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213 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
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Slow tempo
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Adagio
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Lively and fast tempo
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Allegro
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Slow pace
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Lento
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Moderate pace
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Andante
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Fast pace
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Presto
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Obligatory accompaniment
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Obligato
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Highest female voice
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Soprano
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Lowest female voice
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Contralto
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Male form of female contralto
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Alto
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Highest male voice
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Tenor
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Middle-ranged male voice
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Baritone
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Lowest male voice
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Basso profundo
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Artifical form of singing
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Falsetto
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Falsetto voice (higher than tenor)
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Countertenor
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Solo in an opera
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Aria
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Work for a solo instrument with an orchestra
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Concerto
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Light music played in the evening
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Serenade
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Combination of two or more notes
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Chord
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Study or solo instrument piece
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Etude
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Songs for solo voice or piano
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Lieder
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Night piece
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Nocture
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Piece written for the outdoors
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Pastoral
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Sacred musical composition
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Oratorio
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Main female singer
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Prima Donna
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Music by a soloist
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Recital
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Louis Armstrong instrument
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Trumpet (jazz)
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Jack Benny instrument
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Violin
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Dave Brubeck instrument
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Piano
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Pablo Casals instrument
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Cello
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Harry Connick, Jr. instrument
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Piano
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Chick Corea instrument
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Piano
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Van Cliburn instrument
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Piano
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John Coltrain instrument
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(Soprano) saxophone
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Miles Davis
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Trumpet
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Jacqueline Du Pre instrument
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Cello
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Maynard Ferguson instrument
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Trumpet
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Benny Goodman instrument
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Clarinet
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Lionel Hampton instrument
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Vibraphone
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David Helfgott instrument (for the movie Shine)
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Piano
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Jimi Hendrix
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Fender Stratocaster guitar
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Woody Herman
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Clarinet
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Buddy Rich
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Drums
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Vladimir Horowitz instrument (won 20 Grammys)
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Piano
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Harry James
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Trumpet
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Thomas Jefferson
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Violin
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Scott Joplin
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Piano
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Kenny G instrument
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Saxophone
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Liberace instrument
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Piano
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Franz Liszt instrument
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Piano
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Chuck Mangione instrument
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Flugelhorn
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Wynton Maralis instrument
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Trumpet
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Midori instrument
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Violin
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Ignace Paderewski instrument
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Piano
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Niccolo Paganini instrument
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Violin
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Itzhak Perlman instrument
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Violin
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Andres Segovia
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Guitar
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Doc Severinsen instrument
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Trumpet
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Isaac Stern
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Violin
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Lawrence Welk instrument
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Accordion
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Yo Yo Ma
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Cello
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Banana Boat Song
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Harry Belafonte
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In the Mood
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Glenn Miller
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This Land is Your Land
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Woody Guthrie
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Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
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Andrew Sisters
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Alice's Restaurant
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Arlo Guthrie
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Johnny Angel
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Shelly Fabares
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Chances Are
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Johnny Mathis
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Unchained Melody (original)
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Righteous Brothers
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Tennessee Waltz
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Patti Page
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When I Fall In Love
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Nat King Cole
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Take the A Train
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Duke Ellington
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Crazy
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Patsy Cline
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Okie from Muskogee
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Merle Haggard
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Walking the Floor Over You
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Ernest Tubb
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Sixteen Tons
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Tennessee Ernie Ford
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Big Bad John
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Jimmy Dean
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Earth Angel
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Penguins
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Big Girls Don't Cry
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Four Seasons
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Georgia on My Mind
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Ray Charles
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Rock Around the Clock
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Bill Haley
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Rock Around the Clock
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Bill Haley and the Comets
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Woolly Bully
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Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs
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La Bamba (original)
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Richie Valens
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La Bamba (remake)
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Los Lobos
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Sherry
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Four Seasons
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Blue Velvet
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Bobby Vinton
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Sixteen Candles
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Crests
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Its My Party
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Leslie Gore
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This Guy is in Love With You
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Herb Alpert
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Downtown
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Petula Clark
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To Sir With Love
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Lulu
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El Paso
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Marty Robbins
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My Girls
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Temptations
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Just My Imagination
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Temptations
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Light My Fire (original)
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Doors
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Light My Fire (remake)
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Jose Feliciano
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MacArthur Park
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Richard Harris
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In the Year 2525
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Zager and Evens
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Convoy
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CW McCall
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Stand By Your Man
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Tammy Wynette
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Only the Lonely
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Roy Orbison
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Pretty Woman (original)
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Roy Orbinson
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Pretty Woman (Remake)
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Van Halen
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Paper Roses
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Marie Osmond
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Wild Thing
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Trogs
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Theme for Shaft
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Isaac Hayes
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Constant Craving
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kd lang
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Venus (original)
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Shocking Blue
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Venus (remake)
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Bananarama
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Bette Davis Eyes
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Kim Carnes
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Rhzthm is Gonna Get You
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Gloria Estafan
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Vision of Love
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Mariah Carey
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Achy Breaky Heart
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Billy Ray Cyrus
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My Maria
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Brooks and Dunn
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All I Want To Do
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Sheryl Crow
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Dark Side of the Moon (longest on the charts 741 weeks)
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Pink Floyd
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Thriller (47 million copies)
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Michael Jackson
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Chronic Album (top selling rap album as of 2001)
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Dr. Dre
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The Physical
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Olivia Newton John
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Fresh Horses
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Garth Brooks
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Music Box
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Mariah Carez
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Rumours
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Fleetwood Mac
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Blues Summit
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BB King
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Tapestry
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Carole King
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Born in the USA
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Bruce Springsteen
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Unplugged
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Eric Clapton
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Pieces of You (on the charts for 100 weeks)
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Jewel
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Bob Dylan bootleg album, 1966
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Bob Dylan Live
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Stardust songwriter
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Hoagz Carmichael
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I Dream of Jeannie songwriter
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Stephen Foster
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St. Louis Blues songwriter
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WC Handy
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Night and Day songwriter
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Cole Porter
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I'm Just Wild about Harry songwriter
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Eubie Blake
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Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head songwriter
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Bert Bacharach and Hal David
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Theme from Star Wars
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John Williams
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Theme from Pink Panther
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Henry Mancini
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Rolling Stones singer
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Mick Jagger
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Big Brother and the Holding Company singer
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Janice Joplin
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Stone Ponies singer
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Linda Ronstadt
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Cream singer
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Eric Clapton
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Animals singer
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Eric Burton
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Jethro Tull singer
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Ian Anderson
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Jefferson Airplane/Starship singer
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Grace Slick
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Miami Sound Machine singer
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Gloria Estafan
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Doors singer
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Jim morrison
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Faces singer
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Rod Stewart
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Sex Pistols singer
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Sid Vicious
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Blondie singer
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Debbie Harry
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Genesis singer
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Phil Collins
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Commodores singer
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Lionel Richie
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Aerosmith singer
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Steve Tzler
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Boomtown Rats singer
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Bob Geldoff
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Eurythmics singer
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Annie Lennox
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Queen singer
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Freddie Mercury
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Police Singer
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Sting
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U2 singer
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Bono
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Guns and Roses singer
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Axl Rose
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10000 Maniacs singer
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Natalie Merchant
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Nirvana singer
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Kurt Cobain
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REM singer
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michael Stipe
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Nine Inch Nails singer
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Trent Reznor
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Dire Straits singer
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Mark Knoffler
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Elvis Presley's first single
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Heartbreak Hotel
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Female with most number one hits
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Mariah Carey (15)
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The Three Tenors
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José Carreras Placido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti
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Foreign number one hit songs
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Volare, Sukizaki, Dominique
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Rockers killed in 1959 plane crash (the day music died)
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Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Richie Valens
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A and M Records founders
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Herp Alpert and Jerry Moss
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Jamaican reggae singer
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Bob marleY
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Grateful Dead guitarist
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Jerry Garcia
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Fifth Beatle
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Stu Stucliff
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Beatles original drummer
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Pete Best
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Beatles original name
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Johnny and the Moondogs
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King of Swing
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Benny Goodman
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First Lady of Song
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Ella Fitzgerald
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Lady Day
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Billie Holiday
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Empress of Blues
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Bessie Smith
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Bubbles
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Beverly Sills
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Father of country Music
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Jimmie Rogers
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Father of Bluegrass
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Bill Monroe
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Silver Fox
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Charlie Rich
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Dust Bowl Balladeer
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Woody Guthrie
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Texas Troubador
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Ernest Tubb
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Man in Black
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Johnny Cash
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killer
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Jerry Lee Lewis
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Coke Time Crooner
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Eddie Fisher
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Velvet Fog
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Mel Torme
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Godfather of Soul
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James Brown
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first rap group on American Bandstand
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Run DMC
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First white performer on Soul train
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Elton John
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Icelandic pop group
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Bjork
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Swedish pop group
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Abba
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Triangle Russian instrument
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Balalaika
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Licorice Stick
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Clarinet
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Xzlophones Latin cousin
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Marimba
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Side-blown flute
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Fife
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Helicon instrument
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Tuba
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Bells instrument
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Glockenspiel
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“Sweet Potato“
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Ocarina
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Hexagonal accordion-like instrument
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Concertina
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Bellows instrument
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bag Pipes
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“Bull Fiddle”
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Double Bass
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Dried gourd instrument
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Maracas
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Plucked piano instrument
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Harpsicord
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number of piano keys
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88
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BB King's guitar
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Lucille
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“New Trend” music
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Bossa Nova
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Sailors work song
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Chanty
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Swiss jazz festival city
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Montreux
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California jazz festival citz
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Monterey
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Berkshire Music Festival city
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Tanglewood, MA
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Rhode Island jazz festival city
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Newport
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Richard Wagner Music Festival city
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Bayreuth, Deutschland
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