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Todd Rundgren
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Hello It's Me
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Imperial Teen
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Overtaken
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St. Christopher
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You Deserve More Than a Maybe
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The Popguns
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Gone
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Climax
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Precious and Few
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The Crickets
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Deborah
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Caetano Veloso
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Lua e estrela
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John Cunningham
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Invisible Lives
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Baden Powell
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Márcia, eu te amo
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Paul O'Dette
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A Dream (Lady Laitons Paven)
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composition by John Dowland
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The Monochrome Set
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Yo Ho Ho (and Three Bottles of Wine)
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Four Tet
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Clouding
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Deodato
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Prelude to Afternoon of a Faun
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the Claude Debussy composition
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Gary McFarland
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Days Dipped in Dreams (Pisces)
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Eric Matthews
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Genius
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Dingaka (Original Motion Picture Sound Track)
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Feast of the Strong Men
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composed by Bertha Egnos and Eddie Domingo
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Guy Warren
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Chant
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aka Kofi Ghanaba
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Women of the Bo-sa-so-sho Tribe, Niger, S.E. Africa
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Si Nopo Da (By What Signs Will I Come to Understand?)
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actually by Michael Snow
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Nu Sounds
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Africa
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a Sun Ra production
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Martin Denny
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Mumba
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The Springfields
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Swahili Papa
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Akendengue
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Awana W'Afrika
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Pink Lady
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Love Countdown
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Quincy Jones
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Love, I Never Had It So Good
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Little Jackie
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The World Should Revolve Around Me
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Fannypack
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Hit It
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ESG
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Dance
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Marsha Hunt's 22
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(Oh, No! Not) The Beast Day
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Tom Zé
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Defect 8: Onu, arma mortal
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Helen Shapiro
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Don't Treat Me Like a Child
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BOX SCORE Number of songs played: 30 • Percentage of songs played directly from my personal collection: 90% • Ratio of songs with a vocal component to purely instrumental songs: 4:1 • Ratio of songs with vocals that have male-only singing to female-only singing to mixed-sex singing: 3:2:1 • Number of songs in which a male vocalist is imitating a female voice: 1 • Longest song: 7:12 • Shortest song: 1:04 • Artists by continent (defined by origin or original home of artist, not where song was recorded): North America — 15; South America — 4; Europe — 7; Asia — 1; Africa — 3; Australia/Oceania — 0 • Format breakdown: 7-inch vinyl – 2; 12-inch vinyl — 11; compact disc — 17 • Songs by decade: 1950s — 4; 1960s — 4; 1970s — 7; 1980s — 5; 1990s — 3; 2000s — 6; 2010s — 1 • Age of youngest performer at time of song's release: 14 • Age of oldest performer: 62 • Number of weeks since I've featured a show in which I played songs from the past seven decades: 3 • Number of songs I've ever played that had their first release in 2012: 1 • Number of songs played that have reached the U.S. Top 5 on the Billboard singles chart: 2 • Number of artists played who have reached the Top 20 on the Billboard singles chart under group names other than the ones featured here: 5 • Number of artists played who have directly inspired a Billboard No. 1 hit single by the Rolling Stones: 1 • Percentage of African-derived songs played that were actually performed by African artists: 43% • Number of artists played who have hosted a weekly television series: 2
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