Artist	Song
Elvis Presley	Good Rockin' Tonight
from Elvis 75 - Good Rockin' Tonight (2009)
Sam & Dave	Soul Man
from The Best of Sam & Dave (2008)
Bob Dylan	Like a Rolling Stone
from Highway 61 Revisited (1990)
Woody Guthrie	This Land Is Your Land
from The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1-4 (1999)
Creedence Clearwater Revival	Who'll Stop the Rain
from Cosmo's Factory (40th Anniversary Edition) [Remastered] (2008)
Roy Orbison	Crying
from Crying (2006)
Pete Seeger	We Shall Overcome
from The Essential Pete Seeger (2005)
Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels	Devil With the Blue Dress On / Good Golly Miss Molly
from Rhino Hi-Five: Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels - EP (2005)
The Kingsmen	Louie Louie
from The Best of the Kingsmen (2006)
The Animals	It's My Life
from Retrospective (2005)
Gary U.S. Bonds	Quarter to Three
from The Very Best of Gary U.S. Bonds (1998)
The Beach Boys	When I Grow Up (To Be a Man)
from Today!/Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) (2001)
The Isley Brothers	Twist and Shout
from Twist and Shout (2009)
Johnny Cash, June Carter & Merle Kilgore	Ring of Fire
from The Essential Johnny Cash (2002)
The Band	Long Black Veil
from Music From Big Pink (2000)
Dion	Runaround Sue
from Runaround Sue (1993)
Chuck Berry	Sweet Little Sixteen
from 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Chuck Berry (1999)
Them	Gloria
from Still On Top - The Greatest Hits (Deluxe Version) (2007)
Buddy Holly & The Crickets	Not Fade Away
from The "Chirping" Crickets (2004)
The Byrds	Chimes Of Freedom
from Mr. Tambourine Man (1994)
The Ronettes	Be My Baby
from The Phil Spector Collection (2010)
John Lee Hooker	Boom Boom
from Urban Blues (Bonus Tracks) (1993)
Eddie Floyd	Raise Your Hand
from Stax Profiles: Eddie Floyd (2006)
Rev. Gary Davis	Samson and Delilah
from Harlem Street Singer (2006)
Ennio Morricone	Once Upon a Time In the West (Once Upon a Time In the West)
from Ennio Morricone: Film Music Maestro (2007)

Comment:

“We learned more from a three-minute record,” Bruce sings in “No Surrender,” “than we ever learned in school.” What he didn’t mention is that the three-minute record [i]was[/i] his school, and he’s spent the past four decades teaching Rock 101 to millions of students. Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels’ “Devil with the Blue Dress On/Good Golly Miss Molly” races like a bullet train on a three-minute express to Soulsville U.S.A. — a bass-drum-thumpin’ monument to good times with a bad woman. Van Morrison’s gravel-soaked-in-whiskey delivery in “Gloria” seesaws between a whisper and a scream as he hammers home, letter by letter, the name we won’t ever forget. And if you can’t hear echoes of Pete Seeger’s protest-march anthem “We Shall Overcome" in the likes of Springsteen’s “American Skin (41 Shots)” and “Last to Die,” you need to cue it up and play it again. But that’s not all — Springsteen’s roots extend from New Deal folk to old-school soul and beyond.

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