1. Just the Way You Are
2. Jamaica Say You Will
3. Send in the Clowns
4. After the Lovin'
5. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
6. Speak Softly Love
7. Christian Island
8. Easy Times
9. Let It Be
10. Morning Has Broken
11. Sunshine
12. Evergreen
13. The Rose
14. I Don't Know How to Love Him
15. American Tune
16. Sweet Baby James

17. We've Only Just Begun
18. Casey's Last Ride
19. If
20. Killing Me Softly with His Song
21. Time in a Bottle
22. Sometimes When We Touch
23. Hello in There
24. Rainy Days and Mondays
25. Desperado
26. For All We Know
27. My Sweet Lady
28. Where Do I Begin
29. Just an Any Old Kind of Day
30. Tomorrow
31. The Way We Were

      The title song, Marvin Hamlisch's The Way We Were (#31), from the movie of the same name, is among the ones that have a good lyric (by Alan and Marilyn Bergman). Among singer-songwriters, I'm particularly drawn to Paul Simon and his evocative American Tune (#15), John Denver's tender My Sweet Lady (#11), and Jackson Browne's alluring Jamaica Say You Will (#2). There are three fine show tunes here – Charles Strouse's Tomorrow (#30) from "Annie"; Stephen Sondheim's Send in the Clowns (#3) from "A Little Night Music"; and Andrew Lloyd Webber's I Don't Know How to Love Him (#14) from "Jesus Christ Superstar." Other songs I particularly like are Nos. 5, 6, 7, 8, 13, 23, 25, and 29. Evergreen (#12) is one of my mother's choice numbers, and Billy Joel's Just the Way You Are (#1) is an all-time favorite of my wife, carrying a strong message for enduring relationships.