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"White Christmas" is an Irving Berlin
Irving Berlin

Irving Berlin was a Jewish American composer and lyricist, and one of the most prolific American songwriters in history. Berlin was one of the few Tin Pan Alley/Broadway theater songwriters who wrote both lyrics and music for his songs....
 song whose lyrics reminisce about White Christmas
White Christmas

A white Christmas, to most people in the Northern Hemisphere, refers to a Christmas Day with snow on the ground. This phenomenon is far more common in some countries than in others....
es. The morning after he wrote the song — Berlin usually stayed up all night writing — the songwriter went to his office and told his musical secretary, "Grab your pen and take down this song.






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"White Christmas" is an Irving Berlin
Irving Berlin

Irving Berlin was a Jewish American composer and lyricist, and one of the most prolific American songwriters in history. Berlin was one of the few Tin Pan Alley/Broadway theater songwriters who wrote both lyrics and music for his songs....
 song whose lyrics reminisce about White Christmas
White Christmas

A white Christmas, to most people in the Northern Hemisphere, refers to a Christmas Day with snow on the ground. This phenomenon is far more common in some countries than in others....
es. The morning after he wrote the song — Berlin usually stayed up all night writing — the songwriter went to his office and told his musical secretary, "Grab your pen and take down this song. I just wrote the best song I've ever written — hell, I just wrote the best song that anybody's ever written!"

Berlin wrote the song in early 1940 while sitting poolside at the Arizona Biltmore Resort and Spa in Phoenix, Arizona. The original verse pokes fun at a well-off Los Angeleno
Los Ángeles

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 who, amid orange and palm trees, longs for traditional Christmas "up north." Berlin later dropped the verse but kept the now-famous chorus. The "There's never been a day in old L.A." verse regarding Los Angeles can be heard on the famous album A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector
A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector

A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector is an LP album of Christmas songs, produced by Phil Spector, and originally released as Philles Records 4005 in 1963 in music....
, also known as the Phil Spector
Phil Spector

Harvey Philip Spector is an United Statesn record producer and songwriter.The originator of the "Wall of Sound" production technique, Spector was a pioneer of the 1960s' girl group sound and clocked in over twenty-five Top 40 hits between 1960 and 1965....
 Christmas Album, in a soulful rendition performed by Darlene Love
Darlene Love

Darlene Love is an United States popular music singer....
.

"White Christmas" was introduced by Bing Crosby
Bing Crosby

Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an United States popular singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death.One of the first multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses....
 in the 1942 musical
Musical film

The musical film is a film genre in which several songs sung by the fictional character are interwoven into the narrative. The songs are used to advance the plot or develop the film's characters....
 Holiday Inn
Holiday Inn (film)

Holiday Inn is a 1942 film starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire, which featured the music of Irving Berlin. The film features twelve new songs, one brief use of "Oh How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning," written in 1917 for the World War I musical "Yip Yip Yaphank" which was reprised on Broadway in 1942 under the title "This Is the Army"...
. In the film, he sings it in a duet with Marjorie Reynolds
Marjorie Reynolds

Marjorie Reynolds was an American film actress. She appeared in more than 70 films.Born Marjorie Goodspeed, in Buhl, Idaho, as her parents made the cross-country trip from Maine to settle in California, she was featured as a child actress...
. The song went on to receive the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Though Marjorie Reynolds was the actress playing Linda Mason, her voice was dubbed by Martha Mears
Martha Mears

Martha Mears Martha Mears was the female singing voice in the renditions of "White Christmas" in the movie Holiday Inn , and for two of Lucille Ball's songs in the MGM musical version of DuBarry Was a Lady ....
 for the movie, and in the script as originally conceived, Reynolds, not Crosby, was to sing the song.

The first public performance of the song was also by Crosby, on his top-rated NBC radio
Radio

Radio is the transmission of signals, by modulation of electromagnetic radiation with frequency below those of visible light.Electromagnetic radiation radio propagation by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space....
 show The Kraft Music Hall
Kraft Music Hall

The Kraft Music Hall was a major NBC radio variety program, featuring top show business entertainers, in a 16-year span from 1933 to 1949....
 on Christmas Day, 1941; the recording of that performance is not believed to have survived. He recorded the song with the John Scott Trotter Orchestra and the Ken Darby Singers for Decca Records
Decca Records

Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 in music by Edward Lewis . Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; later the link with the British company was broken for several decades....
 in just 18 minutes on May 29, 1942 and it was released on July 30 as part of an album of six 78-rpm songs from the film. At first, Crosby did not see anything special about the song. He just said "I don't think we have any problems with that one, Irving." The song initially performed poorly and was far overshadowed by the hit song of Holiday Inn, "Be Careful, It's my Heart". By the end of October, "White Christmas" topped the "Your Hit Parade" chart and remained in that position until well into the new year. (It has often been noted that the mix of melancholy — "just like the ones I used to know" — with comforting images of home — "where the treetops glisten" — resonated especially strongly with listeners during World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
 and the Armed Forces Network
AFN

AFN is a three-letter acronym that may refer to:* American Forces Network* Ancestral File Number* Alaska Federation of Natives* Assembly of First Nations...
 was flooded with requests for it.) In 1942 alone, the song spent eleven weeks on top of the charts. It returned to the #1 spot again during the holiday seasons of 1945 and 1946 (on the chart dated January 4, 1947), thus becoming the only single in history with three separate runs at the top of the U.S. charts. Eventually, Crosby's "White Christmas" single sold more than 50 million copies. The Guinness Book of World Records currently lists the song as a 100-million seller (this encompassing all versions of the song, including on albums).

History

The most familiar version of "White Christmas" is not, however, the one Crosby originally recorded in 1942. He was called back to the Decca
Decca Records

Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 in music by Edward Lewis . Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; later the link with the British company was broken for several decades....
 studios on March 18, 1947, to re-record "White Christmas" as a result of damage to the 1942 master due to its frequent use. Every effort was made to reproduce the original Decca recording session, once again backed by the Trotter Orchestra and the Darby Singers. The resulting rerecording is the one that has become most familiar to the public. Crosby himself was dismissive of the achievement, saying later that "a jackdaw
Jackdaw

The Jackdaw , sometimes known as the Eurasian Jackdaw, European Jackdaw, Western Jackdaw, or formerly simply the daw, is one of the smallest species in the genus of crows and ravens....
 with a cleft palate could have sung it successfully."

The song was introduced in the 1942 film Holiday Inn
Holiday Inn (film)

Holiday Inn is a 1942 film starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire, which featured the music of Irving Berlin. The film features twelve new songs, one brief use of "Oh How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning," written in 1917 for the World War I musical "Yip Yip Yaphank" which was reprised on Broadway in 1942 under the title "This Is the Army"...
, a sizable hit that featured numerous other songs by Irving Berlin, and one of two films to pair Crosby with Fred Astaire. "White Christmas" was also reprised as the title theme for the 1954 musical White Christmas
White Christmas (film)

White Christmas is a 1954 in film jukebox musical movie starring Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye that features the songs of Irving Berlin, including the titular "White Christmas "....
, starring Crosby, Danny Kaye
Danny Kaye

Danny Kaye was an American award-winning actor, singer and comedian....
, Rosemary Clooney
Rosemary Clooney

Rosemary Clooney was an United States singer and actor. She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the novelty hit "Come On-a My House", which was followed by other pop numbers "Botch-a-Me " , "Mambo Italiano ", and "This Ole House", songs which tended to obscure her talents as a jazz vocalist....
, and Vera-Ellen
Vera-Ellen

Vera-Ellen was an American actress and dancer, principally celebrated for her filmed dance partnerships with Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor....
. In spite of its similarity to the earlier film, this was the highest-grossing film of 1954.

Crosby's single of "White Christmas" is recognized as the best-selling single in any music category and Crosby's recording has sold millions of additional copies as part of numerous albums, including his best-selling holiday collection Merry Christmas, which was first released as an LP in 1949 and has never been out-of-print since. In fact, the song in all of its permutations, has sold in excess of 400,000,000 copies since 1942, making it the biggest-selling record of any kind ever.

"ItsRanked" has Crosby's version of "White Christmas" as the number one Christmas song on its Top 40 Christmas Songs of all time ranking.

In 1999, National Public Radio
National Public Radio

National Public Radio is a privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national Radio syndication to 797 public radio List of NPR stations in the United States....
 included it in the "NPR 100", in which NPR's music editors sought to compile the one hundred most important American musical works of the 20th century.

The recording was broadcast on the radio as a pre-arranged signal during the U.S. evacuation of Saigon on April 30, 1975 (see Fall of Saigon
Fall of Saigon

The Fall of Saigon was the capture of Ho Chi Minh City, the capital of South Vietnam, by the North Vietnamese army on April 30 1975. It is called S? ki?n 30 th?ng 4 or Gi?i ph?ng mi?n Nam by the current Vietnamese government and Ng?y m?t nu?c by the overseas Vietnamese community....
).

In 2002, the original 1942 version was one of 50 recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress
Library of Congress

The Library of Congress is the de facto national library of the United States and the research arm of the United States Congress. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and holds the largest number of books....
 to be added to the National Recording Registry
National Recording Registry

The National Recording Registry is a list of sound recordings that "are culturally, historically, or aesthetically important, and/or inform or reflect life in the United States." The registry was established by the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000, which created the National Recording Preservation Board, whose members are appointed...
.

The Drifters
The Drifters

The Drifters are a long-lived American doo wop/R&B vocal group with a peak in popularity from 1953 to 1962, though several splinter Drifters continue to perform today....
 covered "White Christmas" in the early 1950's showcasing the talents of lead singer Clyde McPhatter
Clyde McPhatter

Clyde McPhatter was an influential United States R&B singer....
 and the bass of Bill Pinkney
Bill Pinkney

Bill Pinkney was an United States performer and singer. Pinkney is often incorrectly said to be the last surviving original member of The Drifters, who achieved international fame with numerous hit records....
. Their recording of the song first hit Billboard
Billboard

Billboard is a weekly United States magazine devoted to the music industry. It maintains several internationally recognized Record chart that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis....
’s R&B charts in December 1954, peaking at position #2. It returned to the R&B charts in the next two years. In December 1955 “White Christmas” became The Drifters' first single to be charted in the Hot 100 chart; recharting in both 1960 and 1962. For decades, this version was primarily heard on R & B radio stations, and got little exposure elsewhere. Beginning in the 1970s oldies
Oldies

Oldies is a term commonly used to describe a radio format that concentrates on a period 15 to 55 years before the present day.In the 1980s and 1990s, "oldies" meant the 15 years from the birth of rock n roll to the beginning of the singer-songwriter era of the early 1970s, or about 1955 to 1971....
 stations also began playing this version in search for product within their core artists. In the early 1990s, after being prominently featured in the film Home Alone (during a scene in which the lead character Kevin is putting on his father's aftershave while lip sync
Lip sync

Lip-sync or Lip-synch is a technical term for matching lip movements with voice. The term can refer to: a technique often used for performances in the production of film, video and television programs; the science of synchronization of visual and Sound signals during post-production and Transmission ; the common practice of people incl...
ing the lyrics), radio stations with formats as diverse as Adult Contemporary, Top 40, and Country
Country

Country may refer to the territory of a state, or to a smaller, or former, political division of a geographical region. In another meaning of the word, the country is also a term used to refer to rural areas....
, began playing this version. The song was featured again on the silver screen
Silver screen

A silver screen, also known as a silver lenticular screen, is a type of projection screen that was popular in the early years of the motion picture industry, and is still used in projecting 3-D films....
 in the film The Santa Clause
The Santa Clause

This film was originally made as a tribute for Henning Knattrup SoerensenThe Santa Clause is a Christmas film released by both Walt Disney Pictures and Hollywood Pictures, starring Tim Allen....
. The popularity of this version over the years has grown as a result. Today this version gets almost as much airplay as Bing Crosby's versions.

Recording History

  • A1
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     (1999)
  • Air Supply
    Air Supply

    Air Supply are a soft rock duo who had a succession of hits worldwide through the late 1970s and early 1980s. It consists of British guitarist and Singing Graham Russell and Australian lead vocalist Russell Hitchcock ....
  • Andy williams
    Andy Williams

    Howard Andrew "Andy" Williams is a legendary American pop singer. Andy Williams has recorded 18 gold and three platinum certified albums. When Ronald Reagan was president, he declared Andy's voice to be "a national treasure"....
     (1963)
  • Judy Akin (2006)
  • Alvin and the Chipmunks
  • Louis Armstrong
    Louis Armstrong

    Louis Daniel Armstrong , nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer.Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an innovative cornet and trumpet player, Armstrong was a foundational influence on jazz, shifting the music's focus from collective improvisation to solo performers....
     (1952)
  • Chet Atkins
    Chet Atkins

    Chester Burton "Chet" Atkins was an influential American guitarist and record producer.His picking style, inspired by Merle Travis, Django Reinhardt, George Barnes and Les Paul, brought him admirers both within and outside the country scene, both in the United States and internationally....
  • The Beach Boys
    The Beach Boys' Christmas Album

    The Beach Boys' Christmas Album is a Christmas album by The Beach Boys, released on November 16, 1964. Containing five original songs and seven standards, the album proved to be a long-running success during subsequent Christmas seasons, initially reaching #6 in the US Christmas album chart in its year of release and eventually going gold...
     (1964)
  • Tony Bennett
    Tony Bennett

    Tony Bennett is an United States singer of traditional pop music, pop standards and jazz.Raised in New York City, Bennett began singing at an early age....
     (1967), (duet with Vanessa Williams
    Vanessa L. Williams

    Vanessa Lynn Williams is an American singer-songwriter and actor. Williams made history on September 17, 1983 when she became the first woman of African descent to be crowned Miss America....
    , 2001)
  • BoA
    Boa

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  • Michael Bolton
    Michael Bolton

    Michael Bolton , is an United States singer-songwriter and a former heavy metal music singer, best known for his soft rock ballads and tenor vocals....
  • Boney M. (on the Christmas Album
    Christmas Album (Boney M. album)

    Christmas Album is the sixth studio album by Boney M.. It was recorded in the summer of 1981 and released on November 23, 1981.The album, which in certain territories was given the alternate title Christmas with Boney M., was issued just three weeks after the moderately successful Boonoonoonoos and had originally been plann...
    , 1981)
  • Pat Boone
    Pat Boone

    Charles Eugene "Pat" Boone is an United States singer, actor and writer who was a successful pop singer in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s....
  • The Boston Pops Orchestra
    Boston Pops Orchestra

    The Boston Pops Orchestra was founded in 1885 as a subsection of the Boston Symphony Orchestra , founded four years earlier. Careful examination of the rosters of ?Pops orchestra" or ?Festival" orchestras, which are associated with a co-resident symphony orchestra in the same community, shows that the principal players of a ?pops" ensemble us...
     (1959)
  • Bright Eyes
    Bright Eyes

    Bright Eyes is an United States band. The group consists of singer-songwriter/guitarist Conor Oberst, multi-instrumentalist/record producer Mike Mogis, Nate Walcott, and a rotating lineup of collaborators drawn primarily from Music_of_Omaha#The_.22Omaha_Sound.22....
  • Garth Brooks
    Garth Brooks

    Troyal Garth Brooks is an American country music artist. His eponymous first album was released in 1989; it peaked at #2 in the US country album chart and reached #13 on the Billboard 200 pop album chart....
     (1992)
  • Michael Bublé
    Michael Bublé

    Michael Steven Bubl? is a Canada big band vocalist and actor. He has won several awards, including a Grammy Award and multiple Juno Awards. While his first album reached the top ten in Lebanon, the United Kingdom and his home country of Canada, it achieved only modest chart success in the United States....
     (2003)
  • Max Bygraves
    Max Bygraves

    Max Bygraves Officer of the Order of the British Empire is an English people singer-songwriter. He appeared on his own television shows, sometimes performing comedy sketches between songs....
     (1989)
  • The California Raisins
    The California Raisins

    The California Raisins were a fictional rhythm and blues musical group composed of anthropomorphism raisins. Lead vocals were sung by musician Buddy Miles....
  • Canadian Brass
    Canadian Brass

    The Canadian Brass are a brass quintet founded by Charles Daellenbach and Gene Watts in 1970. In addition to maintaining a heavy international touring schedule, the Canadian Brass have recorded over eighty CDs and DVDs....
  • Jose Carreras
    José Carreras

    Josep Maria Carreras i Coll , better known as Jos? Carreras, is a Spain Catalonia tenor. One of the most prominent opera singers of his generation, and particularly eminent in the operas of Verdi and Puccini, his career has encompassed over 60 roles on stage and in the recording studio....
  • Larry Carlton
    Larry Carlton

    Larry Carlton is an United States jazz fusion, Pop music, and rock music guitarist and a singer, dividing his recording time between solo recordings and session appearances with various well-known bands....
  • The Carpenters
    The Carpenters

    The Carpenters were a vocal and instrumental duo, consisting of siblings Karen Carpenter and Richard Carpenter . Though often referred to by the public as "The Carpenters", the duo's official name on authorized recordings and press materials is simply "Carpenters", without the Article ....
     (as part of a medley with Winter Wonderland
    Winter Wonderland

    "Winter Wonderland" is a traditional pop music written in 1934 by Felix Bernard and Richard B. Smith . It has been recorded many different times by such artists as Tom Astor, Tony Bennett, Karen Carpenter, Perry Como, Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Eurythmics, Elvis Presley, Goldfrapp, Cyndi Lauper, Darlene Love, Johnny Mathis, Ozzy Osbourne...
     and Silver Bells)
  • Jason Castro (2008)
  • (Adriano Celentano) (1970)
  • Celtic Woman
    Celtic Woman

    Celtic Woman is a musical ensemble comprising five Irish female artists: vocaliists Chlo? Agnew, Lynn Hilary, Lisa Kelly, Alex Sharpe and fiddler M?ir?ad Nesbitt....
     (2006)
  • Chage and Aska
    Chage and Aska

    or Chage and Asuka, are a Japanese people popular music duo composed of two singer-songwriters from Fukuoka Prefecture, Chage and . To date they have sold over 31 million albums and singles in Japan....
     (1993)
  • Chicago
    Chicago (band)

    Chicago is an American pop rock band formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois. The band began as a politically charged, sometimes experimental, rock band and later moved to a predominantly softer sound, becoming famous for producing a number of hit ballads....
     (1998)
  • Christoff
    Christoff

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     (2008)
  • Rosemary Clooney
    Rosemary Clooney

    Rosemary Clooney was an United States singer and actor. She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the novelty hit "Come On-a My House", which was followed by other pop numbers "Botch-a-Me " , "Mambo Italiano ", and "This Ole House", songs which tended to obscure her talents as a jazz vocalist....
     (1954), (re-recorded with Erich Kunzel
    Erich Kunzel

    Erich Kunzel, Jr. is an American conductor.A timpanist and music arranger at his high school in Greenwich, Connecticut, he received his first music degree from Dartmouth College....
     and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
    Cincinnati Pops Orchestra

    The Cincinnati Pops Orchestra is a pops orchestra based in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, founded in 1977. Erich Kunzel, celebrating his 30th season with the orchestra in 2005–2006, continues to lead the Pops today....
     with opening verse intact, 1990)
  • Nat King Cole
    Nat King Cole

    Nathaniel Adams Coles , known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an United States musician who first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist....
  • Perry Como
    Perry Como

    Pierino "Perry" Como was an United States singer and television personality. During a career spanning more than half a century he recorded exclusively for the RCA Victor label after signing with it in 1943....
     (1959)
  • Earl Thomas Conley
    Earl Thomas Conley

    Earl Thomas Conley is an United States country music singer and composer. Between 1980 and 2003, he recorded ten studio albums, including seven for the RCA Records label....
  • Ray Conniff Singers
    Ray Conniff Singers

    The Ray Conniff Singers were a vocal group established 1959 by composer-arranger-bandleader Ray Conniff. Their biggest hit was "Somewhere My Love" in 1966, which reached #9....
  • Sarah Connor (2005)
  • Crash Test Dummies
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    The Crash Test Dummies are a Canada folk-rock group from Winnipeg, Manitoba, popular in the early 1990s....
     (2002)
  • Bing Crosby
    Bing Crosby

    Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an United States popular singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death.One of the first multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses....
     (1942, First Recording) (later recorded with Ella Fitzgerald
    Ella Fitzgerald

    Ella Jane Fitzgerald , also known as "Jazz royalty" and the "First Lady of Song", is considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century....
    )
  • Doris Day
    Doris Day

    Doris Mary Anne von Kappelhoff is a German-American singer, actress, and animal welfare advocate known as Doris Day. Able to sing, dance, and play comedy and dramatic roles, she became one of the biggest box-office stars....
  • John Denver
    John Denver

    John Denver , born Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr., was an United States Country Music/folk music singer-songwriter and folk rock musician. He was one of the most popular acoustic artists of the 1970s in terms of record sales, recording and releasing around 300 songs, of which about half were composed by him....
  • Destiny's Child
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    Destiny's Child was an contemporary R&B and pop music girl group comprising lead singer Beyonc? Knowles alongside Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams ....
     (1999)
  • Neil Diamond
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  • Placido Domingo
    Plácido Domingo

    Jos? Pl?cido Domingo Embil Order of the British Empire , better known as Pl?cido Domingo, is a Spanish tenor, known for his versatile and strong voice, possessing a ringing and dramatic tone throughout its range....
     (duet with Diana Ross
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    , 1992)
  • The Drifters
    The Drifters

    The Drifters are a long-lived American doo wop/R&B vocal group with a peak in popularity from 1953 to 1962, though several splinter Drifters continue to perform today....
     (1954)
  • Nelson Eddy
    Nelson Eddy

    Nelson Ackerman Eddy was an American singer and movie star who appeared in 19 musical films during the 1930s and 1940s, as well as in opera and on the concert stage, radio, television, and in nightclubs....
     (1951)
  • Gloria Estefan
    Gloria Estefan

    Gloria Estefan is a Grammy Award-winning American singer and songwriter. She is in the top 100 of best selling music artists with over 90 million albums sold worldwide, with 26.5 million in the United States alone....
     (1993)
  • Lara Fabian
    Lara Fabian

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  • Percy Faith
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    Percy Faith was a Canadian-born band-leader, orchestrator and composer, known for his lush arrangements of pop and Christmas music standards. He is often credited with creating the "easy listening" or "mood music" format which became staples of American popular music in the 1950s and continued well into the 1960s....
     (1966)
  • Alejandro Fernandez
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     (1998)
  • Ella Fitzgerald
    Ella Fitzgerald

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     (1960) (also recorded with Bing Crosby
    Bing Crosby

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    )
  • The Flaming Lips
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     (2000)
  • David Foster
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  • The Four Tops
  • Connie Francis
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  • Kenny G
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  • Vince Gill
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  • Billy Gilman
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  • Girls Aloud
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     (2005)
  • Eydie Gormé
    Eydie Gormé

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     (1964)
  • Robert Goulet
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     (1963)
  • (Irene Grandi) (2008)
  • Al Green
    Al Green

    Albert Greene , better known as Al Green, is an United States gospel music and soul music singer who received great acclaim in the 1970s. At the 2008 BET Awards Green was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award, for all the work he has done throughout his career....
  • Larry Groce
    Larry Groce

    Larry Groce is an United States singer, songwriter, musician and radio host. During his early four-year recording career as a family-oriented country music singer-songwriter, he became a one-hit wonder with the Billboard Hot 100 novelty hit "Junk Food Junkie" in 1976....
     on the album Disney's Christmas Favourites.
  • John Guilmartin
  • Merle Haggard
    Merle Haggard

    Merle Ronald Haggard is an United States country music singer, guitarist, instrumentalist, and songwriter.Merle Haggard has become one of the true giants of country music, as a singer, guitarist, songwriter, and instrumentalist....
  • Ayumi Hamasaki
    Ayumi Hamasaki

    is a Japanese singer-songwriter and former actress. Also called Ayu by her fans, Hamasaki has been dubbed the "Empress of Pop" due to her popularity and widespread influence in Japan....
     (2004)
  • Jerry Lee Lewis
    Jerry Lee Lewis

    Jerry Lee Lewis is an American rock and roll and country music singer, songwriter and pianist. An early pioneer of rock and roll music, Lewis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 and his pioneering contribution to the genre has been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame....
     (BBC-radio, 1962)
  • Hampton String Quartet
    Hampton String Quartet

    The Hampton String Quartet considered by many to be one of the founders of the "alternative music" genr? of chamber music is a string quartet specializing in rock music, playing serious chamber music arrangements of classic rock music songs using classical composer influences, frequently quoting or paraphrasing snippets from their works....
     (1986, 2004)
  • Hanson
    Hanson (band)

    Hanson is an American pop rock Band formed in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Oklahoma by brothers Isaac Hanson, Taylor Hanson, and Zac Hanson. They are best known for the 1997 hit song "MMMBop" from their major label debut album Middle of Nowhere that earned three Grammy nominations....
     (1997)
  • Helloween
    Helloween

    Helloween are a Germany power metal/speed metal band founded in the mid 1980s by members of Iron Fist and Powerfool. The band is known as one of the pioneering power metal bands, being part of the German Heavy metal music/speed/power metal scene that included Accept, Running Wild , Blind Guardian, Grave Digger , Sinner , and Rage ....
     (1985)
  • RJ Helton (2008)
  • Lena Horne
    Lena Horne

    Lena Mary Calhoun Horne is an American singer and actress. She has recorded and performed extensively, independently and with other jazz notables, including Artie Shaw, Teddy Wilson, Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington, Charlie Barnet, Benny Carter, and Billy Eckstine....
     (1966)
  • Engelbert Humperdinck
    Engelbert Humperdinck (singer)

    Engelbert Humperdinck is a well-known Pop music singer who rose to international fame during the 1960s and 1970s, after adopting the name of the famous Germany opera composer Engelbert Humperdinck as his own stage name....
  • Billy Idol
    Billy Idol

    Billy Idol is an English Rock music musician.He first achieved fame in the punk rock era as a member of the band Generation X . He then embarked on a successful solo career, aided by a series of stylish music videos, making him one of the first MTV stars....
     (2006)
  • Chris Isaak
    Chris Isaak

    Christopher Joseph Isaak is an United States rock music musician and occasional actor....
  • Burl Ives
    Burl Ives

    Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives was an United States actor, writer and folk music singer. The prominent music critic John Rockwell has been quoted in the New York Times as saying that "Ives's voice......
  • Alan Jackson
    Alan Jackson

    Alan Eugene Jackson is an American country music artist who has sold over 50 million records. He was influenced by the neotraditional country country of the 1980s, and he was one of the most popular country singers of the 1990s, blending both honky tonk music and mainstream country sounds and penning many of his own hits....
     (2002)
  • Jingle Cats
    Jingle Cats

    Jingle Cats is a series of Christmas Novelty recordJingle Cats began their recording career in December 1991, when a precocious kitten named "Cheesepuff" crawled into a Hollywood studio recording booth and began meowing along with the song Jingle Bells, which was being recorded in a session at the time....
  • Jack Jones
    Jack Jones (singer)

    Jack Jones is an United States jazz and pop music singer. He was one of the most popular vocalists of the 1960s....
  • Elton John
    Elton John

    Sir Elton Hercules John Order of the British Empire is an England singer-songwriter, composer and pianist.In his four-decade career, John has been one of the dominant forces in rock and popular music, especially during the 1970s....
  • Wynonna Judd
    Wynonna Judd

    Wynonna Judd is an American country music singer. Born Christina Claire Ciminella, she was renamed Wynonna Ellen Judd, a name adapted from the line "Don't forget Winona, Arizona" in the pop song "Route 66 "....
     (2006)
  • Kiri Te Kanawa
    Kiri Te Kanawa

    Dame Kiri Janette Te Kanawa, Order of New Zealand, Order of the British Empire, Order of Australia, is a New Zealand soprano who had a highly successful international opera career between 1968-2004....
  • Keahiwai
  • Keane
    Keane

    Keane are an English rock music band, first established in Battle, East Sussex, East Sussex in 1995, and taking their current name in late 1997....
  • Jordan Rudess
    Jordan Rudess

    Jordan Rudess is a progressive rock keyboardist best known as a member of the progressive metal band Dream Theater....
  • Toby Keith
    Toby Keith

    Toby Keith Covel is an American country music singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor. Keith released his first four studio albums ? 1993's Toby Keith , 1994's Boomtown , 1996's Blue Moon and 1997's Dream Walkin, plus a Greatest Hits package "Noogies for Liberals" for various divisions of Mercury Records before ex...
     (2007)
  • Diana Krall
    Diana Krall

    Diana Jean Krall, Order of Canada, Order of British Columbia is a Grammy Award-winning Canadian jazz pianist and singer. She is known for her graceful contralto vocals....
     (2005)
  • Audrey Landers
    Audrey Landers

    Audrey Landers, , is an United States actress and singer, who is probably best known for her role as Afton Cooper in the television drama series Dallas ....
  • Lawnmower Deth
    Lawnmower Deth

    Lawnmower Deth were an England thrash metal band of the late 1980s and early 1990s, who parodied the genre and recorded three-and-a-half albums....
     (1993)
  • Peggy Lee
    Peggy Lee

    Peggy Lee was an United States jazz and traditional pop singer and songwriter and Academy Award-nominated actress. She was born Norma Deloris Egstrom in Jamestown, North Dakota....
     (1960)
  • Kenny Loggins
    Kenny Loggins

    Kenneth Clark "Kenny" Loggins is an United States singer and songwriter best known for a number of soft rock and adult contemporary hit singles beginning in the 1970s....
     (1998))
  • Darlene Love
    Darlene Love

    Darlene Love is an United States popular music singer....
     (1963)
  • Henry Mancini
    Henry Mancini

    Henry Mancini was an Academy Award winning American composer, Conducting and arranger. He is remembered particularly for being a composer of film and television scores....
     (1966)
  • Barry Manilow
    Barry Manilow

    Barry Manilow is an United States singer-songwriter, musician, arrangement, record producer and conducting, best known for such recordings as "I Write the Songs", "Mandy ", "Weekend in New England" and "Copacabana "....
  • Aimee Mann
    Aimee Mann

    Aimee Mann is an United States rock and roll guitarist, bass guitar, singer, and noted songwriter. She has won one Grammy Award ....
     (2006)
  • Mannheim Steamroller
    Mannheim Steamroller

    Mannheim Steamroller is a music group founded by Chip Davis, and co-founded by Jackson Berkey, known for their modern recordings of Christmas music....
     (2001)
  • Mantovani
    Mantovani

    Annunzio Paolo Mantovani , known by the mononym Mantovani, was a popular conductor and light music-style entertainer with a cascading strings musical signature....
     (1952)
  • Bob Marley & The Wailers
    Bob Marley & The Wailers

    Bob Marley & The Wailers was a reggae band created in 1974 by Bob Marley, after Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer left the precursor band, The Wailers ....
     (1965)
  • Dean Martin
    Dean Martin

    Dean Martin was an United States singer, film actor and comedian of Italians descent. He was one of the best known musical artists of the 1950s and 1960s....
     (1959)
  • Mireille Mathieu
    Mireille Mathieu

    Mireille Mathieu is a France singer. She has achieved great success in France, as well as becoming an international superstar . She has performed and recorded songs in at least nine languages....
     (1968)
  • Johnny Mathis
    Johnny Mathis

    Johnny Mathis is an United States singer of popular music.One of the last in a long line of traditional male vocalists who emerged before the 1960s, Mathis concentrated on romantic jazz and pop standards for the adult contemporary audience through to the 1980s....
     (1958)
  • Martina McBride
    Martina McBride

    Martina Mariea Schiff is an American country music singer and songwriter who records as Martina McBride. She is best-known for her Inspirational music-styled ballads about women and children....
  • Reba McEntire
    Reba McEntire

    Reba Nell McEntire is an United States country music singer, performer and actress. Sometimes referred to as "The Queen of Country", she is known for her lively stage-shows and pop-tinged ballads....
  • Maureen McGovern
    Maureen McGovern

    Maureen Therese McGovern is an United States singer and Broadway theatre actor, widely known for her premier rendition of the 1973 hit, "The Morning After"....
     (1990)
  • MercyMe
    MercyMe

    MercyMe is a Grammy Award-nominated and Dove Award-winning United States contemporary Christian Catholic band, originally formed in Greenville, Texas in 1994....
     (2005)
  • Metal X-Mas Project (2006)
  • Bette Midler
    Bette Midler

    Bette Midler is an American singing, actress and comedienne, also known as The Divine Miss M. During her career, she has won four Grammy Awards, four Golden Globes, three Emmy Awards, and a Tony Awards, and has been nominated for two Academy Awards....
     (2003)
  • Glenn Miller Orchestra
    Glenn Miller

    Alton Glenn Miller , was an United States jazz musician, arranger, composer, and band leader in the Swing era. He was one of the best-selling recording artists from 1939 to 1942, leading one of the best known "Big band"....
     (1965)
  • Mormon Tabernacle Choir
    Mormon Tabernacle Choir

    The Mormon Tabernacle Choir is a 360 member, all-volunteer choir. The choir is sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . However, the choir is completely self-funded, traveling and producing albums to support the organization....
  • The Moody Blues
    The Moody Blues

    The Moody Blues are an England band originally from Erdington in the city of Birmingham. Founding members Michael Pinder and Ray Thomas performed an initially rhythm and blues-based sound in Birmingham in 1964 along with Graeme Edge and others, and were later joined by John Lodge and Justin Hayward as they inspired and evolved the progressi...
     (2003)
  • Joan Morris
    Joan Morris

    Joan Morris, mezzo-soprano, is one half of the famous musical duo of Bolcom and Morris. Her musical partner and husband is composer/pianist William Bolcom....
     (original version, with opening verse intact)
  • Anne Murray
    Anne Murray

    Anne Murray, Order of Canada, Order of Nova Scotia is a Canada singer. Murray has performed in Pop Music, Country Music and Adult Contemporary styles....
  • New Kids on the Block
    New Kids on the Block

    New Kids on the Block is an USA pop group that enjoyed success in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a boy band which went on to sell 80 million records world-wide....
  • Nina & Fredrik
  • Stacie Orrico
    Stacie Orrico

    Stacie Joy Orrico is a Grammy Award-nominated and Dove Award-winning pop music singer-lyricist and occasional actress....
     (2001)
  • Charlie Parker
    Charlie Parker

    Charles Parker, Jr. was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.Parker is widely considered one of the most influential of jazz musicians, along with Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington....
     (1948)
  • The Partridge Family
    The Partridge Family

    The Partridge Family is an United States television Situation comedy about a widowed mother and her five children who embarked on a music career....
  • (Rita Pavone) (1963)
  • Wolfgang Petry (2004)
  • Katy Perry
    Katy Perry

    Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson , known by her stage name Katy Perry, is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Born in California to pastor parents, she grew up listening to gospel music and singing in church....
     (2008)
  • The Pipettes
    The Pipettes

    The Pipettes are a United Kingdom indie pop girl group formed in Brighton.The current line-up consists of sisters, Gwenno Saunders and Ani Saunders....
    (2004)
  • The Platters
    The Platters

    The Platters were a successful vocal group of the early rock and roll era. Their distinctive sound was a bridge between the pre-rock Tin Pan Alley tradition, and the burgeoning new genre....
  • The Postcard Society (2006)
  • Elvis Presley
    Elvis Presley

    Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
     (1957)
  • Rascal Flatts
    Rascal Flatts

    Rascal Flatts is an American country pop band founded in Columbus, Ohio. Since its inception, Rascal Flatts has been composed of three members: Gary LeVox , Jay DeMarcus , and Joe Don Rooney ....
     (2008)
  • Celena Rae (2005)
  • Eddy Raven
    Eddy Raven

    Eddy Raven is an American country music artist. He charted a string of hit singles on the country music charts between 1974 and 1991.Influenced by Cajun music, the country music sounds from popular radio broadcasts such as the Louisiana Hayride, New Orleans blues, and the new sounds of rock and roll, Raven developed his own unique sound....
  • Leon Redbone
    Leon Redbone

    Leon Redbone is an American singer and guitarist specializing in interpretations of early 20th-century music, including jazz and blues standards and Tin Pan Alley classics....
  • Otis Redding
    Otis Redding

    Otis Ray Redding, Jr. was an United States soul music singer. He is renowned for an ability to convey strong emotion through his voice. According to the website of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame , Redding's name is "synonymous with the term soul, music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of Gospel musi...
     (1968)
  • Jim Reeves
    Jim Reeves

    James Travis "Jim" Reeves was an United States singer-songwriter of country western and pop music music....
  • Charlie Rich
    Charlie Rich

    Charlie Rich was an United States. A Grammy Award winner, his eclectic-style of music was often hard to classify in a single genre, playing in the rockabilly, jazz, blues, country music, and gospel music genres....
  • LeAnn Rimes
    LeAnn Rimes

    Margaret LeAnn Rimes is an American country music singer, songwriter, and actress, who records under the name LeAnn Rimes. She is best known for her rich vocals similar to legendary country music singer Patsy Cline,...
     (2004)
  • Taylor Swift
    Taylor Swift

    Taylor Alison Swift is an United States country-pop music singer-songwriter. In 2006, she released her debut single "Tim McGraw ", which peaked at number six on the Billboard country charts....
     (2007)
  • Lee Ritenour
    Lee Ritenour

    Lee Mack "Captain Fingers" Ritenour is an internationally acclaimed guitarist, recording artist, composer and producer. He began his career at 16 as a session player....
  • Kenny Rogers
    Kenny Rogers

    Kenneth Ray "Kenny" Rogers is an United States country music singer-songwriter, photographer, record producer, actor and entrepreneur.He has been very successful, charting more than 70 hit singles across various music genres and topping the country and pop album charts for more than 420 individual weeks in the United States alone....
  • Linda Ronstadt
    Linda Ronstadt

    Maria Linda Ronstadt , known as Linda Ronstadt, is an United States popular music Singing and entertainer whose vocal styles in a variety of genres have resonated with the general public over the course of her four-decade career....
     and Rosemary Clooney
    Rosemary Clooney

    Rosemary Clooney was an United States singer and actor. She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the novelty hit "Come On-a My House", which was followed by other pop numbers "Botch-a-Me " , "Mambo Italiano ", and "This Ole House", songs which tended to obscure her talents as a jazz vocalist....
     (2000)
  • Die Toten Hosen
    Die Toten Hosen

    Die Toten Hosen is a Germany Punk rock band from D?sseldorf. They have enjoyed decades-long mass appeal in Germany.The band's name literally means "The Dead Trousers" in English language, although the phrase "tote Hose" is a German expression meaning "impotent", "lifeless", "boring", or "nothing going on"....
     as "Die Roten Rosen" (1998)
  • John Schneider
    John Schneider (television actor)

    John Richard Schneider is an United States actor and singer. He is best known for his portrayal of Bo Duke in the 1980s American television series The Dukes of Hazzard, along with Tom Wopat, and as Jonathan Kent on Smallville , a 2000s television adaptation of Superman....
     (1983)
  • Simone
    Simone

    Simone is a female given name derived from Simon, Hebrew Simeon, meaning "one who hears". It first appears in Iberia from the 10th century, as Jimena, Ximena, feminine eponym of Jimeno II of Pamplona, founder of the Jim?nez dynasty....
     (1995)
  • Frank Sinatra
    Frank Sinatra

    Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
     (1944, 1954)
  • S.K.Y. (2006)
  • Kate Smith
    Kate Smith

    Kathryn Elizabeth "Kate" Smith was an American singer, best known for her rendition of Irving Berlin's "God Bless America". Smith had a radio, television and recording career spanning five decades, reaching its most-remembered zenith in the 1940s....
  • Charlie Spivak
    Charlie Spivak

    Charlie Spivak was an United States trumpeter and bandleader, best known for his big band in the 1940s.The details of Spivak's birth are unclear....
     (1942)
  • Jo Stafford
    Jo Stafford

    Jo Elizabeth Stafford was an United States singer of traditional pop music and jazz standards whose career ran from the late 1930s to the early 1960s....
     (1946, 1964)
  • Ringo Starr
    Ringo Starr

    Richard Starkey Order of the British Empire , better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an England musician, singer-songwriter and actor, best known as the drummer for The Beatles....
     (1999)
  • Stiff Little Fingers
    Stiff Little Fingers

    Stiff Little Fingers are a Punk rock band from Belfast, Northern Ireland, formed in 1977. They started out as a schoolboy band called Highway Star , doing rock covers, until they discovered punk....
    Live B-side (1980)
  • George Strait
    George Strait

    George Harvey Strait is a Grammy Award -winning United States country music singer. Strait is referred to as the "King of Country," and critics call Strait a living legend....
     (1986)
  • Barbra Streisand
    Barbra Streisand

    Barbra Streisand is an United states singer and film and theatre actress. She has also achieved note as a composer, political activist, film producer and film director....
     (1967)
  • Sugababes
    Sugababes

    Sugababes are a BRIT Award-winning pop music group based in London, UK. The group consists of Keisha Buchanan, Heidi Range, and Amelle Berrabah....
     with Charlotte Church
    Charlotte Church

    Charlotte Idris Church is a Wales singer-songwriter, actress and television presenter. She rose to fame in childhood as a European classical music before branching into pop music in 2005....
     (2006)
  • Donna Summer
    Donna Summer

    Donna Summer is an United States singer-songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of music.Summer was trained as a gospel music singer prior to her introduction to the music industry....
     (1994)
  • The Supremes
    The Supremes

    The Supremes, an American girl group, were one of the signature acts on Motown Records during the 1960s. Originally founded as The Primettes in Detroit, Michigan, Michigan in 1959, The Supremes' repertoire included doo-wop, pop music, soul music, Broadway theatre show tunes, psychedelic soul and disco....
     (1965)
  • The Swingle Singers
    The Swingle Singers

    The Swingle Singers are a a cappella formed in 1962 in Paris, France with Ward Swingle, Anne Germain, Jeanette Baucomont and Jean Cussac. Christiane Legrand, the sister of composer Michel Legrand, was the lead soprano in the group....
     (1994)
  • Connie Talbot
    Connie Talbot

    Connie Talbot is an England child singer from Streetly, Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, West Midlands . She rose to fame in 2007 when she reached the final of the television talent show Britain's Got Talent, where she lost to Paul Potts....
     (2007 and 2008)
  • The Temptations
    The Temptations

    The Temptations are an American vocal group that achieved fame as one of the most successful acts to record for Motown Records. The group's repertoire has included, at various times during its five-decade career, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, funk , disco, soul music, and adult contemporary music....
     (1968)
  • The Three Tenors
    The Three Tenors

    The Three Tenors is a name given to the Spanish vocalists Pl?cido Domingo and Jos? Carreras and the Italian singer Luciano Pavarotti who sang as a consort under this banner during the 1990s and early 2000s....
     (1999)
  • Michie Tomizawa
    Michie Tomizawa

    he is most known for the roles of Matsuzaka-Sensei , Sailor Mars , Sumire Kanzaki and Emi Ogasawara .Tomizawa retired from voice acting before getting married in 2002....
     from Peach Hips
    Peach Hips

    Peach Hips is the name given to Kotono Mitsuishi, Aya Hisakawa, Michie Tomizawa, Emi Shinohara and Rika Fukami, who voice the characters Sailor Moon , Sailor Mercury, Sailor Mars, Sailor Jupiter, and Sailor Venus, respectively....
  • Mel Torme
    Mel Tormé

    Melvin Howard Torm? , nicknamed The Velvet Fog, was an American musician, known as one of the great jazz singers. He was also a jazz composer and arranger, a drummer, an actor in radio, film, and television, and the author of five books....
    (1992)
  • Trance Airwave (2006)
  • Twisted Sister
    Twisted Sister

    Twisted Sister is an United States Heavy metal music band from New York City. Their work fuses the shock rock tactics of Alice Cooper, the rebellious mood of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, and the extravagant image of glam rock bands such as New York Dolls notably for the makeup....
     (2006)
  • Caterina Valente
    Caterina Valente

    Caterina Valente is a singer, dancer, and actress. She was born into an Italy artist family; her father Giuseppe was a well-known accordion player, her mother, Maria Valente, a musical clown....
     (1960)
  • Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons
  • Jaci Velasquez
    Jaci Velasquez

    Jacquelyn Davette Velasquez is an United States Contemporary Christian music Latin Popsinger in both English language and in Spanish language....
     (2001)
  • The Ventures
    The Ventures

    The Ventures are an United States instrumental rock band formed in 1958 in Tacoma, Washington, Washington. The band, formed by Don Wilson and Bob Bogle, two masonry workers, has had an enduring impact on the development of music worldwide, having sold over 100 million records, and are to date the best-selling instrumental band of all time....
  • (Claudio Villa) (1958)
  • Westlife
    Westlife

    Westlife is an Irish pop band that was formed on July 3, 1998.The group's original lineup comprised Nicky Byrne, Kian Egan, Mark Feehily, Shane Filan, and Brian McFadden....
     (2006)
  • Andy Williams
    Andy Williams

    Howard Andrew "Andy" Williams is a legendary American pop singer. Andy Williams has recorded 18 gold and three platinum certified albums. When Ronald Reagan was president, he declared Andy's voice to be "a national treasure"....
     (1963)
  • Tammy Wynette
    Tammy Wynette

    Virginia Wynette Pugh, known professionally as Tammy Wynette , was an United States and one of country music's best-known artists and biggest-selling female vocalists....
    (1970)
  • Tatsuro Yamashita
    Tatsuro Yamashita

    is a Japanese people singer-songwriter, and record producer. A major figure in popular music, Tatsuro is regarded as being one of the worlds most influential musicians, and one of the greatest singers of all time....
  • Shania Twain
    Shania Twain

    Shania Twain Order of Canada is a Canadian singer and songwriter in the country music and popular music genres. Her third album Come on Over is the List of best-selling albums worldwide of all time by a female musician and the best-selling album in the history of country music....
  • Teresa Carpio
    Teresa Carpio

    Teresa Carpio is a Hong Kong English pop and Cantopop singer, actress and singing teacher, born in Hong Kong but now living in Canada, known for her powerful voice, diverse repertoire and bubbly personality, who has enjoyed substantial popularity in Hong Kong and other countries, particularly during the 1970s and 1980s....
     (2005)
  • Guns N' Roses
    Guns N' Roses

    Guns N' Roses is an American Rock music band, formed in Los Angeles, California, California in 1985. The band, led by frontman and co-founder Axl Rose, has gone through numerous line-up changes and controversies since their formation....
     (Recorded but never released on an album)
  • Zucchero
    Zucchero

    Adelmo Fornaciari , more commonly known by his stage name Zucchero Fornaciari, is an Italians rock singer. His music is largely inspired by gospel music, blues and rock music, and alternates between Ballad_ and more rhythmic Boogie woogie -like pieces....
  • (2008)