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220 Cards in this Set
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Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien
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Edith Piaf
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Maple Leaf Rag
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Scott Joplin
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Mess Around
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Ray Charles
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What'd I Say
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Ray Charles
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Hit the Road Jack
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Ray Charles
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(Night Time is) The Right Time (later version)
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Ray Charles
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Night Time is the Right Time (earlier version)
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Roosevelt Sykes
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Cow Cow Blues
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Cow Cow Davenport
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I've Got a Woman
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Ray Charles
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It Must Be Jesus
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The Southern Tones
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There's a Man Goin' Round Takin' Names
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Josh White
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Long Tall Sally
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Little Richard
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Tutti-Frutti
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Little Richard
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Hound Dog (later version)
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Elvis Presley
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Hound Dog (earlier version)
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Big Mama Thornton
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Bearcat
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Rufus Thomas
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Maybelline
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Chuck Berry
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Ida Red
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Roy Acuff
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Shake, Rattle, and Roll (earlier version)
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Big Joe Turner
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Shake, Rattle, and Roll (later version)
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Bill Haley and His Comets
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Mannish Boy
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Muddy Waters
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I'm a Man
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Bo Diddley
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Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)
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The Penguins
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Heart and Soul
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Hoagy Carmichael
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Blue Moon (earlier version)
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Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart
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Blue Moon (later version)
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The Marcels
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I Got Rhythm
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Ethel Merman
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Anthropology
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Charlie Parker
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Please Mr. Postman
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The Marvelettes
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Stand By Me
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Ben E. King
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Diana
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Paul Anka
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The Lion Sleeps Tonight
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The Tokens
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Mbube
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Solomon Linda
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The Twist
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Chubby Checker
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Twist Again
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Chubby Checker
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You've Really Got a Hold on Me
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Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
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Heatwave
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Diana Ross and the Supremes
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My Guy
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Mary Wells
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My Girl
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The Temptations
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You Keep Me Hangin' On
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The Supremes
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Fingertips (Part 2)
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Stevie Wonder
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I Want You Back
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Jackson 5
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Will You Love Me Tomorrow
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The Shirelles
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Tomorrow and Always
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The Satintones
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Be My Baby
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The Ronettes
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Surfin' USA
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Beach Boys
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Sweet Little Sixteen
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Chuck Berry
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Good Vibrations
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Beach Boys
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Roll Over Beethoven (earlier version)
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Chuck Berry
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Roll Over Beethoven (later version)
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The Beatles
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Johnny B. Goode
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Chuck Berry
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Long Tall Sally (later version)
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The Beatles
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You've Really Got a Hold on Me (later version)
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The Beatles
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Please Mr. Postman (later version)
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The Beatles
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Boys (later version)
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The Beatles
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Boys (earlier version)
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The Shirelles
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I Got a Woman (later version)
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The Beatles
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Sure to Fall (in Love With You) (later version)
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The Beatles
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Sure to Fall (in Love With You) (earlier version)
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Carl Perkins
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Blue Suede Shoes
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Carl Perkins
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Twist and Shout (later version)
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The Beatles
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Twist and Shout (earlier version)
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The Isley Brothers
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Till There Was You (later version)
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The Beatles
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Til There Was You (earlier version)
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Shirley Jones
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I Saw Her Standing There
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The Beatles
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When the Saints Go Marching In
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Fats Domino
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I'm Talking About You
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Chuck Berry
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I Feel Fine
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The Beatles
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Watch Your Step
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Bobby Parker
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Rollin' Stone
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Muddy Waters
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I Wanna Be Your Man
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The Rolling Stones
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I Wanna Be Your Man (later version)
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The Beatles
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While My Guitar Gently Weeps
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The Beatles
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Martha My Dear
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The Beatles
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Why Don't We Do It in the Road?
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The Beatles
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A Day in the Life
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The Beatles
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Hey Joe (later version)
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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Hey Joe (earlier version)
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The Leaves
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P.S. I Love You
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The Beatles
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My Sweet Lord
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George Harrison
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He's So Fine
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The Chiffons
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Whole Lotta Love
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Led Zeppelin
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The Ocean
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Led Zeppelin
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Kashmir
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Led Zeppelin
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Crunge
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Led Zeppelin
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At the Hop
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Sha Na Na
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Five Years
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David Bowie
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All the Young Dudes (earlier version)
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Mott the Hoople
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All the Young Dudes (later version)
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David Bowie
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Walk On the Wild Side
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Lou Reed
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Science Fiction Double Feature
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Rocky Horror
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I Can Make You a Man
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Rocky Horror
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All You Need is Love
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The Beatles
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I Shot the Sheriff (more popular version)
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Eric Clapton
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I Shot the Sheriff (less popular version)
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Bob Marley and the Wailers
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Those Magic Changes
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Sha Na Na
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Grease Theme Song
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Grease
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Summer Nights
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Grease
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Johnny Hit and Run Paulene
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X
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Teenage Kick
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The Undertones
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Rapper's Delight
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The Sugarhill Gang
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Glory Days
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Bruce Springsteen
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Hey Ladies
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Beastie Boys
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The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)
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Cher
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Good Times
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Chic
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Rapture
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Blondie
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Walk This Way (feat. Aerosmith)
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Run DMC
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Walk This Way
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Aerosmith
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Rhymin & Stealin
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Beastie Boys
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Sweet Leaf
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Black Sabbath
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The Ballroom Blitz
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Sweet
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Party Time
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Kurtis Blow
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Funky President
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James Brown
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Superbad
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James Brown
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Night of the Living Baseheads
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Public Enemy
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Crescendo/Decrescendo
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Dynamics of the loudness of sound
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Timbre
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Tone color
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Melody
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Pitches over time
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Harmony
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Pitches simultaneously
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Meter
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A regular grouping of beats (pattern)
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Diagesis/Diagetic Music
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Music in the film that the characters CAN hear, ex. "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien" in Inception
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Non(extra) Diagetic Music
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Music we hear that the characters in the film don't hear
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Jazz
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Originally "jass" (late 19th century), comes from ragtime (like Scott Joplin)
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Stride piano playing
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Lots of left handed playing, comes from jazz
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Gospel
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Based on holy gospels, religious in nature, mainly southern black music
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Gospels come from what?
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Spirituals (black work songs)
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R&B
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Urban, black music, 1950s, popularized by popularized Jerry Wexler (Atlantic producer)
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Atlantic producers
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Jerry Wexler and Ahmet Ertegun
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Payola scandal
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Paying DJs to put records on (Alan Freed), how independent labels were so successful
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Ray Charles went through three record companies
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Swing Time --> Atlantic --> ABC Paramount
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Race Music
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Music by anyone not white
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Back in the day, track length was constrained to about how long?
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3 minutes because of the limitations of the physical record
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Now, the average CD is about how many minutes?
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80 minutes as determined by Beethoven's 9th (72 mins)
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Chord
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A grouping of pitches that sounds together
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Backbeat
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Emphasis on beats 2 and 4
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Beat 1 is the
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downbeat
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Scale
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An intervallic pattern of pitches
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Chromatic scale
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Every note
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Diatonic scale
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White keys (C major)
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Pentatonic scale
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Five notes
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Hagiography
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An idealized biography
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Jukebox musical
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Musicals with tons of different artists and songs, usually celebrating a certain era or genre of music (i.e. Rock of Ages)
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"Answer song"
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A song recorded whose lyrics respond to another song, ex. "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" and "Tomorrow and Always"
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Chess Records
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major recorder, Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters
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Atlantic Records
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minor recorder, Big Joe Turner, Ray Charles
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Decca Records
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medium size recorder, Bill Haley and His Comets
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Chicago Blues
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"urban blues", 1950s, centered around Chess Records
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Alan Lomax
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Big in ethnomusicology, discovered Muddy Waters
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Louis Jordan
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One of the earliest "fist rappers"
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Checker Records
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A subset of Chess records, Howlin' Wolf
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12-bar blues
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I-IV-I-V-IV-I
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AABA
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A song format with two repeating sections, a chorus, and a final repeat
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Doo-wop progression
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I-VI-IV-V-I
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In the late 50s and 60s nearly all music is one of two progressions
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1) AABA
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Passamezzo Moderno or Gregory Walker progression
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I-IV-I-V-I
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"Plugging" songs
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Promotion of songs
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Mo-town Records
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Name comes from Motor City, run by Barry Gordy Jr., originally named Tamla, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
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Barry Gordy was instrumental in creating the mo-town sound with the help of _________
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The Funk Brothers, the studio band
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Songwriting team HDH
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Holland, Dozier, Holland, wrote a lot of the mo-town sounds
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Scepter Records and Wand Records
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Popular for girl mo-town groups, started the trend
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Phyllis Records
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Based in LA, started by Phil Spector
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Phil Spector's studio band was called
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The Wrecking Crew
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Big centers of music were what?
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NY, Chicago, LA, Memphis
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The Shirelles
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Started the girl group mo-town trend at Scepter Records
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British Invasion
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The movement of British bands to become popular in the States, main figures include The Beatles and The Who
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Skiffle
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British rockabilly
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Andrew Loog Oldham
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Original Rolling Stones manager and crappy recording man
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Concept Album
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An album where the singer/band is pretending to be someone else or tell a complete story via CD. First started with The Beatles' Sargeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Followed by Bowie's Ziggy Stardust.
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Tape music
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Songs created nearly entirely from snippets of other albums or songs
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Hey Joe Progression
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BVI-BIV-BVII-IV-I, popularized by Jimi Hendrix's song "Hey Joe"
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The Beatles were really the first band to
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Write AND perform their own music
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The term "rock music" came about in the 60s to describe who?
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The Beatles
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Cock rock
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Use of tight clothes, instruments as phallic symbols
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Led Zeppelin was one of the most ______ bands
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sued
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Glam rock
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Nostalgic, music with a distorted love for the 50s, ex. Sha Na Na's "At the Hop", lots of flashy sparkles and glitter, space imagery was common, gender androgyny
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Andy Warhol's place was called
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The Factory, lots of bands played there
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Reggae
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Jamaican rock and roll, lots of syncopation and chords, same time as glam rock, but more earthy topics, defined by timbre
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The Marley Progression
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I-V-VI-IV
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Punk
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sprouts from 50s music, darker than glam, a more hardcore version, DIY aesthetic, not too fancy about anything
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Big punk artists
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The Ramones (US) and The Sex Pistols (UK)
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Signifyin(g)
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When there are two "versions", a "black" one and a "white" one
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Golden section
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Sections of music that fit the 2/3 ratio (of natural, aesthetic beauty)
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Rap
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A style of vocal delivery associated with hip hop
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Intrusive I
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Celebration of the performer, a tradition in funk and soul, places an emphasis on sexual and musical prowess
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This was the first serious success for rap/hip hop
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"Rapper's Delight" by the Sugar Hill Gang
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New wave
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Watered down version of punk
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Nostalgia in music is usually for ____ years ago
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20
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It was a 90s trend to put songs on a movie soundtrack that....
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weren't in the actual movie
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Outsider art
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Art that isn't made by mainstreamers (either in the field or society), ex. bums or the mentally challenged
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Gameboy variations
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Music remixed with old school video games sounds in it, ex. 8-Bit's "Ghettochip Malfunction (Hell Yes)"
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Mashups
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Mix ups of two or more songs/artists into one new song, made popular by DJ Danger Mouse's "Encore"
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Buddy Holly (song)
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Weezer
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Spike Jonze
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Did weird music video stuff (like Weezer's Buddy Holly)
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Gangsta's Paradise
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Coolio
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Pastime Paradise
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Stevie Wonder
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Amish Paradise
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Weird Al Yankovic
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Where It's At
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Beck
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Hell Yes
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Beck
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Ghettochip Malfunction (Hell Yes)
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8-Bit
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Encore
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Jay-Z
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I Will (earlier version)
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Jon Holt
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I Will (earlier version)
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The Beatles
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Numb
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Linkin Park
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Numb/Encore
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Linkin Park/Jay-Z mashup
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Encore (Grey Album)
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DJ Danger Mouse
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Cover Me
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Bruce Springsteen
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Billy Joel
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Uptown Girl
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Eddie Money
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Take Me Homr TOnight
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Shoop Shoop Shoop (It's in His Kiss) (earlier version)
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Betty Everett
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How Soon Is Now?
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The Smiths
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Mona (later version)
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The Rolling Stones
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Mona (earlier version)
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Bo Diddley
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Play With Me
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Extreme
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Closer
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Nine Inch Nails
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Nightclubbing
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Iggy Pop
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Le Pig
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Recording studio in LA, house of Charlie Manson murders
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Like a Prayer
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Madonna
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Praise You
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Fat Boy Slim
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Norman Cook
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Fat Boy Slim's real name
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Take Yo' Praise
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Camille Yarbrough
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