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  2. Performances and adaptations of The Star-Spangled Banner

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    Bing Crosby recorded the song on March 22, 1939, for Decca Records.He also recorded it as a reading of the poem with a musical accompaniment on August 15, 1946. [2]Igor Stravinsky's first of his four 1941 arrangements of "The Star-Spangled Banner" led to an incident on January 15, 1944, with the Boston police, but "Boston Police Commissioner Thomas F. Sullivan said there would be no action."

  3. Girl group - Wikipedia

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    Girls Aloud (pictured in 2005) an example of a girl group.. A girl group is a music act featuring three or more female singers who generally harmonize together. The term "girl group" is also used in a narrower sense in the United States to denote the wave of American female pop music singing groups, many of whom were influenced by doo-wop and which flourished in the late 1950s and early 1960s ...

  4. Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance

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    The Female R&B Vocal Performance category, Male R&B Vocal Performance category and all duo/group vocal performances in the R&B category shifted to the Best R&B Performance category in 2012. [4] The award for the Best Female R&B Vocal Performance was first presented to Aretha Franklin at the 10th Grammy Awards ceremony in 1968 for the song ...

  5. Belting (music) - Wikipedia

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    Belting became commonplace in Broadway musicals following Ethel Merman's performance in Girl Crazy (1930), notably in the song "I Got Rhythm". [5] The opening credit sequence of the James Bond film Goldfinger (1964) features a title song performed by Shirley Bassey , which established belting as a signature quality of the James Bond films that ...

  6. Voice type - Wikipedia

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    A voice type is a group of voices with similar vocal ranges, capable of singing in a similar tessitura, and with similar vocal transition points (). [1] Voice classification is most strongly associated with European classical music, though it, and the terms it utilizes, are used in other styles of music as well.

  7. Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance

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    From 1995 to 2011 it was known as Best Female Pop Vocal Performance The award was discontinued in 2012 in a major overhaul of Grammy categories. From 2012, all solo performances in the pop category (male, female, and instrumental) were shifted to the newly formed Best Pop Solo Performance category.

  8. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    In a singing style. In instrumental music, a style of playing that imitates the way the human voice might express the music, with a measured tempo and flexible legato. cantilena a vocal melody or instrumental passage in a smooth, lyrical style canto Chorus; choral; chant cantus mensuratus or cantus figuratus (Lat.)

  9. Jody Watley - Wikipedia

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    Jody Vanessa Watley (born January 30, 1959) [2] [3] is an American singer, songwriter and producer whose music crosses genres including pop, R&B, jazz, dance and electronic soul.