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Don McLean

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Donald McLean III (born October 2, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter. [1]

172 relations: Abruzzo, Addicted to Black, Adult Contemporary (chart), American Pie (album), American Pie (song), American Top 40, And I Love You So (Don McLean album), And I Love You So (song), Arista Records, Arthur Rankin Jr., Asthma, Babylon (Mad Men), Bachelor's degree, Believers (Don McLean album), Berkeley, California, Billboard 200, Billboard Hot 100, Boston, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, Buddy Holly, Business administration, Caffè Lena, Camden, Maine, Carnegie Hall, Carol Sauvion, Casey Kasem, Castles in the Air (song), Catholic Church, Central Italy, Chain Lightning (album), Charles Fox (composer), Christmas (Don McLean album), Christmas Dreams, Cissy Houston, Claude François, Clive Davis, Columbia University, Crying (Roy Orbison song), Curb Records, Domestic violence, Don McLean (album), Drake (musician), Elvis Presley, EMI, EMI America Records, Engelbert Humperdinck (singer), Erik Darling, Everyday (Buddy Holly song), Fat Wreck Chords, Favorites and Rarities, ..., Fillmore East, Folk music, Folk rock, For the Memories Vols I & II, Frank Sinatra, Fred Astaire, Fred Hellerman, Fugees, George Michael, George Reeves, Glastonbury Festival, Glen Campbell, Grammy Hall of Fame, Harold Leventhal, Headroom (Don McLean album), Helen Reddy, Homeless Brother, Houston, Howard Keel, Hudson River, Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Hugh McCracken, Iona College (New York), Iona Preparatory School, Jack Kerouac, Jake Bugg, Jim Brown (director), Joel Dorn, Joel Whitburn, Josh Groban, Josh Groban (album), Jules Bass, Killing Me Softly with His Song, Lee Hays, Lonesome Traveler, Lori Lieberman, Los Angeles, Love Tracks (Don McLean album), Mad Men, Madonna (entertainer), Masterpiece, Mediarts Records, Melody Maker, Mike Mills, Misdemeanor, Mr. Cinders, Nanci Griffith, Nashville, Tennessee, National Endowment for the Arts, New Rochelle, New York, New York (state), New York Daily News, New York State Council on the Arts, Newport Folk Festival, Night school, NOFX, Norman Gimbel, Oh Shenandoah, Olivia Newton-John, PBS, Perry Como, Pete Seeger, Philip Hayes (composer), Pilton, Somerset, Playin' Favorites, Port Chester, New York, Prime Time (Don McLean album), Psalm 137, Rearview Mirror: An American Musical Journey, Recording Industry Association of America, Ritchie Valens, Rob Stoner, Roberta Flack, Rock music, Roy Orbison, Royal Albert Hall, RPM (magazine), Saratoga Springs, New York, Scotland, Shirley Bassey, Since I Don't Have You, Singer-songwriter, Sings Marty Robbins, Songs of the Century, Songwriters Hall of Fame, Stagecoach Festival, Superman, Tapestry (Don McLean album), Terri Sharp, The Big Bopper, The Bitter End, The Cellar Door, The Day the Music Died, The Flight of Dragons, The Gaslight Cafe, The Jordanaires, The Main Point, The New York Times, The Persuasions, The River of Love, The Weavers, The Weavers at Carnegie Hall, The Western Album, Thomas B. Allen (painter), Top of the Pops, Troubadour (West Hollywood, California), Tupac Shakur, UK Albums Chart, UK Singles Chart, United Artists Records, Vietnam War, Villanova University, Vincent (song), Vincent van Gogh, Warren Bernhardt, Washington, D.C., WCFL (AM), Wonderful Baby, You Can't Blame the Train, You've Got to Share Songs for Children, Yusef Lateef, 1973 in music. Expand index (122 more) »

Abruzzo

Abruzzo (Aquiliano: Abbrùzzu) is a region of Southern Italy, with an area of 10,763 square km (4,156 sq mi) and a population of 1.2 million.

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Addicted to Black

Addicted to Black is an album by singer-songwriter Don McLean, released in May 2009 his first of original material in 14 years.

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Adult Contemporary (chart)

The Adult Contemporary chart is published weekly by Billboard magazine and lists the most popular songs on adult contemporary radio stations in the United States.

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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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American Pie (song)

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

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American Top 40

American Top 40 (commonly abbreviated to AT40) is an internationally syndicated, independent song countdown radio program created by Casey Kasem, Don Bustany, Tom Rounds and Ron Jacobs.

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And I Love You So (Don McLean album)

And I Love You So is an album released by Don McLean in 1989 on EMI Records.

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And I Love You So (song)

"And I Love You So" is a popular song written by folk singer and guitarist Don McLean and released on his 1970 debut album, ''Tapestry''.

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Arista Records

Arista Records, Inc. was a major American record label.

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Arthur Rankin Jr.

Arthur Gardner Rankin Jr. (July 19, 1924 – January 30, 2014) was an American director, producer and writer, who mostly worked in animation.

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Asthma

Asthma is a common long-term inflammatory disease of the airways of the lungs.

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Babylon (Mad Men)

"Babylon" is the sixth episode of the first season of the American television drama series Mad Men.

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Bachelor's degree

A bachelor's degree (from Middle Latin baccalaureus) or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin baccalaureatus) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to seven years (depending on institution and academic discipline).

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Believers (Don McLean album)

Believers is a studio album by American singer-songwriter Don McLean, released on October 29, 1981.

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Berkeley, California

Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California.

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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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Boston

Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania

Bryn Mawr (pronounced; from Welsh for "Big hill") is a census-designated place (CDP) located across Radnor and Haverford Townships in Delaware County, Pennsylvania and Lower Merion Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, just west of Philadelphia along Lancaster Avenue (US-30) and the border with Delaware County.

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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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Business administration

Business administration is management of a business.

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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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Camden, Maine

Camden is a town in Knox County, Maine, United States.

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Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall (but more commonly) is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east side of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park.

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Carol Sauvion

Carol Sauvion is an American crafts scholar and patron, and the producer of the PBS series Craft in America.

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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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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Central Italy

Central Italy (Italia centrale or just Centro) is one of the five official statistical regions of Italy used by the National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT), a first level NUTS region and a European Parliament constituency.

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Chain Lightning (album)

Chain Lightning is an album by American singer-songwriter Don McLean.

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Charles Fox (composer)

Charles Ira Fox (born October 30, 1940) is an American composer for film and television.

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Christmas (Don McLean album)

Christmas is a 1991 album by American singer-songwriter Don McLean.

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Christmas Dreams

Christmas Dreams is an album by American singer-songwriter Don McLean, released in 1997.

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Cissy Houston

Emily "Cissy" Houston (née Drinkard; born September 30, 1933) is an American soul and gospel singer.

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Claude François

Claude Antoine Marie François (1 February 1939 – 11 March 1978), also known by the nickname Cloclo, was a French pop singer, composer, songwriter, producer, drummer and dancer.

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Clive Davis

Clive Jay Davis (born April 4, 1932) is an American record producer, A&R executive and music industry executive.

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Columbia University

Columbia University (Columbia; officially Columbia University in the City of New York), established in 1754, is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City.

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Crying (Roy Orbison song)

"Crying" is a ballad written by Roy Orbison and Joe Melson that was a hit for Roy Orbison.

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Curb Records

Curb Records (also known as Asylum-Curb and formerly known as MCG Curb) is an independent record label started by Mike Curb originally as Sidewalk Records in 1963.

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Domestic violence

Domestic violence (also named domestic abuse or family violence) is violence or other abuse by one person against another in a domestic setting, such as in marriage or cohabitation.

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Don McLean (album)

Don McLean is an album by American singer-songwriter Don McLean, released in 1972, peaking at number 23 on the ''Billboard'' 200 chart.

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Drake (musician)

Aubrey Drake Graham (born October 24, 1986) is a Canadian rapper, singer, songwriter, actor, and entrepreneur.

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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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EMI

EMI Group Limited (originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries and also referred to as EMI Records Ltd.) was a British multinational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London.

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EMI America Records

EMI America Records was started in 1978 by EMI as a second US label next to Capitol Records and Virgin Records America.

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Engelbert Humperdinck (singer)

Engelbert Humperdinck (born Arnold George Dorsey; 2 May 1936) is an English pop singer.

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Erik Darling

Erik Darling (September 25, 1933 – August 3, 2008) was an American songwriter and a folk music artist.

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Everyday (Buddy Holly song)

"Everyday" is a song written by Buddy Holly and Norman Petty, recorded by Buddy Holly and the Crickets on May 29, 1957, and released on September 20, 1957, as the B-side of "Peggy Sue".

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Fat Wreck Chords

Fat Wreck Chords (pronounced "Fat Records") is a San Francisco, California-based independent record label, focused on punk rock.

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Favorites and Rarities

Favorites and Rarities is a 1993 compilation album by American musician Don McLean.

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Fillmore East

Fillmore East was rock promoter Bill Graham's rock venue on Second Avenue near East 6th Street in the (at the time) Lower East Side neighborhood, now called the East Village neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan of New York City.

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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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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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For the Memories Vols I & II

For the Memories Vols I & II is an album by American singer-songwriter Don McLean, released in 1989.

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Frank Sinatra

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

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Fred Astaire

Fred Astaire (born Frederick Austerlitz; May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) was an American dancer, singer, actor, choreographer and television presenter.

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Fred Hellerman

Fred Hellerman (May 13, 1927 – September 1, 2016) was an American folk singer, guitarist, producer, and songwriter.

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Fugees

Fugees (sometimes The Fugees; formerly Tranzlator Crew) was an American hip hop group who rose to fame in the early-1990s.

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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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George Reeves

George Reeves (January 5, 1914 – June 16, 1959) was an American actor.

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Glastonbury Festival

Glastonbury Festival is a five-day festival of contemporary performing arts that takes place near Pilton, Somerset, England.

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Glen Campbell

Glen Travis Campbell (April 22, 1936 – August 8, 2017) was an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, television host, and actor.

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Grammy Hall of Fame

The Grammy Hall of Fame is a hall of fame to honor musical recordings of lasting qualitative or historical significance.

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Harold Leventhal

Harold Leventhal (May 24, 1919 – October 4, 2005) was an American music manager.

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Headroom (Don McLean album)

Headroom is the twelfth studio album by American singer-songwriter Don McLean, released in 1991.

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Helen Reddy

Helen Maxine Reddy (born 25 October 1941) is an Australian singer, actress and activist.

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Homeless Brother

Homeless Brother is an album by American singer-songwriter Don McLean, released in 1974. It was reissued by BGO Records in 1996.

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Houston

Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the fourth most populous city in the United States, with a census-estimated 2017 population of 2.312 million within a land area of.

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Howard Keel

Harry Clifford Keel (April 13, 1919November 7, 2004), known professionally as Howard Keel, was an American actor and singer.

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Hudson River

The Hudson River is a river that flows from north to south primarily through eastern New York in the United States.

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Hudson River Sloop Clearwater

The Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc. is a non-profit organization based in Beacon, New York that seeks to protect the Hudson River and surrounding wetlands and waterways through advocacy and public education.

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Hugh McCracken

Hugh Carmine McCracken (March 31, 1942 – March 28, 2013) was an American rock guitarist and session musician based in New York City, primarily known for his performance on guitar and also as a harmonica player.

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Iona College (New York)

Iona College is a private, comprehensive, four-year Catholic college that was founded in 1940 by the Congregation of Christian Brothers in New Rochelle, New York.

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Iona Preparatory School

Iona Preparatory School (commonly known as Iona Prep) is an independent, Roman Catholic, all-male, college preparatory school located in the north end of New Rochelle, New York, in suburban Westchester County.

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Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac (born Jean-Louis Kérouac (though he called himself Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac); March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American novelist and poet of French-Canadian descent.

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Jake Bugg

Jake Bugg (born Jake Edwin Charles Kennedy; 28 February 1994) is an English musician, singer, and songwriter.

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Jim Brown (director)

James Bradford Brown (born June 7, 1950) is an American film director, primarily known for his work in documentary film.

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Joel Dorn

Joel Dorn (April 7, 1942 – December 17, 2007) was an American jazz and R&B music producer and record label entrepreneur.

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Joel Whitburn

Joel Carver Whitburn (born November 29, 1939) is an American author and music historian.

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Josh Groban

Joshua Winslow "Josh" Groban (born February 27, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, actor, and record producer.

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Josh Groban (album)

Josh Groban is the first studio album by singer Josh Groban.

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Jules Bass

Jules Bass (born September 16, 1935) is an American director, producer, composer, lyricist, and author.

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Killing Me Softly with His Song

"Killing Me Softly with His Song" is a song composed by Charles Fox with lyrics by Norman Gimbel.

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Lee Hays

Lee Hays (March 14, 1914 – August 26, 1981) was an American folk-singer and songwriter, best known for singing bass with The Weavers.

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Lonesome Traveler

Lonesome Traveler is a collection of short stories and sketches by American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac, published in 1960.

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Lori Lieberman

Lori Lieberman (born November 15, 1951) is an American singer-songwriter who accompanies herself on guitar and piano.

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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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Love Tracks (Don McLean album)

Love Tracks is a country-oriented album released by Don McLean in 1987.

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Mad Men

Mad Men is an American period drama television series created by Matthew Weiner and produced by Lionsgate Television.

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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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Masterpiece

Masterpiece, magnum opus (Latin, great work) or chef-d’œuvre (French, master of work, plural chefs-d’œuvre) in modern use is a creation that has been given much critical praise, especially one that is considered the greatest work of a person's career or to a work of outstanding creativity, skill, profundity, or workmanship.

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Mediarts Records

Mediarts Records was a small record label founded by former Capitol Records executive Alan W. Livingston and producer Nik Venet.

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Melody Maker

Melody Maker was a British weekly music magazine, one of the world's earliest music weeklies, and—according to its publisher IPC Media—the earliest.

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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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Misdemeanor

A misdemeanor (American English, spelled misdemeanour in British English) is any "lesser" criminal act in some common law legal systems.

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Mr. Cinders

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Nanci Griffith

Nanci Caroline Griffith (born July 6, 1953) is an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter, reared in Austin, Texas, who currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County.

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National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence.

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New Rochelle, New York

New Rochelle is a city in Westchester County, New York, United States, in the southeastern portion of the state.

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New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

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New York Daily News

The New York Daily News, officially titled Daily News, is an American newspaper based in New York City.

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New York State Council on the Arts

The New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) is an arts council serving the U.S. state of New York.

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Newport Folk Festival

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

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Night school

A night school is an adult learning school that holds classes in the evening or at night to accommodate people who work during the day.

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NOFX

NOFX is an American punk rock band from Los Angeles, California.

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Norman Gimbel

Norman Gimbel (born November 16, 1927) is an American lyricist of popular songs, television and movie themes whose writing career includes such titles as "Sway", "Canadian Sunset", "Summer Samba", "The Girl from Ipanema", "Killing Me Softly with His Song", "Meditation", and "I Will Wait for You", along with an Oscar for "It Goes Like It Goes" - from the film Norma Rae.

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Oh Shenandoah

"Oh Shenandoah" (also called simply "Shenandoah" or "Across the Wide Missouri") is a traditional American folk song of uncertain origin, dating to the early 19th century.

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Olivia Newton-John

Olivia Newton-John, (born 26 September 1948) is an English-Australian singer, songwriter, actress, entrepreneur, and activist.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.

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Perry Como

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

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Pete Seeger

Peter Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer and social activist.

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Philip Hayes (composer)

Philip Hayes (baptised 17 April 1738 – 19 March 1797) was an English composer, organist, singer and conductor.

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Pilton, Somerset

Pilton is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated on the A361 road in the Mendip district, 3 miles (5 km) south-west of Shepton Mallet and 6 miles (10 km) east of Glastonbury.

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Playin' Favorites

Playin' Favorites is an album by American singer-songwriter Don McLean, released in 1973.

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Port Chester, New York

Port Chester is a village in Westchester County, New York, United States.

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Prime Time (Don McLean album)

Prime Time is an album by American singer-songwriter Don McLean, released in December 1977.

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Psalm 137

Psalm 137 (Greek numbering: Psalm 136) is the 137th psalm of the Book of Psalms, a Communal lament about being in exile after the Babylonian captivity, and yearning for Jerusalem.

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Rearview Mirror: An American Musical Journey

Rearview Mirror: An American Musical Journey is an album by American singer-songwriter Don McLean, released in 2005.

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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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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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Roberta Flack

Roberta Cleopatra Flack (born February 10, 1937) is an American singer.

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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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Roy Orbison

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

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Royal Albert Hall

The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, London, which has held the Proms concerts annually each summer since 1941.

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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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Saratoga Springs, New York

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

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Scotland

Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.

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Shirley Bassey

Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey, (born 8 January 1937) is a Welsh singer whose career began in the mid-1950s, best known both for her powerful voice and for recording the theme songs to the James Bond films Goldfinger (1964), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), and Moonraker (1979).

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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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Singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose, and perform their own musical material, including lyrics and melodies.

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Sings Marty Robbins

Don McLean Sings Marty Robbins is an album by American singer-songwriter Don McLean, released in 2001.

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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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Songwriters Hall of Fame

The Songwriters Hall of Fame (SHOF), was founded in 1969 by songwriter Johnny Mercer and music publisher/songwriter Abe Olman and publisher/executive Howie Richmond to honor those whose work represents and maintains the heritage and legacy of a spectrum of the most beloved songs from the world's popular music songbook.

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Stagecoach Festival

The Stagecoach Festival is an outdoor country music festival presented by Goldenvoice, The Messina Group, and Moore Entertainment and founded by Paul Tollett.

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Superman

Superman is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

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Tapestry (Don McLean album)

Tapestry is the debut studio album by American folk singer Don McLean.

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Terri Sharp

Terri Sharp (born March 24, 1948 – 17 December 2015) was a gold record-winning American songwriter and vocalist.

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The Big Bopper

Jiles Perry "J.

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The Bitter End

The Bitter End is a 230-person capacity nightclub, coffeehouse and folk music venue in New York City's Greenwich Village.

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The Cellar Door

The Cellar Door was a 163-seat music club at 34th and M Street NW in Washington, D.C. from 1965 through 1981.

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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 Flight of Dragons

The Flight of Dragons is a 1982 animated fantasy film produced by Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin, Jr. and loosely combining the speculative natural history book of the same name (1979) by Peter Dickinson with the novel The Dragon and the George (1976) by Gordon R. Dickson.

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The Gaslight Cafe

The Gaslight Cafe was a coffeehouse in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York.

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The Jordanaires

The Jordanaires were an American vocal quartet that formed as a gospel group in 1948.

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The Main Point

The Main Point was a small coffeehouse venue on Lancaster Ave.

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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 Persuasions

The Persuasions are an a cappella group that began singing together in Brooklyn, New York in the mid-1960s.

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The River of Love

The River of Love is an album by American singer-songwriter Don McLean, released in 1995.

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The Weavers

The Weavers were an American folk music quartet based in the Greenwich Village area of New York City.

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The Weavers at Carnegie Hall

At Carnegie Hall is the second album by The Weavers.

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The Western Album

The Western Album is an album by American singer-songwriter Don McLean, released in 2003.

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Thomas B. Allen (painter)

Thomas Burt Allen (1928 – November 8, 2004) was an American painter and illustrator known for a moody and expressionist style that pushed the boundaries of commercial art in the 1950s and 60s.

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Top of the Pops

Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and originally broadcast weekly between 1 January 1964 and 30 July 2006.

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Troubadour (West Hollywood, California)

The Troubadour is a nightclub located in West Hollywood, California, United States, at 9081 Santa Monica Boulevard just east of Doheny Drive and the border of Beverly Hills.

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Tupac Shakur

Tupac Amaru Shakur (born Lesane Parish Crooks; June 16, 1971September 13, 1996), also known by his stage names Tupac, 2Pac and Makaveli, was an American rapper and actor.

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UK Albums Chart

The Official Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales and (from March 2015) audio streaming in the United Kingdom.

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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 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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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War (Chiến tranh Việt Nam), also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America (Kháng chiến chống Mỹ) or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

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Villanova University

Villanova University is a private research university located in Radnor Township, a suburb northwest of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, within the Archdiocese of Philadelphia in the United States.

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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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Vincent van Gogh

Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art.

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Warren Bernhardt

Warren Bernhardt (born in November 1938) is a pianist in jazz, pop and classical music.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.

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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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Wonderful Baby

"Wonderful Baby" is a song written and originally recorded by Don McLean.

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You Can't Blame the Train

"You Can't Blame the Train" is a song written by American singer-songwriter Terri Sharp.

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You've Got to Share Songs for Children

You've Got to Share: Songs for Children is an album by American singer-songwriter Don McLean, released in 2003.

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Yusef Lateef

Yusef Abdul Lateef (born William Emanuel Huddleston; October 9, 1920 – December 23, 2013) was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer and prominent figure among the Ahmadiyya Community in America, in 1950.

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1973 in music

This is a list of music-related events in 1973.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_McLean

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