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Music Makers Encyclopedia: M
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M
Song(s):
Pop Muzik (1979) 
M83
Song(s):
Midnight City (2011) 
Album(s):
Dead Cities, Lost Ghosts & Red Seas (2003) 
Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming (2011) 
M People
Album(s):
Elegant Slumming (1994) 
Yo-Yo Ma 
Album(s):
Yo-Yo Ma Premieres Concertos for Violincello and Orchestra (1996) 
Ma & the Ramblers
Song(s):
Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes (1952) – see Perry Como
Steve Mac 
Record producer, songwriter, and musician born Steve McCutcheon on 1/15/1972 in Chertsey, Surrey, England. Has contributed to 30 #1 songs on the UK Singles Chart.
Tony Macaulay 
Songwriter and record producer born Anthony Gordon Instone on 4/21/1944 in Fulham, London, England. Worked with Jon Bon Jovi, Glen Campbell, the Drifters, the Fifth Dimension (“Last Night I Didn’t Get to Sleep at All”), the Foundations (“Build Me Up Buttercup”), the Hollies, Engelbert Humperdinck, Tom Jones, Gladys Knight, Annie Lennox, Edison Lighthouse (“Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes”), Olivia Newton-John, the New Seekers, Donny Osmond, Elvis Presley, Cliff Richard, Sonny & Cher, David Soul (“Don’t Give Up on Us”), Donna Summer, and Andy Williams.
Kirsty MacColl
Song(s):
They Don’t Know (1979) 
Fairytale of New York (1987) – see the Pogues
Fifteen Minutes (1989)
Walking Down Madison (1991) 
Soho Square (1994)
He’s on the Beach (1998)
Galt MacDermot
Song(s) by Galt MacDermot, Gerome Ragni and James Rado:
Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In (from Hair, 1969) – see Fifth Dimension
Album(s):
Hair (composed with Gerome Ragni and James Rado, musical: 1967, soundtrack: 1979) 
Two Gentlemen of Verona (composed with John Guare, musical: 1971) 
Ballard MacDonald
Jeanette MacDonald 
Song(s):
Beyond the Blue Horizon (1930) 
Indian Love Call (with Nelson Eddy, 1936) 
Harry Macdonough 
Singer born John Scantlebury MacDonald in Ontario, Canada on 5/30/1871. Died 9/26/1931. Second only to Henry Burr among the great ballad singers of recordings' pioneer pre-1920 era. (tenor – Edison Male Quartette: 1898; Haydn Quartet: 1898-1914; Orpheus Quartet: 1914-1919; Lyric Quartet; Victor Light Opera Co.). Was a top record company executive after World War I.
Song(s):
I Can’t Tell You Why I Love You But I Do (1900) 
Tell Me, Pretty Maiden (with Grace Spencer, 1901) 
Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder (1901) 
The Tale of a Bumble Bee (1901)
When the Harvest Days Are Over, Jessie, Dear (1901)
Sweet Annie Moore (with S.H. Dudley, 1901)
I’ll Be with You When the Roses Bloom Again (1901)
In the Good Old Summertime (1902) 
The Mansion of Aching Hearts (1902)
In the Sweet Bye and Bye (with John Bieling, 1903)
Hiawatha (His Song to Minnehaha) (1903) 
Blue Bell (1904) – see Haydn Quartet
Dearie (1905)
Will You Love Me in December As You Do in May? (1907) – see Haydn Quartet
My Wild Irish Rose (1907) – see Haydn Quartet
Because You’re You (with Elise Stevenson, 1907)
My Dear (1908)
I Love You So (Merry Widow Waltz) (with Elise Stevenson, 1908)
Shine on, Harvest Moon (with Elise Stevenson as Miss Walton, 1909) 
Where the River Shannon Flows (1910) 
Every Little Movement (with Lucy Isabelle Marsh, 1910)
In the Valley of Yesterday (1910)
Down by the Old Mill Stream (1911) 
There’s a Girl in the Heart of Maryland (With a Heart That Belongs to Me) (1913)
It’s Tulip Time in Holland (1915)
They Didn't Believe Me (with Olive Kline, 1915) 
The Girl on the Magazine (1916)
Smiles (1918) – see Joseph C. Smith
Till We Meet Again (1919) – see Nicholas Orlando
Ted Macero 
Producer for Miles Davis.
George MacFarlane
Song(s):
A Little Bit of Heaven (Shure, They Call It Ireland) (1915) 
Shane MacGowan 
Member of The Pogues.
Mary MacGregor
Song(s):
Torn Between Two Lovers (1976) 
Guillaume de Machaut
Album(s):
Motets (classical, composed 1324-1360) 
Antonio Machin - see Don Azpiazu
Machine Gun Kelly
Song(s):
Bad Things (with Camila Cabello, 2016)
Album(s):
Tickets to My Downfall (2020) 
Mainstream Sellout (2022)
Machito
Song(s):
Tanga (1949) – see Charlie Parker
Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite (1951) – see Charlie Parker
Albums):
Kenya: Afro-Cuban Jazz (1957) 
Craig Mack
Song(s):
Flava in Ya Ear (1994) 
Andy Mackay 
Art-rock saxophone and oboe player born 7/23/1946 in Lostwithiel, Cornwall, England. With Roxy Music (1970-83, 2001-11, 2019, 2022-).
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis 
Duo comprised of rapper Macklemore (born Benjamin Hammond Haggerty on 6/19/1983 in Seattle, WA) and producer, DJ, and musician Ryan Lewis (born 3/25/1988 in Spokane, WA).
Song(s):
Can’t Hold Us (with Ryan Dalton, 2011) 
Thrift Shop (with Wanz, 2012) 
Same Love (with Mary Lambert, 2012)
Downtown (with Eric Nally, Melle Mel, Kool Moe Dee, & Grandmaster Caz, 2015)
Album(s):
The Heist (2012) 
Fiona MacLeod
Song(s):
The Lament of Ian the Proud (words by MacLeod, music by Charles Tomlinson Griffes; 1918)
Uncle Dave Macon 
Country singer born David Harrison Macon on 10/7/1870 in Smartt Station, TN. Died 3/22/1952.
Song(s):
Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy (1924) 
Old Dan Tucker (1925)
Andy Madadian
Edward Madden
Johnny Maddox
Song(s):
The Crazy Otto (1955)
Frances Maddux
Song(s):
Paradise (1932) – see Leo Reisman
Madison Avenue
Song(s):
Who the Hell Are You? (2000)
Madness 
Song(s):
One Step Beyond (1979)
Baggy Trousers (1980) 
My Girl (1980) 
It Must Be Love (1981)
Our House (1982) 
House of Fun (1982) 
Album(s):
One Step Beyond (1979) 
The Rise and Fall (1982)
Our House (musical: 2002) 
Madonna 
Dance-pop singer and record executive (Maverick Records) born Madonna Louise Ciccone on 8/16/58 in Bay City, Michigan. The best-selling female recording artist of all time. Known as the "Queen of Pop." She moved to New York in the late '70's and performed with the Alvin Ailey dance troupe. Short-lived member of the Breakfast Club in the early '80's. She was known for her boundary-pushing videos, costumes, and overall image. Married to actor Sean Penn (1985-89) and British director Guy Ritchie (2000-08). She was also featured in movies such as Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Dick Tracy (1990), A League of Their Own (1992), and Evita (1996), the latter of which won her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress.
DMDB profile page
DMDB podcast: The Best of Madonna, 1982-2022
Song(s):
Madonna: Top 100 Songs
Holiday (1983) 
Borderline (1984) 
Like a Virgin (1984) 
Material Girl (1984) 
Angel (1984)
Into the Groove (1985) 
Crazy for You (1985) 
Live to Tell (1986)
Papa Don’t Preach (1986) 
Open Your Heart (1986)
True Blue (1986)
La Isla Bonita (1986)
Where’s the Party? (1986)
Who’s That Girl? (1987)
Causing a Commotion (1987)
Like a Prayer (1989) 
Express Yourself (1989)
Cherish (1989)
Oh Father (1989) 
Keep It Together (1989)
Vogue (1990) 
Sooner or Later (1990) 
Justify My Love (1990)
This Used to Be My Playground (1992)
Deeper and Deeper (1992)
I’ll Remember (1994)
Secret (1994)
Take a Bow (1994) 
Don’t Cry for Me Argentina (from Evita, 1996) 
You Must Love Me (1996)
Ray of Light (1998) 
Beautiful Stranger (1999) 
American Pie (2000)
Music (2000) 
Don't Tell Me (2000)
Die Another Day (2002)
Me Against the Music (2003) – see Britney Spears
American Life (2003)
Hung Up (2005)
Sorry (2005)
4 Minutes (with Justin Timberlake, 2008)
Give Me All Your Luvin’ (with Nicki Minaj & M.I.A., 2012)
Album(s):
Madonna (1983) 
Like a Virgin (1984) 
True Blue (1986) 
Like a Prayer (1989) 
I’m Breathless (soundtrack for Dick Tracy, 1990)
The Immaculate Collection (compilation: 1983-1990, released 1990) 
Erotica (1992)
Bedtime Stories (1994)
Something to Remember (compilation: 1984-95, released 1995)
Evita (soundtrack: 1996) – see Andrew Lloyd Webber
Ray of Light (1998)
Music (2000)
GHV2 (compilation: 1992-2000, released 2001) 
American Life (2003) 
Confessions on a Dance Floor (2005) 
Hard Candy (2008)
Celebration (compilation: 1982-2009, released 2009)
MDNA (2012)
Rebel Heart (2015)
Madame X (2019)
Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones (compilation: 1982-2019; released 2022)
Enric Madriguera
Songs(s):
The Carioca (with Patricia Gillmore, 1934) 
Mad Season
One-time supergroup formed in 1994 as a side project for several Seattle grunge bands. Layne Staley of Alice in Chains (v), Mike McCready of Pearl Jam (g), John Baker Saunders (b), and Barrett Martin of Screaming Trees (d).
Song(s):
River of Deceit (1995) 
Madvillain
Album(s):
Madvillainy (2004) 
Magazine
Song(s):
Shot by Both Sides (1978) 
A Song from Under the Floorboard (1980) 
Album(s):
Real Life (1978)
Magic!
Song(s):
Rude (2013) 
Magic Dirt
Song(s):
Bodysnatcher (1995)
Magic Sam 
Blues guitarist and singer born Samuel Gene Maghett on 2/14/1937 in Grenada County, Mississippi. Died 12/1/1969.
Song(s):
All Your Love (1957)
Album(s):
West Side Soul (1967)
Black Magic (1968)
Magic Slim
Herb Magidson
The Magnetic Fields
Song(s):
I Don’t Believe in the Sun (1999)
Album(s):
69 Love Songs (1999) 
Magma
Album(s):
Mëkanïk Dëstruktï%u1E81 Kömmandöh (1973) 
Magnum
Album(s):
On a Storyteller's Night (1985) 
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Song(s):
The Inner Mounting Flame (1971)
Album(s):
The Inner Mounting Flame (1971) 
Gustav Mahler 
Classical composer born 7/7/1860 in Bohemia, Austria. Died 5/18/1911.
Album(s):
Symphony No. 1 in D major (Titan) (1889) 
Symphony No. 2 in C minor "Resurrection" (1894)
Symphony No. 3 (1896)
Symphony No. 4 (1892-1900)
Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor (1904)
Symphony No. 6 (1903-04)
Symphony No. 7 (1904-05)
Symphony No. 8 in E Flat major (The Symphony of a Thousand) (1907)
The Song of the Earth (Das Lied Von Der Erde) (1909)
Symphony No. 9 in D major (Farewell) (1909, premiered 1912)
Symphony No. 10 (1910)
Jere Mahoney
Song(s):
When You Were Sweet Sixteen (1900)
A Bird in a Gilded Cage (1900)
For Old Times’ Sake (1901)
Major Lance
Song(s):
The Monkey Time (1963)
Um Um Um Um Um (1964)
Major Lazer
Song(s):
Lean On (with DJ Snake & MØ, 2015)
Cold Water (with Justin Bieber & MØ, 2016)
Let Me Love You (with Justin Bieber, 2016)
Light It Up (with Nyla, 2016)
Making Movies
Album(s):
A La Deriva (2013)
I Am Another You (2017)
Miriam Makeba
Song(s):
Pata Pata (1967)
Album(s):
Miriam Makeba (1960)
Ryan Malcolm
Song(s):
Something More (2003)
Malcolm X
Song(s):
No Sell Out (with Keith LeBlanc, 1983)
Jesse Malin
Song(s):
Wendy (2002)
Yngwie Malmsteen 
Swedish rock guitarist born 6/30/1963.
Richard Maltby, Jr.
Album(s):
Miss Saigon (musical: 1989) – see Claude-Michel Schönberg
Maluma
Song(s):
Borro Cassette (2015)
El Perdedor (2016)
Sin Contrato (2016)
Cuatro Boys (with Trap Capos, Noriel, Bryant Myers, & Juhn; 2016)
Vente Pa Ca (2016) – see Ricky Martin
Chantaje (2016) – see Shakira
Corazón (with Nego Do Borel, 2017)
Felices los 4 (2017)
Desde Esa Noche (2016) – see Thalia
Hawái (with the Weeknd, 2020)
The Mamas & The Papas 
Song(s):
California Dreamin’ (1965) 
Go Where You Wanna Go (1965)
Monday Monday (1966)
I Saw Her Again (1966)
Creeque Alley (1967)
Twelve Thirty (Young Girls Are Coming to the Canyon) (1967)
Dream a Little Dream of Me (Mama Cass, 1968)
Album(s):
The Mamas and the Papas (1966)
If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears (1966)
Maná
Manassas
Rock supergroup formed in Miami, Florida. Active: 1971-73. Members: Stephen Stills (v/k/g), Chris Hillman (v/g/mandolin), Al Perkins (g/steel g), Calvin “Fuzzy” Samuels (b), Paul Harris (k), Dallas Taylor (d), Joe Lala (percussion).
Album(s):
Manassas (1972)
Manchester Orchestra
Song(s):
The Gold (2017)
Album(s):
A Black Mile to the Surface (2017)
Henry Mancini
Composer, conductor, and arranger born Enrico Nicola Mancini on 4/16/1924 in Cleveland, OH. Died 6/14/1994.
Song(s):
Peter Gunn (1959) 
Moon River (with Audrey Hepburn, 1961) 
The Days of Wine and Roses (1963)
The Pink Panther Theme (1964)
Theme from Romeo and Juliet (aka “A Time for Us”) (1969)
Theme from Love Story (1971)
Album(s):
The Music from Peter Gunn (TV soundtrack: 1959) 
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (soundtrack: 1961)
Johnny Mandel
Song(s):
Suicide Is Painless (1970)
Barbara Mandrell 
Country singer born 12/25/1948 in Houston, TX.
Song(s):
Sleeping Single in a Double Bed (1978) 
If Loving You Is Wrong I Don’t Want to Be Right (1979)
Years (1979)
I Was Country When Country Wasn’t Cool (1981)
Till You’re Gone (1982)
One of a Kind, Pair of Fools (1983)
Mandrill
Song(s):
Fencewalk (1973) 
Måneskin
Song(s):
Beggin’ (2017)
Silvana Mangano (aka "Flo Sandon")
Song(s):
Anna (El Negro Zumbón) (1953)
Chuck Mangione
Song(s):
Feels So Good (1978) 
Manhansett Quartette
Song(s):
The Picture Turned to the Wall (1892) 
Sally in Our Alley (1892)
The Old Oaken Bucket (1894)
Manhattan Harmony Four
Songs(s):
Lift Every Voice (1923)
The Manhattans 
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R&B vocal group formed in 1962 in Jersey City, NJ. Had 45 chart hits on the Billboard R&B chart.
Song(s):
Follow Your Heart (1966)
Kiss and Say Goodbye (1976)
Manhattan Transfer
Song(s):
Chanson D’Amour (1977)
Manic Street Preachers
Welsh rock group who were one of the buzz bands in the early days of Britpop. Richey James was the singer, lyricist, and rhythm guitarist through the band’s first three albums. He went missing in 1995 and is presumed dead. The other three members continued on with Bradfield at the helm, garnering the band even more commercial success than they had before.
Active: 1990- Members: James Dean Bradfield (v/g), Richey James (born Richey Edwards, v/g: 90-95), Nicky Wire (b), Sean Moore (d).
Song(s):
Motorcycle Emptiness (1992) 
A Design for Life (1996) 
If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next (1998)
Album(s):
The Holy Bible (1994)
Everything Must Go (1996) 
This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours (1998)
Barry Manilow 
Born Barry Alan Pincus on 6/17/1943 in Brooklyn, New York. The singer/songwriter has reached the top 40 of the adult contemporary chart 51 times, including thirteen #1’s. He has thirteen platinum albums and six multi-platinum albums. He has sold 85 million records worldwide.
Song(s):
Mandy (1974)
It’s a Miracle (1974)
I Write the Songs (1975)
Looks Like We Made It (1976)
Copacabana (At the Copa) (1978) 
Can’t Smile Without You (1978)
Album(s):
Live (live, 1977)
Greatest Hits (aka “Manilow Magic – The Best of”) (compilation: 1973-78, released 1978)
Greatest Songs of the Fifties (covers, 2006)
Aimee Mann
Song(s):
I Could Hurt You Now (1993)
Save Me (1999)
Deathly (1999)
Album(s):
Whatever (1993) 
Bachelor No. 2 (2000)
Barry Mann
Rock songwriter born Barry Imberman on 2/9/1939 in Brooklyn, NY. Often worked with Cynthia Weil, who he married in 1961. They were one of the songwriting teams to work in the legendary Brill Building, known for housing some of pop music history’s most famous songwriters and publishers.
Songs written by Barry Mann:
Top 30 Songs
Who Put the Bomp in the Bomp in the Bomp Bomp Bomp (1961)
On Broadway (1963) – see the Drifters
You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’ (1964) – see the Righteous Brothers
Carl Mann
Song(s):
Mona Lisa (1959) 
Manfred Mann
Rock keyboardist born 10/21/1940 who fronted Manfred Mann’s Earth Band.
Song(s):
Do Wah Diddy Diddy (1964) 
Pretty Flamingo (1966)
The Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo (1968)
Blinded by the Light (Manfred Mann’s Earth Band, 1976) 
Dick Manning 
American songwriter.
Marilyn Manson
Shock-rock singer born Brian Hugh Warner on 1/5/1969 in Canton, OH.
Song(s):
The Beautiful People (1996) 
The Dope Show (1998)
Album(s):
Antichrist Superstar (1996)
Mechanical Animals (1998)
The Golden Age of Grotesque (2003)
Mansun
Song(s):
Wide Open Space (1996)
Mantovani
Conductor, composer, violinist, and pianist born Annunzio Paolo Mantovani on 11/15/1905 in Venice, Italy. Died 3/30/1980.
Song(s):
Cara Mia (with David Whitfield, 1954)
Album(s):
The Music of Victor Herbert and Sigmund Romberg (1953)
Film Encores (1957)
Richard Manuel
Rock singer and pianist born 4/3/1943 in Stratford, Ontario, Canada. Died ¾/1986. With The Band.
Victor Manuelle
Salsa singer born Víctor Manuel Ruiz Velázquez on 9/27/1968 in Bronx, NY but raised in Puerto Rico.
Armando Manzaner
Phil Manzanera
Art-rock guitarist born Phillip Geoffrey Targett-Adams on 1/31/1951 in London, England. With Roxy Music (1972-83, 2001-11, 2019, 2022-).
Ray Manzarek 
Rock keyboardist born Raymond Daniel Manczarek, Jr. on 2/12/1939 in Chicago, IL. Died 5/20/2013. With The Doors.
The Marathons
Song(s):
Peanut Butter (1961)
Marc & the Mambas
Song(s):
If You Go Away (1982)
Black Heart (1983)
Muzzy Marcellino
Song(s):
I’ll String Along with You (1934) – see Ted Fio Rito
The Marcels
Doo-wop group.
Song(s):
Blue Moon (1961)
Little Peggy March
Song(s):
I Will Follow Him (1963)
Gugliemo Marconi 
Inventor of the radio.
Marcy Playground
Song(s):
Sex and Candy (1997) 
Arif Mardin
Record executive born 3/15/1932 in Istanbul, Turkey. Died 6/25/2006. With Atlantic and Manhattan Records. Produced Anita Baker, the Bee Gees, George Benson, David Bowie, Petula Clark, Judy Collins, Phil Collins, Roberta Flack, Aretha Franklin, Daryl Hall & John Oates, Donny Hathaway, Norah Jones, Chaka Khan, Patti LaBelle, Bette Midler, Willie Nelson, John Prine, Queen, The Rascals, Diana Ross, Carly Simon, Ringo Starr, Barbra Streisand, and others.
Benny Mardones
Song(s):
Into the Night (1980) 
Teena Marie
Song(s):
Square Biz (1981)
Ooo La La La (1988)
Marillion
Progressive rock group formed in Aylesbury, England in 1978. Name adopted from J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion. Active: 1978-. Doug Irvine (b: 78-80), Mick Pointer (d: 78-83), Steve Rothery (g: 79-), Brian Jelliman (k: 79-81), Fish (v: 81-88); Diz Minnett (b: 81-82), Mark Kelly (k: 82-); Pete Trewavas (b: 82-); Ian Mosley (d: 83-); Steve Hogarth (v: 89-). Also added lyricist John Helmer in 1989.
Song(s):
Marillion/Fish: Top 100 Songs
Marillion Singles Discography
Script for a Jester’s Tear (1983)
Fugazi (1984)
She Chameleon (1984)
Kayleigh (1985)
Lavender (1985)
Childhood’s End? (1985)
Heart of Lothian (1985)
Bitter Suite (1985)
Blind Curve (1985)
Pseudo Silk Kimono (1985)
Freaks (1985)
Incommunicado (1987)
Going Under (1987)
Sugar Mice (1987)
Tux On (1987)
Warm Wet Circles (1987)
After Me (1989)
The Party (1991)
A Collection (1991)
Sympathy (1992)
The Hollow Man (1994)
Beautiful (1995)
Estonia (1997)
Most Toys (2007)
Half-Full Jam (2008)
Album(s):
Marillion/Fish: Top 20 Albums
Script for a Jester’s Tear (1983) 
Fugazi (1984)
Real to Reel (live, 1984)
Misplaced Childhood (1985)
Brief Encounter (EP, 1986)
Clutching at Straws (1987)
Best of Both Worlds: Disc 1 (compilation: 1982-88, released 1997)
B-Sides Themselves (archives: 1982-87, released 1988)
The Thieving Magpie (live: 1982-87, released 1988)
Seasons End (1989)
Holidays in Eden (1991)
Six of One, Half Dozen of the Other (compilation: 1982-92, released 1992)
Brave (1994)
Afraid of Sunlight (1995)
Best of Both Worlds: Disc 2 (compilation: 1989-96, released 1997)
This Strange Engine (1997)
Radiation (1998)
marillion.com (1999)
Anoraknophobia (2001)
Best of (compilation: 1982-2001, released 2003)
Marbles (2004)
Smoke/Mirrors (live, 2006)
Somewhere Else (2007)
Family/Friends (live, 2006)
Early Stages (live box: 1982-1987, released 2008)
Happiness Is the Road (2008)
Less Is More (rerecordings, 2009)
Sounds That Can’t Be Made (2012)
A Collection of Recycled Gifts (Christmas, 2014)
Singles Night (live: 2015, released 2016)
F.E.A.R. (Fuck Everyone and Run) (2016)
Crash Course (samplers: 1989-2016, nine editions released from 2001-17)
With Friends from the Orchestra (rerecordings, 2019)
An Hour Before It’s Dark (2022)
Mario
Song(s):
Let Me Love You (2004) 
The Marketts
Song(s):
Out of Limits (1963)
Johnny Marks
Best known as the writer of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer." See Gene Autry.
Bob Marley (& the Wailers)
Reggae singer/songwriter and guitarist born Robert Nesta Marley on 2/6/1945 in Rhoden Hall, Jamaica. Died of brain cancer on 5/11/1981. The Wailers (known first as The Teenagers and later The Wailing Rudeboys) included Peter Tosh (63-74), Bunny "Wailer" Livingstone (63-74), Junior Braithwaite (63-64), Beverly Kelso (63-66), and Cherry Smith (63-64). Later included Aston "Family Man" Barrett (b: 69-), Carlton Barrett (d: 69-), Rita Marley (72-), Marcia Griffiths (72-), Judy Mowatt (72-), Al Anderson (g: 74-). Recorded some 70 tracks for Coxsone Dodd’s legendary Studio One (1963-66). Recorded for Danny Sims on the JAD label (1968-70); also worked with Lee "Scratch" Perry and Upsetter Records (1970-71), independent label Tuff Gong (1971), Island Records (1972-81). Married Rita Anderson on 2/10/66. Wounded in an assassination attempt on 12/3/76. Father of David "Ziggy" Marley who formed Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers with siblings Cedelia, Stephen, and Sharon. Also father of Damian, Julian, and Ky-Mani, who all pursued music careers. Son Rohan Marley played football for the University of Miami Hurricanes. In 1990, Marley’s birthday was proclaimed a national holiday in Jamaica.
Song(s):
Trench Town Rock (1971)
Stir It Up (1973)
Get Up, Stand Up (1973)
I Shot the Sheriff (1973)
No Woman, No Cry (1974) 
Lively Up Yourself (1975)
Three Little Birds (1977)
One Love/People Get Ready (1977)
Waiting in Vain (1977)
Redemption Song (1980)
Could You Be Loved (1980)
Album(s):
One Love at Studio One (also released as two albums: Simmer Down and The Wailing Wailers) (archives, 1963-66)
The Complete Wailers 1967-1972, Part 1 (Rock to the Rock/Selassie Is the Chapel/Best of the Wailers) (archives box, 1967-70)
Soul Rebels (1970)
African Herbsman/Soul Revolution (1971) 
Chances Are (archives, 1967-72)
Catch a Fire (1973) 
Burnin’ (1973) 
Natty Dread (1974) 
Live! At the Lyceum (live, 1975) 
Rastaman Vibration (1976)
Exodus (1977) 
Kaya (1978)
Survival (1979)
Uprising (1980)
Confrontation (1983) 
Legend (compilation: 1973-83, released 1984) 
Songs of Freedom (box: 1961-83, released 1992)
Bob Marley (?)
Marley Marl
Song(s):
The Symphony (1988)
Maroon 5 
Song(s):
She Will Be Loved (2002)
This Love (2002)
Makes Me Wonder (2007)
Moves Like Jagger (with Christina Aguilera, 2011)
Payphone (with Wiz Khalifa, 2012)
One More Night (2012)
Daylight (2012)
Maps (2014)
Animals (2014)
Sugar (2014)
Don’t Wanna Know (with Kendrick Lamar, 2016)
Girls Like You (with Cardi B, 2017)
What Lovers Do (with SZA, 2017)
Memories (2019)
Album(s):
Songs about Jane (2002)
It Won’t Be Soon Before Long (2007)
V (2014)
Singles (compilation: 2002-14, released 2015)
Johnny Marr
Alternative rock guitarist and songwriter born 10/31/1963. With the Smiths (82-87), The Pretenders (87), The The (88-94), Electronic (89-98), and The Cribs (08-11). Has also released two solo albums (2013-14) and has done session work with Beck, Black Grape, Billy Bragg, Crowded House, Bryan Ferry, Kirsty MacColl, Pet Shop Boys, and Talking Heads. He also produced Modest Mouse (06-09).
Steve Marriott
Rock singer and guitarist born 1/30/1947 in Plashet, Essex, England. Died 4/20/1991. With The Small Faces (1965-68, 1975-78) and Humble Pie.
M/A/R/R/S
Song(s):
Pump Up the Volume (1987)
Bruno Mars
Pop singer born Peter Gene Hernandez on 10/8/1985 in Honolulu, HA.
Song(s):
Nothin’ on You (2010) – see B.o.B.
Just the Way You Are (Amazing) (2010)
Grenade (2010)
The Lazy Song (2010)
Talking to the Moon (2010)
Fuck You (aka "Forget You") (co-writer, 2010) – see Cee-Lo Green
It Will Rain (2011)
Locked Out of Heaven (2012)
When I Was Your Man (2012)
Uptown Funk! (2014) – see Mark Ronson
24K Magic (2016)
That’s What I Like (2016) 
Finesse (with Cardi B, 2018)
Please Me (2019) – see Cardi B
Leave the Door Open (2021) – see Silk Sonic
Die with a Smile (2024) – see Lady Gaga
Apt. (with Rosé, 2024)
Album(s):
Doo Wops & Hooligans (2010) 
Unorthodox Jukebox (2012)
24K Magic (2016) 
Charles Marsh
Song(s):
Throw Him Down, McCloskey (1892)
Lucy Isabelle Marsh
Song(s):
The Glow-Worm (1908)
Every Little Movement (1910) – see Harry Macdonough
Jim Marshall
Marshmello
Song(s):
Alone (2016)
Silence (with Khalid, 2017)
Wolves (2017) – see Selena Gomez
Happier (with Bastille, 2018)
Friends (with Anne-Marie, 2018)
One Thing Right (with Kane Brown, 2019)
The Mars Volta
Album(s):
De-Loused in the Comatorium (2003) 
Bedlam in Goliath (2008)
Ellis Marsalis 
Wynton Marsalis 
Jazz trumpeter and composer born 10/18/1961 in New Orleans, LA.
Song(s):
The Majesty of the Blues (1988) 
Martha & the Muffins
Song(s):
Echo Beach (1980) 
Martha & the Vandellas 
R&B vocal group formed in 1957 in Detroit, MI. Achieved fame in the 1960s at Motown Records. Members included Annette Beard, Rosalind Ashford, Gloria Williams, and Martha Reeves.
Song(s):
Heat Wave (1963) 
Come and Get These Memories (1963)
Dancing in the Street (1964) 
Nowhere to Run (1965)
Jimmy Mack (1967)
Martika
Song(s):
Toy Soldiers (1989) 
Love…Thy Will Be Done (1991) 
Chris Martin
Lead singer of Coldplay.
Dean Martin 
Adult contemporary singer born Dino Paul Crocetti on 6/7/1917 in Steubenville, OH. Died 12/25/1995.
Song(s):
You Belong to Me (1952)
That’s Amore (1953) 
Sway (1954)
The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane (1955)
Memories Are Made of This (1955) 
Volare (Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blue) (1958)
Return to Me (1958)
Everybody Loves Somebody (1964)
Blue Moon (1964) 
Dewey Martin 
Rock drummer born Walter Milton Dwayne Midkiff on 9/30/1940 in Chesterville, Ontario, Canada. With Buffalo Springfield (1966-68).
Freddy Martin 
Jazz/big band leader born 12/9/1906 in Cleveland, OH. Died 10/1/1983. Leader of one of the most popular “sweet” bands, his tenor saxophone style led to the nickname “Mr. Silvertone”. Pianist Jack Fina was a featured sideman. Merv Griffin was his late-1940s singing star.
Song(s):
April in Paris (with Elmer Feldkamp, 1933) 
I Saw Stars (with Elmer Feldkamp, 1934)
Piano Concerto in B Flat (with Jack Fina, 1941)
The Hut-Sut Song (A Swedish Serenade) (with Eddie Stone, 1941)
White Christmas (1942)
Symphony (with Clyde Rogers, 1945) 
To Each His Own (with Stuart Wade, 1946)
Managua, Nicaragua (with Stuart Wade, 1947)
I’ve Got a Lovely Bunch of Cocoanuts (1949)
Music! Music! Music! (1950)
George Martin 
Pop/rock producer born 1/3/1926 in Highbury, London, England. Died 3/8/2016. Best known for working with the Beatles, but also worked with America, Jeff Beck, Cheap Trick, Little River Band, Paul McCartney, and Kenny Rogers.
Grady Martin 
Hugh Martin 
American musical theater and film composer (1944’s Meet Me in St. Louis, arranger, vocal coach, and playwright born 8/11/1914. Died 3/11/2011.
Song(s) Composed by Martin:
The Trolley Song (1944) – see Judy Garland
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas – see Judy Garland
Janis Martin
Song(s):
Drugstore Rock ‘n’ Roll (1956)
Mary Martin
Song(s):
My Heart Belongs to Daddy (with Eddy Duchin’s Orchestra, 1938)
Do Re Mi (from The Sound of Music, 1959) 
The Sound of Music (from The Sound of Music, 1959)
Edelweiss (from The Sound of Music, 1959)
Max Martin
Songwriter who often worked with Dr. Luke.
Song(s) with Max Martin Songwriting Credits:
Max Martin: Top 40 Songs
Baby One More Time (1998) – see Britney Spears
I Want It That Way (1999) – see Backstreet Boys
Since U Been Gone (2004) – see Kelly Clarkson
I Kissed a Girl (2008) – see Katy Perry
Hot N Cold (2008) – see Katy Perry
Dynamite (2010) – see Taio Cruz
California Gurls (2010) – see Katy Perry
Teenage Dream (2010) – see Katy Perry
We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together (2012) – see Taylor Swift
One More Night (2012) – see Maroon 5
Roar (2013) – see Katy Perry
Dark Horse (2013) – see Katy Perry
Shake It Off (2014) – see Taylor Swift
Blank Space (2014) – see Taylor Swift
Ricky Martin
Latin-pop singer born Enrique Martin Morales on 12/24/1971 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Song(s):
María (Un, Dos, Tres) (1996) 
The Cup of Life (1998)
Livin’ La Vida Loca (1999) 
La Mordidita (with Yotuel, 2015)
Vente a Ca (with Maluma, 2016)
Album(s):
Ricky Martin (1999)
Roberta Martin 
Tony Martin
Traditional pop singer born Alvin Morris on 12/25/1913 in San Francisco, CA. Died 7/27/2012.
Song(s):
Tonight We Love (Concerto No. 1, B Flat Minor) (1941)
Wink Martindale
Song(s):
Deck of Cards (1959)
Cliff Martinez
Rock drummer born 2/5/1954 in the Bronx, NY. With Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Melanie Martinez
Album(s):
Cry Baby (2015) 
Narciso Martínez
Song(s):
La Chicharronera (with Santiago Almeida, 1936)
Jerry Martini
R&B saxophonist born 10/1/1942 in Denver, CO. With Sly & the Family Stone.
Ryan Martinie 
Al Martino
Adult contemporary singer born Jasper Cini on 10/7/1927 in Philadephia, PA. Died 10/13/2009.
Song(s):
Here in My Heart (1952) 
John Martyn
Song(s):
I’d Rather Be the Devil (1973)
Album(s):
Solid Air (1973)
One World (1977)
The Marvelettes 
R&B girl group formed in 1960 in Inkster, Michigan. Comprised of Gladys Horton, Katherine Anderson, Georgeanna Tillman, Junaita Cowart, Georgia Dobbins, and later Wanda Young. First major success for Motown Records.
Song(s):
Please Mr. Postman (1961) 
The Marvelows
Song(s):
I Do (1965)
Johnny Marvin
Song(s):
Breezin' Along with the Breeze (1926)
Me and My Shadow (1927)
Tip Toe Through the Tulips (1929)
Junior Marvin
Doo-wop singer born Donald Hanson Marvin Kerr Richards Jr. on 1/31/1936 in Harrell, AR. Died 5/29/2013. With The Dells.
Groucho Marx
Album(s):
An Evening with Groucho (1972)
Jeff Marx
Album(s):
Avenue Q (musical: 2000) – see Robert Lopez
Richard Marx
Adult contemporary/pop singer/songwriter ("Don't Mean Nothin'", "Right Here Waiting") born 9/16/1963 in Chicago, IL.
Song(s):
Endless Summer Nights (1987)
Satisfied (1989)
Right Here Waiting (1989)
Angelia (1989)
Keep Coming Back (1991)
Hazard (1991)
Album(s):
Repeat Offender (1989)
Mary Mary
Urban contemporary gospel duo from Inglewood, California. Formed in 1998. Consists of sisters Erica Atkins-Campbell and Trecina Atkins-Campbell.
Mura Masa
Song(s):
Deal Wiv It (with Slowthai, 2019)
Pietro Mascagni
Album(s):
Cavalleria Rusticana (Rustic Chivalry) (opera: 1890) 
Mase
Rap singer/songwriter born Mason Durell Betha in Jacksonville, Florida on 8/27/1975.
Song(s):
Mo Money, Mo Problems (1997) – see the Notorious B.I.G.
Feel So Good (1997)
Album(s):
Harlem World (1997)
Hugh Masekela
Song(s):
Grazing in the Grass (1968)
Album(s):
Home Is Where the Music Is (1972)
Masked Wolf
Song(s):
Astronaut in the Ocean (2021)
Barbara Mason
Dave Mason
Rock singer/songwriter and guitarist born 5/10/1946 in Worcester, England. With Traffic (v/g/b: 1967-68, 1971).
Song(s):
We Just Disagree (1977)
Lowell Mason
Song(s):
Nearer My God to Thee (music by Mason, words by Sarah Adams Flower, 1859) 
Joy to the World (arranged by Mason, 1719) – see George Friedrich Händel
Mary Had a Little Lamb (music: Mason, words: Sarah Josepha Hale, 1830) 
Mary Had a Little Lamb (1878) – see Thomas Edison
Nick Mason 
Rock drummer and songwriter born Nicholas Berkleley Mason on 1/27/1944 in Edgbaston, Birmingham, England. With Pink Floyd.
Mike Massé
Song(s):
Africa (with Jeff Hall, 2010)
Jules Massenet
Album(s):
Manon (opera: 1884)
Michael Masser
Bobby Massey
R&B musician born 3/9/1942 in Canton, OH. With The O’Jays.
Nick Massi
Bassist and bass singer born Nicholas E. Macioci on 9/19/1927 in Newark, NJ. Died 12/24/2000. With Four Seasons.
Massive Attack
Song(s):
Unfinished Sympathy (1991)
Karmacoma (1994)
Protection (with Tracey Thorn, 1994)
Teardrop (1998)
Album(s):
Blue Lines (1991) 
Protection (1994)
Mezzanine (1998)
Master P
Song(s):
Ghetto D (1997)
MP Da Last Don (1998)
Frankie Masters
Song(s):
Scatter-Brain (1939) 
Masters Apprentices
Song(s):
Undecided (1966)
Reece Mastin
Song(s):
Good Night (2011)
Shout It Out (2012)
Cosimo Matassa
Recording engineer and studio owner (J&M Recording Studio) born Cosimo Vincent Matassa on 4/13/1926 in New Orleans, LA. Died 9/11/2014. Responsible for many R&B and early rock and roll recordings. Has worked with Ray Charles, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Lloyd Price, and Professor Longhair.
Matchbox 20
Song(s):
Push (1996) 
3 A.M. (1996)
Bent (2000)
If You’re Gone (2000)
Unwell (2002)
Album(s):
Yourself or Someone Like You (1996)
Mad Season (2000)
North (2012)
Cerys Mathews
Member of Catatonia.
Max Mathews
Song(s):
Daisy Bell (A Bicycle Built for Two) (1961)
Mireille Mathieu
Johnny Mathis 
Pop balladeer born 9/30/35 in Gilmer, TX. Studied opera from age 13. Track scholarship at the San Francisco State College. Invited to Olympic tryouts; chose singing career instead. Discovered by George Avakian of Columbia Records. To New York City in 1956. Initially recorded as a jazz-styled singer. Columbia A&R executive Mitch Miller switched him to singing pop ballads. One of the top album artists of the rock era – has charted more than 60 albums.
Song(s):
Wonderful! Wonderful! (1956)
The Twelfth of Never (1957)
Chances Are (1957) 
It's Not for Me to Say (1957)
Misty (1959)
Small World (1959)
Maria (1960)
Too Much, Too Little, Too Late (with Deniece Williams, 1978)
Album(s):
Johnny’s Greatest Hits (compilation: 1956-58, released 1958)
Christmas (1958)
Heavenly (1959)
Open Fire, Two Guitars (1959)
Glen Matlock
Punk-rock guitarist and bassist born on 8/27/1956 in Paddington, London, England. With Sex Pistols (1975-77, 1996).
Kathy Mattea
Song(s):
Goin’ Gone (1987)
Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses (1988) 
Where’ve You Been (1989) 
Come from the Heart (1989)
Burnin’ Old Memories (1989)
Dave Matthews Band
Alternative rock group fronted by singer/songwriter born 1/9/1967 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Song(s):
Christmas Song (1993) 
Ants Marching (1993)
Crash into Me (1996)
Stay (Wasting Time) (1998)
Everyday (2001)
I Did It (2001)
Where Are You Going? (2002)
Oh (2003)
Funny the Way It Is (2009)
You and Me (2009)
Album(s):
Under the Table and Dreaming (1994)
Crash (1996)
Before These Crowded Streets (1998)
Everyday (2001)
Busted (2002)
The Gorge (live, 2004)
Stand Up (2005)
Big Whiskey & the GrooGrux King (2009)
Away from the World (2012)
Come Tomorrow (2018)
Matthews’ Southern Comfort
Song(s):
Woodstock (1970) 
Jessica Mauboy
Song(s):
Burn (2009)
Joe B. Mauldin
Early rock bassist born 7/8/1940 in Lubbock, TX. Died 2/7/2015. With Buddy Holly & the Crickets.
Paul Mauriat
Song(s):
Love Is Blue (L’Amour Est Bleu) (1967)
Album(s):
Blooming Hits (1968)
Maurice & Mac
Song(s):
You Left the Water Running (1968)
The Mavericks
Song(s):
Dance the Night Away (1998)
Max Q
Song(s):
Way of the World (1989)
Maxwell
Song(s):
Ascension (Don’t Ever Wonder) (1996)
Fortunate (1999)
Pretty Wings (2009)
Lake by the Ocean (2016)
Album(s):
Urban Hang Suite (1996)
Now (2001)
Black Summer’s Night (2009)
Brian May
Rock guitarist/songwriter born 7/19/1947 in Hampton, Middlesex, England. With Queen (1972-1995, 2004-).
John Mayall
Blues guitarist born 11/29/1933 in Macclesfield, Manchester, England. Fronted the Bluesbreakers.
Song(s):
Eric Clapton et al: Top 100 Songs
Album(s):
Eric Clapton et al: Studio Albums Ranked
Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton (with Eric Clapton, 1966)
John Mayer
Pop-rock singer/songwriter born 10/16/1977 in Bridgeport, CT.
Song(s):
No Such Thing (2001)
Bigger Than My Body (2003)
Daughters (2004)
Waiting on the World to Change (2006)
Who Says (2009)
Album(s):
Room for Squares (2001)
Heavier Things (2003)
Continuum (2006)
Battle Studies (2009)
Born and Raised (2012)
Nathaniel Mayer & the Fabulous Twilights
Song(s):
Village of Love (1962)
Mayfield
– see Tears for Fears
Album(s):
Mayfield (1997)
Curtis Mayfield
R&B singer and guitarist born 6/3/1942 in Chicago, IL. Died 12/26/1999. Fronted The Impressions and recorded as a solo artist.
Song(s):
Move on Up (1970)
Superfly (1972)
Freddie’s Dead (Theme from Superfly) (1972)
Album(s):
Curtis (1970)
Superfly (soundtrack: 1972) 
There’s No Place Like America Today (1975)
Percy Mayfield
Song(s):
Please Send Me Someone to Love (1950)
Maze featuring Frankie Beverly
Song(s):
Back in Stride (1985)
Can’t Get Over You (1989)
Mazzy Star
Song(s):
Fade into You (1993)
Album(s):
So Tonight That I Might See (1993)
Prince Nico Mbarga
Song(s):
Sweet Mother (1976)
McAlmont & Butler
Song(s):
Yes (1995)
Nicko McBrain
Rock drummer with Iron Maiden.
Martina McBride
Country singer born Martina Mariea Schiff on 7/29/1966 in Sharon, KS.
Song(s):
Independence Day (1993)
Wild Angels (1995)
A Broken Wing (1997)
Wrong Again (1998)
I Love You (1999)
Blessed (2001)
C.W. McCall
Song(s):
Convoy (1975) 
Dennis McCarthy
Television and film score composer born 7/3/1945. Best known for work with the Star Trek franchise, but has also worked on Dynasty, V, MacGyver, and Dawson's Creek.
Joseph McCarthy
Jesse McCartney
Song(s):
Leavin' (2008)
Linda McCartney
Musician, photographer, activist, and publisher born 9/24/1941 in New York, New York. Married Paul McCartney in 1969 and worked with him in Wings. Died 4/17/1998 in Tucson, Arizona.
Paul McCartney (& Wings) 
Rock singer/songwriter and bassist born James Paul McCartney on 6/18/1942 in Liverpool, England. With the Quarrymen and the Beatles (60-70) before going solo and recording with the Wings (71-79).
DMDB podcast: Paul McCartney – The Best of the Beatles, 1962-1970
DMDB podcast: Paul McCartney – The Best of the Post-Beatles, 1970-2022
Song(s):
Paul McCartney: Top 70 Songs
Maybe I’m Amazed (1970)
Another Day (1971)
Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey (1971)
Monkberry Moon Delight (with Linda McCartney, 1971)
C Moon (with Wings, 1972)
My Love (with Wings, 1973) 
Live and Let Die (with Wings, 1973)
Helen Wheels (1973)
Jet (with Wings, 1973)
Band on the Run (with Wings, 1973)
Listen to What the Man Said (1975)
Silly Love Songs (with Wings, 1976)
Let ‘Em In (1976)
Mull of Kintyre (with Wings, 1977) 
Girls’ School (1977)
With a Little Luck (1978)
Wonderful Christmas Time (1979) 
Coming Up (Live at Glasgow) (1980)
Ebony and Ivory (with Stevie Wonder, 1982)
Say, Say, Say (with Michael Jackson, 1983)
Pipes of Peace (1983)
Cut Me Some Slack (with Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic, and Pat Smear; 2013) 
Four Five Seconds (2015) – see Rihanna
Album(s):
McCartney (1970)
Ram (with Linda McCartney, 1971)
Red Rose Speedway (1973)
Band on the Run (& Wings, 1973) 
Venus and Mars (1975)
At the Speed of Sound (with Wings, 1976)
Wings Over America (live with Wings, 1976)
Greatest (compilation, 1978)
Tug of War (1982)
Give My Regards to Broad Street (soundtrack: 1984)
All the Best! (compilation: 1970-87, released 1987)
Pure McCartney (compilation, 2016)
Egypt Station (2018)
The DMDB Blog:
John Lennon and Paul McCartney met for the first time: July 6, 1957 (7/6/12)
Ian McLagan
Rock keyboardist born 5/12/1945 in Hounslow, England. Died 12/3/2014. With The Small Faces (1965-69, 1975-78), The Faces (1969-75), and the Rolling Stones (1978-81).
Jim McCarty
Rock drummer born James Stanley McCarty on 7/25/1943 in Walton, Liverpool, England. With Yardbirds (1963-68, 2003) and Box of Frogs (1984-86).
Harry McClintock
Song(s):
Jesse James (1928)
Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr.
Song(s):
You Don’t Have to Be a Star to Be in My Show (1976)
John McCormack
Tenor singer born 6/14/1884 in Athlone, Ireland. Died 9/16/1945.
Song(s):
I’m Falling in Love with Someone (1911)
Mother Machree (1911)
It’s a Long, Long Way to Tipperary (1915)
Somewhere a Voice Is Calling (1916)
The Sunshine of Your Smile (1916)
Il Mio Tesoro (1916)
The Star-Spangled Banner (1917) 
Send Me Away (1917)
All Alone (1925)
Moonlight and Roses Bring Mem’ries of You (1925)
Charlie McCoy
Clyde McCoy
Neal McCoy
Song(s):
No Doubt About It (1993)
Wink (1994)
Paul McCoy
Song(s):
Bring Me to Life (2003) – see Evanescence
Van McCoy
Song(s):
The Hustle (1975) 
The McCoys
Song(s):
Hang on Sloopy (1965) 
Jimmy McCracklin
George McCrae
Soul singer born 10/19/1944 in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Song(s):
Rock Your Baby (1974) 
Mike McCready
Rock guitarist born 4/5/1966 in Pensacola, Florida. With Temple of the Dog (90), Pearl Jam (90-), Mad Season (94-95), and The Rockfords.
Song(s):
Masters of War (live, 1992) – see Eddie Vedder
Arnold McCuller
Song(s):
Free Bird (2000)
Try a Little Tenderness (with Paul Giamatti, 2000)
Ellas Otha Bates McDaniel
– see Bo Diddley
Darryl "DMC" McDaniels
Rapper born Darryl Matthews McDaniel on 5/31/1964 in Harlem, NY. With Run-D.M.C..
Gene McDaniels
Song(s):
Hundred Pounds of Clay (1961)
Chip Chip (1969)
Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group
Song(s):
Freight Train (with Nancy Whiskey, 1957)
Bob McDill
Country songwriter born Robert Lee McDill on 4/4/1944 in Beaumont, Texas. Co-wrote 31 #1 country hits.
Hugh McDonald
Rock bassist born 12/28/1950 in Philadelphia, PA. With Bon Jovi (1994-).
Michael McDonald
Rock singer and keyboardist born 2/12/1952. With the Doobie Brothers (1975-82, 1987, 1992, 1995-96, 2019-) and a solo artist.
Song(s):
I Keep Forgettin’ (Every Time You’re Near) (1982)
I Gotta Try (1982)
Yah Mo Be There (1983) – see James Ingram
On My Own (1986) – see Patti LaBelle
Sweet Freedom (1986)
Mississippi Fred McDowell
Blues guitarist born 1/12/1906 (some sources say 1904) in Rossville, TN. Died 7/3/1972.
Album(s):
I Do Not Play No Rock and Roll (1969)
Mississippi Delta Blues (year?)
Sollie McElroy
R&B singer born 7/16/1933 in Gulfport, MS. With The Flamingos.
Reba McEntire
Country singer born 3/28/1955 in Chockie, OK. The most successful female country performer of her generation. 20 #1 songs on the Billboard country charts from 1982-1996.
Song(s):
Can’t Even Get the Blues (1982)
You’re the First Time I’ve Thought About Leaving (1983)
How Blue (1984)
Somebody Should Leave (1985)
Whoever’s in New England (1986)
Little Rock (1986)
What Am I Gonna Do About You (1986)
One Promise Too Late (1987)
The Last One to Know (1987)
Love Will Find Its Way to You (1988)
I Know How He Feels (1988)
New Fool at an Old Game (1988)
Cathy’s Clown (1989)
You Lie (1990)
Fancy (1991)
For My Broken Heart (1991)
Is There Life Out There (1992)
The Heart Won’t Lie (with Vince Gill, 1993)
Does He Love You (with Linda Davis, 1993)
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1995)
How Was I to Know (1996)
If You See Him/If You See Her (1998) – see Brooks & Dunn
Somebody (2004)
Consider Me Gone (2009)
Turn on the Radio (2010)
Album(s):
Reba Live (live, 1989)
For My Broken Heart (1991)
Greatest Hits Volume Two (compilation: 1988-93, released 1993)
Read My Mind (1994)
Duets (2007)
Keep on Loving You (2009)
McFadden & Whitehead
Song(s):
Ain’t No Stoppin' Us Now (1978)
Bob McFadden & Dor
Song(s):
The Mummy (1959)
Brian McFadden
Song(s):
Almost Here (with Delta Goodrem, 2005)
Just Say So (with Kevin Rudolf, 2010)
Bobby McFerrin
Song(s):
Don’t Worry Be Happy (1988) 
John McFee
Rock guitartist and violinst born 9/9/1950 in Santa Cruz, CA. With Doobie Brothers (1979-82, 1993-).
The MC5
Song(s):
Kick Out the Jams (1969) 
Shakin’ Street (1970)
Sister Anne (1971)
Album(s):
Kick Out the Jams (live, 1968) 
Back in the U.S.A. (1970) 
Kate & Anna McGarrigle
Song(s):
Heart Like a Wheel (1976)
Album(s):
Kate and Anna McGarrigle (1975)
Gerry McGee
Rock guitarist born 11/17/1937 in Eunice, LA. Died 10/12/2019. With The Ventures.
Brownie McGhee
Blues musician born Walter Brown McGhee on 11/30/1915 in Knoxville, TN. Died 2/23/1996.
Stick McGhee
Song(s):
Drinking Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee (1949)
Michael McGill
R&B baritone singer born 2/17/1937 in Chicago, IL. With The Dells.
Maureen McGovern
Song(s):
The Morning After (1973)
Tim McGraw
Country singer born Samuel Timothy McGraw on 5/1/1967 in Delhi, LA. Married to country singer Faith Hill.
Song(s):
Don’t Take the Girl (1994)
Not a Moment Too Soon (1994)
I Like It, I Love It (1995)
She Never Lets It Go to Her Heart (1995)
It's Your Love (with Faith Hill, 1997) 
Everywhere (1997)
Just to See You Smile (1997)
When the Green Grass Grows (1997)
Please Remember Me (with Patty Loveless, 1999)
Something Like That (1999)
My Best Friend (1999)
My Next Thirty Years (1999)
Grown Men Don’t Cry (2001)
Angry All the Time (2001)
The Cowboy in Me (2001)
Unbroken (2001)
Real Good Man (2002)
Watch the Wind Blow By (2002)
Live Like You Were Dying (2004) 
Over and Over (2004) – see Nelly
Back When (2004)
Last Dollar (Fly Away) (2007)
Southern Voice (2009)
Felt Good on My Lips (2010)
One of Those Nights (2012)
Highway Don’t Care (with Taylor Swift, 2013)
Shotgun Rider (2014)
Humble and Kind (2016)
May We All (2016) – see Florida Georgia Line
Album(s):
Not a Moment Too Soon (1994)
Everywhere (1997)
A Place in the Sun (1999)
Greatest Hits (compilation: 1994-99, released 2000)
Set This Circus Down (2001)
Live Like You Were Dying (2004)
Greatest Hits Vol. 2: Reflected (compilation, 2006)
Let It Go (2007)
Number One Hits (2010)
Roger McGuinn
Rock singer and guitarist born James Joseph McGuinn III on 7/13/1942 in Chicago, IL. With the Byrds (1964-73, 1990) and a solo artist.
Barry McGuire
Song(s):
Eve of Destruction (1965)
The McGuire Sisters
Song(s):
Sincerely (1954) 
Something’s Gotta Give (1955)
Picnic (1956)
Sugartime (1957)
M.C. Hammer
Rap singer born Stanley Kirk Burrell on 3/30/1962 in Oakland, CA.
Song(s):
U Can't Touch This (1990)
Album(s):
Let’s Get It Started (1988)
Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘Em (1990)
Jimmy McHugh
Song(s) written by McHugh:
I Can't Give You Anything But Love (1928) – see Cliff Edwards
On the Sunny Side of the Street (1930) – see Ted Lewis
I'm in the Mood for Love (1935) – see Little Jack Little
Moses McHunu
Song(s):
Qhwayilahle (Leave Him Alone) (1985)
Hal McIntyre
Song(s):
My Funny Valentine (with Ruth Gaylor, 1945) 
Lani McIntyre & His Hawaiians
Song(s):
Sweet Leilani (1937) – see Bing Crosby
Duff McKagan
Rock bassist born Michael Andrew McKagan on 2/5/1964 in Seattle, WA. With Guns N' Roses (1985-97, 2016-) and Velvet Revolver (2003-08).
Al McKay
R&B guitarist born 2/2/1948 in New Orleans, LA. With Earth, Wind & Fire.
Maria McKee
Song(s):
Show Me Heaven (1990) 
Loreena McKennitt
Song(s):
The Mummer's Dance (1997) 
Album(s):
The Visit (1991)
Bob & Doug McKenzie
Song(s):
The Twelve Days of Christmas (1981)
Scott McKenzie
Song(s):
San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair) (1967) 
Ron "Pigpen" McKernan
Rock keyboardist born 9/8/1945 in San Bruno, CA. Died 3/8/1973. With Grateful Dead.
Ray McKinley
Song(s):
Put 'Em in a Box, Tie It with a Ribbon (1949)
McKinney's Cotton Pickers
Song(s):
If I Could Be with You One Hour Tonight (with George Thomas, 1930)
Brian McKnight
Song(s):
Love Is (1993) – see Vanessa Williams
Anytime (1998)
Back at One (1999)
Rod McKuen
Sarah McLachlan
Alternative rock singer/songwriter born 1/28/1968 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Started Lilith Fair, a festival devoted to spotlighting female performers.
Song(s):
Possession (1993)
I Will Remember You (1995)
Building a Mystery (1997)
Angel (1997)
When She Loved Me (from Toy Story 2, 1999) 
Fallen (2003)
Album(s):
Touch (1989)
Fumbling Towards Ecstasy (1993)
Surfacing (1997)
Afterglow (2003)
Malcolm McLaren 
Music manager for the Sex Pistols born 1/22/1946 in Stoke Newington, London, England. Died 4/8/2010.
Song(s):
Buffalo Gals (1982)
Album(s):
Duck Rock (1983)
John McLaughlin
Jazz fusion guitarist born 1/4/1942 in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. Worked with Miles Davis and the Mahavishnu Orchestra.
Don McLean
Pop singer/songwriter born 10/2/1945 in New Rochelle, NY.
Song(s):
American Pie (1971)
Vincent (Starry, Starry Night) (1971)
Crying (1980) 
Album(s):
American Pie (1972)
Grant McLennan
Song(s):
Over Stones for You (1991)
Lillian Shedd McMurry
James McMurtry
Song(s):
We Can't Make It (2005)
Big Jay McNeely
R&B saxophonist born 4/29/1927 in Los Angeles, CA. Died 9/16/2018.
Song(s):
The Deacon’s Hop (Big Jay McNeely’s Blue Jays, 1949)
Marian McPartland
Clyde McPhatter 
R&B singer born 11/15/1932 in Durham, NC. Died 6/13/1972. Fronted two of the most influential R&B groups of all time – the Dominoes (1950-53) and the Drifters (1953-55). Also had a successful solo career with #1 R&B hits "Treasure of Love" (1956), "Long Lonely Nights" (1957), and "A Lover's Question" (1958).
Song(s):
Treasure of Love (1956)
Without Love There Is Nothing (1957)
Long Lonely Nights (1957)
A Lover’s Question (1958)
The DMDB Blog:
Clyde McPhatter: An R&B Legend (6/13/2011)
Tate McRae
Song(s):
You Broke Me First (2020)
Greedy (2023) 
MC Ren
Rapper born Lorenzo Jerald Patterson on 6/16/1969 in Compton, CA. With N.W.A. (1988-91, 1999-2002, 2015-16).
Jay McShann
American jazz/big band bandleader born 1/12/1916. Died 12/7/2006.
Song(s):
Hands Off (1955)
Ralph McTell
Song(s):
Streets of London (1969)
Blind Willie McTell
Blues singer/songwriter and guitarist born William Samuel McTier on 5/5/1898 in Thomas, GA. Died 8/19/1959.
Song(s):
Statesboro Blues (1927)
Album(s):
The Definitive… (compilation: 1933)
Christine McVie
Rock singer/songwriter and keyboardist born Christine Anne Perfect on 7/12/1943 in Bouth, Lancashire, England. Most noted for work with Fleetwood Mac (70-98, 2014-), but also worked as a solo artist (70, 84, 04). Also recorded an album with Fleetwood Mac bandmate Lindsey Buckingham (2017). Was married to Fleetwood Mac's John McVie from 1968 to 1976. Died 11/30/2022.
DMDB podcast: Remembering Christine McVie, the Songbird
Song(s):
Say You Love Me (1975) – see Fleetwood Mac
Don’t Stop (1977) – see Fleetwood Mac
You Make Loving Fun (1977) – see Fleetwood Mac
Little Lies (1987) – see Fleetwood Mac
Everywhere (1987) – see Fleetwood Mac
Album(s):
Fleetwood Mac (1975) – see Fleetwood Mac
Rumours (1977) – see Fleetwood Mac
Tusk (1979) – see Fleetwood Mac
Mirage (1982) – see Fleetwood Mac
Tango in the Night (1987) – see Fleetwood Mac
Greatest Hits (compilation: 1975-88, released 1988) – see Fleetwood Mac
25 Years: The Chain (box: 1967-92, released 1992) – see Fleetwood Mac
Lindsey Buckingham/Christine McVie (2017) – see Lindsey Buckingham
John McVie
Blues/rock bassist born John Graham McVie on 11/26/1945 in Ealing, Middlesex, England. Founding member of Fleetwood Mac (1967-) after working with John Mayall (64-67). Was married to Fleetwood Mac's Christine McVie from 1968 to 1976.
David McWilliams
Song(s):
The Days of Pearly Spencer (1967)
Vaughn Meader
Album(s):
The First Family (comedy, 1962)
Meat Loaf
Rock singer born Marvin Lee Aday on 9/27/1947 in Dallas, TX. Died 1/20/2022.
DMDB podcast: The Best of Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman
Song(s):
Paradise by the Dashboard Light (1977)
Bat Out of Hell (1977)
I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That) (1993) 
Album(s):
Bat Out of Hell (1977)
Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell (1993)
Meat Puppets
Song(s):
Lake of Fire (1984)
Album(s):
Meat Puppets II (1984)
Lauritz Mechior
Meco
Song(s):
Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band (1977)
Dudley Mecum
Song(s):
42nd Street (with Don Bestor, 1933) 
Glenn Medeiros
She Ain’t Worth It (with Bobby Brown, 1990)
Medicine Head
Song(s):
Rising Sun (1973)
Bill Medley
Bass-baritone rock singer born 9/19/1940 in Los Angeles, CA. Half of the Righteous Brothers duo.
Song(s):
You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' (1964) – see Righteous Brothers
Unchained Melody (1965) – see Righteous Brothers
I’ve Had the Time of My Life (1987) – see Jennifer Warnes
Joe Meek
Producer born Robert George Meek on 4/5/1929 in Newent, Gloucestershire, England. Died 2/3/1967. Worked with Ritchie Blackmore and Tom Jones.
Edward Meeker
Song(s):
Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1908)
Meek Mill
Song(s):
All Eyes on You (with Chris Brown & Nicki Minaj, 2015)
Going Bad (with Drake, 2018)
Album(s):
Dreams Worth More Than Money (2015)
Championships (2018)
Megadeth
Song(s):
Peace Sells (1986) 
Hangar 18 (1990)
Holy Wars…The Punishment Due (1990)
Symphony of Destruction (1992)
Album(s):
Peace Sells…But Who's Buying? (1986)
Rust in Peace (1990)
Countdown to Extinction (1992)
Megan Thee Stallion
Song(s):
Savage (remix with Beyoncé, 2020) 
WAP (2020) – see Cardi B
Hiss (2024) 
Album(s):
Good News (2020)
Brad Mehldau
Jazz pianist.
Zubin Mehta
Indian classical conductor born 4/29/1936.
John Meikle
Randy Meisner
Country-rock singer/songwriter and bassist born Randall Herman Meisner on 3/8/1946 in Scottsbluff, NE. With Poco (1968-69, 1988-91), the Stone Canyon Band (1969-70), and Eagles (1971-77).
The Mekons
Album(s):
Fear and Whiskey (1985)
Rock ‘N’ Roll (1989)
Mel & Kim
Song(s):
Respectable (1987)
Mel & Tim
Song(s):
Starting All Over Again (1972)
George Melachrino
Melanie
Song(s):
Lay Down (Candles in the Rain) (1970)
Brand New Key (1971)
What Have They Done to My Song, Ma (1971)
Me Like Bees
Song(s):
The River Divides (2018)
Album(s):
The Ides (2013)
Melissa
Song(s):
Read My Lips (1991)
Melle Mel
Rapper born Melvin Glover on 5/15/1961 in the Bronx, NY. With Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five.
John (Cougar) Mellencamp
Rock singer/songwriter born John J Mellencamp on 10/7/1951 in Seymour, IN.
DMDB profile page
DMDB podcast: John Mellencamp (2003-2023): The 21st Century Woody Guthrie
Song(s):
John Mellencamp: Top 100 Songs
I Need a Lover (1978)
Hurts So Good (1982)
Jack and Diane (1982)
Pink Houses (1983)
Authority Song (1983)
Small Town (1985)
Rain on the Scarecrow (1985)
Paper in Fire (1987)
Pop Singer (1989)
Jackie Brown (1989)
Wild Night (with Me’Shell Ndegeocello, 1994)
Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First) (1996)
Just Another Day (1996)
Peaceful World (with India.Arie, 2001)
To Washington (2003)
Rodeo Clown (2007)
Rural Route (2007)
If I Die Sudden (2008)
Easter Eve (2010)
Save Some Time to Dream (2010)
Easy Target (2017)
Wasted Days (with Bruce Springsteen, 2021)
Hey God (2023)
The Eyes of Portland (2023)
Album(s):
American Fool (1982)
Uh-Huh (1983)
Scarecrow (1985)
The Lonesome Jubilee (1987)
The Best That I Could Do (compilation: 1978-88, released 1997)
Big Daddy (1989)
Whenever We Wanted (1991)
Human Wheels (1993)
Dance Naked (1994)
Mr. Happy Go Lucky (1996)
John Mellencamp (1998)
Cuttin’ Heads (2001)
Trouble No More (2003)
Words & Music: Greatest Hits (compilation: 1978-2004, released 2004)
Freedom’s Road (2007)
Life, Death, Love and Freedom (2008)
On the Rural Route 7609 (box set: 1976-2009, released 2010)
No Better Than This (2010)
Plain Spoken (2014)
Sad Clowns & Hillbillies (2017)
Other People’s Stuff (covers: 1993-2017, released 2018)
Strictly a One-Eyed Jack (2022)
Orpheus Descending (2023)
The Mello-Kings
Song(s):
Tonite Tonite (1957)
The Mellomen
Song(s):
Again (1949) – see Doris Day
If I Give My Heart to You (1954) – see Doris Day
The Ballad of Davy Crocket (from TV show Davy Crockett, 1955)
Zorro (from TV show Zorro, 1957)
The Tiki Tiki Tiki Room (1963)
Yo Ho (A Pirate’s Life for Me (1967)
The Melodians
Song(s):
Rivers of Babylon (1970)
Album(s):
Pre-Meditation (1969)
Lester Melrose
James Melton
The Mel-Tones
Harold Melvin (& the Bluenotes)
Pop singer born 6/25/1939. Died 3/24/1997.
Song(s):
If You Don’t Know Me By Now (1972)
The Love I Lost (1973)
Hope That We Can Be Together Soon (1975)
Wake Up Everybody (1975) 
Bad Luck, Part 1 (1975)
The Memphis Boys
Gene Chrisman, Tommy Cogbill, Bobby Emmons, Mike Leech, Bobby Wood, and Reggie Young.
The Memphis Horns
R&B sideman Wayne Jackson and Andrew Love.
Memphis Jug Band
Song(s):
Stealin’ Stealin’ (1928)
K.C. Moan (1929)
Memphis Minnie
Blues singer born Lizzie Douglas on 6/3/1897 in Algiers, LA. Died 8/6/1973.
Song(s):
When the Levee Breaks (with Kansas Joe McCoy, 1929)
Me and My Chauffeur Blues" (1941)
Album(s):
Hoodoo Lady (compilation: 1933-37)
Bumble Bee: The Essential Recordings (compilation: 1929-41, released 1997)
Memphis Slim
Blues pianist born John Len Chatman on 9/3/1915. Died 2/24/1988.
Song(s):
Messin’ Around (1948)
Men at Work
Song(s):
Who Can It Be Now? (1981) 
Down Under (1981)
Overkill (1983)
Album(s):
Business As Usual (1981)
Cargo (1983)
Two Hearts (1985)
Nate Mendel
Rock bassist born Nathan Gregor Mendel on 12/2/1968 in Richland, WA. With Foo Fighters (1995-).
Felix Mendelssohn
Classical composer and pianist born Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendessohn on 2/3/1809 in Hamburg, Germany. Died 11/4/1847.
Song(s):
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (music: Mendelssohn, words: Charles Wesley; 1855)
Album(s):
Octet for Strings in E flat major (1825) 
Violin Concerto in E minor (composed 1844, premiered 1845) 
Sergio Mendes (& Brasil '66)
Brazilian bandleader born 2/11/1941.
Song(s):
Mas Que Nada (1966)
Album(s):
Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 (1966)
Shawn Mendes
Song(s):
Stitches (2015)
Treat You Better (2016)
There’s Nothing Holdin’ Me Back (2016)
Mercy (2016)
In My Blood (2018)
Señorita (with Camila Cabello, 2019) 
Monster (with Justin Bieber, 2020)
Album(s):
Handwritten (2015)
Illuminate (2016)
Shawn Mendes (2018)
Wonder (2020)
Rafael Méndez
Lydia Mendoza
Song(s):
Mal Hombre (1934)
Alan Menken
Musical theater composer born 7/22/1949 in New York City, NY.
Album(s):
Little Shop of Horrors (musical: 1979)
Beauty and the Beast (composed with Howard Ashman; soundtrack: 1991, musical: 1994)
Aladdin (composed with Howard Ashman & Tim Rice; soundtrack: 1992)
Pocahontas (composed with Stephen Schwartz, soundtrack, 1995)
Gian Carlo Menotti
Mental As Anything
Song(s):
The Nips Are Getting Bigger (1979)
Yehudi Menuhin
American-born British violinist and conductor born 4/22/1916. Died 3/12/1999
Men Without Hats
Song(s):
The Safety Dance (1983)
Idina Menzel
Song(s):
Defying Gravity (with Kristen Chenoweth, from Wicked, 2003)
Let It Go (from Frozen, 2013)
For the First Time in Forever (with Kristen Bell, from Frozen, 2013)
Johnny Mercer
Singer/songwriter born John Herndon Mercer on 11/18/1909 in Savannah, GA. Died 6/25/1976. Wrote lyrics to more than 1500 songs and more popular songs than any other songwriter in history. Worked in the legendary Brill Building, known for housing some of pop music history's most famous songwriters and publishers. Received 19 Academy Award nominations. Also a co-founder of Capitol Records.
Song(s) performed by Mercer:
G.I. Jive (with Paul Weston’s Orchestra, 1944)
Ac-Cent-Tchu-ate the Positive (with the Pied Pipers, 1945)
Candy (with Jo Stafford & the Pied Pipers, 1945) 
On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe (with the Pied Pipers, 1945) 
Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah (1946) 
Personality (1946)
A Gal in Calico (1946)
Baby It’s Cold Outside (with Margaret Whiting, 1949)
Song(s) written by Mercer: Hooray for Hollywood (words by Mercer, music by Richard A. Whiting; 1937)
And the Angels Sing (1939) – see Benny Goodman
Blues in the Night (My Mama Done Tol' Me) (1941) – see Woody Herman
That Old Black Magic (1943) – see Glenn Miller
Dream (1945) – see the Pied Pipers
Laura (1945) – see Woody Herman
One for My Baby (and One More for the Road) (1949) – see Frank Sinatra
Moon River (1961) – see Henry Mancini
The Days of Wine and Roses (1963) – see Henry Mancini
Album(s):
St. Louis Woman (musical: 1946) – see Johnny Mercer
Mabel Mercer
Song(s):
Hello Young Lovers (1951)
Jimmy Merchant
Doo-wop singer born 2/10/1940 in New York, NY. With Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers.
Natalie Merchant
Song(s):
Carnival (1995)
Wonder (1995)
Kind and Generous (1998)
Album(s):
Tigerlily (1995)
Freddie Mercury
Rock singer/songwriter born Farrokh Bulsara on 9/5/1946 in Stone Town, Sultanate of Zanzibar, Tanzania. Died 11/24/1991. With Queen (1972-1991).
Song(s):
Living on My Own (1985)
Benny Meroff
Song(s):
Happy Days Are Here Again (with Dusty Rhodes, 1930)
Alice Merton
Song(s):
No Roots (2016)
Jim Messina
Rock singer/songwriter and musician born 12/5/1947 in Maywood, California With Buffalo Springfield (b: 1968), Poco (g: 1968-70, 1989), and Kenny Loggins (1971-77).
Song(s):
Danny's Song (1971) – see Kenny Loggins
Angry Eyes (1972) – see Kenny Loggins
Mercury Rev
Song(s):
Opus 40 (1998)
Holes (1998)
Album(s):
Deserter’s Songs (1998)
Ethel Merman
Singer born Ethel Agnes Zimmermann on 1/16/1908 in Astoria, Queens, NY. Died 2/15/1984.
Song(s):
I Got Rhythm (from Girl Crazy, 1930)
You're the Top (from Anything Goes, 1934)
I Get a Kick Out of You (from Anything Goes, with Johnny Green's Orchestra, 1935)
There's No Business Like Show Business (from Annie Get Your Gun, 1946)
You’re Just in Love (with Dick Haymes, 1951)
Everything's Coming Up Roses (from Gypsy, 1959)
Bob Merrill
Musical theater composer born Henry Robert Merrill Levan on 5/17/1921 in Atlantic City, NJ. Died 2/17/1998.
Song(s):
People (from Funny Girl, 1964) – see Barbra Streisand
Album(s):
Funny Girl (cast recording: 1964, soundtrack: 1968) – see Jule Styne
Robert Merrill
Opera singer born Moishe Miller on 6/4/1917. Died 10/23/2004.
Major "Big Maceo" Merriweather
Song(s):
Worried Life Blues (1941)
The Merry Macs
Song(s):
Mairzy Doats (1944)
Laughing on the Outside, Crying on the Inside (1946)
Olivier Messiaen
Album(s):
Quartet for the End of Time (Quatuor pour la fin du temps) (1941)
Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jesus (1944)
Turangalîla Symphony (1950)
Metallica
Links: official site - Facebook - Wikipedia
Heavy metal group formed in Los Angeles, California in 1981. Lars Ulrich (d), James Hetfield (v), Dave Mustaine (rhythm g: 81-83), Kirk Hammett (rhythm g: 83-), Cliff Burton (b: 81-86), and Jason Newsted (b: 86-02), Robert Trujillo (b: 03-).
DMDB podcast: Metallica: The Best of, 1983-2023
Song(s):
Metallica: Top 50 Songs
Jump in the Fire (1983)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1984)
Fade to Black (1984)
Master of Puppets (1986)
One (1988)
Enter Sandman (1991)
Nothing Else Matters (1991)
The Unforgiven (1991)
Until It Sleeps (1996)
Turn the Page (1998)
No Leaf Clover (1999)
I Disappear (2000)
The Day That Never Comes (2008)
Album(s):
Kill ‘Em All (1983)
Ride the Lightning (1984)
Master of Puppets (1986)
…And Justice for All (1988)
Metallica (aka “The Black Album”) (1991)
Load (1996)
Reload (1997)
Garage Inc. (covers, 1998)
S & M (live, 1999)
St. Anger (2003)
Death Magnetic (2008)
Hardwired…to Self Destruct (2016)
The Meters
Song(s):
Cissy Strut (1969)
Just Kissed My Baby (1974)
Album(s):
Look-ka Py Py (1970)
Rejuvenation (1974)
Pat Metheny
Jazz guitarist born Patrick Bruce Metheny on 8/12/1954 in Lee's Summit, MO.
Album(s):
Bright Size Life (1975)
Pat Metheny Group (1978)
Method Man
Song(s):
I'll Be There for You/You're All I Need to Get By (with Mary J. Blige, 1995)
Album(s):
Tical (1994)
Metro
Song(s):
Criminal World (1976)
Metro Boomin
Song(s):
Ric Flair Drip (2017) – see Offset
Creepin’ (with the Weeknd & 21 Savage, 2022)
Like That (2024) – see Future
Metropolitan Orchestra
Song(s):
Creole Belles (1902) 
George W. Meyer
John Meyer
Bass singer. Died 5/3/1949 at age 71. With the Peerless Quartet (1910-25), the Sterling Trio (1916-22), and the American Quartet (1920-25).
Joseph Meyer
MFSB
Song(s):
TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia) (with the Three Degrees, 1974)
MGMT
Song(s):
Time to Pretend (2008)
Kids (2008)
Album(s):
Oracular Spectacular (2008)
Congratulations (2010)
Miami Sound Machine
Pop group helmed by Gloria Estefan.
Song(s):
Conga (1985)
George Michael
Pop singer/songwriter born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou on 6/25/1963 in East Finchley, London, England. Died 12/25/2016. With Wham! ("Wake Me Up Before You Go Go") before becoming a solo artist.
Song(s):
Careless Whisper (1984) A Different Corner (1986)
I Knew You Were Waiting for Me (1986) – see Aretha Franklin
I Want Your Sex (1987)
Faith (1987)
Father Figure (1987)
One More Try (1987)
Monkey (1987)
Kissing a Fool (1987)
Praying for Time (1990)
Freedom ‘90 (1990)
Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me (live with Elton John, 1991)
Fastlove (1996)
Jesus to a Child (1996)
Album(s):
Faith (1987)
Listen Without Prejudice, Vol. 1 (1990)
Ladies and Gentlemen – Best of (compilation: 1984-98, released 1998)
Twenty Five (compilation: 1984-2006, released 2006)
M.I.A.
Song(s):
Galang (2004)
Paper Planes (2007)
Give Me All Your Luvin’ (2012) – see Madonna
Franchise (2020) – see Travis Scott
Album(s):
Arular (2005)
Kala (2007)
Julia Michaels
Song(s):
Issues (2017)
Arturo Bendetti Michelangeli
Classical pianist.
Mickey & Sylvia
Duo of Mickey Baker and Sylvia Robinson.
Song(s):
Love Is Strange (1956)
Middle of the Road
Song(s):
Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep (1971)
Fannie Midgely
Song(s):
I'm Certainly Living a Ragtime Life (1900)
Bette Midler
Adult contemporary singer born 12/1/1945 in Honolulu, HA.
Song(s):
The Rose (1979)
Wind Beneath My Wings (1989)
From a Distance (1990)
Album(s):
The Divine Miss M (1973)
Beaches (soundtrack: 1989)
The Midnighters
- see Hank Ballard
Midnight Oil
Song(s):
The Power and the Passion (1982)
Hercules (1985)
Progress (1985)
Pictures (1985)
Beds Are Burning (1987)
Blue Sky Mine (1990)
Album(s):
Diesel and Dust (1987)
Midori
Violinist born Midori Goto on 10/25/1971 in Hirakata, Osaka, Japan.
The Mighty Diamonds
Album(s):
Right Time (1975)
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Song(s):
The Impression That I Get (1997)
Mighty Wah
Song(s):
The Story of the Blues (1982)
Come Back (1984)
Migos
Song(s):
Bad and Boujee (with Lil Uzi Vert, 2016)
I Get the Bag (2017) – see Gucci Mane
Motor Sport (with Nicki Minaj & Cardi B, 2017)
Bon Appétit (2017) – see Katy Perry
Walk It Talk It (with Drake, 2018)
Album(s):
Culture (2017)
Culture II (2018)
Miguel
Song(s):
Sure Thing (2011)
Lotus Flower Bomb (2011) – see Wale
Adorn (2012)
Power Trip (2013) – see J. Cole
Remember Me (with Natalia Lafourcade, 2017)
Luis Miguel
Pop singer born Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri on 4/19/1970 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Michiya Mihashi
Mika
Song(s):
Grace Kelly (2007)
Over My Shoulder (2007)
Happy Ending (2007)
Album(s):
Life in Cartoon Motion (2007)
Mike The Mechanics
Pop-rock group formed by Genesis’ Mike Rutherford (g/b) as a side group. Active: 1985-2004 Members: Paul Carrack (v/k), Paul Young (v – Sad Café; Mike the Mechanics: 85-00; died of a heart attack 7/15/00), Adrian Lee (k: 85-95), Peter Van Hooke (d: 85-95, 04-), Tim Renwick (g: 89-91, 95-96), Gary Wallis (d: 95-), James Moses (g: 99-), B.A. Robertson (k/songwriting).
Song(s):
Genesis et al: Top 100 Songs
Silent Running (1985)
The Living Years (1988)
Someone Always Hates Someone (1995)
Album(s):
Mike The Mechanics (1985)
Living Years (1988)
Word of Mouth (1991)
Beggar on a Beach of Gold (1995)
Hits (compilation: 1985-95, released 1996)
M6 (1999)
Rewired (2004)
The Road (2011)
The Singles 1985-2014 (compilation, 2014)
Let Me Fly (2017)
Out of the Blue (2019)
Mike Will Made It
Song(s):
23 (with Miley Cyrus, Wiz Khalifa, & Juicy J; 2013)
Amos Milburn
R&B keyboardist born 4/1/1927 in Houston, TX. Died 1/3/1980.
Song(s):
Chicken Shack Boogie (1948)
Bewildered (1948)
Roomin’ House Boogie (1949)
Bad Bad Whiskey (1950)
Let’s Have a Party (1952)
Milky Chance
Song(s):
Stolen Dance (2013)
Don't Let Me Down (with Jack Johnson, 2020)
Emmett Miller & His Georgia Crackers
Song(s):
Lovesick Blues (1928) 
Glenn Miller
Jazz/big band leader born Alton Glenn Miller on 3/1/1904 in Clarinda, IA. Died 12/15/1944 in plane crash. Led of the most universally beloved of all big bands. Played trombone for Ben Pollack, Red Nichols, Benny Goodman, & the Dorsey Brothers. Became de facto leader of Ray Noble's 1935 American band and did arrangements for Glen Gray and others before starting his own band in 1937. It failed, as did a 1938 succesor, but in 1939 Glenn developed his trademark reed sound (four saxophones and clarinet) and soared to the top. Vital ingredients in the band's staggering success were arrangers Jerry Gray and Bill Finegan, and featured soloists Bobby Hackett, Tex Beneke, Billy May, & Hal McIntyre. At the band's peak after four years of extraordinary popularity, Glenn left to enlist in the Army Air Force in 9/42, and formed the war's most famous service band. Died when his plane was lost over the English Channel. Tex Beneke carried on the legacy with a new Miller orchestra, and Hollywood's 1954 Glenn Miller Story further immortalized the music and the man.
Song(s):
Glenn Miller: Top 100 Songs
Moonlight Serenade (1939)
In the Mood (1939) 
Wishing Will Make It So (with Ray Eberle, 1939)
Stairway to the Stars (with Ray Eberle, 1939)
Moon Love (with Ray Eberle, 1939)
Over the Rainbow (with Ray Eberle, 1939)
The Man with the Mandolin (with Marion Hutton, 1939)
Blue Orchids (with Ray Eberle, 1939)
Careless (with Ray Eberle, 1940)
When You Wish Upon a Star (1940)
The Woodpecker Song (with Marion Hutton, 1940)
Tuxedo Junction (1940)
Imagination (1940)
Fools Rush in Where Angels Fear to Tread (1940)
Blueberry Hill (1940)
The Nearness of You (1940)
Pennyslvania 6-5000 (1940)
Song of the Volga Boatmen (1941)
You and I (1941)
Elmer’s Tune (with Ray Eberle, 1941)
Chattanooga Choo Choo (with Tex Beneke & the Four Modernaires, 1941)
A String of Pearls (1942)
Moonlight Cocktail (with Ray Eberle & The Modernaires, 1942)
Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree with Anyone Else But Me (with Marion Hutton, Tex Beneke, & the Modernaires; 1942)
I’ve Got a Gal in Kalamazoo (with Tex Beneke & Marion Hutton, 1942)
Skylark (1942)
That Old Black Magic (with Skip Nelson, 1943)
Happy in Love (1944)
Five Minutes More (1946) – see Tex Beneke
Album(s):
Glenn Miller (aka "Glenn Miller & His Orchestra") (compilation: 1939-42, charted 1945)
Very Best of (compilation: 1939-44, released 2010)
Masterpieces Volume II (1947)
Plays Selections from the Film 'The Glenn Miller Story' (1954)
The Glenn Miller Story (1954)
The DMDB Blog:
Glenn Miller was born: March 1, 1904 (3/1/12)
Jimmy Miller
Record producer born 3/23/1942 in Brooklyn, New York. Died 10/22/1994. Best known for working with the Rolling Stones on what is considered one of the best four-album runs in history with Beggars Banquet (1968), Let It Bleed (1969), Sticky Fingers (1971), and Exile on Main Street (1972). He also worked with Ginger Baker (1970's Air Force, Blind Faith, Delaney & Bonnie & Friends (1969's On Tour with Eric Clapton), Primal Scream, Johnny Thunders, and Traffic (1967's Mr. Fantasy, 1968's Traffic).
Albums produced by Miller:
Beggars Banquet (1968) – see the Rolling Stones
Let it Bleed (1969) – see the Rolling Stones
Blind Faith (1969) – see Blind Faith
Sticky Fingers (1971) – see the Rolling Stones
Exile on Main Street (1972) – see the Rolling Stones
Screamadelica (1991) – see Primal Scream
Mac Miller
Album(s):
Blue Slide Park (2011)
Swimming (2018)
Marcus Miller
Mitch Miller
Jazz/big band leader born Michael William Miller on 7/4/1911 in Rochester, NY. Died 7/31/2010.
Song(s):
The Yellow Rose of Texas (1955)
Album(s):
Sing Along with Mitch (1958)
More Sing Along with Mitch (1958)
Christmas Sing Along (Christmas, 1958)
Holiday Sing Along with Mitch (1962)
Ned Miller
Song(s):
From a Jack to a King (1962)
Ray Miller
Song(s):
The Sheik of Araby (1921) 
On the Gin-Gin-Ginny Shore (1922)
Stumbling (1922)
Moonlight and Roses Bring Mem’ries of You (with Frank Wright & Frank Bessinger, 1925)
I’ll See You in My Dreams (1925) – see Isham Jones
Rice Miller
– see Sonny Boy Williamson #2
Roger Miller
Country singer/songwriter born Roger Dean Miller, Sr. on ½/1936 in Fort Worth, TX. Died 10/25/1992.
Song(s):
Dang Me (1964)
King of the Road (1965)
One Dyin’ and A-Buryin’ (1965)
Little Green Apples (1968)
Oo-De-Lally (from Robin Hood, 1973)
Album(s):
Dang Me/Chug-A-Lug (1965) 
The Return of Roger Miller (1966)
Big River (musical: 1985)
Steve Miller (Band)
Rock singer and guitarist born 10/5/1943 in Milwaukee, WI.
Song(s):
In My First Mind (1968)
Journey from Eden (1972)
The Joker (1973)
Rock N’ Me (1976)
Fly Like an Eagle (1976)
Take the Money and Run (1976)
Abracadabra (1982)
I Want to Make the World Turn Around (1986)
Album(s):
Fly Like an Eagle (1976)
Greatest Hits 1974-1978 (compilation: 1974-78, released 1978)
Walter C. Miller
Milli Vanilli
Song(s):
Girl You Know It’s True (1988)
Girl I’m Gonna Miss You (1988)
Blame It on the Rain (1989)
Album(s):
Girl You Know It’s True (1989)
The DMDB Blog:
Milli Vanilli is stripped of its Best New Artist Grammy: November 19, 1990 (11/19/11)
Lucky Millinder
American jazz/big band leader born Lucius Millinder on 8/8/1900. Died 9/28/1966.
Song(s):
When the Lights Go on Again All Over the World (1942)
Apollo Jump (1943)
Sweet Slumber (with Trevor Bacon, 1943)
Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well (with Wynonie Harris, 1945)
Mills Brothers
No other vocal group in history turned out hit records over a longer span of time than the Mills Brothers (Herbert, Harry, & Donald Mills – all born 1912-15 in Piqua, OH). Began perfecting their distinctively smooth, relaxed sound on Cincinnati radio in the late 1920s. Accompanied by older brother John with bass-note vocals and guitar, they scored with the first of many hits in late 1931. John died in late 1935, replaced by father John Sr. until his retirement in 1956. Surving two generations of changing musical styles with their same patented sound, the Mills continued to hit the charts through the end of the 1960s. Harry Mills died on 6/28/1982.
Active: 1931-1968 Members: John (1931-35), Herbert, Harry, Donald, and John Sr. (1935-56).
Song(s):
Tiger Rag (1931)
Dinah (1932) – see Bing Crosby
Paper Doll (1943)
You Always Hurt the One You Love (1944)
Till Then (1944)
The Glow-Worm (1952) 
Mike Mills
Rock bassist born on 12/17/1958 in Orange County, CA. With R.E.M.
Stephanie Mills
R&B singer/songwriter born 3/22/1957 in Brooklyn, NY.
Song(s):
Never Knew Love Like This (1980) 
I Have Learned to Respect the Power of Love (1986)
I Feel Good All Over (1987)
You’re Puttin’ a Rush on Me (1987)
Something in the Way You Move (1989)
Home (1989)
Ronnie Milsap
Country singer born 1/16/1944 in Robbinsville, NC.
Song(s):
Pure Love (1974)
Please Don’t Tell Me How the Story Ends (1974)
I’d Be a Legend in My Time (1974)
Daydreams About Night Things (1975)
What Goes on When the Sun Goes Down (1976)
I’m a Stand by My Woman Man (1976)
Let My Love Be Your Pillow (1976)
It Was Almost Like a Song (1977)
What a Difference You’ve Made in My Life (1977)
Only One Love in My Life (1978)
Let’s Take the Long Way Around the World (1978)
Nobody Likes Sad Songs (1979)
Why Don’t You Spend the Night (1980)
My Heart (1980)
Cowboys and Clowns (1980)
Smokey Mountain Rain (1980)
Am I Losing You (1981)
There’s No Gettin’ Over Me (1981)
I Wouldn’t Have Missed It for the World (1981)
Any Day Now (1982)
He Got You (1982)
Inside (1982)
Don’t You Know How Much I Love You (1983)
Stranger in My House (1983)
Show Her (1983)
Still Losing You (1984)
She Keeps the Home Fires Burning (1985)
Lost in the Fifties Tonight (In the Still of the Night) (1985)
Happy Happy Birthday Baby (1986)
In Love (1986)
How Do I Turn You On (1985)
Snap Your Fingers (1987)
Where Do the Nights Go (1987)
Don’t You Ever Get Tired of Hurting Me (1988)
A Woman in Love (1989)
Album(s):
A Legend in My Time (1975)
Live (1977)
It Was Almost Like a Song (1978)
Lost in the Fifties Tonight (1986)
Nathan Milstein
Violinist born 12/31/1903 in London, England. Died 12/21/1992.
Roy Milton
Garnet Mimms
Song(s):
Cry Baby (& the Enchanters, 1963)
Nicki Minaj
Rap singer born Onika Tanya Maraj on 12/8/1982 in Saint James, Trinidad and Tobago.
Song(s):
Super Bass (2011)
Moment 4 Life (with Drake, 2011)
Make Me Proud (2011) – see Drake
Starships (2012)
Girl on Fire (2012) – see Alicia Keys
Give Me All Your Luvin’ (2012) – see Madonna
Beauty and a Beat (2012) – see Justin Bieber
Anaconda (2014)
Only (with Drake, Lil Wayne, & Chris Brown, 2014)
Bang Bang (2014) – see Jessie J
All Eyes on You (2015) – see Meek Mill
Hey Mama (2015) – see David Guetta
Truffle Butter (with Drake & Lil Wayne, 2015)
Throw Sum Mo (2015) – see Rae Sremmurd
Side to Side (2016) – see Ariana Grande
Swalla (2017) – see Jason Derulo
Motor Sport (2017) – see Migos
Fefe (2018) – see 6ix9ine
Idol (2018) – see BTS
Tusa (2019) – see Karol G
Trollz (2020) – see 6ix9ine
Do We Have a Problem? (with Lil Baby, 2022)
Super Freaky Girl (2022)
Barbie World (with Ice Spice & Aqua, 2023)
Album(s):
Pink Friday (2010)
Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded (2012)
The Pinkprint (2014)
Tim Minchin
Album(s):
Matilda the Musical (musical: 2011)
Groundhog Day (musical: 2016)
The Mindbenders
Song(s):
Game of Love (1964)
A Groovy Kind of Love (1966)
Charles Mingus
Jazz pianist, bassist, and composer born 4/22/1922 in Nogales, AZ. Died 1/5/1979.
Song(s):
Pitchecanthropus Erectus (1956)
Hora Decubitis (1963)
Album(s):
Jazz at Massey Hall (live, 1953) – see The Quintet
Pithecantrophus Erectus (1956)
Ah Um (1959)
Mingus Dynasty (1959)
Blues and Roots (1959) 
Oh Yeah (1961)
The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (1963) 
Ministry
Song(s):
Every Day Is Halloween (1984)
Stigmata (1988)
Album(s):
The Land of Rape and Honey (1988)
The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste (1989)
Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed & the Way to Suck Eggs (1992)
Liza Minnelli
Song(s):
Maybe This Time (from Cabaret soundtrack: 1972)
Cabaret (1972)
Theme from New York, New York (1977)
Kylie Minogue
Pop singer born 5/28/1968 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Song(s):
The Loco-Motion (1987)
I Should Be So Lucky (1988)
Got to Be Certain (1988)
Especially for You (with Jason Donovan, 1988)
Confide in Me (1992)
Spinning Around (2000)
On a Night Like This (2000)
Can't Get You Out of My Head (2001)
In Your Eyes (2002)
Slow (2003)
2 Hearts (2007)
Album(s):
Impossible Princess (1997)
Fever (2001) 
Minor Threat
Song(s):
Straight Edge (1981)
Album(s):
Minor Threat (EP, 1980)
Out of Step (1983)
The Complete Discography (compilation, 1981-83)
Minutemen
Song(s):
History Lesson Part 2 (1984)
Corona (1984)
Political Song for Michael Jackson (1984)
Album(s):
Double Nickels on the Dime (1984)
The Miracles
R&B group formed at Northern High School in Detroit. First recorded for End in 1958. Active: 1955- Members: Smokey Robinson (lead: 55-72), Emerson Rogers (tenor: 55-56), Bobby Rogers (tenor: 55-78, 80-83, 93-11), Ronnie White (baritone: 55-78, 80-83, 93-95), and Warren "Pete" Moore (bass singer: 55-78), Claudette Rogers Robinson (57-72, 83), Billy Griffin (lead: 72-), Marv Tarplin (g: 58-73).
Song(s):
Shop Around (1960)
Way Over There (1960)
You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me (1962)
I’ll Try Something New (1962)
I Gotta Dance to Keep from Crying (1963)
That’s What Love Is Made Of (1964)
The Tracks of My Tears (1965)
Ooo Baby Baby (1965)
Going to a Go-Go (1965)
The Tears of a Clown (1967)
I Second That Emotion (1967)
The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage (1967)
More Love (1967)
Love Machine (1975)
Album(s):
Going to a Go-Go (1965)
Ultimate Collection (compilation: 1998)
Carmen Miranda
Song(s):
Que é Que a Bahiana Tem? (1939)
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Song(s):
My Shot (2015)
Album(s):
In the Heights (musical: 2008)
Hamilton (musical: 2015)
Mi-Sex
Song(s):
Computer Games (1979)
The Misfits
Song(s):
Where Eagles Dare (1979)
Album(s):
Static Age (1978)
Walk Among Us (1982)
The Missing Links
Song(s):
You’re Driving Me Insane (1965)
Missing Persons
Song(s):
Destination Unknown (1982)
Mission of Burma
Song(s):
That’s When I Reach for My Revolver (1981)
Academy Fight Song (1981)
Album(s):
Vs. (1982)
The Mississippi Sheiks
Song(s):
Sitting on Top of the World (1930)
Album(s):
Honey Babe Let the Deal Go Down: Best of (compilation: 2004)
Miss Walton
Song(s):
Shine on, Harvest Moon (1909) – see Harry MacDonough
Anais Mitchell
Album(s):
Hadestown (musical: 2016)
George Mitchell Minstrels
Album(s):
Black and White Minstrel Show (1960)
Another Black and White Minstrel Show (1961)
Miroshka TV
Song(s):
Learning Colors – Colorful Eggs on a Farm (2018)
Father John Misty
Album(s):
Fear Fun (2012)
I Love You, Honeybear (2015) 
Guy Mitchell
Pop singer born Albert George Cernik on 2/27/1927 in Detroit, Michigan. Died 7/1/1999.
Song(s):
My Heart Cries for You (1950)
My Truly, Truly Fair (1951)
Look at That Girl (1953)
Singing the Blues (1956)
Heartaches by the Number (1959)
Joni Mitchell
Singer/songwriter, guitarist, and pianist born Roberta Joan Anderson on 11/7/43 in Fort McLeod, Alberta, Canada. Raised in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Moved to NY in 1966. Wrote the hits "Both Sides Now" and "Woodstock." Married her producer/bassist Larry Klein in 1982.
DMDB podcast: Joni Mitchell: Her Top 10 Songs
Song(s):
Joni Mitchell: Top 20 Songs
Both Sides Now (1968)
Big Yellow Taxi (1970)
Woodstock (1970)
Woodstock (1970) – see Crosby, Stills & Nash
The Circle Game (1970)
Carey (1971)
A Case of You (1971)
River (1971)
This Flight Tonight (1971)
The Last Time I Saw Richard (1971)
You Turn Me On, I’m a Radio (1972)
Help Me (1974)
Free Man in Paris (1974)
Hissing of Summer Lawns (1975)
Album(s):
Clouds (1969)
Ladies of the Canyon (1970)
Blue (1971)
For the Roses (1972)
Court and Spark (1974)
Hissing of Summer Lawns (1975)
Hejira (1976)
Turbulent Indigo (1994)
Mitch Mitchell
Rock drummer born John Graham Mitchell on 7/9/1947 in Ealing, England. Died 11/12/2008. With the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
Roscoe Mitchell
Avant-garde jazz instrumentalist and composer born 8/3/1940 in Chicago, Illinois. Co-founded the Art Ensemble of Chicago.
Willie Mitchell
Trumpeter, bandleader, and record executive (Hi, Waylo) born 3/1/1928 in Ashland, Mississippi. Died 1/5/2010. Worked with Al Green, Ann Peebles, and others.
Mitski
Song(s):
Your Best American Girl (2016)
Album(s):
Purberty 2 (2016) 
Be the Cowboy (2018)
The Mixtures
Song(s):
In the Summertime (1970)
The Pushbike Song (1971)
MKTO
Song(s):
Classic (2013)
MØ
Song(s):
Lean On (2015) – see Major Lazer
Cold Water (2016) – see Major Lazer
Mobb Deep
Song(s):
Shook Ones Part II (1995)
Moby
American electronica musician and producer born 9/11/1965.
Song(s):
Go (1991)
Natural Blues (with Vera Hall, 1999)
Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad? (1999)
Porcelain (2000)
South Side (with Gwen Stefani, 2000)
We Are All Made of Stars (2002)
Album(s): <li<>Everything Is Wrong (1995)
Play (1999)
Moby Grape
Song(s):
Omaha (1967)
Album(s):
Moby Grape (1967)
Zigaboo "Ziggy" Modeliste
Rock drummer with the Meters.
The Models
Song(s):
Out of Mind, Out of Sight (1985)
Mary Moder
Song(s):
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? (et al, from Three Little Pigs, 1933)
Little April Shower (et al, from Bambi, 1942)
The Modernaires
Song(s):
Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree with Anyone Else But Me (1942) – see Glenn Miller
Moonlight Cocktail (1942) – see Glenn Miller
Modern English
New wave band formed in Essex, England, in 1979.
Song(s):
I Melt with You (1982)
The Modern Jazz Quartet
Song(s):
Django (1954)
Album(s):
European Concert (1960)
The Modern Lovers
Song(s):
Roadrunner (1976)
Pablo Picasso (1976)
Album(s):
Modern Lovers (1973)
Modern Talking
Song(s):
You're My Heart, You're My Soul (1985)
Modest Mouse
Rock band formed in 1992 in Issaquah, Washington. Isaac Brock (vocals, guitar), Tom Peloso (bass, keyboards, backing vocals), Jeremiah Green (drums, percussion), Russell Higbee (bass, rhythm guitar, keyboards, backing vocals: 2012-), Ben Massarella (percussion, effects: 2014-), Simon O’Connor (guitar, backing vocals: 2021-), Eric Judy (bass, acoustic guitar, backing vocals: 1993-2012), John Wickhart (bass: 1994-95), Dann Gallucci (guitar, organ, backing vocals: 1994-2005), Benjamin Weikel (drums, percussion: 2003-04), Joe Plummer (drums, percussion: 2004-12), Jim Fairchild (guitar, backing vocals: 2005-06, 2009-21), Johnny Marr (guitar, backing vocals: 2006-08), Lisa Molinaro (viola, bass, backing vocals: 2011-2021), Davey Brozowski (percussion, drums: 2012-21).
Song(s):
Float On (2004)
Ocean Breathes Salty (2004)
Lampshades of Fire (2015)
Album(s):
The Lonesome Crowded West (1997)
The Moon & Antartica (2000) 
Good News for People Who Love Bad News (2004)
We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (2007)
Domenico Modugno
Song(s):
Volare (Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blue) (1958)
Joseph Mohr
Song by Joseph Mohr (words), Franz Gruber (music), John Freeman Young (English translation):
Silent Night, Holy Night (Stille Nacht, Heilge Nacht) (1818)
Silent Night (1935) – see Bing Crosby
Mojos
Song(s):
Everything’s Alright (1964)
The Mojo Singers
Song(s):
C’mon Aussie C’mon (1979)
Molly Hatchet
Song(s):
Dreams I’ll Never See (1978) 
Flirtin’ with Disaster (1979)
Moloko
Song(s):
Sing It Back (1999)
Jimmy Monaco
Janelle Monáe
Song(s):
Tightrope (with Big Boi, 2010)
We Are Young (2011) – see Fun.
Make Me Feel (2018)
Album(s):
The Arch Android (2010)
Dirty Computer (2018)
Victoria Monét
Album(s):
Jaguar II (2023)
Eddie Money
Rock singer/songwriter born Edward Joseph Mahoney on 3/21/1949 in Brooklyn, New York. Died 9/13/2019.
Song(s):
Two Tickets to Paradise (1977)
Take Me Home Tonight (with Ronnie Spector, 1986)
Monica
R&B singer born Monica Denise Arnold on 10/24/1980 in College Park, GA.
Song(s):
Don’t Take It Personal (Just One of Dem Days) (1995)
Before You Walk Out of My Life (1995)
The Boy Is Mine (1998) – see Brandy
The First Night (1998)
So Gone (2003)
Everything to Me (2010)
Album(s):
After the Storm (2003)
Meredith Monk
Composer, performer, singer, director, filmmaker, and choreographer born 11/20/1942 in New York City, NY.
Thelonious Monk 
Jazz pianist born Thelonious Sphere Monk on 10/10/1917 in Rocky Mount, NC. Died 2/17/1982.
Song(s):
Round Midnight (1947)
Album(s):
Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 1 (recorded 1947, released 1951)
Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 2 (1951)
Brilliant Corners (1956)
The Unique… (1956)
Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane (with John Coltrane, 1957)
At Carnegie Hall (live with John Coltrane, 1957)
The Monkees
Pop band formed in Los Angeles, CA. Members chosen from over 400 applicants for new Columbia TV series. Jones had been a racehorse jockey and appeared in London musicals Oliver and Pickwick. Nesmith had done session work for Stax/Volt. Tork had been in the Phoenix Singers. Dolenz had appeared in TV series Circus Boy, using the name Mickey Braddock, in 1956. Group starred in the 1968 movie Head and 58 episodes of The Monkees TV show from 1966-68. Reformed in 1986 and 1996.
Active: 1965-71, 1986, 1996 Members: Davy Jones (v: 65-69; 86-87; 96), Michael Nesmith (g/v: 65-69; 86-87; 96), Peter Tork (b/v: 65-68; 86-87; 96), and Micky Dolenz (d/v: 65-69; 86-87; 96).
Song(s):
Last Train to Clarksville (1966)
I’m a Believer (1966)
A Little Bit Me, a Little Bit You (1967)
Daydream Believer (1967)
Pleasant Valley Sunday (1967)
Alternate Title (1967)
Valleri (1967)
Goin’ Down (1967)
She (1967)
Randy Scouse Git (1967)
Porpoise Song (1968)
Album(s):
The Monkees (1966)
More of the Monkees (1967)
Headquarters (1967)
Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. (1967)
Best of (compilation: 1966-69, released 2003)
The DMDB Blog:
The Monkees debuts on TV: September 12, 1966 (9/12/11)
The Monotones
Song(s):
Book of Love (1958)
Matt Monro
Song(s):
Portrait of My Love (1960)
My Kind of Girl (1961)
My Love and Devotion (1962)
Bill Monroe
Country singer born William Smith Monroe on 9/13/1911 in Rosine, KY. Died 9/6/1996.
Song(s):
Mule Skinner Blues (Blue Yodel No. 8) (1940)
Orange Blossom Special (1942)
Blue Moon of Kentucky (& His Blue Grass Boys, 1947)
It’s Mighty Dark for Me to Travel (1948)
Blue Grass Breakdown (1949)
The Wayfaring Stranger (1958)
Album(s):
The Music of Bill Monroe (compilation: 1936-94)
Marilyn Monroe
Song(s):
Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend (1953)
Vaughn Monroe
Jazz/big band leader born Vaughn Milton Monroe on 10/7/1911 in Akron, OH. Died 5/21/1973.
Song(s):
There I Go (1940)
My Devotion (1942)
When the Lights Go on Again All Over the World (1942)
Let’s Get Lost (with the Four Lee Sisters, 1943)
There! I’ve Said It Again (1945)
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! (1945)
I Wish I Didn’t Love You So (1947)
Ballerina (1947)
Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend) (1949)
Someday You’ll Want Me to Want You (1949)
Album(s):
On the Moonbeam (1945)
Down Memory Lane (1948)
Vaughn Monroe Sings (1949)
French Montana
Song(s):
Unforgettable (with Swae Lee, 2017)
Joey Montana
Song(s):
Picky (2015)
Patsy Montana
Country singer born Ruby Rose Blevins on 10/30/1908 in Beaudry, AR. Died 5/3/1996.
Song(s):
I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart (with the Prairie Ramblers, 1936)
Rita Montaner
Song(s):
The Peanut Vendor (El Manisero) (1927)
Pierre Monteux
Claudio Monteverdi
Classical composer born Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi on 5/15/1567 in Cremona, Italy. Died 11/29/1643.
Album(s):
L'Orfeo (Orpheus) (opera: 1607)
Vespers of the Blessed Virgin (Vespro Della Beata Vergine) (1610)
Madrigals of Love and War (Madrigali Guerrieri ed Amorosi) (1638)
L'incoronazione di Poppea (The Coronation of Poppaea) (opera: 1642)
Little Brother Montgomery
John Michael Montgomery
American country singer born 1/20/1965.
Song(s):
I Love the Way You Love Me (1993)
I Swear (1993)
Be My Baby Tonight (1994)
If You’ve Got Love (1994)
I Can Love You Like That (1995)
Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident) (1995)
The Little Girl (2000)
Album(s):
Kickin’ It Up (1994)
Wes Montgomery
Jazz guitarist born John Leslie Montgomery on 3/6/1923 in Indianapolis, IN. Died 6/15/1968.
Album(s):
The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery (1960)
Smokin’ at the Half Note (1965)
Percy Montrose
Song(s) written by Montrose:
Clementine (aka "Oh My Darling Clementine") (1863)
Clementine (aka "Oh My Darling Clementine") (1960) – see Bobby Darin
The Moody Blues
Progressive-rock group formed in Birmingham, England in 1964. Members: Rodney Clarke (b/v: 66), Graeme Edge (d: 64-18), Justin Hayward (v/g: 66-18), Denny Laine (g/v: 64-66), John Lodge (b/g/v: 66-18), Patrick Moraz (k: 78-91), Mike Pinder (k/v: 64-78), Ray Thomas (flute/harmonica/sax/percussion: 64-02), Clint Warwick (b/v: 64-66).
Song(s):
Go Now (1964)
Nights in White Satin (1967)
The Story in Your Eyes (1971)
Gemini Dream (1981)
The Voice (1981)
Your Wildest Dreams (1986)
Album(s):
Days of Future Passed (with the London Festival Orchestra, 1967) 
In Search of the Lost Chord (1968)
On the Threshold of a Dream (1969)
Seventh Sojourn (1972)
This Is the Moody Blues (compilation: 1967-72, released 1974)
Long Distance Voyager (1981)
James Moody
Song(s):
Moody's Mood for Love (1952)
Robert Moog
Jacob Moon
Song(s):
Kayleigh/Lavender (live, 2013)
Keith Moon
Rock drummer born 8/23/1946 in Wembley, Middlesex, England. Died 9/7/1978. With the Who.
Art Mooney
Jazz/big band leader born 2/4/1911 in Lowell, MA. Died 1993.
Song(s):
I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover (1948)
Hop Scotch Polka (Scotch Hot) (1949)
Silver Dollar (1951)
The Moonglows
Song(s):
Sincerely (1955)
Album(s):
Look! It’s the Moonglows (1956)
Wild Bill Moore
Song(s):
We’re Gonna Rock, We're Gonna Roll (1947)
Rock and Roll (1948)
Bob Moore
Song(s):
Mexico (1961)
Bobby Moore & the Rhythm Aces
Song(s):
Searching for My Love (1966)
Dorothy Moore
Song(s):
Misty Blue (1976)
Gary Moore
Song(s):
Parisienne Walkways (1979)
Still Got the Blues (1990)
Album(s):
Still Got the Blues (1990)
Grace Moore
Song(s):
One Night of Love (1934)
Jackie Moore
Song(s):
Darling Baby (1972)
Jimmy Moore
R&B singer born James Edward Moore on 3/7/1926 in Winston-Salem, NC. Died 8/16/2008. With The Five Royales.
Johnny Moore
R&B singer born 12/15/1934 in Selma, AL. Died 12/30/1998. With The Drifters (1955-58, 1964-80).
Melba Moore
R&B/gospel singer born Beatrice Melba Hill on 10/29/1945 in New York City, NY.
Songs(s):
Falling (1986)
Lift Every Voice (1990)
Sam Moore
R&B singer born 10/12/1935 in Miami, FL. With Sam & Dave.
Scotty Moore
Early rock 'n' roll guitarist born Winfield Scott Moore III on 12/27/1931 in Gadsden, TN. Died 6/28/2016. With the Blue Moon Boys, Elvis Presley's backing group.
Stanton Moore
Drummer with Galactic.
Thomas Moore
Song(s):
There’s Nothing True But Heaven (words by Moore, music by Oliver Shaw; 1829)
Warren “Pete” Moore
R&B bass singer/songwriter born Warren Thomas Moore on 11/19/1938 in Detroit, MI. Died 11/19/2017. With The Miracles (1955-78).
Moran & Mack
Song(s):
Two Black Crows - Parts 1 & 2 (The Early Bird Catches the Worm) (1927)
Patrick Moraz
Progressive rock keyboardist born 6/24/1948 in Morges, Switzerland. With Yes (1974-78) The Moody Blues (1978-91).
Kevin Morby
Song(s):
This Is a Photograph (2022)
Album(s):
Oh My God (2019)
This Is a Photograph (2022)
Tom Morello
Alternative-rock/rap-metal guitarist born Thomas Baptiste Morello on 5/30/1964 in Harlem, New York. With Rage Against the Machine (1991-2000, 07-) and Audioslave (01-06). Has also worked solo as The Nightwatchman (03-).
Rita Moreno
Song(s):
America (1961)
Neil Moret
Corinne Morgan
Song(s):
Toyland (with Haydn Quartet, 1904)
Listen to the Mocking Bird (aka "The Mocking Bird") (1904) – see Frank Stanley
Dearie (1905) – see Haydn Quartet
How'd You Like to Spoon with Me? (1906) – see Haydn Quartet
So Long, Mary (1906)
George Morgan
Country singer born 6/28/1924 in Waverly, TN. Died 7/7/1975.
Song(s):
Candy Kisses (1940)
Helen Morgan
Song(s):
Bill (from Show Boat, 1928)
Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man (from Show Boat, 1928)
Jane Morgan
Song(s):
Fascination (1957)
Lee Morgan
Jazz trumpeter and composer born Edward Lee Morgan on 7/10/1938 in Philadelphia, PA. Died 2/19/1972.
Album(s):
The Sidewinder (1963)
Search for the New Land (1964)
Robert W. Morgan
Radio DJ.
Russ Morgan
Big band leader and musical arranger born 4/29/1904 in Scranton, PA. Died 8/7/1969.
Song(s):
The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down (with Jimmie Lewis, 1937)
I Double Dare You (with Bernice Parks, 1938)
I’ve Got a Pocketful of Dreams (1938)
Dance with a Dolly with a Hole in Her Stocking (with Al Jennings, 1948)
Cruising Down the River on a Sunday Afternoon (with the Skylarks, 1949)
Forever and Ever (Fliege mit Mir in die Heimat) (with the Skylarks, 1949)
Rod Morgenstein
Rock drummer with Dixie Dregs and Winger.
Alanis Morissette
Alternative rock singer born 6/1/1974 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Song(s):
You Oughta Know (1995)
Hand in My Pocket (1995)
Ironic (1995)
You Learn (1995)
Head Over Feet (1995)
You Oughta Know (live at the Grammys, 1996)
Uninvited (1998)
Thank U (1998)
Unsent (1998)
King of Pain (live, 1999)
Hands Clean (2002)
Crazy (2005)
My Humps (2007)
Mandinka (live, 2023) – see Foo Fighters
Album(s):
Jagged Little Pill (1995, musical: 2021) 
Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie (1998)
Under Rug Swept (2002)
Feast on Scraps (archives: 2002)
Jagged Little Pill – Acoustic (2005)
Flavors of Entanglement (2008)
Havoc and Bright Lights (2012)
Such Pretty Forks in the Road (2020)
Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Song(s):
The Battle Hymn of the Republic (aka "Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!") (1959)
Joy to the World (1970)
Album(s):
The Lord’s Prayer (1959)
Giorgio Moroder
Singer/songwriter, DJ, and record producer often credited with pioneering electronic dance music. Best known for his work with Donna Summer. Also worked on soundtracks for Midnight Express (1978), American Gigolo (1980), Flashdance (1983), and Top Gun (1986). Born 4/26/1940 in Urtijëi, South Tyrol, Italy. Best known for work with Donna Summer during the late 1970s.
Jerome Moross
Album(s):
The Big Country (soundtrack: 1958)
Morphine
Song(s):
Cure for Pain (1993)
Album(s):
Cure for Pain (1993)
Yes (1995)
Ennio Morricone
Album(s):
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (soundtrack: 1966)
Once Upon a Time in the West (soundtrack: 1972)
Fistful of Film Music: The Anthology (1995)
Doug Morris
Eldia Morris
Song(s):
I Want to Go Back to Michigan (Down on the Farm) (1914)
Garry Morris
Song(s):
Wind Beneath My Wings (1983)
Maren Morris
Song(s):
My Church (2016)
I Could Use a Love Song (2017)
The Middle (2018) – see Zedd
Crowded Table (2019) – see The Highwomen
Girl (2019)
The Bones (2019)
Album(s):
Girl (2019)
Russell Morris
Song(s):
The Real Thing (1969)
Part Three Into Paper Walls (1969)
Stephen Morris
Rock drummer with Joy Division and New Order.
James Morrison
Song(s):
Nothing Ever Hurt Like You (2008)
Jim Morrison
Rock singer with The Doors. Born James Douglas Morrison on 12/8/1943 in Melbourne, FL. Died 7/3/1971 in Paris, France.
Joe Morrison
Song(s):
The Last Round-Up (1933) – see George Olsen
Anytime, Any Place, Anywhere (& His Orchestra, 1950)
Mark Morrison
Song(s):
Return of the Mack (1996)
Sterling Morrison
Rock guitarist born Holmes Sterling Morrison Jr. on 8/29/1942 in East Meadow, NY. Died 8/30/1995. With Velvet Underground (1965-70).
Van Morrison
Links: - official site - Wikipedia
Blue-eyed soul singer/songwriter born George Ivan Morrison on 8/31/1945 in Belfast, Ireland. With the group Them (63-66) before becoming a solo artist (66-).
Song(s):
Gloria (1965) – see Them
Baby Please Don't Go (1965) – see Them
Here Comes the Night (1965) – see Them
Brown-Eyed Girl (1967)
Madame George (1968)
Astral Weeks (1968)
Cyprus Avenue (1968)
Moondance (1970)
Domino (1970)
Into the Mystic (1970)
Crazy Love (1970)
Wild Night (1971)
Tupelo Honey (1971)
Listen to the Lion (1972)
You Don’t Pull No Punches But You Don’t Push the River (1974)
Wavelength (1978)
It’s All in the Game (1979)
Have I Told You Lately (1989)
Song of Being a Child (1998)
Album(s):
Astral Weeks (1968)
Moondance (1970)
It's Too Late to Stop Now (live, 1974)
Best of (compilation: 1965-89, released 1990)
Walter "Junie" Morrison
Funk singer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer born 6/28/1954 in Dayton, OH. Died 1/21/2017. With Parliament/Funkadelic.
Morrissey
Alternative rock singer/songwriter born Steven Patrick Morrissey on Davyhulme, Lancashire, England. 5/22/1959 With the Smiths (1983-87) before becoming a solo artist.
Song(s):
Top 50 Songs: The Smiths/Morrissey
Every Day Is Like Sunday (1988)
Tomorrow (1992)
The More You Ignore Me, the Closer You Get (1994)
Jack the Ripper (1994)
Speedway (1994)
Boxers (1995)
Irish Blood, English Heart (2004)
Album(s):
Viva Hate (1988)
Your Arsenal (1992)
Vauxhall and I (1994)
You Are the Quarry (2004)
Bruce "Cousin Brucie" Morrow
Radio DJ.
Ella Mae Morse
Song(s):
Shoo-Shoo Baby (1943)
Steve Morse
Rock guitarist born 7/28/1954 in Hamilton, Ohio. With the Dixie Dregs (75-83), Steve Morse Band (84-85), Kansas (86), Deep Purple (94-98, 03-05, 13), Living Loud (03-), and Angelfire (07-).
Theodore Morse
Eddie Morton
Song(s):
The Right Church But the Wrong Pew (1908)
Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton
Jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and bandleader born Ferdinand Joseph La Menthe Morton 10/20/1890 (some sources say 1895) near New Orleans, LA. Died 7/10/1941. Called "one of the handful of Atlases upon whose shoulders rests the entire structure of our music" by jazz historian Orrin Keepnews.
Song(s):
Jelly Roll Blues (1904)
Climax Rag (1914)
King Porter Stomp (1924)
The Pearls (1926)
Black Bottom Stomp (1927)
Grandpa’s Spells (1927)
Kansas City Stomp (1928)
Album(s):
Birth of the Hot: The Classic Chicago “Red Hot Peppers” Sessions (1926-27)
Library of Congress Recordings: The Saga of Mr. Jelly Lord (1950) Centennial: His Complete Victor Recordings (box set: 1990)
PJ Morton
Song(s):
Say So (with JoJo, 2019)
Ian Mosley
Progressive-rock drummer born 6/16/1953 in Paddington, London, England. With Curved Air, Marillion (1983-), and Iris for Crossing the Desert (1996).
Jerry Moss
Record executive (A&M Records) born Jerome S. Moss on 5/8/1935 in Los Angeles, CA.
Cordell "Boogie" Mosson
Funk bassist born Cardell Mosson on 10/16/1952 in Plainfield, NJ. Died 4/18/2023. With Parliament/Funkadelic.
Zero Mostel
Song(s):
If I Were a Rich Man (from Fiddler on the Roof, 1964)
Sunrise, Sunset (from Fiddler on the Roof, 1964)
Comedy Tonight (from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, 1964)
Bennie Moten
Song(s):
Moten's Swing (1932)
Mother Love Bone
Seattle-based grunge-rock band. Active: 1988-90. Members: Jeff Ament (b), Bruce Fairweather (g), Greg Gillmore (d), Stone Gossard (g), Andrew Wood (v). Gossard, Ament, and Fairwather were previously in Green River together. Ament and Gossard were part of the one-time project Temple of the Dog, a tribute to Wood who died of a heroin overdose in 1990, and were in Pearl Jam.
Song(s):
Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns (1989)
Album(s):
Shine (EP, 1989)
Apple (1990)
Mother Love Bone (compilation: 1989-90, released 1992)
The Mothers of Invention
- see Frank Zappa
Mötley Crüe
American glam-metal rock band formed in Los Angeles, CA. 1981-. Vince Neil (v: 81-92, 96-), Micki Marrs (g: 81-), Nikki Sixx (b: 81-), Tommy Lee (d: 81-99, 04-), John Corabi (v: 92-96), Randy Castillo (d: 99-02), Samantha Maloney (d: 02-04)
Song(s):
Live Wire (1981) 
Shout at the Devil (1983)
Looks That Kills (1983)
Too Young to Fall in Love (1983)
Home Sweet Home (1985)
Girls, Girls, Girls (1987)
Wild Side (1987)
Dr. Feelgood (1989)
Kickstart My Heart (1989)
Without You (1989)
Album(s):
Dr. Feelgood (1989)
Motörhead
Heavy metal band formed in London, England. 1975-2015. "Fast" Eddie Clarke (g: 76-82, died 2018), Lucas Fox (d: 75), Lemmy Kilmister (v/b), Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor (d: 75-84 ), Larry Walls (g: 75-76).
Song(s):
Ace of Spades (1980)
Album(s):
Overkill (1979)
Ace of Spades (1980) 
No Sleep ‘Til Hammersmith (live, 1981)
Tommy Mottola 
Record executive (Sony Music). Married to singer Mariah Carey from 1993-1998.
Mott the Hoople 
Song(s):
All the Young Dudes (1972) 
Saturday Gigs (1974)
Golden Age of Rock ‘n’ Roll (1974)
Album(s):
Brain Capers (1971)
All the Young Dudes (1972) 
Mott (1973) 
Bob Mould
Song(s):
See a Little Light (1989)
Album(s):
Workbook (1989)
Gary "Mani" Mounfield
Mountain
Song(s):
Mississippi Queen (1970)
Nantucket Sleighride (1971)
Mountain Goats
Song(s):
This Year (2005)
Album(s):
The Sunset Tree (2005)
Nana Mouskouri
Singer born Ioánna Moúschouri on 10/13/1934 in Chania, Crete, Greece.
The Move
Rock band formed in the UK in 1965. Featured future Electric Light Orchestra members Bev Bevan (d: 65-72, 81, 04-14), Jeff Lynne (v/multi-instrumentalist: 69-72), and Roy Wood (v/multi-instrumentalist: 65-72, 81).
Song(s):
Flowers in the Rain (1967)
Blackberry Way (1968)
Moving Pictures
Song(s):
What About Me? (1982)
Album(s):
Days of Innocence (1982)
Sylvia Moy
R&B songwriter and producer born 9/15/1938 in Detroit, Michigan. Died 4/15/2017. She was the first woman at Motown to write and produce.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Classical composer and pianist born Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart on 1/27/1756 in Salzburg, Austria. Died 12/5/1791.
Album(s):
Piano Concerto No. 9 (1777)
Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio) (opera: 1781)
Symphony No. 35 (Haffner) (1782)
Piano Concerto No. 11 (1783)
Piano Concerto No. 12 (1782)
Piano Sonata No. 11: Rondo Alla Turca (1783)
Piano Concerto No. 14 (1784)
Piano Concerto No. 17 (1784)
Piano Concerto No. 18 (1784)
Piano Concerto No. 19 (1784)
Piano Concerto No. 20 (1785)
Piano Concerto No. 21 (1785)
Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major (1786)
Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor (1786)
Piano Concerto No. 25 (1786)
The Marriage of Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro) (opera: 1786)
Symphony No. 38 (Prague) (classical, composed 1786, premiered 1787)
Don Giovanni (opera, 1787)
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (A Little Night Music) (1787)
Symphony No. 39 in E flat major (classical, composed 1788)
Symphony No. 40 in G minor (1788)
Symphony No. 41 "Jupiter" (1788)
Clarinet Quintet in A major (Stadler) (1789)
Cosí Fan Tutte (Thus Do They All) (opera, 1790)
Requiem Mass in D minor (1791)
Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute) (opera: 1791)
Clarinet Concerto in A major (1791)
Piano Concerto No. 27 (1791)
Piano Concertos (27) (1767-1791)
Jason Mraz
Song(s):
Curbside Prophet (2002)
I’m Yours (2008)
I Won’t Give Up (2012)
Mr. Big
Song(s):
To Be with You (1991)
Mr. Mister
Song(s):
Broken Wings (1985)
Kyrie (1985)
Album(s):
Welcome to the Real World (1985)
Mr. Oizo
Song(s):
Flat Beat (1999)
Mr. Probz
Song(s):
Waves (Robin Schulz Remix) (2013)
Ms. Dynamite
Album(s):
A Little Deeper (2003)
Mtume
Song(s):
Juicy Fruit (1983)
Mud
Song(s):
Tiger Feet (1974)
Mudhoney
Song(s):
Touch Me I’m Sick (1988)
Album(s):
Superfuzz Big Muff (EP, 1988)
Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge (1991)
Mudvayne
Song(s):
Dig (2001)
Maria Muldaur
Song(s):
Midnight at the Oasis (1974)
Larry Mullen, Jr.
Rock drummer born Lawrence Joseph Mullen Jr. on 10/31/1961 in Artane, Dublin, Ireland. With U2 (1976-).
Gerry Mulligan
Jazz saxophonist born 4/6/1927 in Queens Village, Long Island, NY. Died 1/20/1996.
Song(s):
My Funny Valentine (from Babes in Arms, 1953) – see Chet Baker
Shawn Mullins
Song(s):
Lullaby (Rock-a-Bye) (1998)
Ted Mulry Gang
Song(s):
Jump in My Car (1976)
Mumford & Sons
Song(s):
Little Lion Man (2009)
The Cave (2009)
I Will Wait (2012)
Lover of the Light (2012)
Believe (2015)
The Wolf (2015)
Guiding Light (2018)
Album(s):
Sigh No More (2009)
Babel (2012)
Delta (2018)
Mungo Jerry
Song(s):
In the Summertime (1970)
Baby Jump (1971)
The Muppets
Song(s):
The Muppet Show Theme (with Sam Pottle, 1976)
The Rainbow Connection (voice of Jim Henson as Kermit, 1979)
Mahna Mahna (1993)
The Murmaids
Song(s):
Popsicles and Icicles (1963)
Eddie Murphy
Lambert Murphy
Tenor singer. Born Harry Lambert Murphy in Springfield, Massachusetts on 4/15/1885. Died on 7/24/1954. Sang with the Metropolitan Opera and the Orpheus Quartet (1914-19).
Song(s):
Roses of Picardy (1918)
I Dream of Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair (1922)
Matt "Guitar" Murphy
Peter Murphy
Song(s):
Cuts You Up (1990)
Walter Murphy & the Big Apple Band
Song(s):
A Fifth of Beethoven (1976)
Anne Murray
Country singer born Morna Anne Murray on 6/20/1945 in Springhill, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Song(s):
Snowbird (1970)
Cotton Jenny (1972)
Danny’s Song (1972)
A Love Song (1973)
He Thinks I Still Care (1974)
You Needed Me (1978)
Daydream Believer (1979)
I Just Fall in Love Again (1979)
Broken Hearted Me (1979)
Could I Have This Dance? (1980)
Blessed Are the Believers (1981)
A Little Good News (1983)
Just Another Woman in Love (1984)
Nobody Loves Me Like You Do (with Dave Loggins, 1984)
Now and Forever (You and Me) (1986)
Album(s):
A Little Good News (1984)
Billy Murray
Tenor singer known as "The Denver Nightingale." Born William Thomas Murray on 5/25/1877 to Irish immigrants in Philadelphia, PA. His family moved to Denver, Colorado in 1882. Died 8/17/1954. His popularity lasted through the first quarter of the 20th century, a time when, what he called his "hammering" style of shouting into an acoustic recording horn, was the technology prior to the rise of the electric microphone, which ushered in the era of crooners.
He joined a vaudeville troupe in 1893 and performed in minstrel shows early in his career. He started recording regularly in New York in 1903. He became the definitive interpreter of George M. Cohan, recording the hit version of nearly every Cohan song from 1905 on. In addition to his solo recordings, he worked with the Haydn Quartet (1898-1914), Columbia Comedy Trio (1907), with Ada Jones (1907-22), American Quartet (1910-25?) and the Heidelberg Quintet (1911-15).
Song(s):
Billy Murray: Top 100 Songs
Under the Anheuser Busch (1904)
Navajo (1904)
Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis (1904)
Alexander (Don't You Love Your Baby No More?) (1904)
Bedelia (1904)
Come Take a Trip in My Air-Ship (1904)
Teasing (I Was Only Teasing) (1904)
Yankee Doodle Boy (1905)
Give My Regards to Broadway (1905)
In My Merry Oldsmobile (1905)
Everybody Works But Father (1905)
You’re a Grand Old Flag (aka "The Grand Old Rag") (1906)
Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway (1906)
Waltz Me Around Again, Willie (with the Haydn Quartet, 1906)
Arrah Wanna (with the Haydn Quartet, 1906)
Harrigan (1907)
San Antonio (Cowboy Song) (1907)
Let’s Take an Old-Fashioned Walk (1907) – see Ada Jones
Under Any Old Flag at All (1908)
Make Believe (1908) – see Ada Jones
When We Are M-A-R-R-I-E-D (1908) – see Ada Jones
Cuddle Up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine (1908) – see Ada Jones
Wouldn't You Like to Have Me for a Sweetheart? (1908) – see Ada Jones
I’m Afraid to Come Home in the Dark (1908)
Take Me Out to the Ball Game (with the Haydn Quartet, 1908)
The Best I Get Is Much Obliged to You (1908)
Shine on, Harvest Moon (1909) – see Ada Jones
By the Light of the Silvery Moon (with the Haydn Quartet, 1909)
Carrie (Carrie Marry Harry) (1910)
Casey Jones (1910) – see the American Quartet
Come, Josephine, in My Flying Machine (1911) – see Ada Jones
Oh, You Beautiful Doll (1911) – see the American Quartet
Alexander’s Ragtime Band (1911)
Camptown Races (Gwine to Run All Night) (1911)
Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee (with Ada Jones, 1912)
He’d Have to Get Under, Get Out and Get Under to Fix Up His Automobile (1914)
I Love a Piano (1916)
Pretty Baby (1916)
Play a Simple Melody (with Edna Brown, 1916)
There's a Little Bit of Bad in Every Good Little Girl (1916)
K-K-K-Katy (The Stammering Song) (1918)
I’ll See You in C-U-B-A (1920)
Stumbling (1922)
That Old Gang of Mine (with Ed Smalle, 1923)
Charley, My Boy (1924) – see International Novelty Orchestra
Album(s):
Anthology: The Denver Nightingale (compilation: 1903-40, released 2002)
The DMDB Blog:
Billy Murray, the biggest selling sensation of the pioneer era, dies: August 17, 1954 (8/17/11)
Dave Murray
Heavy metal guitarist born 12/23/1956 in Edmonton, London, England. With Iron Maiden.
James Ramsey Murray
Song(s) written by Murray with Charles H. Gabriel:
Away in a Manger (1887)
Edward R. Murrow
Album(s):
I Can Hear It Now (radio news broadcasts, 1933-45)
Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section
R&B sideman Barry Beckett, Pete Carr, Roger Hawkins, David Hood, Clayton Ivey, Jimmy Johnson, Randy McCormick, Will McFarlane, and Spooner Oldham.
Muse
English rock band. Active: 1994-. Members: Matthew Bellamy (v/g/k), Christopher Wolstenholme (b/k), Dominic Howard (d).
Song(s):
Sunburn (2000)
Uprising (2009)
Madness (2012)
Album(s):
Origin of Symmetry (2001)
Absolution (2003)
Black Holes & Revelations (2006)
The Resistance (2009)
Drones (2015)
Kacey Musgraves
Song(s):
Follow Your Arrow (2013)
Merry Go Round (2014)
Family Is Family (2015)
Space Cowboy (2018)
Rainbow (2018)
Slow Burn (2018)
Kansas City Star (2018)
Justified (2021)
I Remember Everything (2023) – see Zach Bryan
The Architect (2024)
Album(s):
Same Trailer, Different Park (2013)
Golden Hour (2018)
Star-Crossed (2021)
Musical Youth
Song(s):
Pass the Dutchie (1982)
The Music Explosion
Song(s):
Little Bit O’ Soul (1967)
The Music Machine
Song(s):
Talk Talk (1966)
Music Soulchild
Song(s):
Love (2000)
Don’t Change (2002)
Album(s):
Juslisen (2002)
Luvanmusiq (2007)
Charlie Musselwhite
Blues musician born 1/31/1944 in Kosciusko, Mississippi.
Modest Mussorgsky
Classical composer born 3/21/1839 in Karevo, Russia. Died 3/28/1881.
Song(s):
Song of the Flea (written by Mussorgsky, performed by Feodor Chaliapin, 1926)
Album(s):
Boris Godunov (opera: 1873)
Pictures at an Exhibition (Tableaux d'une Exposition) (1874)
The Nursery/Sunless /Songs & Dances of Death) (composed 1955-57, released 2003)
Mustard
Song(s):
Ballin’ (with Roddy Ricch, 2019)
Dave Mustaine
Heavy metal guitarist and songwriter born 9/13/1961 in La Mesa, California. With Metallica (1981-83). Then formed Megadeth (1984-) in which he also assumed lead vocals.
Mya
Song(s):
Case of the Ex (2000)
Lady Marmalade (2001) – see Christina Aguilera
My Bloody Valentine
Song(s):
You Made Me Realise (1988)
Soon (1990)
When You Sleep (1991)
Album(s):
Isn’t Anything (1988)
Loveless (1991)
My Chemical Romance
Song(s):
Helena (So Long and Goodnight) (2004)
Welcome to the Black Parade (2006)
Album(s):
The Black Parade (2006)
Brent Mydland
Rock keyboardist born 10/21/1952 in Munich, Germany. With Grateful Dead (1979-90).
Billie Myers
Song(s):
Kiss the Rain (1997)
J.W. Myers
Singer born John W. Myers in 1864 in Wales. Died 1919. The foremost baritone ballad singer of his era.
Song(s):
Two Little Girls in Blue (1893)
The Sidewalks of New York (1895)
Just Tell Them That You Saw Me (1895)
Goodbye Dolly Gray (1897)
In the Shade of the Palm (1901)
Way Down Yonder in the Cornfield (Alabama) (1901)
On a Sunday Afternoon (1902)
Way Down in Old Indiana (1902)
In the Good Old Summertime (1902)
Dear Old Girl (1903)
Alannah Myles
Song(s):
Black Velvet (1989)
Song Instead of a Kiss (1992)
My Morning Jacket
Song(s):
Off the Record (2005)
Feel You (2020)
Album(s):
It Still Moves (2003)
Z (2005)
The Mystics
Song(s):
Hushabye (1959)
John Myung
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Last updated April 20, 2025.
