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A list song, also called a laundry list song or a catalog song, is a song based wholly or in part on a list. Unlike topical songs with a narrative and a cast of characters, list songs typically develop by working through a series of information, often comically, articulating their images additively, and sometimes use items of escalating absurdity.

The form as a defining feature of an oral tradition dates back to early classical antiquity, where it played an important part of early for oral bards like and .

In classical , the list song has its own genre, the , that was especially popular in Italian and in the latter half of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Leporello's aria "Madamina, il catalogo è questo" (), also nicknamed The Catalogue Aria, is a prominent example, and often mentioned as a direct antecedent to the 20th-century musical's list song.

The list song is a frequent element of 20th-century popular music and became a staple. , , Noël Coward, and are composers and lyricists who have used the form. The very first commercial recording of a Cole Porter tune was his list song "I've a Shooting Box in Scotland" originally from See America First (1913). Berlin followed soon after with the list song "When I Discovered You" from his first complete Broadway score, Watch Your Step (1914).

Porter would frequently return to the list song form. Notable examples include "You're the Top" from the 1934 musical , "Friendship", one of Porter's wittiest list songs, from DuBarry Was a Lady, and "Farming" and "Let's Not Talk About Love", both from Let's Face It! (1942), and both written for to showcase his ability with tongue-twisting lyrics. In "You're the Top", Porter pays tribute to his colleague Irving Berlin by including the item "You're the top! You're a Berlin ballad."

Irving Berlin would likewise often write songs in the genre; notable examples include "My Beautiful Rhinestone Girl" from Face the Music (1932), a list song that starts off with a sequence of similes, "Outside of That I Love You" from Louisiana Purchase, and "Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better)" a challenge-duet, and Berlin's starkest antithesis-driven list song, "You Can't Get a Man with a Gun", and "Doin' What Comes Natur'lly", all three from the 1946 Annie Get Your Gun.

List of list songs
Examples of list songs, and their composers/performers, include the following.
+ List songs
, and Fred Wise
and from
, performed by
, performed by Simon and Garfunkel
, first released in 1991 on The Peel Sessions Album; based on "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66" by
Fluke
, from the 1971 musical
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Thalia
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Rie Sheridan Rose,
from the musical Hair
and Whitey Shafer
from
from the musical Annie Get Your Gun
from by Gilbert & Sullivan
, for his 1938 musical You Never Know
Danny and the Juniorslists many popular dances of the late 1950s
lists many euphemisms for sexual acts
from the animated 1967 Disney film The Jungle Book
and E.Y. Harburg
traditional Caribbean
from the musical Hair
from the 2014 musical with music, lyrics, and a book by Laurence O'Keefe and Kevin Murphy
The Divine Comedy
interpolates Vogue by listing black cultural icons and
Blur
(2026). 9781784187910, John Blake Publishing. .
Cole Porter from Kiss Me, Kate
Cole Porter from DuBarry Was a Lady
The Beach Boys
Pop Will Eat Itself
Flight of the Conchords
with music and lyrics by Cole Porter for his 1950 musical Out of This World
music by , words by Oscar Hammerstein II, introduced by and in Flower Drum Song
/
I'm from Barcelona
with lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner for 's On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum by
music by Leonard Bernstein, words by and , introduced by in
by for the 1971 musical
from 's 2018 album
John Grant
Cole Porter from DuBarry Was a Lady
Noël Coward
Noël Coward
The Statler Brothers
Cole Porter from DuBarry Was a Lady

Alanis Morissette
Jay Foreman
Lemon Demon
Motion City Soundtrack
Blur
Cole Porter from Let's Face It!
from 's 2018 album
Kunt and the Gang
Train
B-52s
The Bloodhound Gang
Cole Porter from DuBarry Was a Lady

(lyrics) and Leonard Bernstein (music) from West Side Story
Beyoncé
Go-Go's
The Divine Comedy
traditional
traditional
from the musical Hair
"Weird Al" Yankovic
from the musical Hair
The Beloved
Sparks
/
Lyrics by Alan Sherman, music is Hungarian Dance No. 5 in F♯ minor written by
Sam Fender
and
, first sung in the 1934 musical
from the musical Hair
Sprites
Dutch hit, 1986
Beyoncé
from the musical Hair
from Adam Gwon's 2008 musical
Big Hard Excellent Fish
with lyrics by from 's opera Porgy and Bess
from the 2013 musical Bubble Boy with music and lyrics by
The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu
R.E.M.
Cole Porter from See America First
(original), (U.S.A. adaptation)
Wire
The Beach Boys
from the 1937 Rodgers and Hart musical Babes in Arms
Wings
and
Cole Porter from Let's Face It! (1942)
from A Little Night Music
Reunion
, performed by
The Divine Comedy
from At The Circus
"Mad Dogs and Englishmen"Noël Coward
Mozart ("The Catalogue Aria" from )
and
R.E.M.
,
John Grant
M.I.A.
Shakin' Stevens
Die Fantastischen Vier
Insane Clown Posse
U2
music, ; lyrics,
Robert Allen and
They Might Be Giants
The Bloodhound Gang
Rodgers and Hammerstein
Richard Rodgers
music by and lyrics by

with lyrics by and music by from Jamaica
Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Calle 13
U2
Vincent Daffalong
Sparks
from Leonard Bernstein's 1953 musical
"Weird Al" Yankovic
The Bloodhound Gang
Sparks
Cole Porter for the musical
Loudon Wainwright III
Extreme (band)
Pokémon
"Weird Al" Yankovic
Cole Porter
My Darkest Days featuring and
from film Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Five Finger Death Punch
from the musical On Your Toes (Rodgers and Hart)
""
traditional
Ian Dury & the Blockheads
Half Man Half Biscuit
with lyrics by and music by from Inside U.S.A.
The Righteous Brothers
The B-52's

with music by and lyrics by written for the 1941 Broadway musical Lady in the Dark
Riders in the Sky
""Bill and Doree Post#3 hit for in 1960
Flanders and Swann
Passengers (U2 and )
from the musical Hair
The Beautiful South
Jefferson Starship
Prince
Stars on 45
2ManyDJs
by Noël Coward from his 1938 musical Operette
with lyrics by and music by
The Notorious B.I.G.
by Noël Coward from his 1945 musical Sigh No More
Storybots
with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
and
and
FFS
The Lonely Island and
David Byrne
, Brian Turrington
Dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip
with lyrics by Don Black and music by from Bar Mitzvah Boy
and Ted Mossman
composed by with lyrics by for the musical A Connecticut Yankee
Flanders and Swann
Half Man Half Biscuit
Pete Seegerafter King Solomon (Ecclesiastes)
traditional
Alanis Morissette
Madonna
from
Franz Ferdinand
Antonio Carlos Jobim
Faith No More
Fall Out Boy
and Weiss
Cole Porter
Go-Go's
from the musical Hair
by Noël Coward from the 1961 musical Sail Away
, , Alan and Marilyn Bergman
from the film Run Lola Run (Thomas D)
from
from American Psycho
from Annie Get Your Gun
Carole Bayer Sager
Rodgers and Hart

Patter songs
Many fall into this genre such as:
  • KoKo's Little list song from (see "As Some Day It May Happen" above)
  • "Tschaikowsky (and Other Russians)" ( and ) (see "Tschaikowsky" above)
  • "The Major-General's Song" (Gilbert and Sullivan)
  • "If You Want a Receipt" from Patience (Gilbert and Sullivan)

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