List of songs recorded by Melvin Van Peebles
List of songs by Melvin Van Peebles, by album, song title, year.
| Song | First Recording/Performance | Brer Soul | Ain't Supposed To Die A Natural Death | Watermelon Man | Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song | Ain't Supposed To Die A Natural Death | As Serious As A Heart-Attack | Don't Play Us Cheap | What the....You Mean I Can't Sing?! | Ghetto Gothic | Waltz of the Stork | Notes |
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| Lilly Done The Zampoughi Every Time I Pulled Her Coattail | 1969 | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||
| Mirror Mirror | 1969 | Yes | Yes | |||||||||
| The Coolest Place In Town | 1969 | Yes | Yes | |||||||||
| You Can Get Up Before Noon Without Being A Square | 1969 | Yes | Yes | |||||||||
| The Dozens | 1969 | Yes | Yes | |||||||||
| Tenth And Greenwich (Women's House of Detention) | 1969 | Yes | Yes | |||||||||
| Come Raise Your Leg On Me | 1969 | Yes | Yes | |||||||||
| Sera Sera Jim | 1969 | Yes | Yes | |||||||||
| Catch That On The Corner | 1969 | Yes | Yes | |||||||||
| Three Boxes Of Longs Please | 1971 | Yes | Yes | |||||||||
| You Aint No Astronaut | 1971 | Yes | Yes | |||||||||
| Come On Feet Do Your Thing | 1971 | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||
| Funky Girl On Motherless Broadway | 1971 | Yes | Yes | |||||||||
| Put A Curse On You | 1971 | Yes | Yes | |||||||||
| I Got The Blood | 1971 | Yes | Yes | |||||||||
| You Gotta Be Holdin Out Five Dollars On Me | 1971 | Yes | Yes | |||||||||
| Heh Heh (Chuckle) Good Morning Sunshine | 1971 | Yes | Yes | |||||||||
| Salamaggi's Birthday | 1971 | Yes | Yes | |||||||||
| Rufus & Ruby | 1971 | Yes | ||||||||||
| Mothers Prayer | 1971 | Yes | ||||||||||
| The Country Brother & The City Sister | 1971 | Yes | ||||||||||
| Chippin | 1971 | Yes | ||||||||||
| Just Don't Make No Sense | 1971 | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||
| Dear Mistuh P | 1971 | Yes | ||||||||||
| Love, That's America | 1970 | Yes | Yes | |||||||||
| I Remember | 1971 | Yes | ||||||||||
| My Pal Johnny | 1971 | Yes | ||||||||||
| A Birth Certificate Ain't Nothing But A Death Warrant Anyway | 1974 | Yes | ||||||||||
| So Many Bars | 1974 | Yes | ||||||||||
| Save The Watergate 500 | 1974 | Yes | ||||||||||
| Superstition | 1974 | Yes | ||||||||||
| There | 1974 | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||
| Come On Write Me | 1974 | Yes | ||||||||||
| Eyes On The Rabbit | 1974 | Yes | ||||||||||
| My Love Belongs To You | 1974 | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||
| Blinded By Your Stuff | 1995 | Yes | ||||||||||
| On 115 | 1995 | Yes | Yes | |||||||||
| Greasy Lightin' | 1995 | Yes | ||||||||||
| Same Ole Raggedy Song | 1995 | Yes | ||||||||||
| The Apple Stretching | 1983 | Yes | Yes | |||||||||
| Quittin Time | 1995 | Yes | ||||||||||
| Soul’d On You | 1970 | Yes | ||||||||||
| Sweetback's Theme | 1971 | Yes | ||||||||||
| Won't Bleed Me | 1971 | Yes | ||||||||||
| And I Love You | 1982 | Yes | ||||||||||
| Tender Understanding | 1982 | Yes | ||||||||||
| Weddings And Funerals | 1982 | Yes | ||||||||||
| Play It As It Lays | 1982 | Yes | ||||||||||
| Shoulders To Lean On | 1982 | Yes |