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| x Flagpole Sitta |
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Peep Show |
"Flagpole Sitta" is a song by American rock band Harvey Danger from their 1998 debut album, Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone?. It was released as a single in April 1998. The song gained popularity after Sean Nelson gave a copy of the album to a...
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| x Heartbeat |
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Heartbeat |
"Heartbeat" is a rockabilly song written by Bob Montgomery and Norman Petty and recorded originally by Buddy Holly in 1958.
The last Buddy Holly single to be released during his lifetime, "Heartbeat" was only a minor hit in the US with a #82...
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| x You |
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Hollywood 7 |
"You" was the 9th single released by UK pop group, S Club 7 on February 11, 2002. The track was a very uptempo-retro number reminiscent of the group's third single "You're My Number One". The video was set in the 1950s and is described in the BeSt...
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| x I'll Be There for You |
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Friends |
"I'll Be There for You" is a song by American rock band The Rembrandts released as the first single from their third studio album LP. The song is also well-known as the theme song to the American sitcom Friends, which premiered during 1994, and...
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| x Quizás, Quizás, Quizás |
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Coupling |
Quizás, Quizás, Quizás (also known as Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps in English), a popular song by Cuban songwriter Osvaldo Farrés. Farrés wrote the original Spanish lyrics, as well as composing the 1947 hit. The English lyrics were written by Joe...
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| x California |
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The O.C. |
"California" is a song featured in Phantom Planet's 2002 album, The Guest. The song was first heard on national television on episode 8 of Fastlane, which was executive produced by McG. Both the song and the band received major attention when it...
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| x Up Where We Belong |
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NileCity 105,6 |
"Up Where We Belong" is a song from the 1982 film An Officer and a Gentleman. Written by Jack Nitzsche and Buffy Sainte-Marie, with lyrics by Will Jennings, it was performed by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes.
The single, released by Island Records...
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| x Bang Bang You're Dead |
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Sorted |
"Bang Bang You're Dead" is a song by the band Dirty Pretty Things. It was released as a single on April 24, 2006 and was the first to be released from the band's debut album Waterloo to Anywhere. It proved very successful, charting at #5 on the UK...
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| x Little Boxes | Weeds |
"Little Boxes" is a song written by Malvina Reynolds in 1962 that lampoons the development of suburbia and what many consider its bourgeois conformist values. The song has been performed by a number of musicians, including the Womenfolk and Pete...
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| x AYO Technology |
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Switzerland's Next Supermodel |
"Ayo Technology" is the fourth single from 50 Cent's third album, Curtis. The song, featuring Justin Timberlake and Timbaland, who also produced the song, was a hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and UK Singles Chart, where it charted at #5 and #2...
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| x Deadwood |
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Russell Brand's Got Issues |
"Deadwood" is a song by the band Dirty Pretty Things. It was released as a single on July 10, 2006 and was the second to be released from the band's debut album Waterloo to Anywhere. The band recruited fans via their web site to appear for the...
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| x Obsession |
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WWE Saturday Night's Main Event |
"Obsession" is a 1985 song recorded by New Wave synth-dance group Animotion. The song hit number six in the United States, and number five in the United Kingdom in early 1985, helped by a distinct video that received heavy rotation on MTV.
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| x Love Me or Hate Me |
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The Bad Girls Club |
"Love Me or Hate Me (Fuck You!!!!)" (produced by Lukasz "Dr. Luke" Gottwald) is the sixth single from UK hip-hop artist Lady Sovereign and the fourth from her debut album Public Warning. The single was confirmed for release by her official website...
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| Bad Girls Road Trip | |||
| x Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! |
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Gimme Gimme Gimme |
"Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)", originally titled "Been and Gone and Done It", is one of Swedish pop group ABBA's biggest disco hits. It was recorded and released in 1979 with "The King Has Lost His Crown" as the B-side. It appears on...
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| x Living Dead Girl |
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ECW Hardcore TV |
"Living Dead Girl" is the second single off Rob Zombie's solo debut Hellbilly Deluxe. It was named after Jean Rollin's 1982 film. The line, "Who is this irresistible creature who has an insatiable love for the dead?" in the beginning of the song is...
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| x Dragula |
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ECW Hardcore TV |
"Dragula" is the first single from Rob Zombie solo debut Hellbilly Deluxe. Since it's release, it has become Zombie's most well known song as a solo artist. The song is based on the drag racer "DRAG-U-LA" featured in the sitcom The Munsters. The...
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| x Thunder Kiss '65 |
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ECW Hardcore TV |
"Thunder Kiss '65" is the first and only official single off the album La Sexorcisto: Devil Music, Vol. 1 by White Zombie. The song can also be found on Rob Zombie's Past, Present & Future and the greatest hits album The Best of Rob Zombie.
The...
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| x Closer to God |
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ECW Hardcore TV |
"Closer" (also known as Halo 9) is a song written by Trent Reznor and featured on the 1994 Nine Inch Nails album The Downward Spiral. In mid-1994, the song was released as the second single from the album. Most versions of the single are titled ...
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| x Stand |
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Get a Life |
"Stand" is a song by R.E.M. released as the second single from Green in 1989. The song quickly rose up the charts, peaking at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming R.E.M.'s second top 10 hit in the United States. The song reached #48 on the UK...
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| x M*A*S*H (Suicide Is Painless) | M*A*S*H | ||
| x Suicide Is Painless |
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M*A*S*H |
"Suicide Is Painless" is a song written by Johnny Mandel (music) and Mike Altman (lyrics), which is best known for being featured as the theme song for both the movie and TV series M*A*S*H. The actual title, as it appears on the sheet music, is ...
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| x Are You Gonna Be My Girl |
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Jack Dee Live at the Apollo |
"Are You Gonna Be My Girl" is a song by the Australian rock band Jet, featured on their 2005 album Get Born. It was the first single from the album, released in 2003 in Australia and the UK, and in 2004 in the United States. The song is often cited...
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| x Everybody Wants to Rule the World |
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Dennis Miller Live |
"Everybody Wants to Rule the World" is a song by the British pop/rock band Tears for Fears. It was the band's ninth single release in the United Kingdom (the third from their second LP: Songs from the Big Chair) and seventh UK Top 40 chart hit,...
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| x Sunrise |
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Sunrise |
"(Reach Up for The) Sunrise" is a song by Duran Duran, the first single from the album Astronaut and their 31st single overall. It was the first single since "A View to a Kill" in 1985 to feature all five of the original members of the band.
The...
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| x Love Theme from MST3K | Mystery Science Theater 3000 | ||
| x Goodness Gracious Me |
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Goodness Gracious Me |
"Goodness Gracious Me" is a comedy song recorded by Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren, and was a top 5 UK single in 1960. It features Sellers acting the role of an Indian doctor, and Loren of his wealthy Italian patient – who fall in love.
The song was...
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| x How Soon Is Now? |
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Charmed |
"How Soon Is Now?" is a song by the British alternative rock band The Smiths. Written by Smiths singer Morrissey and guitarist Johnny Marr, it was originally a B-side of the 1984 single "William, It Was Really Nothing". "How Soon Is Now?" was...
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| x Come Fly with Me |
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Airline |
"Come Fly with Me" is a 1957 popular song composed by Jimmy Van Heusen, with lyrics by Sammy Cahn. Van Heusen had a passion for flying and moonlighted part-time as a test pilot during World War II.
"Come Fly with Me" was written for Frank Sinatra,...
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| x Reach |
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LA 7 |
"Reach" is a song by S Club 7, released as a single on May 22, 2000. "Reach" is an up-tempo track co-written by Cathy Dennis and Andrew Todd (of British electo-rock band "Republica" fame). The song debut at its number 2 peak on the UK charts, with...
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| x One of Us |
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Joan of Arcadia |
"One of Us" is a song written by Eric Bazilian (of The Hooters) and originally released by Joan Osborne. Released in March 1995 on the album Relish and produced by Rick Chertoff, it became a top 40 hit in November of that year.
The song deals with...
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| x Superman | Scrubs |
"Superman" is a song by the American band, Lazlo Bane, from their album All the Time in the World. It was written by Lazlo Bane and Pondy Doorcan. It is most noted for being the theme song to the American TV series Scrubs.
Zach Braff, the star of...
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| x Good Lovin' |
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Doctor Doctor |
"Good Lovin' " is a song written by Rudy Clark and Arthur Resnick that was a number one hit single for The Young Rascals in 1966.
The song was first recorded in 1965 by R&B;/novelty artists The Olympics, but was only moderately successful at best,...
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| x Born to Be Wild |
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NASCAR on TNT |
"Born to Be Wild" is a rock song written by Mars Bonfire and made famous by the Canadian rock band Steppenwolf. It is often used in popular culture to denote a biker appearance or attitude. It is sometimes described as the first heavy metal song,...
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| x Lift |
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The Biggest Loser Australia |
"Lift" is the second single by Australian singer Shannon Noll from his second album with the same name. The boxing-themed video clip for this song was shot in an unused warehouse in Sydney's Marrickville by Australian director Anthony Rose, who also...
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| The Biggest Loser Australia | |||
| The Biggest Loser Australia | |||
| The Biggest Loser Australia | |||
| x Run | Gavin and Stacey | ||
| x Rescue Me |
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Rescue Me |
"Rescue Me" is a song written by Raynard Miner and Carl Smith. In 1965, it was released as a single by Fontella Bass. It would prove the biggest hit of Bass's career, reaching the number one spot on the R&B; charts for four weeks and placing at...
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| x Twinkle Twinkle Little Star |
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Dirt |
"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" is one of the most popular English nursery rhymes. The lyrics are from an early nineteenth-century English poem, "The Star" by Jane Taylor. The poem, which is in couplet form, was first published in 1806 in Rhymes for...
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| x Falling (Twin Peaks Theme) | Twin Peaks | ||
| x Viva Las Vegas |
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Father of the Pride |
"Viva Las Vegas" is a 1964 song written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman and recorded by Elvis Presley for his Viva Las Vegas film vehicle of that year. It has since become widely known and often performed by others.
Released as a double-sided single...
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| x Oh! Gravity |
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The Life of Ryan |
"Oh! Gravity." is the lead single off Switchfoot's sixth album, Oh! Gravity.. The song was officially released to radio in late October 2006. However the song was made available free on their website and MySpace in early October, and had found its...
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| x The Ballad of Serenity | Firefly | ||
| x The Muppet Show Theme | The Muppet Show | ||
| x Mickey |
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Princess Nikki |
"Mickey" is a 1982 hit U.S. pop song recorded by singer and choreographer Toni Basil. Written by Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn as "Kitty," it was first recorded by UK pop group Racey in 1979.
Basil's crush on actor and Monkee Micky Dolenz during her...
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| x Nasty Girl |
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Germany's Next Top Model |
"Nasty Girl" is the a song by rapper The Notorious B.I.G. It was released in 2005 in the US and on January 16, 2006 in the UK. The single reached #1 in the UK (this being his first #1 in the country, just under a year after "rival" rapper 2Pac had...
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| Germany's Next Topmodel, Cycle 1 | |||
| x I Don't Want to Wait |
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Dawson's Creek |
"I Don't Want to Wait" is a song written, performed and produced by Paula Cole. It was Cole's second single from her album This Fire. It was the opening theme for the TV-series Dawson's Creek. The single was #10 on the 1997 Hot 100 Singles on the...
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| x Handbags and Gladrags |
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The Office |
"Handbags and Gladrags" is the name of a song written in 1967 by Mike d'Abo, who was then the lead singer of Manfred Mann. d'Abo describes the song as "saying to a teenage girl that the way to happiness is not being trendy. There are deeper values"....
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| x Burkhard Dallwitz | Underbelly |
Burkhard Dallwitz (born 1959) is a German-born composer based in Melbourne, Australia. He was born near Frankfurt and began ten years of classical piano training at the age of eight. By thirteen he was writing songs and music, and from fifteen,...
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| Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities | |||
| Underbelly | |||
| x Lovin' Each Day |
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Ford Super Sunday |
"Lovin' Each Day" is a pop song written by Gregg Alexander and Rick Nowels for the 2001 re-release of Irish singer Ronan Keating's first solo album Ronan. It was later also included on his second album, 2002's Destination. The song was produced by...
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| x Lord Give Me A Sign |
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DMX: Soul of a Man |
"Lord Give Me a Sign" is the second single by the American rapper DMX, taken from his album Year of the Dog...Again. The song is about how DMX struggles with "trials and tribulations" throughout his life, all the while seeking strength from God to...
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| x Gone up in Flames |
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The Inbetweeners |
"Gone Up in Flames" is the debut single by British rock band Morning Runner, first released on 1 August 2005 (see 2005 in British music). It reached number 39 on the UK Singles Chart. The song was featured on the band's debut album, Wilderness Is...
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| x I Don't Want to Be |
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One Tree Hill |
"I Don't Want to Be" is a song by Gavin DeGraw appearing on his 2003 debut album Chariot. It was released as a single in Australia in 2004, and in the UK in 2005.
It is mainly known for being the theme song to the hit television drama series, One...
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| x Mr. Blue Sky |
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LAX |
"Mr. Blue Sky" is a song by the rock group Electric Light Orchestra.
The song forms the fourth and last track on the "Concerto for a Rainy Day" suite on side three of the original two-LP set. The song features a heavily vocoded voice singing the...
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| x Australia |
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Renford Rejects |
"Australia" was released by Manic Street Preachers on December 2, 1996, and was the fourth single release from the Everything Must Go album of May that same year. The sentiment of the song is that Australia is just about the furthest one can go to...
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| x Theme from Star Trek | Star Trek: The Original Series |
"Theme from Star Trek" (originally scored under the title "Where No Man Has Gone Before") is an instrumental musical piece written by Alexander Courage for Star Trek, the science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry and originally...
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| x Opportunities |
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Beauty and the Geek |
"Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" is a song by UK synthpop duo Pet Shop Boys, released as a single in 1985 and then in 1986, gaining greater popularity in both the UK and U.S. with its second release.
Written as a satire of Thatcherism and...
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| x Come Clean |
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Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County |
"Come Clean" is a song that is written by Kara DioGuardi and John Shanks, and produced by Shanks for American singer Hilary Duff's debut album, Metamorphosis (2003). It was released as the album's second single in 2004 (see 2004 in music). In...
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| x Alcanzar una estrella | Alcanzar una estrella |
Alcanzar una estrella is one of the two theme songs for the telenovela of 1991 Alcanzar una estrella. It was written by Ricardo Arjona and performed by the telenovela's lead actress Mariana Garza.
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| x Doctor Who theme music | Doctor Who |
The Doctor Who theme is a piece of music, composed by Ron Grainer and realised by Delia Derbyshire at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Created in 1963, it was one of the first electronic music signature tunes for television and after four decades...
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| x Peace, Love, and Understanding |
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Aliens in America |
"(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding" is a 1970s song written by English musician Nick Lowe and recorded in the best-known version by Elvis Costello & The Attractions.
The song was originally released in 1974 on the album The New...
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| x Smile |
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Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon |
"Smile" is a pop song, originally used as an instrumental theme in the soundtrack for the 1936 Charlie Chaplin movie Modern Times. Chaplin composed the music, while the words were written by John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons. In the lyrics, the...
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