The list, in the order of votes received. Each song is followed by the name of an artist who made a recording of the song.
| Rank | Title | Artist
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| 1 | "Over The Rainbow" | Judy Garland
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| 2 | "White Christmas" | Bing Crosby
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| 3 | "This Land Is Your Land" | Woody Guthrie
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| 4 | "Respect" | Aretha Franklin
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| 5 | "American Pie" | Don McLean
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| 6 | "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" | The Andrews Sisters
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| 7 | West Side Story (Album) | Original Cast
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| 8 | "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" | Billy Murray
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| 9 | "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" | The Righteous Brothers
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| 10 | "The Entertainer" | Scott Joplin
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| 11 | "In the Mood" | Glenn Miller Orchestra
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| 12 | "Rock Around the Clock" | Bill Haley & His Comets
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| 13 | "When the Saints Go Marching In" | Louis Armstrong
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| 14 | "You Are My Sunshine" | Jimmie Davis
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| 15 | "Mack the Knife" | Bobby Darin
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| 16 | "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" | The Rolling Stones
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| 17 | "Take the A Train" | Duke Ellington Orchestra
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| 18 | "Blueberry Hill" | Fats Domino
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| 19 | "God Bless America " | Kate Smith
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| 20 | "Stars and Stripes Forever" | Sousa's Band
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| 21 | "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" | Marvin Gaye
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| 22 | "(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay" | Otis Redding
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| 23 | "I Left My Heart In San Francisco " | Tony Bennett
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| 24 | "Good Vibrations" | The Beach Boys
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| 25 | "Stand by Me" | Ben E. King
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| 26 | "Stormy Weather" | Lena Horne
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| 27 | "Johnny B. Goode" | Chuck Berry
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| 28 | "I Want to Hold Your Hand" | The Beatles
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| 29 | "Midnight Train to Georgia" | Gladys Knight & the Pips
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| 30 | "Imagine" | John Lennon
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| 31 | "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" | Gene Autry
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| 32 | "The Twist" | Chubby Checker
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| 33 | "Happy Trails" | Roy Rogers & Dale Evans
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| 34 | "Your Cheatin' Heart" | Hank Williams
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| 35 | "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" | Fisk Jubilee Singers
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| 36 | The Sound of Music (Album) | Original Cast
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| 37 | "'Round Midnight" | Thelonious Monk
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| 38 | "What's Love Got to Do with It?" | Tina Turner
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| 39 | "Over There" | The American Quartet
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| 40 | "Stardust" | Hoagy Carmichael
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| 41 | "Ain't Misbehavin'" | Fats Waller
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| 42 | "Georgia on My Mind" | Ray Charles
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| 43 | "Oh Pretty Woman" | Roy Orbison
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| 44 | "Every Breath You Take" | The Police
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| 45 | "My Girl" | The Temptations
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| 46 | "Hotel California" | The Eagles
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| 47 | "Happy Days Are Here Again" | Ben Selvin Orchestra
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| 48 | "Stand By Your Man" | Tammy Wynette
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| 49 | "Take Five" | Dave Brubeck
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| 50 | "America the Beautiful" | Louise Homer
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| 51 | "When a Man Loves a Woman" | Percy Sledge
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| 52 | "Light My Fire" | The Doors
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| 53 | "Stairway to Heaven" | Led Zeppelin
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| 54 | "Sweet Georgia Brown" | Ben Bernie & His Orchestra
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| 55 | "When You Wish upon a Star" | Cliff Edwards
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| 56 | "Yesterday" | The Beatles
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| 57 | "Louie Louie" | The Kingsmen
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| 58 | "God Bless the Child" | Billie Holiday
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| 59 | "Born in the U.S.A." | Bruce Springsteen
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| 60 | "The Girl from Ipanema" | Stan Getz/Astrud Gilberto
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| 61 | "I Walk the Line" | Johnny Cash
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| 62 | "The Star-Spangled Banner" | John McCormack
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| 63 | "Oh Happy Day" | The Edwin Hawkins Singers
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| 64 | "Great Balls of Fire" | Jerry Lee Lewis
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| 65 | "What's Going On" | Marvin Gaye
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| 66 | Oklahoma! (Album) | Original Cast
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| 67 | "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" | Johnny Mercer
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| 68 | "Don't Be Cruel" / "Hound Dog" | Elvis Presley
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| 69 | "St. Louis Blues" | W.C. Handy
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| 70 | "Yankee Doodle" | Vess L. Ossman
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| 71 | "California Dreamin'" | The Mamas & Papas
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| 72 | "On the Road Again" | Willie Nelson
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| 73 | "Auld Lang Syne" | Frank Stanley
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| 74 | "Summertime" | Sidney Bechet
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| 75 | "Theme from Shaft" | Isaac Hayes
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| 76 | "Beat It" | Michael Jackson
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| 77 | "Sentimental Journey" | Les Brown Orchestra/Doris Day
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| 78 | "Blue Suede Shoes" | Carl Perkins
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| 79 | "The Sound of Silence" | Simon & Garfunkel
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| 80 | "Smells Like Teen Spirit" | Nirvana
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| 81 | "It Had to Be You" | Isham Jones Orchestra
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| 82 | "Minnie the Moocher" | Cab Calloway
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| 83 | "Sixteen Tons" | Tennessee Ernie Ford
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| 84 | "What a Wonderful World" | Louis Armstrong
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| 85 | "Fire and Rain" | James Taylor
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| 86 | "Y.M.C.A." | The Village People
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| 87 | "Heartbreak Hotel" | Elvis Presley
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| 88 | "King of the Road" | Roger Miller
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| 89 | "I Will Survive" | Gloria Gaynor
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| 90 | "Ave Maria" | Marian Anderson
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| 91 | "Begin the Beguine" | Artie Shaw Orchestra
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| 92 | "Like a Rolling Stone" | Bob Dylan
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| 93 | "Stop! In the Name of Love" | The Supremes
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| 94 | "Stayin' Alive" | The Bee Gees
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| 95 | "1999" | Prince
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| 96 | "Please Remember Me" | Tim McGraw
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| 97 | Porgy and Bess (Album) | Original Cast
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| 98 | "Back in the Saddle Again" | Gene Autry
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| 99 | "Shake, Rattle and Roll" | Joe Turner
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| 100 | "In the Still of the Night" | The Five Satins
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| 101 | "Killing Me Softly with His Song" | Roberta Flack
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| 102 | "Friends in Low Places" | Garth Brooks
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| 103 | "Charleston" | Arthur Gibbs & His Gang
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| 104 | "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" | Ella Fitzgerald
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| 105 | "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" | Chauncey Olcott
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| 106 | "The Times They Are a-Changin'" | Bob Dylan
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| 107 | "I Fall to Pieces" | Patsy Cline
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| 108 | "I Will Always Love You" | Whitney Houston
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| 109 | "Mona Lisa" | Nat King Cole
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| 110 | "Blowin' in the Wind" | Bob Dylan
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| 111 | "Peggy Sue" | Buddy Holly
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| 112 | "Lean on Me" | Bill Withers
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| 113 | Kind of Blue (Album) | Miles Davis
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| 114 | "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" | Hank Williams
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| 115 | "Proud Mary" | Creedence Clearwater Revival
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| 116 | "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" | The Carter Family
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| 117 | "Puttin' on the Ritz" | Harry Richman
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| 118 | "Layla" | Derek & the Dominos
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| 119 | "Jump" | Van Halen
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| 120 | "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" | U2
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| 121 | "We Are the World" | USA for Africa
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| 122 | "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" | Cyndi Lauper
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| 123 | My Fair Lady (Album) | Original Cast
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| 124 | "Swanee" | Al Jolson
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| 125 | "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" | The Peerless Quartet
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| 126 | "Makin' Whoopee" | Eddie Cantor
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| 127 | "The Tracks of My Tears" | The Miracles
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| 128 | "I Wanna Be Loved by You" | Marilyn Monroe
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| 129 | "Pennies from Heaven" | Bing Crosby
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| 130 | "Tutti Frutti" | Little Richard
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| 131 | "Brown Eyed Girl" | Van Morrison
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| 132 | "I Only Have Eyes for You" | The Flamingos
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| 133 | "Born to Be Wild" | Steppenwolf
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| 134 | "Superstition" | Stevie Wonder
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| 135 | "Born to Run" | Bruce Springsteen
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| 136 | "On the Good Ship Lollipop" | Shirley Temple
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| 137 | "Wabash Cannonball" | Roy Acuff
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| 138 | "Unchained Melody" | Al Hibbler
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| 139 | "Dancing in the Street" | Martha & The Vandellas
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| 140 | "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" | Marvin Gaye / Tammi Terrell
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| 141 | "Piano Man" | Billy Joel
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| 142 | "Joy to the World" | Three Dog Night
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| 143 | "Losing My Religion" | R.E.M.
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| 144 | "My Way" | Frank Sinatra
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| 145 | "Let's Stay Together" | Al Green
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| 146 | "We Are the Champions/We Will Rock You" | Queen
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| 147 | "Purple Rain" | Prince
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| 148 | "Dancing Queen" | ABBA
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| 149 | A Love Supreme (Album) | John Coltrane
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| 150 | "Wake Up Little Susie" | The Everly Brothers
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| 151 | "Shout" | The Isley Brothers
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| 152 | "I Got You (I Feel Good)" | James Brown
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| 153 | "The Thrill Is Gone" | B.B. King
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| 154 | "Alexander's Ragtime Band" | The Boswell Sisters
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| 155 | "Bo Diddley" | Bo Diddley
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| 156 | "Banana Boat (Day-O)" | Harry Belafonte
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| 157 | "Ring of Fire" | Johnny Cash
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| 158 | "Donna" / "La Bamba" | Richie Valens
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| 159 | "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" | The Tokens
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| 160 | "Take Me Home, Country Roads" | John Denver
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| 161 | "Material Girl" | Madonna
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| 162 | "Rapper's Delight" | The Sugarhill Gang
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| 163 | "Goodnight Irene" | Leadbelly
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| 164 | "Tequila" | The Champs
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| 165 | "Que Sera Sera" | Doris Day
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| 166 | "Turn! Turn! Turn! (to Everything There Is a Season)" | The Byrds
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| 167 | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Album) | The Beatles
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| 168 | "Soul Man" | Sam & Dave
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| 169 | "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" | Stevie Wonder
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| 170 | "Thanks for the Memory" | Bob Hope / Shirley Ross
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| 171 | "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" | B.J. Thomas
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| 172 | "Moon River" | Henry Mancini
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| 173 | "Free Bird" | Lynyrd Skynyrd
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| 174 | "Misty" | Sarah Vaughan
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| 175 | "Chances Are" | Johnny Mathis
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| 176 | "Love Letters" | Ketty Lester
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| 177 | "I Love Rock 'N Roll" | Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
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| 178 | "Fast Car" | Tracy Chapman
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| 179 | "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" | The Shirelles
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| 180 | "Leader of the Pack" | The Shangri-Las
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| 181 | "In the Midnight Hour" | Wilson Pickett
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| 182 | "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" | Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers
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| 183 | "I Can See Clearly Now" | Johnny Nash
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| 184 | "Oye Como Va" | Santana
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| 185 | "Coal Miner's Daughter" | Loretta Lynn
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| 186 | "Cat's in the Cradle" | Harry Chapin
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| 187 | "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow up to Be Cowboys" | Waylon Jennings / Willie Nelson
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| 188 | "The Gambler" | Kenny Rogers
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| 189 | "Bye Bye Blackbird" | Gene Austin
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| 190 | "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" | The Platters
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| 191 | "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party)" | The Beastie Boys
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| 192 | "We Are Family" | Sister Sledge
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| 193 | "(They Long to Be) Close to You" | The Carpenters
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| 194 | "Maggie May" | Rod Stewart
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| 195 | "Night and Day" | Fred Astaire
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| 196 | "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" | Rudy Vallee
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| 197 | "Tom Dooley" | The Kingston Trio
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| 198 | "The Tennessee Waltz" | Patti Page
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| 199 | "If You Don't Know Me by Now" | Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
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| 200 | "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" | Elton John
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| 201 | "U Can't Touch This" | MC Hammer
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| 202 | "Smooth" | Santana & Rob Thomas
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| 203 | "Livin' La Vida Loca" | Ricky Martin
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| 204 | "How Great Thou Art" | George Beverly Shea
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| 205 | "Sing Sing Sing" | Benny Goodman Orchestra
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| 206 | Hair (Album) | Original Cast
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| 207 | "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" | The Sons of the Pioneers
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| 208 | "What the World Needs Now Is Love" | Jackie Deshannon
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| 209 | "Crying" | Roy Orbison
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| 210 | "Sweet Child o' Mine" | Guns N' Roses
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| 211 | "One O'Clock Jump" | Count Basie Orchestra
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| 212 | "Downtown" | Petula Clark
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| 213 | "It's Too Late" / "I Feel the Earth Move" | Carole King
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| 214 | "Celebration" | Kool & the Gang
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| 215 | "So in Love" | The Tymes
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| 216 | "You're So Vain" | Carly Simon
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| 217 | "Heart of Glass" | Blondie
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| 218 | "Blue Moon of Kentucky" | Bill Monroe / Blue Grass Boys
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| 219 | "Teen Angel" | Mark Dinning
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| 220 | Ornithology (Album) | Charlie Parker Sextet
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| 221 | "We Shall Overcome" | Joan Baez
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| 222 | "Something to Talk About" | Bonnie Raitt
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| 223 | "Take My Hand, Precious Lord" | Thomas A. Dorsey
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| 224 | South Pacific (Album) | Original Cast
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| 225 | "Runaround Sue" | Dion and the Belmonts
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| 226 | "Tea for Two" | Art Tatum
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| 227 | "Summertime Blues" | Eddie Cochran
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| 228 | "Everybody Loves Somebody" | Dean Martin
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| 229 | "It's My Party" | Lesley Gore
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| 230 | "The Loco-Motion" | Little Eva
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| 231 | "On Broadway" | The Drifters
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| 232 | "Me and Bobby McGee" | Janis Joplin
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| 233 | "Time in a Bottle" | Jim Croce
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| 234 | "Margaritaville" | Jimmy Buffett
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| 235 | Bitches Brew (Album) | Miles Davis
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| 236 | "Kansas City" | Wilbert Harrison
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| 237 | "Earth Angel" | The Penguins
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| 238 | "Got My Mojo Working" | Muddy Waters
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| 239 | "People Get Ready" | The Impressions
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| 240 | "House of the Rising Sun" | The Animals
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| 241 | "White Rabbit" | Jefferson Airplane
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| 242 | "Graceland" | Paul Simon
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| 243 | "Love Shack" | The B-52s
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| 244 | "I Believe I Can Fly" | R. Kelly
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| 245 | "All I Wanna Do" | Sheryl Crow
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| 246 | "My Heart Will Go On" | Céline Dion
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| 247 | "My Old Kentucky Home" | Geraldine Farrar
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| 248 | "Abraham, Martin & John" | Dion
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| 249 | The King and I (Album) | Original Cast
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| 250 | "At the Hop" | Danny & the Juniors
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| 251 | "What'd I Say" | Ray Charles
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| 252 | "Mr. Sandman" | The Chordettes
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| 253 | "Be My Baby" | The Ronettes
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| 254 | "I Got You Babe" | Sonny & Cher
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| 255 | "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" | Charlie Daniels Band
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| 256 | "Flashdance... What a Feeling" | Irene Cara
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| 257 | "Burning Down the House" | Talking Heads
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| 258 | "Achy Breaky Heart" | Billy Ray Cyrus
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| 259 | "Wide Open Spaces" | Dixie Chicks
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| 260 | The Music Man (Album) | Original Cast
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| 261 | "Walk on By" | Dionne Warwick
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| 262 | "Ramblin' Man" | Allman Brothers Band
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| 263 | "Move On Up A Little Higher" | Mahalia Jackson
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| 264 | "I'm so Excited" | The Pointer Sisters
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| 265 | "That Old Black Magic" | Louis Prima/Keely Smith
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| 266 | "Reach Out I'll Be There" | The Four Tops
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| 267 | "Walk This Way" | Aerosmith
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| 268 | "Bette Davis Eyes" | Kim Carnes
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| 269 | "The Wind Beneath My Wings" | Bette Midler
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| 270 | "Change the World" | Eric Clapton
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| 271 | "If I Didn't Care" | The Ink Spots
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| 272 | "Paper Doll" | The Mills Brothers
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| 273 | "Strange Fruit" | Billie Holiday
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| 274 | "Ode to Billie Joe" | Bobbie Gentry
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| 275 | "Strangers in the Night" | Frank Sinatra
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| 276 | "War" | Edwin Starr
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| 277 | "Behind Closed Doors" | Charlie Rich
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| 278 | "Old Time Rock & Roll" | Bob Seger
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| 279 | "We Got the Beat" | The Go-Go's
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| 280 | "The Message" | Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five
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| 281 | "You're the Top" | Ethel Merman
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| 282 | "My Guy" | Mary Wells
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| 283 | "You Send Me" | Sam Cooke
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| 284 | "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" | Glen Campbell
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| 285 | "Everybody's Talkin'" | Nilsson
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| 286 | "Heart of Gold" | Neil Young
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| 287 | "Jack and Diane" | John Mellencamp
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| 288 | "Fight the Power" | Public Enemy
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| 289 | "Me and My Shadow" | Whispering Jack Smith
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| 290 | "Deep in the Heart of Texas" | Alvino Ray Orchestra
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| 291 | "For What It's Worth" | Buffalo Springfield
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| 292 | "That's What Friends Are For" | Dionne Warwick & Friends
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| 293 | "You're Still the One" | Shania Twain
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| 294 | Birdland (Album) | Weather Report
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| 295 | "Go Your Own Way" | Fleetwood Mac
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| 296 | "Another Brick in the Wall" | Pink Floyd
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| 297 | "Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend" | Vaughn Monroe
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| 298 | "The Way We Were" | Barbra Streisand
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| 299 | "9 to 5" | Dolly Parton
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| 300 | Grease (Album) | Original Cast
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| 301 | "Don't Worry, Be Happy" | Bobby McFerrin
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| 302 | "Who's Sorry Now" | Connie Francis
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| 303 | "That's the Way (I Like It)" | KC and the Sunshine Band
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| 304 | "Yes! We Have No Bananas" | Billy Jones
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| 305 | "On Top of Old Smoky" | The Weavers
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| 306 | "You Really Got Me" | The Kinks
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| 307 | "Ohio" | Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
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| 308 | "Free Fallin'" | Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
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| 309 | "This Kiss" | Faith Hill
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| 310 | "Body and Soul" | Coleman Hawkins Orchestra
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| 311 | "I Am Woman" | Helen Reddy
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| 312 | Show Boat (Album) | Original Cast
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| 313 | "This Masquerade" | George Benson
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| 314 | "Some of These Days" | Sophie Tucker
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| 315 | "Down Hearted Blues" | Bessie Smith
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| 316 | "New San Antonio Rose" | Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys
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| 317 | "How High the Moon" | Les Paul/Mary Ford
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| 318 | "I'm Sorry" | Brenda Lee
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| 319 | "Everyday People" | Sly & the Family Stone
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| 320 | "When Will I Be Loved" | Linda Ronstadt
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| 321 | "Uncle John's Band" | The Grateful Dead
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| 322 | "Faith" | George Michael
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| 323 | "Up Where We Belong" | Joe Cocker/Jennifer Warnes
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| 324 | "All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight" | Hank Williams, Jr.
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| 325 | "Candle in the Wind" | Elton John
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| 326 | "El Shaddai" | Amy Grant
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| 327 | "Salt Peanuts" | Dizzy Gillespie
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| 328 | Zodiac Suite (Album) | Mary Lou Williams
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| 329 | "Vesti La Giubba" | Enrico Caruso
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| 330 | "Whispering" | Paul Whiteman Orch.
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| 331 | "Blue Yodel (T for Texas)" | Jimmie Rodgers
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| 332 | "Boogie Chillen" | John Lee Hooker
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| 333 | "The Battle of New Orleans" | Johnny Horton
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| 334 | "She Works Hard for the Money" | Donna Summer
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| 335 | "I Want You Back" | The Jackson 5
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| 336 | "He Stopped Loving Her Today" | George Jones
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| 337 | "Men in Black" | Will Smith
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| 338 | "El Paso" | Marty Robbins
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| 339 | "I'll Fly Away" | The Chuck Wagon Gang
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| 340 | "Rockit" | Herbie Hancock
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| 341 | "King Porter Stomp" | Jelly Roll Morton
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| 342 | "Cross Road Blues" | Robert Johnson
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| 343 | "Cattle Call" | Eddy Arnold
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| 344 | "Tiger Rag" | The Original Dixieland Jazz Band
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| 345 | "The Prisoner's Song" | Vernon Dalhart
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| 346 | "Yakety Yak" | The Coasters
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| 347 | "Big Yellow Taxi" | Joni Mitchell
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| 348 | "Higher Love" | Steve Winwood
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| 349 | "No Charge" | Shirley Caesar
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| 350 | "My Home's in Alabama" | Alabama
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| 351 | "One Sweet Day" | Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men
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| 352 | "I Hope You Dance" | Lee Ann Womack
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| 353 | "Don't Let Nobody Turn You Around" | The Fairfield Four
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| 354 | "The In Crowd" | Ramsey Lewis Trio
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| 355 | "Near You" | Francis Craig Orchestra
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| 356 | "Sing Me Back Home" | Merle Haggard
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| 357 | "Django" | The Modern Jazz Quartet
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| 358 | "Respect Yourself" | The Staples Singers
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| 359 | "Doo Wop (That Thing)" | Lauryn Hill
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| 360 | "Mama He's Crazy" | The Judds
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| 361 | "No Scrubs" | TLC
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| 362 | "Saturday in the Park" | Chicago
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| 363 | "Bills, Bills, Bills" | Destiny's Child
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| 364 | "Addictive Love" | Bebe & Cece Winans
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| 365 | "All Along the Watchtower" | Jimi Hendrix
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