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113,502
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(traditional) Glorious Day
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1
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14 Feet Of Soul
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2
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5th Dimension
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7
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A french song (writeen by Curtis - Delance .- Becaud) made popular by the Everly Brothers
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23
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A West Indian folk song, original hit by Mac and Katie Kisson.
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2
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A West Indian folk song, popularized by Mac and Katie Kisson
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3
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Aaron Neville
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11
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Abba
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8
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Ace of Base
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1
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Acker Bilk
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10
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Adam Wade
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51
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adapted from Neil Sedaka: Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen
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2
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adapted from original by the Beatle's, This Boy, 1963
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4
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adapted from Techniques My Girl
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1
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adapted from The Cardinals: Choo Choo
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2
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adapted from the traditional AMerican Spiritual Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen
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1
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After 7
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6
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Air Supply
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18
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Air Suppy: All Out of Love
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2
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aka Shadow Of Your Smile, from the film The Sandpiper
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1
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Al Caiola, 1961, written by Elmer Bernstein
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2
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Al Downing
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2
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Al Green
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34
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Al Green: I'm Glad You're Mine
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4
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Al Green: Love and Happiness
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22
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Al Green: You Say It
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2
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Al Jarreau
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12
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Al Kent Orchestra: You've Got To Pay The Price
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2
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Al Kent: You Got To Pay the Price
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1
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Al Martino, written by Bert Kampfert
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5
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Al Wilson
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17
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Alan Dale
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3
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Alan Sherman
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3
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Alan Sherman Hello Mother Hello Father
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1
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Alan Toussaint
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10
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Albert Ketelbey: In a Persian Market
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2
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Alexander O'Neal
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3
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Alison McCallum
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3
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All 4 One
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1
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All Saints
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1
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All-4-One
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8
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All-4-One I Can Love You Like That
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2
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Allen Toussaint
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1
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Allison Brothers: I'll Cross My Fingers
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7
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Allman Brothers
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6
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Alphaville
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2
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Alpheville
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1
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Alton Ellis
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2
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Alvin Cash - Twine Time
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1
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Alvin Cash - Twine Time, 1964
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1
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Alvin Cash and The Crawlers: Twine Time, 1965
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3
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American folk song popularized by Lead Belly
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4
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American folk song, known as Red River Valley or Cowboy Love Song made popular by Gene Autrey, later by Johnny and the Hurricanes
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4
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Amos Milbourne - Page Boy Shuffle
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2
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Amos Milburn
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14
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Amy Grant
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1
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Andrea Marcovicci
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2
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Andy Gibb
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12
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Andy Kim
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1
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Andy Williams
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26
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Andy Williams, 1963
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1
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Andy WIlliams, Henry Mancini composer
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1
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Angela Bofill
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2
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Anita Baker
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11
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Anita Ward
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17
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Ann Peebles
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11
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Anne Murray
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20
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Anne Murray: I Can See Arkansas
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2
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Anne Murray: I Just Fall In Love Again
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6
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Anton Dvorak - 2nd movement, 9th Symphony
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2
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Antonio Machin: Siboney
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5
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Archie Bell
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2
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Archie Bell and the Drells
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2
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Archies
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17
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Aretha Franklin
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30
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Aretha Franklin.
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21
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Aretha Franklin: Natural Woman
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1
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Arlo Guthrie
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3
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Armando Manzanero: Somos Novios (It's Impossible)
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1
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Arrow
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1
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Arthur Alexander
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2
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Arthur Conley, 1966
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1
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Arthur Lyman: Dahil Sayo, 1959
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1
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Arthur Prysock
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14
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Arthur Prysock, then Percy Sledge
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8
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Arthur Pysock: My Special Prayer
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1
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Artie Shaw - Jungle Drums
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5
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Ashford and Simpson
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27
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Association
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6
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Atlantic Star
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3
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Atlantic Starr
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5
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Augusto Martelli
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6
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Baby Face
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11
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Baby Washington
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17
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Babyface
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19
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Bach - Air On The G String
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1
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Band of Gold
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3
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Bangles
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4
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Barbara Acklin
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4
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Barbara Acklin, written by Eugene Record of the Chi-Lites
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3
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Barbara George
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3
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Barbara George: I Know, melody
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1
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Barbara Keith
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6
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Barbara Keith, 1970
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1
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Barbara Lewis
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23
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Barbara Lewis: Hello Stranger
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1
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Barbara Lynn
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39
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Barbara Lynn: A Letter To Mommy and Daddy
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2
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Barbara Mandrell
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5
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Barbara Mason
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5
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Barbara Moore
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8
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Barbie Gay
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1
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Barbie Gay - same title 1957
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22
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Barbie Gaye - My Boy Lollipop, 1956
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3
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Barbra Streisand
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23
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Barry Gibb
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3
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Barry Manilow
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2
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Barry Mann: Who Put the Bomp
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2
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Barry White
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19
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Barry White: I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little Bit More"
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3
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Barry White: Midnight And You
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4
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based in part on Don Gibson 'Sea Of Heartbreak'
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2
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based in part on Johnny Cash: Ring Of Fire
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3
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based it on Franky Lyman's I'm Not A Juvenile Delinquent
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2
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based loosely on Beatles Strawberry Fields Forever
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1
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based loosely on Chuck Berry: Johnny B Goode
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2
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based loosely on South of the Border
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1
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based loosely on the Richie Valens original
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1
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based OC Smith La La Peace Song
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2
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based on "Coming Through The Rye"
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1
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based on "Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen"
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1
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based on "Soulful Strut" by Young Holt Trio
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3
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Based on "The Wayward Wind" by Gogi Grant
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6
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based on '25 Miles' by Eddie Floyd
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3
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based on 'Fly Robin Fly' by SIlver Connection
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4
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based on a television jingle written by Carlos Malcolm
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3
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based on Beatles And I Love Her
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1
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based on Ben E King: Don't Play That Song
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7
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based on Bobby Blue Bland's "Call On Me"
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5
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based on Bobby Darin's Dream Lover
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2
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based on Bobby Day: Over and Over
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1
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based on Bruce Chanel's Hey Baby
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1
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based on Chi-Lites Sh La La I Love You
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1
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based on Come Softly by the Fleetwoods.
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1
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based on Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions People Get Ready
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1
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based on Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions, People Get Ready
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3
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based on Cyril Diaz' Tabu
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3
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based on Dean Martin: Sway
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2
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based on Del Vikings: Come and Go With Me
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2
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based on Del-Vikings: Come and Go With Me
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2
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based on Diamonds; Little Darling
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1
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based on Diana Ross - Upside Down
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1
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Based on Diana Ross and Temptations: I'm Gonna Make You Love Me
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1
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based on Dion's Abraham Martin and John
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6
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based on Distant Drums
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1
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based on Donovan's Sunshine Superman
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2
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based on Elaine and Derek: Invisible Tears
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2
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based on English folk song
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2
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based on Etta James: tell Mama
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2
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Based on Fats Domino's "Hello Josephine".
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3
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based on Fats Domino's "My Girl Josephine"
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2
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Based on Fats Domino's "The Big Beat"
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3
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based on Fifth Dimension: Age Of Aquarius
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2
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based on Four Tops: 'Ain't No Woman Like The One I've Got'
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1
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based on Frankie Avalon: Venus
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3
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based on Fred Astaire's Dancing Cheek To Cheek
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1
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based on Fred Astaire's Just The Way You Look Tonight
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2
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based on Gene McDaniels's 100 Pounds Of Clay
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2
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based on George Gershwin's Summer Time
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1
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based on Glen Miller's Tuxedo Junction.
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9
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based on Go Tell It On The Mountain
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2
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based on Hank Williams Oh Lonesome Me
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1
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based on Haydn's Symphony 101 in D Major
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1
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based on Hey Joe by the Leaves
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1
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based on House Of The Rising Sun
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1
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based on Isley Brothers; Summer Breeze
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1
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based on Jackie Opel's You're No Good
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1
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based on James Brown tune of same name
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1
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based on James Brown's original 'Say It Loud"
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1
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based on Jimmy Soul's If You Want To Be Happy
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2
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based on Let The Little Girl Dance by Billy Bland
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1
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based on Linstead Market
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1
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based on Little Drummer Boy
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3
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based on Little Green Apples
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1
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based on Lonely Soldier
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1
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based on Lord Lebby: Ethiopia
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1
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based on Major Lance's Monkey Time
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1
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based on Marty Robbins El Paso
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1
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based on Mary Wells: My Guy
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1
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based on McFadden and Whitehead: Ain't No Stopping Us Now
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6
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based on Melancholy Baby, written 1912
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1
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based on Memories Are made of this by Dean Martin
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4
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based on Michael Jackson's Thriller
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1
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based on Miracles "Shop Around"
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2
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based on Moonlight Bay
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2
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based on My Old Kentucky Home
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3
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based on original "Making Whoopie", Eddie Cantor, 1930
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8
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based on original by Barrett Strong, Money, 1960
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1
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based on original by Bobby Day: "Over and Over"
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3
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based on original by Bobby Day: Over and Over, 1959.
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5
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based on original by Contours, Do You Love Me, 1965
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3
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based on original by Everly Brothers
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2
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based on original by Four Tops, It's The Same Old Song, 1965
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2
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based on original by Irma Franklin: Piece Of My Heart
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1
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based on original by Irma Franklin: Piece Of My Hurt
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2
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based on original by Junior Walker, Shotgun, 1965
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1
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based on original by Little Richard, Good Golly Miss Molly, 1958
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2
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based on original by Wade Flemons, here I Stand, 1958
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1
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based on original by Wade Flemons, here I Stand, 1958....a hit by the Rip Chords
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1
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based on Orlons "South Street"
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1
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based on Otis Redding's Sad Song
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2
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based on People's Choice "Do It Anyway"
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1
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based on Percy Sledge: Thief In The Night
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2
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based on Petula Clark's: Downtown
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2
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based on Rapper's Delight
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1
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based on Ray Charles "I'm Busted"
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1
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based on Ray Charles Crying Time
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1
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based on Ray Charles: Hallelujah, I Love Her So
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1
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based on Ray Charles: Hallelujah, I Love Her So"
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1
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based on Roy Hammond: High School Dropout
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5
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based on Royal Teens:Short Shorts
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2
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based on Sam Cooke's Wonderful World
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2
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based on Sam Cooke: What A Wonderful World
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1
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based on Santana's "No One To Depend On"
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2
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based on Soleado by Ciro Dammicco
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4
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based on spiritual The Conquering Saviour
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4
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based on Stand By Your Man by Tammy Wynette
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1
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based on Stevie Wonder's Up Tight
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2
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based on Supremes: Someday We'll Be Together
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2
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based on Swing Low Sweet Chariot
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4
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based on Temptations It's Growing
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2
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Based on Temptations" My Girl
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1
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based on Temptations, Since I Lost My Baby
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10
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based on the Diamonds Little Darlin'
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3
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based on The Happy Wanderer
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2
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based on the Jacksons' Don't Stop Til You Get Enough
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1
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based on Theme From Bonanza
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2
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based on Things Ain't What They Used To Be by Johnny Hodges and others
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2
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based on traditional "Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes"
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1
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based on traditional spiritual "Rock My Soul", first published 1867
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1
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based on traditional spiritual Wayward Traveler
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1
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Based on traditional: Oh Mary Don't You Weep
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2
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based on Unchained Melody
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5
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based on We Shall Overcome
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2
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BB King
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3
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Beatles
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162
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Beatles - Carry That Weight
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10
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Beatles I'll Be Back Again
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1
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Beatles' We Can Work It Out
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1
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Beatles: And I Love Her
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1
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Beatles: Can't Buy Me Love
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1
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Beatles: Hard Days Night
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2
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Beatles: I'll Be Back Again
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9
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Beatles: Lady Madonna
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1
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Beatles: Let It Be
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2
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Beatles: Nowhere Man
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1
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Beatles: Ticket To Ride
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4
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Beatles: Words Of Love
|
1
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Becky Hobbs
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4
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Bee Gees
|
84
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Bee Gees, Words
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2
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Bee Gees: Emotion
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1
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Beginning of the End: Funky Nassau
|
1
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Bell and James
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3
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Bell Biv Devoe
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5
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Bellamy Brothers
|
5
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Ben E King
|
101
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Ben E King and Dee Dee Sharp: Wat'cha Gonna Do About It
|
5
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Ben E King and Dee Dee Sharpe
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5
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Ben E King Til I Can’t Take It Anymore
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1
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Ben E King: That's When It Hurts
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1
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Ben E King: Til I Can't Take It Any More
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3
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Benny Bunn
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2
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Benny Golson
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1
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Benny Goodman : Flying Home
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2
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Benny Goodman Orchestra,Glory Of Love 1936
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2
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Benny Mardones
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3
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Beny More "Pachito Eche", also a hit for Perez Prado, same title
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2
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Bernard Purdie "Funky Donkey"
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2
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Bert Kaempfert
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2
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Bert Kaempfert, Wonderland By Night, 1961
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8
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Bert Kampfert
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2
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Bessie Smith - Nobody Loves You When You're Down and Out
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2
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Bette Midler
|
6
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Betty Everett
|
3
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Betty Wright
|
42
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Betty Wright: Girls Can't Do What the Guys Do
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1
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Betty Wright: Girls You Can't Do
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2
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Bettye Crutcher
|
14
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Bettye Swann
|
11
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Bettye Swann; Make Me Yours
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1
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Big Jay McNeely
|
10
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Big Maybelle
|
1
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Big Sid Catlett: Just A Riff
|
3
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Bill Anderson
|
3
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Bill Doggett
|
2
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Bill Doggett - Boo Da Ba 1958
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1
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Bill Doggett: Smokey
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3
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Bill Haley
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2
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Bill Justus
|
2
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Bill Monroe
|
1
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Bill Withers
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44
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Billie Holiday
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4
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Billie Jo SpearsÂ
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1
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Billie Preston
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2
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Billie Stewart
|
2
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Billy Butler And The Enchanters
|
2
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Billy Hope and The Badmen 'Riding West'
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15
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Billy Joe Royal
|
2
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Billy Joe Royal: Down In The Boondocks
|
2
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Billy Joel
|
11
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Billy Ocean
|
9
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Billy Paul
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14
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Billy Paul,written by Gamble and Huff
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3
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Billy Paul: Me and Mrs. Jones
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1
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Billy Squier
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1
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Billy Stewart
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68
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Billy Vera and Judy Clay
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18
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Billy Vera and Judy Clay: Private Number
|
2
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Billy Young (written by Otis Redding)
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4
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Bing Crosby
|
24
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Bing Crosby and the Sons of the Pioneers, 1936, written by Johnny Mercer
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1
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Bing Crosby originally, this version patterned after Shirley and Lee
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2
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Bing Crosby, 1942
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1
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Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, Platters, Fats Domino
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2
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BJ Thomas
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25
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BJ Thomas Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head
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1
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Blackbyrds
|
1
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Blackstreet
|
2
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Blood Sweat and Tears
|
10
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Blood Sweat and Tears: Spinning Wheel
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2
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Blood Sweat and Tears: These Eyes
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3
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Blood Sweat and Tears: You Made Me So Very Happy
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1
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Bloodstone
|
3
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Blue Lovett
|
3
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Blue Lovett, 1972, written by Teddy Randazzo
|
7
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Blue Lovett, written by Teddy Randazzo
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1
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Blue Magic
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5
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Blue Mink
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3
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Blues Busters
|
6
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Bob and Marcia
|
1
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Bob B Soxx and the Blue Jeans
|
1
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Bob Dylan
|
50
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Bob Dylan "Man In Me"
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5
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Bob Dylan I Shall Be Released
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4
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Bob Dylan: Just Like A Woman
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2
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Bob Dylan: Man In Me
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1
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Bob Marley and Wailers: Rock It Babe
|
1
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Bob Marley: from the album Kaya
|
1
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Bob Wills: My Shoes Keep Walking Back To You.
|
2
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Bobbi Staff
|
2
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Bobbie and Ronald: You're Mine Oh Mine
|
1
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Bobby and Ronald - You're Mine Oh Mine
|
3
|
Bobby Bare
|
2
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Bobby Bare - Detroit City
|
1
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Bobby Bland
|
9
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Bobby Bland : Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City
|
5
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Bobby Bloom
|
6
|
Bobby Brown
|
19
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Bobby Brown: My Prerogative
|
1
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Bobby Caldwell
|
10
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Bobby Caldwell: What You Won't Do For Love
|
1
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Bobby Darin
|
32
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Bobby Darin: Dream Lover
|
1
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Bobby Darin: That's All
|
2
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Bobby Day
|
5
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Bobby Day, Over and Over
|
1
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Bobby Day: Over and Over
|
2
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Bobby Gentry
|
2
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Bobby Glover
|
1
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Bobby Goldsboro
|
1
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Bobby Lee
|
2
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Bobby McFerrin
|
1
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Bobby McPherrin
|
3
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Bobby Moore
|
2
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Bobby Moore: Searching For My Baby
|
1
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Bobby Powell
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2
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Bobby Scott
|
1
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Bobby Smith - Bess Boogie" 1949
|
2
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Bobby Vee
|
13
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Bobby Vinton
|
3
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Bobby Williams
|
3
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Bobby Womack
|
35
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Bobby Womack and Patti LaBelle
|
1
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Bobettes
|
3
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Bohannon
|
4
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Bohannon: Save Their Souls
|
5
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Bonnie Raitt
|
1
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Bonnie Tyler
|
2
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Booker T and The MG's
|
1
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Booker T and The MGs
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15
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Booker T and The MGs : Time Is Tight
|
7
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Booker T and the MGs: Chinese Checkers
|
2
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Booker T and The MGs: Hip Hugger, uses the actual track it sounds like
|
2
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Bop A Loos
|
2
|
borrows heavily from original by Joe Turner, Flip Flop and Fly
|
3
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Box Tops
|
2
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Boy George
|
6
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Boyz II Men
|
17
|
Boz Scaggs
|
2
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Brand New Heavies
|
1
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Brandy
|
5
|
Bread
|
42
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Bread: Make It With You
|
1
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Brenda and The Tabulations
|
6
|
Brenda Holloway
|
14
|
Brenda Lee
|
2
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Brenton Wood
|
6
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Brenton Wood: Gimme Little Sign
|
1
|
Brewer and Shipley
|
2
|
Brian McKnight
|
6
|
Britney Spears
|
1
|
Brook Benton
|
75
|
Brook Benton: Because You Love Me
|
13
|
Brook Benton: It's Just a Matter of Time
|
1
|
Brotherhood Of Man
|
10
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Brothers Four: Greenfields
|
5
|
Brothers Johnson
|
6
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Brothers Johnson Strawberry Letter 23
|
1
|
Bruce Channel
|
1
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Bruce Springsteen
|
1
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Bryan Adams
|
6
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BT Express
|
2
|
Bud Harper's "Mr. Soul"
|
1
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Buddy Griffin, 1953
|
5
|
Buddy Holly
|
6
|
Bulawayo Sweet Rhythms Band
|
1
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Bulawayo Sweet Rhythms Band (South Africa, 1954) also a hit for Perez Prado, Ray Anthony, and Bill Haley
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1
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Bulawayo Sweet Rhythms Band (South Africa, 1954) also a hit for Perez Prado, Ray Anthony, and Bill Haley!
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4
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Bunk Johnson
|
1
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Bunny Sigler
|
2
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Burl Ives
|
1
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Burning Spear
|
1
|
Burt Bacharach
|
9
|
Bush Productions
|
1
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Buster Brown
|
1
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Butterflies by Patti Page
|
2
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Byrds
|
2
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Byrds Turn Turn Turn
|
1
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Byron Lee
|
1
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Cab Calloway
|
2
|
Caesar Frazier: Hicky Burr
|
1
|
Calloway
|
1
|
Calvin Boze: Sofranio B
|
1
|
Calypso // Traditional
|
1
|
Calypso //Traditional
|
1
|
Calypso Rose Fire In Your Wire, 1966
|
9
|
Cameron
|
1
|
Candi Station
|
2
|
Candi Staton
|
3
|
Cannonball Adderley
|
12
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Cannonball Adderley, then Jon Hendricks: Jive Samba
|
3
|
Capris
|
3
|
Captain and Tennille
|
13
|
Carl Belew
|
8
|
Carl Dobkins Jr.
|
6
|
Carl Douglas
|
5
|
Carl Douglas: Kung Fu Fighting
|
1
|
Carl Graves
|
4
|
Carla Thomas
|
3
|
Carlos Jobim
|
1
|
Carlos Malcolm
|
1
|
Carole King
|
23
|
Carpenters
|
42
|
Cars
|
2
|
Cartoone - Mr. Poor Man, 1969
|
5
|
Cascades
|
1
|
Casinos
|
3
|
Casinos, 1967, written by John Loudermilk.
|
21
|
Cass Elliott
|
1
|
Cassidy
|
1
|
Cat Stevens
|
54
|
Cat Stevens: Wild World
|
4
|
Celine Dion
|
4
|
Celine Dion: My Heart Will Go One
|
1
|
Cha Ka Chas
|
4
|
Chain Reaction
|
3
|
Chaka Khan
|
4
|
Chaka Khan: Through the Fire
|
2
|
Champaign
|
4
|
Champaigne
|
1
|
Champs
|
3
|
Chantays
|
3
|
Chantays: Pipeline
|
2
|
Charlene
|
4
|
Charles Lloyd
|
2
|
Charles Wright and Watts 103rd Street Band
|
1
|
Charley Feathers
|
16
|
Charley McClain
|
3
|
Charley Parker: Barbados
|
1
|
Charley Pride
|
29
|
Charlie and Inez Foxx
|
6
|
Charlie Parker as 'Little Suede Shoes'
|
3
|
Charlie Parker; Barbados
|
2
|
Charlie Rich
|
6
|
Charly McClain
|
3
|
Charly McClain and Wayne MasseyÂ
|
2
|
Cheryl Lynn
|
1
|
Chi-Lites
|
66
|
Chi-Lites - Stoned Out Of My Mind
|
3
|
Chi-Lites: I Forgot To Say I Love You Til I'm Gone
|
6
|
Chi-Lites: Oh Girl
|
2
|
Chi-Lites: Stoned Out Of My Mind
|
3
|
Chic
|
4
|
Chicago
|
5
|
Chopin: Polonaise in A Major
|
2
|
Chordettes
|
6
|
Chords, "Sh-Boom", 1954
|
9
|
chorus based on Beatles She Loves You
|
2
|
chorus from Ray Charles; "This Little Girl of Mine"
|
1
|
Chris Andrews
|
3
|
Chris De Burgh
|
10
|
Chris DeBurgh
|
1
|
Chris Kenner
|
16
|
Chris Kenner: Something You Got
|
1
|
Christine Perfect
|
3
|
Christopher Cross
|
6
|
Christopher: In Your Time
|
1
|
Chuck Berry
|
15
|
Chuck Jackson
|
61
|
Chuck Jackson: I Don't Want To Cry
|
3
|
Chuck Jackson: Not At Home
|
1
|
Chuck Mangione
|
1
|
Chuck Willis
|
20
|
Chuck Willis, then Little Richard
|
1
|
Chuck Willis: "You're Still My Baby"
|
2
|
Cilla Black
|
5
|
Cindy Lauper
|
2
|
Clancy Eccles
|
1
|
Clarence 'Frogman' Henry "Ain't Got No Home"
|
1
|
Clarence Carter
|
12
|
Clarence Frogman Henry
|
6
|
Clarence Frogman Henry - Ain't Got No Home 956
|
1
|
Clarence Frogman Henry - Ain't Got No Home, 1956
|
2
|
Clarence Frogman Henry: I Don't Know Why I Love You (But I Do)
|
1
|
Clarence Reid Nobody But You (intro)
|
8
|
Clarence Reid: Nobody But You
|
4
|
Clarendonians
|
1
|
Claude Gray
|
2
|
Claude King
|
7
|
Clay Hammond
|
2
|
Cliff Richard
|
25
|
Cliff Richard: Young Ones
|
10
|
Climax
|
1
|
Clovers
|
11
|
Clovers: Love Potion #9
|
2
|
Clyde McPhatter
|
22
|
Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters
|
6
|
Clyde McPhatter: Rock and Cry
|
3
|
Clyde McPhatter: The Treasure Of Love
|
1
|
Coasters
|
9
|
Cockerel Chorus
|
1
|
Coke Escovedo
|
2
|
Color Me Bad
|
3
|
Color Me Badd
|
14
|
Commodores
|
31
|
composed by Ernest Gold
|
1
|
composed by Maurice Jarre, from the movie Dr. Zhivago
|
2
|
composed by Monty Norman, theme for the film series, 1962.
|
4
|
composed by Rodgers and Hart.
|
4
|
composed in 1809 by Sebastion Salaveri
|
1
|
Connie Francis
|
7
|
Continental Four
|
2
|
Conway Twitty
|
3
|
Cookies
|
7
|
Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose.
|
19
|
Corsairs
|
4
|
Count Basie
|
1
|
Credence Clearwater
|
14
|
Creedance Clearwater Revival
|
1
|
Creedence Clearwater
|
1
|
Crests
|
4
|
Crickets
|
19
|
Crispian St. Peters
|
11
|
Crosby Stills and Nash
|
1
|
Crystal Gayle
|
12
|
Crystals
|
3
|
Curtis Mayfield
|
11
|
Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions
|
167
|
Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions, "You Always Hurt Me"
|
9
|
Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions: I've Been Trying
|
1
|
Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions: Minstrel And Queen
|
14
|
Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions: See The Real Me
|
6
|
Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions: Talking ABout My Baby, 1964
|
1
|
Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions: You'll Want Me Back
|
6
|
Curtis Mayfield: Give Me Your Love
|
6
|
Curtis Mayfield: Romancing To The Folk Song
|
2
|
Cymande
|
2
|
Cyndi Lauper
|
4
|
Cyndi Lauper: Time After Time
|
2
|
Dale and Grace
|
1
|
Dalida
|
1
|
Dan Hill
|
6
|
Dan Penn
|
17
|
Dana
|
6
|
Dana Valery: Lady Lady Lady
|
3
|
Dana Valery: Lady Lady Lady
|
3
|
Dancehall
|
25
|
Daniel Boone / Wayne Newton
|
2
|
Daniel Boone: Beautiful Sunday
|
3
|
Danny Pearson
|
5
|
Darker Shade Of Black
|
1
|
Darrell Banks
|
8
|
Dave Bartholomew
|
4
|
Dave Brubeck
|
12
|
Dave Clarke Five
|
2
|
Dave Gardner
|
1
|
David Baby Cotez
|
2
|
David Bowie
|
2
|
David Gates
|
3
|
David Ruffin
|
3
|
David Stewart
|
1
|
Dawn
|
4
|
Dazz Band
|
3
|
Dean Martin
|
11
|
Dean Martin: But I Will
|
1
|
Dean Martin: Memories Are Made Of This
|
2
|
Death In the Arena
|
1
|
DeBarge
|
4
|
Debbie Reynolds
|
1
|
Deborah Cox
|
1
|
Dee Clark: Just Keep It Up
|
3
|
Dee Clarke
|
23
|
Dee Dee Bridgewater
|
6
|
Dee Dee Warwick
|
9
|
Del Shannon - Runaway, 1961
|
1
|
Delaney and Bonnie
|
6
|
Delaney and Bonnie" Never Ending Song of Love
|
5
|
Delfonics
|
52
|
Delfonics' I Can't Get Over Losing You
|
1
|
Delfonics: Don't Break Your Promise
|
3
|
Dell Vikings
|
1
|
Della Reese
|
3
|
Dells
|
3
|
Dells: Bring Back the Love of Yesterday
|
1
|
Delphonics
|
1
|
Delroy Wilson
|
1
|
Demis Roussos
|
2
|
DeNeice Williams
|
4
|
Deniece Williams
|
4
|
Dennis Brown
|
2
|
Derrick Morgan - I Wish I Were An Apple, 1965
|
1
|
Des O'Conner
|
1
|
Desmond Dekker
|
1
|
Detroit Spinners
|
1
|
Diamonds
|
22
|
Diana Ross
|
29
|
Dianne Davidson
|
1
|
Dick And Dee Dee
|
2
|
Dick Haymes
|
1
|
Dickie Doo and The Don'ts
|
8
|
Dinah Washington and Brook Benton
|
2
|
Dinah Washington and Brook Benton, 1960
|
3
|
Dion
|
1
|
Dion and The Belmonts
|
9
|
Dionne Warwick
|
89
|
Dionne Warwick, Message To Michael
|
4
|
Dionne Warwick: Always Something There To Remind Me
|
1
|
Dionne Warwick: Trains and Boats and Planes
|
1
|
Dixie Cups
|
5
|
Dizzie Gillespie, 1952
|
1
|
Dobie Gray
|
12
|
Dobie Gray: Drift Away
|
1
|
Doc Bagby
|
2
|
Doc Bagby Dumplin's 1957
|
3
|
Dolly Parton
|
14
|
Dolly Parton later Whitney Houston
|
1
|
Dolly Parton, then Whitney Houston
|
1
|
Dolly Parton: Just Because I'm a Woman
|
2
|
Dolly Parton: Just When I Needed You Most
|
1
|
Domenico Modugno: Nel Blue Dipinto Di Blu
|
2
|
Don and Juan
|
8
|
Don Covay
|
10
|
Don Drummond
|
1
|
Don Elliott: Straits of McLellan
|
2
|
Don Fardon , Indian Reservation
|
3
|
Don Gibson
|
1
|
Don Julian
|
1
|
Don Williams
|
4
|
Don't Make Promises - Josh King
|
1
|
Don't Make Promises by Josh King
|
1
|
Donna Hightower
|
1
|
Donna Summer
|
3
|
Donnie Elbert
|
42
|
Donny Elbert: Will You Ever Be Mine
|
2
|
Donny Hathaway
|
4
|
Donovan
|
3
|
Doors
|
2
|
Doris Day
|
42
|
Doris Day - Que Sera
|
1
|
Doris Duke: Congratulations Baby
|
3
|
Doris Duke: Your Best Friend
|
3
|
Doris Duke: Your Best Friend)
|
1
|
Doris Troy
|
14
|
Doris Troy, 1963
|
2
|
Dorothy Moore
|
1
|
Dottie and Ray
|
1
|
Doug E Fresh
|
1
|
Down By The Riverside (traditional)
|
4
|
Dr. Hook and The Medicine Show
|
56
|
Dramatics
|
22
|
Dramatics: Hot Pants In the Summertime
|
1
|
Dreamlovers
|
1
|
Drifters
|
174
|
Drifters Under The Boardwalk
|
2
|
Drifters, Save The Last Dance For Me
|
4
|
Drifters: I Don't Want To Go On Without You
|
2
|
Drifters: Spanish Harlem
|
1
|
Drifters: This Magic Moment
|
1
|
Drifters: Up On The Roof
|
1
|
Drifters: When You Dance
|
1
|
Drifters; When My Little Girl Is Smiling
|
2
|
Driftin', by Lynn Hope, 1954
|
1
|
Duke Ellington
|
6
|
Duke Ellington, "Caravan", 1937.
|
1
|
Duke Ellington, composed by Billy Strayhorn
|
1
|
Duke Ellington, written by Sam Coslow and Arthur Johnston
|
2
|
Duke Ellington: "In A Mellow Tone", 1940
|
3
|
Dusty Springfield
|
40
|
Dusty Springfield, and later Aretha Franklin
|
11
|
Dusty Springfield: "I Only Want to Be With You"
|
2
|
Dusty Springfield: Son Of A Preacher Man
|
1
|
Dusty Springfield: Son Of A Preacher Man (melody)
|
2
|
Dusty Springfield: Who Gets Your Love
|
2
|
Dyke and The Blazers
|
2
|
Dynamics: Ice Cream Song
|
2
|
Earl Grant
|
16
|
Earth Wind and Fire
|
16
|
Ecstasy Passion and Pain
|
1
|
Ed Townsend
|
13
|
Eddie Arnold
|
1
|
Eddie Cantor - Making Whoopie, 1928
|
1
|
Eddie Cantor - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town, 1934
|
1
|
Eddie Cantor Build A Little Home
|
1
|
Eddie Cantor: When We Build A Home
|
1
|
Eddie Drennon and BBS Unlimited
|
1
|
Eddie FLoyd
|
47
|
Eddie Floyd, I've Never Found A Girl
|
7
|
Eddie Hodges
|
1
|
Eddie Hodges: I'm Gonna Knock On Your Door"
|
2
|
Eddie Holman
|
7
|
Eddie Hooper
|
4
|
Eddie Kendricks
|
16
|
Eddie Minnis
|
1
|
Eddy Holman: Hey There Lonely Girl
|
3
|
Eddy Howard
|
2
|
Edison Lighthouse
|
6
|
Edith Piaf
|
1
|
Edwin Hawkins
|
5
|
Edwin Starr
|
5
|
El Chicano: Viva Tirado
|
2
|
El Chicles
|
1
|
El Coco
|
1
|
El Condor Pasa
|
2
|
El Tempos: My Dream Island 1962
|
19
|
El Tempos: My Dream Island 1964
|
2
|
Elegants
|
1
|
Elgins
|
10
|
Ella Fitzgerald, A Tisket A Tasket, 1939.
|
2
|
Ella Fitzgerald: Let's Do It, Let's Fall In Love
|
1
|
Elmer Bernstein
|
1
|
Elmer Bernstein, The Magnificent Seven
|
1
|
Elton John
|
19
|
Elton John "Your Song"
|
1
|
Elton John - Curtains
|
1
|
Elvis Costello
|
4
|
Elvis Presley
|
79
|
Elvis Presley, the hit version was by Joe Dowell, 1961.
|
1
|
Elvis Presley: Can't Help Falling In Love With You
|
1
|
Elvis Presley: I'll Never Fall In Love Again
|
5
|
Elvis Presley: In the Ghetto
|
1
|
Elvis Presley: Return To Sender
|
1
|
Emmy Lou Harris
|
1
|
Emotions
|
11
|
Emotions: So I Can Love You
|
2
|
Engelbert Humperdinck
|
1
|
Engelbert Humperdinck: The Last Waltz
|
4
|
Engelbert Humperdink
|
32
|
Ennio Morrecone
|
1
|
Ennio Morricone
|
2
|
Entouch
|
2
|
Enya
|
3
|
Eric Clapton
|
3
|
Ernesto Lecuona (Cuba) , later by Stan Kenton
|
2
|
Ernie Fields Junior
|
2
|
Ernie Freeman
|
1
|
Ernie Freeman: "Live It Up"
|
4
|
Ernie Freeman: "Live It Up", 1959.
|
5
|
Ernie Freeman: Live It Up
|
1
|
Ernie K-Doe: Wanted 10,000 Dollar Reward
|
1
|
Ernst Neubach and Ralph Maria Siegel
|
5
|
Errol Garner
|
10
|
Esther Phillips
|
6
|
Esther Phillips: Release Me
|
1
|
Ethel Waters
|
1
|
Ethelbert Nevin, 1901
|
1
|
Etta James
|
3
|
Etta James : Tell Mama
|
6
|
Etta James: Tell Mama
|
1
|
Eugene Church
|
5
|
Eugene Record
|
7
|
Eurhythmics
|
1
|
Eurythmics
|
1
|
Evelyn Champagne King
|
4
|
Evelyn King
|
5
|
Everly Brothers
|
77
|
Everly Brothers: All I Have To Do Is Dream
|
1
|
Everly Brothers: Dream Dream
|
1
|
Everly Brothers: Take a Message to Mary
|
4
|
Ewan Gardiner harmony vocal
|
1
|
Exile
|
3
|
Eydie Gorme and Steve Lawrence
|
8
|
Falcons
|
5
|
Fantastic Four
|
11
|
Faron Young
|
1
|
Fats Domino
|
47
|
Fats Domino - Please Don't Leave Me, 1953
|
1
|
Fats Domino: Hello Josephine
|
2
|
Fats Domino: I Hear You Knocking
|
1
|
Fats Domino: Let the Four Winds Blow
|
2
|
Fats Waller
|
4
|
Ferrante and Teicher: Theme From Exodus
|
6
|
Fifth Dimesnion: Age of Aquarius
|
4
|
First Choice
|
4
|
First Class
|
4
|
Fitz Bryan Vaughn Orchestra - Teensville
|
3
|
Fleetwood Mac
|
2
|
Fleetwoods
|
12
|
Floaters
|
3
|
Florence Ballard
|
2
|
Floyd Cramer
|
12
|
Floyd Cramer: Last Date
|
4
|
Floyd Robinson
|
3
|
Flying Machine
|
6
|
Folkes Brothers
|
1
|
Fontella Bass
|
5
|
Force M.D.'s
|
7
|
Force MD's
|
7
|
Foreigner
|
2
|
Foreigner: I Want To Know What Love Is
|
2
|
Four Aces
|
2
|
Four Gees
|
3
|
Four Seasons
|
25
|
Four Tops
|
93
|
Four Tops, Until You Love Someone, 1966
|
3
|
Francis Lai
|
1
|
Francois Deguelt
|
1
|
Frank Sinatra
|
18
|
Frank Sinatra, 1941
|
1
|
Frank Sinatra: It Was A Very Good Year
|
3
|
Frankie Avalon
|
6
|
Frankie Avalon: Venus
|
1
|
Frankie Beverley
|
3
|
Frankie Ford
|
11
|
Frankie Ford: Sea Cruise
|
2
|
Frankie Laine
|
16
|
Frankie Laine: Lucky Old Sun
|
7
|
Frankie Layne
|
1
|
Frankie Lyman
|
3
|
Frankie Lyman and The Teenagers
|
14
|
Frankie Valli
|
3
|
Franky Avalon
|
6
|
Fred Astaire
|
4
|
Fred Astaire: Dancing Cheek To Cheek
|
2
|
Fred Hughes: My Heart Cries Oh
|
4
|
Fred Neil
|
11
|
Fred Neil: Everybody Talking
|
3
|
Fred Neil: Everybody's Talking
|
2
|
Freda Payne
|
12
|
Freddie Hart
|
7
|
Freddie Jackson
|
17
|
Freddie Scott
|
2
|
Freddy Fender
|
21
|
Frederick Knight
|
5
|
Free Movements
|
2
|
Free Movements: I Found Someone Of My Own
|
1
|
Friends Of Distinction
|
4
|
From a poem by R. Lee Sharpe. It is from the book Masperpieces of Religion Verse 1948.
|
12
|
from film Black Orpheus
|
1
|
from Porgy and Bess
|
16
|
from stage & film "Li'l Abner" 1956
|
2
|
from the film The Sting
|
2
|
from the movie Hello Frisco, Hello, 1943
|
1
|
from the musical Guys and Dolls
|
1
|
from the musical Jesus Christ Superstar
|
3
|
from the Sound Of Music
|
7
|
Funeral March of a Marionette by Charles Gounod, 1872, known as the theme music for the television program Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
|
2
|
Games People Play
|
1
|
Gap Band
|
4
|
Garnett Mims' "Quiet Place" 1964.
|
3
|
Gary Benson
|
1
|
Gary Wright
|
1
|
Gaylads
|
1
|
Gene and Eunice
|
27
|
Gene and Eunice: Strange World
|
1
|
Gene Autrey
|
9
|
Gene Autrey: South of the Border
|
1
|
Gene Chandler
|
53
|
Gene Chandler and Barbara Acklin
|
8
|
Gene Coy and the Killer Dillers; Killer Diller
|
2
|
Gene Kelly, 'All I Do Is Dream Of You, from the musical 'Singing In The Rain', 1934
|
2
|
Gene McDaniels
|
11
|
Gene Pitney
|
7
|
Gene Thomas
|
15
|
Gene Thomas: Sometimes
|
1
|
Genesis
|
1
|
George and Gwen McCrae
|
2
|
George Benson
|
35
|
George Hamilton IV
|
2
|
George Harrison
|
12
|
George Harrison: My Sweet Lord
|
3
|
George McCrae
|
6
|
George McCrae: Rock Your Baby
|
2
|
George McRae
|
1
|
George Michael
|
3
|
George Soule
|
4
|
Gerhard Winkler
|
4
|
Gerhard Winkler, 1966
|
1
|
Gerry and The Pacemakers
|
5
|
Get Me To The Church On Time
|
3
|
Gilbert O'Sullivan
|
8
|
Gioachino Rossini's opera, 1829
|
1
|
Gladys Knight
|
1
|
Gladys Knight and The Pips
|
37
|
Glen Campbell
|
16
|
Glen Frey
|
3
|
Glen Miller, then Etta James
|
1
|
Glenn Jones: We've Only Just Begun (The Romance Is Not Over)
|
4
|
Glenn Miller Band / Judy Garland : Trolley Song
|
1
|
Gloria Estefan
|
4
|
Gloria Gaynor
|
1
|
Goerge Harrison
|
3
|
Gordon Jenkins
|
1
|
Gordon McCrae
|
1
|
gospel traditional, see, i.e. Drinkard Ensemble "Get Up And Give God The Glory"
|
3
|
gospel traditional: Awake Zion Awake
|
1
|
gospel/biblical
|
1
|
Graham Central Station
|
2
|
Grandfather's Clock, composed by Henry Work 1876
|
9
|
Grass Roots
|
5
|
Grateful Dead
|
2
|
Gregory Abbott
|
2
|
Grover Washington
|
1
|
Guess Who
|
10
|
Guess Who: No Sugar Tonight
|
3
|
Guy
|
9
|
Guy Lombardo
|
2
|
Guy Lombardo, then Doris Day
|
5
|
Guy Mitchell
|
1
|
Gwen Guthrie
|
3
|
Gwen McCrae
|
2
|
Gwen McCrae: Funky Sensation
|
1
|
H-Town
|
6
|
Hal Paige and the Whalers (1959
|
2
|
Hal Paige: Drive It Home
|
5
|
Hal Paige: Going Back To My Home Town
|
2
|
Hall and Oates
|
2
|
Hall and Oates: Maneater
|
1
|
Hamilton Bohannon
|
6
|
Hank Crawford: Skunky Green
|
2
|
Hank Locklin
|
4
|
Hank Locklin: Please Help Me I'm Falling
|
2
|
Hank Penny: Let Me Play With Your Poodle
|
1
|
Hank Snow
|
10
|
Hank Williams
|
5
|
Hank Williams, also a hit for Ray Charles
|
1
|
Happy Homecoming
|
1
|
harmonica plays 'The Wonder Of You' by Dorsey Burnett
|
2
|
Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes
|
20
|
Harry Belafonte
|
34
|
Harry Belafonte: I'm Just A Country Boy
|
3
|
Harry Chapin
|
4
|
Harry James: Music Makers
|
1
|
Harry Nillson
|
1
|
Hava Nagila
|
2
|
Heathen
|
1
|
Heatwave
|
14
|
Heavenless
|
1
|
Helen Forrest and Artie Shaw, 1939.
|
1
|
Helen Reddy
|
1
|
Helen Shapiro
|
1
|
Henry Mancini
|
30
|
Henry Mancini, Theme For The Richard Boone Show
|
1
|
Henry Mancini: Baby Elephant Walk
|
1
|
Henry Mancini: Orange Dance, from the film Charade
|
3
|
Herb Alpert
|
11
|
Herb Alpert: Spanish Flea
|
1
|
Herb Alpert: The Lonely Bull
|
3
|
Herbie Hancock
|
8
|
Herbie Mann
|
8
|
Herbie Mann - Happy Brass
|
1
|
Herbie Mann Our Man Flint
|
1
|
Herbie Mann: Happy Brass
|
4
|
Herbie Mann: New Orleans (NOT Memphis Underground)
|
1
|
Herman's Hermits
|
4
|
Hi-Five
|
6
|
Hilltoppers, written by George Gershwin
|
2
|
Hoagie Charmichael
|
1
|
Hollies
|
5
|
Honey Comb
|
1
|
Honeypie
|
3
|
Hootie & the Blowfish
|
1
|
Horace Silver
|
2
|
Hot Chocolate
|
9
|
Howard Huntsberry
|
2
|
Howard Tate
|
2
|
Hues Corporation
|
3
|
Huey Piano Smith
|
4
|
Hugh Masakela
|
9
|
Hugh Masakela: Grazing In The Grass
|
2
|
Hugo and Luigi
|
2
|
Human Body
|
2
|
I Don't Care
|
1
|
I Only Have Eyes For You by the Platters, Billie Holiday, etc.
|
1
|
I'll Be Gone (Horace Andy)
|
1
|
Idris Muhammad: Loran's Dance
|
2
|
Ike and Tina Turner
|
5
|
Ikettes
|
1
|
Imagination
|
1
|
Imagine (John Lennon)
|
1
|
Imperials, Who's Gonna Love Me
|
1
|
Impressions
|
39
|
Impressions: Closer Together
|
1
|
Impressions: Man Oh Man
|
3
|
In Other Words written by Bart Howard 1954.
|
1
|
Independents
|
14
|
Inez & Charley Foxx
|
6
|
Inez & Charley Foxx: Come By Here
|
1
|
Ink Spots
|
8
|
Intruders
|
1
|
Irish Traditional
|
2
|
Irma Franklin
|
10
|
Irving Berlin
|
1
|
Irving Berlin, 1946
|
2
|
Isaac Hayes
|
31
|
Isaac Hayes: Do Your Thing
|
1
|
Isley Brothers
|
57
|
Isley Brothers, Twist and Shout
|
1
|
Isley Brothers: Voyage To Atlantis
|
4
|
Isley Jasper Isley
|
4
|
It Ain't Necessarily So, from Porgy and Bess
|
2
|
It Might As Well be Spring
|
1
|
Italian song written in 1880 by Luigi Denza
|
1
|
Ivory Joe Hunter
|
19
|
Jack Jones
|
3
|
Jackie DeShannon
|
6
|
Jackie DeShannon: Put a Little Love In Your Heart
|
1
|
Jackie Edwards
|
2
|
Jackie Moore
|
2
|
Jackie Opel
|
1
|
Jackie Opel: Push Wood
|
1
|
Jackie Wilson
|
3
|
Jackie Wilson: (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher
|
1
|
Jackie Wilson: Love Is Funny That Way
|
1
|
Jackson 5
|
12
|
Jackson Five
|
8
|
Jackson's: Rock With You
|
1
|
Jacksons
|
5
|
James and Bobby Purify
|
23
|
James Brown
|
6
|
James Brown: Just Wont Do Right
|
1
|
James Brown: Make It Funky
|
5
|
James Carr
|
21
|
James Carr - Freedom Train
|
2
|
James Darren: Angel Face
|
2
|
James Ingram
|
12
|
James Last: Elizabethan Serenade
|
16
|
James Last: La Bostella
|
2
|
James Phelps
|
5
|
James Taylor
|
4
|
James Wayne: Ten To Your Business
|
1
|
James Wayne: Tend To Your Business
|
1
|
Jan Bradley
|
6
|
Jan Davis / the Ventures: Fugitive
|
2
|
Janet Jackson
|
10
|
Janie Fricke
|
11
|
Jarmels
|
6
|
Jarmels : Little Lonely One
|
1
|
Jay and The Americans
|
6
|
Jaye P Morgan: That's All I Want From You
|
13
|
Jazz Crusaders
|
7
|
Jazz Crusaders, then Junior Walker
|
4
|
Jazz Crusaders, Tough Talk, 1965
|
1
|
Jean Carn
|
1
|
Jean Carne
|
5
|
Jean Knight
|
6
|
Jean Knight Mr. Big Stuff
|
7
|
Jeanette Williams
|
2
|
Jeanne Black
|
2
|
Jeannie C. Riley
|
6
|
Jeffery Osbourne
|
2
|
Jeffrey Osbourne
|
3
|
Jeffrey Osbourne: Stranger
|
1
|
Jennifer Rush
|
1
|
Jennifer Rush
|
6
|
Jennifer Warnes
|
5
|
Jermaine Jackson
|
10
|
Jermaine Jackson and Rita Coolidge
|
1
|
Jermaine Stewart
|
1
|
Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein
|
2
|
Jerry Butler
|
54
|
Jerry Butler He Don't Love You
|
1
|
Jerry Butler, 1963. Written by Curtis Mayfield
|
4
|
Jerry Butler: Find Another Girl
|
2
|
Jerry Chestnut
|
1
|
Jerry Jackson
|
15
|
Jerry Jeff Walker
|
8
|
Jerry Orbach
|
7
|
Jerry Vale
|
3
|
Jerry Williams Jr.
|
2
|
Jerry Williams: Baby Bunny (Sugar Honey)
|
1
|
Jesse Belvin
|
44
|
Jewel King
|
5
|
Jewels
|
2
|
Jim Ed Brown
|
2
|
Jim Lowe
|
2
|
Jim Reeves
|
39
|
Jim Reeves: He'll Have To Go
|
2
|
Jim Reeves: I'm Gonna Change Everything
|
4
|
Jim Reevs
|
1
|
Jimi Hendrix
|
5
|
Jimmie Cameron
|
2
|
Jimmie Lee and Artis
|
1
|
Jimmie Rodgers
|
11
|
Jimmie Smith
|
2
|
Jimmy Beck and his orchestra
|
2
|
Jimmy Bo Horne
|
1
|
Jimmy Boyd
|
1
|
Jimmy Castor Bunch
|
2
|
Jimmy Castor Bunch: Bertha Butt Boogie
|
4
|
Jimmy Charles
|
1
|
Jimmy Clanton
|
7
|
Jimmy Cliff
|
1
|
Jimmy Davis
|
7
|
Jimmy Davis - You Are My Sunshine
|
1
|
Jimmy Davis: You Are My Sunshine
|
1
|
Jimmy Dean
|
2
|
Jimmy Holiday
|
3
|
Jimmy Holiday: Turning Point
|
1
|
Jimmy Hughes
|
8
|
Jimmy Jones
|
3
|
Jimmy Norman
|
1
|
Jimmy Reed
|
2
|
Jimmy Ruffin
|
5
|
Jimmy Ruffin: Don't You Miss Me A Little Bit Baby
|
5
|
Jimmy Ruffin: Living In A World I Created For Myself
|
2
|
Jimmy Scott
|
11
|
Jimmy Smith
|
6
|
Jimmy Soul
|
3
|
Jimmy Velvet
|
1
|
Jingle Bells melody
|
1
|
JJ Cale
|
1
|
Jo Ann Campbell: Mama Can I Go Out
|
3
|
Jo Armstead
|
2
|
Jo Stafford
|
3
|
Jodeci
|
1
|
Joe Cocker
|
2
|
Joe Dowell
|
6
|
Joe Hinton: Funny How Time Slips Away
|
2
|
Joe Jones
|
3
|
Joe Simon
|
59
|
Joe Simon 'You Keep Me Hanging On'
|
3
|
Joe South
|
18
|
Joe Stampley
|
2
|
Joe Tex
|
6
|
Joe Tex: The Love You Save
|
3
|
Johann Strauss
|
3
|
Johann Strauss : Tales From The Vienna Woods
|
2
|
John Bucks and his Blazers
|
2
|
John Coltrane
|
5
|
John D Loudermilk
|
1
|
John Denver
|
21
|
John Lee Hooker: Boogie Chillen'
|
4
|
John Lennon
|
25
|
John Lennon: Give Peace A Chance
|
1
|
John Prine
|
1
|
John Rowles
|
1
|
Johnny Ace
|
23
|
Johnny Ace: the Clock
|
1
|
Johnny Adams
|
5
|
Johnny Adams: I Won't Cry
|
1
|
Johnny and Joe
|
1
|
Johnny Bristol
|
2
|
Johnny Cash
|
5
|
Johnny Gill
|
4
|
Johnny Lytle
|
2
|
Johnny Lytle: "The Loop" 1965.,
|
2
|
Johnny Lytle: Village Caller
|
7
|
Johnny Mathis
|
24
|
Johnny Mathis and Deneice Williams
|
3
|
Johnny Mathis: Chances Are
|
1
|
Johnny Mathis: What Will My Mary Say
|
2
|
Johnny Nash
|
20
|
Johnny Nash: I Can't Take It
|
1
|
Johnny Nash: Rock Me Baby
|
1
|
Johnny Paycheck
|
2
|
Johnny Preston
|
10
|
Johnny Ray
|
4
|
Johnny Rivers
|
1
|
Johnny Sayles
|
1
|
Johnny Taylor
|
60
|
Johnny Taylor: I Believe In You
|
3
|
Johnny Taylor: Starting All Over Again
|
3
|
Johnny Thunder
|
2
|
Johnny Waiklin
|
4
|
Jon Thomas and Orchestra: Teasin'
|
1
|
Jonathon Butler
|
2
|
Jones Girls
|
7
|
Joni Mitchell
|
3
|
Jose Feliciano
|
14
|
Jose Feliciano, 1969
|
1
|
Joselito Fernandez - Guajira Guantanamera, 1929
|
1
|
Joy Tones
|
4
|
Joyce Sims
|
1
|
Judy Boucher
|
1
|
Judy Clay
|
3
|
Judy Clay and William Bell
|
7
|
Judy Clay and William Bell: Love-Eye-Tis
|
3
|
Judy Garland
|
5
|
Judy Garland : Trolley Song
|
1
|
Judy Garland, from the movie 'The Wizard Of Oz', 1938
|
1
|
Juice Newton
|
1
|
Julie Andrews
|
1
|
Jummy Ruffin: Don't You Miss Me A Little Bit Baby
|
4
|
Junior Walker
|
9
|
Junior Walker and the All Stars
|
1
|
Junior Walker and the All Stars: Hot Cha
|
1
|
Junior Walker: Hot Cha
|
1
|
Junrior Walker: Hot Cha
|
2
|
Kaoma
|
4
|
Karla Bonoff
|
1
|
Karyn White
|
6
|
Kashif
|
1
|
Kate and Mac Kissoon
|
7
|
Katie Love and Four Shades Of Black
|
2
|
Kay Starr: Rock And Roll Waltz
|
2
|
Keith and Enid
|
1
|
Keith Barrow
|
9
|
Keith Washington
|
1
|
Kenny G
|
9
|
Kenny Lattimore
|
6
|
Kenny Loggins
|
3
|
Kenny Lynch
|
21
|
Kenny Rogers
|
28
|
Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton
|
9
|
Kenny Rogers: Daytime Friends
|
1
|
Ketty Lester
|
1
|
Kiki Dee
|
1
|
King Curtis
|
16
|
King Curtis: Instant Groove
|
2
|
King Curtis: Soul Serenade
|
3
|
King Floyd
|
25
|
King Floyd: Baby Let Me Kiss You
|
1
|
King Floyd: Groove Me
|
2
|
King Pleasure
|
1
|
Kingpens
|
1
|
Kingsmen
|
3
|
Kingston Trio
|
4
|
Kinks
|
2
|
Kirk Franklin
|
2
|
Kitty Kallen
|
2
|
Klymaxx
|
1
|
Kool and the Gang
|
15
|
Kool and The Gang: N.T.
|
4
|
Kool and the Kang
|
2
|
Kris Kristofferson
|
28
|
Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge
|
10
|
Kyu Sakamoto
|
19
|
L T D
|
5
|
La Bionda
|
3
|
LaBelle
|
1
|
Labi Siffre
|
2
|
Ladybirds
|
19
|
Lalo Schifren
|
1
|
Lalo Schifrin
|
1
|
Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross - Come On Home
|
2
|
Lamont Dozier
|
2
|
Larry Clinton Orchestra 1939, later recorded by Carla Thomas, Johnny Nash, Marvin Gaye and many more
|
3
|
Larry Graham
|
5
|
Larry Williams
|
23
|
Latimore
|
3
|
Laurie London - He's Got the Whole World in His Hands from 1957
|
1
|
Laurie London, traditional spiritual
|
7
|
LaVern Baker
|
7
|
Leadbelly
|
1
|
Lecture
|
1
|
Lee Andrews and the Harps: It's Me
|
2
|
Lee Dorsey
|
9
|
Lee Dorsey, 1965. Written by Allen Toussaint
|
1
|
Lee Dorsey: Sitting On My La La
|
5
|
Lee Morgan "The Sidewinder" 1963
|
1
|
Lee Morgan, The Sidewinder
|
2
|
Lee Oskar
|
4
|
Left Banke
|
2
|
Lennie Welch
|
13
|
Lenny Miles
|
1
|
Lenny Welch
|
1
|
Leo Sayer
|
16
|
Leon Haywood
|
19
|
Leon Haywood: Mellow Moonlight
|
1
|
Leonard Cohen
|
4
|
Lerner and Loewe
|
1
|
Lerner and Loewe - Get Me To The Church On Time
|
1
|
Leroy Anderson
|
1
|
Leroy Gittens
|
8
|
Leroy Hutson
|
14
|
Les and Larry Elgart: Jerkin' Around
|
11
|
Les Baxter
|
1
|
Les McCann
|
2
|
Leslie Hutchinson 1936
|
1
|
Lester Williams : I Can't Lose With the Stuff I Lose
|
1
|
Lester Williams I Can't Lose With The Stuff I Use
|
1
|
Levert
|
5
|
Linda Lewis
|
1
|
Lionel Richie
|
11
|
Lionel Richie and Diana Ross
|
8
|
Lionel Ritchie
|
40
|
Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam
|
6
|
Lisa Stansfield
|
5
|
Little Anthony
|
1
|
Little Anthony and the Imperials
|
52
|
Little Anthony and the Imperials: I'm Falling In Love With You
|
1
|
Little Anthony: Tears On My Pillow
|
1
|
Little Eva: The Loco-Motion
|
3
|
Little Milton
|
6
|
Little Peggy March
|
1
|
Little Richard
|
11
|
Little Willie John
|
7
|
Lloyd Price
|
21
|
Lloyd Price (traditional)
|
8
|
Lloyd Price, 1957
|
2
|
Lloyd Price: Where Were You On Our Wedding Day
|
3
|
Lloyd Trottman and Orchestra
|
1
|
Lobo
|
14
|
Lobo: I'd Love You To Want Me
|
2
|
Locomotive
|
1
|
Locomotive, 1968
|
1
|
London Bridge Is Falling Down nursery rhyme
|
1
|
Long John Baldry
|
2
|
Lonnie Donegan
|
1
|
Lord Blakie - Hold The Pussy, 1967
|
1
|
Lord Burgess
|
4
|
Lord Flea: Time So Hard
|
1
|
Lord Fly - Blu-Lu-Lup
|
1
|
Lord Kitchener
|
1
|
Loretta Lynn
|
4
|
Lorraine Ellison
|
8
|
Los Bravos
|
2
|
Los Bravos: Black Is Black
|
4
|
Los Bravos: You Won't Get Far
|
1
|
Los Del Mar: Macarena
|
1
|
Los Diablos
|
1
|
Los Pop Tops
|
7
|
Los Tres Caballeros
|
2
|
Lou Donaldson: Peepin'
|
2
|
Lou Rawles: Love Is a Hurting Thing
|
3
|
Lou Rawls
|
28
|
Lou Rawls: My Ancestors
|
2
|
Louie Armstrng
|
1
|
Louie Armstrong
|
2
|
Louie Jordan
|
10
|
Louie Jordan and Ella Fitzgerald: "Stone Cold Dead In The Market"
|
2
|
Louie Jordan, Caledonia Boogie, 1945
|
2
|
Louie Jordan, Open The Door Richard, 1947
|
1
|
Louie Jordan: Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens
|
1
|
Louie Jourdan and Louie Armstrong same title 1950
|
1
|
Louie Prima
|
3
|
Louis Armstrong
|
15
|
Louis Bonfa: Sambalero
|
1
|
Louis Farrakhan - Back To Back Belly To Belly
|
1
|
Louis Jordan
|
4
|
Louis Jordan - Caledonia, 1945
|
1
|
Love Unlimited (Barry White)
|
3
|
Lovin' Spoonful
|
3
|
Lulu
|
8
|
Lulu To Sir With Love, from Sidney Poitier movie, To Sir With Love
|
1
|
Luther Ingram
|
19
|
Luther Vandross
|
16
|
Lynne Hamilton
|
1
|
Lyrically inspired by the Impressions' This Is My Country
|
1
|
lyrics inspired by Higgs and Wilson "If You Want Pardon"
|
1
|
Mac and Katie Kisson
|
7
|
Mac And Katie Kissoon
|
1
|
Mac Davis
|
8
|
Mad Lads
|
2
|
Madonna
|
4
|
Madonna: Isla Bonita
|
1
|
Maga Dog
|
1
|
Magic Lady
|
1
|
Main Ingredient
|
30
|
Main Ingredient: Brotherly Love
|
10
|
Major Harris
|
9
|
Major Lance
|
1
|
Major Lance Um Um Um Um Um Um
|
2
|
Major Lance: Sweet Music
|
2
|
Malvina Reynolds
|
1
|
Mamas and Papas
|
5
|
Mandrill: Mango Meat
|
4
|
Manfred Mann - Come Tomorrow
|
1
|
Manfred Mann: Come Tomorrow
|
4
|
Manhattans
|
46
|
Manhattans "The One Love Forgot"
|
14
|
Manhattans: It Feels So Good To Be Loved So Bad
|
1
|
Manhattans: Shining Star
|
1
|
Manu Dibango
|
3
|
Manu Dibango Soul Makossa
|
4
|
Mar-Keys
|
7
|
Marc Hamilton
|
1
|
Margaret Whiting: Moonlight In Vermont
|
2
|
Margo Llergo: El Cumbanchero
|
5
|
Mariah Carey
|
10
|
Marie Osmond
|
7
|
Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr. ?– I Hope We Get To Love In Time
|
3
|
Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis
|
1
|
Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr.
|
1
|
Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Junior
|
1
|
Marilyn Sellars
|
4
|
Mario Lanza
|
1
|
Mark Lindsay
|
6
|
Marketts: Bat Cape
|
1
|
Marlena Shaw
|
17
|
Marlena Shaw Woman of the Ghetto
|
1
|
Marlena Shaw: Woman of the Ghetto
|
2
|
Marmalade
|
5
|
Martha and the Vandelas
|
2
|
Martha and the Vandellas
|
8
|
Martha and the Vandellas: Love Makes Me Do Foolish Things
|
2
|
Martin Denny
|
2
|
Marty Robbins
|
5
|
Marv Johnson
|
4
|
Marvelettes
|
5
|
Marvin and Johnny
|
1
|
Marvin and Johnny: Sugar
|
3
|
Marvin Gaye
|
93
|
Marvin Gaye - Inner City Blues
|
3
|
Marvin Gaye and Kim Weston
|
1
|
Marvin Gaye and Mary Wells
|
16
|
Marvin Gaye and Mary Wells 'Once Upon A Time'
|
3
|
Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell
|
9
|
Marvin Gaye: All The Love I've Got
|
4
|
Marvin Gaye: Sexual Healing
|
15
|
Marvin Gaye: What's Going On
|
1
|
Marvin Sease
|
1
|
Mary J Blige
|
2
|
Mary Jane Girls
|
4
|
Mary MacGregor
|
2
|
Mary Wells
|
9
|
Mary Wells - My Guy
|
2
|
Matt Monro
|
8
|
Matt Monro, from the 1966 movie 'Born Free'
|
1
|
Maureen McGovern
|
2
|
Maurice Williams
|
5
|
Mavis John
|
1
|
Maxine Brown
|
18
|
Maxine Brown: Oh No Not My Baby
|
1
|
Maxine Nightingale
|
1
|
may be Hayley Mills' Let's Get Together
|
1
|
Maytals
|
2
|
Maze
|
5
|
MC Hammer: Can't Touch This
|
1
|
McCoys
|
6
|
McFadden and Whitehead
|
3
|
McFadden and Whitehead: Ain't No Stopping Us Now
|
1
|
McGuire Sisters
|
19
|
Mel and Tim
|
1
|
Mel Torme
|
1
|
Mel Torme' - Coming Home Baby 1962
|
1
|
Melanie
|
1
|
Melba Montgomery
|
7
|
Melba Moore
|
1
|
Meli'sa Morgan
|
1
|
Melissa Manchester
|
5
|
Melodians
|
2
|
melody based on Frankie valon's Venus
|
1
|
melody based on Jim Reeves He'll Have To Go.
|
1
|
melody based on Just A Closer Walk With Thee
|
2
|
melody based on Mexican Divorce
|
3
|
melody based on Roland Alphonso You're So Delightful
|
1
|
melody based on Santa Lucia
|
2
|
melody based on Stagger Lee
|
2
|
melody based on The Tornados: Telstar
|
6
|
melody by South African composer Rupert Bopape
|
2
|
melody derivative from Art Blakey and The jazz Messengers: Mozaic
|
2
|
melody from Beatles Norwegian Wood
|
1
|
melody from Kyu Sakamoto: Suki Yaki
|
2
|
melody from Richie Valens - Oh Donna
|
2
|
melody from traditional spiritual: Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho
|
5
|
melody is Theme From A Summer Place
|
1
|
melody taken from Cascades "Rhythm Of The Rain"
|
2
|
melody taken from Everly Brothers - Take A Message To Mary
|
1
|
melody taken from Sea Of Love
|
1
|
melody taken from Temptations: Beauty's Only Skin Deep
|
2
|
melody Wonderland By Night
|
1
|
Men At Work
|
1
|
Menudo
|
4
|
Mercury
|
2
|
Mercy
|
1
|
Mercy: Love Can Make You Happy
|
14
|
Merilee Rush
|
9
|
Merilee Rush: Angel of the Morning
|
1
|
Meters
|
6
|
Meters - Sophisticated Cissy, 1968
|
1
|
Meters, Sophisticated Sissy
|
3
|
MFSB: TSOP
|
2
|
Michael Bolton
|
4
|
Michael Franks
|
1
|
Michael Jackson
|
86
|
Michael Jackson: Ben
|
1
|
Michael Jackson: Human Nature
|
1
|
Michael Jackson: Somebody's Watching Me
|
1
|
Michael Jackson: We Are The World
|
1
|
Michael Sembello for the film Flash Dance
|
8
|
Michael Turner
|
1
|
Mickey and Sylvia
|
15
|
Mickey Gilley
|
3
|
Mickey McCullers
|
5
|
Midnight Star
|
2
|
Midnight Starr
|
3
|
Mighty Sparrow
|
2
|
Mike and the Mechanics
|
2
|
Mike Gordon, Why Don't You Do Right
|
3
|
Mike Williams
|
12
|
Miles Jaye
|
2
|
Milestone
|
1
|
Milli Vanilli
|
3
|
Millie Jackson
|
40
|
Mindbenders
|
18
|
Minnie Riperton
|
9
|
Miracles
|
23
|
Miracles, 1963
|
1
|
Miracles: Save Me
|
3
|
Miriam Makeba
|
5
|
Miriam Makeba, Retreat Song
|
4
|
Miriam Makeba: Ring Bell
|
2
|
Misora Hibari: Ringo Oiwake
|
2
|
Mista: Blackberry Molasses
|
1
|
Mitty Collier
|
3
|
Modulations
|
3
|
Moises Simons: El Manisero
|
6
|
Moments
|
13
|
Mongo Santamaria
|
10
|
Mongo Santamaria "Don't Bother Me No More", 1962. Bobby Capers composer
|
3
|
Mongo Santamaria "Go Git It" 1963, Bobby Caper comp.
|
4
|
Mongo Santamaria "Love Oh Love" 1963, Billy Myles comp.
|
1
|
Mongo Santamaria - Don't Bother Me No More
|
2
|
Mongo Santamaria - Fat Back, 1963, Bobby Capers composer
|
2
|
Mongo Santamaria - Suavito, 1963
|
1
|
Mongo Santamaria, Yeh Yeh, also covered by Georgie Fame
|
5
|
Mongo Santamaria: "Hammer Head"
|
9
|
Mongo Santamaria: Bayou Roots" 1963, Pat Patrick composer.
|
1
|
Mongo Santamaria: El Pussy Cat
|
9
|
Mongo Santamaria: Funny Money, 1963, Victor Venegas comp
|
2
|
Mongo Santamaria: Funny Money, 1963, Victor Venegas comp.
|
2
|
Mongo Santamaria: Get The Money
|
1
|
Monica
|
2
|
Monk Higgins: "Who Dun It'
|
6
|
Monkees
|
8
|
Montell Jordan
|
1
|
Moody Blues
|
4
|
Moonglows
|
24
|
Moonlight Bay
|
3
|
More Love Than Your Love" from the Broadway musical "By The Beautiful Sea"
|
4
|
Morris Albert
|
4
|
Mtume
|
1
|
Mungo Jerry
|
13
|
Musique
|
1
|
My Old Kentucky Home (traditional)
|
1
|
Nancy Ames
|
1
|
Nancy Ames - Friends And Lovers Forever, 1965
|
1
|
Nancy Sinatra
|
7
|
Nancy Wilson
|
12
|
Nancy Wilson, You Don't Know
|
2
|
Nancy Wilson: How Glad I am
|
2
|
Nat King Cole
|
56
|
Nat King Cole : I Love Your For Sentimental Reasons
|
15
|
Nat King Cole: Let True Love begin
|
1
|
Nat King Cole: Straighten Up and Fly Right
|
2
|
Natalie Cole
|
11
|
Nature's Divine
|
1
|
Naughty By Nature
|
6
|
Ned Doheny
|
1
|
Neil Diamond
|
102
|
Neil Diamond (not the Bill Withers song)
|
6
|
Neil Diamond: Solitary Man
|
1
|
Neil Hefti: Theme From Bat Man
|
1
|
Neil Larsen
|
1
|
Neil Sedaka
|
34
|
Neil Sedaka: Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
|
2
|
Neil Young
|
3
|
Nelson Eddy and Jeanette McDonald
|
2
|
New Beats
|
3
|
New Edition
|
3
|
New Seekers
|
1
|
New Seekers and Hillside Singers for Coca-Cola commercials
|
1
|
New Vaudeville Band
|
3
|
Newbeats
|
10
|
Newbeats: Groovin' Out On Life
|
1
|
Nicolette Larson
|
2
|
Nina Simone
|
53
|
Nina Simone: Work Song
|
3
|
Nini Rosso: Il Silenzio
|
2
|
Nite-liters
|
6
|
Noel McKoy
|
1
|
Norman Conners: You Are My Starship
|
1
|
not Elvis Presley song
|
2
|
not Message From A Black Man
|
1
|
not related to Otis Redding tune of same name, despite label credit
|
1
|
not Sam Cooke song
|
1
|
not Temptations song
|
9
|
not the Archies song
|
3
|
not the Bobby Darin song
|
1
|
Not the Curtis Mayfield song,
|
3
|
Not the Curtis Mayfield song, - 'Gypsy Woman' title UK only
|
1
|
not the Friends Of Distinction song
|
1
|
not the Jackie Wilson song
|
2
|
not the Lulu song
|
2
|
not the Marvin and Tammi song
|
1
|
not the Marvin Gaye song
|
2
|
not the Santo and Johnny song
|
1
|
not the Sara Vaughn tune
|
1
|
not the Sarah Vaughn tune
|
2
|
Not the Smokey Robinson tune.
|
4
|
not the Stevie Wonder song
|
2
|
Now
|
1
|
Nursery rhyme
|
1
|
O'Jays
|
61
|
O'Jays Used To Be My Girl
|
1
|
OC Smith
|
15
|
Ocean
|
4
|
Odyssey
|
1
|
Oh Carolina
|
1
|
Oh Happy Day (pop gospel hit)
|
4
|
Ohio Players
|
8
|
Olivia Newton-John
|
12
|
Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta
|
2
|
Olivia Newton-John: Let's Get Physical
|
1
|
One Way
|
1
|
Oo Wee Baby (Baby I Love You)
|
1
|
original is a calypso tune: Chambolina
|
2
|
Original of this tune is "Don't Trust Them" by John and Jim
|
1
|
original written by Fields and McHugh for the movie Every Night At Eight, 1935
|
2
|
originally a Mexican song La Golondrina, recorded first in 1906, later adapted in English and recorded by Roy Orbison, and Elvis Presley
|
9
|
originally called Hala La Laya, composed by the Rahbani Brothers, for the lp Music For An Arabian Night
|
2
|
originally Solamente Una Vez, written by Agustin Lara 1941, a hit for Bing Crosby in 1945
|
3
|
Originals
|
3
|
Oscar and Jeanette
|
5
|
Oscar Harris
|
1
|
Oscar Toney: No Sad Songs For Me
|
2
|
Osmond Brothers
|
3
|
Osmonds
|
3
|
Otis Redding
|
103
|
Otis Redding "Rock Me Baby"
|
1
|
Out The Light
|
1
|
Pacheco Y Su Charanga
|
4
|
Pachelbel
|
5
|
Pacific Show Band
|
1
|
Paris Sisters
|
5
|
partially based on Art Blakey: Arabis
|
4
|
Partridge Family
|
1
|
Pat Boone
|
5
|
Pat Lundy
|
3
|
Patience and Prudence
|
2
|
Patrice Rushen
|
3
|
Patrick and Lloyd - Return Of The Pollock
|
1
|
Patrick Swayze
|
1
|
Patsy Cline
|
17
|
Patti Austin
|
1
|
Patti Austin and James Ingram
|
1
|
Patti Drew
|
9
|
Patti Labelle
|
10
|
Patti LaBelles and Michael McDonald
|
2
|
Patti Page
|
45
|
Patti Page - Little Donkey
|
1
|
Patti Page Tennessee Waltz
|
1
|
Patti Page: Mockingbird Hill
|
1
|
Patty Smyth
|
4
|
Patty Smyth and Don Henley
|
1
|
Paul and Paula
|
3
|
Paul Anka
|
40
|
Paul Anka , I'm Just A Lonely Boy
|
2
|
Paul Desmond
|
2
|
Paul Evans
|
2
|
Paul Kelly
|
17
|
Paul McCartney
|
12
|
Paul McCartney and Wings
|
1
|
Paul Rodgers
|
1
|
Paul Simon
|
22
|
Paul Simon: Mrs. Robinson
|
1
|
Paul Washington
|
4
|
Paul Whiteman's Orchestra: In A Little Spanish Town
|
1
|
Paul Williams "The Hucklebuck"
|
9
|
Paul Wynn
|
13
|
Paul Young
|
4
|
Paula Cole
|
1
|
Pauline and Bobby
|
1
|
Peabo Bryson
|
1
|
Peabo Bryson / Roberta Flack
|
1
|
Peaches and Herb
|
10
|
Peaches and Herb: Reunited
|
1
|
Pee Wee King
|
2
|
Penguins
|
3
|
Penny McLean
|
6
|
People's Choice: Do It Anyway Wanna
|
17
|
People's Choice: Do It Anyway you Wanna
|
1
|
Pepper Box by the Peppers
|
1
|
Per Gessle and Agnes
|
1
|
Percy Faith
|
1
|
Percy Faith Theme From A Summer Place
|
3
|
Percy Faith: Theme From A Summer Place
|
6
|
Percy Sledge
|
26
|
Percy Sledge: Cover Me
|
2
|
Percy Sledge: My Special Prayer
|
1
|
Percy Sledge: Warm and Tender Love
|
9
|
Perez Prado
|
23
|
Perez Prado: La Chula Lindo
|
2
|
Perez Prado: Mambo Number 8
|
2
|
Perry Como
|
2
|
Perry Como: If They Made Me a King
|
1
|
Perry Como: Tulips And Heather
|
2
|
Persuaders
|
3
|
Persuaders: Thin Line Between Love and Hate
|
1
|
Pet Shop Boys
|
1
|
Pete Seeger
|
9
|
Pete Seeger Time's A Getting Hard
|
6
|
Pete Seeger: Where Have All The Flowers Gone
|
1
|
Pete Wingfield
|
10
|
Peter and Gordon
|
2
|
Peter Frampton
|
5
|
Peter Green/ Fleetwood Mac
|
11
|
Peter Paul and Mary
|
17
|
Peter Paul and Mary from an original called Meu Limão Meu Limoeiro, traditional, first recording by Silvio Caldas & Gidinho, 1937
|
1
|
Peter Paul and Mary: Leaving On A Jet Plane
|
2
|
Peter Tosh
|
1
|
Petula Clark
|
13
|
Petula Clark - Downtown
|
1
|
Petula Clark, Downtown
|
1
|
Phil Collins
|
10
|
Phil Phillips
|
21
|
Phil Upchurch - "You Can't Sit Down", 1961
|
1
|
Philadelphia All Stars "Let's Clean Up The Ghetto, 1977.
|
5
|
Phyllis Hyman
|
6
|
Phyllis Nelson
|
2
|
Pioneers
|
1
|
Platters
|
20
|
Playmates: Let's Be Lovers
|
3
|
PM Dawn
|
2
|
Pointer Sisters
|
4
|
Police
|
1
|
Pop Tops
|
5
|
Pop Tops: Mammie Blue
|
1
|
Popeye The Sailor Man
|
2
|
Poppy Family: Which Way You Going Billy
|
4
|
Porter Wagoner
|
1
|
Pretty Purdie: Funky Donkey
|
3
|
Prince
|
2
|
Prisoner Of Love. Russ Columbo in 1931, then Perry Como in 1946, and Jame Brown in 1963
|
1
|
Procal Harum
|
12
|
Procol Harum
|
1
|
Professor Longhair
|
1
|
Queen: We Will Rock You
|
1
|
Quezas Quezas Quezas by Cuban Composer Osvaldo Farres
|
9
|
Quiereme Mucho, adapted as a hit by Jimmy Dorsey in 1941, a huge wartime hit in England by Vera Lynn, probably best known version in Jamaica was by Jim Reeves.
|
6
|
Quincy Jones
|
5
|
quotes Marvin Gaye's Stubborn Kind Of Fellow
|
4
|
R Kelly
|
9
|
R Kelly: I Believe I Can Fly
|
1
|
Rafael Cortijo: El Mombon de Elena
|
1
|
Ramsey Lewis - Party Time
|
28
|
Ramsey Lewis: Mi Compasion
|
1
|
Randi Crawford
|
1
|
Randy Evretts
|
2
|
Randy Newman
|
5
|
Randy Vanwarmer - Just When I Needed You Most
|
2
|
Ray Anthony
|
1
|
Ray Bryant Shake A Lady
|
1
|
Ray Bryant: Shake A Lady
|
1
|
Ray Charles
|
19
|
Ray Charles "Somebody Ought To Write ABout It"
|
4
|
Ray Charles Singers
|
2
|
Ray Charles, 1960
|
1
|
Ray Charles: Baby Please
|
3
|
Ray Charles: Crying Time
|
1
|
Ray Charles: Hallelujah, I Love Her So"
|
3
|
Ray Charles: I Can't Stop Loving You
|
1
|
Ray Goodman and Brown
|
6
|
Ray Parker Jr.
|
2
|
Ray Parker Jr. and Natalie Cole
|
2
|
Ray Peterson
|
1
|
Ray Price
|
2
|
Ray Price, also a hit for Al Green
|
11
|
Ray Sharpe
|
1
|
Ray Stevens
|
1
|
Ray Whitley: I've Been Hurt
|
2
|
Ray. Goodman and Brown
|
1
|
RB Greaves
|
7
|
Ready For the World
|
4
|
Real Thing
|
1
|
recorded in early 60s, unreleased at the time
|
1
|
Red Sovine
|
2
|
remake of Fine Fine Fine (What Are You DOing)
|
1
|
remaking Dennis Brown song by same name
|
1
|
Rennie Jackson
|
2
|
Reo Speedwagon
|
1
|
REO Speedwagon: I Can't Fight This Feeling
|
1
|
Restless Heart
|
1
|
Reverend V. B. "Mother and Son"
|
1
|
Rex Allen, "Crying In The Chapel"; also a hit for the Orioles, Elvis Presley.
|
1
|
Rhine Oaks (?Meters), Tampin
|
2
|
rhythm by Winston Wright and Hopeton Hibbert
|
1
|
Ria Hartman-Schildmeyer: Debbie, , 1972. Written by Giorgio Moroderand Pete Bellotte
|
1
|
Richard Dimples Fields
|
8
|
Richard Lanham
|
11
|
Richard Marx
|
7
|
Richard Strauss
|
1
|
Richie Allen
|
1
|
Richie Havens
|
4
|
Richie Havens, Indian Ropeman
|
4
|
Richie Valens
|
11
|
Rick Astley
|
7
|
Rick Astley: Never Gonna Give You Up
|
1
|
Rick James
|
5
|
Rickie lee Jones
|
1
|
Ricky Nelson
|
2
|
riddim is based on Marvin Gaye's 'All The Love I've Got"
|
5
|
Righteous Brothers
|
42
|
Righteous Brothers - You'veLost That Loving Feeling
|
1
|
Righteous Brothers Unchained Melody
|
1
|
Righteous Brothers: You've Lost That Loving Feeling
|
4
|
Righteous Brothers: You'veLost That Loving Feeling
|
1
|
Ring of Fire (Johnny Cash)
|
3
|
Ringo Starr
|
5
|
Rita Coolidge
|
1
|
River To The Bank traditional
|
4
|
Robert and Johnny
|
7
|
Robert and Johnny: You're Mine
|
2
|
Robert Brookins
|
1
|
Robert Goulet
|
2
|
Robert Knight
|
5
|
Robert Parker
|
16
|
Roberta Flack
|
42
|
Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway
|
4
|
Roberta Flack: The Closer I Get To You
|
2
|
Rockin' Sydney
|
2
|
Rocky Fellers
|
3
|
Rod McKuen
|
3
|
Rod Stewart
|
13
|
Rod Stewart: Some Guys Have All The Luck
|
2
|
Rodgers and Hammerstein
|
1
|
Rodriguez
|
21
|
Roger Miller
|
3
|
Roger Miller, 1968
|
1
|
Roger Miller: England Swings
|
3
|
Roger Whittaker
|
3
|
Rogers and Hammerstein from the musical Oklahoma
|
5
|
Rogers and Hart 1934, hits by The Marcels & Elvis Presley
|
17
|
Rolling Stones
|
15
|
Ron Dante
|
1
|
Ronald Binge: Elizabethan Serenade
|
1
|
Ronettes
|
8
|
Ronnie Dyson
|
22
|
Ronnie Jones (not the Alan Touissant song)
|
1
|
Ronnie Milsap
|
11
|
Rosco Gordon
|
1
|
Roscoe Gordon
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16
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Roscoe Gordon - No More Dogging
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2
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Rose Royce
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23
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Rosemary Clooney, My Mama Done Tol' Me
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2
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Rosita Rosano - Little Boy
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1
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Ross McManus - I'm The Greatest
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1
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Rosy and Andres
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2
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Roy C
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1
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Roy Hamilton: I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Cry Over You
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11
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Roy Orbison
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3
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Roy Rogers
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1
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Royal Guardsmen
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2
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Royalettes
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22
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Ruby and The Romantics
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18
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Ruby and the Romantics: Our Day Will Come
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1
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Rufus
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2
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Rufus and Chaka Khan
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5
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Rufus Thomas
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1
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Russ Columbo in 1931, then Perry Como in 1946, and Jame Brown in 1963
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7
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Ruth Brown: 5, 10, 15 Hours
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3
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Sade
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11
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Sadina (written by Neil Diamond)
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4
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Sam & Dave - You Don't Know Like I Know
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1
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Sam and Dave
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6
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Sam Butera
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11
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Sam Cooke
|
168
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Sam Cooke, Change Is Gonna Come
|
1
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Sam Cooke, Sad Mood
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1
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Sam Cooke: Chain Gang
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2
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Sam Cooke: Everybody Loves the Cha Cha Cha
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1
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Sam Cooke: We're Having a Party
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1
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Sam Cooke: Win Your Love For Me
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1
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Sam Cooke: You Send Me
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1
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Samantha Sang
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1
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Samba De Onfeu" from movie Black Orpheus.
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2
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Same and Dave
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1
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Sammy Davis Junior
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1
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Sammy Kaye, 1949. r&b hit for Sammy Turner 1959.
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11
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Sammy Turner
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3
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samples Sly Stone: Family Affair
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2
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Sandie Shaw
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13
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Sandy Posey
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18
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Santana: Samba Pa Ti
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12
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Santo and Johnny
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1
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Sarah Vaughn
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5
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Sarah Vaughn: Broken Hearted Melody
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1
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Saturday Night Jamboree (Wayne Jarrett)
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1
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Scotland The Brave
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1
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Scotland The Brave: traditional Scottish folk song
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1
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Scott English / Barry Manilow
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1
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Scott McKenzie
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1
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Scottish folk song My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean
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4
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Searchers
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1
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Sebastian Iradier composer - La Paloma, 1860s
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4
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Seekers
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4
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Selena
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1
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Senor Soul
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4
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Serendipity Singers
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2
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Serge Gainsbourg
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7
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Sesame Street TV show
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1
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Seven Drunken Nights (Irish folk song)
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2
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Shades Of Blue, written by Edwin Starr, later a hit for Jackson Five
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2
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Shai
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8
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Shania Twain
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2
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Shanice
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4
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Sheena Easton
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5
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Shelly Manne: Frank's Tune
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3
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Shep and the Limelighters
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52
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Shep and the Limelites
|
1
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Shirelles
|
38
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Shirelles - Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow
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1
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Shirelles Will You Still Love Me
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8
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Shirelles: Dedicated to the One I Love
|
7
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Shirelles: Soldier Boy
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1
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Shirelles: Tonight's the Night
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1
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Shirelles: WIll You Still Love Me Tomorrow
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2
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Shirley & Lee "I'll Do It"
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1
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Shirley & Lee "That's What I'll Do"
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1
|
Shirley and Company
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2
|
Shirley and Lee
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23
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Shirley and Lee I'm Gone
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1
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Shirley and Lee: Don't Leave Me Here To Cry
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6
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Shirley and Lee: I'm Gone
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1
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Shirley and Lee: Lee Goofed
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6
|
Shirley Bassey
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20
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Shirley Brown
|
3
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Shocking Blue
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1
|
Sidney Elliott
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3
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Sil Austin
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6
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Silver Convention
|
3
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Silvertones
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1
|
Simon and Garfunkel
|
7
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Simon and Garfunkel: Mrs Robinson
|
1
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Simon and Garfunkel: The Only Living Boy In New York
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2
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Simon and Garfunkle
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24
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Simon and Garfunkle El Condor Pasa
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2
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Simply Red
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3
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Simtec and Wylie
|
3
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Sinéad O'Connor
|
1
|
Singing Nun
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1
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Singing Sandra (soca artist)
|
1
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Sir Douglas Quintet
|
1
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Sister Sledge
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6
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Sixpence None the Wiser
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1
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Skeeter Davis
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22
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Skeeter Davis and Bobby Bare
|
1
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Skip and Flip
|
3
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Slade
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1
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Sleigh Ride With You, written by Bill Anderson
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1
|
Slim Smith
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1
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Sly and the Family Stone
|
16
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Sly and The Family Stone: "Stand"
|
3
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Sly and The Family Stone: Everyday People
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2
|
Sly Stone
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5
|
Small Faces
|
2
|
Smiley Lewis
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12
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Smokey Robinson
|
62
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Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
|
2
|
Smokey Robinson: Let Me Be The Clock
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2
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Smokey Robinson: Soul Responding
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2
|
Smoky Robinson "Choosy Beggar", 1966
|
1
|
Solomon Burke
|
41
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song from the musical Hair
|
1
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Sonny and Cher
|
5
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Sonny and Cher: Bang Bang
|
2
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Sonny Charles
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9
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Sonny James
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5
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Sonny Knight
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3
|
Sonny Okosun
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1
|
Sonny Rollins "St. Thomas" 1956
|
3
|
Sons Of The Pioneers
|
2
|
SOS Band
|
6
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SOS Band: Just Be Good To Me
|
6
|
Soul Children
|
14
|
Soul For Real
|
2
|
Soul II Soul
|
4
|
Soul II Soul - Back To Life
|
1
|
South African pennywhistle song composed by Rupert Bopape
|
2
|
Spaniels
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3
|
speakover inspired by TV series, "The Fugitive"
|
1
|
Spinners
|
69
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Spinners and Dione Warwick
|
4
|
Spinners: How Could I Let You Get Away
|
1
|
Spiral Starecase
|
1
|
Stacy Lattishaw
|
4
|
Stampeders
|
2
|
Stan Kenton: Bernie's Tune, 1959
|
1
|
Stanley Clarke and George Duke
|
3
|
Staple Singers
|
40
|
Staple Singers, Staple Singers, written by We Three (Homer Banks, Bettye Crutcher, Raymond Jackson)
|
1
|
Staple Singers, written by We Three (Homer Banks, Bettye Crutcher, Raymond Jackson)
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1
|
Staple Singers: I Want to Thank You
|
2
|
Staple Singers: I'll Take You There
|
10
|
Stavely Makepeace
|
2
|
Steam: Na Na Hey Kiss Him Goodbye
|
7
|
Stephanie Mills
|
4
|
Steve Lawrence
|
22
|
Steve Lawrence "Portrait Of My Love"
|
2
|
Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme
|
1
|
Steve Lawrence: Pretty Blue Eyes
|
1
|
Steve Miller
|
1
|
Steven Bishop
|
29
|
Steven Bishop: On and On
|
2
|
Steven Stills
|
1
|
Stevie Winwood
|
1
|
Stevie Wonder
|
115
|
Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney
|
1
|
Stevie Wonder: Place In the Sun
|
1
|
Stevie Wonder: You Can't Judge A Book By It's Cover
|
1
|
Stewart Goldman
|
1
|
Sting
|
13
|
Stink
|
1
|
Stories
|
7
|
Storm
|
1
|
String-A-Longs
|
1
|
String-A-Longs: Wheels
|
1
|
Stylistics
|
119
|
Stylistics: Children Of The Night
|
3
|
Stylistics: Hey Girl Come And Get It
|
6
|
Stylistics: That's What Makes The World Goes Round
|
1
|
Sue Thompson
|
13
|
Sue Thompson: Sad Movies
|
3
|
Sugar and Spice
|
3
|
sung to melody of Soul Serenade
|
1
|
sung to the melody of Abraham, Martin and John
|
2
|
sung to the melody of Waltzing Matilda
|
2
|
Supremes
|
55
|
Supremes - You Can't Hurry Love
|
1
|
Supremes and Temptations: I'm Going To Make You Love Me
|
13
|
Supremes: My World Is Empty Without You
|
3
|
Supremes: Stop In the Name Of Love
|
1
|
Supremes: Where Did Our Love Go
|
3
|
Surface
|
16
|
Suzanne Vega
|
5
|
Sweet Inspirations
|
9
|
Sweet Sensation
|
5
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Swing Low Sweet Chariot
|
1
|
Syl Johnson
|
16
|
Sylver Connection
|
5
|
Sylvia
|
2
|
Syreeta
|
3
|
T L C
|
1
|
Tab Hunter
|
1
|
taken from the Peter Gunne theme.
|
2
|
Talking Love
|
1
|
Tami Lynn
|
1
|
Tamiko Jones
|
6
|
Tammy Wynette
|
22
|
Tammy Wynette and David Houston
|
5
|
Tams
|
55
|
Tams: It’s Alright You’re Just In Love
|
7
|
Tams: You Lied to Your Daddy
|
3
|
Tams; You Might As Well Forget Him
|
7
|
Tanya Tucker
|
1
|
Tavares
|
2
|
Taylor Dayne
|
4
|
Tchaikovsky
|
9
|
Teddy Pendergrass
|
21
|
Teddy Pendergrass and Whitney Houston
|
2
|
Teen Queens: Eddie My Love
|
4
|
Teena Marie
|
4
|
Temprees
|
1
|
Temptations
|
270
|
Temptations : I Gotta Know Now
|
2
|
Temptations Just My Imagination
|
1
|
Temptations Smiling Faces
|
2
|
Temptations You're My Everything
|
1
|
Temptations, adapted from Just My Imagination. Not the Mary Wells song.
|
2
|
Temptations: I Want A Love I Can See
|
13
|
Temptations: Just My Imagination
|
1
|
Temptations: May I Have This Dance
|
1
|
Temptations: My Girl
|
1
|
Terence Trent D'Arby
|
1
|
Teresa Brewer then Ivory Joe Hunter then Ray Charles
|
4
|
Terry and Jerry
|
7
|
Terry Collins
|
5
|
Terry Jacks
|
5
|
Terry Stafford
|
12
|
Tevin Campbell
|
5
|
The Angels
|
4
|
The Beatles from the film 'A Hard Day's Night', 1964
|
2
|
The Bells
|
2
|
The Browns
|
9
|
The Cardinals: Choo Choo
|
3
|
The Chords
|
4
|
The Chords: Sh'Boom
|
2
|
The Cliques
|
14
|
The Dramatics
|
1
|
The Drifters
|
1
|
The Essex
|
4
|
The Five Keys
|
2
|
The Four Voices as "Sealed With A Kiss"
|
1
|
The Frantics: Fog Cutter
|
1
|
The Futures
|
2
|
The Gallery
|
3
|
The Hawks: I Yi
|
2
|
The Jarmels
|
1
|
The Jets
|
6
|
The Joy
|
1
|
The Larks
|
3
|
The Moments
|
2
|
The Naughty Little Flea
|
1
|
The Pastels
|
3
|
The Playmates
|
2
|
The Presidents
|
2
|
The Prisoner's Song by Vernon Dalhart
|
1
|
The Searchers
|
1
|
The Seekers, Georgy Girl
|
2
|
The Shuffles
|
10
|
The Stereos
|
1
|
The Tokens: Bwa Nina
|
1
|
The Tokens: Bwa Nina. AKA, Miriam Makeba The Click Song
|
1
|
The Weeds
|
1
|
Thelma Houston
|
3
|
Thelma Houston: Don't Leave Me This Way
|
1
|
them from televiosn show Bonanza, written by D. Livingston, R. Evans
|
5
|
Theme From A Summer Place
|
2
|
theme from Beverley Hillbillies tv show
|
1
|
Theme From Dr. Zhivago
|
3
|
theme from film Chariots Of Fire
|
2
|
Theme from film: Cornbread Earl and Me
|
4
|
theme from Jamaican play "A Pack Of Jokers" written by Louis Marriott
|
2
|
Theme From Love Story
|
1
|
Theme From Mission Impossible
|
1
|
theme from Mission Impossible television show
|
1
|
Theme from movie Mondo Cane
|
7
|
theme from Soul Train
|
6
|
Theme from televion show same name
|
1
|
theme from television show Bonanza
|
3
|
theme from television show Coronation Street
|
4
|
theme from the film The Sandpiper
|
3
|
Theme from The Godfather
|
6
|
theme from tv series Echo Four Two
|
2
|
theme from tv show "Top Secret"
|
2
|
Theresa Brewer
|
7
|
this is the original upon which the Jamaican riddim was derived
|
1
|
This record uses the exact same format as Steve Soul's record, James Brown - A Talk With the News. The gimmick is the splicing of a mock press interview with the celebrity answers delivered by bits and pieces of music, its lyrics answering the question.
|
1
|
Thomas Dolby
|
1
|
Three Degrees
|
17
|
Three Dog Night
|
26
|
Three Dog Night - Black And White
|
1
|
Three Playmates: Sugah Wooga
|
1
|
Thugs
|
1
|
Thurston Harris
|
2
|
Tiffany
|
1
|
Tim Buckley
|
1
|
Tim Harden
|
3
|
Tim Hardin
|
18
|
Timex Social Club
|
3
|
Timi Yuro
|
2
|
Timi Yuro - The Love Of A Boy, 1962
|
1
|
Timmy T
|
1
|
Timmy Thomas
|
5
|
Timmy Thomas and Betty Wright
|
2
|
Timmy Thomas: Why Can't We Live Together
|
1
|
Tina Charles
|
1
|
Tina Turner
|
11
|
TLC
|
2
|
toast by Jah Razz (Jah Bunny)
|
1
|
Tokens
|
13
|
Tokens: Lion Sleeps Tonight
|
4
|
Tom Jobim
|
1
|
Tom Jones
|
68
|
Tom Jones - Memories Don't Leave Like People Do
|
1
|
Tom Jones' She's A Lady
|
3
|
Tom Jones: Green Grass of Home
|
1
|
Tom Paxson
|
1
|
Tom Paxton
|
6
|
Tom Tom Club: Genius of Love
|
1
|
Tommy Dorsey: The Music Goes Round and Around
|
1
|
Tommy Edwards
|
28
|
Tommy Hunt
|
5
|
Tommy James
|
12
|
Tommy James: Chrystal Blue Persuasion
|
1
|
Toni Braxton
|
28
|
Tony Allen and the Chimes
|
10
|
Tony Bennett
|
5
|
Tony Brent, also by the Del Royals (Minit label - New Orleans)
|
5
|
Tony Brent: Got You On My Mind
|
1
|
Tony Clarke
|
3
|
Tony Orlando
|
18
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Tony Orlando and Dawn
|
18
|
Tony Renis
|
5
|
Tony Washington
|
1
|
Tony Washington, 1963
|
1
|
Tornados
|
1
|
Tornados/Tornadoes
|
1
|
Tornados: 'Telstar'
|
2
|
Toussaint McCall
|
5
|
Toys
|
4
|
Tracey Chapman
|
26
|
traditional
|
53
|
traditional - Swing Low Sweet Chariot
|
2
|
traditional African song Malaika, first recorded by Fadhili William
|
2
|
traditional children's song
|
1
|
traditional Christmas Song
|
2
|
traditional folk song
|
9
|
traditional folk song: 500 Miles Away From Home
|
1
|
traditional gospel
|
2
|
traditional Miss Goosie
|
3
|
traditional spiritual
|
2
|
Traditional spiritual.Perhaps the best known is "Lamps Trimmed and Burning," written 1890 by Eden R. Latta and Daniel W. Crist.
|
9
|
Traditional spiritual: Mary Don't You Weep
|
3
|
Traditional, Michael Row the Boat Ashore
|
2
|
traditional, recorded by Caruso and Elvis Presley!
|
2
|
traditional, same song as Buster's Oh Lady Oh
|
2
|
traditional: He's Got The Whole World In His Hands
|
1
|
Traditional: Rock My Soul In the Bosom of Abraham
|
8
|
traditional; made popular by Chuck Willis
|
8
|
traditionl spiritual
|
4
|
Trammps
|
2
|
Troggs
|
3
|
Troggs: A Girl Like You
|
2
|
Turbans
|
3
|
twist record, based "peppermint Twist".
|
1
|
Tymes
|
12
|
Tyrese
|
2
|
Tyrone Davis
|
43
|
U.S.A. Civil War
|
1
|
U2
|
1
|
Upsetters
|
1
|
USA For Africa
|
1
|
Usher
|
5
|
Valerie Simpson
|
1
|
Van Dyke Parks
|
5
|
Van Dykes
|
19
|
Van McCoy
|
14
|
Van Morrison
|
8
|
Van Morrison: He Ain't Give You None
|
1
|
Vanessa Williams
|
5
|
Vanity Fair
|
6
|
Vanity Faire
|
1
|
VanWarmer
|
5
|
Vaughn Monroe
|
2
|
Ventures
|
1
|
Vera Lynn, 1942
|
1
|
Vera Lynn: There'll Be Bluebirds Over the White Cliffs of Dover
|
2
|
Verdi: "Va Pensiero"
|
2
|
very loose adaptation of Rolling Stones Satisfaction
|
2
|
Vicky Leandros
|
4
|
Vikki Carr
|
3
|
Vince Gill
|
1
|
Vince Guaraldi: Cast Your Fate To The Winds
|
4
|
vocals mimicking Ace Cannon's Little Bitty Pretty One
|
2
|
Wade Flemons
|
2
|
Walker Brothers: Make It Easy On Yourself
|
2
|
Walt Disney film Song Of The South. Composed by Ray Gilbert
|
3
|
Walter Egan
|
7
|
Walter Jackson
|
13
|
Walter Murphy
|
4
|
War
|
7
|
Waylon Jennings
|
27
|
Waylon Jennings // Ashford and Simpson
|
1
|
Waylon Jennings: Love Of The Common People
|
1
|
We're In the Mood
|
1
|
Wendy Rene
|
5
|
Wham
|
8
|
When I Was A Boy
|
1
|
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
|
1
|
Where Did Our Love Go by the Supremes
|
2
|
Whispers
|
5
|
Whistle While You Work
|
3
|
Whitney Houston
|
28
|
Whitney Houston and Teddy Pendergrass
|
1
|
Whitney Houston: Where Do Broken Hearts Go
|
2
|
Who Done It
|
1
|
Wilbert Harrison
|
4
|
Wilbert Harrison "Cheatin' Baby"
|
1
|
Will You Still Love Me Tonight
|
1
|
William Bell
|
45
|
William Bell: Til My Back Ain't Got No Bone
|
5
|
William De Vaughan
|
26
|
William DeVaughn
|
4
|
Willie Bobo
|
2
|
Willie Bobo: Spanish Grease
|
1
|
Willie Cobb
|
2
|
Willie Cobbs
|
26
|
Willie Hutch
|
2
|
Willie James: Sweet Lips, Sensuous Hips
|
1
|
Willie Mitchell
|
1
|
Willie Mitchell: Robinn's Nest, originally by Illinois Jacquet
|
1
|
Willie Nelson
|
2
|
Willie Tee
|
4
|
Willie Tee: Walking Up a One Way Street
|
1
|
Willy Nelson
|
6
|
Wilson Pickett
|
29
|
Wilson Pickett "Don't Fight It"
|
2
|
Wilson Pickett: I Found a Love
|
1
|
Wink Martindale
|
2
|
Winston Groovy
|
2
|
Winstons
|
7
|
Winstons: Amen Brother
|
2
|
Wolves, written by Carole King
|
1
|
Womack and Womack
|
1
|
Woody Guthrie
|
4
|
World War 1 marching song
|
2
|
World War I marching song
|
5
|
Written by Frank Silver and Irving Cohn in 1923
|
1
|
written by Alan Toussant.
|
1
|
written by Andy Razaf for Glenn Miller Orchestra (late 30's/early 40's)
|
5
|
written by Baer and Gilbert, first performed by George Jessel
|
1
|
written by BB Seaton and Phil Francis, it is not the Tams' tune
|
2
|
written by BB Seaton, harmonies by the Gaylads
|
3
|
written by Billy Hill, first hit by Benny Goodman 1936
|
3
|
written by Dan Penn, performed by James and Bobby Purify
|
3
|
written by Dmitri Tiompkin for film of same name, 1961.
|
5
|
written by Fields and McHugh for the movie Every Night At Eight, 1935
|
20
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written by Frederic Weatherly 1913
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1
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written by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler 1933
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2
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written by Henry Mancini for film of same name, 1964.
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1
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written by Joselito Fernandez, 1929
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9
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written by Judy Mowatt, recorded at Black Ark
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1
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written by Lorenzo Barcelata in 1940, original first AMerican hit by Jimmy Dorsey
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5
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written by Rodgers and Hammerstein, for the 1945 film State Fair
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2
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written by Van Morrison, first recorded by Dorothy Morrison.
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9
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Wynonie Harris
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16
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Xavier Cugat "Mellow Trumpet"
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3
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Xavier Cugat 1935
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2
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Xavier Cugat: Take It Easy
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2
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Yarbrough and Peoples
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2
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You Can't Keep A Good Man Down (lyrically only)
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1
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Young Holt Trio
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3
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Young Rascals
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22
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Young Rascals - Groovin'
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1
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Youth Man // Wicked Can't Run Away
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1
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Zacar
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1
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Zapp
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4
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ZZ Hill
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5
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