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  Song Artist/Date/Label Remade by
Gallows Pole see Mama, Did You Bring Me Any Silver
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 Galveston Don Ho 1968
Reprise 0800 		Glen Campbell (11-27-68)
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 Gambler, The Don Schlitz 1978
Capitol 4576 		Kenny Rogers
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 Gee Whiz Bob & Earl 1958
Class 231 		Innocents
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 Gentle On My Mind John Hartford 2-3-67
RCA Victor 9175 		Tompall & Glaser Bros. (2-22-67), Glen Campbell
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 Georgia (On My Mind) Hoagy Carmichael 9-15-30
Victor 23013 		Frankie Trumbauer (6-24-31, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Ray Charles, Michael Bolton
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 Get It While You Can Howard Tate 2-22-67
Verve 10496 		Janis Joplin
Get Together see Let's Get Together
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 Get Up (aka 7-6-5-4-3-2-1 [Blow Your Whistle]) Blue Mink 1974
MCA 40230 		Gary Toms Empire
Ghost Riders In The Sky see Riders In The Sky
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 Gidget Four Preps c. 6-58
Capitol 4078 		James Darren (8-2-58)
Both the Four Preps and James Darren were in the 1959 film Gidget.

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 Gina Johnny Janis 1960
Columbia 41797 		Johnny Mathis (8-9-62)
Janis recorded the song specifically for an episode (titled "Gina") of the CBS TV series Diagnosis: Unknown, in which he had a small role. That version was the one issued. Columbia had their bases covered, since Janis & Mathis were both signed to the label.

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 Girl From Ipanema (as "Garota de Ipanema") Pery Ribeiro 1962
on lp Brazilian Odeon 3314 Pery E' Todo Bossa 		Antonio Carlos Jobim, Stan Getz/Astrud Gilberto
Cowriters Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes were inspired by a real life "girl from Ipanema," 18-year-old Heloisa Eneida Menezes Pais Pinto (aka Helô Pinheiro), who regularly passed by their bar hangout.

Ribeiro supposedly heard Jobim playing the song in a Brazilian bar and immediately recorded it, not realizing Antonio would be cutting it the following day for the same record company!

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 Girl Of My Best Friend Charlie Blackwell 1959
Warner Bros. 5132 		Elvis Presley (4-4-60), Marty Vine, Ral Donner (9-10-60), Eddie Wood
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 Girl On A Swing Happenings 1966
on lp B.T. Puppy 1001 		Gerry & Pacemakers (6-2-66)
Girl Watcher see Boy Watcher
Girls, Girls, Girls see Made To Love
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 Give Us Your Blessing Ray Peterson 1963
Dunes 2025 		Shangri-Las
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 Giving It Up For Your Love Jerry Williams 1979
on lp Warner Bros 3291 Gone 		Delbert McClinton
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 Glendora Jack Lewis & Zippy Simms Orch. 1956
Crest 1018 		Perry Como (5-8-56), Downliners Sect
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 Gloria Bob Hayward 1946
Exclusive 218 		Johnny Moore's Three Blazers, Mills Bros., Cadillacs, Manhattan Transfer
The Cadillacs' version was somewhat of a rewrite of the song (by Esther Navarro) that turned it into a doo-wop standard.

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 Glory Of Love, The Willie Bryant & Orch. 4-9-36
Bluebird 6374 		Ted Fio Rito (4-14-36), Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Cleftones, Five Keys, Roommates, Dean Martin, Peggy Lee, Otis Redding, Dells, Bette Midler et el.
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 Go Away Little Girl Bobby Vee 3-28-62
on lp Liberty 3285 The Night Has A Thousand Eyes 		Steve Lawrence, Happenings, Donny Osmond
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 Go Now Bessie Banks 12-4-63
Tiger 102 		Moody Blues, Wings
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 Go Where You Wanna Go Mamas & Papas 1965
on lp Dunhill 50006 If You Can Believe Your Eyes And Ears 		5th Dimension
The Mamas & Papas' recording has been referenced as having been issued as a single, Dunhill 4018, that was withdrawn. Only promotional copies are thought to exist.

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 God, Country and My Baby Chico Holiday 1961
New Phoenix 6190/Coral 62291 		Johnny Burnette (9-22-61)
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 Goin' Steady Faron Young 10-12-52
Capitol 2299 		Tommy Sands, Faron Young (1970 for Mercury)
The melody was based on Claude King's "She Knows Why" (Specialty 705), cut a few months earlier in 1952.

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 Going Down Moloch 1969
on lp Enterprise 1002 		Freddie King, Jeff Beck Group, Don Nix, J.J. Cale, Bryan Ferry, John Mayall
Going Up The Country see Bull Doze Blues
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 Gone Smokey Rogers 1952
Western Caravan 901 		Ferlin Husky (11-4-52 as by Terry Preston, 1956), Joey Heatherton, Smokey Rogers (1963 for Starday), Troy Shondell
Gonna Get Along Without Ya Now see I'm Gonna Get Along Without You
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 Gonna Have A Good Time (aka Good Times) Easybeats 1967
United Artists 50488 		INXS & Jimmy Barnes
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 Good Hearted Woman Waylon Jennings 9-1-71
RCA 0615 		Willie Nelson (1971, 1978), Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson (1976)
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 Good Lovin' Lemme B. Good 2-65
Mercury 72418 		Olympics (rel 3-65), Young Rascals (2-1-66), Grateful Dead
Rudy Clark wrote the song as recorded by Lemme but wasn't satisfied with the lyrics. Clark then approached Artie Resnick for help and they reworked it. After the Olympics cut it, Resnick was told a British band (possibly the Dave Clark 5 or Swinging Blue Jeans) would be recording it. When that didn't happen, Artie was disappointed to learn it was going to be done by an unknown US group; the Young Rascals. After theirs hit number one, he didn't complain! All versions after Lemme's rightly credit Clark and Resnick as writers.

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 Good Morning, School Girl (aka Good Morning Little School Girl) Sonny Boy Williamson (John Lee Williamson)
5-5-37   Bluebird 7059 		Yardbirds, Grateful Dead, Rod Stewart, Taj Mahal, Muddy Waters, Van Morrison et al.
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 Good Morning Starshine Jill O'Hara 10-30-67
on lp RCA 1143 Hair Off-Broadway cast 		Lynn Kellogg, Melba Moore, James Rado & Gerome Ragni, Oliver, Strawberry Alarm Clock
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 Good Rocking Tonight Roy Brown 7-47
Deluxe 1093 		Wynonie Harris (12-28-47), Elvis Presley, Pat Boone
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 Good Time Charlie's Got The Blues Danny O'Keefe 1967 (cut for Piccadilly)
on lp First American 7721 The Seattle Tapes (1977) 		Bards, Danny O'Keefe (1970 for Cotillion, 1972 for Signpost)
Good Times see Gonna Have A Good Time
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 Goodbye My Lover Goodbye Robert Mosley 1963 (rel. 4-63)
Capitol 4961 		Jimmy Hughes, Searchers
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 Goody Goody Ted Wallace & Swing Kings 1-17-36
Bluebird 6252 		Benny Goodman (1-24-36), Wingy Manone (3-10-36), Frankie Lymon, Ella Fitzgerald
Got Love If You Want It see I Got Love If You Want It
Got My Mind Set On You see I've Got My Mind Set On You
Got To Move see You Got To Move
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 Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer Elmo & Patsy 1979
Kim-Pat 2984/Soundwaves 4658 		Elmo & Patsy (1979 for Oink, later issued on Epic)
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 Green Fields (aka Greenfields) Easy Riders 10-23-57
on lp Columbia 1103 Blue Mountain 		Brothers Four (7-28-59), Vogues, Eliza Gilkyson
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 Green, Green Grass Of Home Johnny Darrell c. 7-65
United Artists 869 		Jerry Lee Lewis, Porter Wagoner, Tom Jones
Tom Jones was inspired to record the song after hearing Jerry Lee Lewis's version.

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 Greenback Dollar Hoyt Axton 1962
on lp Horizon 1601 The Balladeer 		Hoyt Axton (1962, Horizon 351, 1963, Horizon 362), Kingston Trio (9-25-62), Jamie Coe & Gigolos, Astronauts, Washington Squares
Axton followed his 1962 lp recording with a 45 verson that included drums and banjo, and substitued the word "darn" for "damn" in the lyrics. He issued another single of the song in 1963 (following the Kingston Trio's hit?), this time with the lyric "I Don't Give A Hang..."

Hoyt's Balladeer album was reissued (minus two tracks) in 1963, with the same label and catalog number, under the title Greenback Dollar, undoubtedly to take advantage of the Kingston Trio's success with the song.

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 Grieg's Concerto Boogie In A Minor (aka Asia Minor) Hadda Brooks 1946
Modern 145 		Kokomo
A reworking of Edvard Grieg's "Piano Concerto in A minor."

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 Groovin' (aka We're Gonna Groove) Ben E. King 11-16-63
Atco 6284 		Led Zeppelin
Not a major Zep tune, but any they do that aren't originals, are worth noting.

Ben E. King's single was an edit from his live recording that appeared on the Apollo Saturday Night album (Atco 33-159, 1964).

The Young Rascals' 1967 hit of the same title is a different song.

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 Groovy Kind Of Love Diane & Annita 1965
on ep French Vogue Int. 18035 		Patti LaBelle, Mindbenders, Phil Collins
Melody based on Clementi's 1797 Rondo from "Sonatina in G, Op. 36, No.5." Despite being Amercian recording artists, Diane & Annita's version was issued in France but not the US.

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 Groovy Situation Mel & Tim 1969
on lp Bamboo 8001 Good Guys Only Win In The Movies 		Gene Chandler
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 Groupie (aka Superstar) Delany & Bonnie And Friends w/ Eric Clapton 9-27 to 10-10-69
Atco 6725 		Joe Cocker w/ Rita Coolidge, Cher, Carpenters, Bette Midler
Guantanamera see Guarjira Guantanamera
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 Guarjira Guantanamera (aka Guantanamera) Joseito Fernández 9-12-40(?)
Victor 83240 		Travis Edmundson (as "Cuanta La Mera"), Weavers, Pete Seeger, Sandpipers
José "Joseito" Fernandez Dias assembled roots of the song in the 1920s. Some years later, Cuban Julian Orbon paired the melody with words from late-19th century writer José Marti's final book Simple Verses. According to Pete Seeger in his autobiography Where Have All The Flowers Gone, "Guantanamera" was originally intended to satirize women in Guantanamo who dated American sailors. Then Joseito began singing it on Havana radio, improvising verses based on scandals and newspaper stories of the day. He has recorded the song a number of times but unfortunately, following the Cuban revolution of 1959 and the Government takeover of master tapes, dates have been intentionally distorted or deleted.

"A Mi Madre," as written on this Victor record, is assumed to be a tribute to Fernández's mother and not really part of the song's title.

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 Guitar Boogie (aka Guitar Boogie Shuffle) Rambler Trio (aka Arthur Smith & His Crackerjacks) 9-44
Super Disc 1004 		Virtues, Arthur Smith (1974 for Monument)
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 Guitar Man Jerry Reed 10-10-66
RCA Victor 9152 		Elvis Presley
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 Gypsy Queen Gabor Szabo 5-6-66
Impulse 248 		Santana