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"Angelia" ( ayn-jə-LEE-ə) is a #ballad recorded by #RichardMarx and the fourth released single on his second album, #RepeatOffender. "Angelia" hit number 2 on the US #CashBox singles chart, and number 4 on the US Billboard Hot 100 on December 2, 1989. It was also a top-40 hit in Australia and made the top 50 in the UK. On the Billboard #AdultContemporary chart.
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"Peg" is a song by the American #rock group #SteelyDan, first released on the band's 1977 album #Aja. The track was released as a single in 1977 and reached number 11 on the #US Billboard chart in 1978 and number eight on the #CashBox chart. With a chart run of 19 weeks, "Peg" is tied with "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" and "Hey Nineteen" for being Steely Dan's longest-running chart hit. In #Canada, "Peg" spent three weeks at number seven in March 1978.
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"Chick-A-Boom (Don't Ya Jes' Love It)" is a song written by Janice Lee Gwin and Linda Martin and performed by #DaddyDewdrop. It was featured on his 1971 album, Daddy Dewdrop. The lyrics in the verses are spoken, rather than sung. "Chick-A-Boom" reached number nine on the U.S. Billboard pop chart in 1971. It also reached number five on the #CashBox Top 100. It was produced by #DickMonda and Don Sciarrotta.
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"Come a Little Bit Closer" is a song by the 1960s #rockAndRoll band #JayAndTheAmericans. It reached number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 on November 21, 1964, making it the band's highest-charting single. It also peaked at number 4 on the #Cashbox chart and at number 1 on #RPM's singles chart, whilst in #Australia it peaked at 37 on the Kent Music Report. The song was their first top 5 recording in two years, since 1962's "She Cried".
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"Ebony Eyes" is a song written and performed by #BobWelch. The song was the second single release and second hit song from his album #FrenchKiss. Backing vocals are provided by #JuiceNewton. The song reached number 14 on the U.S. #BillboardHot100, and number 12 on the #CashBox Top 100. In Canada, "Ebony Eyes" peaked at number seven for two weeks. The single was an even bigger success in Australia, where it peaked at number two for four weeks.
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"Beginnings" is a song written by #RobertLamm for the rock band #ChicagoTransitAuthority and recorded for its debut album #ChicagoTransitAuthority, released in 1969. The song is the band's second single (after "Questions 67 and 68"), had peaked at position #8 by means of the WNHC hit parade, but did not reach either the #Billboard or the #CashBox hit parade on its initial release. After the band's success with subsequent singles.
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"Go All the Way" is a song written by #EricCarmen of American #rock group the #Raspberries, from their 1972 album #Raspberries. Released as a single in July 1972, the song reached the Top 5 on three principal US charts: number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100, number 4 on #Cashbox, and number 3 on #RecordWorld. The single sold more than 1.3 million copies, earning the band their only #certifiedGoldRecord. It was their second single release and their biggest US hit.
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"Games People Play" is a 1980 song by #theAlanParsonsProject. It peaked at No. 16 on 14 March 1981 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart as well as No. 18 on #CashBox. It appears on the album #TheTurnOfAFriendlyCard and was sung by #LennyZakatek.
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"Stand Tall" is an international hit single by #BurtonCummings from his eponymous debut album. The song was released less than two years after "Dancin' Fool", the final hit single by the group for which Cummings had been lead singer, #TheGuessWho. The recording was issued as the album's lead single in the fall of 1976, spending 21 weeks on the US Billboard Hot 100 and reaching number 10. It reached number 5 on the US #CashBox Top 100.
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"Bad Sneakers" is a song by #jazz #rock band #SteelyDan. It was released as the second single from and second track on their 1975 album #KatyLied, but only reached number 103 in the charts. The album's #producer, #GaryKatz, later regretted not suggesting that the song be released as a single. The band #Sneaker, best known for their Top 40 hit "More Than Just the Two of Us", took their name from "Bad Sneakers". #CashBox noted that "a razored guitar bridge highlights.
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"Come a Little Bit Closer" is a song by the 1960s #rockAndRoll band #JayAndTheAmericans. It reached number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 on November 21, 1964, making it the band's highest-charting single. It also peaked at number 4 on the #Cashbox chart and at number 1 on #RPM's singles chart, whilst in #Australia it peaked at 37 on the Kent Music Report. The song was their first top 5 recording in two years, since 1962's "She Cried".
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"Hot Girls in Love" is a song recorded by the Canadian rock band #Loverboy. It was released in 1983 as the second single from the band's third album #KeepItUp. The song was a hit, peaking at No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and at No. 2 on the #MainstreamRock chart in June 1983. #CashBox reviewed the single stating that this "hard guitar driven rocker suitably keeps the temp 'a hundred above.'"
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"Breakdown Dead Ahead" is a 1980 song recorded by #BozScaggs, and composed by Scaggs and #DavidFoster. It was the lead single of two released from Scaggs's album #MiddleMan. During May, the song reached number 15 on the US #Billboard Hot 100 and number 12 on the #CashBox Top 100. The song was a bigger hit in Canada, where it spent two weeks at number eight on the Pop chart.
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"Just to Be Close to You" is a song by American #RAndB/ #funk band, #Commodores, in 1976. Released from their album, #HotOnTheTracks, it would become one of their biggest hits, spending two weeks at the top of the #HotSoulSingles chart and becoming their second Billboard Hot 100 top ten, peaking at number seven. The song was written and sung by Lionel Richie. #CashBox said that "there's a terrific spoken introduction, packed with soul.
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"Tom Dooley" ( #Roud 4192) is a traditional #NorthCarolina #folkSong based on the 1866 murder of a woman named Laura Foster in #WilkesCountyNorthCarolina by #TomDula (whose name in the local dialect was pronounced "Dooley"). One of the more famous #murderBallads, a popular hit version recorded in 1958 by #TheKingstonTrio reached No. 1 on the #Billboard #Hot100 singles chart, was in the top 10 on the Billboard R&B chart, and appeared in the #Cashbox Country Music Top 20.
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"Tight Rope" is the debut 1972 hit single by singer-songwriter #LeonRussell. It was the lead track on his LP, #Carney. The song reached number 11 on the U.S. #BillboardHot100 and number 10 on the #CashBox Top 100. In Canada, it reached number five. This song is a circus metaphor about clinging to life while being on a high wire. In the instrumental section, this song quotes a couple of times, a slow version of the "Entrance of the Gladiators" March.
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"Rock of Ages" is a song by #DefLeppard from their 1983 album #Pyromania. When issued as a single in the United States, the song reached #16 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #19 on the #CashBox Top 100. It also hit #1 on the #TopTracks Rock chart. In 2012, the band re-recorded the song, along with "Pour Some Sugar on Me", under the title "Rock of Ages 2012". Both were released digitally on 4 June 2012. In 2015.
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"Ain't No Woman (Like the One I've Got)" is a song written by #DennisLambert and #BrianPotter, released as a single by the #FourTops on the #ABCDunhill record label, from the album #KeeperOfTheCastle. It peaked at number four on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 the weeks of April 7 and 14, 1973, number one on the #CashBox Top 100 the latter of those two weeks, and became a gold record. The song was originally recorded by the singing trio of #HamiltonJoeFrankAndReynolds.
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"Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover" is a song written and performed by American singer-songwriter #SophieBHawkins and produced by #RickChertoff and #RalphSchuckett. Released in March 1992 by #ColumbiaRecords as the first single from Hawkins's debut album, #TonguesAndTails (1992), the song achieved success in many countries worldwide; in the United States, it reached number five on both the #Billboard Hot 100 and #CashBox Top 100.
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"Make Believe" is a song by the American rock band #Toto, released as the second single (third in Europe) from their triple platinum 1982 album #TotoIV. It peaked at number 19 in #CashBox magazine and at number 30 on the #Billboard Hot 100 chart on September 25, 1982.
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"Bad Sneakers" is a song by #jazz #rock band #SteelyDan. It was released as the second single from and second track on their 1975 album #KatyLied, but only reached number 103 in the charts. The album's #producer, #GaryKatz, later regretted not suggesting that the song be released as a single. The band #Sneaker, best known for their Top 40 hit "More Than Just the Two of Us", took their name from "Bad Sneakers". #CashBox noted that "a razored guitar bridge highlights.
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"Let It Ride" is a 1974 single by #BachmanTurnerOverdrive, written by #RandyBachman and #FredTurner, with the latter providing lead vocals. It was first recorded for the 1973 album #BachmanTurnerOverdriveII. The single peaked at No. 23 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 on April 27, 1974 (making it BTO's first Top 40 song in the US), and spent two weeks at No. 14 on the #CashBox Top 100. In Canada, the song reached No. 3.
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"To Be with You" is a song by American #rock band #MrBig, released in November 1991 by #AtlanticRecords as the second single from their second album, #LeanIntoIt (1991), on which it appears as the closing track. The #ballad, written by the band's frontman #EricMartin with David Grahame and produced by Kevin Elson, reached number one on the US #Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks as well as the #CashBox Top 100, and topped the charts in 11 other countries.
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"Misunderstanding" is a song by the English #rock band #Genesis, released on their 1980 album #Duke. In the #UnitedStates it reached #9 in #RecordWorld magazine but peaked at #14 in both #Billboard and #CashBox. It stalled at a disappointing #42 in the #UnitedKingdom. Its highest charting was in Canada, where it reached No.1 and is ranked as the seventh biggest Canadian hit of 1980. It was also featured on the band's 1982 double-album #ThreeSidesLive.
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"You Decorated My Life" is a song written by Debbie Hupp and #BobMorrison, and recorded by American #countryMusic artist #KennyRogers. It was released in September 1979 as the lead single from his album #Kenny. It was a number-one hit on the Billboard Country Singles chart, and peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100. #CashBox said that "Rogers' smooth.
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"Just to Be Close to You" is a song by American #RAndB/ #funk band, #Commodores, in 1976. Released from their album, #HotOnTheTracks, it would become one of their biggest hits, spending two weeks at the top of the #HotSoulSingles chart and becoming their second Billboard Hot 100 top ten, peaking at number seven. The song was written and sung by Lionel Richie. #CashBox said that "there's a terrific spoken introduction, packed with soul.
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"Money" is a song by the English #rock band #PinkFloyd from their eighth studio album #TheDarkSideOfTheMoon (1973). Written by #RogerWaters, it opened side two of #theOriginal album. Released as a single, it became the band's first hit in the United States, reaching number 10 in #CashBox magazine and number 13 on the #Billboard #Hot100. Distinctive elements of the song include its unusual 74 #timeSignature.
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"Disco Lady" is a 1976 single by American singer #JohnnieTaylor that went on to become his biggest hit. It spent all four weeks of April 1976 at No. 1 on the #Billboard #Hot100 and six weeks atop the Billboard #RAndBChart in the U.S. It was also the first single to be #certifiedPlatinum by the #RIAA; ultimately it sold over 2.5 million copies. Billboard ranked it as the No. 3 song for 1976, while #Cashbox had it as the year's No. 1 song.
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"I Believe in Music" is a 1970 song written and recorded by #MacDavis and later included on his second album #IBelieveInMusic. #Gallery covered it in 1972 as the second of three singles off their Nice to Be with You album and the follow-up release to their #titleTrack. Gallery's version reached #22 on the US #Billboard #Hot100 and #13 on the US #CashBox Top 100. It hit #5 in Canada. Mac Davis's original had been released as a single nearly two years earlier.
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"Songbird" is a song by #KennyG, played on a #sopranoSaxophone, and the third #single from his 1986 album #Duotones. It reached No. 3 on the Billboard #AdultContemporaryChart, No. 4 on the #Hot100 chart, No. 4 on #Cashbox and No. 23 on the #RAndBChart. In the UK the song peaked at no. 22. When the song was released as a single in 1987, it became the first instrumental to reach the top 5 of the Billboard Hot 100 since 1985.
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