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A cappella
A cappella (Italian for "in the manner of the chapel") music is specifically group or solo singing without instrumental accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way.
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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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Adult contemporary music
Adult contemporary music (AC) is a North American term used to describe a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, rhythm and blues, quiet storm, and rock influence.
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African Americans
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.
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After 7
After 7 is an R&B group founded in 1987 by brothers Melvin and Kevon Edmonds, and Keith Mitchell.
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Answer song
An answer song, response song or answer record, is, as the name suggests, a song (usually a recorded track) made in answer to a previous song, normally by another artist.
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Backing vocalist
Backing vocalists are singers who provide vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists.
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Bad Girl (The Miracles song)
"Bad Girl" is a 1959 doo-wop single by The Miracles.
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Ballad
A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music.
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Baltimore
Baltimore is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maryland, and the 30th-most populous city in the United States.
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Barbershop music
Barbershop vocal harmony, as codified during the barbershop revival era (1930s–present), is a style of a cappella close harmony, or unaccompanied vocal music, characterized by consonant four-part chords for every melody note in a predominantly homophonic texture.
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Barbershop quartet
A barbershop quartet is a group of four singers who sing music in the barbershop genre of singing, which uses four-part harmony without accompaniment by any instruments such as piano, a style called a capella.
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Barry Mann
Barry Mann (born Barry Imberman; February 9, 1939) is an American songwriter, and part of a successful songwriting partnership with his wife, Cynthia Weil.
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Bass (voice type)
A bass is a type of classical male singing voice and has the lowest vocal range of all voice types.
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Beach music
Beach music, also known as Carolina beach music, and to a lesser extent, Beach pop, is a regional genre which developed from various rock/R&B/pop music of the 1950s and 1960s.
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Beat (music)
In music and music theory, the beat is the basic unit of time, the pulse (regularly repeating event), of the mensural level (or beat level).
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Beat music
Beat music, British beat, or Merseybeat (after bands from Liverpool and nearby areas beside the River Mersey) is a pop and rock music genre that developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1960s.
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Bewildered
"Bewildered" is a popular song written in 1936 by Teddy Powell and Leonard Whitcup.
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Bill Kenny (singer)
William Francis Kenny Jr. (June 12, 1914 – March 23, 1978), known professionally as Bill Kenny, was a pioneering African American tenor vocalist with a wide vocal range spanning four octaves.
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Billboard (magazine)
Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.
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Billy Joel
William Martin Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer and pianist.
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Billy Ward and his Dominoes
Billy Ward and his Dominoes were an African-American R&B vocal group.
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Blondie (band)
Blondie is an American rock band founded by singer Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris Stein.
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Blue Moon (1934 song)
"Blue Moon" is a classic popular song written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart in 1934, and has become a standard ballad.
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Blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.
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Boogie
Boogie is a repetitive, swung note or shuffle rhythm,Burrows, Terry (1995).
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Brill Building (genre)
Brill Building (also known as Brill Building pop or the Brill Building Sound) is a subgenre of pop music originating from the Brill Building in New York City, where numerous teams of professional songwriters penned material for girl groups and teen idols in the early 1960s.
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British Invasion
The British Invasion was a cultural phenomenon of the mid-1960s when rock and pop music acts from the United Kingdom and other aspects of British culture, became popular in the United States and significant to rising "counterculture" on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Bruno Mars
Peter Gene Hernandez (born October 8, 1985), known professionally as Bruno Mars, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and dancer.
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By the Way
By the Way is the eighth studio album by American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers.
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California
California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.
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California (Mr. Bungle album)
California is the third and final studio album by American experimental rock band Mr. Bungle.
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Cats and the Fiddle
The Cats and the Fiddle was an African American singing group which formed in 1937 in Chicago and lasted until 1951, releasing more than 30 songs in that span of time.
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Chicago
Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.
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Chord progression
A chord progression or harmonic progression is a succession of musical chords, which are two or more notes, typically sounded simultaneously.
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Cincinnati
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Collegiate a cappella
Collegiate a cappella (or college a cappella) ensembles are college-affiliated singing groups, primarily in the United States and, increasingly, the United Kingdom and Ireland, that perform entirely without musical instruments.
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Come Go with Me
"Come Go with Me" is a song written by C. E. Quick (a.k.a. Clarence Quick), an original member (bass vocalist) of the American doo-wop vocal group The Del-Vikings (also spelled Dell Vikings on Dot records releases, with no dash).
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Crossover music
Crossover is a term applied to musical works or performers who appeal to different types of audience, for example (especially in the United States) by appearing on two or more of the record charts which track differing musical styles or genres.
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Cruising with Ruben & the Jets
Cruising with Ruben & the Jets is the fourth studio album by the Mothers of Invention.
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Crying in the Chapel
"Crying in the Chapel" is a song written by Artie Glenn for his son Darrell to sing.
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Daddy Cool (The Rays song)
"Daddy Cool" is a song by US doo-wop group The Rays and was released on Cameo Records as the B-side of their 1957 single "Silhouettes".
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Denise (song)
"Denise" is a song written by Neil Levenson.
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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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Dion DiMucci
Dion Francis DiMucci (born July 18, 1939), better known mononymously as Dion, is an American singer, songwriter whose work has incorporated elements of doo-wop, rock and R&B styles—and, most recently, straight blues.
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Doo Wa Ditty (Blow That Thing)/A Touch of Jazz (Playin' Kinda Ruff Part II)
"Doo Wa Ditty (Blow That Thing)" / "A Touch of Jazz (Playin' Kinda Ruff Part II)" is a single performed by Zapp, issued as the lead single from their second studio album Zapp II.
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Doo Wop 50
Doo Wop 50 was a PBS pledge drive special created and produced for PBS member station WQED-TV by TJ Lubinsky, grandson of Herman Lubinsky (founder of Savoy Records).
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Double bass
The double bass, or simply the bass (and numerous other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra.
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Drum kit
A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.
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Earth Angel
"Earth Angel" (occasionally referred to as "Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)") is a song by American doo-wop group the Penguins.
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East Coast of the United States
The East Coast of the United States is the coastline along which the Eastern United States meets the North Atlantic Ocean.
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Electric guitar
An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals.
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Elvis Costello
Declan Patrick MacManus (born 25 August 1954), better known by his stage name Elvis Costello, is an English musician, singer, songwriter, composer, record producer, author, television presenter, and occasional actor.
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Enka
is a popular Japanese music genre considered to resemble traditional Japanese music stylistically.
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Four-part harmony
The term "four-part harmony" refers to music written for four voices or for some other musical medium—four musical instruments or a single keyboard instrument, for example—where the various musical parts can give a different note for each chord of the music.
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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 Zappa
Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, activist and filmmaker.
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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 Lymon
Franklin Joseph Lymon (September 30, 1942 – February 27, 1968), known professionally as Frankie Lymon, was an American rock and roll/rhythm and blues singer and songwriter, best known as the boy soprano lead singer of the New York City-based early rock and roll group The Teenagers.
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Gee (The Crows song)
"Gee", released in June 1953 by The Crows, is a song which has been credited as the first rock and roll hit by a rock and roll group.
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Get a Job (song)
"Get a Job" is a song by the Silhouettes released in November 1957.
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Girl group
A girl group is a music act featuring several female singers who generally harmonize together.
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Gospel music
Gospel music is a genre of Christian music.
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Harmony
In music, harmony considers the process by which the composition of individual sounds, or superpositions of sounds, is analysed by hearing.
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Heart and Soul (Hoagy Carmichael and Frank Loesser song)
"Heart and Soul" is a popular song composed by Hoagy Carmichael with lyrics by Frank Loesser.
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Hoagy Carmichael
Hoagland Howard "Hoagy" Carmichael (November 22, 1899 – December 27, 1981) was an American composer, pianist, singer, actor, and bandleader.
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Huey Lewis and the News
Huey Lewis and the News is an American pop rock band based in San Francisco, California.
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I Don't Mind (James Brown song)
"I Don't Mind" is a rhythm and blues song written by James Brown and performed by Brown and the Famous Flames.
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I Promise to Remember
"I Promise to Remember" is a song written by Jimmy Castor and Jimmy Smith and performed by Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers featuring Jimmy Wright and His Orchestra.
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I Wonder Why
"I Wonder Why" is a doo-wop song, written by Melvin Anderson and Ricardo Weeks (lyrics), and first recorded by Dion and the Belmonts (released as Laurie Records' first single, number 3013), becoming the group's first national pop chart hit, in 1958.
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I'm Not a Juvenile Delinquent
"I'm Not a Juvenile Delinquent" is a song written by George Goldner and performed by Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers.
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If I Didn't Care
"If I Didn't Care" is a song written by Jack Lawrence that was originally sung and recorded by The Ink Spots featuring Bill Kenny in 1939.
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In the Still of the Night (The Five Satins song)
"In the Still of the Night", also subsequently titled "In the Still of the Nite", is a song written by Fred Parris and recorded by his Five Satins.
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Instrumentation
Instrumentation is a collective term for measuring instruments used for indicating, measuring and recording physical quantities, and has its origins in the art and science of scientific instrument-making.
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It's All Right
"It's All Right" is a 1963 song recorded by The Impressions and written by the group's lead singer, Curtis Mayfield.
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It's Too Soon to Know
"It's Too Soon to Know" is an American doo-wop ballad by Deborah Chessler (1923-2012), performed first by The Orioles.
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Italian Americans
Italian Americans (italoamericani or italo-americani) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans who have ancestry from Italy.
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James Brown
James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, musician, record producer and bandleader.
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Jan and Dean
Jan and Dean were an American rock duo consisting of William Jan Berry (April 3, 1941 – March 26, 2004) and Dean Ormsby Torrence (born March 10, 1940).
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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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Johnny Cymbal
Johnny Cymbal (born John Hendry Blair; February 3, 1945 – March 16, 1993) was a Scottish-born American songwriter, singer, and record producer who had numerous hit records, including his signature song, "Mr.
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Johnny Maestro & the Brooklyn Bridge
Johnny Maestro & the Brooklyn Bridge (known as The Brooklyn Bridge Band since 2010) is an American musical group, best known for their million-selling rendition of Jimmy Webb's "Worst That Could Happen" (1968).
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Jump blues
Jump blues is an up-tempo style of blues, usually played by small groups and featuring saxophone or brass instruments.
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Lillian Leach
Lillian Leach (December 20, 1936 – April 26, 2013), also known by her married name, Lillian Leach Boyd, was an American singer who performed lead vocals with the Bronx-based doo-wop group the Mellows.
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List of best-selling singles
This article is a compendium of the best-selling music singles.
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List of doo-wop musicians
This is a list of doo-wop musicians.
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List of vocal groups
A vocal group is a group of singers who sing and harmonize together with a backup band.
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Little Anthony and the Imperials
Little Anthony and the Imperials is an American rhythm and blues/soul vocal group from New York City founded by Clarence Collins in the 1950s and named in part for its lead singer, Jerome Anthony "Little Anthony" Gourdine, who was noted for his high-pitched voice.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.
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Lovers Who Wander
"Lovers Who Wander" is a popular song written by Dion DiMucci and Ernie Maresca.
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Meghan Trainor
Meghan Elizabeth Trainor (born December 22, 1993) is an American singer and songwriter.
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Mr. Bungle
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New wave music
New wave is a genre of rock music popular in the late 1970s and the 1980s with ties to mid-1970s punk rock.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Newark, New Jersey
Newark is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey and the seat of Essex County.
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Nick Lowe
Nicholas Drain Lowe (born 24 March 1949), known as Nick Lowe, is an English singer-songwriter, musician, and producer.
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Nino and the Ebb Tides
Nino and the Ebb Tides were a doo-wop musical group based in the Bronx, New York, formed in 1956.
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Only You (And You Alone)
"Only You (And You Alone)" (often shortened to "Only You") is a pop song composed by Buck Ram.
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Onomatopoeia
An onomatopoeia (from the Greek ὀνοματοποιία; ὄνομα for "name" and ποιέω for "I make", adjectival form: "onomatopoeic" or "onomatopoetic") is a word that phonetically imitates, resembles or suggests the sound that it describes.
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Ooo Baby Baby
"Ooo Baby Baby" is a song written by Smokey Robinson and Pete Moore.
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Ostinato
In music, an ostinato (derived from Italian: stubborn, compare English, from Latin: 'obstinate') is a motif or phrase that persistently repeats in the same musical voice, frequently at the same pitch.
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Paper Doll (song)
"Paper Doll" was a hit song for The Mills Brothers.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.
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Piano
The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700 (the exact year is uncertain), in which the strings are struck by hammers.
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Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and is the county seat of Allegheny County.
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Please, Please, Please
"Please, Please, Please" is a rhythm and blues song performed by James Brown and the Famous Flames.
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Pop music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.
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Pop rock
Pop rock (also typeset as pop/rock) is rock music with a greater emphasis on professional songwriting and recording craft, and less emphasis on attitude.
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Power pop
Power pop is a rock music subgenre that draws its inspiration from 1960s British and American rock music.
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Psychedelia
Psychedelia is the subculture, originating in the 1960s, of people who often use psychedelic drugs such as LSD, mescaline (found in peyote) and psilocybin (found in some mushrooms).
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Punk rock
Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.
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Ragtime progression
The ragtime progression is a chord progression characterized by a chain of secondary dominants following the circle of fifths, named for its popularity in the ragtime genre, despite being much older.
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Ramones
The Ramones were an American punk rock band that formed in the New York City neighborhood of Forest Hills, Queens, in 1974.
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Randy & the Rainbows
Randy & the Rainbows are an American doo-wop group from Maspeth, New York.
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Red Hot Chili Peppers
Red Hot Chili Peppers are an American funk rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1983.
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Red Robin Records
Red Robin Records was a record label that began in 1951 as "Robin Records" in New York City.
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Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.
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Robert John
Robert John (born Robert John Pedrick, Jr. January 3, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter perhaps best known for his 1979 hit single, "Sad Eyes", which reached No.
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Rock and roll
Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950sJim Dawson and Steve Propes, What Was the First Rock'n'Roll Record (1992),.
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Rock music
Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.
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Rodgers and Hart
Rodgers and Hart were an American songwriting partnership between composer Richard Rodgers (1902–1979) and the lyricist Lorenz Hart (1895–1943).
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Ruby Baby
"Ruby Baby" is a song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.
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Runaround Sue
"Runaround Sue" is a pop song, in a modified doo-wop style, originally a US No.
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Saxophone
The saxophone (also referred to as the sax) is a family of woodwind instruments.
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Scat singing
In vocal jazz, scat singing is vocal improvisation with wordless vocables, nonsense syllables or without words at all.
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Self-reference
Self-reference occurs in natural or formal languages when a sentence, idea or formula refers to itself.
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Sh-Boom
"Sh-Boom" (sometimes referred to as "Life Could Be a Dream") is an early doo-wop song.
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Sha Na Na
Sha Na Na is an American rock and roll group.
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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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Sincerely (song)
"Sincerely" is a popular song written by Harvey Fuqua and Alan Freed and published in 1954.
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Sixty Minute Man
"Sixty Minute Man" is a rhythm and blues (R&B) record released in 1951 by Billy Ward and his Dominoes.
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Soul music
Soul music (often referred to simply as soul) is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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Spiritual (music)
Spirituals (or Negro spirituals) are generally Christian songs that were created by African Americans.
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Surf music
Surf music is a subgenre of rock music associated with surf culture, particularly as found in Southern California.
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Surfer Girl (song)
"Surfer Girl" is a song written, produced and sung by Brian Wilson for American rock band the Beach Boys.
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Surfin'
"Surfin'" is a song by American rock band the Beach Boys, written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love.
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Swing (jazz performance style)
In music, the term swing has two main uses.
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Swing music
Swing music, or simply swing, is a form of popular music developed in the United States that dominated in the 1930s and 1940s.
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Tenor
Tenor is a type of classical male singing voice, whose vocal range is normally the highest male voice type, which lies between the baritone and countertenor voice types.
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The "5" Royales
The "5" Royales was an American rhythm and blues (R&B) vocal group from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States, that combined gospel, jump blues and doo-wop, marking an early and influential step in the evolution of rock & roll music.
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The ABC's of Love
"The ABC's of Love" is a song written by George Goldner and Richard Barrett and performed by Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers featuring Jimmy Wright and His Orchestra.
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The Beach Boys
The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California, in 1961.
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The Blue Jays
The Blue Jays were a short-lived American doo wop ensemble from Venice, California.
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The Book of Love (song)
"The Book of Love" (also titled "(Who Wrote) The Book of Love") is a rock and roll / doo-wop song, originally by The Monotones.
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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 Capris
The Capris are an American doo wop group who became a one-hit wonder in 1961 with "There's a Moon Out Tonight." They experienced a popularity and performing resurgence in the 1980s, when three members reformed and The Manhattan Transfer recorded their song, "Morse Code of Love," which reached the US Hot 100 and the U.S. AC top 20.
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The Cardinals
The Cardinals were American R&B group of the 1950s.
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The Chaperones
The Chaperones are one of the first street corner harmony Doo wop groups formed in Farmingdale, Long Island, New York in the late 1950s.
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The Chicago Defender
The Chicago Defender is a Chicago-based weekly newspaper founded in 1905 by Robert S. Abbott for primarily African-American readers.
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The Chimes (US band)
The Chimes (later Lenny Cocco & the Chimes) were an American doo wop group from Brooklyn.
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The Chords (American band)
The Chords were a 1950s American doo-wop group, whose only hit was "Sh-Boom".
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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 Crests
The Crests were an American doo-wop group, formed by bass vocalist J.T. Carter in the mid 1950s.
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The Crows
The Crows were an American R & B singing group who achieved commercial success in the 1950s.
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The Del-Satins
The Del-Satins were an American vocal group, most active in the early 1960s, who recorded on their own but are best remembered for their harmonies on hit records for Dion and others.
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The Del-Vikings
The Del-Vikings (also known as The Dell-Vikings) are an American doo-wop musical group, who recorded several hit singles in the 1950s, and continued to record and tour with various lineups in later decades.
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The Delta Rhythm Boys
The Delta Rhythm Boys were an American vocal group active for over 50 years from 1934 to 1987.
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The Demensions
The Demensions are an American doo wop group from The Bronx, New York.
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The Diamonds
The Diamonds are a Canadian vocal quartet that rose to prominence in the 1950s and early 1960s with 16 Billboard hit records.
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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 Duprees
The Duprees are an American musical group of doo-wop style who had a series of hit records in the early 1960s.
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The Earls
The Earls, sometimes credited as Larry Chance and the Earls, were a popular recording group from the 1960s formed in The Bronx, New York.
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The Earth Angels
The Earth Angels are a Spanish doo-wop vocal group formed in Catalonia.
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The Edsels
The Edsels were an American doo-wop group active during the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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The Elegants
The Elegants is an American doo-wop vocal group, that was started in 1958 by Vito Picone, Arthur Venosa, Frank Tardogno, Carman Romano and James Moschello in South Beach, Staten Island, New York.
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The Famous Flames
The Famous Flames were an American rhythm and blues vocal group founded in Toccoa, Georgia, in 1953 by Bobby Byrd.
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The Five Keys
The Five Keys was an American rhythm and blues vocal group that was instrumental in shaping this genre in the 1950s.
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The Five Satins
The Five Satins are an American doo-wop group, best known for their 1956 million-selling song, "In the Still of the Night.".
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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 Buddies
The Four Buddies were an American doo-wop group, based in Baltimore, Maryland.
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The Four Seasons (band)
The Four Seasons is an American rock and pop band that became internationally successful in the 1960s and 1970s.
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The Gaylords (American vocal group)
The Gaylords were an American singing trio, consisting of Ronald L. Fredianelli (who changed his name for performances to Ronnie Gaylord, taken from the group name), Bonaldo Bonaldi (who also, in 1976, changed his name to Burt Holiday, at which time the group became Gaylord and Holiday), and Don Rea (who had left the group by the time it became Gaylord & Holiday).
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The Glory of Love (song)
"The Glory of Love" is a song written by Billy Hill, recorded by Benny Goodman in 1936, whose version was a number one pop hit.
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The Great Pretender
"The Great Pretender" is a popular song recorded by The Platters, with Tony Williams on lead vocals, and released as a single on November 3, 1955.
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The Impalas
The Impalas were an American doo-wop group in the late 1950s, best known for their hit, "Sorry (I Ran All the Way Home)".
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The Impressions
The Impressions are an American music group originally formed in 1958.
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The Ink Spots
The Ink Spots were an American pop vocal group who gained international fame in the 1930s and 1940s.
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The Larks
The Larks were an African American vocal group, active in the early 1950s.
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The Lion Sleeps Tonight
"The Lion Sleeps Tonight" is a song written and recorded originally by Solomon Linda with the Evening Birds for the South African Gallo Record Company in 1939, under the title "Mbube".
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The Longest Time
"The Longest Time" is a doo-wop single by Billy Joel.
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The Marcels
The Marcels was an American doo-wop group known for turning popular music songs into rock and roll.
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The Mello-Kings
The Mello-Kings were a doo-wop group who became popular in the late 1950s with their song, "Tonite Tonite" (1957) The group consisted of brothers Jerry and Bob Scholl, Eddie Quinn, Neil Arena and Larry Esposito.
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The Mello-Moods
The Mello-Moods were an American R&B musical ensemble, operating from the late 1940s to mid-1950s.
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The Midnighters
The Midnighters were an American R&B group from Detroit, Michigan.
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The Mills Brothers
The Mills Brothers, sometimes billed the Four Mills Brothers, and originally known as the Four Kings of Harmony, were an African-American jazz and pop vocal quartet who made more than 2,000 recordings that sold more than 50 million copies and garnered at least three dozen gold records.
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The Miracles
The Miracles (also known as Smokey Robinson and the Miracles from 1965 to 1972) were an American rhythm and blues vocal group that was the first successful recording act for Berry Gordy's Motown Records, and one of the most important and influential groups in pop, rock and roll, and R&B music history.
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The Monotones
The Monotones were a six-member American doo-wop vocal group in the 1950s.
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The Mystics
The Mystics are an American rock and roll group that began in Brooklyn, New York, in the late 1950s.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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The Orioles
The Orioles were a successful and influential American R&B group of the late 1940s and early 1950s, one of the earliest such vocal groups who established the basic pattern for the doo-wop sound.
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The Passions (American band)
The Passions are an American doo-wop group from Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.
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The Penguins
The Penguins were an American doo-wop group of the 1950s and early 1960s, best remembered for their only Top 40 hit, "Earth Angel", which was one of the first rhythm and blues hits to cross over to the pop charts.
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The Platters
The Platters is an American vocal group formed in 1952.
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The Pretenders
The Pretenders are an English-American rock band formed in Hereford, England, in March 1978.
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The Ravens
The Ravens were an American R&B vocal group, formed in 1946 by Jimmy Ricks and Warren Suttles.
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The Regents (doo-wop band)
The Regents were an American doo-wop vocal group from New York, operating in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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The Rivingtons
The Rivingtons were a 1960s doo-wop group, known for their 1962 hit novelty record "Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow".
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The Skyliners
The Skyliners are an American doo-wop group from Pittsburgh.
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The Swallows
The Swallows were an American R&B group.
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The Teenagers
The Teenagers are an American-Puerto Rican doo wop group, most noted for being one of rock music's earliest successes, presented to international audiences by DJ Alan Freed.
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The Tokens
The Tokens are an American male doo-wop-style vocal group and record production company group from Brooklyn, New York.
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The Trade Winds
The Trade Winds was an American pop group formed in Providence, Rhode Island.
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The Tune Weavers
The Tune Weavers were an American vocal group formed in 1956.
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The Turbans
The Turbans were an African American doo-wop vocal group that formed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1953.
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The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground was an American rock band formed in 1964 in New York City by singer/guitarist Lou Reed, multi-instrumentalist John Cale, guitarist Sterling Morrison, and drummer Angus MacLise (replaced by Moe Tucker in 1965).
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The Wanderer (Dion song)
"The Wanderer" is a song written by Ernie Maresca and originally recorded by Dion.
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There's a Moon Out Tonight
"There's a Moon Out Tonight" is a song originally released in 1958 by The Capris.
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Think (The "5" Royales song)
"Think" is a rhythm and blues song written by Lowman Pauling and originally recorded by his group The "5" Royales.
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Tin Pan Alley
Tin Pan Alley is the name given to the collection of New York City music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century.
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Toby Beau
Toby Beau is a Texas band formed in the early 1970s perhaps best known for the 1978 hit single, "My Angel Baby".
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Try Me (James Brown song)
"Try Me", titled "Try Me (I Need You)" in its original release, is a song recorded by James Brown and The Famous Flames in 1958.
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Vito & the Salutations
Vito & the Salutations is an Italian/Irish/Jewish-American New York City doo wop group from the 1960s, whose first popular recording, "Gloria," was a regional hit.
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Vocal harmony
Vocal harmony is a style of vocal music in which a consonant note or notes are simultaneously sung as a main melody in a predominantly homophonic texture.
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Vocalese
Vocalese is a style or musical genre of jazz singing wherein words are sung note for note to melodies that were originally created by a soloist's improvisation.
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Where or When
"Where or When" is a show tune from the 1937 Rodgers and Hart musical Babes in Arms.
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Who Put the Bomp (in the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)
"Who Put the Bomp (in the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)" is a doo-wop style hit song from 1961 co-written (with Gerry Goffin) and recorded by Barry Mann.
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Who's Lovin' You
"Who's Lovin' You" is a Motown soul song, written in 1960 by William "Smokey" Robinson.
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Why Do Fools Fall in Love (song)
"Why Do Fools Fall in Love" is a song that was originally a hit for early New York City-based rock and roll group Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers in January 1956.
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Woodstock
The Woodstock Music & Art Fair—informally, the Woodstock Festival or simply Woodstock—was a music festival in the United States in 1969 which attracted an audience of more than 400,000.
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You Always Hurt the One You Love
"You Always Hurt the One You Love" is a pop standard, with words by Allan Roberts and music by Doris Fisher.
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Zapp (band)
Zapp (also known as the Zapp Band or Zapp & Roger) is an American funk band that emerged from Dayton, Ohio, in 1977.
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Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart
"Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart" is a 1934 popular song with words and music by James F. Hanley.
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(You Can) Depend on Me
"(You Can) Depend on Me" (TAMLA 54028), was a 1959 song by Motown Records group The Miracles, which also appeared on the group's first album, Hi... We're The Miracles (released in 1961).
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16 Candles (song)
"16 Candles" is a 1958 song performed by The Crests and written by Luther Dixon and Allyson R. Khent.
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50s progression
The 50s progression is a chord progression and turnaround used in Western popular music.
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References
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