A list of songs used in “It Happened in Riverdale” with links to the stories where they appear.
- A Teenager in Love (Fourth of July)
- A White Sport Coat and a Pink Carnation (Banquet Night)
- All I Have to Do Is Dream (After the Tears)
- All Shook Up (Prologue)
- All the Way (Going All the Way)
- Alleluia (Christmas Eve)
- Alone Again, Naturally (Goodbye, Dear Allen—Goodbye) (Julie’s Ride Home From Beach City)
- American Pie (Growing Up Together)
- As Time Goes By (Looking Ahead)
- Baby, I’m Yours (Bill’s Senior Prom)
- Blowin’ in the Wind (Bill Almost Dies)
- Blue Moon (The Blue Letter)
- Blue Suede Shoes (The Big Four)
- Blue Velvet (The Blue Rose Dining Room)
- Breakin’ Up Is Hard to Do (The Real Breakup) (Julie and Allen Break Up)
- Bridal Chorus (Sandra Gets Married)
- California Dreamin’ (The Acquaintance)
- Chariots of Fire (The Winners Announced)
- Close to You (Spring Break)
- Crazy (Patsy Cline) (Why Men Don’t Write)
- Deep Purple (Christmas Vacation in Riverdale)
- Donna (Trying to Understand)
- Ebb Tide (Julie Goes to Beach City)
- Eddie, My Love (Dawn of a New Day)
- Fascination (In Their Own Worlds)
- Fools Rush In (On the Slope)
- For the Good Times (Coming Home)
- Forever in Love (Jim’s Proposal)
- Graduation Day (Bill’s Summer Job) (Graduation)
- Greenfields (August Anguish)
- Heartbreak Hotel (The Invitation)
- Holly Leaves and Christmas Trees (Holly Leaves)
- I Know Where I’m Going (Julie’s Senior Year at College)
- I Was High and Mighty (Afterword)
- If I Loved You (A New Fall Semester) (After the Concert)
- I’ll Never Fall In Love Again (“Men! They’re All Alike!”)
- I’ll Never Smile Again (Fixing the Bike)
- I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas (Finding Christmas Love)
- I’m Sorry (Brenda Lee) (After Vacation)
- In the Still of the Night (Saying Goodbye)
- It’s Been A Long, Long Time (The Semi-finalists)
- It’s Now or Never (Preparation Day)
- Jingle Bells (A Christmas Party)
- Johnny Angel (Julie and Bill on Rainbow Pier)
- Johnny Has Gone For A Soldier (Bill Gets Drafted)
- Killing Me Softly (Beach City Arrival)
- Leaving on a Jet Plane (Bill Goes to Vietnam)
- Love Is Blue (Escape From Fate)
- Love Letters in the Sand (Lunch on the Cliff)
- Love Me Tender (Back in Riverdale)
- Mas Alla Del Sol (Remembering Mexico)
- Misty (Preparing for the Concert)
- Mona Lisa (“That Morgan Boy”)
- Moon River (So Short Was the Summer)
- More (Epilogue: The Big Day)
- Morning Has Broken (Journey Home)
- Memories (Epilogue: Fifty-nine Years Later)
- My Happiness (Teenage Romance or Realism)
- November Rain (David Garrett) (November Rain)
- Prisoner of Love (Perry Como) (What’s the Good of My Caring?)
- Put Your Head On My Shoulder (Bonnie and Jim)
- Raindrops (“November Rain”)
- Rainy Days and Mondays (Beach City Breakup)
- Red Roses for a Blue Lady (The Valentine)
- Rhythm of the Rain (Fourth of July)
- Round and Round (Campfire)
- Secret Love (Doris Day) (More Riverdale Stories)
- Shake, Rattle, and Roll (It Happened in Riverdale)
- Sitting in the Park (In the Park)
- Sleigh Bells (Christmas Memories)
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (Searching to Find)
- Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Epilogue: Julie Scott Davidson)
- Sock Hop (Home)
- Sound of Silence (Summer Fun Times)
- Stranger on the Shore (The Morgans Arrive)
- Summer Day (Going Separate Ways)
- Summer Place (Beach Walk) (After Julie’s Graduation)
- Tears on My Pillow (A Summer Storm)
- That Boy John (Christmas Vacation in Riverdale)
- The End of the World (Litany)
- Those Were the Days (Where Are They Now?)
- Till There Was You (Julie Meets Howard)
- To Know Him Is to Love Him (Trip to Pine Cove)
- Unchained Melody (That Morgan Boy)
- Venus (The Magic of Christmas)
- Wedding March (Bill Proposes to Julie)
- What a Wonderful World (Christmas Eve in Riverdale)
- When I Fall in Love (Julie and Howard Graduate)
- Who’s Sorry Now? (At Allen’s House)
- Why Do Fools Fall in Love? (Drive to Oceanview)
- Winter Snow (Snow-Fire)
- Yesterday (About Juliana Harvard)
- Yesterday Once More (How Did It Really End?)
- You Send Me (A Friendship Begins)
- You Were Meant for Me (Marvelous)
- You’ll Never Walk Alone (The Proposal)
- Young at Heart (Julie Goes to College)
- Young Love (Could This Be Love?)