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  2. List of top 40 songs from films - Wikipedia

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    November 16. Adios Argentina (1934) " Don't Fence Me In ". music by Cole Porter, lyrics by Robert Fletcher and Cole Porter. Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters. 1. charted in US by Kate Smith (1945, #8), Horace Heidt (1945, #10), and Sammy Kaye (1945, #4), the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.

  3. Protest songs in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Protest songs in the United States are a tradition that dates back to the early 18th century and have persisted and evolved as an aspect of American culture through the present day. Many American social movements have inspired protest songs spanning a variety of musical genres including but not limited to rap, folk, rock, and pop music.

  4. Music history of the United States in the 1950s - Wikipedia

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    Chuck Berry. Rock and roll dominated popular music in the latter half of the 1950s. The musical style originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, and quickly spread to much of the rest of the world. Its immediate origins lay in a mixing together of various black musical genres of the time, including rhythm ...

  5. 1940s in music - Wikipedia

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    Bing Crosby was the best selling pop artist of the 1940s. Ragtime, a genre that first became popular in the 1890s, was popular through about the 1940s. After its best-known exponent, Scott Joplin, died in 1917, the genre faded. As the 1920s unfolded, jazz rapidly took over as the dominant form of popular music in the United States.

  6. List of Billboard number-one singles of the 1940s - Wikipedia

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    Number ones. Bing Crosby had the highest number of hits at the top of the Billboard number-one singles chart during the 1940s (9 songs). In addition, Crosby remained the longest at the top of the Billboard number-one singles chart during the 1940s (55 weeks). Jimmy Dorsey remained at the top of the Billboard number-one singles chart for 32 weeks.

  7. List of musical films by year - Wikipedia

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    Alvin and the Chipmunks. Atlantis SquarePantis (animated television film) August Rush. Barbie as the Island Princess (animated direct-to-video) Christmas Is Here Again (animated direct-to-video) Cinderella III: A Twist in Time (animated direct-to-video) Colma: The Musical. Crazy. Enchanted.

  8. Great American Songbook - Wikipedia

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    The "Great American Songbook" is the canon of the most important and influential American popular songs and jazz standards from the early 20th century that have stood the test of time in their life and legacy. Often referred to as "American Standards", the songs published during the Golden Age of this genre include those popular and enduring ...

  9. List of Billboard number-one singles from 1950 to 1958

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    Elvis Presley had the highest number of hits at the top of the Billboard number-one singles chart between January 1950 until August 1958 (10 songs) in addition, Presley remained the longest at the top of the Billboard number-one singles chart between January 1950 until August 1958 (57 weeks). Patti Page was the artist with second-longest most ...