TOP 100 SONGS BY ELTON JOHN. This post: #100-91. Next update: tomorrow.

Caffé Latté celebrates Elton John’s 70th birthday on March 25 and a half century of songwriting with Bernie Taupin with a retrospective highlighting: THE 100 GREATEST SONGS OF ELTON JOHN

100 CARLA/ ETUDE Year: 1981 Album: The Fox Being an instrumental medley, this is one of the rare tracks composed by Elton John without a collaborator. In its original form, it also included "Fanfare" (an instrumental John wrote with James Newton Howard) and the vocal coda "Chloe". The "Carla / Etude" edit listed here is the 1987 version from the 1990-1 'To Be Continued' box set, recorded live in Sydney with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

99 LATITUDE Year: 1995 Album: Made In England The strings and French horn featured on "Latitude" were arranged and conducted by the legendary George Martin. It was a song written by Elton with Bernie Taupin.

98 ONE MORE ARROW Year: 1983 Album: Too Low For Zero 'Too Low For Zero' was the first album wholly composed by Elton with lyricist Bernie Taupin since 1976. It was a quality reunion project, yielding several hit singles and many significant album tracks. "One More Arrow" is a ballad with strings conducted and arranged by James Newton Howard.

97 BREAKING DOWN THE BARRIERS Year: 1981 Album: The Fox Gary Osborne co-wrote 4 of the 9 tracks that ended up on 'The Fox' album. "Breaking Down The Barriers" was its empowering opening track.

96 I WANT LOVE Year: 2001 Album: Songs From The West Coast Robert Downey Jr. starred in the music video for "I Want Love".  The track features Billy Preston on electric organ.

95 NICE AND SLOW Year: 1989 Album: The Complete Thom Bell Sessions [E.P.] In 1979, Elton released an E.P. entitled 'The Thom Bell Sessions' where he recorded songs with one of the key figures of the lush Phillie Sound: Thom Bell. The E.P. was repackaged 10 years later as 'The Complete Thom Bell Sessions', containing 3 previously unreleased tracks: "Nice And Slow", "Country Love Song" and "Shine On Through". The former was penned by Elton with Taupin and Bell.

94 CRYSTAL Year: 1983 Album: Too Low For Zero "Crystal" was issued as a double A-sided single with "Cold As Christmas". Chris Thomas produced  its parent album 'Too Low For Zero'.

93 BELFAST Year: 1995 Album: Made In England Paul Buckmaster reunited with Elton on the 'Made In England' album project. The classically trained musician had already cut his teeth on classics such as David Bowie's "Space Oddity", The Rolling Stones' 'Sticky Fingers' and Carly Simon's "You're So Vain". The orchestra heard on 4 tracks (including "Belfast") was arranged and conducted by him. Elton penned the song with Taupin.

92 ELECTRICITY Year:  2005 Album: Billy Elliot The Musical (Cast Album) Elton teamed up with lyricist Lee Hall for the musical adaptation of the 2000 film 'Billy Elliot'. The former produced the track which peaked at #4 on the UK chart. It was later added to the re-packaged 'Peachtree Road' album. Hall wrote the screenplay.

91 ENGLAND AND AMERICA Year: 2016 Album: Wonderful Crazy Night The deluxe edition of 'Wonderful Crazy Night' included the Elton and Taupin bonus track "England And America'. The former handled production of the album with T Bone Burnette.

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