Songs for Beginners

The Backgammon Playlist grew from a series of postings to the rec.games.backgammon news group, initiated by Michael Earnshaw and Marina Smith of the Reading (UK) backgammon club. Marina kindly gave permission to continue the thread here. Who knows where it will end?

Uffe Hellsten contributed his composition Backgammon!! (you will need a plugin for mime type audio/x-midi to play it).

• Backgammon!! — Uffe Hellsten (1993)     <<< Play it now!
  Used with permission

Best Title (Song and Album) Backgammon — Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (Davis) Backgammon (1976) Roll of the Dice — The Fabulous Thurderbirds (Kortchmar) Roll of the Dice (1995) Best Lyrics There are men who in their leisure Love to fish for salmon There are others who get pleasure When they play backgammon I Love To Rhyme — Bobby Short (Gershwin/Gershwin) Nobody Else But Me (1957, 1970 reissue) Should I stay or should I go? If I go there will be trouble And if I stay there will be double Should I Stay Or Should I Go? — The Clash Combat Rock (1982) You'll pay today or pay tomorrow ... Do you work it one by one Or played in combination? Your Gold Teeth — Steely Dan Countdown to Ecstacy (1973) Top of the Charts Hit Me With Your Best Shot — Pat Benatar Crimes Of Passion (1980) Grammy, Rock Vocal Female Shake, Rattle And Roll — Big Joe Turner Every Day In The Week (1941) Should I Stay Or Should I Go? — The Clash Combat Rock (1982) Let Me Count The Ways — Yoko Ono Onobox (1992) Fifty-Fifty Chance — Suzanne Vega Days Of Open Hand (1990) Time Is On My Side — Rolling Stones (Meade) 12x5 (1964) Coming Home — Fleetwood Mac Heroes Are Hard To Find (1974) Hit — The Sugarcubes Stick Around For Joy (1992) Up On The Roof — Carole King Writer (1970) Don't Give Up — Peter Gabriel So (1986) Race Is On — Grateful Dead (Rollins) Reckoning (1981) I Won — The Sundays Reading Writing & Arithmetic (1990) Favorite Artists Bee Gees Chubby Checker Count Basie Crying And Dancing DaBlitz Dead Can Dance Dice Of Dixieland Double Gammon 5point0 The Four Aces Game Theory Gladys Knight & The Pips Hit Me Ice Cube Johnny Cash Mannheim Steamroller The Miracles Odds One Big Game Pointer Sisters Randy Crawford Rolling Stones Run DMC Slot Throwing Muses Tina Turner The Play List A Final Hit — Leftfield Against All Odds — Phil Collins All Or Nothin' — Tom Petty Almost Home — Hootie And The Blowfish Anchors Aweigh — George Lottman and Alfred Miles Another One Bites The Dust — Queen Around And Around — Grateful Dead Baby Can I Hold You? — Tracy Chapman Baby Please Don't Go — Big Joe Williams Be Kind To My Mistakes — Kate Bush Beautiful Loser — Bob Seger Beaver Town — Count Basie Beyond Belief — Elvis Costello Big Shot — Billy Joel Born To Run — Bruce Springsteen Boxcars — Joe Ely (Hancock) Breaking Up Is Hard To Do — Neil Sedaka Bring It On Home — Led Zeppelin Callin' The Shots — Quiet Riot Can't Find My Way Home — Blind Faith Captain + Four — X-tal Come A Little Bit Closer — Gary & The Pacemakers (Boyce/Hart) Conjuring The Number 7 — Mannheim Steamroller Counting Backwards — Throwing Muses Crooked Dice — Grant Lee Buffalo Cup Of Wonder — Jethro Tull Dance Away — Bryan Ferry / Roxy Music Dance, Little Sister — Rolling Stones Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind? — Lovin' Spoonful Do You Wanna Dance? — Mamas and Papas Don't Stop The Dance — Brian Ferry Double Or Nothing — Booker T and the MGs Double Shot — Swingin' Medallions Double Trouble — Otis Rush Easy Money — King Crimson Endgame — R.E.M. Everybody Loves A Winner — William Bell Everybody Plays The Fool — Aaron Neville Five Point Blues — Pete Fountain Golden Point — Exchange Fortunate Son — Creedence Clearwater Revival Gambling Man — Big Joe Williams Games People Play — Alan Parsons Project Give Me Just A Little More Time — Kylie Minogue Go Now — Moody Blues Gonna Take A Miracle — Laura Nyro (Stallman/Randazzo/Weinstein) He Can Win — Moody Blues Hey Man Nice Shot — Filter Home — 5point0 Home At Last — Steely Dan Honey Roll — AC/DC I'm Your Captain — Grand Funk Railroad I Can't Get Started — Billie Holiday (Gershwin/Duke) I Can't Win — Ry Cooder I Could Have Danced All Night — Julie Andrews (Lerner/Loewe) I Feel Lucky — Pat Benatar I Have The Touch — Peter Gabriel I Hear You Knockin' (But You Can't Come In) — Smiley Lewis (Bartholemew/King) I Ran — Flock of Seagulls I Should Be So Lucky — Kylie Minogue I Won't Dance — Blossom Dearie (Kern/McHugh/Hammerstein/Harbach) I Won't Make That Mistake Again — Gary Lewis and the Playboys I'm A Loser — The Beatles Iceblink Luck — Cocteau Twins If 6 Was 9 — Jimi Hendrix If You Gotta Go, Go Now — Bob Dylan It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over — Lenny Kravitz It's All Over Now — Rolling Stones It's All Over Now, Baby Blue — Bob Dylan It's No Game — David Bowie Joker — Wes Montgomery (Newley/Bricusse) Jump — Van Halen Just What I Needed — The Cars Keep On Dancin' — Sly & The Family Stone Keep On Dancing — Phil Spector Keep On Running — Spencer Davis Group Leap — Miles Davis Leap! — Jim Douglas Let Me In — Jefferson Airplane Let Me In — R.E.M. Let Me Roll It — Paul McCartney Let's Dance — David Bowie Let's Dance — The Beatles Let's Split — Syd Barrett Lose Your Money — Moody Blues Loser — Beck Luck Be A Lady Tonight — Frank Sinatra (Loesser) Luck In My Eyes — k. d. lang Luck Of The Draw — Bonnie Raitt (Brady) Lucky Girl — Joni Mitchell Lucky Man — Emerson Lake & Palmer Magic Dice — Mano Negra Master Builder — Gong May Be A Price To Pay — Alan Parsons Project (Makes Her Point) The Hard Way — Paul Black & The Flip Kings Missed — P J Harvey Money — Pink Floyd Money — The Beatles Money For Nothing — Dire Straits Money Money — Grateful Dead Move It — Chuck Berry Never Going Back Again — Fleetwood Mac No Way In Hell — Throwing Muses Nowhere To Run — Martha Reeves & The Vandellas (Holland/Dozier/Holland) Odds Against Me — John Lee Hooker On The Roof — Feelies One — Three Dog Night One Hit — Rolling Stones One More Shot — Carl Perkins One Hit Wonder — Tracy Bonham Opening Move — Gryphon Out Of Time — Rolling Stones Pass — Rush Pick Up The Pieces — Average White Band Piece Of Your Action — Motley Crue Pigeons — Genesis Play Me — Michel Petrucciani Play The Game — Queen Play To Win — The Clash Playing For Keeps — Elvis Presley (Playing Those) Mind Games — John Lennon Point Panic — Surfaris Prime Time — The Tubes Promised You A Miracle — Simple Minds Race Against Time — Public Enemy Race With The Devil — Jeff Beck Ready To Run — Dixie Chicks Rikki Don't Lose That Number — Steely Dan Rocky Raccoon — The Beatles Roll Another Number — Neil Young Roll Me Away — Bob Seger Roll Of The Dice — Bruce Springsteen Roll Of The Dice — The Fabulous Thunderbirds Roll Right — Rage Against The Machine Roll The Bones — Rush Roll The Dice — Lunatic Calm Roll With It — Steve Winwood Roll Yer Own — Jethro Tull Rollin' With My Homies — Coolio Rolling The Dice — Kieran Halpin Round And Around — Pink Floyd Run For Home — Lindisfarne Run For Your Life — The Beatles Run Like Hell — Pink Floyd Runnin' Around — B-52s Running On Faith — Eric Clapton Running Out — Cal Tjader Sally Can't Dance — Lou Reed Sally's Pigeons — Cyndi Lauper Save It — Cramps Save It — Uriah Heep Saving The Best For Last — Marc Cohn Shake 'Em Up And Let 'Em Roll — The Coasters Shake! Shake! Shake! — Jackie Wilson Shake Some Action — Flamin' Groovies Shakin' All Over — The Who Shall We Dance? — (Nixon/Brynner) Rodgers/Hammerstein Shots — Neil Young Slow Down — The Beatles So Close Yet So Far — Elvis Presley (Byers) Solar Prestige A Gammon — Elton John Somebody Up There Likes You — Simple Minds Squeeze Play — Richie Kotzen Stay — Four Seasons (Williams) Stay Out — Oasis Stayin' Alive — Bee Gees Steady Rollin' Man — Eric Clapton Steam — Peter Gabriel Steamroller — James Taylor Still In The Game — Steve Winwood Stripped — Depeche Mode Tabletalk — Adam and the Ants Take It As It Comes — The Doors Take It Back — Jimmy Buffett Take The Long Way Home — Supertramp Take The Money And Run — Steve Miller Band Takin' Care Of Business — Bachman Turner Overdrive The Anchor Song — Björk The Joker — Steve Miller The Last Shot — Lou Reed The Long Way Home — Bob Seger There's No Way Out of Here — David Gilmour Three Time Loser — Bonnie Raitt (Covay/Miller) Time Is Tight — Booker T and the MGs Too Late To Run For Cover — Alvin Lee Tumbling Dice — Rolling Stones Turn Down Day — Cyrkle Turn It Over — Toots and the Maytals Turn! Turn! Turn! — Byrds (Seeger) Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad — Meatloaf 2:1 — Elastica 25 Or 6 To 4 — Chicago Unbelievable — EMF Walk It Down — Talking Heads We're Not Gonna Take It — The Who When You're Hot, You're Hot — Jerry Reed Whole Lot Of Shakin' Goin' On — Jerry Lee Lewis Window — Genesis Winner/Loser — Go (Winwood) Winning — Chris Rea Winning Ugly — Rolling Stones You Can Make It If You Try — Rolling Stones You Can't Always Get What You Want — Rolling Stones You Got Lucky — Tom Petty You Gotta Move — Rolling Stones (McDowell/Davis) You Gotta Roll With It — Oasis You Never Give Me Your Money — The Beatles You Shook Me — Muddy Waters You Shook Me All Night Long — AC/DC You Win Again — Hank Williams You're Gonna Miss Me — Bachman Turner Overdrive Your Move — Yes

First-edition contributors: Greg Ash, Fredrik Dahl, Michael Earnshaw, David Escoffery, Ira Hessel, Bernard Howard, Marcia Karen, Stein Kulseth, Richard McIntosh (Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man), Kevin McLeaster, Kim Scheinberg, Dan Scoones, Beth Skillman, Marina Smith, Robert-Jan Veldhuizen, Vincent Zweije

Major later-edition contributors: Mark Driver, Mary Hickey, Mel Leifer, David Lloyd Mcadams, Tapio Palmroth, Teppo Salo, Walt Swan

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