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"Weird Al" Yankovic

Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic (born October 23, 1959) is an American singer-songwriter, film/record producer, satirist, and author.

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'n Beetje

"‘n Beetje" (A little bit), spelled in full as "Een Beetje", was the winning song of the Eurovision Song Contest 1959.

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A Big Hunk o' Love

"A Big Hunk o' Love" is a song written by Aaron Schroeder and Sid Wyche, a.k.a. Sid Jaxon.

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A Boy Without a Girl

"A Boy Without a Girl" is a song written by Sid Jacobson and Ruth Sexton and performed by Frankie Avalon.

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A Date with Elvis

A Date with Elvis is the eighth album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, issued on RCA Victor Records (LPM 2011) in July 1959.

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A Hand of Bridge

A Hand of Bridge, opus 35, is an opera in one act composed by Samuel Barber with libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti, and is possibly the shortest opera that is regularly performed: it lasts about nine minutes.

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A Hole in the Head

A Hole in the Head (1959) is a DeLuxe Color comedy film, in CinemaScope, directed by Frank Capra, featuring Frank Sinatra, Edward G. Robinson, Eleanor Parker, Keenan Wynn, Carolyn Jones, Thelma Ritter, Dub Taylor, Ruby Dandridge, Eddie Hodges, and Joi Lansing, and released by United Artists.

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A Jazz Portrait of Frank Sinatra

A Jazz Portrait of Frank Sinatra is a 1959 album by The Oscar Peterson trio, recorded in tribute to singer Frank Sinatra by interpreting songs associated with Sinatra.

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A Teenager in Love

"A Teenager in Love" is a song written by Doc Pomus and partner Mort Shuman and was originally sung and released by Dion and the Belmonts in March 1959.

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A-ha

A-ha (usually stylized as a-ha) is a Norwegian band formed in Oslo in 1982.

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Aaron Copland

Aaron Copland (November 14, 1900December 2, 1990) was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later a conductor of his own and other American music.

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Aaron Schroeder

Aaron Harold Schroeder (September 7, 1926 – December 2, 2009) was an American songwriter and music publisher.

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Adam and the Ants

Adam and the Ants were an English rock band active during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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Agnes Nicholls

Agnes Nicholls (14 July 1876 – 21 September 1959) was one of the greatest English sopranos of the 20th century, both in the concert hall and on the operatic stage.

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Al Stillman

Al Stillman (June 26, 1906 – February 17, 1979) was an American lyricist.

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Aladdin (1958 film)

Aladdin is a 1958 musical fantasy written especially for television with a book by S.J. Perelman and music and lyrics by Cole Porter, telecast in color on the DuPont Show of the Month by CBS.

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Alan Bush

Alan Dudley Bush (22 December 1900 – 31 October 1995) was a British composer, pianist, conductor, teacher and political activist.

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Alan Hovhaness

Alan Hovhaness (March 8, 1911 – June 21, 2000) was an Armenian-American composer.

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Alan Lomax

Alan Lomax (January 31, 1915 – July 19, 2002) was an American ethnomusicologist, best known for his numerous field recordings of folk music of the 20th century.

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Alan Wilder

Alan Charles Wilder (born 1 June 1959) is an English musician, composer, arranger and record producer, known as a former member of the electronic band Depeche Mode from 1982 to 1995.

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Albert Ketèlbey

Albert William Ketèlbey (born Ketelbey; 9 August 1875 – 26 November 1959) was an English composer, conductor and pianist, best known for his short pieces of light orchestral music.

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Alberto Guerrero

Antonio Alberto García Guerrero (February 6, 1886November 7, 1959) was a Chilean-Canadian composer, pianist, and teacher.

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Aldo Clementi

Aldo Clementi (25 May 1925 – 3 March 2011) was an Italian composer.

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Alexander Goehr

Peter Alexander Goehr (born 10 August 1932) is an English composer and academic.

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Ali Campbell

Alistair Ian Campbell (born 15 February 1959) is an English singer and songwriter who was the lead singer and a founding member of the English reggae band UB40.

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All India Radio

All India Radio (AIR), officially known since 1956 as Ākāshvāṇī ("Voice from the Sky") is the national public radio broadcaster of India and a division of Prasar Bharati.

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Allan Pettersson

Gustaf Allan Pettersson (19September 191120June 1980) was a Swedish composer.

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Allauddin Khan

Allauddin Khan, also known as Baba Allauddin Khan (1862 – 6 September 1972) was a sarod player and multi-instrumentalist, composer and one of the most renowned music teachers of the 20th century in Indian classical music.

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Along Came Jones (song)

"Along Came Jones" is a comedic song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and originally recorded by the Coasters, but covered by many other groups and individuals.

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Alvin's Harmonica

"Alvin's Harmonica" is a song from the fictional musical group, Alvin and the Chipmunks, which also features additional vocals by Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. who plays David Seville in the song.

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Among My Souvenirs

"Among My Souvenirs" is a 1927 song with words by Edgar Leslie and music by Horatio Nicholls.

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An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer

An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer is an album recorded by Tom Lehrer, the well-known satirist and Harvard lecturer.

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André Previn

André George Previn, KBE (born Andreas Ludwig Priwin; April 6, 1929) is a German-American pianist, conductor, and composer.

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Andrew Farriss

Andrew Charles Farriss (born 27 March 1959) is an Australian rock musician and multi-instrumentalist best known as the keyboardist, backing vocalist, and main composer for rock band INXS.

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Andrew Imbrie

Andrew Welsh Imbrie (April 6, 1921 – December 5, 2007) was an American contemporary classical music composer and pianist.

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Andrzej Panufnik

Sir Andrzej Panufnik (24 September 1914 – 27 October 1991) was a Polish composer and conductor.

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Andy Diagram

Andy Diagram (born 1959 in London) is a British musician and trumpet player.

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Andy Griffith

Andy Samuel Griffith (June 1, 1926 – July 3, 2012) was an American actor, comedian, television producer, Southern gospel singer, and writer, whose career spanned seven decades of music and television.

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Andy McCluskey

George Andrew McCluskey (born 24 June 1959 in Heswall, Cheshire) is an English musician, songwriter and record producer who is best known as the singer, bass guitarist and co-founder of synthpop band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD).

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Andy Williams

Howard Andrew Williams (December 3, 1927 – September 25, 2012) was an American singer.

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Aniara (opera)

Aniara is an opera in two acts by Karl-Birger Blomdahl, with a libretto by Erik Lindegren based on the poem Aniara by Harry Martinson, that was premiered on 31 May 1959.

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Anil Biswas (composer)

Anil Krishna Biswas (अनिल कृष्ण विश्वास / অনিল বিশ্বাস; 7 July 1914 – 31 May 2003) was an Indian film music composer from 1935 to 1965, who apart from being one of pioneers of playback singing, is also credited for the first Indian orchestra of twelve pieces and introducing orchestral music and full-blooded choral effects, into Indian cinema.

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Anita Bryant

Anita Jane Bryant (born March 25, 1940) is an American singer and political activist.

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Ann Drummond-Grant

Ann Drummond-Grant (1905 – 11 September 1959) was a British singer and actress, best known for her performances in contralto roles of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.

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Anna Neagle

Dame Florence Marjorie Wilcox, (née Robertson; 20 October 1904 – 3 June 1986), known professionally as Anna Neagle, was a popular English stage and film actress, singer and dancer.

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Annette Funicello

Annette Joanne Funicello (October 22, 1942 – April 8, 2013) was an American actress and singer.

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Anthony Newley

Anthony Newley (24 September 1931 – 14 April 1999) was an English actor, singer and songwriter.

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April 1

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Aram Khachaturian

Aram Il'yich Khachaturian (Ара́м Ильи́ч Хачатуря́н; Արամ Խաչատրյան, Aram Xačatryan;; 1 May 1978) was a Soviet Armenian composer and conductor.

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Arthur Benjamin

Arthur Leslie Benjamin (Sydney, 18 September 1893London, 10 April 1960) was an Australian composer, pianist, conductor and teacher.

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Arthur Berger (composer)

Arthur Victor Berger (May 15, 1912 – October 7, 2003) was an American composer and music critic who has been described as a New Mannerist.

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Arthur Bliss

Sir Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss (2 August 189127 March 1975) was an English composer and conductor.

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Arvo Pärt

Arvo Pärt (born 11 September 1935) is an Estonian composer of classical and religious music.

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Asha Parekh

Asha Parekh (born 2 October 1942) is an Indian film actress, director, and producer who was one of the top actresses in Hindi cinema from 1959 to 1973.

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At Large (album)

The Kingston Trio At Large is the American folk music group the Kingston Trio's fourth album, released in 1959 (see 1959 in music).

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August 1

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Augustyn Bloch

Augustyn Bloch (13 August 1929 in Grudziądz – 6 April 2006 in Warsaw) was a Polish composer and organist, student of Feliks Rączkowski and Tadeusz Szeligowski.

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¡Olé Tormé!: Mel Tormé Goes South of the Border with Billy May

¡Olé Tormé!: Mel Tormé Goes South of the Border with Billy May is a 1959 studio album by Mel Tormé, arranged by Billy May.

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Çesk Zadeja

Çesk Zadeja (8 June 1927, Shkodër – 15 August 1997, Rome) was an Albanian composer.

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Ödön Pártos

Ödön Pártos (October 1, 1907 in Budapest – July 6, 1977 in Tel Aviv) was a Hungarian-Israeli violist and composer.

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Babatunde Olatunji

Babatunde Olatunji (April 7, 1927 – April 6, 2003) was a Nigerian drummer, educator, social activist, and recording artist.

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Baby Dodds

Warren "Baby" Dodds (December 24, 1898 – February 14, 1959) was a jazz drummer born in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Babyface (musician)

Kenneth Brian Edmonds (born April 10, 1959), known professionally as Babyface, is an American singer, songwriter and record producer.

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Baker Knight

Thomas Baker Knight Jr. (July 4, 1933 – October 12, 2005) was an American songwriter and musician.

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Ballad of the Blues

Ballad of the Blues is an album by vocalist Jo Stafford that was released in 1959.

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Baron Waqa

Baron Divavesi Waqa (born 31 December 1959) is a Nauruan politician who has been 14th President of Nauru since 11 June 2013.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Ben E. King

Benjamin Earl King (born Benjamin Earl Nelson, September 28, 1938 – April 30, 2015), known as Ben E. King, was an American soul and R&B singer and record producer.

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Benjamin Britten

Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor and pianist.

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Berliner Festspiele

The Berliner Festspiele is a modern promoter of cultural events with a unique structure: it simultaneously implements exhibitions at the Martin Gropius Bau as well as performances at its Festivals, academy programmes and guest production series.

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Bernhard Heiden

Bernhard Heiden (b. Frankfurt-am-Main, August 24, 1910; d. Bloomington, IN, April 30, 2000) was a German and American composer and music teacher, who studied under and was heavily influenced by Paul Hindemith.

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Bernie Lowe

Bernie Lowe (November 22, 1917 – September 1, 1993) was an American songwriter / record producer / arranger / pianist and bandleader.

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Bess Lomax Hawes

Bess Lomax Hawes (January 21, 1921 – November 27, 2009) was an American folk musician, folklorist, and researcher.

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Betty Johnson

Betty Johnson (born March 16, 1929; other sources give 1931) is an American traditional pop and cabaret singer who reached her career peak in the 1950s.

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Beyond the Sea (song)

"Beyond the Sea" is a 1945 contemporary pop romantic love song by Jack Lawrence, with music taken from the song "La Mer" by Charles Trenet.

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Big Iron

"Big Iron" is a country ballad written and performed by Marty Robbins, originally released as an album track on Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs in September 1959, then as a single in February 1960 with the song "Saddle Tramp" as the B-side single.

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Bill Evans

William John Evans (August 16, 1929 – September 15, 1980) was an American jazz pianist and composer who mostly worked in a trio setting.

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Bill Haley & His Comets

Bill Haley & His Comets were an American rock and roll band, founded in 1952 and continued until Haley's death in 1981.

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Bill Haley's Chicks

Bill Haley's Chicks was the eighth album of rock and roll recordings by Bill Haley & His Comets for Decca Records, Decca 8821.

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Bill Ware

Bill Ware III born William Anthony Ware III (b. January 28, 1959, East Orange, New Jersey) is an American jazz vibraphonist.

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Billie Holiday

Eleanora Fagan (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), better known as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz singer with a career spanning nearly thirty years.

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Billy Barnes (composer)

Billy Barnes (January 27, 1927 – September 25, 2012) was a composer and lyricist from Los Angeles, California.

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Billy Bayou

"Billy Bayou" is a 1958 single by Jim Reeves written by Roger Miller.

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Billy Grammer

Billy Wayne Grammer (August 28, 1925 – August 10, 2011) was an American country music singer and accomplished guitar player.

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Billy Mayerl

William Joseph Mayerl (31 May 1902 – 25 March 1959) was an English pianist and composer who built a career in music hall and musical theatre and became an acknowledged master of light music.

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Bing Crosby

Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr. (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977)Giddins 2001, pp.

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Blind Joe Death

Blind Joe Death is the first album by American fingerstyle guitarist and composer John Fahey.

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Blind Willie McTell

Blind Willie McTell (born William Samuel McTier; May 5, 1898 – August 19, 1959) was a Piedmont blues and ragtime singer and guitarist.

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Blixa Bargeld

Blixa Bargeld (born Christian Emmerich on 12 January 1959) is a West Berlin born musician active in a wide range of artistic fields.

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Blossom Dearie

Margrethe Blossom Dearie (April 28, 1924 – February 7, 2009) was an American jazz singer and pianist.

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Bo Diddley

Ellas McDaniel (born Ellas Otha Bates, December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008), known as Bo Diddley, was an American singer, guitarist, songwriter and music producer who played a key role in the transition from the blues to rock and roll.

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Bo Nilsson

Bo Nilsson (1 May 1937 – 26 June 2018) was a Swedish composer and lyricist.

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Bob Crewe

Robert Stanley Crewe (November 12, 1930 – September 11, 2014) was an American songwriter, dancer, singer, manager, and record producer.

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Bob Hilliard

Bob Hilliard (born Hilliard Goldsmith; January 28, 1918 – February 1, 1971) was an American lyricist.

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Bob Marcucci

Robert Phillip "Bob" Marcucci (February 28, 1930 – March 9, 2011) was an American lyricist, talent manager, film producer, and the owner of Chancellor Records and Robert P. Marcucci Productions.

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Bob Merrill

Bob Merrill (born Henry Robert Merrill Levan, May 17, 1921 – February 17, 1998) was an American songwriter, theatrical composer, lyricist, and screenwriter.

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Bobby Darin

Bobby Darin (born Walden Robert Cassotto; May 14, 1936 – December 20, 1973) was an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and actor in film and television.

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Bobby Rydell

Bobby Rydell (born Robert Louis Ridarelli; April 26, 1942) is an American professional singer, mainly of rock and roll music.

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Bobby Sox to Stockings

"Bobby Sox to Stockings" is a song written by Russell Faith, Clarence Kehner and Richard DiCicco and performed by Frankie Avalon.

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Bobby Worth

Bobby Worth (September 25, 1912 in Cleveland, Ohio – July 17, 2002 in Mission Hills, California) was an American songwriter.

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BoDeans

BoDeans is a rock band formed in Waukesha, Wisconsin in 1983.

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Bogusław Schaeffer

Bogusław Julien Schaeffer (also Schäffer) (born June 6, 1929, in Lwów) (now Lviv, Ukraine) is a Polish composer, musicologist, and graphic artist, a member of the avantgarde "Cracow Group" of Polish composers alongside Krzysztof Penderecki and others.

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Bohuslav Martinů

Bohuslav Jan Martinů (December 8, 1890 – August 28, 1959) was a Czech composer of modern classical music.

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Bon Jovi

Bon Jovi is an American rock band from Sayreville, New Jersey.

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Boris Blacher

Boris Blacher (30 January 1975) was a German composer and librettist.

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Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

"Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" is a song recorded by Neil Sedaka, and co-written by Sedaka and Howard Greenfield.

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Brenda Lee

Brenda Lee (born Brenda Mae Tarpley; December 11, 1944) is an American performer and the top-charting solo female vocalist of the 1960s.

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Brian Setzer

Brian Robert Setzer (born April 10, 1959) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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British folk revival

The British folk revival incorporates a number of movements for the collection, preservation and performance of traditional music in the United Kingdom and related territories and countries, which had origins as early as the 18th century.

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Broadhurst Theatre

The Broadhurst Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 235 West 44th Street in Midtown Manhattan.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.

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Broadway Theatre (53rd Street)

The Broadway Theatre (formerly Universal's Colony Theatre, B.S. Moss' Broadway Theatre, Earl Carroll's Broadway Theatre, and Ciné Roma) is a Broadway theatre located in midtown Manhattan.

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Brook Benton

Brook Benton, born Benjamin Franklin Peay, (September 19, 1931 – April 9, 1988) was an American singer and songwriter who was popular with rock and roll, rhythm and blues, and pop music audiences during the late 1950s and early 1960s, when he scored hits such as "It's Just a Matter of Time" and "Endlessly", many of which he co-wrote.

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Bruno Maderna

Bruno Maderna (21 April 1920 – 13 November 1973) was an Italian conductor and composer.

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Bryan Adams

Bryan Guy Adams, (born 5 November 1959) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer, guitarist, photographer, philanthropist and activist.

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Buddy Holly

Charles Hardin Holley (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959), known as Buddy Holly, was an American musician, singer-songwriter and record producer who was a central and pioneering figure of mid-1950s rock and roll.

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Buddy Pepper

Buddy Pepper (born Jack Retherford Starkey, April 21, 1922 – February 7, 1993) was an American songwriter, composer, arranger and actor, known as one of three writers of the #1 hit song in 1953, "Vaya Con Dios," which has been recorded over 500 times.

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Buren Fowler

James van Buren Fowler (June 29, 1959 – March 8, 2014) was an American rock and roll and blues guitar player from Atlanta, Georgia.

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Butterfly Lovers' Violin Concerto

The Butterfly Lovers' Violin Concerto, along with the Yellow River Piano Concerto, is one of the most famous orchestra works of Chinese music.

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C'mon Everybody

"C'mon Everybody" is a 1958 song by Eddie Cochran and Jerry Capehart, originally released as a B-side.

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Camargo Guarnieri

Mozart Camargo Guarnieri (February 1, 1907 – January 13, 1993) was a Brazilian composer.

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Cannes

Cannes (Canas) is a city located on the French Riviera.

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Cantata academica

Cantata academica, Carmen basiliense (Op. 62) is a 1959 choral work on a Latin text by the English composer Benjamin Britten.

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Carl Belew

Carl Robert Belew (April 21, 1931 – October 31, 1990) was an American country music singer and songwriter.

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Carl Dobkins Jr.

Carl Dobkins Jr.

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Carl Orff

Carl Heinrich Maria Orff (–) was a German composer, best known for his cantata Carmina Burana (1937).

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Carl Stutz

Carl Stutz (died October 8, 1996) was an American composer, radio announcer and teacher.

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Carlos Chávez

Carlos Antonio de Padua Chávez y Ramírez (13 June 1899 – 2 August 1978) was a Mexican composer, conductor, music theorist, educator, journalist, and founder and director of the Mexican Symphonic Orchestra.

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Carlos Surinach

Carlos Surinach (or Carles Suriñach) i Wrokona (March 4, 1915 – November 12, 1997) was a Catalan Spanish-born composer and conductor.

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Carolyn Leigh

Carolyn Leigh (August 21, 1926 – November 19, 1983) was an American lyricist for Broadway, film, and popular songs.

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Cattin' with Coltrane and Quinichette

Cattin' with Coltrane and Quinichette is an album by jazz musicians John Coltrane and Paul Quinichette, released in 1959 on Prestige Records, catalogue 7158.

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CBS 30th Street Studio

CBS 30th Street Studio, also known as Columbia 30th Street Studio, and nicknamed "The Church", was an American recording studio operated by Columbia Records from 1948 to 1981 located at 207 East 30th Street, between Second and Third Avenues in Manhattan, New York City.

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Cello Concerto No. 1 (Shostakovich)

The Cello Concerto No.

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Char Dil Char Rahen

Char Dil Char Rahen (English title: Four Hearts, Four Roads) is a 1959 Hindi film directed by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, and starring two big stars of the era, Shammi Kapoor and Raj Kapoor.

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Charles Mingus

Charles Mingus Jr. (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979) was an American jazz double bassist, pianist, composer and bandleader.

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Charles Strouse

Charles Strouse (born June 7, 1928) is an American composer and lyricist best known for writing the music to such Broadway musicals as Bye Bye Birdie and Annie.

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Charles Wuorinen

Charles Peter Wuorinen (born June 9, 1938) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer of contemporary classical music based in New York City.

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Charlie Burchill

Charles "Charlie" Burchill (born 27 November 1959 in Glasgow) is a Scottish musician and composer, best known as the guitarist of Simple Minds.

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Chas Smash

Cathal Joseph "Carl" Smyth (born 14 January 1959), also known as Chas Smash, is an English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

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Chega de Saudade (album)

Chega de Saudade is the debut album from João Gilberto and is often credited as the first bossa nova album.

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Chen Gang (composer)

Chen Gang (born 1935) is a Chinese composer who is notable for composing the Butterfly Lovers' Violin Concerto.

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Chiclete com Banana (song)

"Chiclete com banana" is a song written by Gordurinha and Almira Castilho and recorded in 1959 by Jackson do Pandeiro, who popularized the song.

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Chris Lowe

Christopher Sean Lowe (born 4 October 1959) is an English musician, singer, songwriter and co-founder of the synthpop duo Pet Shop Boys which he formed with Neil Tennant in 1981.

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Chrissy Amphlett

Christina Joy Amphlett (25 October 1959 – 21 April 2013) was an Australian singer, songwriter and actress who was the frontwoman of the Australian rock band Divinyls.

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Christopher Plummer

Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer (born December 13, 1929) is a Canadian actor.

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Chuck Berry

Charles Edward Anderson Berry (October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music.

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Chuck Berry Is on Top

Chuck Berry Is on Top is the third studio album by rock and roll pioneer Chuck Berry, released in July 1959 on Chess Records, catalogue LP 1435.

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Chuck Mosley

Charles Henry Mosley III (December 26, 1959 – November 9, 2017) was an American singer-songwriter, who was best known as the frontman for Faith No More from 1984 to 1988.

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Cindy Walker

Cindy Walker (July 20, 1918 – March 23, 2006) was an American songwriter, as well as a country music singer and dancer.

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Claire Delbos

Claire Delbos (2 November 1906 – 22 April 1959) was a French violinist and composer, and first wife of the composer Olivier Messiaen.

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Claude Arrieu

Claude Arrieu (born Paris, 30 November 1903 - died Paris, 7 March 1990) was a prolific French composer.

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Claude Baillif

Claude Baillif (c 1635 – 1698) was a well known builder in New France during the 17th-century.

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Cliff (album)

Cliff is the debut album by British singer Cliff Richard and his band the Drifters (later known as the Shadows).

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Cliff Richard

Sir Cliff Richard, (born Harry Rodger Webb, 14 October 1940) is a British pop singer, musician, performer, actor and philanthropist.

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Cliff Sings

Cliff Richard's second album Cliff Sings was released in November 1959 through EMI Columbia Records and recorded at Abbey Road Studios, it reached No.

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Climb Ev'ry Mountain

"Climb Ev'ry Mountain" is a show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music. It is sung at the close of the first act by the Mother Abbess.

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Clotilde Arias

Clotilde Arias Chávarri Anduaga de Ferrero (20 June 1901 – 6 May 1959) was a Peruvian-American lyricist and composer.

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Clyde Otis

Clyde Otis (September 11, 1924 – January 8, 2008), born in Prentiss, Mississippi, United States, was an American songwriter and record producer, best known for his collaboration with singer Brook Benton, and for being one of the first African-American A&R executives at a major label.

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Come Dance with Me! (album)

Come Dance with Me! is an album by American vocalist Frank Sinatra, released in 1959.

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Come Softly to Me

"Come Softly to Me" is a popular song written by Gretchen Christopher that was performed by The Fleetwoods, composed of Christopher, Barbara Ellis, and Gary Troxel.

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Como Swings

Como Swings was Perry Como's fifth RCA Victor 12" long-play album, released in 1959.

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Computer Music Center

The Computer Music Center (CMC) at Columbia University is the oldest center for electronic and computer music research in the United States.

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Concerto funebre

Concerto funebre (Funereal Concerto) is a musical composition for violin soloist and string orchestra by the German composer Karl Amadeus Hartmann.

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Connie Francis

Connie Francis (born Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero, December 12, 1937) is an American pop singer and top-charting female vocalist of the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Connie Stevens

Connie Stevens (born Concetta Rosalie Ann Ingoglia; August 8, 1938) is an American actress, director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor, and singer.

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Continental Drifters

The Continental Drifters were an American rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1991 and dissolved in New Orleans, Louisiana about a decade later.

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Cornelius Cardew

Cornelius Cardew (7 May 193613 December 1981) was an English experimental music composer, and founder (with Howard Skempton and Michael Parsons) of the Scratch Orchestra, an experimental performing ensemble.

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Cowboy Junkies

The Cowboy Junkies are an alternative country and folk rock band formed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1985.

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Cristóbal Halffter

Cristóbal Halffter Jiménez-Encina (born 24 March 1930) is a Spanish classical composer.

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Crowded House

Crowded House are a rock band formed in Melbourne, Australia, in 1985.

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Curt Bisquera

Curt Bisquera is an American studio drummer.

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Curt Kirkwood

Curtis Matthew "Curt" Kirkwood (born January 10, 1959) is an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter.

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Cuttin' Capers (album)

Cuttin' Capers is a Doris Day album issued by Columbia Records, as catalog # CL-1232 in monaural and CS-8078 in stereo, on March 9, 1959.

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Cy Coleman

Cy Coleman (born Seymour Kaufman; June 14, 1929 – November 18, 2004) was an American composer, songwriter, and jazz pianist.

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Daler Nazarov

Daler Nazarov (Далер Назаров; دلیر نظراف) (born September 8, 1959) is a Tajik songwriter, singer and actor.

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Dalida

Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti (17 January 1933 – 3 May 1987), better known as Dalida (داليدا), was a French-Italian-Egyptian singer and actress who spent most of her career in France.

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Danny Kaye

Danny Kaye (born David Daniel Kaminsky; January 18, 1911 – March 3, 1987) was an American actor, singer, dancer, comedian and musician.

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Darius Milhaud

Darius Milhaud (4 September 1892 – 22 June 1974) was a French composer, conductor, and teacher.

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Darmstadt School

Darmstadt School refers to a group of composers who attended the from the early 1950s to the early 1960s in Darmstadt, Germany.

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Dave "Baby" Cortez

David Cortez Clowney, known by the stage name Dave "Baby" Cortez (born August 13, 1938), is an American pop and R&B organist and pianist, best known for his 1959 hit, "The Happy Organ".

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Dave Brubeck

David Warren Brubeck (December 6, 1920 – December 5, 2012) was an American jazz pianist and composer, considered to be one of the foremost exponents of cool jazz.

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Dave Guard

Donald David Guard (October 19, 1934 – March 22, 1991) was an American folk singer, songwriter, arranger and recording artist.

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Dave Sharp

Dave Sharp (born 28 January 1959) is an English guitarist who co-founded, along with Mike Peters, the Welsh punk/new wave band The Alarm.

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David Ball (musician)

David James Ball (born 3 May 1959) is an English producer and electronic musician, who has played in bands such as Soft Cell and The Grid, and collaborated with other producers including Ingo Vauk and Chris Braide.

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David Diamond (composer)

David Leo Diamond (July 9, 1915 – June 13, 2005) was an American composer of classical music.

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David Tudor

David Eugene Tudor (January 20, 1926 – August 13, 1996) was an American pianist and composer of experimental music.

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David Van Vactor

David Van Vactor (May 8, 1906 – March 24, 1994) was an American composer of contemporary classical music.

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DeBarge

DeBarge was an American musical recording group composed of several members of the DeBarge family, a family of musical talent often compared to the Jackson family.

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Debbie Reynolds

Mary Frances "Debbie" Reynolds (April 1, 1932 – December 28, 2016) was an American actress, singer, businesswoman, film historian, humanitarian, and mother of the actress and writer Carrie Fisher.

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Decca Records

Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis.

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December 20

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December 26

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December 30

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December 31

It is known by a collection of names including: Saint Sylvester's Day, New Year's Eve or Old Years Day/Night, as the following day is New Year's Day.

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December 4

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Def Leppard

Def Leppard are an English rock band formed in 1977 in Sheffield as part of the new wave of British heavy metal movement.

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Del Close

Del P. Close (March 9, 1934 – March 4, 1999) was an American actor, writer, and teacher who coached many of the best-known comedians and comic actors of the late twentieth century.

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Delaware (song)

"Delaware" is a popular song, written by Irving Gordon.

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Della Reese

Delloreese Patricia Early (July 6, 1931 – November 19, 2017), known professionally as Della Reese, was an American jazz and gospel singer, actress, and ordained minister whose career spanned seven decades.

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Depeche Mode

Depeche Mode are an English electronic band formed in Basildon, Essex in 1980.

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Destry Rides Again

Destry Rides Again is a 1939 western starring Marlene Dietrich and James Stewart, and directed by George Marshall.

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Dick Charles

Dick Charles (born Richard Charles Krieg; February 24, 1919 in Newark, New Jersey – July 17, 1998) was an American songwriter.

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Différences (Berio)

Différences is a composition by the Italian composer Luciano Berio for flute, clarinet, viola, cello, harp and magnetic tape, dating 1958–59.

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Dil Deke Dekho

Dil Deke Dekho is a 1959 Indian Hindi romantic comedy film.

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Dimitri Tiomkin

Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin (May 10, 1894November 11, 1979) was a Russian-born American film composer and conductor.

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Dinah Shore

Dinah Shore (born Fannye Rose Shore; February 29, 1916 – February 24, 1994) was an American singer, actress, and television personality, and the top-charting female vocalist of the 1940s.

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Dinah Washington

Dinah Washington (born Ruth Lee Jones; August 29, 1924 – December 14, 1963) was an American singer and pianist, who has been cited as "the most popular black female recording artist of the '50s".

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Dinah, Yes Indeed!

Dinah, Yes Indeed! is a 1958 studio album by Dinah Shore, arranged by Nelson Riddle.

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Dion and the Belmonts

Dion and the Belmonts were a leading American vocal group of the late 1950s.

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Dmitri Shostakovich

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (Дми́трий Дми́триевич Шостако́вич|Dmitriy Dmitrievich Shostakovich,; 9 August 1975) was a Russian composer and pianist.

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Dmitry Kabalevsky

Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky (Дми́трий Бори́сович Кабале́вский; 14 February 1987), HSL, PAU, was a Russian composer.

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Do-Re-Mi

"Do-Re-Mi" is a show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music.

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Doc Pomus

Jerome Solon Felder (June 27, 1925 – March 14, 1991), known as Doc Pomus, was an American blues singer and songwriter.

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Dodie Stevens

Dodie Stevens (born Geraldine Ann Pasquale, February 17, 1946) is an American rock and pop singer.

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Dolores Gray

Dolores Gray (June 7, 1924 – June 26, 2002) was an American actress and singer.

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Domenico Modugno

Domenico Modugno (9 January 1928 – 6 August 1994) was an Italian singer, songwriter, actor, guitarist, and later in life, a member of the Italian Parliament.

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Don Raye

Don Raye (March 16, 1909 – January 29, 1985), born Donald MacRae Wilhoite, Jr., in Washington, D.C., was an American vaudevillian and songwriter, best known for his songs for the Andrews Sisters such as "Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar", "The House of Blue Lights", "Just for a Thrill" and "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy." The latter was co-written with Hughie Prince.

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Don't You Know?

"Don't You Know?" is a 1959 popular song written by Bobby Worth, and hit record for singer Della Reese.

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Donald Martino

Donald James Martino (May 16, 1931 – December 8, 2005) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American composer.

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Donna (Ritchie Valens song)

"Donna" is a song written by Ritchie Valens, featuring the 50s progression.

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Doris Day

Doris Day (born Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff; April 3, 1922) is an American actress, singer, and animal welfare activist.

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Dorothy Dandridge

Dorothy Jean Dandridge (November 9, 1922 – September 8, 1965) was an American film and theatre actress, singer, and dancer.

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Dorsey Burnette

Dorsey Burnette (December 28, 1932 – August 19, 1979) was an American early rockabilly singer.

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Double Canon (Stravinsky)

The Double Canon ("Raoul Dufy in Memoriam") is a short composition for string quartet by Igor Stravinsky, composed in 1959.

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Douglas Lilburn

Douglas Gordon Lilburn (2 November 19156 June 2001) was a New Zealand composer.

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Dream Lover

"Dream Lover" is a song written by Bobby Darin and recorded by him on April 6, 1959.

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Drivin N Cryin

Drivin' N Cryin' is an American hard rock/Southern rock band from Atlanta, Georgia.

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Duane Eddy

Duane Eddy (born April 26, 1938) is an American guitarist.

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Earle Brown

Earle Brown (December 26, 1926 – July 2, 2002) was an American composer who established his own formal and notational systems.

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Easley Blackwood Jr.

Easley Blackwood (born April 21, 1933) is an American professor of music, a concert pianist, a composer of music, some using unusual tunings, and the author of books on music theory, including his research into the properties of microtonal tunings and traditional harmony.

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Echo & the Bunnymen

Echo & the Bunnymen are an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1978.

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Ed Summerlin

Edgar Eugene Summerlin (September 1, 1928 – October 10, 2006) was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and educator known for pioneering Liturgical jazz, avant-garde jazz, and free jazz.

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Edd Byrnes

Edd Byrnes (born July 30, 1933) is an American actor best known for his starring role in the television series 77 Sunset Strip. He also was featured in the 1978 film Grease as television teen-dance show host Vince Fontaine, and was a charting recording artist with "Kookie, Kookie—Lend Me Your Comb" (with Connie Stevens).

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Eddie Cochran

Edward Raymond Cochran (October 3, 1938 – April 17, 1960) was an American musician.

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Eddie Hodges

Samuel "Eddie" Hodges (born March 5, 1947) is an American former child actor and recording artist who left show business as an adult.

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Eddie MacDonald

Eddie MacDonald (born July 7, 1980) is an American professional stock car racing driver.

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Edelweiss (song)

"Edelweiss" is a show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music.

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Edith Lindeman

Edith Lindeman (March 21, 1898 – December 22, 1984), also known as Edith Elliott Lindeman Calisch, was the film and theater critic for the Richmond Times-Dispatch from 1933 to 1964.

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Edward Johnson (tenor)

Edward Patrick Johnson, CBE (22 August 187820 April 1959) was a Canadian operatic tenor who was billed outside North America as Edoardo Di Giovanni.

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Egon Kornauth

Egon Kornauth (14 May 1891 – 28 October 1959) was an Austrian composer and music teacher.

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Egon Wellesz

Egon Joseph Wellesz (Vienna, 21 October 1885 – Oxford, 9 November 1974) was an Austrian, later British composer, teacher and musicologist, notable particularly in the field of Byzantine music.

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Eileen Herlie

Eileen Herlie (March 8, 1918 – October 8, 2008) was a Scottish-American actress.

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Einstürzende Neubauten

Einstürzende Neubauten ("Collapsing New Buildings") is a German industrial band, originally from West Berlin, formed in 1980.

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El Paso (song)

"El Paso" is a country and western ballad written and originally recorded by Marty Robbins, and first released on Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs in September 1959.

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Elizabeth Maconchy

Dame Elizabeth Violet Maconchy Le Fanu DBE (19 March 1907 – 11 November 1994) was an English composer of Irish heritage.

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Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996) was an American jazz singer sometimes referred to as the First Lady of Song, Queen of Jazz, and Lady Ella.

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Ella Fitzgerald Sings Sweet Songs for Swingers

Ella Fitzgerald Sings Sweet Songs for Swingers is a 1959 album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, recorded with a studio Orchestra arranged and conducted by Frank DeVol.

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Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book is a 1959 (see 1959 in music) five album set by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, focusing on the songs of George and Ira Gershwin.

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Elliott Carter

Elliott Cook Carter Jr. (December 11, 1908 – November 5, 2012) was an American composer who was twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize.

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Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer and actor.

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Enchanted (The Platters song)

"Enchanted" is a song written by Buck Ram and performed by The Platters.

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Endlessly (Brook Benton song)

"Endlessly" is a 1959 single by Brook Benton.

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Epitaphium (Stravinsky)

Epitaphium is a short chamber-music composition by Igor Stravinsky, for flute, clarinet, and harp.

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Eric Boswell (songwriter)

Eric Boswell (1921–2009) was an English composer of popular songs and folk music, most famous for writing the children's Christmas song Little Donkey.

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Erich Urbanner

Erich Urbanner (born March 26, 1936 in Innsbruck) is an Austrian composer and teacher.

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Erich Zeisl

Erich Zeisl (May 18, 1905 – February 18, 1959) was an Austrian-born Jewish American composer.

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Erkki-Sven Tüür

Erkki-Sven Tüür (born 16 October 1959) is an Estonian composer.

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Ernest Bloch

Ernest Bloch (July 24, 1880 – July 15, 1959) was a Swiss-born American composer.

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Ernst Krenek

Ernst Krenek (August 23, 1900December 22, 1991) was an Austrian, later American, composer of Czech origin.

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Ethel Merman

Ethel Merman (born Ethel Agnes Zimmermann, January 16, 1908 – February 15, 1984) was an American actress and singer.

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Eurovision Song Contest

The Eurovision Song Contest (Concours Eurovision de la chanson), often simply called Eurovision, is an international song competition held primarily among the member countries of the European Broadcasting Union.

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Eurovision Song Contest 1959

The Eurovision Song Contest 1959 was the fourth edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest.

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Everybody Digs Bill Evans

Everybody Digs Bill Evans is an album by jazz musician Bill Evans.

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Everything's Coming up Roses

"Everything's Coming Up Roses" is a song from the 1959 Broadway musical Gypsy: A Musical Fable, with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and music by Jule Styne.

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Ewan MacColl

James Henry Miller (25 January 1915 – 22 October 1989), better known by his stage name Ewan MacColl, was an English folk singer, songwriter, communist, labour activist, actor, poet, playwright and record producer born in Lancashire to Scottish parents.

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Expresso Bongo

Expresso Bongo ia a 1958 West End musical and a satire of the music industry.

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Faith No More

Faith No More (sometimes abbreviated as FNM) is an American rock band from San Francisco, California, formed in 1979.

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Fanfare for St Edmundsbury

The Fanfare for St Edmundsbury is a fanfare for three trumpets written by the British composer Benjamin Britten for a "Pageant of Magna Carta" in the grounds of St Edmundsbury Cathedral, Bury St Edmunds in 1959.

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February 12

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February 13

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February 14

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February 15

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February 18

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February 25

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February 28

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February 3

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Federico Mompou

Frederic Mompou Dencausse (alternatively Federico Mompou; 16 April 189330 June 1987) was a Spanish composer and pianist.

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Ferenc Farkas

Ferenc Farkas (15 December 1905 – 10 October 2000) was a Hungarian composer.

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Fernando Lopes-Graça

Fernando Lopes-Graça, GOSE, GCIH (Tomar, 17 December 1906 – Parede, near Cascais, November 27, 1994) was a Portuguese composer, conductor and musicologist.

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Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be

Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'be is a musical comedy about Cockney low-life characters in the 1950s, including spivs, prostitutes, teddy-boys and corrupt policemen.

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Fiorello!

Fiorello! is a musical about New York City mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, a reform Republican who took on the Tammany Hall political machine.

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Five Spot Café

The Five Spot Café was a jazz club located at 5 Cooper Square in the Bowery neighbourhood of New York City.

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Flavor Flav

William Jonathan Drayton Jr. (born March 16, 1959), better known by his stage name Flavor Flav, is an American musician, rapper, actor, television personality, and comedian who rose to prominence as a member of the hip-hop group Public Enemy.

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Folk club

A folk club is a regular event, permanent venue, or section of a venue devoted to folk music and traditional music.

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For LP Fans Only

For LP Fans Only is the seventh album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, issued by RCA Victor in February 1959.

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Forty Miles of Bad Road

"Forty Miles of Bad Road" is a rock and roll instrumental recorded by Duane Eddy.

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Foster & Lloyd

Foster & Lloyd is an American country music duo consisting of singer-songwriters Radney Foster and Bill Lloyd.

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Francis Jackson (composer)

Francis Alan Jackson, CBE (born 2 October 1917) is a British organist and composer.

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Francis Poulenc

Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (7 January 189930 January 1963) was a French composer and pianist.

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Frank Loesser

Frank Henry Loesser (June 29, 1910 – July 28, 1969) was an American songwriter who wrote the lyrics and music to the Broadway musicals Guys and Dolls and How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, among others.

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Frank Marshall (pianist)

Frank Marshall King (November 28, 1883May 29, 1959), was a Spanish, Catalan pianist and pedagogue born to parents of English heritage.

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Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer, actor, and producer who was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century.

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Frank Slay

Frank C. Slay Jr. (July 8, 1930 - September 30, 2017) was an American songwriter, A&R director, record producer, and record label owner.

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Frankie (Connie Francis song)

"Frankie" is a song written by Howard Greenfield and Neil Sedaka and performed by Connie Francis featuring the Ray Ellis Orchestra.

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Frankie Avalon

Frankie Avalon (born Francis Thomas Avallone; September 18, 1940) is an Italian-American actor, singer, and former teen idol.

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Frankie Ford

Frankie Ford (August 4, 1939 – September 28, 2015), was an American rock and roll and rhythm and blues singer, best known for his 1959 hit "Sea Cruise".

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Frankie Laine

Frankie Laine (born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio; March 30, 1913 – February 6, 2007) was an Italian American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire" in 2005.

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Frankie Vaughan

Frankie Vaughan, CBE, DL (born Frank Ableson, 3 February 1928 – 17 September 1999) was an English singer of easy listening and traditional pop music, who recorded more than 80 singles in his lifetime.

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Freddy Cannon

Frederick Anthony Picariello Jr. (born December 4, 1936), known as Freddy Cannon, is an American rock and roll singer, whose biggest international hits included "Tallahassee Lassie", "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans", and "Palisades Park".

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Frederic Rzewski

Frederic Anthony Rzewski (born April 13, 1938 in Westfield, Massachusetts) is an American composer and virtuoso pianist.

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Fritz Brun

Fritz Brun (18 August 1878 – 29 November 1959) was a Swiss conductor and composer of classical music.

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Frostiana

Frostiana: Seven Country Songs is a piece for mixed chorus and piano composed in 1959 by Randall Thompson.

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Gary Kemp

Gary James Kemp (born 16 October 1959) is a British pop musician and actor who is the guitar player and chief songwriter for the 1980s new wave band Spandau Ballet.

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Geoff Tate

Geoff Tate (born Jeffrey Wayne Tate, January 14, 1959; he later changed his first name to Geoffery or Geoffrey) (Pp. 11, 48).

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Geoffrey Bush

Geoffrey Bush (23 March 1920 – 24 February 1998) was a British composer, organist and scholar of 20th century English music.

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George Antheil

George Antheil (July 8, 1900 – February 12, 1959) was an American avant-garde composer, pianist, author, and inventor whose modernist musical compositions explored the modern sounds – musical, industrial, and mechanical – of the early 20th century.

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George Crumb

George Crumb (born October 24, 1929) is an American composer of avant-garde music.

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George Khoury (record producer)

George Khoury (July 17, 1909 – January 8, 1998, Lake Charles, Louisiana) was an American pioneer swamp pop and cajun record producer known for co-writing and composing the No.

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George Perle

George Perle (May 6, 1915 – January 23, 2009) was a composer and music theorist.

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George Rochberg

George Rochberg (July 5, 1918May 29, 2005) was an American composer of contemporary classical music.

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George Treadwell

George McKinley Treadwell (December 21 or 23, 1918 or 1919 in New Rochelle, New York – May 14, 1967 in New York City) was an American jazz trumpeter and the manager of the Drifters.

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Gerard Hoffnung

Gerard Hoffnung (22 March 192528 September 1959) was an artist and musician, best known for his humorous works.

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Get Happy! (Ella Fitzgerald album)

Get Happy! is a 1959 album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, recorded with various studio orchestras over a two-year period.

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Giacinto Scelsi

Giacinto Scelsi (8 January 1905 9 August 1988) was an Italian composer who also wrote surrealist poetry in French.

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Gian Carlo Menotti

Gian Carlo Menotti (July 7, 1911 – February 1, 2007) was an Italian-American composer and librettist.

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Gilda Gray

Gilda Gray (born Marianna Michalska, October 24, 1901 – December 22, 1959) was an American actress and dancer who popularized a dance called the "shimmy" which became fashionable in 1920s films and theater productions.

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Glen A. Larson

Glen Albert Larson (January 3, 1937 – November 14, 2014) was an American musician, television producer and writer.

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Gloria (Poulenc)

The Gloria by Francis Poulenc, FP 177, scored for soprano solo, large orchestra, and chorus, is a setting of the Gloria text from the mass ordinary.

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Go Bo Diddley

Go Bo Diddley is the second album by rock and roll pioneer Bo Diddley, released in July 1959.

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Go, Johnny, Go!

Go, Johnny Go! is a 1959 rock and roll film starring Alan Freed as a talent scout searching for a future rock and roll star.

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Goodbye Baby (Jack Scott song)

"Goodbye Baby" is a song written and performed by Jack Scott featuring The Chantones Vocal Group.

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Goodbye Jimmy, Goodbye

"Goodbye Jimmy, Goodbye" is a song written by Jack Vaughn and performed by Kathy Linden.

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Gotta Travel On

"Gotta Travel On" is a song written by Paul Clayton, The Weavers, Larry Ehrlich, and Dave Lazer and performed by Billy Grammer.

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Gottfried Michael Koenig

Gottfried Michael Koenig (born 5 October 1926 in Magdeburg) is a contemporary German-Dutch composer.

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Gottfried von Einem

Gottfried von Einem (24 January 1918 – 12 July 1996) was an Austrian composer.

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Grażyna Bacewicz

Grażyna Bacewicz (5 February 1909 – 17 January 1969) was a Polish composer and violinist.

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Grace Williams

Grace Mary Williams (19 February 1906 – 10 February 1977) was a Welsh composer, generally regarded as Wales's most notable female composer.

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Grammy Award

A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.

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Greatest!

Greatest! is the fourth album by American singer-songwriter Johnny Cash, released on Sun Records on 12 January 1959 (see 1959 in music).

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Guadalajara

Guadalajara is the capital and largest city of the Mexican state of Jalisco, and the seat of the municipality of Guadalajara.

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Gunnar Berg (composer)

Gunnar Berg (11 January 1909 – 25 August 1989) was a Swiss-born Danish composer.

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Gunther Schuller

Gunther Alexander Schuller (November 22, 1925June 21, 2015) was an American composer, conductor, horn player, author, historian and jazz musician.

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Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt

Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt (August 26, 1925 – January 3, 2010) was a Chilean composer.

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Guy Mitchell

Guy Mitchell (born Albert George Cernik; February 22, 1927 – July 1, 1999) was an American pop singer and actor, successful in his homeland, the UK, and Australia.

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György Kurtág

György Kurtág (born 19 February 1926 in Lugoj) is an award-winning Hungarian classical composer and pianist.

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György Ligeti

György Sándor Ligeti (Ligeti György Sándor,; 28 May 1923 – 12 June 2006) was a Hungarian-Austrian composer of contemporary classical music.

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Gypsy (musical)

Gypsy is a 1959 musical with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents.

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H. Owen Reed

Herbert Owen Reed (June 17, 1910 – January 6, 2014) was an American composer, conductor and author.

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Hal David

Harold Lane "Hal" David (May 25, 1921 – September 1, 2012) was an American lyricist.

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Halim El-Dabh

Halim Abdul Messieh El-Dabh (حليم عبد المسيح الضبع, Ḥalīm ʻAbd al-Masīḥ al-Ḍabʻ; March 4, 1921 – September 2, 2017) was an Egyptian American composer, musician, ethnomusicologist, and educator, who has had a career spanning six decades.

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Handy Man (song)

"Handy Man" is a song written by singer Jimmy Jones and songwriter Otis Blackwell.

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Hank Ballard

Hank Ballard (born John Henry Kendricks; November 18, 1927 – March 2, 2003) was a rhythm and blues singer and songwriter, the lead vocalist of Hank Ballard and the Midnighters and one of the first rock and roll artists to emerge in the early 1950s.

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Hanns Eisler

Hanns Eisler (6 July 1898 – 6 September 1962) was an Austrian composer (his father was Austrian, and Eisler fought in a Hungarian regiment in World War I).

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Hans Erich Apostel

Hans Erich Apostel (22 January 1901 – 30 November 1972) was a German-born Austrian composer of classical music.

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Hans Werner Henze

Hans Werner Henze (1 July 1926 – 27 October 2012) was a German composer.

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Happy Anniversary (1959 film)

Happy Anniversary is a 1959 comedy film starring David Niven and Mitzi Gaynor.

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Harlan Howard

Harlan Perry Howard (September 8, 1927 – March 3, 2002) was an American songwriter, principally in country music.

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Harold Arlen

Harold Arlen (born Hyman Arluck; February 15, 1905 – April 23, 1986) was an American composer of popular music who composed over 500 songs, a number of which have become known worldwide.

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Harold Rome

Harold "Hecky" Jacob Rome (May 27, 1908 – October 26, 1993) was an American composer, lyricist, and writer for musical theater.

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Harry Simeone

Harry Moses Simeone (May 9, 1910 – February 22, 2005) was an American music arranger, conductor and composer, best known for arranging the famous Christmas song "The Little Drummer Boy", for which he received co-writing credit.

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Havergal Brian

Havergal Brian (born William Brian; 29 January 187628 November 1972) was a British classical composer.

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He'll Have to Go

"He'll Have to Go" is an American country and pop hit recorded on October 15, 1959, by Jim Reeves.

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Healey Willan

James Healey Willan, (12 October 1880 – 16 February 1968) was an Anglo-Canadian organist and composer.

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Heartaches by the Number

"Heartaches by the Number" is a popular country song written by Harlan Howard and published in 1959.

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Heitor Villa-Lobos

Heitor Villa-Lobos (March 5, 1887November 17, 1959) was a Brazilian composer, described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music".

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Helen Broderick

Helen Broderick (August 11, 1891 – September 25, 1959) was an American film and stage actress known for her comic roles, especially as a wisecracking sidekick.

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Helge Rosvaenge

Helge Rosvaenge (Roswaenge, Rosvænge), Helge Anton Rosenvinge Hansen, (August 29, 1897June 17, 1972) was a famous Danish operatic tenor whose career was centred on Germany and Austria, before, during and after World War II.

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Hendrik Andriessen

Hendrik Franciscus Andriessen (17 September 1892 in Haarlem – 12 April 1981 in Haarlem) was a Dutch composer and organist.

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Henk Badings

Henk Badings (hĕngk bä'dĭngz) (17 January 190726 June 1987) was a Dutch composer.

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Henri Dutilleux

Henri Dutilleux (22 January 1916 – 22 May 2013) was a French composer active mainly in the second half of the 20th century.

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Henri Pousseur

Henri Pousseur (23 June 1929 – 6 March 2009) was a Belgian composer, teacher, and music theorist.

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Henry Brant

Henry Dreyfuss Brant (September 15, 1913 – April 26, 2008) was a Canadian-born American composer.

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Henryk Górecki

Henryk Mikołaj Górecki (English pronunciation Go-RET-ski; December 6, 1933 – November 12, 2010) was a Polish composer of contemporary classical music.

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Here We Go Again!

Here We Go Again! is an album by American folk music group the Kingston Trio, released in 1959 (see 1959 in music).

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Hermann Schroeder

Hermann Schroeder (26 March 1904 – 7 October 1984) was a German composer and a Catholic church musician.

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High Hopes (Frank Sinatra song)

"High Hopes" is a popular song first popularized by Frank Sinatra, with music written by James Van Heusen and lyrics by Sammy Cahn.

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Hilding Rosenberg

Hilding Constantin Rosenberg (June 21, 1892 – May 18, 1985)Lyne Peter H. Rosenberg, Hilding (Constantin).

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How to Speak Hip

How to Speak Hip is a spoken-word comedy album by Del Close and John Brent, released by Mercury Records in 1959.

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Howard Greenfield

Howard Greenfield (March 15, 1936 – March 4, 1986) was an American lyricist and songwriter, who for several years in the 1960s worked out of the famous Brill Building.

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Howlin' Wolf

Chester Arthur Burnett (June 10, 1910 – January 10, 1976), known as Howlin' Wolf, was a Chicago blues singer, guitarist, and harmonica player, originally from Mississippi.

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Hymns by Johnny Cash

Hymns by Johnny Cash was the fifth album and first gospel album of Johnny Cash.

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I Ain't Never

"I Ain't Never" is a song co-written by American country music artists Webb Pierce and Mel Tillis.

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I Need Your Love Tonight

"I Need Your Love Tonight" is a song written by Sid Wayne and Bix Reichner and recorded by Elvis Presley on June 10, 1958, in RCA Studios, Nashville, Tennessee.

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I Only Have Eyes for You

"I Only Have Eyes for You" is a romantic love song by composer Harry Warren and lyricist Al Dubin, written for the film Dames (1934) where it was introduced by Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler.

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I Wanna Be Around

"I Wanna Be Around" is a popular song.

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I Wanna Be Loved (Ricky Nelson song)

"I Wanna Be Loved" is a song written by Baker Knight and performed by Ricky Nelson.

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I'll Be Seeing You (Jo Stafford album)

I'll Be Seeing You is a 1959 studio album by Jo Stafford.

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I'm Gonna Get Married

"I'm Gonna Get Married" is a 1959 R&B/pop hit written by Harold Logan and Lloyd Price and recorded by Lloyd Price.

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I'm Looking Out the Window

"I'm Lookin' Out the Window" is a ballad written by Don Raye and John Jacob Niles.

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Iain Hamilton (composer)

Iain Ellis Hamilton (6 June 1922 – 21 July 2000) was a Scottish composer.

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Ian McCulloch (singer)

Ian Stephen McCulloch (born 5 May 1959) is an English singer-songwriter and musician, best known as the frontman for the rock group Echo & the Bunnymen.

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Iannis Xenakis

Iannis Xenakis (Greek: Γιάννης (Ιάννης) Ξενάκης; 29 May 1922 – 4 February 2001) was a Romanian-born, Greek-French composer, music theorist, architect, and engineer.

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Igor Stravinsky

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (ˈiɡərʲ ˈfʲɵdərəvʲɪtɕ strɐˈvʲinskʲɪj; 6 April 1971) was a Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor.

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Imperial Theatre

The Imperial Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 249 West 45th Street (George Abbott Way) in midtown-Manhattan.

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Inez James

Inez James (November 15, 1919 – December 19, 1993), also known as Inez James Walden, was an American composer working mostly in the motion picture industry.

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Ingrid Bergman

Ingrid Bergman (29 August 1915 – 29 August 1982) was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films.

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Ingvar Lidholm

Ingvar Natanael Lidholm (24 February 1921 – 17 October 2017) was a Swedish composer.

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Irving Gordon

Irving Gordon (February 14, 1915 – December 1, 1996) was an American songwriter.

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Irving Taylor (songwriter)

Irving Taylor (April 8, 1914, Brooklyn, New York – December 3, 1983, Westlake Village, Los Angeles County, California), was a Jewish-American composer, lyricist, and screenwriter.

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István Anhalt

István Anhalt, (April 12, 1919 – February 24, 2012) was a Hungarian-Canadian composer.

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It Doesn't Matter Anymore

"It Doesn't Matter Anymore" is a pop ballad written by Paul Anka and recorded by Buddy Holly in 1958.

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It Was I

"It Was I" is a song written by vocalist Gary S. Paxton that reached No.

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It's All in the Game (song)

"It's All in the Game" was a 1958 hit for Tommy Edwards.

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Ivo Robić

Ivo Robić (28 January 1923 in Garešnica, Croatia – 9 March 2000 in Rijeka, Croatia) was a Croatian singer and songwriter.

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Ivory Joe Hunter

Ivory Joe Hunter (October 10, 1914 – November 8, 1974) was an American rhythm-and-blues singer, songwriter, and pianist.

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Jack Beeson

Jack Hamilton Beeson (July 15, 1921 – June 6, 2010) was an American composer.

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Jack Klugman

Jack Klugman (April 27, 1922 – December 24, 2012) was an American stage, film, and television actor.

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Jack Norworth

Jack Norworth (January 5, 1879 – September 1, 1959) was a U.S. songwriter, singer and vaudeville performer.

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Jack Scott (singer)

Jack Scott (born Giovanni Domenico Scafone, Jr., January 24, 1936, Windsor, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian American singer and songwriter.

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Jackie Gleason

John Herbert Gleason (February 26, 1916June 24, 1987) was an American comedian, actor, writer, composer and conductor.

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Jackie Wilson

Jack Leroy "Jackie" Wilson Jr. (June 9, 1934 – January 21, 1984) was an American soul singer and performer.

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Jacqueline Steiner

Jacqueline Steiner (born c. 1924) is an American folk singer, songwriter and social activist.

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Jacques Brel

Jacques Romain Georges Brel (8 April 1929 – 9 October 1978) was a Belgian singer, songwriter, poet, actor and director who composed and performed literate, thoughtful, and theatrical songs that generated a large, devoted following—initially in Belgium and France, later throughout the world.

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Jacques Loussier

Jacques Loussier (born 26 October 1934) is a French pianist and composer.

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Jacques Loussier Trio

The Jacques Loussier Trio was a French Third Stream jazz piano trio that became known for their Jazz interpretations of European classical music.

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Jakov Gotovac

Jakov Gotovac (11 October 189516 October 1982) was a Croatian composer and conductor of classical music.

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James MacMillan

Sir James Loy MacMillan, CBE (born 16 July 1959) is a Scottish classical composer and conductor.

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Jan Bach

Jan Bach (born December 11, 1937 in Forrest, Illinois) is an American composer.

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Jane Winton

Jane Winton (October 10, 1905 – September 22, 1959) was an American film actress, dancer, opera soprano, writer, and painter.

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Jane's Addiction

Jane's Addiction is an American rock band from Los Angeles, formed in 1985.

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Janette Scott

Thora Janette Scott (born 14 December 1938) is an English actress.

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January 10

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January 12

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January 14

In the 20th and 21st centuries the Julian calendar is 13 days behind the Gregorian calendar, thus January 14 is sometimes celebrated as New Year's Day (Old New Year) by religious groups who use the Julian calendar.

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January 16

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January 17

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January 22

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January 28

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January 3

Perihelion, the point during the year when the Earth is closest to the Sun, occurs around this date.

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January 30

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January 5

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January 6

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January 7

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January 8

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jürg Baur

Jürg Baur (11 November 1918 – 31 January 2010) was a German composer of classical music.

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Jānis Ivanovs

Jānis Ivanovs (9 October 1906 in Babri, Preiļi – 27 March 1983 in Riga) was a Latvian and Soviet classical music composer.

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Jean Absil

Jean Absil (23 October 1893 – 2 February 1974) was a Belgian composer, organist, and professor at the Brussels Conservatoire.

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Jean Barraqué

Jean-Henri-Alphonse Barraqué (January 17, 1928August 17, 1973) was a French composer and writer on music who developed an individual form of serialism which is displayed in a small output.

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Jean Dinning

Jean Dinning (March 29, 1924 – February 22, 2011) was an American singer and songwriter, best known for co-writing, with her then-husband, Red Surrey, the 1959 hit song "Teen Angel", the most popular version of which was sung by her brother Mark Dinning.

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Jerry Bock

Jerrold Lewis "Jerry" Bock (November 23, 1928November 3, 2010) was an American musical theater composer.

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Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller

Lyricist Jerome "Jerry" Leiber (April 25, 1933 – August 22, 2011) and composer Mike Stoller (born Michael Stoller; March 13, 1933) were American songwriting and record producing partners.

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Jerry Livingston

Jerry Livingston (born Jerry Levinson, March 25, 1909 – July 1, 1987) was an American songwriter and dance orchestra pianist.

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Jerry Only

Jerry Only (born Gerald Caiafa Jr. on April 21, 1959) is an American musician, well known as the bassist for the Misfits and later the vocalist as well.

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Jilin

Jilin, formerly romanized as Kirin is one of the three provinces of Northeast China.

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Jim Kerr

James Kerr (born 9 July 1959) is a Scottish singer-songwriter and the lead singer of the rock band Simple Minds.

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Jim Reeves

James Travis Reeves (August 20, 1923July 31, 1964) was an American country and popular music singer-songwriter.

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Jimi Hendrix

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Jimmy Clanton

Jimmy Clanton (born September 2, 1938, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States) is an American singer who became known as the "swamp pop R&B teenage idol".

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Jimmy Driftwood

James Corbitt Morris (June 20, 1907 – July 12, 1998), known professionally as Jimmy Driftwood or Jimmie Driftwood, was an American folk music songwriter and musician, most famous for his songs "The Battle of New Orleans" and "Tennessee Stud".

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Jimmy Jones (singer)

James Jones (June 2, 1937 – August 2, 2012) was an American singer-songwriter who moved to New York City while a teenager.

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Jimmy Van Heusen

Jimmy Van Heusen (born Edward Chester Babcock; January 26, 1913 – February 6, 1990), also named James Van Heusen, was an American composer.

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Jin-go-lo-ba

"Jin-go-lo-ba" (or "Jingo") is a song by Nigerian percussionist, Babatunde Olatunji, and was featured on his first album Drums of Passion (1959).

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Jo Ann Campbell

Jo Ann Campbell (born July 20, 1938 in Jacksonville, Florida) is an American pop singer.

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Jo Stafford

Jo Elizabeth Stafford (November 12, 1917July 16, 2008) was an American traditional pop music singer and occasional actress, whose career spanned five decades from the late 1930s to the early 1980s.

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Joan Baez

Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and activist whose contemporary folk music often includes songs of protest or social justice.

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João Gilberto

João Gilberto Prado Pereira de Oliveira, known as João Gilberto (June 10, 1931), is a Brazilian singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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Jody Watley

Jody Vanessa Watley (born January 30, 1959) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and trendsetting artist in music, video, and styleUSA Today (February 16, 1996), Best Bets: Albums Jody Watley Greatest Hits, "Few singers fired up the disco like Jody Watley who set trends and standards for fashion and music in the late 80s.." USA Today Life Section whose music crosses genres including pop, R&B, jazz, dance, and electronic soul.

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Joe Allison

Joe Marion Allison (October 3, 1924 – August 2, 2002) was an American songwriter, radio and television personality, record producer, and country music business executive.

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Joe Elliott

Joseph Thomas Elliott Jr. (born 1 August 1959) is an English singer-songwriter and musician, best known as the lead singer of the English rock band Def Leppard.

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John Beckwith (composer)

John Beckwith, (born March 9, 1927) is a Canadian composer, writer, pianist, teacher, and administrator.

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John Brent (comedian)

John Brent (Madison, Connecticut, 14 March 1938 – 16 August 1985 in Los Angeles) was an American actor, comedian and beat poet.

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John Corigliano

John Paul Corigliano (born 16 February 1938) is an American composer of classical music.

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John D. Loudermilk

John D. Loudermilk Jr. (March 31, 1934 – September 21, 2016) was an American singer and songwriter.

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John Fahey (musician)

John Aloysius Fahey (February 28, 1939 – February 22, 2001) was an American fingerstyle guitarist and composer who played the steel-string acoustic guitar as a solo instrument.

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John Hopkins (conductor)

John Raymond Hopkins AM OBE (19 July 192730 September 2013) was a British-born Australian conductor and administrator.

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John J. Becker

John Joseph Becker (January 22, 1886 – January 21, 1961) was an American composer of contemporary classical music, a pianist, a conductor, a writer on music, and an music administrator.

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John Jacob Niles

John Jacob Niles (April 28, 1892 – March 1, 1980) was an American composer, singer, and collector of traditional ballads.

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John La Montaine

John Maynard La Montaine, also later LaMontaine, (March 17, 1920 – April 29, 2013) was an American pianist and composer, born in Oak Park, Illinois, who won the 1959 Pulitzer Prize for Music for his Piano Concerto No.

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John Linnell

John Sidney Linnell (born June 12, 1959, in New York City) is an American musician, known primarily as one half of the Brooklyn-based alternative rock band They Might Be Giants.

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John Tyrrell (musicologist)

John Tyrrell (born 1942) is a British musicologist.

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John W. Downey

John W. Downey (October 5, 1927 – December 18, 2004) was a contemporary classical composer, conductor, pianist and educator.

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Johnnie Ray

John Alvin Ray (January 10, 1927 – February 24, 1990) was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist.

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Johnny Cash

John R. Cash (born J. R. Cash; February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and author.

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Johnny Horton

John LaGale "Johnny" Horton (April 30, 1925 – November 5, 1960) was an American country music and rockabilly singer and musician, best known for his saga ballads beginning with the song "The Battle of New Orleans", which was awarded the 1960 Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording.

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Johnny Mathis

John Royce Mathis (born September 30, 1935) is an American singer of popular music.

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Johnny Mercer

John Herndon Mercer (November 18, 1909 – June 25, 1976) was an American lyricist, songwriter and singer.

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Johnny Preston

Johnny Preston (August 18, 1939 – March 4, 2011) was an American pop singer, who is best known for his international number one hit in 1960, "Running Bear".

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Joji Yuasa

is a Japanese composer of contemporary classical music.

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José Enrique Pedreira

José Enrique Pedreira (February 2, 1904 – January 6, 1959) was a Puerto Rican composer noted for danzas.

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Josef Matthias Hauer

Josef Matthias Hauer (March 19, 1883 – September 22, 1959) was an Austrian composer and music theorist.

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Juan Orrego-Salas

Juan Antonio Orrego Salas (born January 18, 1919) is a Chilean-American composer of contemporary classical music and musicologist.

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Juhan Aavik

Juhan Aavik (29 January 1884 in Holstre, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire – 26 November 1982 in Stockholm, Sweden) was an Estonian composer.

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Jule Styne

Jule Styne (December 31, 1905 – September 20, 1994) was a British-American song writer and composer known for a series of Broadway musicals, which include several famous and frequently revived shows.

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Julie Andrews

Dame Julia Elizabeth Andrews, (born 1 October 1935) is an English actress, singer, and author.

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Julie London

Julie London (née Peck; September 26, 1926 – October 18, 2000) was an American singer and actress, whose career spanned more than 40 years.

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July 11

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July 15

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July 16

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July 17

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July 20

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July 3

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July 5

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July 9

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June 1

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June 11

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June 12

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June 19

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June 21

This day usually marks the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere and the winter solstice in the Southern Hemisphere, which is the day of the year with the most hours of daylight in the Northern Hemisphere and the fewest hours of daylight in the Southern Hemisphere.

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June 22

On this day the Summer solstice may occur in the Northern Hemisphere, and the Winter solstice may occur in the Southern Hemisphere.

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June 24

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June 29

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June 9

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Juno (musical)

Juno is a musical with music and lyrics by Marc Blitzstein and book by Joseph Stein, based closely on the 1924 play Juno and the Paycock by Seán O'Casey.

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Jurriaan Andriessen (composer)

Jurriaan Hendrik Andriessen (15 November 1925, Haarlem19 August 1996, The Hague) was a Dutch composer, whose father, Hendrik, brother Louis, and uncle Willem have also been notable composers.

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Just a Little Too Much

"Just a Little Too Much" is a song written by Johnny Burnette and performed by Ricky Nelson.

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Just Ask Your Heart

"Just Ask Your Heart" is a song written by Diane DeNota, Joe Ricci, and Pete Damato and performed by Frankie Avalon.

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Kal Mann

Kal Mann (May 6, 1917 – November 28, 2001) - accessed June 2010 was an American lyricist.

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Kansas City (Leiber and Stoller song)

"Kansas City" is a rhythm and blues song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller in 1952.

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Karl Amadeus Hartmann

Karl Amadeus Hartmann (2 August 1905 – 5 December 1963) was a German composer.

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Karl-Birger Blomdahl

Karl-Birger Blomdahl (19 October 1916 – 14 June 1968) was a Swedish composer and conductor born in Växjö.

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Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen (22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries.

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Katherine Kennicott Davis

Katherine Kennicott Davis (June 25, 1892 - April 20, 1980) was an American former teacher, who was a classical music composer, pianist, and author of the famous Christmas tune "The Little Drummer Boy".

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Kathinka Pasveer

Kathinka Pasveer (born 11 June 1959) is a Dutch flautist.

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Kathy Linden

Kathy Linden (born 1938), is an American pop singer from Moorestown Township, New Jersey.

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Kathy Mattea

Kathleen Alice Mattea (born June 21, 1959) is an American country music and bluegrass performer who often brings folk, Celtic, and traditional country sounds to her music.

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Kathy Sledge

Kathy Sledge (born January 6, 1959) is an American singer-songwriter and producer.

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Kathy Valentine

Kathryn Valentine (born January 7, 1959) is an American musician (guitar and bass) and songwriter.

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Kay Kendall

Kay Kendall (21 May 1927 – 6 September 1959) was an English actress and comedian.

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Kenneth Gaburo

Kenneth Louis Gaburo (July 5, 1926 – January 26, 1993) was an American composer.

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Kind of Blue

Kind of Blue is a studio album by American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis.

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Kirsty MacColl

Kirsty Anna MacColl (10 October 1959 – 18 December 2000) was an English singer and songwriter.

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Kissin' Time (song)

"Kissin' Time" is a song by the American singer Bobby Rydell.

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Konrad Boehmer

Konrad Boehmer (24 May 1941 – 4 October 2014) was a German-Dutch composer, educator, and writer.

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Kryst the Conqueror

Kryst the Conqueror (Pronounced "Christ the Conqueror") was an American Christian metal project formed in August 1987 by two former members of the horror punk band, The Misfits.

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Kurtis Blow

Kurtis Walker (born August 9, 1959), professionally known by his stage name Kurtis Blow, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record/film producer, Bboy, DJ, public speaker and minister.

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La Bamba (song)

"La Bamba" is a Mexican folk song, originally from the state of Veracruz, best known from a 1958 adaptation by Ritchie Valens, a top 40 hit in the U.S. charts and one of early rock and roll's best-known songs.

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La Monte Young

La Monte Thornton Young (born October 14, 1935) is an American avant-garde composer, musician, and artist generally recognized as the first minimalist composer.

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La voix humaine

La voix humaine (English: The Human Voice) is a forty-minute, one-act opera for soprano and orchestra composed by Francis Poulenc in 1958.

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Larry Austin

Larry Don Austin (born 12 September 1930) is an American composer noted for his electronic and computer music works.

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Larry Markes

Lawrence Wolcott Markes (September 24, 1921 – May 19, 1999) was an American comedian, singer and screenwriter.

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Laurence Harvey

Laurence Harvey (born Laruschka Mischa Skikne; 1 October 192825 November 1973) was a Lithuanian-born South African-raised actor.

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Laurie Johnson

Laurence Reginald Ward Johnson MBE (born 7 February 1927) is an English composer and bandleader who has written scores for dozens of film and television series and has been one of the most highly regarded arrangers of instrumental pop and swing music since in the 1950s with works often serving as stock production music.

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Lee Adams

Lee Richard Adams (born August 14, 1924) is an American lyricist best known for his musical theatre collaboration with Charles Strouse.

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Lee Pockriss

Lee Julian Pockriss (20 January 1924 – 14 November 2011) was an American songwriter who wrote many well-known popular songs and several scores for films and Broadway shows, mainly during the 1960s and 70s.

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Lennox Berkeley

Sir Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley (12 May 190326 December 1989) was an English composer.

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Leonardo Balada

Leonardo Balada Ibáñez (born September 22, 1933, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain) is a Spanish American classical composer, who is noted for his operas and orchestral works.

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Les Baxter

Leslie Thompson Baxter (March 14, 1922 – January 15, 1996) was an American musician and composer.

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Les Vandyke

Les Vandyke (born John Worsley; 21 June 1931, Battersea, South London, England) was a popular music singer and later songwriter from the 1950s to the 1970s.

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Leslie Bassett

Leslie Raymond Bassett (born Hanford, 22 January 1923 – 4 February 2016) was an American composer of classical music, and the University of Michigan's Albert A. Stanley Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Composition.

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Lester Young

Lester Willis Young (August 27, 1909 – March 15, 1959), nicknamed "Pres" or "Prez", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and occasional clarinetist.

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Let's Jump the Broomstick

"Let's Jump the Broomstick" is a song written by Charles Robins and performed first by a black Nashville group, Alvin Gaines & The Themes, in 1959, then covered that year by Brenda Lee.

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Level 42

Level 42 are an English band formed in Isle of Wight in 1980.

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Li'l Abner (musical)

Li'l Abner is a musical with a book by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank, music by Gene De Paul, and lyrics by Johnny Mercer.

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Lionel Bart

Lionel Bart (1 August 1930 – 3 April 1999) was a writer and composer of British pop music and musicals.

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Lionel Newman

Lionel Newman (January 4, 1916 – February 3, 1989) was an American conductor, pianist, and film and television composer.

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Lipstick on Your Collar (song)

"Lipstick on Your Collar" is a song written by Edna Lewis (lyrics) and George Goehring (music) which was a 1959 hit single for Connie Francis.

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Lisa Kirk

Lisa Kirk (February 25, 1925 – November 11, 1990) was an American actress and singer noted for her comic talents and rich contralto (her voice was called a husky alto).

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List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1959

These are the Billboard magazine Hot 100 number one hits of 1959.

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Little Donkey

Little Donkey is a popular Christmas carol, written by English songwriter Eric Boswell which describes the journey by Mary the mother of Jesus to Bethlehem on the donkey of the title.

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Little Mary Sunshine

Little Mary Sunshine is a musical that parodies old-fashioned operettas and musicals.

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Liturgical Jazz

Liturgical Jazz is the first studio album by tenor saxophonist/composer-arranger Ed Summerlin.

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Living Doll (song)

"Living Doll" is a song written by Lionel Bart made popular by Cliff Richard and the Shadows (then still 'the Drifters') in 1959.

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Lloyd Price

Lloyd Price (born March 9, 1933) is an American R&B vocalist, known as "Mr.

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Lock Up Your Daughters (musical)

Lock Up Your Daughters is a musical based on an 18th-century comedy, ''Rape Upon Rape'', by Henry Fielding and adapted by Bernard Miles.

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Lol Tolhurst

Laurence Andrew "Lol" Tolhurst (born 3 February 1959) is a founding member and the former drummer and keyboardist of British band The Cure.

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London Coliseum

The London Coliseum (also known as the Coliseum Theatre) is a theatre in St. Martin's Lane, Westminster, built as one of London's largest and most luxurious "family" variety theatres.

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Lonely Boy (Paul Anka song)

"Lonely Boy" is a song written and recorded by Paul Anka.

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Lonely Street (album)

Lonely Street is an album by American pop singer Andy Williams, released in late 1959 through Cadence Records.

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Lonely Street (song)

"Lonely Street" is a 1958 song written by Carl Belew, Kenny Sowder, and W.S. Stevenson, originally performed by Belew.

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Lonesome Town

"Lonesome Town" is a song written by Baker Knight.

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Look to Your Heart (Frank Sinatra album)

Look to Your Heart is an album by American singer Frank Sinatra, released in 1959 but recorded between 1953 and 1955.

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Louis Andriessen

Louis Andriessen (born 6 June 1939) is a Dutch composer and pianist based in Amsterdam.

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Love in Portofino (A San Cristina)

Love in Portofino (A San Cristina) is the sixth and last album of the 1950s by Dalida.

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Love Potion No. 9 (song)

"Love Potion No.

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Luciano Berio

Luciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (October 24, 1925 – May 27, 2003) was an Italian composer.

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Luigi Nono

Luigi Nono (29 January 1924 – 8 May 1990) was an Italian avant-garde composer of classical music and remains one of the most prominent composers of the 20th century.

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Lukas Foss

Lukas Foss (August 15, 1922 – February 1, 2009) was a German-American composer, pianist, and conductor.

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Lunt-Fontanne Theatre

The Lunt-Fontanne Theatre (previously known as the Globe Theatre) is a Broadway theatre located at 205 West 46th Street in midtown-Manhattan.

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M.T.A. (song)

"M.T.A.", often called "The MTA Song", is a 1949 song by Jacqueline Steiner and Bess Lomax Hawes.

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Mack David

Mack David (July 5, 1912 – December 30, 1993) was an American lyricist and songwriter, best known for his work in film and television, with a career spanning the period between the early 1940s and the early 1970s.

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Mack Gordon

Mack Gordon (born Morris Gittler, June 21, 1904 – February 28, 1959) was a Jewish-American composer and lyricist of songs for the stage and film.

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Mack the Knife

"Die Moritat von Mackie Messer" (later known as "Mack the Knife" or "The Ballad of Mack the Knife") is a song composed by Kurt Weill with lyrics by Bertolt Brecht for their music drama Die Dreigroschenoper, or, as it is known in English, The Threepenny Opera.

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Madness (band)

Madness are an English ska band from Camden Town, north London, who formed in 1976.

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Maki Ishii

was a Japanese composer of contemporary classical music, and brother of composer Kan Ishii.

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Makoto Moroi

(17 December 1930 – 2 September 2013) was a Japanese composer.

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Makoto Shinohara

is a Japanese composer.

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Malcolm Arnold

Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold, CBE (21 October 1921 – 23 September 2006) was an English composer.

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Manny Curtis

Manny Curtis (born Emanuel Kurtz, 1911 – 1984) was an American songwriter.

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Marc Almond

Peter Mark Sinclair "Marc" Almond, (born 9 July 1957) is an English singer-songwriter and musician.

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Marc Blitzstein

Marcus Samuel Blitzstein (March 2, 1905January 22, 1964), was an American composer, lyricist, and librettist.

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Marc Cohn

Marc Craig Cohn (born July 5, 1959) is a Grammy Award-winning American folk rock singer-songwriter and musician best known for his song "Walking in Memphis" from his eponymous 1991 album.

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Marcella Detroit

Marcella Detroit (born Marcella Levy, June 21, 1952) is an American soprano vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter.

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March 1

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March 11

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March 15

In the Roman calendar, March 15 was known as the Ides of March.

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March 16

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March 17

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March 2

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March 21

In astrology, the day of the equinox is the first full day of the sign of Aries.

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March 25

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March 27

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March 29

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March 7

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Marco Pirroni

Marco Francesco Andrea Pirroni (born 27 April 1959, London, England) frequently credited simply as Marco, is an English guitarist, songwriter and record producer.

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Margaret Bonds

Margaret Allison Bonds (–) was an American composer and pianist.

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Margita Stefanović

Margita "Magi" Stefanović (Маргита „Маги” Стефановић; 1 April 1959 – 18 September 2002) was a Serbian musician best known as a keyboardist of the cult Serbian rock band Ekatarina Velika.

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Marguerite Monnot

Marguerite Monnot (28 May 1903 – 12 October 1961) was a French songwriter and composer best known for having written many of the songs performed by Édith Piaf ("Milord", "Hymne à l'amour") and for the music in the stage musical Irma La Douce.

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Maria (Rodgers and Hammerstein song)

"Maria", sometimes known as "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?" is a show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, The Sound of Music. This song is sung by the nuns at Nonnberg Abbey, who are exasperated with Maria for being too frivolous and frolicsome for the decorous and austere life at the Abbey.

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Marie Osmond

Olive Marie Osmond (born October 13, 1959) is an American singer, actress, doll designer, and a member of the show business family the Osmonds.

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Marijohn Wilkin

Marijohn Wilkin (July 14, 1920 – October 28, 2006), née Melson, was an American songwriter, famous in the country music genre for writing a number of hits.

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Mario Davidovsky

Mario Davidovsky (born March 4, 1934) is an Argentine-American composer.

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Mario Lanza

Mario Lanza (born Alfredo Arnold Cocozza; January 31, 1921 – October 7, 1959) was an American tenor of Italian ancestry, and an actor and Hollywood film star of the late 1940s and the 1950s.

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Mark DeBarge

Mark "Marty" DeBarge (born June 19, 1959) is an American R&B/soul singer–songwriter, drummer, percussionist,and plays all wind instruments, including the saxophone,flugalhorn,trumpet and flute.

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Marty Robbins

Martin David Robinson (September 26, 1925 – December 8, 1982), known professionally as Marty Robbins, was an American singer, songwriter, actor, multi-instrumentalist, and racing driver.

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Martyn Brabbins

Martyn Charles Brabbins (born 13 August 1959) is a British conductor.

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Mary Martin

Mary Virginia Martin (December 1, 1913 – November 3, 1990) was an American actress, singer, and Broadway star.

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Mauricio Kagel

Mauricio Raúl Kagel (December 24, 1931 – September 18, 2008) was a German-Argentine composer notable for developing the theatrical side of musical performance.

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Maxwell Anderson

James Maxwell Anderson (December 15, 1888 – February 28, 1959) was an American playwright, author, poet, journalist and lyricist.

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May 12

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May 14

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May 20

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May 22

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May 28

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May 29

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May 3

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May 30

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May 4

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May 5

This day marks the approximate midpoint of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and of autumn in the Southern Hemisphere (starting the season at the March equinox).

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May You Always

"May You Always" is a popular song by Larry Markes (lyrics) and Dick Charles (pseudonym of Richard Charles Krieg), published in 1958.

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Meat Puppets

Meat Puppets is an American rock band formed in January 1980 in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Mel Tillis

Lonnie Melvin Tillis (August 8, 1932 – November 19, 2017) was an American country music singer and songwriter.

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Mel Tormé

Melvin Howard Tormé (September 13, 1925 – June 5, 1999), nicknamed The Velvet Fog, was an American musician, best known as a singer of jazz standards.

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Memphis, Tennessee (song)

"Memphis, Tennessee", sometimes shortened to "Memphis", is a song by Chuck Berry, first released in 1959.

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Mermaid Theatre

The Mermaid Theatre was a theatre encompassing the site of Puddle Dock and Curriers' Alley at Blackfriars in the City of London, and the first built in the City since the time of Shakespeare.

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Michael Tippett

Sir Michael Kemp Tippett (2 January 1905 – 8 January 1998) was an English composer who rose to prominence during and immediately after the Second World War.

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Michel Philippot

Michel Paul Philippot (2 February 1925 in Verzy – 28 July 1996 in Vincennes) was a French composer, mathematician, acoustician, musicologist, aesthetician, broadcaster, and educator.

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Mike Lindup

Michael David "Mike" Lindup (born 17 March 1959, in London, England) is a musician best known as the keyboard player and falsetto voiced singer, who joined with Mark King and brothers Phil and Boon Gould to form the 1980s–1990s British jazz-funk/pop rock band, Level 42.

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Mike Peters (musician)

Michael Leslie "Mike" Peters (born 25 February 1959) is a Welsh musician, best known as the lead singer of The Alarm.

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Mike Pratt (actor)

Michael John Pratt (7 June 1931 – 10 July 1976) was an English actor, musician, songwriter and screenwriter, known for his work on British television in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.

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Milord (song)

"Milord" or "Ombre de la Rue" ("Shadow of the Street") is a 1959 song (lyrics by Georges Moustaki, music by Marguerite Monnot), famously sung by Édith Piaf.

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Miloslav Kabeláč

Miloslav Kabeláč (1 August 1908 – 17 September 1979) was a prominent Czech composer and conductor.

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Mingus Ah Um

Mingus Ah Um is a studio album by American jazz musician Charles Mingus, released in 1959 by Columbia Records.

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Misfits (band)

The Misfits are an American punk rock band often recognized as the progenitors of the horror punk subgenre, blending punk and other musical influences with horror film themes and imagery.

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Missa Brevis (Britten)

The Missa Brevis in D, Op.

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Mississippi Fred McDowell

Fred McDowell (January 12, 1906 – July 3, 1972), known by his stage name Mississippi Fred McDowell, was an American hill country blues singer and guitar player.

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Misty (song)

"Misty" is a jazz standard written in 1954 by pianist Erroll Garner.

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Moanin' in the Moonlight

Moanin' in the Moonlight was the debut album by American blues singer Howlin' Wolf.

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Mohammed El-Bakkar

Mohammed El-Bakkar (محمد البكار; died in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States, September 8, 1959) was a Lebanese tenor, oud player, and conductor.

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Momoe Yamaguchi

is a Japanese former singer, actress, and idol whose career lasted from 1972 to 1980.

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Monument Records

Monument Records was an American record label in Washington, D.C. named for the Washington Monument, founded in 1958 by Fred Foster and Buddy Deane (a prominent Baltimore disc jockey at WTTG).

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Morgen (Ivo Robić song)

"Morgen" is a popular German song (1959), originally performed (in German) by Ivo Robić and The Song-Masters.

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Morrissey

Steven Patrick Morrissey (born 22 May 1959), known mononymously as Morrissey, is an English singer, songwriter and author.

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Mort Shuman

Mort Shuman (November 12, 1938 – November 2, 1991) was an American singer, pianist and songwriter, best known as co-writer of many 1960s rock and roll hits, including "Viva Las Vegas".

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Morten Harket

Morten Harket (born 14 September 1959) is a Norwegian musician, best known as the lead singer of the synthpop/rock band A-ha, which released ten studio albums and topped the charts internationally after their breakthrough hit "Take On Me" in 1985.

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Mr. Blue

"Mr.

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Murray Adaskin

Murray Adaskin, (March 28, 1906 – May 6, 2002) was a Toronto-born Canadian violinist, composer, conductor and teacher.

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Musical film

The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing.

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Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.

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My Favorite Things (song)

"My Favorite Things" is a show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music. In the original Broadway production, this song was introduced by Mary Martin playing Maria and Patricia Neway playing Mother Abbess.

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My Happiness (1948 song)

"My Happiness" is a pop music standard which was initially made famous in the mid-twentieth century.

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Nat King Cole

Nathaniel Adams Coles (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965), known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American jazz pianist and vocalist.

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Ne me quitte pas

"Ne me quitte pas" ("Don't leave me") is a 1959 song by Belgian singer-songwriter Jacques Brel.

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Ned Rorem

Ned Rorem (born October 23, 1923) is an American composer and diarist.

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Ned Washington

Ned Washington (August 15, 1901 – December 20, 1976) was an American lyricist born in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

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Neil Sedaka

Neil Sedaka (born March 13, 1939) is an American pop singer, pianist, composer and record producer.

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Nelson Riddle

Nelson Smock Riddle Jr. (June 1, 1921 – October 6, 1985) was an American arranger, composer, bandleader and orchestrator whose career stretched from the late 1940s to the mid-1980s.

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Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest

The Netherlands has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 59 times since making its debut as one of the seven countries at the first contest in, and has missed only four contests so far (1985, 1991, 1995 and 2002).

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Never Be Anyone Else But You

"Never Be Anyone Else But You" is a song written by Baker Knight and performed by Ricky Nelson.

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New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra (NZSO) is a symphony orchestra based in Wellington, New Zealand.

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Newport Folk Festival

The Newport Folk Festival is an American annual folk-oriented music festival in Newport, Rhode Island, which began in July 1959 as a counterpart to the previously established Newport Jazz Festival.

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Niccolò Castiglioni

Niccolò Castiglioni (17 July 1932 – 7 September 1996) was an Italian composer, pianist, and writer on music.

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Nicolas Flagello

Nicolas Oreste Flagello (March 15, 1928 – March 16, 1994), was an American composer and conductor of classical music.

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Niels Viggo Bentzon

Niels Viggo Bentzon (Copenhagen, 24 August 1919 – Copenhagen, 25 April 2000) was a Danish composer and pianist.

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Nigel Butterley

Nigel Henry Cockburn Butterley AM (born 13 May 1935) is an Australian composer and pianist.

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No One Cares

No One Cares is a 1959 album by Frank Sinatra.

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Nobuo Uematsu

is a Japanese video game composer, best known for scoring most of the titles in the Final Fantasy series by Square Enix.

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Noel Sherman

Noel Sherman (1930 – New York City, June 4, 1972) was an American lyricist and nightclub producer.

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November 1

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November 17

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November 22

In the ancient astronomy, it is the cusp day between Scorpio and Sagittarius.

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November 26

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November 27

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November 29

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November 5

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November 7

This day marks the approximate midpoint of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere and of spring in the Southern Hemisphere (starting the season at the September equinox).

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O'Kelly Isley Jr.

O'Kelly "Kelly" Isley Jr. (December 25, 1937 – March 31, 1986) was an American singer and one of the founding members of the family group The Isley Brothers.

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October 1

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October 10

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October 13

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October 16

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October 23

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October 25

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October 28

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October 4

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October 7

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Off-Broadway

An Off-Broadway theatre is any professional venue in Manhattan in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, inclusive.

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Oh! Carol

"Oh! Carol" is an international hit written by Neil Sedaka in 1958.

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Omer Simeon

Omer Victor Simeon (July 21, 1902 – September 17, 1959) was an American jazz clarinetist.

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On the Town (musical)

On the Town is a musical with music by Leonard Bernstein and book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, based on Jerome Robbins' idea for his 1944 ballet Fancy Free, which he had set to Bernstein's music.

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Once Upon a Summertime (album)

Once Upon a Summertime is an album by Blossom Dearie.

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Only Sixteen

"Only Sixteen" is a song by American singer-songwriter Sam Cooke, released in May 1959.

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Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) are an English electronic music band formed in Wirral, Merseyside in 1978.

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Ornette Coleman

Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930 – June 11, 2015) was an American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer.

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Orpheum Theatre (Manhattan)

The Orpheum Theatre is a 299-seat Off-Broadway theatre on Second Avenue near the corner of St. Marks Place in the East Village neighborhood of lower Manhattan, New York City.

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Osaka Popstar

Osaka Popstar is a punk rock supergroup formed in 2006 by New Yorker John Cafiero.

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Oscar Hammerstein II

Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II (July 12, 1895 – August 23, 1960) was an American librettist, theatrical producer, and (usually uncredited) theatre director of musicals for almost forty years.

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Oscar Peterson

Oscar Emmanuel Peterson, (August 15, 1925 – December 23, 2007) was a Canadian jazz pianist and composer.

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Otis Blackwell

Otis Blackwell (February 16, 1931 – May 6, 2002) was an African-American songwriter, singer, and pianist, whose work significantly influenced rock and roll.

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Ottmar Gerster

Ottmar Gerster (29 June 1897 in Braunfels, Germany – 31 August 1969 in Borsdorf) was a German viola player, conductor and composer who in 1948 became rector of the Liszt Music Academy in Weimar.

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Otto Luening

Otto Clarence Luening (June 15, 1900 – September 2, 1996) was a German-American composer and conductor, and an early pioneer of tape music and electronic music.

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Otto Preminger

Otto Ludwig Preminger (5 December 1905 – 23 April 1986) was an American theatre and film director, originally from Austria-Hungary.

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Patricia Neway

Patricia Neway (September 30, 1919 – January 24, 2012) was an American operatic soprano and musical theatre actress who had an active international career during the mid-1940s through the 1970s.

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Patsy Cline

Patsy Cline (born Virginia Patterson Hensley; September 8, 1932 – March 5, 1963) was an American country music singer and part of the Nashville sound during the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Paul Anka

Paul Albert Anka, (born July 30, 1941) is a Canadian singer, songwriter and actor.

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Paul Ben-Haim

Paul Ben-Haim (or Paul Ben-Chaim, Hebrew: פאול בן חיים) (5 July 1897 – 14 January 1984) was an Israeli composer.

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Paul Bowles

Paul Frederic Bowles (December 30, 1910November 18, 1999) was an American expatriate composer, author, and translator.

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Paul Creston

Paul Creston (born Giuseppe Guttoveggio; October 10, 1906 – August 24, 1985) was an Italian American composer of classical music.

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Paul Dessau

Paul Dessau (19 December 189428 June 1979) was a German composer and conductor.

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Paul Hester

Paul Newell Hester (8 January 1959 – 26 March 2005) was an Australian musician and television personality.

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Paul Hindemith

Paul Hindemith (16 November 1895 – 28 December 1963) was a prolific German composer, violist, violinist, teacher and conductor.

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Paul Quinichette

Paul Quinichette (May 17, 1916 – May 25, 1983) was an American jazz musician who played the tenor saxophone.

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Paul Westerberg

Paul Harold Westerberg (born December 31, 1959) is an American musician, best known as the lead singer, guitarist and songwriter in The Replacements, one of the seminal alternative rock bands of the 1980s.

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Pedro Humberto Allende

Pedro Humberto Allende Sarón (July 29, 1885 – August 17, 1959) was one of the most important Chilean composers of the twentieth century.

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Peggy Glanville-Hicks

Peggy Winsome Glanville-Hicks (29 December 1912 – 25 June 1990) was an Australian composer.

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Peggy Sue Got Married (song)

"Peggy Sue Got Married" is a song written and performed by Buddy Holly. It was posthumously released in 1959 as a 45-rpm single with "Crying, Waiting, Hoping". It refers to his song hit "Peggy Sue". It was one of the first sequels of the rock era.

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Per Gessle

Per Håkan Gessle (born 12 January 1959) is a Swedish pop singer-songwriter, guitarist, and harmonicist.

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Perry Como

Pierino Ronald "Perry" Como (May 18, 1913 – May 12, 2001) was an American singer and television personality.

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Perry Farrell

Perry Farrell (born Peretz Bernstein; March 29, 1959) is an American singer-songwriter and musician, best known as the frontman for the alternative rock band Jane's Addiction.

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Personality (Lloyd Price song)

"Personality" is a 1959 R&B, pop hit with music and lyrics by Harold Logan and Lloyd Price.

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Persuasive Percussion

Persuasive Percussion was an LP album performed by Terry Snyder and the All Stars and released in 1959 by Command Records (run by Enoch Light).

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Pet Shop Boys

The Pet Shop Boys are an English synthpop duo, formed in London in 1981 and consisting of Neil Tennant (lead vocals, keyboards, occasional guitar) and Chris Lowe (keyboards, vocals).

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Peter Greenwell

Peter Ashley Greenwell (12 August 1929, Hampton-in-Arden – 4 June 2006, Dénia) was an English composer and pianist best known as an accompanist to Noël Coward.

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Peter Gunn (song)

"Peter Gunn" is the theme music composed by Henry Mancini for the television show of the same name.

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Peter Maxwell Davies

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (8 September 1934 – 14 March 2016) was an English composer and conductor.

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Peter Mennin

Peter Mennin (born Mennini) (May 17, 1923 in Erie, Pennsylvania – June 17, 1983 in New York City) was a prominent American composer, teacher and administrator.

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Phil Phillips

Phil Phillips (born Philip Baptiste, March 14, 1926) is an American singer and songwriter, best known for his 1959 song, "Sea of Love".

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Piccadilly Theatre

The Piccadilly Theatre is a West End theatre located at 16 Denman Street, behind Piccadilly Circus and adjacent to the Regent Palace Hotel, in the City of Westminster, England.

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Pierre Boulez

Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez CBE (26 March 1925 – 5 January 2016) was a French composer, conductor, writer and founder of institutions.

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Pierre Michelot

Pierre Michelot (3 March 1928 – 3 July 2005) was a French bebop and hard bop double bass player.

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Pierre Schaeffer

Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer (English pronunciation:,; 14 August 1910 – 19 August 1995) was a French composer, writer, broadcaster, engineer, musicologist and acoustician.

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Pillow Talk (film)

Pillow Talk is a 1959 Oscar-winning Eastmancolor romantic comedy film in CinemaScope directed by Michael Gordon.

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Pink Shoe Laces

"Pink Shoe Laces" (or "Pink Shoelaces") is a song by Dodie Stevens.

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Piove (Ciao, ciao bambina)

"Piove (Ciao, ciao bambina)" (It's raining) is an Italian song written by Domenico Modugno and Eduardo Verde.

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Plácido Domingo

José Plácido Domingo Embil, (born 21 January 1941), known as Plácido Domingo, is a Spanish tenor, conductor and arts administrator.

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Pli selon pli

Pli selon pli (Fold by fold) is a piece of classical music by the French composer Pierre Boulez.

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Poison Ivy (song)

"Poison Ivy" is a popular song by American songwriting duo Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.

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Poor Jenny (song)

"Poor Jenny" is a song released in 1959 by The Everly Brothers.

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Porgy and Bess

Porgy and Bess is an English-language opera by the American composer George Gershwin, with a libretto written by author DuBose Heyward and lyricist Ira Gershwin.

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Pub

A pub, or public house, is an establishment licensed to sell alcoholic drinks, which traditionally include beer (such as ale) and cider.

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Public Enemy (band)

Public Enemy is an American hip hop group consisting of Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Professor Griff, Khari Wynn, DJ Lord, and the S1W group.

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Pulitzer Prize for Music

The Pulitzer Prize for Music is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.

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Put Your Head on My Shoulder

"Put Your Head on My Shoulder" is a song written by Canadian singer-songwriter Paul Anka.

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Queensrÿche

Queensrÿche performing at the Sauna Open Air Metal Festival on June 11, 2011, in Tampere, Finland. Left to right: bassist Eddie Jackson, lead vocalist Geoff Tate, drummer Scott Rockenfield and guitarist Michael Wilton. Queensrÿche is an American heavy metal band.

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Quiet Village

"Quiet Village" is an orchestral pop instrumental that was written and originally performed by Les Baxter in 1951 and an instrumental album from 1959 by Martin Denny.

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Quincy Porter

Quincy Porter (February 7, 1897 – November 12, 1966) was an American composer and teacher of classical music.

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R. Murray Schafer

Raymond Murray Schafer, (born 18 July 1933) is a Canadian composer, writer, music educator and environmentalist perhaps best known for his World Soundscape Project, concern for acoustic ecology, and his book The Tuning of the World (1977).

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Radney Foster

Radney Foster (born July 20, 1959) is an American country music singer-songwriter, musician and music producer.

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Raining in My Heart

"Raining in My Heart" is a song recorded by Buddy Holly on October 21, 1958 with the orchestral backing by Dick Jacobs.

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Raj Kapoor

Ranbir Raj Kapoor (14 December 1924 – 2 June 1988), also known as "the greatest showman of Hindi cinema", was a noted Indian film actor, producer and director of Indian cinema.

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Randall Thompson

Randall Thompson (April 21, 1899 – July 9, 1984) was an American composer, particularly noted for his choral works.

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Randy Travis

Randy Bruce Traywick (born May 4, 1959), known professionally as Randy Travis, is an American country music and Christian country music singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor.

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Ratt

Ratt is an American heavy metal band that had significant commercial success in the 1980s, with their albums having been certified as gold, platinum, and multi-platinum by the RIAA.

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Ray Anthony

Ray Anthony (born January 20, 1922) is an American bandleader, trumpeter, songwriter and actor.

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Ray Charles

Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004), known professionally as Ray Charles, was an American singer-songwriter, musician, and composer.

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Redhead (musical)

Redhead is a musical with music composed by Albert Hague and lyrics by Dorothy Fields, who with her brother, Herbert, along with Sidney Sheldon and David Shaw wrote the book/libretto.

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Refrain (Stockhausen)

Refrain for three players (piano with woodblocks, vibraphone with alpine cowbells, and amplified celesta with antique cymbals) is a chamber-music composition by Karlheinz Stockhausen, and is number 11 in his catalog of works.

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Renée Fleming

Renée Lynn Fleming (born February 14, 1959) is an American opera singer and soprano.

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Richard M. Sherman

Richard Morton Sherman (born June 12, 1928) is an American songwriter who specialized in musical films with his brother Robert B. Sherman.

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Richard Rodgers

Richard Charles Rodgers (June 28, 1902 – December 30, 1979) was an American composer of music, with over 900 songs and 43 Broadway musicals, leaving a legacy as one of the most significant composers of 20th century American music.

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Richard Rodgers Theatre

The Richard Rodgers Theatre is a Broadway theater located at 226 West 46th Street, between Broadway and 8th Avenue, in New York City.

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Richard Rodney Bennett

Sir Richard Rodney Bennett (29 March 193624 December 2012) was an English composer of film, TV and concert music, and also a jazz pianist.

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Richie Sambora

Richard Stephen "Richie" Sambora (born July 11, 1959) is an American rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer, best known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Bon Jovi for 30 years.

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Ricky Nelson

Eric Hilliard Nelson (May 8, 1940 – December 31, 1985) was an American rock and roll star, musician, and singer-songwriter.

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Ricky Sings Again

Ricky Sings Again is the third rock and roll album by Ricky Nelson, released in 1959.

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Ritchie Valens

Richard Steven Valenzuela (May 13, 1941 – February 3, 1959), known professionally as Ritchie Valens, was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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Ritchie Valens (album)

Ritchie Valens is the first album by Ritchie Valens, posthumously released by Del-Fi Records in March 1959, one month after his death in a plane crash.

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Robert Allen (composer)

Robert Allen Deitcher (February 5, 1927 – October 1, 2000) was a pianist and an arranger and writer of music for popular songs.

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Robert Ashley

Robert Reynolds Ashley (March 28, 1930 – March 3, 2014) was an American composer, who was best known for his operas and other theatrical works, many of which incorporate electronics and extended techniques.

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Robert B. Sherman

Robert Bernard Sherman (December 19, 1925 – March 6, 2012)Robert B. Sherman IMDB.com Profile> was an American songwriter who specialized in musical films with his brother Richard Morton Sherman.

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Robert Smith (musician)

Robert James Smith (born 21 April 1959) is an English singer, songwriter and musician.

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Roberto Gerhard

Robert Gerhard i Ottenwaelder (25 September 1896 – 5 January 1970) was a Spanish Catalan composer and musical scholar and writer, generally known outside Catalonia as Roberto Gerhard.

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Rock Around the Clock

"Rock Around the Clock" is a rock and roll song in the 12-bar blues format written by Max C. Freedman and James E. Myers (the latter being under the pseudonym "Jimmy De Knight") in 1952.

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Rock Hudson

Rock Hudson (born Roy Harold Scherer, Jr.; November 17, 1925 – October 2, 1985) was an American actor, generally known for his turns as a leading man during the 1950s and 1960s.

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Rodolfo Halffter

Rodolfo Halffter Escriche (October 20, 1900 – October 14, 1987) was a Spanish composer.

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Roger Goeb

Roger Goeb (October 9, 1914 – January 3, 1997) was an American composer.

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Roman Haubenstock-Ramati

Roman Haubenstock-Ramati (רוֹמן האובּנשׁטוֹק-רָמָתִי; 27 February 1919, in Kraków – 3 March 1994, in Vienna) was a composer and music editor who worked in Kraków, Tel Aviv and Vienna.

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Ronald Isley

Ronald Isley (born July 21, 1941) also known as Ron Isley and Mr.

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Ronnie Self

Ronnie Self (July 5, 1938 – August 28, 1981) was a United States rockabilly singer and songwriter.

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Rosalind Russell

Catherine Rosalind Russell (June 4, 1907 – November 28, 1976) was an American actress, comedian, screenwriter and singer,Obituary Variety, December 1, 1976, page 79.

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Ross Bagdasarian Sr.

Rostom Sipan "Ross" Bagdasarian (January 27, 1919 – January 16, 1972), otherwise known by his stage name David Seville, was an American pianist, musician, actor, voice actor, and record producer.

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Roxette

Roxette are a Swedish pop rock duo, consisting of Marie Fredriksson (vocals and keyboards) and Per Gessle (vocals and guitar).

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Roy Orbison

Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988) was an American singer, songwriter and musician known for his impassioned singing style, complex song structures, and dark emotional ballads.

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Rudolph Isley

Rudolph Bernard Isley (born April 1, 1939 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American singer-songwriter and is one of the founding members of The Isley Brothers.

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Ruggiero Ricci

Ruggiero Ricci (24 July 19186 August 2012) was an American violinist known for performances and recordings of the works of Paganini.

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Running Bear

"Running Bear" is a song written by Jiles Perry Richardson (a.k.a. The Big Bopper) and sung most famously by Johnny Preston in 1959.

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Russ Conway

Russ Conway, DSM (born Trevor Herbert Stanford, 2 September 1925 – 16 November 2000) was an English popular music pianist.

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Sade (band)

Sade are an English band, formed in London in 1982, and named after their lead singer, Sade Adu.

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Sam M. Lewis

Sam M. Lewis (October 25, 1885 – November 22, 1959) was an American singer and lyricist.

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Sammy Cahn

Sammy Cahn (June 18, 1913 – January 15, 1993) was an American lyricist, songwriter and musician.

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Sammy Davis Jr.

Samuel George Davis Jr. (December 8, 1925 – May 16, 1990) was an American singer, musician, dancer, actor and comedian.

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Samuel Adler (composer)

Samuel Hans Adler (born March 4, 1928) is an American composer and conductor.

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Samuel Barber

Samuel Osborne Barber II (March 9, 1910 – January 23, 1981) was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music.

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Sandra Church

Sandra Church (born January 13, 1938) is an American actress and singer.

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Sandy Stewart (singer)

Sandy Stewart (born Sandra Galitz on July 10, 1937) is an American singer of popular songs.

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Santo & Johnny

Santo & Johnny were an American rock and roll music duo from Brooklyn, New York, comprising brothers Santo and Johnny Farina.

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Sarah Vaughan

Sarah Lois Vaughan (March 27, 1924 – April 3, 1990) was an American jazz singer.

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Saratoga (musical)

Saratoga is a musical with a book by Morton DaCosta, lyrics by Johnny Mercer, and music by Harold Arlen.

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Satchan

"" is a Japanese children's song composed in 1959 and is well known there.

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Say One for Me

Say One For Me is a 1959 musical film directed by Frank Tashlin and starring Bing Crosby and Debbie Reynolds.

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Sea Cruise

"Sea Cruise" is a song written and sung by Huey "Piano" Smith and His Clowns.

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Sea of Love (song)

"Sea of Love" is a song written by Philip Baptiste (better known as Phil Phillips) and George Khoury.

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Season's Greetings from Perry Como

Season's Greetings from Perry Como, originally released in 1959, was Perry Como's sixth RCA Victor 12-inch long-play album and the fourth recorded in stereophonic sound, as well as his first major full-length Christmas album.

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See You in September

"See You in September" is a song written by Sid Wayne and Sherman Edwards.

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September 1

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September 11

Between the years AD 1900 and 2099, September 11 of the Gregorian calendar is the leap day of the Coptic and Ethiopian calendars.

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September 13

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September 14

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September 17

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September 21

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September 22

It is frequently the day of the autumnal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and the day of the vernal equinox in the Southern Hemisphere.

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September 25

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September 28

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September 5

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September 6

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September 8

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Sergei Prokofiev

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (r; 27 April 1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian Soviet composer, pianist and conductor.

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Seven Little Girls Sitting in the Backseat

"Seven Little Girls Sitting in the Backseat" is a song written by Bob Hilliard and Lee Pockriss.

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Shakespears Sister

Shakespears Sister is a pop-rock act, formed by Irish-born singer–songwriter Siobhan Fahey in 1988.

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Shammi Kapoor

Shammi Kapoor (born Shamsher Raj Kapoor; 21 October 1931 – 14 August 2011) was an Indian film actor and director.

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Sheena Easton

Sheena Shirley Easton (née Orr; born 27 April 1959) is a Scottish-American singer, recording artist and stage and screen actress with dual British-American nationality.

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Sheldon Harnick

Sheldon Mayer Harnick (born April 30, 1924) is an American lyricist and songwriter best known for his collaborations with composer Jerry Bock on musicals such as Fiddler on the Roof.

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Sherman Edwards

Sherman Edwards (April 4, 1919 – March 30, 1981) was an American songwriter, best known for his songs from the 1969 Broadway musical 1776 and the 1972 film based on it.

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Shirley Collins

Shirley Elizabeth Collins MBE (born 5 July 1935) is an English folk singer who was a significant contributor to the English Folk Revival of the 1960s and 1970s.

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Shout (The Isley Brothers song)

"Shout" is a popular American song, originally recorded by the Isley Brothers.

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Shubert Theatre (New York City)

The Shubert Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 225 West 44th Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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Sid Wayne

Sid Wayne (January 26, 1923 – December 26, 1991) was an American songwriter, lyricist and composer, who wrote a number of well-known songs from the 1950s to the 1980s.

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Side Saddle

"Side Saddle" is a hit single which was number one in the UK Singles Chart for four weeks from 27 March 1959.

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Sidney Bechet

Sidney Bechet (May 14, 1897 – May 14, 1959) was an African American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer.

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Sidney Poitier

Sir Sidney Poitier, (born February 20, 1927) is a Bahamian-American actor, film director, author, and diplomat.

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Simple Minds

Simple Minds are a Scottish rock band.

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Since I Don't Have You

"Since I Don't Have You" is a song written and composed by Jackie Taylor, James Beaumont, Janet Vogel, Joseph Rock, Joe Verscharen, Lennie Martin, and Wally Lester.

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Siouxsie and the Banshees

Siouxsie and the Banshees were an English rock band, formed in London in 1976 by vocalist Siouxsie Sioux and bass guitarist Steven Severin.

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Sister Sledge

Sister Sledge is an American musical vocal group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Skip & Flip

Skip & Flip was a U.S. pop duo, consisting of Skip (Clyde Battin) and Flip (Gary S. Paxton).

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Sleep Walk

"Sleep Walk" is an instrumental song written, recorded, and released in 1959 by brothers Santo & Johnny Farina, with their uncle Mike Dee playing the drums.

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Sleeping Beauty (1959 film)

Sleeping Beauty is a 1959 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney based on The Sleeping Beauty by Charles Perrault.

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So Many Ways (Brook Benton song)

"So Many Ways" is a 1959 single by Brook Benton written by Bobby Stevenson.

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Soft Cell

Soft Cell are an English synthpop duo who came to prominence in the early 1980s, consisting of vocalist Marc Almond and instrumentalist David Ball.

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Soho

Soho is an area of the City of Westminster, part of the West End of London.

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Some Kind-A Earthquake

"Some Kind-A Earthquake" is a song written by Duane Eddy and Lee Hazlewood and performed by Eddy.

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Sonata for Solo Violin (Prokofiev)

The Sonata for Solo Violin in D major, Opus 115, is a three-movement work for unaccompanied violin composed by Sergei Prokofiev in 1947.

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Songs of our Soil

Songs of Our Soil is the sixth album by the singer Johnny Cash.

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Sonnie Hale

Sonnie Hale (1 May 1902 – 9 June 1959) was an English theatre and cinema actor and director.

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Southern United States

The Southern United States, also known as the American South, Dixie, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a region of the United States of America.

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Spandau Ballet

Spandau Ballet are an English band formed in Islington, London in 1979.

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Stagger Lee

"Stagger Lee", also known as "Stagolee" and other variants, is a popular American folk song about the murder of Billy Lyons by "Stag" Lee Shelton in St. Louis, Missouri at Christmas, 1895.

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Stanley Sadie

Stanley John Sadie, CBE (30 October 1930 – 21 March 2005) was an influential and prolific British musicologist, music critic, and editor.

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Stephen Albert

Stephen Joel Albert (6 February 1941 – 27 December 1992) was an American composer.

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Stephen Pearcy

Stephen Eric Pearcy (born July 3, 1956), is an American musician.

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Stephen Sondheim

Stephen Joshua Sondheim (born March 22, 1930) is an American composer and lyricist known for more than a half-century of contributions to musical theater.

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Stereo Concert

Stereo Concert is the Kingston Trio's second live album, released in 1959 (see 1959 in music).

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Steve Hindalong

Steve Hindalong (born November 29, 1959) is an American drummer, percussionist, songwriter and producer best known for his work with the alternative rock band The Choir.

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Steve Strange

Steven John Harrington (28 May 1959 – 12 February 2015), better known by his stage name Steve Strange, was a Welsh pop singer.

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Stray Cats

Stray Cats is an American rockabilly band formed in 1979 by guitarist and vocalist Brian Setzer, double bassist Lee Rocker, and drummer Slim Jim Phantom in the Long Island town of Massapequa, New York.

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Strictly Instrumental (album)

Recorded over the span of more than 18 months, Strictly Instrumental was the ninth rock and roll album by Bill Haley & His Comets, and their final album of new material for Decca Records (although Decca would release previously unissued recordings during the 1960s).

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String Quartet No. 2 (Carter)

The Second String Quartet by American composer Elliott Carter was completed in 1959.

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Supro Ozark 1560 S

The Supro Ozark 1560 S is a vintage electric guitar.

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Susan Cowsill

Susan Claire Cowsill (born May 20, 1959; Canton, Ohio) is a musician, vocalist and songwriter.

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Susan Metcalfe Casals

Susan Metcalfe Casals (1878 – 1959) was an American mezzo-soprano who married Pau Casals, the cellist.

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Susanna Hoffs

Susanna Lee Hoffs (born January 17, 1959) is an American vocalist, guitarist and actress.

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Suzanne Vega

Suzanne Nadine Vega (born July 11, 1959) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and record producer, best known for her eclectic folk-inspired music.

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Sven-Erik Bäck

Sven-Erik Bäck (16 September 1919 – 10 January 1994) was a Swedish composer of classical music.

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Sweet Nothin's

Sweet Nothin's is a 1959 song by Brenda Lee written by Ronnie Self.

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Sweeter Than You

"Sweeter Than You" is a song written by Baker Knight and performed by Ricky Nelson.

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Swing Along

Swing Along is an LP album by The Four Lads, released by Columbia Records as catalog number CS 8106 in 1959.

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Swing Me an Old Song

Swing Me an Old Song is an LP album by Julie London, released by Liberty Records under catalog numbers LRP-3119 (monaural) and LST-7119 (stereophonic) in 1959.

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Sylvano Bussotti

Sylvano Bussotti (born 1 October 1931) is an Italian composer of contemporary music whose work is unusually notated and often creates special problems of interpretation.

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Sylvia Fine

Sylvia Fine (August 29, 1913October 28, 1991) was an American lyricist, composer, and producer, and the wife of the comedian Danny Kaye.

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Symphony No. 2 (Dutilleux)

Henri Dutilleux's Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 2 (Lilburn)

The Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 9 (Milhaud)

The Symphony No.

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Tadeusz Baird

Tadeusz Baird (26 July 19282 September 1981) was a Polish composer.

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Take a Message to Mary

"Take a Message to Mary" is a song released in 1959 by The Everly Brothers.

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Take Me Along

Take Me Along is a musical based on the Eugene O'Neill play Ah, Wilderness, with music and lyrics by Bob Merrill and book by Joseph Stein and Robert Russell.

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Tall Paul

"Tall Paul" is a song recorded by Annette Funicello and written by the Sherman Brothers.

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Tōru Takemitsu

was a Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory.

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Teddy Scholten

Dorothea Margaretha "Teddy" Scholten (née van Zwieteren; 11 May 1926 – 8 April 2010) was a Dutch singer from Rijswijk, close to The Hague, Netherlands.

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Teen Angel (song)

"Teen Angel" is a teenage tragedy song written by Jean Dinning (1924–2011) and her husband, Red Surrey, and performed by both Jean's brother, Mark Dinning, and Alex Murray in 1959.

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Terry Gilkyson

Hamilton Henry "Terry" Gilkyson III (June 17, 1916 – October 15, 1999) was an American folk singer, composer, and lyricist.

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The Alarm

The Alarm are a Welsh alternative rock/new wave band that formed in Rhyl, Wales, in 1981.

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The Bangles

The Bangles are an American pop rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1981.

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The Battle of New Orleans

"The Battle of New Orleans" is a song written by Jimmy Driftwood.

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The Best Is Yet to Come

"The Best is Yet to Come" is a 1959 song composed by Cy Coleman, with lyrics written by Carolyn Leigh.

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The Best of Everything (film)

The Best of Everything is a 1959 American romantic drama film released by 20th Century-Fox, and starring Hope Lange, Diane Baker, Suzy Parker, Stephen Boyd, Louis Jourdan, Robert Evans, and Joan Crawford.

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The Big Bopper

Jiles Perry "J.

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The Browns

The Browns were an American country and folk music vocal trio best known for their 1959 Grammy-nominated hit, "The Three Bells".

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The Cadillacs

The Cadillacs were an American rock and roll and doo-wop group from Harlem, New York, active from 1953 to 1962.

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The Cats (album)

The Cats is an album credited to jazz musicians Tommy Flanagan, John Coltrane, Kenny Burrell, and Idrees Sulieman, released in 1959 on New Jazz, a subsidiary label of Prestige Records.

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The Clovers

The Clovers are an American rhythm and blues/doo-wop vocal group who became one of the biggest selling acts of the 1950s.

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The Coasters

The Coasters are an American rhythm and blues/rock and roll vocal group who had a string of hits in the late 1950s.

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The Cowsills

The Cowsills are an American singing group from Newport, Rhode Island, six siblings noted for performing professionally and singing harmonies at an early age, later with their mother.

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The Cure

The Cure are an English rock band formed in Crawley, West Sussex, in 1976.

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The Day the Music Died

On February 3, 1959, American rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson were killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, together with pilot Roger Peterson.

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The DeFranco Family

The DeFranco Family, featuring Tony DeFranco, was a 1970s pop music group and family from Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada.

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The Drifters

The Drifters are a long-lasting American doo-wop and R&B/soul vocal group.

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The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers were an American country-influenced rock and roll duo, known for steel-string acoustic guitar playing and close harmony singing.

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The Five Pennies

The Five Pennies is a semi-biographical 1959 film starring Danny Kaye as cornet player and bandleader Loring Red Nichols.

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The Flamingos

The Flamingos are a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-inducted doo-wop group from the United States, most popular in the mid- to late 1950s and best known for their 1959 cover version of "I Only Have Eyes for You".

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The Fleetwoods

The Fleetwoods were an American singing group from Olympia, Washington, whose members were Gary Troxel, Gretchen Christopher, and Barbara Ellis.

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The Four Lads

The Four Lads is a Canadian male singing quartet.

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The Genius of Ray Charles

The Genius of Ray Charles is the sixth studio album by American recording artist Ray Charles, released in 1959 by Atlantic Records.

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The Go-Go's

The Go-Go's are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1978.

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The Hanging Tree

The Hanging Tree is a 1959 Technicolor Western film directed by Delmer Daves.

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The Hanging Tree (Marty Robbins song)

The Hanging Tree is a western ballad from the 1959 movie The Hanging Tree.

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The Happy Organ

"The Happy Organ" is the name of an instrumental composition made famous by Dave "Baby" Cortez in 1959.

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The Hard Travelers

The Hard Travelers is a folk rock band formed to perform the music of Woody Guthrie, by Dave Sharp and Henry McCullough.

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The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness is a 1958 DeLuxe Color 20th Century Fox CinemaScope film based on the true story of Gladys Aylward, a tenacious British maid, who became a missionary in China during the tumultuous years leading up to the Second World War.

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The Kingston Trio

The Kingston Trio is an American folk and pop music group that helped launch the folk revival of the late 1950s to late 1960s.

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The Lady Is a Square

The Lady Is a Square is a 1959 British comedy musical film directed by Herbert Wilcox and featuring Anna Neagle, Frankie Vaughan and Janette Scott.

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The Little Drummer Boy

"The Little Drummer Boy" (originally known as "Carol of the Drum") is a popular Christmas song written by the American classical music composer and teacher Katherine Kennicott Davis in 1941.

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The Lonely Goatherd

"The Lonely Goatherd" is a popular show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music that makes use of yodeling.

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The Love Doctor

The Love Doctor is a 1929 American comedy film directed by Melville W. Brown and written by Guy Bolton, Herman J. Mankiewicz, and J. Walter Ruben based upon a play by Victor Mapes and Winchell Smith.

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The Mating Game (film)

The Mating Game (1959) is an MGM Metrocolor film in CinemaScope directed by George Marshall and starring Debbie Reynolds, Tony Randall, and Paul Douglas in his final screen appearance.

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The Matys Brothers

The Matys Brothers were a rockabilly musical act made up of the four Matys brothers, and their sister Vera for a time, were born and raised in Chester, in the Philadelphia area.

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The Models

The Models (credited also as Models) was a short-lived punk band formed in Harrow, London, England.

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The Platters

The Platters is an American vocal group formed in 1952.

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The Recording Academy

The Recording Academy (formerly the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences or NARAS) is a U.S. organization of musicians, producers, recording engineers, and other recording professionals.

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The Same Old Me

"The Same Old Me" is a 1959 single by Ray Price.

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The Shadows

The Shadows (originally known as The Drifters) were an English instrumental rock group, and were Cliff Richard's backing band from 1958 to 1968, having also collaborated again on numerous reunion tours.

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The Shape of Jazz to Come

The Shape of Jazz to Come is the third album by jazz musician Ornette Coleman.

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The Skyliners

The Skyliners are an American doo-wop group from Pittsburgh.

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The Song You Heard When You Fell in Love

The Song You Heard When You Fell in Love was an LP album issued by Atlantic Records in 1958, featuring vocalist Betty Johnson.

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The Sound of Music

The Sound of Music is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse.

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The Sound of Music (song)

“The Sound of Music” is the title song from the 1959 musical The Sound of Music. It was composed by Richard Rodgers with lyrics written by Oscar Hammerstein II.

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The Supremes

The Supremes were an American female singing group and the premier act of Motown Records during the 1960s.

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The Three Bells

"The Three Bells", also known as "Jimmy Brown" or "Little Jimmy Brown", is a song made popular by the Browns in 1959.

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The Twist (song)

"The Twist" is an American pop song written and originally released in early 1959 (having been recorded on 11/11/1958) by Hank Ballard and the Midnighters as a B-side to "Teardrops on Your Letter".

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The Village of St. Bernadette (song)

"The Village of St.

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The Wolfmen

The Wolfmen are an English rock music band formed in 2004, and centred on Marco Pirroni (guitars, co-writer) and Chris Constantinou (bass guitar, lead vocals, co-writer).

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The Wonder of You

"The Wonder of You" is a song written by Baker Knight.

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The Young Land

The Young Land is a 1959 American Western drama film directed by Ted Tetzlaff starring Patrick Wayne and Dennis Hopper.

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Thea Musgrave

Thea Musgrave CBE (born 27 May 1928) is a Scottish composer of opera and classical music.

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Theatre Royal Stratford East

The Theatre Royal Stratford East is a large theatre in Stratford in the London Borough of Newham.

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Thema (Omaggio a Joyce)

Thema (Omaggio a Joyce) is an electroacoustic composition by Luciano Berio, for voice and tape.

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There Goes My Baby (The Drifters song)

"There Goes My Baby" is a song written by Ben E. King (Benjamin Nelson), Lover Patterson, George Treadwell and produced by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller for The Drifters.

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They Might Be Giants

They Might Be Giants (often abbreviated as TMBG) is an American alternative rock band formed in 1982 by John Flansburgh and John Linnell.

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This Magic Moment

"This Magic Moment" is a song composed by lyricist Doc Pomus and pianist Mort Shuman, and is one of their best-known songs.

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This Old Man

"This Old Man" is an English language children's song, counting and nursery rhyme with a Roud Folk Song Index number of 3550.

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Three New England Sketches

Three New England Sketches by Walter Piston is a symphonic suite dating from 1959.

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Three Steps to Heaven (song)

"Three Steps to Heaven" is a song co-written and recorded by Eddie Cochran, released in 1960.

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Tikhon Khrennikov

Tikhon Nikolayevich Khrennikov (Ти́хон Никола́евич Хре́нников; – 14 August 2007), HSL, PAU, was a Russian and Soviet composer, pianist, and leader of the Union of Soviet Composers, who was also known for his political activities.

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Till There Was You

"Till There Was You" is a song written by Meredith Willson for his musical play The Music Man (1957), and which also appeared in the 1962 movie version.

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Time Out (album)

Time Out is a studio album by the American jazz group the Dave Brubeck Quartet, released in 1959 on Columbia Records.

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Tom Glazer

Thomas Zachariah Glazer (September 2, 1914 – February 21, 2003) was an American folk singer and songwriter known primarily as a composer of ballads, including: "Because All Men Are Brothers", recorded by The Weavers and Peter, Paul and Mary, "Talking Inflation Blues", recorded by Bob Dylan, and "A Dollar Ain't A Dollar Anymore".

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Tom Lehrer

Thomas Andrew Lehrer (born April 9, 1928) is a retired American musician, singer-songwriter, satirist, and mathematician.

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Tommy Edwards

Thomas J. Edwards (February 17, 1922 – October 22, 1969) was an American singer and songwriter.

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Tommy Steele

Tommy Steele, (born Thomas Hicks, 17 December 1936) is an English entertainer, regarded as Britain's first teen idol and rock and roll star.

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Tommy the Toreador

Tommy the Toreador is a 1959 British musical comedy film directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring Tommy Steele, Janet Munro, Sid James, Bernard Cribbins, Noell Purcell and Kenneth Williams.

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Toni Fisher

Toni Fisher (December 4, 1924 – January 11, 1999), also known as Miss Toni Fisher and also known as Toni F. Monzello was an American pop singer.

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Toshiro Mayuzumi

Toshiro Mayuzumi (黛 敏郎 Mayuzumi Toshirō; 20 February 1929, in Yokohama – 10 April 1997, in Kawasaki) was a Japanese composer known for his implementation of avant-garde instrumentation alongside traditional Japanese musical techniques.

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Tracey Ullman

Tracey Ullman (born 30 December 1959) is an English actress, comedian, singer, dancer, screenwriter, producer, director, author, and businesswoman.

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Travellin' Light

"Travellin' Light" is a UK No.

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UB40

UB40 are an English reggae and pop band, formed in December 1978 in Birmingham, England.

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Usha Khanna

Usha Khanna (उषा खन्ना; born 7 October 1941) is an Indian music director in Hindi cinema.

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Vadim Salmanov

Vadim Nikolayevich Salmanov (4 November 1912, in Saint Petersburg – 27 February 1978, in Leningrad) was a Russian/Soviet composer.

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Vaughan and Violins

Vaughan and Violins is a 1959 studio album by Sarah Vaughan, orchestrated and conducted by Quincy Jones.

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Venus (Frankie Avalon song)

"Venus" is a song written by Ed Marshall and Peter DeAngelis.

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Vienna

Vienna (Wien) is the federal capital and largest city of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria.

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Vincent Persichetti

Vincent Ludwig Persichetti (June 6, 1915 – August 14, 1987) was an American composer, teacher, and pianist.

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Virgil Thomson

Virgil Thomson (November 25, 1896September 30, 1989) was an American composer and critic.

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Visage (band)

Visage were a British synthpop band, formed in London in 1978.

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Vladimir Ussachevsky

Vladimir Alexeevich Ussachevsky (November 3, 1911 in Hailar, China – January 2, 1990 in New York, New York) was a composer, particularly known for his work in electronic music.

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Wally Gold

Wally Gold (May 15, 1928 – June 7, 1998) was an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and music business executive from Teaneck, New Jersey.

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Walt Disney Pictures

Walt Disney Pictures, Inc. is an American film studio and a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, owned by The Walt Disney Company.

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Walter Pidgeon

Walter Davis Pidgeon (September 23, 1897 – September 25, 1984) was a Canadian-American actor.

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Walter Piston

Walter Hamor Piston Jr, (January 20, 1894 – November 12, 1976), was an American composer of classical music, music theorist, and professor of music at Harvard University.

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Wanda Landowska

Wanda Aleksandra Landowska (5 July 1879 – 16 August 1959) was a Polish-French harpsichordist whose performances, teaching, recordings and writings played a large role in reviving the popularity of the harpsichord in the early 20th century.

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Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros.

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Waterloo (Stonewall Jackson song)

"Waterloo" was a number-one hit for country singer Stonewall Jackson in 1959.

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Waylon Jennings

Waylon Arnold Jennings (pronounced; June 15, 1937 – February 13, 2002) was an American singer, songwriter, and musician.

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Włodzimierz Kotoński

Włodzimierz Kotoński (23 August 1925 – 4 September 2014) was a Polish composer.

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We Got Love (Bobby Rydell song)

"We Got Love" is a song written by Bernie Lowe and Kal Mann.

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Wellington

Wellington (Te Whanganui-a-Tara) is the capital city and second most populous urban area of New Zealand, with residents.

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Wellington Town Hall

The Wellington Town Hall (Te Whare Whakarauika) is a concert hall and part of the municipal complex in Wellington, New Zealand, which opened in December 1904.

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Werner Egk

Werner Egk (17 May 1901 – 10 July 1983), born Werner Joseph Mayer, was a German composer.

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Werner Meyer-Eppler

Werner Meyer-Eppler (30 April 1913 – 8 July 1960), was a Belgian-born German physicist, experimental acoustician, phoneticist and information theorist.

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West End theatre

West End theatre is a common term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of "Theatreland" in and near the West End of London.

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What a Diff'rence a Day Made

"What a Diff'rence a Day Made", also recorded as "What a Diff'rence a Day Makes", is a popular song originally written in Spanish by María Grever, a Mexican songwriter, in 1934 with the title "Cuando vuelva a tu lado" ("When I Return to Your Side").

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What a Diff'rence a Day Makes!

What a Diff'rence a Day Makes! is a 1959 album by Dinah Washington, arranged by Belford Hendricks, featuring her hit single of the same name.

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What About Us (The Coasters song)

"What About Us" is a song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and performed by The Coasters.

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What Do You Want? (Adam Faith song)

"What Do You Want?" was a 1959 song that became a number one hit in the United Kingdom for Adam Faith.

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What'd I Say

"What'd I Say" (or "What I Say") is an American rhythm and blues song by Ray Charles, released in 1959.

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Where the Boys Are (Connie Francis song)

Where the Boys Are is a song written by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield for, and first recorded by, Connie Francis as the title track of the 1960 movie by the same name in which she was co-starring.

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Why (Frankie Avalon song)

"Why" is a hit song recorded by Frankie Avalon in 1959 that went to No.

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Wilbert Harrison

Wilbert Huntington Harrison (January 5, 1929 – October 26, 1994) was an American rhythm and blues singer, pianist, guitarist and harmonica player.

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Wilfrid Hyde-White

Wilfrid Hyde-White (12 May 1903 – 6 May 1991) was an English character actor of stage, film and television, who achieved international recognition in his later years for his role as Colonel Pickering in the 1964 film version of the musical My Fair Lady.

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William Alwyn

William Alwyn, born William Alwyn Smith (7 November 1905 – 11 September 1985), was an English composer, conductor, and music teacher.

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William Axt

William Axt (April 19, 1888 – February 13, 1959) was an American composer of nearly two hundred film scores.

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William Bolcom

William Elden Bolcom (born May 26, 1938) is an American composer and pianist.

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William Schuman

William Howard Schuman (August 4, 1910February 15, 1992) was an American composer and arts administrator.

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William Walton

Sir William Turner Walton, OM (29 March 19028 March 1983) was an English composer.

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Witold Lutosławski

Witold Roman Lutosławski (25 January 1913 – 7 February 1994) was a Polish composer and orchestral conductor.

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Yasuhiro Kobayashi

coba,, is a Japanese musician, accordionist, composer and arranger.

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Yep!

"Yep!" is a song written by Duane Eddy and Lee Hazlewood and performed by Eddy.

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Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky

Yevgeniy Aronovich Dolmatovsky (May 5, 1915 – September 10, 1994) was a Soviet poet and a Russian popular song lyricist.

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Yoritsune Matsudaira

was a Japanese composer of contemporary classical music.

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Your Hit Parade

Your Hit Parade is an American radio and television music program that was broadcast from 1935 to 1953 on radio, and seen from 1950 to 1959 on television.

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Your Number Please

Your Number Please is an LP album by Julie London, released by Liberty Records under catalog number LRP 3130.

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Youssou N'Dour

Youssou N'Dour (born 1 October 1959) is a Senegalese singer, songwriter, composer, occasional actor, businessman, and politician.

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Zyklus

Zyklus für einen Schlagzeuger (English: Cycle for a Percussionist) is a composition by Karlheinz Stockhausen, assigned Number 9 in the composer's catalog of works.

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(Now and Then There's) A Fool Such as I

"(Now and Then There's) A Fool Such as I" is a popular song written by Bill Trader and was published in 1952.

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(Till) I Kissed You

"('Till) I Kissed You" is a song written by Don Everly of The Everly Brothers.

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... Au delà du hasard

Au delà du hasard (Beyond Chance) is a composition for three women’s voices (SSA) and four instrumental groups, by the French composer Jean Barraqué, written in 1958–59.

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...From the Hungry i

...from the Hungry i is the Kingston Trio's first live album, released in 1959 (see 1959 in music).

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1959 in British music

This is a summary of 1959 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year.

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1959 in country music

This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1959.

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1959 in jazz

This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1959.

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1959 in Norwegian music

The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1959 in Norwegian music.

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1st Annual Grammy Awards

The 1st Annual Grammy Awards were held on May 4, 1959.

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2002 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2002.

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50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong

Elvis' Gold Records, Volume 2, also known as 50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong, is the ninth album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, issued by RCA Victor in November 1959.

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77 Sunset Strip

77 Sunset Strip is an American television private detective series created by Roy Huggins and starring Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Roger Smith, and Edd Byrnes.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959_in_music