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Even Worse

Index Even Worse

Even Worse is the fifth studio album by "Weird Al" Yankovic, released on April 12, 1988. [1]

103 relations: "Weird Al" Yankovic, "Weird Al" Yankovic (album), A. H. Belo, Accordion, Album, Alimony, AllMusic, ARIA Charts, Backing vocalist, Bad (album), Bad (Michael Jackson song), Banjo, Bass guitar, Beastie Boys, Beat It, Billboard 200, Billboard Hot 100, Billy Idol, Bobby Bloom, California, Charles Manson, Chicago, Comedy music, Cover version, Digital First Media, Drum kit, Eat It, Engineer, Fat (song), Folk music, Gannett Company, George Harrison, George Michael, Got My Mind Set on You, Grammy Award, Grammy Award for Best Concept Music Video, Guitar, I Think We're Alone Now, Illinois, James Taylor, Jim West (guitarist), Jon Schwartz (drummer), Keyboard instrument, Kitsch, La Bamba (song), Lasagna (song), List of music recording certifications, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Daily News, Los Lobos, ..., Mandolin, Michael Jackson, Milton Bradley Company, Mony Mony, Moonwalker, MTV, Music recording certification, Nicolette Larson, Off the Deep End, Official New Zealand Music Chart, Ogg, Oingo Boingo, Parody, Percussion instrument, Peter & the Wolf ("Weird Al" Yankovic & Wendy Carlos album), Pitchfork (website), Polka, Polka Party!, Pop music, Prince (musician), Record producer, Recording Industry Association of America, Rick Derringer, Rock 'n Roll Records, Rock music, Rolling Stone, RPM (magazine), Rudy Clark, Saxophone, Scotti Brothers Records, Scratching, Singing, Stalking, Steve Jay, Stitcher Radio, Synthesizer, The A.V. Club, The Dallas Morning News, The McCoys, The Onion, The Police, The Weird Al Show, Thriller (Michael Jackson album), Tiffany Darwish, Tommy James, Tommy James and the Shondells, Twister (game), UK Singles Chart, United States, USA Today, Vanna White, Velvet Elvis, 31st Annual Grammy Awards. Expand index (53 more) »

"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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"Weird Al" Yankovic (album)

"Weird Al" Yankovic is the debut album by American parodist Alfred "Weird Al" Yankovic.

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A. H. Belo

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Accordion

Accordions (from 19th-century German Akkordeon, from Akkord—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type, colloquially referred to as a squeezebox.

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Album

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape or another medium.

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Alimony

Alimony (also called aliment (Scotland), maintenance (England, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Wales, Canada), spousal support (U.S., Canada) and spouse maintenance (Australia)) is a legal obligation on a person to provide financial support to their spouse before or after marital separation or divorce.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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ARIA Charts

The ARIA Charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association.

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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 (album)

Bad is the seventh studio album by American singer and songwriter Michael Jackson, released on August 31, 1987 in the United States by Epic Records and internationally by CBS Records.

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Bad (Michael Jackson song)

"Bad" is a song by American singer Michael Jackson.

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Banjo

The banjo is a four-, five- or six-stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity as a resonator, called the head.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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Beastie Boys

The Beastie Boys were an American rap rock band from New York City, formed in 1979.

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Beat It

"Beat It" is a song written and performed by American singer Michael Jackson from his sixth solo album, Thriller (1982).

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Billy Idol

William Michael Albert Broad (born 30 November 1955), known professionally as Billy Idol, is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and actor.

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Bobby Bloom

Robert Bloom (January 15, 1946 – February 28, 1974) was an American singer-songwriter.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Charles Manson

Charles Milles Manson (né Maddox, November 12, 1934November 19, 2017) was an American criminal, cult leader, and songwriter.

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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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Comedy music

Comedy music is music that is comic or humorous in nature, encompassing a wide variety of music genres.

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Cover version

In popular music, a cover version, cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording by someone other than the original artist or composer of a previously recorded, commercially released song.

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Digital First Media

Digital First Media, formerly MediaNews Group, is a management company specializing in newspapers in the United States.

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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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Eat It

"Eat It" is a 1984 song by comedy music artist "Weird Al" Yankovic.

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Engineer

Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are people who invent, design, analyze, build, and test machines, systems, structures and materials to fulfill objectives and requirements while considering the limitations imposed by practicality, regulation, safety, and cost.

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Fat (song)

"Fat" is a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic.

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Folk music

Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.

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Gannett Company

Gannett Company, Inc. is a publicly traded American media holding company headquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia, near McLean in Greater Washington DC.

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George Harrison

George Harrison (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English guitarist, singer-songwriter, and producer who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles.

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George Michael

Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou (25 June 1963 – 25 December 2016), known professionally as George Michael, was an English singer, songwriter, record producer, and philanthropist who rose to fame as a member of the music duo Wham! He was widely known for his work in the 1980s and 1990s, including hit singles such as "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" and "Last Christmas", and albums such as Faith (1987) and Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 (1990).

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Got My Mind Set on You

"Got My Mind Set on You" is a song written and composed by Rudy Clark and originally recorded by James Ray in 1962, under the title "I've Got My Mind Set on You".

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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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Grammy Award for Best Concept Music Video

The Grammy Award for Best Concept Music Video was an award that was presented to recording artists at the 30th Grammy Awards in 1988, and the 31st Grammy Awards in 1989, for quality, concept music videos.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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I Think We're Alone Now

"I Think We're Alone Now" is a song written and composed by Ritchie Cordell that was the title selection from a same-named album released by the American recording artists Tommy James and the Shondells.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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James Taylor

James Vernon Taylor (born March 12, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.

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Jim West (guitarist)

James West (born December 18, 1953), also known as Kimo West, is a Canadian guitarist, best known for working with "Weird Al" Yankovic.

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Jon Schwartz (drummer)

Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz (born August 18, 1956) is a drummer best known for working with the singer-songwriter "Weird Al" Yankovic.

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Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers.

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Kitsch

Kitsch (loanword from German), also called cheesiness or tackiness, is art or other objects that appeal to popular rather than high art tastes.

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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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Lasagna (song)

"Lasagna" is a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic.

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List of music recording certifications

Music recording certifications are typically awarded by the global music industry based on the total units sold, streamed, or shipped to retailers.

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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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Los Angeles Daily News

The Los Angeles Daily News is the second-largest-circulating paid daily newspaper of Los Angeles, California.

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Los Lobos

Los Lobos (Spanish for "the Wolves") are an American rock band from East Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Mandolin

A mandolin (mandolino; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is usually plucked with a plectrum or "pick".

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Michael Jackson

Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, and dancer.

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Milton Bradley Company

The Milton Bradley Company was an American board game manufacturer established by Milton Bradley in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1860.

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Mony Mony

"Mony Mony" is a 1968 single by American pop rock band Tommy James and the Shondells, which reached No.

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Moonwalker

Michael Jackson's Moonwalker is a 1988 American anthology musical film starring Michael Jackson.

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MTV

MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks (a division of Viacom) and headquartered in New York City.

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Music recording certification

Music recording certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped, sold, or streamed a certain number of units.

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Nicolette Larson

Nicolette Larson (July 17, 1952 – December 16, 1997) was an American pop singer.

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Off the Deep End

Off the Deep End is the seventh studio album by "Weird Al" Yankovic, released in 1992.

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Official New Zealand Music Chart

The Official New Zealand Music Chart is the weekly New Zealand top 40 singles and albums charts, issued weekly by Recorded Music NZ (formerly Recording Industry Association of New Zealand).

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Ogg

Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation.

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Oingo Boingo

Oingo Boingo was an American new wave band, formed by songwriter Danny Elfman in 1979.

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Parody

A parody (also called a spoof, send-up, take-off, lampoon, play on something, caricature, or joke) is a work created to imitate, make fun of, or comment on an original work—its subject, author, style, or some other target—by means of satiric or ironic imitation.

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Percussion instrument

A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater (including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles); struck, scraped or rubbed by hand; or struck against another similar instrument.

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Peter & the Wolf ("Weird Al" Yankovic & Wendy Carlos album)

Peter & the Wolf/Carnival of the Animals – Part II is a studio album by American parody singer-songwriter and musician "Weird Al" Yankovic and composer and keyboardist Wendy Carlos, released in October 1988 on CBS Records.

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Pitchfork (website)

Pitchfork is an American online magazine launched in 1995 by Ryan Schreiber, based in Chicago, Illinois and owned by Condé Nast.

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Polka

The polka is originally a Czech dance and genre of dance music familiar throughout Europe and the Americas.

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Polka Party!

Polka Party! is the fourth studio album by "Weird Al" Yankovic, released on October 21, 1986.

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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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Prince (musician)

Prince Rogers Nelson (June 7, 1958 – April 21, 2016) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer and filmmaker.

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Record producer

A record producer or track producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performer's music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album.

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Recording Industry Association of America

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the recording industry in the United States.

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Rick Derringer

Rick Derringer (born Ricky Dean Zehringer; August 5, 1947) is an American guitarist, vocalist, Grammy Award-winning producer and entertainer.

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Rock 'n Roll Records

Rock 'n Roll Records was a subsidiary record label under Scotti Brothers Records (sometimes spelled Scotti Bros. Records), which was a California-based record label founded by Tony and Ben Scotti.

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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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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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RPM (magazine)

RPM (and later) was a Canadian music industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada.

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Rudy Clark

Rudy Clark (born Rudolph Clark, 1935) is an American songwriter.

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Saxophone

The saxophone (also referred to as the sax) is a family of woodwind instruments.

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Scotti Brothers Records

Scotti Brothers Records (sometimes spelled Scotti Bros. Records) was a California-based record label founded by Tony and Ben Scotti in 1974.

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Scratching

Scratching, sometimes referred to as scrubbing, is a DJ and turntablist technique of moving a vinyl record back and forth on a turntable to produce percussive or rhythmic sounds.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Stalking

Stalking is unwanted or repeated surveillance by an individual or group towards another person.

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Steve Jay

Eugene Stephen "Steve" Jay (born January 26, 1951) is an American bassist, best known for working with "Weird Al" Yankovic.

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Stitcher Radio

Stitcher is an on-demand Internet radio service that focuses on news and information radio and podcasts.

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Synthesizer

A synthesizer (often abbreviated as synth, also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates electric signals that are converted to sound through instrument amplifiers and loudspeakers or headphones.

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The A.V. Club

The A.V. Club is an entertainment website featuring reviews, interviews, and other articles that examine films, music, television, books, games, and other elements of pop culture media.

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The Dallas Morning News

The Dallas Morning News is a daily newspaper serving the Dallas–Fort Worth area of Texas, with an average of 271,900 daily subscribers.

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The McCoys

The McCoys were a rock group formed in Union City, Indiana, in 1962.

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The Onion

The Onion is an American digital media company and news satire organization that publishes articles on international, national, and local news.

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The Police

The Police were a British rock band formed in London in 1977.

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The Weird Al Show

The Weird Al Show is a short-lived American television show hosted by "Weird Al" Yankovic.

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Thriller (Michael Jackson album)

Thriller is the sixth studio album by American singer Michael Jackson, released on November 30, 1982, in the United States by Epic Records and internationally by CBS Records.

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Tiffany Darwish

Tiffany Renee Darwish (born October 2, 1971), simply known by her mononym Tiffany, is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and former teen icon.

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Tommy James

Tommy James (born Thomas Gregory Jackson; April 29, 1947) is an American pop rock musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer, widely known as leader of the 1960s rock band Tommy James and the Shondells.

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Tommy James and the Shondells

Tommy James and the Shondells are an American rock band, formed in Niles, Michigan in 1964.

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Twister (game)

Twister is a game of physical skill, produced by Milton Bradley Company and Winning Moves, that has been inducted into the American National Toy Hall of Fame.

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UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently entitled Official Singles Chart) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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USA Today

USA Today is an internationally distributed American daily, middle-market newspaper that serves as the flagship publication of its owner, the Gannett Company.

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Vanna White

Vanna White (born Vanna Marie Rosich; February 18, 1957) is an American television personality and film actress known as the hostess of Wheel of Fortune since 1982.

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Velvet Elvis

A Velvet Elvis is a painting of Elvis Presley on velvet.

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31st Annual Grammy Awards

The 31st Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 22, 1989, at Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles.

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References

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