when Irish eyes are smiling,
Sure, they steal your heart away.
Words by Chauncey Olcott and George Graff Jr., music by Ernest Ball, 1912
Introduced in the stage musical "The Isle o' Dreams"
Let Freedom Ring (sung by Nelson Eddy), 1939
My Favorite Blonde (sung by Bob Hope and passengers on train), 1942
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When Is Sometime?
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When It's Apple Blossom Time in Normandy
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When It's Love
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When Johnny Comes Marching Home
When Johnny comes marching home again,
Hurrah! Hurrah!
We'll give him a hearty welcome then,
Hurrah! Hurrah!
The men will cheer, the boys will shout,
The ladies they will all turn out,
And we'll all feel gay
When Johnny comes marching home.
Words and music by Patrick Gilmore, 1863
Popular song during the American Civil War
For Me and My Gal (excerpt sung by Judy Garland and the MGM Studio Chorus), 1942
Yankee Doodle Dandy (part of "George Washington Jr." sequence sung by Chorus), 1942
When Johnny Comes Marching Home (sung by Donald O'Connor), 1942
How the West Was Won (sung in counterpoint to I'm Bound for the Promised Land by The Ken Darby Singers), 1963
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When Love Goes Wrong (Nothin' Goes Right)
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When My Baby Smiles at Me
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When My Ship Comes In
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When Private Brown Becomes a Captain
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When Romance Passes By
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When She Walks in the Room
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When Someone Wonderful Thinks You're Wonderful
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When the Berry Blossoms Bloom
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When the Boys Meet the Girls
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When the Children Are Asleep
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When the Clock Strikes Midnight
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When the Foeman Bears His Steel
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When the Folks Up High Do the Mean Low-Down
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When the Idle Poor Become the Idle Rich
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When the Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves for Alabam'
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When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain
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When the One You Love (Simply Won't Love Back)
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When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob, Bob Bobbin' Along
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When the Saints Go Marching In
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When Winter Comes
Words and music by Irving Berlin, 1939
Second Fiddle (introduced by Rudy Vallee), 1939
Popularized by Artie Shaw and His Orchestra
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When You and I Were Young Maggie
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When You Believe
Written by Stephen Schwartz and Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, 1998
Introduced by Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston in the animated film The Prince of Egypt, 1998
 Won Best Song Academy Award for 1998
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When You Had Left Our Pirate Fold
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When You Hear the Time Signal
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When You Love Someone
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When You Pretend
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(When You Think of Lovin', Baby) Think of Me
Written by Swander and Tenney (?)
Presenting Lily Mars (Bob Crosby and His Orchestra with the Wilde Twins), 1943
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When You Were a Smile on Your Mother's Lips
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When You Were Sweet Sixteen
I love you as I never loved before!
Since first I met you on the village green.
Come to me, or my dream of love is o'er!
I love you as I loved you,
When you were sweet
When you were sweet sixteen.
Words and music by James Thornton, 1898
Little Miss Broadway (sung by Shirley Temple and Quartet), 1938
The Jolson Story (sung by Rudy Wissler dubbing for Scotty Beckett, sung later by Al Jolson dubbing for Larry Parks), 1946
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When You Wish Upon a Star
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When You Wore a Tulip (And I Wore a Big Red Rose)
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When You're Away
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When You're Driving Through The Moonlight / A Lovely Night
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When You're in Love
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When You're Loved
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When You're Playing with Fire
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Whenever You're Away from Me
Words and music by John Farrar
Xanadu (sung and danced by Olivia Newton-John and Gene Kelly), 1980
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Where Am I Going
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Where Am I Going
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Where Did I Go Wrong?
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Where Did My Childhood Go?
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Where Did You Get That Girl
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Where Did You Learn to Dance?
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Where Do I Go?
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Where Do We Go from Here?
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Where Does Love Begin
Written by Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne, 1944
Step Lively (sung and danced by Gloria DeHaven, George Murphy and Chorus; later by Frank Sinatra and Anne Jeffreys), 1944
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Where Else But Here
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Where Is It Written?
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Where Is Love?
Words and music by Lionel Bart, 1960
Introduced in the London production of the stage musical "Oliver!" 1960
Oliver! (solo by Mark Lester), 1968
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Where Is the Life That Late I Led
Words and music by Cole Porter, 1948
Introduced in the stage musical "Kiss Me Kate," 1948
Kiss Me Kate (Howard Keel), 1953
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Where Knowledge Ends (Faith Begins)
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Where or When
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Where the Boys Are
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Where There's Love
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Where There's Music
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Where You Are
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Where's That Rainbow
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Where's the Mate for Me (Gambler's Song)
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Wherever You Are
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Which One?
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Whiffenpoof Song, The
Yale Whiffenpoof's signature song, exact origin unknown
"We are poor little lambs who have lost our way, bah, bah, bah..."
Riding High (sung by Bing Crosby, Raymond Walburn, William Demarest and club patrons), 1950
Monkey Business (excerpt sung by Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers and Chorus), 1952
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While Hearts Are Singing
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While My Lady Sleeps
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While the Men Are All Drinking
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Whispering
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Whispers in the Dark
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Whistle While You Work
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