Ray Charles
- data urodzenia
- 23 września 1930
- data śmierci
- 10 czerwca 2004
- pochodzenie
- USA
Biografia
Ray Charles Robinson, bo tak naprawdę nazywał się artysta, urodził się 23 września 1930 w Albany w stanie Georgia. Mając siedem lat stracił wzrok.
W kwietniu 1949 roku zadebiutował na listach przebojów utworem "Confessin' Blues". Przez kilkadziesiąt lat kariery wylansował wiele przebojów, z których chyba największym była piękna ballada "Georgia On My Mind", która w 1979 roku została uznana za oficjalną pieśń stanu Georgia. Inny wielki przebój Ray'a to "Hit The Road Jack".
W styczniu 1986 roku Ray Charles została wprowadzony do Rockandrollowego Salonu Sławy. Kilkanaście razy odbierał nagrodę Grammy.
O muzyce tak pisał w swojej autobiografii: "Urodziłem się z muzyką w sobie. To jedyne wytłumaczenie jakie znam. (...) Muzyka była częścią mnie samego (...) jak własna krew. Ta siła już była we mnie, kiedy trafiłem na scenę. Dla mnie to była potrzeba - jak jedzenia czy wody. (...) Muzyka nie jest czymś odrębnym ode mnie. Muzyka to ja. (...) Musielibyście tę muzykę usunąć chirurgicznie".
Po raz ostatni Ray Charles wystąpił publicznie 30 kwietnia w Los Angeles.
Zmarł 10 czerwca 2004 roku, w swoim domu w Beverly Hills. Miał 73 lata. Przyczyną śmierci były komplikacje po schorzeniu wątroby - poinformował menedżer artysty Jerry Digney.
Teksty piosenek (432)
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'Cause We Got Cake (Cakewalk)
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A cent tchu ate the positive
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A Fool For You
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A Sentimental Blues
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A Ship Without A Sail
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A Song For You
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A Tear Fell
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A Tree In The Park
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After My Laughter Come Tears
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Ain't Misbehavin'
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Ain't That Love
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Alabamy Bound
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Alexander's Ragtime Band
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Alone Together
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America The Beautiful
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And The Angels Sing
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Angel City
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Angelina
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At The Club
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Babes In Arms
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Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand
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Baby What'd I Say
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Baby, Don't You Cry
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Baby, It's Cold Outside
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Because I love you
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Beers To You (With Clint Eastwood)
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Bernardine
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Bewitched
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Black Coffee
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Blackjack
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Blue Room
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Blues in the night
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Blues In The Night (My Mama Done Tol' Me)
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Bluesette
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Born To Lose
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Born To Lose (Studio)
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Busted
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But On The Other Hand Baby
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Bye Bye Love (Studio)
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Bye Bye, Love
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C.C. Rider
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Can't you do a friend a favor
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Candy
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Careless Love
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Carry Me Back To Old Virginny
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Cause we got cake
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Chattanooga Choo Choo
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Chicago (A Great Big Town)
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Christmas Time
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Come Back
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Come Back Baby
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Come Rain Or Come Shine
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Come With Me
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Crazy Love
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Crazy Love - Features Van Morrison
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Cry
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Cry Me A River
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Crying Time
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Dancing on the ceiling
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Dancing On The Ceiling (He Dances On My Ceiling)
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Danger Zone
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Day in - day out
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Days Of Wine And Roses
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Dear Old Syracuse
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Dearly Beloved
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Deep In The Heart Of Texas
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Do I Ever Cross Your Mind
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Do I Ever Cross Your Mind - Features Bonnie Raitt
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Do I Ever Cross Your Mind?
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Don't Change On Me
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Don't Cry, Baby
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Don't Let The Sun Catch You Cryin'
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Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying
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Don't Set Me Free
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Don't You Know
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Doodlin'
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Down By The River
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Dream
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Dream (When You're Feeling Blue)
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Drifting Blues
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Drinking Again
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Drown In My Own Tears
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Drowning in my own tears
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Early Autumn
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Eleanor Rigby
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Ellie My Love
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Emily
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Empty Tables
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Ev'ry Sunday Afternoon
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Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
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Ev'rybody Loves You
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Ev'rything I've Got
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Everytime We Say Goodbye
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Falling In Love With Love
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Fever
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Fever - Features Natalie Cole
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Fifty Nifty United States
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Fool For You
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Fools Rush In
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Friendship
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From The Heart
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Gee baby ain't it good to you
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Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good To You?
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Georgia On My Mind
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Georgia On My Mind (Live)
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Georgia On My Mind (Studio)
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Get On The Right Track Baby
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Girls, girls, girls
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Give Her A Kiss
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Give It Back To The Indians
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Glad To Be Unhappy
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Glow Worm
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Goody, Goody
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Greenbags
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Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
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Half As Much
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Hallelujah I Love Her So (Live)
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Hallelujah, I Love Her
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Hallelujah, I Love Her So
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Hallelujah, I'm A Bum
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Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I)
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Hard Times (Studio)
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Hardhearted Hannah
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Have you met miss Jones
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He And She
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He Was Too Good To Me
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Heaven Help Us All
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Heaven Help Us All - Features Gladys Knight
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Hello
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Here We Go Again
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Here We Go Again ( feat. Norah Jones )
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Here We Go Again - Features Norah Jones
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Hey Girl
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Hey Girl - Features Michael Mcdonald
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Hey hey
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Hide Nor Hair
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Hit The Road Jack
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Hit The Road Jack (Studio)
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Hollywood Party
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Honey, Honey
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Hooray For Hollywood
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How Did You Feell The Morning After?
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How Long
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How Long Blues
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How long has this been goin' on
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How Long Has This Been Going On?
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How To Win Friends And Influence People
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I Believe To My Soul
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I Believe To My Soul (Live Version 1962 Concert Berlin)
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I Blush
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I can make it thru the days
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I Can Make It Thru The Days (But Oh Those Lonely Nights)
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I can't stop lovin' you
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I Can't Stop Loving You
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I Can't Stop Loving You (Tradu
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I Chose To Sing The Blues
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I Could Write A Book
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I Didn't Know What Time It Was
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I do anything but work
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I Don't Need No Doctor
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I Feel At Home With You
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I got a Women
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I Gotta Woman
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I Had A Dream
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I had twins
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I Had Twins (He Had Twins)
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I Like To Hear It Sometime
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I Love You So Much It Hurts
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I love you, i love you
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I Love You, I Love You (I Will Never Let You Go)
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I Married An Angel
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I Remember Clifford
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I Remember You
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I Thought About You
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I Wake Up Crying
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I Wanna Be Around
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I Wish I Were In Love Again
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I Wish You Were Here Tonight
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I Won't Sing A Song
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I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
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I'd Know You Anywhere
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I'll Be Good To You
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I'll Do Anything But Work
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I'll Tell The Man In The Street
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I'm An Old Cowhand
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I'm Going Down To The River
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I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town
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I'm Movin' On
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I'm moving on
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I'm Old Fashioned
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I've Got A Woman
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I've Got Five Dollars
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I've Got News For You
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If I Could
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If I Give You My Love
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If It Wasn't For Bad Luck
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If You Were Mine
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In The Cool, Cool, Cool Of The Evening
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In The Heat Of The Night
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Is there anyone out there
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Isn't it romantic
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It Had To Be You
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It Never Entered My Mind
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It Should've Been Me
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It Was A Very Good Year
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It Was A Very Good Year - Features Willie Nelson
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It's Alright
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It's Easy To Remember
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Jeepers Creepers
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Johnny One Note
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Jubilation T. Cornpone
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Jumpin' In The Morning
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Just A Little Lovin' (Will Go A Long Way)
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Just For A Thrill
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Kiss me baby
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Kissa Me Baby
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Ladies Of The Evening
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Laura
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Leave My Woman Alone
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Let The Good Times Roll
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Let The Good Times Roll (Live)
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Let Your Love Flow
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Let's Go Get Stoned
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Little Girl Blue
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Livin' for the city
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Living For The City
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Ln A Little Spanish Town
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Lonely Avenue
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Look what they've done to my song
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Look What They've Done To My Song, Ma
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Losing Hand
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Love Is Here To Stay
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Love me tonight
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Love Me Tonight (Lover, Love Me Tonight)
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Love Never Went To College
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Love With The Proper Stranger
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Lover
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Makin' Whoopee!
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Manhattan
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Mary Ann
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Max and Frieda
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Me And The Ghost Upstairs
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Mess Around
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Mess Around (Studio)
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Midnight Sun
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Mimi
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Mississippi Mud
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Moment To Moment
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Moon Over Miami
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Moon River
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Moonlight In Vermont
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Mother, Look, I'm An Acrobat
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Mountain Greenery
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Music, Music, Music
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My Bonnie
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My Funny Valentine
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My Heart Cries For You
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My Heart Stood Still
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My Romance
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My Shining Hour
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My World
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Nancy (With The Laughing Face)
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Night Time (Is The Right Time)
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Night Time Is The Right Time (Studio)
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Nightime Is The Right Time
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No One
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No One To Cry To
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Nobody Loves A Riveter
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Nobody's Heart
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North America Meets South America
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Oh, diogenes
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Oh, What A Beautiful Morning
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Ol' Man River
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On A Desert Island With Thee
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On The Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe
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On Your Toes
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Once Upon A Summertime
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One for my baby
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One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)
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Out Of This World
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P.S. I Love You
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People Will Say We're In Love
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Prayer
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Precious Thing
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Quiet Night
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Rainy Night In Georgia
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Right Time
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Rocking Chair
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Ruby
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Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
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Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town
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Satin Doll
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Say No More
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Sentimental Blues
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Sentimental Journey
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Seven Spanish Angels
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Shake A Tailfeather
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Shake Your Tailfeather
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She Could Shake The Maracas
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She's On The Ball
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Sherry
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Side By Side
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Simpatica
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Sing For Your Supper
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Single-O
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Sinner's Prayer
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Sinner's Prayer - Features B.Bking
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Sittin' On Top Of The World
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Sitting On Top Of The World
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Skylark
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Sleepyhead
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Smack Dab In The Middle
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Soliciting Subscriptions
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Something's Gotta Give
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Somewhere Over The Rainbow
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Somewhere Over The Rainbow - Features Johnny Mathis
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Soon
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Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
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Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word - Features Elton John
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Spic And Spanish
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Spirit In The Dark
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Spirit In The Dark (Reprise)
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Spring Is Here
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Stella By Starlight
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Sticks And Stones
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Still Crazy After All These Years
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Summer Wind
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Sweet Georgia Brown
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Sweet Potato Pie
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Sweet Potato Pie - Features James Taylor
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Take Him
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Take These Chains From My Heart
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Takes Two To Tango
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Talk To Me Baby
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Talkin' 'Bout You
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Tangerine
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Teardrops From My Eyes
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Teardrops In My Heart
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Tell Me You'll Wait For Me
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Tell The Truth
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Tell The Truth (Live)
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Tell The World About You
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Ten Cents A Dance
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That Lucky Old Sun
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That Old Black Magic
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That Spirit Of Christmas
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That's Where It's At
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The Brightest Smile In Town
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The Cincinnati Kid
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The Danger Zone
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The Girl Friend
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The Goobergoo And The Kantan
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The Lady Is A Tramp
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The Little Drummer Boy
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The man for me
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The Man For Me (The Letter Song)
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The Man I Love
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The Modern Student
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The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
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The Pages Of My Mind
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The Right Time
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The Sun's Gonna Shine Again
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The Tartar Song
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Them That Got
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There's A Small Hotel
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This Can't Be Love
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This Funny World
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This goes up
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This Goes Up (Smile)
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This Is My Night To Howl
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This Little Girl Of Mine
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This Time The Dream's On Me
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Thou Swell
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Till There Was You
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Tired Of My Tears
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To Keep My Love Alive
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Together Again
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Too Marvelous For Words
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Trav'lin' Light
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Twist it, shake it
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Two Of A Kind
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Two To Tango
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Unchain My Heart
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Unchain My Heart (Studio)
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Undecided
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Understanding
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Vilia
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Wait Till You See Her
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Way out west
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Way Out West (On West End Avenue)
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We'll Be The Same
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Weird Beard
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What can you do with a man
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What child is this
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What Would I Do Without You?
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What'd I Say
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What'd I Say (Live Berlin) 1962
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What'd I Say (Part 1)
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What'd I Say (Parts 1 & 2)
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What'D I Say (Parts 1 And 2)
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What'd I Say, Pts1 & 2
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What'd I Say(Live)
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When A Woman Loves A Man
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When The World Was Young
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When Your Lover Has Gone
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Where Or When
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Willow, Weep For Me
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Winter Wonderland
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With A Song In My Heart
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Without A Song
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Without love
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Without Love (There Is Nothing)
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Worried Mind
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Ye Lunchtime Follies
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Yes, Indeed!
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Yesterday
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You Always Miss The Water (When The Well Runs Dry)
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You Are My Sunshine
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You Are Too Beautiful
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You Be My Baby
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You Don't Know Me
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You Don't Know Me (Live)
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You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby
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You Took Advantage Of Me
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You Were Never Lovelier
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You Won't Let Me Go
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You'll Always Miss The Water
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You're Nearer
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You've Got Me Crying Again
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Your Cheatin' Heart
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Your Cheating Heart
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Yours Sincerely