350 Jersey Songs (listed alphabetically by artist)

The cover of Blondie’s 1976 single, “X Offender.”

From September 2014 to September 2015, I wrote about one New Jersey-related song a day in NJArts.net’s 350 Jersey Songs project. The idea was to find one song a day that had to do with Jersey in some way: It was either recorded by a New Jerseyan, or in New Jersey, or has some Jersey content in it (in many cases, the song has two or three of these elements).

One other thing: It had to be a song I liked, and thought people would enjoy hearing.

Here are the songs, listed alphabetically by artist, with asterisks (*) denoting bonus songs added after the 350th was selected. Click here to see them listed chronologically.

• 1910 Fruitgum Co.: “Simon Says”
• Abyssinian Baptist Gospel Choir: “Said I Wasn’t Gonna Tell Nobody”
• Adrenalin O.D: “Suburbia”
• Alabama 3: “Woke Up This Morning (Chosen One Mix)”
• Sean Altman: “R.I.P. Jon Stewart (Why’d Ya Go Ahead & Die?)”
• The Andrews Sisters: “Hohokus, NJ” (*)
• The Angels: “My Boyfriend’s Back”
• George Antheil: “Ballet Mecanique, Part 1”
• Ray Anthony and His Orchestra: “Little Peach From East Orange”
• Artists United Against Apartheid: “Sun City”
• Nicole Atkins: “Neptune City”
• Nicole Atkins: “War Torn”
• The B-52’s: “Rock Lobster”
• The Band: “Atlantic City”
• The Band: “Book Faded Brown”
• Bobby Bandiera: “C’mon Caroline”
• Amiri Baraka: “I Love Music (For John Coltrane)
• Count Basie: “The Kid From Red Bank”
• Count Basie: “One O’Clock Jump”
• John Belushi with The Allman Brothers Band: “Hey Bartender” at the Capitol Theatre, Passaic
• Tab Benoit: “Crawfishin’ ” at Crawfish Fest, Augusta
• George Benson: “On Broadway”
• Benson Orchestra of Chicago: “Back in Hackensack, New Jersey”
• Chuck Berry: “You Can’t Catch Me”
• Black 47: “Green Suede Shoes”
• Bleachers: “I Wanna Get Better”
• Blondie: “Union City Blue”
• Blondie: “X Offender” at Convention Hall, Asbury Park.
• Bon Jovi: “Livin’ on a Prayer”
• Bon Jovi, with Jennifer Nettles: “Who Says You Can’t Go Home”
• Jon Bon Jovi: “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)”
• Jon Bon Jovi: “Reunion”
• Jon Bon Jovi and Bettye LaVette: “A Change Is Gonna Come”
• Gary U.S. Bonds: “Dedication”

The cover of The Bongos’ debut album, “Drums Along the Hudson,” which included “The Bulrushes.”

• The Bongos: “The Bulrushes”
• Bono: “One” at NetAid
• Lisa Bouchelle and Friends: “Restore the Shore”
• The Bouncing Souls: “Ghosts on the Boardwalk”
• The Bouncing Souls: “So Jersey”
• David Bowie: “Slip Away,” Uncle Floyd tribute.
• Oscar Brand: “Wilson, That’s All” (Woodrow Wilson presidential campaign song)
• Bernie Brausewetter: “Boogie Woogie Santa Claus”
• The Brigantines: ‘Brigantine Barrel’
• Tom Brislin: “Your Favorite Day”
• The Broadways: “Going, Going, Gone”
• Jackson Browne: “Nothing but Time” (*)
• Glen Burtnik: “Exit Number 9”
• Chris Butler: “The Devil Glitch”
• John Cafferty & the Beaver Brown Band: “Boardwalk Angel”
• Gregg Cagno: “Clinton Times”
• Gregg Cagno: “Hoboken Lullabye”
• Freddy “Boom Boom” Cannon: “Palisades Park”
• Mary Chapin Carpenter: “Stones in the Road”
• Harry Chapin and Chevy Chase: “Flowers Are Red” at Capitol Theatre
• Chubby Checker: “The Twist”
• Bill Chinnock: “The Boys on the Avenue”
• Linda Chorney: “Cherries”
• Eric Church: “Springsteen”
• Clarence Clemons with Billy Preston: “You’re a Friend of Mine”
• Clutch: “Pulaski Skyway”
• Commander Cody: “Going to New Jersey”
• The Consensus Bureau: “New Jersey, New Jersey”
• Chick Corea Trio, featuring Christian McBride: “Work”
• The Cucumbers: “Rent Party”
• Anthony D’Amato: “Was a Time”
• The Dead Exs: “More Stuff” at Asbury Lanes
• Joey Dee and the Starliters: “Peppermint Twist — Part 1”
• The Delevantes: “John Wayne Lives in Hoboken”
• Detention: “Beaches”
• Dez Manku: “Union City”
• Jason Didner: “You Can’t Get There From Here in Jersey”
• Jason Didner and the Jungle Gym Jam: “Jersey Dinosaurs”
• Dion: “New Jersey Wife”
• Dirdy Birdies Jug Band: “Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me”
• The Doughboys: “Queen City”
• Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show: “The Cover of ‘Rolling Stone’ “
• Dramarama: “Last Cigarette”
• The Drinkard Singers: “That’s Enough”
• The Duprees: “You Belong to Me”
• Joe D’Urso and Stone Caravan: “Come Down Tonight (Asbury Park)”
• Bob Dylan: “Day of the Locusts”
• Bob Dylan: “Hurricane”
• Bob Dylan with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Al Kooper: “Like a Rolling Stone” at Brendan Byrne Arena.
• East River Pipe: “Atlantic City (Gonna Make a Million Tonight)”
• John Eddie: “Play Some Skynyrd”
• Dave Edmunds and Friends at the Capitol Theatre: “Johnny B. Goode”
• The Everymen: “NJHC”
• Donald Fagen: “New Frontier”
• Brian Fallon: “Behold the Hurricane”
• Danny Federici: “Flemington”
• The Feelies: “Away”
• Arlan Feiles: “Jersey Coast Line”
• Ella Fitzgerald: “Jersey Bounce”
• Fleetwood Mac: “I’m So Afraid” at the Capitol Theatre, Passaic
• Foo Fighters with Krist Novoselic: “These Days” at Izod Center, East Rutherford
• Steve Forbert: “My Seaside Brown-Eyed Girl”
• Steve Forbert: “Strange Names (New Jersey’s Got ’em)”
• Foreigner with the New Jersey Mass Choir: “I Want to Know What Love Is”
• The Four Seasons: “Dawn (Go Away)”
• The Four Seasons: “Sherry”
• Fountains of Wayne: “Bright Future in Sales”
• Fountains of Wayne: “Song of the Passaic”
• Connie Francis: “Who’s Sorry Now?”

Dean Friedman’s 1977 self-titled debut album contained his biggest hit, “Ariel.”

• Dean Friedman: “Ariel”
• From Good Homes: “Wide Open Wide”
• The Fugees: “Killing Me Softly”
• Funkadelic: “One Nation Under a Groove”
• Funkadelic, featuring Eddie Hazel: “Maggot Brain”
• G. Love: “Can’t Go Back to Jersey”
• Garden State Social Club, “Turnpike Twist”
• The Gaslight Anthem: “The ’59 Sound”
• The Gaslight Anthem: “The Diamond Church Street Choir”
• Gloria Gaynor and Diana Ross: “I Will Survive” at NJPAC, Newark
• Jigs Giglio: “The 12 Days of Christmas” at Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank (*)
• Dizzy Gillespie: “Night in Tunisia”
• Allen Ginsberg and Paul McCartney: “The Ballad of the Skeletons”
• Lesley Gore: “It’s My Party”
• Lesley Gore: “Someday”
• Lesley Gore: “You Don’t Own Me”
• John Gorka: “Christmas Bells”
• John Gorka: “I’m From New Jersey”
• Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five: “The Message”
• The Grateful Dead: “Eyes of the World” at Raceway Park, Englishtown
• The Grateful Dead: “Scarlet Begonias” at Roosevelt Stadium, Jersey City
• The Grateful Dead: “We Bid You Goodnight” at Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford
• A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera: “Say Something”
• Green Day: “Welcome to Paradise” at City Gardens, Trenton
• Nanci Griffith: “Love Wore a Halo (Back Before the War)”
• Loretta Hagen: “Hello Mountain (Ode to Bearfort Mountain)”
• Bill Haley and the Comets: “Rock Around the Clock”
• Dick Haymes: “On the Boardwalk (In Atlantic City)”
• Billy Hector: “Back to Jersey”
• Lauryn Hill: “Doo Wop (That Thing)”
• Lauryn Hill: “To Zion”
• Peter Himmelman: “Waning Moon”
• Holme: “Garden State Parkway Boogie”
• Whitney Houston: “Do You Hear What I Hear?”
• Whitney Houston: “The Greatest Love of All”
• Whitney Houston: “I Will Always Love You”
• Whitney Houston: “Home”
• Whitney Houston: “The Star Spangled Banner”
• Janis Ian: “Society’s Child (Baby I’ve Been Thinking)”
• The Isley Brothers: “This Old Heart of Mine”
• The Isley Brothers, with Jimi Hendrix: “Testify”
• James Gang (featuring Joe Walsh): “Walk Away”
• Jay-Z: “No Sleep Till Brooklyn” at All Points West Festival, Jersey City
• Wyclef Jean: “Gone Till November”

The cover of the “We’ve Got the Love”charity single.

• Jersey Artists for Mankind (J.A.M.): “We’ve Got the Love” charity single
• Joan Jett and Bruce Springsteen: “Light of Day”
• Jimmy Eat World: “Big Casino”
• James P. Johnson: “Keep Off the Grass”
• Daniel Johnston and Yo La Tengo: “Speeding Motorcycle”
• Louis Jordan and His Tympany 5: “Pompton Turnpike”
• Alicia Keys: “Send Me an Angel”
• Killian and Company: “I Like the Jersey Shore”
• Sam Kinison, with Bon Jovi, Skid Row and Billy Squier: “Wild Thing” at Giants Stadium, East Rutherford
• B.B. King with Phish: “The Thrill Is Gone” at Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford
• Ben E. King: “4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)”
• Carole King: “Pleasant Valley Sunday” demo
• Dave Kleiner and Liz Pagan: “Stuck Inside New Jersey”
• The Knickerbockers: “Lies”
• Marie Knight: “I Thought I Told You Not to Tell Them”
• Kool & the Gang: “Celebration”
• Kool & the Gang: “Jungle Boogie”
• Kool & the Gang: “Kool & the Gang”
• Bettye LaVette: “Joy”
• Lefty and the Leadsmen: “Wildwood Fun”
• Life in a Blender: “Paterson Falls”
• Lifers Group: “Belly of the Beast”
• Little Steven: “I Am a Patriot” (*)
• Looking Glass: “Brandy (You’re a Fine Girl)”
• Nils Lofgren: “Here Comes the Sun”
• Bobby Long: “Jersey City”
• Darlene Love with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band: “A Fine, Fine Boy”
• Low Cut Connie: “Boozophilia”
• Lyle Lovett and Emmylou Harris: “Walk Through the Bottomland”
• The Manhattan Transfer: “The Boy From New York City”
• Bruno Mars: “Just the Way You Are” at Super Bowl XLVIII
• Christine Martucci: “Jersey Style” (*)
• Christine Martucci: “Ocean Avenue”
• Johnny Marvin: “Jersey Walk”
• John Mayall and Friends: “C.C. Rider” at Capitol Theatre
• Tris McCall: “Sugar Nobody Wants”
• John McCutcheon: “Talking Yogi Talk”
• Roger McGuinn with R.E.M.: “So You Want to Be a Rock ‘n’ Roll Star” at Capitol Theatre, Passaic
• Nellie McKay: “Knock on Wood” at “American Songbook at NJPAC” series, Newark
• James McMurtry: “Down Across the Delaware”
• Shannon McNally: “Bury My Heart on the Jersey Shore”
• Melanie: “Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)”
• John Mellencamp: “Born in the USA”
• Chip Mergott: “LBI Song”
• Metallica: “Whiplash”
• Pras Michel with Mya and Ol’ Dirty Bastard: “Ghetto Supastar (That Is What You Are)”
• The Misfits: “Halloween”
• Mr. Reality: “In My Yard”
• Thelonious Monk: “Hackensack”
• The Monotones: “The Book of Love”
• Monster Magnet: “Negasonic Teenage Warhead”
• James Moody: “Last Train From Overbrook”
• James Moody: “Moody’s Mood for Love”
• Scott E. Moore: “The Bridge and Tunnel Song”
• Cozy Morley: “On the Way to Cape May”
• Dave Murphy: “My Garden State”
• Billy Murray: “Over on the Jersey Side”
• The Myddle Class: “Don’t Let Me Sleep Too Long”
• My Chemical Romance: “The Sharpest Lives” at Maxwell’s
• My Chemical Romance: “Welcome to the Black Parade”
• Naughty by Nature: “Everything’s Gonna Be Alright”
• Naughty by Nature: “O.P.P.”
• New York Wind Symphony with Joseph Alessi: “Lincoln Tunnel Cabaret”
• “One Touch of Venus” cast: “Way Out West in Jersey”
• Tony Orlando and Dawn: “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree”

The 1991 debut album by Jersey City’s P.M. Dawn, “Of the Heart, of the Soul and of the Cross: The Utopian Experience,” contained “Set Adrift on Memory Bliss.”

• P.M. Dawn: “Set Adrift on Memory Bliss”
• P.M. Dawn: “Untitled”
• Christopher Paolini: “Won’t Somebody Sing a Song About New Jersey”
• Parliament-Funkadelic: “Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)”
• The Parliaments: “(I Wanna) Testify”
• Les Paul and Mary Ford: “How High the Moon”
• Les Paul, Tal Farlow and Bucky Pizzarelli: “C Jam Blues”
• Paul Evans Pedersen, Jr.: “In the Pine Barrens Night”
• Katy Perry: “Hackensack”
• John Phillips: “Holland Tunnel”
• Phish: “Frankenstein” at Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City
• Bucky and John Pizzarelli: “Sweet Georgia Brown”
• John Pizzarelli: “I Like Jersey Best”
• Joel Plaskett: “Song for Jersey”
• Eric Plutz: “Sabre Dance” at Princeton University Chapel
• The Porchistas: “The PBR Song”
• Grace Potter: “I Shall Be Released” at Love for Levon concert
• Franke Previte and Rachele Cappelli: “(I’ve Had) the Time of My Life”
• Quebec Celebration Gospel Choir: “More Abundantly” at McDonald’s Gospelfest at Prudential Center, Newark
• Queen Latifah: “Jersey”
• Queen Latifah: “When You’re Good to Mama”
• Queen Latifah, featuring Monie Love: “Ladies First”
• Queens of the Stone Age: “My God Is the Sun” live at Vintage Vinyl, Fords
• Eddie Rabbitt: “Jersey Boy”
• “Ragtime” cast: “Atlantic City”
• Railroad Earth: “Crossing the Gap”
• Robert Randolph & the Family Band: “I Need More Love”
• The Rascals: “People Got to Be Free”
• Redman: “Time 4 Sum Aksion”
• Lou Reed: “Rock and Roll” at the Conspiracy of Hope concert at Giants Stadium, East Rutherford
• Remember Jones (Anthony D’Amato): “Caravan”
• Marc Ribler and Friends: “Our Spirit Is Strong”
• Richard and the Young Lions: “Open Up Your Door”
• Riff: “My Heart Is Failing Me”
• John Roberts and Tony Barrand: “The Rolling Mills of New Jersey”
• Paul Robeson: “Ol’ Man River”
• The Roches: “The Hallelujah Chorus”
• Jimmie Rodgers: “Blue Yodel No. 1 (T for Texas),” recorded in Camden
• The Rolling Stones with Lady Gaga: “Gimme Shelter” at Prudential Center
• Billy Joe Royal: “Cherry Hill Park”
• Tom Rush: “If I Never Get Back to Hackensack”
• Rutgers Symphony Orchestra et al: “On the Banks of the Old Raritan”
• Ruth Ruth: “Uninvited”

BOBBY RYDELL

• Bobby Rydell: “Steel Pier”
• Bobby Rydell: “Wildwood Days”
• Raymond Scott Quintette: “Bumpy Weather Over Newark”
• Screaming Females: “Shake It Off”
• Norman Seldin and Steel Breeze: “Jersey Boy”
• Marc Shaiman: “Fifty Checks”
• Richard Shindell: “Transit”
• The Shirelles: “I Met Him on a Sunday (Ronde-Ronde)”
• The Shirelles: “Will You Love Me Tomorrow”
• Phil Silvers: “Nobody Ever Died for Dear Old Rutgers”
• Paul Simon: “The Sound of Silence” at Princeton University
• Simon and Garfunkel: “America”
• Frank Sinatra: “The House I Live In”
• Frank Sinatra: “It Was a Very Good Year”
• Frank Sinatra: “That Old Black Magic”
• Frank Sinatra: “That’s Life”
• Frank Sinatra: “Summer Wind”
• Frank Sinatra and Count Basie: “Fly Me to the Moon”
• Frank Sinatra, Jerry Lewis and Sammy Davis Jr.: “The Oldest Established (Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York)” in Atlantic City
• Mike Sinatra: “Jersey Bound”
• “Sinatra Idol” Contestants: “New York, New York”
• Sleepy Man Banjo Boys: “Flint Hill Special”
• Antonique Smith: “Hold Up Wait a Minute (Woo Woo)”
• Patti Smith: “Ghost Dance”
• Patti Smith: “O Holy Night”
• Patti Smith Group: “Because the Night”
• Patti Smith Group: “Gloria” on “Saturday Night Live”
• Willie “The Lion” Smith: “Finger Buster”
• The Smithereens: “Blood and Roses”
• The Smithereens: “Christmas (I Remember)”
• The Smithereens: “White Castle Blues” (*)
• The Smithereens with Graham Parker: “Behind the Wall of Sleep”
• Phoebe Snow: “I Believe in You”
• Southside Johnny and Brian Fallon: “Wonderful World”
• Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes: “Havin’ a Party”
• Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes: “Trapped Again”
• Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, with Bruce Springsteen: “I Don’t Want to Go Home”
• Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, with Bruce Springsteen and Steven Van Zandt: “It’s Been a Long Time”

The cover of the Ronnie Spector and the E Street Band single, “Say Goodbye to Hollywood.”

• Ronnie Spector and the E Street Band: “Say Goodbye to Hollywood”
• Bruce Springsteen: “In Freehold”
• Bruce Springsteen: “My City of Ruins”
• Bruce Springsteen: “The Rising”
• Bruce Springsteen: “State Trooper”
• Bruce Springsteen: “Tenth Avenue Freeze-out”
• Bruce Springsteen: “The Wish”
• Bruce Springsteen and Friends: “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town”
• Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band: “Born to Run”
• Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band: “Dancing in the Dark”
• Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band: “Racing in the Street”
• Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band: “Thunder Road” (*)
• Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band: “The Wall”
• Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band: “The Weight”
• Bruce Springsteen with Clarence Clemons and the Red Bank Rockers: “Jersey Girl”
• Bruce Springsteen and Jimmy Fallon: “Gov. Chris Christie’s Fort Lee, New Jersey Traffic Jam”
• Bruce Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi, Southside Johnny and Steven Van Zandt: “This Time It’s for Real”
• Steel Mill: “Garden State Parkway Blues”
• Steely Dan: “Black Friday”
• Stone Temple Pilots: “Interstate Love Song”
• Straight No Chaser: “Jersey Girl” (“Surfer Girl” parody)

From left, Henry “Big Bank Hank” Jackson, Michael “Wonder Mike” Wright and Guy “Master Gee” O’Brien of the Sugarhill Gang.

• The Sugarhill Gang: “Rapper’s Delight”
• Clark Terry, James Moody and George Benson: “Billie’s Bounce”
• Jim Testa: “(Everything Is Swell) in Weehawken”
• Jim Testa: “Here’s to the State of New Jersey” (*)
• They Might Be Giants: “Asbury Park (Stone Pony)”
• They Might Be Giants: “The Edison Museum”
• The Thousand Pities: “Point Pleasant”
• Titus Andronicus: “No Future Part Three: Escape From No Future”
• “Toxic Avenger” cast: “Who Will Save New Jersey?”
• Traveling Wilburys: “Tweeter and the Monkey Man”
• Moon Trent: “We Two Boys”
• Tony Trischka: “Great Big World”
• John Trubee and the Ugly Janitors of America: “Driving Around New Jersey on a Summer Night”
• The Trypes: “Belmont Girl Is Mad at Me”
• The Two Man Gentlemen Band: “The Hindenburg Disaster”
• U2: “Pride (In the Name of Love)”
• U2 with Bruce Springsteen: “Stand by Me”
• The Unlovables: “Jersey Boy”
• Keith Urban and Alicia Keys: “Gimme Shelter” at Live Earth
• Frankie Valli: “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You”
• Frankie Valli: “My Mother’s Eyes”
• Dave Van Ronk: “Garden State Stomp”
• Sarah Vaughan: “I Got Rhythm”
• Sarah Vaughan: “I’ve Got the World on a String”
• Sarah Vaughan and Wynton Marsalis: “September Song”
• Eddie Vedder with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band: “Better Man” at Vote for Change concert at Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford
• Suzanne Vega: “Tom’s Diner” at Thomas Edison National Historical Park, West Orange
• “Uncle” Floyd Vivino: “Deep in the Heart of Jersey”

The cover for the single, “The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore,” by The Walker Brothers

• The Walker Brothers: “The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore”
• Dee Dee Warwick: “You’re No Good”
• Dionne Warwick: “Anyone Who Had a Heart”
• Dionne Warwick: “Hasbrook Heights”
• Dionne Warwick, Whitney Houston, Stevie Wonder and Luther Vandross: “That’s What Friends Are For”
• Max and Jay Weinberg: “Sing, Sing, Sing”
• Weather Report, featuring Wayne Shorter: “Elegant People”
• Kevin Welch: “Jersey Devil”
• Ernie White and Richie Sambora: “Hallelujah”
• Jack Whiting: “There’s a Small Hotel”
• Bernie Worrell: “Funkentelechy”
• Gary Wright: “Love Is Alive”
• XTC: “Statue of Liberty”
• Yo La Tengo: “Did I Tell You”
• Yo La Tengo: “Roadrunner”
• Neil Young: “My Hometown”
• The Young Rascals: “Good Lovin’ ”
• Joe Zook & Blues Deluxe: “Jersey Blues”