Jerry Lee Lewis - Great Balls Of Fire
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The list has been growing daily. Here’s our list with the top artists and their most popular songs. Come back and visit as this list will keep changing as the votes come in:
| Keyboardist | Top Keyboard Song |
| Elton John | Tiny Dancer |
| Jerry Lee Lewis | Great Balls of Fire |
| Chuck Leavell | Jessica |
| Nicky Hopkins | Edward and the Mad Shirt Grinder |
| Leon Russell | Roll Away the Stone |
| Keith Emerson | Take a Pebble |
| Billy Joel | Piano Man |
| Billy Preston | Nothing from Nothing |
| Ian Stewart | Boogie with Stu |
| Dr. John | Such a Night |
| Billy Powell | Freebird |
| Ray Manzarek | Light My Fire |
| Rick Wakeman | Roundabout |
| Little Richard | Good Golly Miss Molly |
| Jon Lord | Highway Star |
| Freddie Mercury | Bohemian Rhapsody |
| Steve Winwood | Gimme Some Lovin |
| Ray Charles | What’d I say |
| Fats Domino | BlueBerry Hill |
| Billy Payne | Dixie Chicken |
| Roy Bittan | Bat out of Hell |
| Paul McCartney | Hey Jude |
| Bruce Hornsby | That’s Just the Way It Is |
| John Paul Jones | Trampled Under Foot |
| Professor Longhair | Tipitina |
| Richard Wright | The Great Gig in the Sky |
| Gregg Allman | Stormy Monday |
| Ian McLagan | Itchykoo Park |
| Chris Stainton | Little Queen of Spades |
| Johnnie Johnson | Johnnie’s Boogie |
| Axl Rose | November Rain |
| Stevie Wonder | Blame it on the Sun |
| Mike Garson | Aladdin Sane |
| Benmont Tench | Little Red Rooster |
| Garth Hudson | The Genetic Method |
| John Lennon | Imagine |
| Jonathan Cain | Don’t Stop Believin’ |
| Carole King | You’ve Got a Friend |
| Don Airey | Mr. Crowley |
| Otis Spann | Good Morning Mr. Blues |
| Jools Holland | Uncertain Smile |
| Tony Banks | Firth of Fifth |
| Ben Folds | One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces |
| Reese Wynans | Daytona |
| Richard Manuel | Orange Juice Blues |
| Tori Amos | Winter |
| Jim Gordon | Layla |
| Warren Zevon | Excitable Boy |
| Rod Argent | She’s Not There |
| Booker T. Jones | Time is Tight |
| Donald Fagen | Fire in the Hole |
| Keith Godchaux | Ramble on Rose |
| Brian Jones | Let’s Spend the Night Together |
| Steven Tyler | Dream On |
| Huey “Piano” Smith | Rockin Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu |
| Jef Labes | Moondance |
| John Evan | Locomotive Breath |
| Joni Mitchell | River |
| Aretha Franklin | Honest I Do |
| Barry Beckett | Loan Me A Dime |
| Tom Scholz | Foreplay |
| Craig Frost | Against the Wind |
| Gary Brooker | Piggy Pig Pigs |
| Herbie Hancock | Watermelon Man |
| Bob Mayo | Frampton Comes Alive! |
| Alicia Keys | Fallin |
| Mike Pinder | Go Now |
| Tony Kaye | Owner of a Lonely Heart |
| Geddy Lee | Subdivisions |
| Jack Nitzsche | After the Gold rush |
| Burton Cummings | Sour Suite |
| Jackson Browne | The Load Out |
| Lzzy Hale | Dear Daughter |
| Jon Cleary | When You Get Back |
| Alan Price | The House of the Rising Sun |
| Chris Martin | Amsterdam |
| Dennis DeYoung | Come Sail Away |
| Eddie Van Halen | Jump |
| George Frayne | Beat Me Daddy Eight to the Bar |
| Ian Hunter | All the Way to Memphis |
| Larry Knechtel | Bridge Over Trouble Water |
| Mark Stein | You Keep Me Hangin On |
| Mead Lux Lewis | Honky Tonk Train Blues |
| Pinetop Perkins | Pintetop’s Boogie Woogie |
| Steve Nieve | I Can’t Stand Up For Falling Down |
| Al Hazan | Nut Rocker |
| Brian Wilson | Pet Sounds |
| Bruce katz | Nortons Boogie |
| Ed Harsch | Descending |
| John Miles | Music |
| Keith Jarrett | The Köln Concert |
| Mick Ronson | Perfect Day |
| Mose Allison | Young Man’s Blues |
| Paul Harris | Against the Wind |
| Robert Plant | Far post |
| Randy Newman | Louisiana |
| Lee Michaels | Do You Know What I Mean |
| Al Kooper | Season of the Witch |
| Artie Butler | Feelin’ Alright |
| Bernard Sumner | Love Will Tear Us Apart |
| Dizzy Reed | Live and Let Die |
| Frank Rodriguez | 96 Tears |
| Glenn Frey | Desperado |
| Jarboe | Love Will Tear Us Apart |
| Joe Jackson | Steppin Out |
| John Hall | Space Superstar |
| Jordan Rudess | The Miracle and the Sleeper |
| Mark Cohn | Walking in Memphis |
| Martin Gore | Enjoy the Silence |
| Matthew Fisher | A Whiter Shade of Pale |
| Mick Gallagher | Do You Feel Like We Do |
| Miles Robertson | Make You Feel My Love |
| Rick Davies | School |
Lee Michaels? Matt Rollings?
Great players. We’ll add them to the list. Keep rockin!
Watermelon man
Dixie chicken
Any Aretha Franklin
Yeah, Aretha can play! Not many people know that.
George Frayne (aka Commander Cody)- “Beat Me Daddy Eight to the Bar”