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"Cry Like a Baby" is a 1968 song written by #DanPenn and #SpoonerOldham, and performed by #TheBoxTops. The song reached No. 2 in April 1968 on the #Billboard Hot 100 chart, a position it held for two weeks. "Cry Like a Baby" also reached No. 2 on #Cashbox for one week. It stayed on the Hot 100 for 15 weeks and Cashbox for 14 weeks. It was awarded a #goldDisc for selling over one million copies in the United States.
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"Shake" is a song written and recorded by #SamCooke. It was recorded at the last recording session Cooke had before his death on December 11, 1964. In the U.S., the song became a posthumous #Billboard, Top 10 hit for Cooke, peaking at number seven in February 1965, as well as peaking at number two for three weeks on the #Cashbox R&B charts. #CashBox described it as "a sensational rock-a-twist affair."
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"Can't We Try" is a 1987 #duet performed by #DanHill and #VondaShepard. The #ballad was Billboard's No. 1 #AdultContemporary Song of the Year for 1987. "Can't We Try" was released as a single from Dan Hill's 1987 self-titled album. The song reached No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and also on #CashBox, making it Dan Hill's second-biggest hit behind "#SometimesWhenWeTouch", which hit No. 3 back in 1978, and was Vonda Shepard's only Top 10 Pop hit.
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"Lonely Days" is a #ballad written and performed by the #BeeGees. It appeared on their album #2YearsOn, and was released as a single, becoming their first Top Five hit in the US, peaking at number three in the #Billboard #Hot100 and reaching number one in the #Cashbox and #RecordWorld charts. #BarryGibb later re-recorded the song with country quartet #LittleBigTown for his 2021 album #Greenfields.
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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 released in 1987, the song became the first instrumental to reach the top 5 of the Billboard Hot 100 since the "#MiamiViceTheme" by #JanHammer (a No. 1 hit) in 1985.
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"The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" is a song by #folkRock duo #SimonAndGarfunkel, written by #PaulSimon and originally released on their 1966 album #ParsleySageRosemaryAndThyme. #CashBox called it a "sparkling, spirited lid". The song is named for the #QueensboroBridge which spans the #EastRiver between the #NewYorkCity boroughs of #Manhattan and Queens.
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"Angelia" ( ayn-jə-LEE-ə) is a #ballad recorded by #RichardMarx and the third released single on his second album, #RepeatOffender. "Angelia" reached number 2 on the #CashBox singles chart, and reached number 4 on the US #Billboard Hot 100 chart 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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"Indiana Wants Me" is a song written, composed, and originally recorded by Canadian singer-songwriter #RDeanTaylor. It was released on the #RareEarth label, a subsidiary of #Motown Records, in 1970, and was a top ten hit in both the US and UK. In #Cashbox magazine, the single hit #1. The song spent two weeks at #2 in Canada. The song is written from the viewpoint of someone who has killed a man out of defending his wife's honor; he is missing his family.
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"Stand Tall" is the title of an international hit single by #BurtonCummings, taken 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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"Still" is a 1979 song by the #soulMusic group the #Commodores. It was released as a #single on #MotownRecords with "Such a Woman" as the #Bside. The song appears on their 1979 hit album #MidnightMagic. This was their last No. 1 hit in the United States. #CashBox said it was a "tender, lilting #ballad" with "a soft, building piano figure" and "expressive, plaintive lead vocal." #Billboard praised the " poignant lyric and slow.
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Huey Lewes and the News did a remake which I like better.
post from @50years_music, "It's All Right" is a 1963 song recorded by #TheImpressions and written by the group's lead singer, #CurtisMayfield. The single was the most successful chart entry of the group's career. "It's All Right" was one of two top-ten singles for the group on the Billboard Hot 100, and the first of six number ones on the Billboard #RAndB chart. It also reached No.1 on the #CashBox R&B chart.
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"It's All Right" is a 1963 song recorded by #TheImpressions and written by the group's lead singer, #CurtisMayfield. The single was the most successful chart entry of the group's career. "It's All Right" was one of two top-ten singles for the group on the Billboard Hot 100, and the first of six number ones on the Billboard #RAndB chart. It also reached No.1 on the #CashBox R&B chart.
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"Our House" is a song written by British singer-songwriter #GrahamNash and recorded by #CrosbyStillsNashAndYoung on their album #DéjàVu (1970). The single reached No. 30 on the U.S. #Billboard #Hot100 and No. 20 on the #CashBox Top 100. The song, "an ode to countercultural domestic bliss", was written while Nash was living with #JoniMitchell, recording both #CrosbyStillsAndNash and Déjà Vu.
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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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"Power to the People" is a song written by #JohnLennon, released as a single in 1971, credited to John Lennon/#PlasticOnoBand. It was issued on #AppleRecords (catalogue number R5892 in the United Kingdom, 1830 in the United States) and charted at #6 on the #BritishSinglesChart, at number 10 on the #Cashbox Top 100, and at number 11 on the #Billboard #Hot100 The song's first appearance on album was the 1975 compilation #ShavedFish.
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"Angelia" ( ayn-jə-LEE-ə) is a #ballad recorded by #RichardMarx and the third released single on his second album, #RepeatOffender. #Angelia reached number 2 on the #CashBox singles chart, and reached number 4 on the US #Billboard Hot 100 chart 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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"Cruisin'" is a 1979 single written, produced, and performed by the American singer-songwriter #SmokeyRobinson for #MotownRecords' Tamla label. One of Robinson's most successful singles outside of his work with #theMiracles, "Cruisin'" hit number one on the U.S. #CashBox Top 100 and was also a #Billboard #Hot100 hit, peaking at number four the week of February 2, 1980. It was a top-five hit on the Soul chart as well.
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"Coward of the County" is a song written by #RogerBowling and #BillyEddWheeler and recorded by American #countryMusic singer #KennyRogers. The song was released in November 1979 as the second and final single from Rogers' multi-platinum album Kenny. It became a major #crossoverHit, topping the #Billboard Country chart and reaching number three on the #Hot100 chart; it also topped the #CashBox singles chart and was a Top 10 hit in numerous other countries worldwide.
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