Composer's name is listed where notable (i.e. Classical Performance, Jazz Performance).
For more information on any of the rock, pop and Jazz music featured on this program, I frequently utilize AllMusic , an excellent free database holding a huge plethora of information about music and the artists that make it.
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Air Supply |
Chances |
Pop |
Arista, 1980 |
A chance is all there is.... | |
Lost In Love |
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Sweet Dreams |
Arista, 1981 |
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Now and Forever |
Arista, 1982 |
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Come What May |
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Antonio Carlos Jobim -w- Joao Gilberto (g & voc), Astrid Gilberto (voc), Stan Getz (ts), Tommy Williams (b), Milton Banana (d) |
The Girl From Ipanema |
Bossa Nova |
Verve, 1963 |
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Antonio Carlos Jobim, -w- strings (Claus Ogerman, dir) |
Samba de Una Nota So (One Note Samba) |
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O Grande Amor |
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Desafinado |
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Antonio Carlos Jobim |
Frank Sinatra |
How Insensitive |
Reprise, 1967 |
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Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars |
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Gordon Lightfoot |
Beautiful |
Folk/Pop, Singer-Songwriter |
Reprise, 1972 |
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The Bee Gees |
Run To Me |
Pop |
Polydor, 1972 |
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Bread |
Make It With you |
Pop, Singer-Songwriter |
Columbia, 1970 |
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It Don't Matter To Me |
Columbia, 1969 |
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If |
Columbia, 1971 |
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Arnold Schoenberg |
Concertante Chamber Players |
Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 ("Transfigured Night") |
Classical, post-Romantic era, chamber music |
Helicon, 2001 |
Inspired by Richiard Dehmel's 1896 poem of the same name ; it is the story of a young woman confessing to her lover that she is pregnant with the child of a man she was with before the lovers met. The man responds that the child will be transformed by their love into his, after which the lovers continue into the "high, light night" ("hohe, helle Nacht"). |
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The Beatles |
Something |
Pop |
Apple, 1969 |
Something in the way she moves... attracts me like no other lover.... | |
Got To Get You Into My Life |
Capitol, 1966 |
Say we'll be together everyday.... | |||
She Loves You |
Capitol, 1963 |
She loves you... and you know you should be glad.... | |||
I Wanna Hold Your Hand |
Oh please, say to me, you'll let me be your man... | ||||
This Boy |
Recorded the same day as She Loves You, their first opportunity to use 4-track tape. | ||||
I Want You (She's So Heavy |
Apple, 1969 |
I want you so bad its driving me mad.... | |||
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The Moody Blues |
Nights in White Satin |
Deram, 1967 |
Beauty I'd always missed with these eyes before... just what the truth is, I can't say anymore.... | ||
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Glenn Miller Orchestra |
In The Mood |
Jazz, big band, swing |
Victor, 1939 |
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I've Got A Gal From Kalamazoo |
Victor, 1942 |
Oh what a gal, a real pip-er-ooo | |||
Moon Love |
Bluebird, 1939 |
Based on Tchaikovski's Fifth Symphony, 2nd movement | |||
A String of Pearls |
Bluebird, 1941 |
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Vienna Mozart Ensemble, Willi Boskovski, cond. |
Serenade in D, K.250 ("Haffner") |
Classical, Classical era, music for larger string ensemble |
London, 1972 |
Probably the longest of Mozart's instrumental works; the serenade was written for the 1776 wedding of the daughter of the mayor of Salzberg. |
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Lamb of God |
Hourglass |
Metal |
Sony, 2004 |
What will be left behind in the ashes of the wake? | |
Now You've Got Something To Die For |
We'll never get out of this hole until we've dug our own grave | ||||
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Metallica |
Master of Puppets |
Metal, Thrash |
Elektra, 1986 |
An anti-drug song, if you look at the lyrics carefully ("I'm your source of self destruction") | |
One |
Elektra, 1988 |
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To Live Is To Die |
Lyrics written by Cliff Burton | ||||
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