Vocal Tunes

NYC High Schools USED to have lists of songs that they suggested students choose from. After years of complaints, the schools dropped the lists. However, I suggest that you look at this list and see if you like any of these tunes. In my experience, students who audition singing their favorite POP song DO NOT GET INTO THESE HIGH SCHOOLS. There are exceptions, of course, but you should be smart and strategic.

Go down the list, look up recordings of these songs on YouTube, look up lyrics, and find a song that you want to learn. This list is a compilation of the former lists from LaGuardia H.S., Frank Sinatra, and Edward R. Murrow high schools.

Amazing Grace - American Traditional

America - American Patriotic

America the Beautiful - American Patriotic

Ash Grove - British Folk Song

Caro Mio Ben - Antonio Caldera

Danny Boy - Irish Folk Song

Do I Love You, from Cinderella - Rodgers

Do Re Mi, from The Sound of Music - Rodgers

Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes - American Folk Song

Edelweiss, from Sound of Music - Rodgers

Getting to Know You, from The King and I - Rodgers

Give Me Jesus - African American Traditional

Go Down Moses - African American Traditional

Go Tell It On The Mountain - African American Spiritual

God Bless America - American Patriotic

Greensleeves - British Folk Song

He’s Got The Whole World - African American Traditional

His Eye Is On The Sparrow - African American Traditional

How Are Things In Glocca Morra, from Finnian’s Rainbow - Lane

I Believe - Erwin Drake

I Could Have Danced All Night, from My Fair Lady - Lerner

I Feel Pretty, from West Side Story - Bernstein

I Know Where I’m Going - American Folk

In My Own Little Corner, from Cinderella - Rodgers

Johnny Has Gone For A Soldier - American Patriotic

Lift Every Voice And Sing - African American Traditional

Long Long Ago - American Folk

Look to the Rainbow, from Finnian’s Rainbow - Lane

My Favorite Things, from The Sound of Music - Rodgers

My Funny Valentine, from Babes in Arms - Rodgers

Nel Cor Piu Non Mi Sento - Giovanni Paisiello

O Cessate - Alessandro Scarlatti

Oh What A Beautiful Morning, from Oklahoma! - Rodgers

On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever) - Lane

Poor Wayfaring Stranger - American Folk Song

Santa Lucia - Italian Traditional Song

Scarborough Fair - British Folk Song

Se Tu Mami - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

Sea Fever - John Ireland

Sebben Crudele - Antonio Caldara

Shenandoah - American Folk Song

Simple Gifts - American Traditional

Somewhere, from West Side Story - Bernstein

Steal Away - African American Traditional

Swing Low Sweet Chariot - African American Traditional

Ten Minutes Ago, from Cinderella - Rodgers

This is My Country - American Patriotic

This Little Light of Mine - African American Traditional

Try To Remember, from The Fantasticks - Schmidt

Tu Lo Sai - Giuseppe Torelli

Water is Wide - American Folk Song

When You Wish Upon A Star, from Pinocchio - Harline

Wouldn’t It Be Lovely, from My Fair Lady - Lerner