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A Night on the Town (Rod Stewart album)
A Night on the Town is Rod Stewart's seventh album, released in 1976.
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Acclaimed Music
Acclaimed Music is a website created by Henrik Franzon, a statistician from Stockholm, SwedenMatt Rosoff, "The critics vs.
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Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).
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AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.
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Alto saxophone
The alto saxophone, also referred to as the alto sax, is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s, and patented in 1846.
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Andy Williams
Howard Andrew Williams (December 3, 1927 – September 25, 2012) was an American singer.
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Another Star
"Another Star" is a song written and performed by Stevie Wonder from his 1976 album Songs in the Key of Life.
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Arista Records
Arista Records, Inc. was a major American record label.
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ARP 2600
The ARP 2600 is a semi-modular analog subtractive audio synthesizer, designed by Dennis Colin for Alan R Pearlman, and manufactured by his company, ARP Instruments, Inc. as the follow-on version of the ARP 2500.
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Arrangement
In music, an arrangement is a musical reconceptualization of a previously composed work.
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As (song)
"As" is a song written and performed by Stevie Wonder from his 1976 album, Songs in the Key of Life.
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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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Avant-pop
Avant-pop is popular music that is experimental, new, and distinct from previous styles while retaining an immediate accessibility for the listener.
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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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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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BBC Online
BBC Online, formerly known as BBCi, is the BBC's online service.
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Bette Midler
Bette Midler (Inside the Actors Studio, 2004 born December 1, 1945) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, comedian, and film producer.
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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 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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Billboard Year-End
Billboard Year-End charts are a cumulative measure of a single or album's performance in the United States, based upon the Billboard magazine charts during any given chart year.
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Black Man (song)
"Black Man" is a track on the 1976 Stevie Wonder album Songs in the Key of Life.
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Bobbi Humphrey
Barbara Ann "Bobbi" Humphrey (born April 25, 1950) is an American jazz flutist and singer who plays fusion, jazz-funk and soul-jazz styles.
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Bobbye Hall
Bobbye Jean Hall Porter is an American percussionist who has recorded with a variety of rock, soul, blues and jazz artists, and has appeared on 22 songs that reached the top ten in the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, six of those reaching No.
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Boz Scaggs
William Royce "Boz" Scaggs (born June 8, 1944) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist.
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Breezin'
Breezin is a studio album by jazz/soul guitarist George Benson.
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Buzz Feiten
Howard "Buzz" Feiten (born November 4, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, session musician, and luthier.
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Canada
Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.
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Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy is the ninth studio album by Elton John.
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Carolyn Dennis
Carolyn Dennis (born April 12, 1954), sometimes known professionally as Carol Dennis or Carol Dennis-Dylan, is an American singer and actress best known for her work with and marriage to Bob Dylan.
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Chicago (band)
Chicago is an American rock band formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois, calling themselves the Chicago Transit Authority in 1968 before shortening the name in 1970.
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Chicago X
Chicago X is the eighth studio album, and tenth album overall, by the American band Chicago.
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Clapping
A clap is the percussive sound made by striking together two flat surfaces, as in the body parts of humans or animals.
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Clavinet
The Clavinet is an electrically amplified clavichord that was invented by Ernst Zacharias and manufactured by the Hohner company of Trossingen, West Germany from 1964 to the early 1980s.
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Coolio
Artis Leon Ivey Jr. (born August 1, 1963), known professionally as Coolio, is an American rapper, actor, chef, and record producer.
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Cover to Cover tour
Cover to Cover was the second solo concert tour by English recording artist George Michael.
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David Parton
David Parton (born David Eric Stanley Parton) is an English singer-songwriter and record producer from Newcastle Under Lyme, Staffordshire, England.
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Dean Parks
Weldon Dean Parks is an American session guitarist and record producer from Ft. Worth, Texas, United states.
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Deniece Williams
Deniece Williams (born June Deniece Chandler; June 3, 1950) is an American singer, songwriter and producer.
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Dorothy Ashby
Dorothy Jeanne Thompson (August 6, 1930 – April 13, 1986), better known as Dorothy Ashby, was an American jazz harpist and composer.
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Double album
A double album (or double record) is an audio album which spans two units of the primary medium in which it is sold, typically records and compact disc.
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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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Eagles (band)
The Eagles are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1971.
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Earth, Wind & Fire
Earth, Wind & Fire (EWF) is an American band that has spanned the musical genres of R&B, soul, funk, jazz, disco, pop, rock, Latin, and Afro pop.
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Ebony (magazine)
Ebony is a monthly magazine for the African-American market.
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Eddie "Bongo" Brown
Eddie "Bongo" Brown (September 13, 1932 – December 28, 1984) was an African-American musician.
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Elton John
Sir Elton Hercules John (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is an English singer, pianist, and composer.
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Encyclopedia of Popular Music
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music was created in 1989 by Colin Larkin.
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Epic Records
Epic Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, Inc., the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.
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Extended play
An extended play record, often referred to as an EP, is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single, but is usually unqualified as an album or LP.
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Faith (George Michael album)
Faith is the debut album by the English singer George Michael, released on 30 October 1987 by Columbia Records and Epic Records.
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Father Figure (song)
"Father Figure" is a song by English singer George Michael from his debut studio album, Faith (1987).
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Federal government of the United States
The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government) is the national government of the United States, a constitutional republic in North America, composed of 50 states, one district, Washington, D.C. (the nation's capital), and several territories.
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Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac are a British-American rock band, formed in London in 1967.
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Flute
The flute is a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group.
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Frampton Comes Alive!
Frampton Comes Alive! is a double live album by English rock musician Peter Frampton released in 1976.
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Free (Deniece Williams song)
"Free" is a 1976 song by Deniece Williams which was included on her album This Is Niecy.
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Fulfillingness' First Finale
Fulfillingness' First Finale is a 1974 album by Stevie Wonder; widely considered one of the albums from his "classic period".
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Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B).
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Gangsta's Paradise
"Gangsta's Paradise" is a song by American rapper Coolio, featuring singer L.V. The song was released on Coolio's album of the same name, as well as the soundtrack for the 1995 film Dangerous Minds.
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George Benson
George Benson (born March 22, 1943) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter.
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George Bohanon
George Roland Bohanon, Jr. (born August 7, 1937) is a jazz trombonist and session musician.
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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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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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Ghana
Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a unitary presidential constitutional democracy, located along the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean, in the subregion of West Africa.
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Ghetto
A ghetto is a part of a city in which members of a minority group live, typically as a result of social, legal, or economic pressure.
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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 Album of the Year
The Grammy Award for Album of the Year is presented by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales, chart position, or critical reception." Album of the Year is the most prestigious award category at the Grammys having been presented since 1959.
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Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance
The Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance was a Grammy Award recognizing superior vocal performance by a male in the pop category, the first of which was presented in 1959.
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Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance
The Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance was awarded between 1968 and 2011.
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Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical
The Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical is an honor presented to remixers for quality remixed recordings at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards.
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Greg Phillinganes
Gregory Arthur "Greg" Phillinganes (born May 12, 1956) is an American keyboardist, singer-songwriter, and musical director based in Los Angeles, California, U.S. A prolific session musician, Phillinganes has contributed keyboard tracks to numerous albums representing a broad array of artists and genres.
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Guitar
The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.
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Harmonica
The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock and roll.
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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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Harp
The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers.
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Heavy metal music
Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom.
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Herbie Hancock
Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, composer and actor.
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High Fidelity Pure Audio
High Fidelity Pure Audio, occasionally abbreviated as HFPA, is a marketing initiative, spearheaded by the Universal Music Group, for audio-only Blu-ray optical discs.
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Hollywood
Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California.
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Home video
Home video is pre-recorded video media that is either sold, rented or streamed for home entertainment.
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Hotel California (Eagles album)
Hotel California is the fifth studio album by American rock band the Eagles, and is one of the best-selling albums of all time.
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I Wish (Stevie Wonder song)
"I Wish" is a hit song by Stevie Wonder.
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Imhotep Gary Byrd
Imhotep Gary Byrd is a New York City-based radio talk show host and executive producer, radio DJ, poet, songwriter, music recording artist and producer, rapper, writer and community advocate/activist.
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Innervisions
Innervisions is the 16th studio album by American musician Stevie Wonder, released August 3, 1973, on the Tamla label for Motown Records, a landmark recording of his "classic period".
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Isn't She Lovely
"Isn't She Lovely" is a song by Stevie Wonder from his 1976 album, Songs in the Key of Life.
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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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Jim Horn
James Ronald "Jim" Horn (born November 20, 1940) is an American saxophonist, woodwind player, and session musician.
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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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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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Knocks Me Off My Feet
"Knocks Me Off My Feet" is a song written and performed by American recording artist Stevie Wonder, from his 1976 album Songs in the Key of Life.
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Lead guitar
Lead guitar is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure.
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Lead vocalist
The lead vocalist (or main vocalist, lead vocals or lead singer) in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent in a performance where multiple voices may be heard.
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Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin were an English rock band formed in London in 1968.
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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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List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 1976
These are the ''Billboard'' magazine number-one albums of 1976, per the ''Billboard'' 200.
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List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 1977
These are the ''Billboard'' magazine number-one albums of 1977, per the ''Billboard'' 200.
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List of Billboard number-one R&B albums of 1976
These are the Billboard magazine R&B albums that reached number one in 1976.
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List of Billboard number-one R&B albums of 1977
These are the Billboard magazine R&B albums that reached number one in 1977.
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Long View Farm
Long View Farm Studios was a music recording studio located in North Brookfield, Massachusetts which was founded in 1974 by Gilbert Scott Markle, a professor at Clark University, on his farm property.
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Looking Back (Stevie Wonder album)
Looking Back, also later known as Anthology, is a triple LP anthology by American soul musician Stevie Wonder, released in 1977 on Motown Records.
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LP record
The LP (from "long playing" or "long play") is an analog sound storage medium, a vinyl record format characterized by a speed of rpm, a 12- or 10-inch (30 or 25 cm) diameter, and use of the "microgroove" groove specification.
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Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1969 or 1970) is an American singer and songwriter.
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Martin C. Strong
Martin Charles Strong (born 1960 in Musselburgh) is a Scottish music historian known for compiling discographies of popular music including The Great Rock Discography.
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Mary J. Blige
Mary Jane Blige (born January 11, 1971) is an American singer, songwriter, rapper and actress.
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Massachusetts
Massachusetts, officially known as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.
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MegaCharts
MegaCharts, since 2008 called GfK Dutch Charts, is a chart company responsible for the composition and exploitation of a broad collection of official charts in the Netherlands, of which the Single Top 100 and the Album Top 100 are the most known ones.
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Melody
A melody (from Greek μελῳδία, melōidía, "singing, chanting"), also tune, voice, or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity.
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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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Michael Sembello
Michael Andrew Sembello (born April 17, 1954) is an American singer, musician, songwriter, composer and producer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Michael Wycoff
Michael Wycoff is an American R&B singer.
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Microsoft Theater
The Microsoft Theater (formerly Nokia Theatre L.A. Live) is a music and theatre venue in downtown Los Angeles, California at L.A. Live.
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Minnie Riperton
Minnie Julia Riperton-Rudolph (November 8, 1947 – July 12, 1979), known professionally as Minnie Riperton, was an American singer-songwriter best known for her 1975 single "Lovin' You" and her four-octave coloratura soprano.
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Motown
Motown is an American record company.
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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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MusicHound
MusicHound (sometimes stylized as musicHound) was a compiler of genre-specific music guides published in the United States by Visible Ink Press between 1996 and 2002.
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Najee
Jerome Najee Rasheed (born November 4, 1957, New York City), known professionally as Najee, is an American jazz saxophonist and flautist.
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Nathan Watts
Nathan Lamar Watts, born 1954 in Detroit, Michigan is an American session bass guitar player, best known for his work with Stevie Wonder from the 1970s to the present.
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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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Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute
The Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute was a popular-music concert staged on 11 June 1988 at Wembley Stadium, London, and broadcast to 67 countries and an audience of 600 million.
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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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Nigeria
Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a federal republic in West Africa, bordering Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north.
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Organ (music)
In music, the organ (from Greek ὄργανον organon, "organ, instrument, tool") is a keyboard instrument of one or more pipe divisions or other means for producing tones, each played with its own keyboard, played either with the hands on a keyboard or with the feet using pedals.
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Pastime Paradise
"Pastime Paradise" is a song from the 1976 album Songs in the Key of Life by Grammy-winning artist Stevie Wonder.
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Paul Simon
Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and actor.
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Pazz & Jop
Pazz & Jop is an annual poll of musical releases compiled by American newspaper The Village Voice since 1971.
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Pedal steel guitar
The pedal steel guitar is a console-type of steel guitar with pedals and levers added to enable playing more varied and complex music which had not been possible with antecedent steel guitar designs.
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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 Frampton
Peter Kenneth Frampton (born 22 April 1950) is a British rock musician, singer, songwriter, producer, and guitarist.
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Phil Anselmo
Philip Hansen Anselmo (born June 30, 1968) is an American heavy metal musician who is best known as the lead vocalist for Pantera, Down, and Superjoint Ritual.
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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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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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Prelude and Fugue in C minor, BWV 847
Prelude and Fugue in C Minor, BWV 847, is a keyboard composition written by Johann Sebastian Bach.
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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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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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Recorded Music NZ
Recorded Music NZ (formerly Recording Industry Association of New Zealand (RIANZ)) is a non-profit trade association of record producers, distributors and recording artists who sell music in New Zealand.
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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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Rhodes piano
The Rhodes piano (also known as the Fender Rhodes piano or simply Fender Rhodes or Rhodes) is an electric piano invented by Harold Rhodes, which became particularly popular throughout the 1970s.
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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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Rhythm guitar
In music performances, rhythm guitar is a technique and role that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with other instruments from the rhythm section (e.g., drumkit, bass guitar); and to provide all or part of the harmony, i.e. the chords from a song's chord progression, where a chord is a group of notes played together.
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Robert Christgau
Robert Thomas Christgau (born April 18, 1942) is an American essayist and music journalist.
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Rock of the Westies
Rock of the Westies, released in October 1975, is the tenth studio album release for Elton John.
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Rocky Mount Instruments
Rocky Mount Instruments or RMI was a subsidiary of the Allen Organ Company, established in about 1966.
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Rod Stewart
Sir Roderick David Stewart, (born 10 January 1945) is a British rock singer and songwriter.
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Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.
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Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
"The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" is a 2003 special issue of American biweekly magazine Rolling Stone, and a related book published in 2005.
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Ronnie Foster
Ronnie Foster (born May 12, 1950) is an American funk and soul-jazz organist, and record producer.
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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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RPM Year-End
RPM Year-End charts are a cumulative measure of a single or album's performance in Canada, based upon the RPM magazine charts during any given chart year.
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Rumours (album)
Rumours is the eleventh studio album by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, released on 4 February 1977 by Warner Bros. Records.
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Sampling (music)
In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a sound recording in a different song or piece.
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Sausalito, California
Sausalito is a city in Marin County, California, located south-southeast of San Rafael, 4 miles (7 km) north of San Francisco.
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Saxophone
The saxophone (also referred to as the sax) is a family of woodwind instruments.
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Silk Degrees
Silk Degrees is the seventh album by Boz Scaggs, released on Columbia Records in 1976.
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Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster, Inc., a subsidiary of CBS Corporation, is an American publishing company founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard Simon and Max Schuster.
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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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Sir Duke
"Sir Duke" is a song composed and performed by Stevie Wonder, from his 1976 album Songs in the Key of Life.
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Sitar
The sitar (or; सितार, Punjabi: ਸਿਤਾਰ) is a plucked stringed instrument used in Hindustani classical music.
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Smooth jazz
Smooth jazz is music that evolved from a blend of jazz fusion and easy listening pop music, featuring a polished pop feel with little to no jazz improvisation.
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Sneaky Pete Kleinow
Peter E. "Sneaky Pete" Kleinow (August 20, 1934 – January 6, 2007) was an American country-rock musician, songwriter, and a motion picture special effects artist.
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Songs in the Key of Life Tour
The Songs in the Key of Life Tour is a mini date concert tour by American recording artist Stevie Wonder.
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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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Sound effect
A sound effect (or audio effect) is an artificially created or enhanced sound, or sound process used to emphasize artistic or other content of films, television shows, live performance, animation, video games, music, or other media.
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Spirit (Earth, Wind & Fire album)
Spirit is the seventh studio album by Earth, Wind & Fire, released in September 1976 by Columbia Records.
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Spoken word
Spoken word is a performance art that is word based.
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Sputnikmusic
Sputnikmusic is a music community website offering music criticism and music news alongside features commonly associated with wiki-style websites.
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St Ives, New South Wales
St Ives is a suburb on the Upper North Shore of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia 18 kilometres north of the Sydney Central Business District in the local government area of Ku-ring-gai Council.
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Steel guitar
Steel guitar is a type of guitar or the method of playing the instrument.
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Stevie Wonder
Stevland Hardaway Morris (né Judkins; born May 13, 1950), known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist.
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Still Crazy After All These Years
Still Crazy After All These Years is the fourth solo studio album by Paul Simon.
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Stylus Magazine
Stylus Magazine was an online music and film magazine launched in 2002.
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Susaye Greene
Susaye Greene (born September 13, 1949), is an American singer–songwriter.
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Sverigetopplistan
Sverigetopplistan (lit. "Sweden top list") is the Swedish national record chart, earlier known as Topplistan (1975–1997) and Hitlistan (1998–2007) and known by its current name since October 2007, based on sales data from the Swedish Recording Industry Association (in Swedish Grammofonleverantörernas förening).
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Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique
The National Syndicate of Phonographic Publishing (Syndicat national de l'édition phonographique; SNEP) is the inter-professional organization which protects the interests of the French record industry.
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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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Syreeta Wright
Syreeta Wright (born Rita Wright; February 28, 1946 or August 3, 1946(sources differ) – July 6, 2004), who recorded professionally under the single name Syreeta, was an American singer–songwriter, best known for her music during the early–1970s through the early–1980s.
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Talk box
A talk box is an effects unit that allows musicians to modify the sound of a musical instrument by shaping the frequency content of the sound and to apply speech sounds (in the same way as singing) onto the sounds of the instrument.
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Talking Book
Talking Book is the fifteenth studio album by Stevie Wonder, released on October 28, 1972.
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Television network
A television network is a telecommunications network for distribution of television program content, whereby a central operation provides programming to many television stations or pay television providers.
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Tenor saxophone
The Tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s.
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The Brooklyn Rail
The Brooklyn Rail is a journal of arts, culture, and politics published monthly in Brooklyn, NY.
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The Hit Factory
The Hit Factory was a recording studio in New York City famous for its clientele.
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The McCrarys
The McCrarys are an American family Gospel and R&B group best known for the songs "You" (featuring Stevie Wonder on harmonica), "Lost in Loving You," "Love on a Summer Night" and "Any Ol' Sunday" (later covered by Chaka Khan).
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The Rolling Stone Album Guide
The Rolling Stone Album Guide, previously known as The Rolling Stone Record Guide, is a book that contains professional music reviews written and edited by staff members from Rolling Stone magazine.
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The Song Remains the Same (album)
The Song Remains the Same is the live soundtrack album of the concert film of the same name by the English rock band Led Zeppelin.
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The Song Remains the Same (film)
The Song Remains the Same is a 1976 concert film featuring the English rock band Led Zeppelin.
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The Village Voice
The Village Voice is an American news and culture paper, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.
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Ticknor and Fields
Ticknor and Fields was an American publishing company based in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Timbales
Timbales or pailas are shallow single-headed drums with metal casing.
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Time (magazine)
Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.
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Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a chart published by Billboard magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales in the United States and is compiled by Nielsen SoundScan.
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Trombone
The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family.
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Trumpet
A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.
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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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VG-lista
VG-lista is a Norwegian record chart.
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VH1
VH1 (originally an initialism of Video Hits One) is an American cable and satellite television network based in New York City operated by the Viacom Global Entertainment Group, a unit of Viacom Media Networks, a division of Viacom.
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Virgin Books
Virgin Books is a United Kingdom book publisher 90% owned by the publishing group Random House, and 10% owned by Virgin Group, the company originally set up by Richard Branson as a record company.
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W. G. Snuffy Walden
William Garrett Walden, known as W. G. Snuffy Walden (born February 13, 1950) is an American musician and composer of film and television soundtracks.
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Whitney Houston
Whitney Elizabeth Houston (August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012) was an American singer and actress.
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Whitney: The Greatest Hits
Whitney: The Greatest Hits is a compilation album by American singer Whitney Houston, released in May 2000.
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Wild Wild West (Will Smith song)
"Wild Wild West" is the title of a hip hop song co-written by Will Smith as the theme song for Smith's film of the same name.
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Will Smith
Willard Carroll Smith Jr. (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor, producer, rapper, comedian, and songwriter.
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Yahoo!
Yahoo! is a web services provider headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and wholly owned by Verizon Communications through Oath Inc..
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Yamaha GX-1
The Yamaha GX-1, first released as Electone GX-707,It's rumored that when Yamaha realized the model number shared the designation of Boeing 707 aircraft, they changed it to GX-1.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_in_the_Key_of_Life
