Along with Pink Floyd and The Beatles, Total Eclipse of the Heart, and other classics, there are some great...

Along with Pink Floyd and The Beatles, Total Eclipse of the Heart, and other classics, there are some great playlists out there. This is a partial for me:

Moody Blues - Sun is still shining
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq-aa9WYtK0

Lucinda Williams - Big Red Sun Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVvzPPIDWXw

The Animals - The House of the rising sun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sB3Fjw3Uvc

Kesha - The house of the rising sun - surprisingly good, which is why it's a doubled
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83kHQ7RB53s

Civil Wars - You are my sunshine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHa71o7qPE4

Harry Belafonte - Banana Boat Song (Day-O)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tou8-Cz8is

The Whites (from O Brother where Art Thou) - Keep on the Sunny Side of Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VB5aBkRI7w

The Doors - Waiting for the Sun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0kypyGSKsE

Katrina and the Waves - Walking on Sunshine - soooo 80's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPUmE-tne5U

John Denver - Sunshine on my Shoulders - this is for my Girl Scout leader - she loooved John Denver.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diwuu_r6GJE

Big Bill Broonzy - When the Sun Goes Down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zveyr3gT9WE

Ray Charles - The Sun Died
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJlQNfqfbv8

The Alan Parsons Project - Total Eclipse (from I Robot) - weirdly Kubrick-esque
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWn9dcEtRa0

Capurro, Capua, and Mazzucchi - O Sole Mio - probably one of the best known contemporary recordings, even if his diction is a little iffy in places - Pavarotti
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQSNVBLTXYY

Cream - Sunshine of your Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt51rITH3EA

Menotti - Black Swan from The Medium - "the sun has fallen and it lies in blood, etc."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0uciPhGyhk

Dvorak - Hymn to the Moon from Rusalka - typical romanticized misogynistic fairytale.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCc9vJ9UQFI

Handel - Total Eclipse from Samson - I swear he's got something for every occasion, wish there was a better recording, though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bWE1vZ9OKw

Norwegian hymn - Se, solens skjønne lys og prakt (Behold, the Beautiful Light of the Sun)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkhfhNST8j0

Rameau - Tristes Apprêts from Castor & Pollux - I couldn't find just this excerpt form the Harnoncourt recording, but it's Véronique Gens, so.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKtcnOGisuo