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  2. Love for Sale (song) - Wikipedia

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    Songwriter (s) Cole Porter. " Love for Sale " is a song by Cole Porter introduced by Kathryn Crawford in the musical The New Yorkers, which opened on Broadway on December 8, 1930, and closed in May 1931 after 168 performances. [ 1 ] The song is written from the viewpoint of a prostitute advertising "love for sale".

  3. List of signature songs - Wikipedia

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    A signature song is the one song (or, in some cases, one of a few songs) that a popular and well-established recording artist or band is most closely identified with or best known for. This is generally differentiated from a one-hit wonder in that the artist usually has had success with other songs as well.

  4. NBC chimes - Wikipedia

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    See media help. The NBC chimes are a sequence of three tones played on National Broadcasting Company (NBC) broadcasts. Originally developed in 1927 as seven notes, they were standardized to the current three-note version by the early 1930s, and possibly as early as 1929. The chimes were originally employed as an audible programming cue, used to ...

  5. Glossary of early twentieth century slang in the United States

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    butt me. Main article: Cigarette. Give me a cigarette [8] butter and egg man 1. Man with the bankroll or money [20] 2. Yokel is a derogatory term which can be used to describe a wealthy rural citizen who comes to the big city and extravagantly enjoys their newfound wealth e.g. blow a big wad in nightclubs [77] button The chin; point of the chin ...

  6. Taxman - Wikipedia

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    "Taxman" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1966 album Revolver. Written by the group's lead guitarist, George Harrison, with some lyrical assistance from John Lennon, it protests against the higher level of progressive tax imposed in the United Kingdom by the Labour government of Harold Wilson, which saw the Beatles paying a 95% supertax.

  7. Handle with Care (song) - Wikipedia

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    The video for the song was filmed near Union Station in Los Angeles. The Wilburys filmed a music video for "Handle with Care" in early October 1988, at an abandoned brewery near Union Station in Los Angeles. [41] It was directed by David Leland, who had recently directed Harrison's HandMade Films production Checking Out. [42]

  8. Here, There and Everywhere - Wikipedia

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    George Martin. " Here, There and Everywhere " is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1966 album Revolver. A love ballad, it was written by Paul McCartney [4][5] and credited to Lennon–McCartney. McCartney includes it among his personal favourites of the songs he has written. [4] In 2000, Mojo ranked it 4th in the magazine's ...

  9. You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet (Bachman–Turner Overdrive song)

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    The lyrics for the song tell of the narrator meeting a "devil woman" who gives him love. The chorus of the song includes the song's famous stutter, and speaks of her looking at him with big brown eyes and saying, "You ain't seen nothin' yet. B-b-b-baby, you just ain't seen na-na-nothin' yet. Here's somethin' that you're never gonna forget.