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Rachel Was Here (Giallombardo- M)

Radio (Briner- M/F) available from BHS. Women’s chart also available from SAI unpublished catalogue

Radio Jingles (Szabo- M) available from BHS

Rag Mop (Bergman– M/F) Easy 40’s fun

Ragtime (McFadyen- F) available from SAI unpublished catalogue

Ragtime Cowboy (Cowgirl) Joe (Craig– M) show (BHS- M; Baird- M) available from BHS (Bergman– F) cute and catchy contest uptune. Old chestnut (Johnson- F) available from SAI unpublished catalogue

Ragtime Drafted Man (Giallombardo- M)

*Ragtime Medley (Volk– F/M) show uptune

Rain (Bescos– F) steady tempo in this fun uptune (Benson- M; Peculski- M; Lyne- M) available from BHS

*Rain Medley (Waesche- M/F) available from BHS

Rainbow Connection (Knight- M; Ozman- M; Zito- M; Hall- M) available from BHS (Minshall- F) available only to Sweet Adelines. From Muppet Movie, haunting and lovely (Vidal- F; Bailey- F) available from SAI unpublished catalogue

*Rainbow Medley (Latzko- M) available from BHS

Rainbows In The Snow (McFadyen- F) available from SAI unpublished catalogue

Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head (Bescos– F) contest uptune from ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’ (Gentry- M) This light song is, well, delightful. Men’s learning tracks available from Shawn Thomas (Beck– M) show (Latzko- M) available from BHS, learning tracks available from Gary Lewis Press

Rainy Night In Rio (Keller- M) fun swing tune from the 50’s (Johnson- M) available from BHS

Raise The Roof (Hatton- M) show, swing

*Rat Pack Medley (Naumann- M/F) available from BHS

Rawhide (Nicholas- M) available from BHS

*Razzapple Medley (Gentry- M) High energy. Razzle Dazzle/Applause. Men’s learning tracks available from Chris Arnold and Sean Milligan

Razzle Dazzle (Gentry- M) lively and timely. Men’s and women’s learning tracks available from Tim Waurick (Craig–  F) show tune from ‘Chicago’ (Lund- F) YWIH available from SAI, also SSAA (Ordaz- M) available from BHS. Learning tracks available from Gary Lewis Press (Sellers- F) available from SAI unpublished catalogue

Reach (Carlson- F) available from SAI unpublished catalogue, learning tracks available from Lynda Keever (LeVezu- F) available from SAI unpublished catalogue (Meyer- F) adult and YW available from SAI unpublished catalogue

Reach For The Light (Dale- F) available from SAI unpublished catalogue

Reach For The Stars (Volk- M)

Reach Out And Touch (Stahly- M; Waesche- M) available from BHS

Reach Out Of The Darkness (Barnett- F) available from SAI unpublished catalogue

Reach Out To Jesus (Lippincott– F)

Ready To Take A Chance Again (Bescos– F) show ballad. Barry Manilow song, lead solo for quartet

Recipe For Love (BHS- M) available from BHS

Recycle Song (Shaw- M) available from BHS

Red Hot (Bergman– F) cute, a little vampy, fun contest uptune. Learning tracks available from Tim Waurick

Red Hot Henry Brown (Arns- F) available from SAI unpublished catalogue

Red Hot Mama (BHS- M) available from BHS (Hardy- M)

*Red Hot Mama Medley (Volk– F) Contest uptune. Nobody Knows/Last Of The Red Hot Mamas/Gotta See Mama

Red Hot Henry Brown (Keller- M) fun uptune along the lines of Hard Hearted Hannah

Red River Valley (Garnett- F) easy. Available from LABBS, easy-beat

Red Rose Rag (Raeside- F) available from SAI, easy-medium (Pearson- M) learning tracks available from Andrew Wheaton

Red Roses For A Blue Lady (Lippincott- F) neat (Craig- F; Brooks- M) available from BHS

Red Sails In The Sunset (Parker- M) available from BHS

Redhead (Beck- F) contest uptune (Polaneczky- M; Rector- M; Ozzie- M; Waesche- M; Szabo- M) available from BHS

Redhead Mama (Beck- F) contest uptune

*Redhead Medley (Volk- F/M) contest uptune. Redhead/Nobody Knows What A Redhead

Redneck Kind Of Guy (Gentry- M) The wall-to-wall redneck jokes will have your audience swallowing their chawin’ tabaccy.

Reindeer Boogie (Landry- F) available from SAI unpublished catalogue

Rejoice With Exceeding Great Joy (Hagy- F) available from SAI unpublished catalogue

*Rejoice With Exceeding Great Joy/First Noel/We Three Kings (Berg- F) available from SAI unpublished catalogue, medley #291

Release Me (Bergman– M/F) Johnny Cash tune, available from BHS

Remember (Edmondson- F) available from SAI, medium difficulty (Gray- M) available from BHS

Remember Me To Mary (Engler- M; Jamison- M; Perry- M) available from BHS (Johnson- F) available from SAI unpublished catalogue

*Remember My Boy Medley (Baird- M) available from BHS

Remember Pearl Harbour (Hallock- M) available from BHS

Renaissance Woman (Briner- F) available from SAI unpublished catalogue

R-E-S-P-E-C-T (Volk F) show uptune

Return To Pooh Corner (Minshall- F) available only to Sweet Adelines. Pop tempo ballad

Reverie (Unknown- M) learning tracks available from Andrew Wheaton

Rhapsody Of New York (DavidWright– F) available from BHS. Very, very difficult, not for human beings.

Rhinestone Cowboy (Lippincott– F) country-western (Hampton- F) available from SAI unpublished catalogue

Rhode Island Is Famous For You (Keller- M) cute uptune

Rhythm And Dance Medley (Hohl- M) available from BHS

Rhythm In My Nursery Rhymes (If I Had) (Griffin- F) easy-medium, available from SAI (Barnett- F) available from SAI unpublished catalogue

Rhythm Is Our Business (Zwicker- F) available from SAI unpublished catalogue

*Rhythm Medley (Volk– F) show uptune, female;  contest uptune male. I Got Rhythm/Fascinatin’ Rhythm/Crazy Rhythm (Webb Comfort- M; Dale- M) available from BHS

Rhythm Of Life (Volk— F/M) show uptune (Massey- F; Wallace- F; Kraut- F) available from SAI unpublished catalogue,  learning tracks available from Kim Kraut

Rhythm Of The Night (Beck- F) show (Becker- F; D’Agostino- F) available from SAI unpublished catalogue

Rhythm Of The Rain (Hanneson- F; Ganter- M) available from BHS

Richest Man In The World (Moon- M) available from BHS

Ricochet Romance (Steffan- F) available from SAI unpublished catalogue

Ride Red Ride (Keller- M) new treatment of an old classic, available from BHS (Boring- M) available from BHS

Ride The Chariot (DaidWright– M/F) available from BHS, very difficult (Avener– F) show

Riders In The Sky (Briner- M/F; Baumgarten- M; Gray- M; Pederson- M; Rupay- M) available from BHS

Ridin’ Down The Canyon (Kline- M; Reeves- M) available from BHS

Ridin’ The Rails (Volk- M) show

Right As The Rain (Minihane– F) show ballad from ‘Bloomer Girl’ (D’Agostino- F) available from SAI unpublished catalogue

Right From The Start She Had My Heart (DavidWright– M) contest, available from BHS, difficult

Rigoletto Quartette (McFadyen- F) available from SAI unpublished catalogue

Ring Christmas Bells (Linn- M) available from BHS

Ring De Christmas Bells (Briner- M) available from BHS

Ring Of Fire (DavidWright– M) some passages have more than four parts

Ring Out The Bells (Hicks- F/mixed) available from BHS

Ring Out The Bells In Dixieland (Craig– M/F) contest uptune

Ring Them Bells (Massey- F) lead solo and chorus, available from SAI unpublished catalogue (Bailey- F) 4 parts and soloist, available from SAI unpublished catalogue

Ring To The Name Of Rose (Bergman- mixed) 8-part men’s and women’s. Features the men augmented by women’s voices

Rise Again (Lippincott– F) we rise again in the faces of our children

Rise Shine For The Light Is A-Comin’ (Szabo- M) available from BHS

Rise Up Shepherd And Follow (Craig– F) holiday, bass and tenor melody

Ritmo De La Noche, El (Rhythm Of The Night) (Masterson- F) available from SAI unpublished catalogue

River, The (Hopkins- M) available from BHS (Minshall- F) Garth Brooks song available only to Sweet Adelines,  learning tracks available from Kim Kraut (Berg- F; Twardosky- F) available from SAI unpublished catalogue (Prietto- F) learning tracks available from Tim Waurick, listed on his site under “The”

River In Judea (Zwicker- F; Johnson- F) available from SAI unpublished catalogue

River Jordan (Lang- M) available from BHS

River Of Dreams (Beck- F) show (Wilkins- F; Yazurlo- F) available from SAI unpublished catalogue (Rochefort- F) separate arrangements for chorus and quartets, available from SAI unpublished catalogue

River Of No Return (Cokeroft- M) available from BHS

River Song, The (Minihane– F) show ballad from ‘Tom Sawyer’

River Stay ‘Way From My Door (Waesche- M) available from BHS (Dale- F) available from SAI unpublished catalogue

Riverboat Days (Gray- M) available from BHS

*Riverboat Days/Dapper Dan (Beck- M) contest

Ro-Ro-Rollin’ Away (Foris- M) available from BHS

Roaring Twenties (Craig– F/M) ‘Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie’. Contest uptune (Craig- M; Wachter- M) available from BHS

*Robot Medley (Armstrong- M) available from BHS

*Rock And Rock Medley (Gentry- M) No, that’s not a misprint. Rock Around The Clock/Rock And Roll Is Here To Stay. Snappy opener

Rock And Roll Christmas (Nicholas- M/F) available from BHS

Rock And Roll Is Here To Stay (Gerber- M) available from BHS (Ludlum- F; Yazurlo- F) available from SAI unpublished catalogue

*Rock And Roll Medley (Gentry- M/F) Four rock ‘n’ roll classics make this a winner. Rock And Roll Is Here To Stay/Hound Dog/Tears On My Pillow/Blue Moon. Available from BHS

Rock And Roll Waltz (Johnson- F) available from SAI unpublished catalogue

Rock-A-Bye Baby (Gentry- M/F; Hinman- M) sweet old lullaby, available from BHS

Rock-A-Bye Baby Days (Steinkamp- M) available from BHS

Rock-A-Bye Your Baby (Minihane– F) contest uptune, swing tempo

Rockabye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody (Bescos– F) contest. Three versions available, two of which were sung in International competition. (Bergman– F) contest (Calvin- F) available from SAI, medium-difficult (Gray- M) available from BHS

Rock Around The Clock (Minihane– F) show uptune (Anderson- F) YWIH available from SAI, medium difficulty. Learning tracks available from Kim Kraut (Nicholas- M) available from BHS (Sellers- F) Available from SAI unpublished catalogue,  learning tracks available from Kim Kraut

Rock It For Me (Dale- M/F) available from BHS

Rock Me In My Swanee Cradle (Whitney- F) available from SAI unpublished catalogue

Rock Me To Sleep In An Old Rocking Chair (Baird- M; Waesche- M; BHS- M) available from BHS (Giallombardo- M/F)

Rock Of Ages Let Our Song (Gentry- M) stirring Jewish religious piece. Available from BHS. Men’s learning tracks available from Tim Waurick

Rock This Town (Dale- M) available from BHS (McFadyen- F) available from SAI unpublished catalogue

*Rockies Medley (Paymar- M) available from BHS

Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree (Lippincott– F) easy and fun uptune. Learning tracks available from Kim Kraut (Nicholas- M) available from BHS (Payne/Sutter- F) available from LABBS, medium difficulty, easy-beat

Rockin’ Robin (Lippincott– F) rock and roll song. YWIH available from SAI, also SSAA. Learning tracks available from Kim Kraut

Rocky Top (Kimball- F; Sproule- M; Dale- M/F) available from BHS (Briner- F; Shumard- F) available from SAI unpublished catalogue (Arns- F) available from SAI unpublished catalogue. Learning tracks available from Tim Waurick

Roger Staubach (Anchors Aweigh) (Szabo- M) available from BHS

Rogue River Valley (Finley- M) available from BHS

Rodgers and Hammerstein Medley (Craig– F) show medley, 7 songs

Roll On Columbia (Bailey- F) available from SAI unpublished catalogue

Roll On Mississippi Roll On (Dale- M; Hopkins- M; Northrup- M) available from BHS

Roll On Missouri (Hinman- M) available from BHS

Roll On You Riverboat Roll On (Wilson- M) available from BHS

Roll Out Of Bed With A Smile (Keller- M) a new treatment of the Nighthawks classic. Available from BHS (Driscoll- M) available from BHS, learning tracks available from Gary Lewis Press  (Hopkins- M) available from BHS

Roll Out The Barrel (Bergman– F) good beat, fun to sing, strong barbershop for contest.

*Roll Out The Barrel/Zip-Ah-Dee-Doo-Dah (Giallombardo- M)

Rollin’ Home (Pellant- M) available from BHS

Romancin’ The Blues (Briner- F; Berg- F) available from SAI unpublished catalogue

Room Full Of Roses (Liles- M) available from BHS

Room With A View, A (Garnett- F) will need licensing

Ro-Ro-Rolling Along (Foris) learning tracks available from Gary Lewis Press

Rosanne (Driscoll- M) available from BHS

Rose, The (Bromert- F) available from SAI unpublished catalogue, learning tracks available from Kim Kraut  (Prietto- F) learning tracks available from Kim Kraut (Bescos- FLippincott– F; Beck– F) show ballad from ‘The Rose’ (Doepke- M; Keirstead- M) available from BHS (Nibler- F; Dockrell- F; Hamilton- F; Kash- F; McNeill- F) available from SAI unpublished catalogue

Rose (A Ring To The Name Of Rose) (Steinkamp- M) available from BHS

Rose Colored Glasses (Brown- M) available from BHS

*Rose Medley (Gentry- M) three lively rose songs for women’s contest

Rose Of No Man’s Land (Baird- M; BHS- M) available from BHS

Rose Of Tralee, The (Connett- M) available from BHS, listed under “The”

Rose Of Washington Square (Baird- M; Waesche- M) available from BHS

Roses Bring Dreams Of You (Gentry- M) a solid but not simplistic ballad

Roses Of Picardy (Bergman– F) contest ballad (Gentry- M; Keys- M; Moon- M; Waesche- M; Diekema- M) available from BHS. Strong, haunting ballad (Perry- M) available from BHS. Learning tracks available from Gary Lewis Press

Roses Of Success (Gray- M) available from BHS

Roses Of Yesterday (Bergman– F) Irving Berlin masterpiece. Superb contest ballad. Learning tracks available from Kim Kraut and Tim Waurick (Sagen- M) available from BHS (Craig- M)

Rosewood Spinnet, A (Kane– F) sentimental contest ballad, reminder of long ago

Rosie (Walters- M) available from BHS

*Rosie Medley (Jamison- M; Steen- M) available from BHS

Rosie The Riveter (Savage- M) available from BHS

*Rosie You Are My Posie/You Made Me Love You (Giallombardo- M)

‘Round Midnight (Grimmer- M) available from BHS

Route 66 (Bailey- F) YWIH available from SAI, medium difficulty. Learning tracks available from Kim Kraut (Cowlishaw- M) available from BHS (Bailey- F; Arns- F) available from SAI unpublished catalogue, learning tracks available from Kim Kraut (Rochefort- F; Herivel- F; Fullmer- F) available from SAI unpublished catalogue (Droegmuller- F) learning tracks available from Tim Waurick

Row Row Row (Gray- M; Jamison- M; Hicks- M) available from BHS (Sutton/Penketh- F) Difficult. Easy-beat, available from LABBS (Coffman- F; Zwicker- F) available from SAI unpublished catalogue (Johnson- F) Adult and YW available from SAI unpublished catalogue

*Row Row Row/Paddlin’ Madeline Home (Craig- M) available from BHS

*Row Row Rosie/Row Row Row/There’s No Boat Like A Rowboat (Fellows- F) SAI unpublished medley # 010

Roxie (DavidWright– F) contest,  available from BHS. Learning tracks available from Tim Waurick

Royal Garden Blues (DavidWright– M/F; Craig- M) available from BHS (Craig– M/F) show (Gentry- M) contestable, substantial and lively (VolkF) show uptune

Rubber Duckie (Roose- M; Kitzmiller- M) available from BHS (Johnson- F) available from SAI unpublished catalogue

Rudolph Montage (Keller- mixed) 8-part

*Rudolph/Santa Claus Is Coming (Zwicker- F) available from SAI unpublished catalogue, medley #149

Rudolph The Red-nosed Reindeer (Bergman- F) short show tune. Learning tracks available from Kim Kraut (Jarley- M; Sams- M; Szabo- M) available from BHS (Szabo- F) learning tracks available from Kim Kraut (Redfield- F) available from SAI unpublished catalogue (Giallombardo- M/F)

Run For The Roses (Gentry- M) The thought-provoking Dan Fogelberg song

Run Run Run (Dowma- M/F) available from BHS. Female learning tracks available from Kim Kraut

Run Run Run Little Dogie (Pedersen- M) available from BHS

Run To You (Wilkins- F) available from SAI unpublished catalogue

Runaround Sue (Erlich– M) TTBB (Hatton- M) show. 5-part chorus with solo (Volk- M) show

Runnin’ Wild (DavidWright- M/F Waesche- M/F; Latzko- M) available from BHS (Bergman– F) Top stuff. Not for the faint of heart. Contest. Learning tracks available from Kim Kraut (Beck– F) contest uptune (Avener– F) contest uptune

Running Bear (Somers- F) available from SAI unpublished catalogue

*Runnin’ Wild Medley (Hopkins- M) available from BHS

Rural Rhythm (Jones- M; Snyder- M) available from BHS