COLUMBIA, SC
What music will you be playing when the moon blocks out the sun on Monday, Aug. 21?
The State Newspaper asked readers to share their eclipse music playlists, then tallied the results.

The most popular
1. “Here Comes the Sun” (George Harrison/The Beatles)
2. (tie) “Bad Moon Rising” (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
“Ain’t No Sunshine” (Bill Withers)
3. “Total Eclipse of the Heart” (Bonnie Tyler)
4. (tie) “Eclipse” (Pink Floyd)
“Moon Shadow” (Cat Stevens)
“Black Hole Sun” (Soundgarden)
“Dancing in the Moonlight” (King Harvest)
5. (tie) “Dark Side of the Moon” (Pink Floyd)
“Fly Me to the Moon” (Frank Sinatra)
“Aquarius/Let the Sun Shine In” (5th Dimension)
“Don’t Let the Sun Go Down On Me” (Elton John)

Best of the rest
“Total Eclipse” (Iron Maiden)
“Blue Moon” (Billie Holiday)
“Blue Moon” (The Marcels)
“House of the Rising Sun” (The Animals)
“Soak Up the Sun” (Sheryl Crow)
“You Are the Sunshine of My Life” (Stevie Wonder)
“Brain Damage” (Pink Floyd)
“Blinded by the Light” (Manfred Mann's Earth Band)
“You Are My Sunshine” (Johnny Cash)
“Brighter Than The Sun” (Colbie Caillat)
“A Place In the Sun” (Stevie Wonder)
“Walking on Sunshine” (Katrina and the Waves)
“Why Does the Sun Really Shine?” (They Might Be Giants)
“Moondance” (Van Morrison)
“Blister in the Sun” (Violent Femmes)
“A Sky Full of Stars” (Coldplay)
“Moonlight Feels Right” (Starbuck)
“When the Sun Goes Down” (Kenny Chesney & Uncle Kracker)

One vote wonders
“Waiting for the Sun” (The Doors)
“Space Oddity” (2015 remaster, David Bowie)
“When the Night Comes” (ELO)
“Good Day Sunshine” (The Beatles)
“Spirit in the Sky” (Elton John)
“Dancing in the Dark” (Bruce Springsteen)
“New Moon On Monday” (Duran Duran – this will be a New Moon on Monday that will block the sun)
“Back in Black” (AC/DC)
"That's Amore" (Perry Como; "And the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amore")
“You’re So Vain” (Carly Simon; “flew your LearJet to Nova Scotia to see the total eclipse of the sun”)
“Little Star/Eclipse” (Sammy Hagar)
“California Sun” (The Ramones)
“I Go Blind” (Hootie and the Blowfish)
And, winning our nod for ‘most eclectic list’
“Mambo Sun” (T. Rex)
“Moon Shadow” (LaBelle)
“Brain Damage” (Pink Floyd)
“Eclipse” (2011 Remastered Version, Pink Floyd)
“Total Eclipse of the Heart” (Bonnie Tyler)
“Paint It, Black” (Original Single Mono Version, The Rolling Stones) “See The Sun” (The Kooks)
“Blinding Sun” (2008 Remastered Version, Mudhoney)
“Son Of The South” (The Afghan Whigs) - The cheapest pun
“Stare At The Sun” (Mutemath)
“Black Hole Sun” (Soundgarden)
“Why Does the Sun Really Shine?” (They Might Be Giants)
“Ain't No Sunshine” (Bill Withers)
“Here Comes The Moon” (2004 Digital Remaster, George Harrison) - Anyone could have thought of “Here Comes the Sun,” right?
“Eclipse” (Danny Elfman)
“Steal My Sunshine” (Single Version , Len)
“Corona” (Minutemen) -
“Wednesday Heals Shadow” (Brian Reitzell) -the show “American Gods,” where the main character is called Shadow Moon.
“The Sound of Silence” (Simon & Garfunkel)
“Under Cover of Darkness” (The Strokes)
“Shadowplay” (2007 Remastered Version, Joy Division)
“Shadow Of The Day” (Linkin Park)
“Shadow on the Sun” (Audioslave)
“Total Eclipse” (Iron Maiden)

“Ain’t No Sunshine” (Bill Withers)


Love this song...

umm, hello...where is Children of the Sun by Billy Thorpe?

All by Frank Sinatra, from the Moonlight Serenade album:

Moonlight Becomes You
Moon Song
Moonlight Serenade
Reaching for the Moon
I Wished on the Moon
Oh You Crazy Moon
The Moon Got in My Eyes
Moonlight Mood
Moon Love
The Moon Was Yellow

umm, hello...where is "Let the Sunshine In" by Pebbles and Bamm Bamm?

Andy Williams, Moon River.

Sunshine (Go Away Today) - Jonathan Edwards

Foreclosure Of A Dream - Megadeth

Bark at the Moon - Ozzy Osbourne