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American Pie (song)

Index American Pie (song)

"American Pie" is a song by American singer and songwriter Don McLean. [1]

97 relations: "Weird Al" Yankovic, A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall, Altamont Free Concert, American Pie (album), Andrew Goodman, Association of Hungarian Record Companies, Audio engineer, Audio mixing (recorded music), Beautiful Stranger, Billboard (magazine), Billboard Hot 100, Bob Dylan, Buddy Holly, Caffè Lena, Casey Kasem, Castles in the Air (song), Celebration: The Video Collection, Charles Manson, Cold Spring, New York, Dance-pop, David Spinozza, Death of Meredith Hunter, Dinah Shore, Don McLean, Downloadable content, Elvis Presley, European Hot 100 Singles, Finland, Folk rock, GfK Entertainment Charts, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Harmonix, Hells Angels, It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding), James Chaney, Kent Music Report, La Isla Bonita, Laura Nyro, Library of Congress, Lip dub, List of Romanian Top 100 number ones of the 2000s, Madonna (entertainer), Mark Endert, Masters of War, Michael Schwerner, Mick Jagger, Mike Mills, Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, Music & Media, Music (Madonna song), ..., National Museum of Mathematics, National Recording Registry, New York (state), New York City, NME, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Official Charts Company, Paul Griffin (musician), Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Philipp Stölzl, Phonograph record, Pi, Productores de Música de España, Programming (music), R.E.M., Record producer, Recording Industry Association of America, Rico Conning, Ritchie Valens, Rob Stoner, Rock Band, Roger Ebert, Romanian Top 100, Rupert Everett, Saint Joseph's University, Saratoga Springs, New York, Singing, Sock hop, Songs of the Century, Songwriter, Sounds (magazine), Spike Stent, Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, Switzerland, Temple University, The Beatles, The Big Bopper, The Day the Music Died, The Next Best Thing, The Saga Begins, The Straight Dope, United Artists Records, Vincent (song), Warner Bros. Records, WCFL (AM), William Orbit. Expand index (47 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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A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall

"A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" is a song written by Bob Dylan in the summer of 1962 and recorded later that year for his second album, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan.

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Altamont Free Concert

The Altamont Speedway Free Festival was a counterculture-era rock concert in 1969 in the United States, held at the Altamont Speedway in northern California on Saturday, December 6.

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American Pie (album)

American Pie is the second studio album by the American singer-songwriter Don McLean, released by United Artists Records on 24 October 1971.

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Andrew Goodman

Andrew Goodman (November 23, 1943 – June 21, 1964) was one of three American activists of the Civil Rights Movement and also a social worker, murdered near Philadelphia, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer in 1964 by members of the Ku Klux Klan.

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Association of Hungarian Record Companies

The Hungarian Recording Industry Association (Hungarian: Magyar Hanglemezkiadók Szövetsége, more commonly abbreviated to MAHASZ or Mahasz) is the Hungarian music industry association, founded in 1992.

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Audio engineer

An audio engineer (also sometimes recording engineer or a vocal engineer) helps to produce a recording or a performance, editing and adjusting sound tracks using equalization and audio effects, mixing, reproduction, and reinforcement of sound.

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Audio mixing (recorded music)

In sound recording and reproduction, audio mixing is the process of combining multitrack recordings into a final mono, stereo or surround sound product.

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Beautiful Stranger

"Beautiful Stranger" is a song recorded by American singer and songwriter Madonna.

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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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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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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, and painter who has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades.

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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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Caffè Lena

Located in Saratoga Springs, New York, Caffè Lena is the oldest continually running coffee house in the United States.

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Casey Kasem

Kemal Amin "Casey" Kasem (April 27, 1932 – June 15, 2014) was an American disc jockey, music historian, radio personality, voice actor, and actor, known for being the host of several music radio countdown programs, most notably American Top 40, from 1970 until his retirement in 2009, and for providing the voice of Norville "Shaggy" Rogers in the Scooby-Doo franchise from 1969 to 1997, and again from 2002 until 2009.

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Castles in the Air (song)

"Castles in the Air" is a song by Don McLean.

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Celebration: The Video Collection

Celebration: The Video Collection is a greatest videos DVD compilation by American singer-songwriter Madonna.

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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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Cold Spring, New York

Cold Spring is a village in the town of Philipstown in Putnam County, New York, United States.

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Dance-pop

Dance-pop is a pop and dance subgenre that originated in the early 1980s.

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David Spinozza

David Spinozza is an American guitarist and producer.

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Death of Meredith Hunter

Meredith Curly Hunter, Jr. (October 24, 1951 – December 6, 1969) was an 18-year-old African-American man who was killed at the 1969 Altamont Free Concert.

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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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Don McLean

Donald McLean III (born October 2, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter.

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Downloadable content

Downloadable content (DLC) is additional content created for a released video game.

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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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European Hot 100 Singles

The European Hot 100 Singles was compiled by Billboard and Music & Media magazine from March 1984 until December 2010.

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Finland

Finland (Suomi; Finland), officially the Republic of Finland is a country in Northern Europe bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, and Gulf of Finland, between Norway to the north, Sweden to the northwest, and Russia to the east.

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Folk rock

Folk rock is a hybrid music genre combining elements of folk music and rock music, which arose in the United States and the United Kingdom in the mid-1960s.

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GfK Entertainment Charts

The GfK Entertainment Charts are the official music charts in Germany and are gathered and published by GfK Entertainment GmbH (formerly Media Control GmbH and Media Control GfK International GmbH) on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie (Federal Association of Phonographic Industry).

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Grand Rapids, Michigan

Grand Rapids is the second-largest city in Michigan, and the largest city in West Michigan.

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Harmonix

Harmonix Music Systems, Inc., doing business as Harmonix, is an American video game development company based in Boston, Massachusetts, best known for its music video games.

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Hells Angels

The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club (HAMC) is a worldwide one-percenter motorcycle club whose members typically ride Harley-Davidson motorcycles.

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It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)

"It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" is a song written and performed by Bob Dylan and first released on his 1965 album Bringing It All Back Home.

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James Chaney

James Earl Chaney (May 30, 1943 – June 21, 1964), from Meridian, Mississippi, was one of three American civil rights workers who was murdered during Freedom Summer by members of the Ku Klux Klan near Philadelphia, Mississippi.

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Kent Music Report

The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by music enthusiast David Kent from May 1974 through to 1988.

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La Isla Bonita

"La Isla Bonita" (The Beautiful Island) is a song by American singer Madonna from her third studio album True Blue (1986).

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Laura Nyro

Laura Nyro (born Laura Nigro, October 18, 1947 – April 8, 1997) was an American songwriter, singer, and pianist.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States.

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Lip dub

A lip dub is a type of music video that combines lip synching and audio dubbing to make a music video.

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List of Romanian Top 100 number ones of the 2000s

The Romanian Top 100 was an airplay–based and the national singles chart of Romania until 2012.

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Madonna (entertainer)

Madonna Louise Ciccone (born August 16, 1958) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman.

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Mark Endert

Mark Endert (born 1971, California) is an American music producer, mixer, arranger and musician.

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Masters of War

"Masters of War" is a song by Bob Dylan, written over the winter of 1962–63 and released on the album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan in the spring of 1963.

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Michael Schwerner

Michael Henry "Mickey" Schwerner (November 6, 1939 – June 21, 1964), was one of three Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) field/social workers killed in Philadelphia, Mississippi, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.

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Mick Jagger

Sir Michael Philip Jagger (born 26 July 1943), known professionally as Mick Jagger, is an English singer-songwriter, musician, composer and actor who gained fame as the lead singer and one of the founder members of the Rolling Stones.

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Mike Mills

Michael Edward Mills (born December 17, 1958) is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, and composer who was a founding member of the alternative rock band R.E.M. Though known primarily as a bass guitarist, backing vocalist, and pianist, his musical repertoire also includes keyboards, guitar, and percussion instruments.

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Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner

The murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, also known as the Freedom Summer murders, the Mississippi civil rights workers' murders or the Mississippi Burning murders, involved three activists that were abducted and murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi in June 1964 during the Civil Rights Movement.

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Music & Media

Music & Media was a pan-European magazine for radio, music and entertainment.

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Music (Madonna song)

"Music" is a song recorded by American singer Madonna as the title track for her eighth studio album (2000).

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National Museum of Mathematics

The National Museum of Mathematics or MoMath is a museum dedicated to mathematics in Manhattan, New York City.

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National Recording Registry

The National Recording Registry is a list of sound recordings that "are culturally, historically, or aesthetically important, and/or inform or reflect life in the United States." The registry was established by the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000, which created the National Recording Preservation Board, whose members are appointed by the Librarian of Congress.

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New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

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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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NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music journalism website and former magazine that has been published since 1952.

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Obi-Wan Kenobi

Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi is a fictional character in the ''Star Wars'' franchise.

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Official Charts Company

The Official Charts Company, also referred to as Official Charts (previously known as the Chart Information Network (CIN) and The Official UK Charts Company) is a British inter-professional organisation that compiles various "official" record charts in the United Kingdom, including the UK Singles Chart, the UK Albums Chart, the UK Singles Downloads Chart and the UK Album Downloads Chart, as well as genre-specific and music video charts.

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Paul Griffin (musician)

Paul Griffin (August 6, 1937 – June 14, 2000) was an American pianist and session musician who recorded with hundreds of musicians from the 1950s to the 1990s.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania German: Pennsylvaani or Pennsilfaani), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state located in the northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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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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Philipp Stölzl

Philipp Stölzl (born 1967 in Munich) is a German film director, opera director and screenwriter.

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Phonograph record

A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English, or record) is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.

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Pi

The number is a mathematical constant.

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Productores de Música de España

Productores de Música de España (Spanish Music Producers) (shortened as Promusicae, sometimes stylised PROMUSICAE) is the organisation responsible for the Spanish Albums Chart and other music charts.

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Programming (music)

Programming is a form of music production and performance using electronic devices, such as sequencers, to generate sounds of musical instruments.

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R.E.M.

R.E.M. was an American rock band from Athens, Georgia, that was formed in 1980 by drummer Bill Berry, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist/backing vocalist Mike Mills, and lead vocalist Michael Stipe.

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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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Rico Conning

Rico Conning is a producer, songwriter, sound designer, and guitarist.

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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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Rob Stoner

Robert David Rothstein (April 20, 1948, Manhattan, New York City, NY), better known as Rob Stoner, is an American multi-instrumental musician.

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Rock Band

Rock Band is a series of music video games developed by Harmonix and MTV Games, and distributed by Electronic Arts for the Nintendo DS, iOS, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PSP, Wii, Xbox One and Xbox 360 game systems.

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Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author.

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Romanian Top 100

The Romanian Top 100 was the national singles chart of Romania until 2012.

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Rupert Everett

Rupert James Hector Everett (born 29 May 1959) is an English actor and writer.

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Saint Joseph's University

Saint Joseph's University (also referred to as SJU or St. Joe's) is a private, coeducational Roman Catholic Jesuit university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Saratoga Springs, New York

Saratoga Springs is a city in Saratoga County, New York, United States.

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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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Sock hop

A sock hop or sox hop, often also called a record hop or just a hop, was an informal sponsored dance event for teenagers in mid-20th-century North America, featuring popular music.

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Songs of the Century

The "Songs of the Century" list is part of an education project by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the National Endowment for the Arts, and Scholastic Inc. that aims to "promote a better understanding of America's musical and cultural heritage" in American schools.

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Songwriter

A songwriter is a professional who is paid to write lyrics for singers and melodies for songs, typically for a popular music genre such as rock or country music.

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Sounds (magazine)

Sounds was a UK weekly pop/rock music newspaper, published from 10 October 1970 to 6 April 1991.

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Spike Stent

Mike "Spike" Stent (born 3 August 1965) is an English producer/mixing engineer who has worked with many international artists including: Madonna, Marshmello, U2, Beyoncé, Björk, Depeche Mode, Grimes, Ed Sheeran, Harry Styles, Frank Ocean, Selena Gomez, Spice Girls, Lady Gaga, Coldplay, Maroon 5, Muse, Lily Allen, Gwen Stefani, Moby, No Doubt, Lenka, Usher, Kaiser Chiefs, Linkin Park, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Oasis, Keane, Massive Attack, and Bastille.

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Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace

Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace is a 1999 American epic space opera written and directed by George Lucas, produced by Lucasfilm and distributed by 20th Century Fox.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Temple University

Temple University (Temple or TU) is a state-related research university located in the Cecil B. Moore neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960.

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The Big Bopper

Jiles Perry "J.

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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 Next Best Thing

The Next Best Thing is a 2000 American comedy-drama film, the final film directed by John Schlesinger.

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The Saga Begins

"The Saga Begins" is a parody song by "Weird Al" Yankovic of "American Pie" by Don McLean, with lyrics that humorously summarize the plot of the film Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace through the point of view of Obi-Wan Kenobi, one of the protagonists of the film, as well as Anakin's master.

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The Straight Dope

"The Straight Dope" was an online question-and-answer newspaper column published from 1973 to 2018 in the Chicago Reader and syndicated in eight newspapers in the United States.

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United Artists Records

United Artists Records was a record label founded by Max E. Youngstein of United Artists in 1957 to issue movie soundtracks.

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Vincent (song)

"Vincent" is a song by Don McLean written as a tribute to Vincent van Gogh.

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Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros.

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WCFL (AM)

WCFL (1000 AM) was the callsign of a commercial radio station in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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William Orbit

William Orbit (born William Mark Wainwright; 15 December 1956)"William Orbit." Contemporary Musicians.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Pie_(song)

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