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  Alice Cooper
  Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier; February 4, 1948) is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades. With a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, boa constrictors and baby dolls, Cooper has drawn equally from horror movies, vaudeville, and garage rock to pioneer a grandly theatrical and violent brand of heavy metal that was designed to shock.
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  Anika Noni Rose
  Anika Noni Rose (born September 6, 1972) is an American singer and actress. She is well known for her Tony Award winning performance in the Broadway production of Caroline, or Change and her starring roles in the films Dreamgirls and The Princess and the Frog.
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  Arif Mardin
  Arif Mardin (Istanbul, March 15, 1932 – New York, June 25, 2006) was a Turkish-American music producer, who worked with hundreds of artists across many different styles of music, including jazz, rock, soul, disco, and country. He worked at Atlantic Records for over 30 years, as both an assistant, producer, arranger, studio manager, and vice president, before moving to EMI and serving as vice president and general manager of Manhattan Records. His collaborations include working with The Bee Gees, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin, Bette Midler, Laura Branigan, Chaka Khan, Scritti Politti, Phil Collins, Daniel Rodriguez, Norah Jones, Richard Marx and Culture Club. Mardin was awarded 11 Grammy Awards.
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  Audra McDonald
  Audra Ann McDonald (born July 3, 1970) is an American actress and singer. She currently stars in the ABC television drama Private Practice as Dr. Naomi Bennett. She has appeared on the stage in both musicals and dramas, such as Ragtime (musical) and A Raisin in the Sun. She maintains an active concert and recording career, performing song cycles and operas as well as performing in concert throughout the US. She has won the Tony Award four times and Grammy Award twice.
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  Barbra Streisand
  Barbra Streisand ( ; born Barbara Joan Streisand, April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress, director, and songwriter. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, and a Peabody Award.
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  Bette Midler
  Bette Midler (born December 1, 1945) is an American singer, actress and comedian, also known (by her informal stage name) as The Divine Miss M. She has starred in live-action films such as Ruthless People, Beaches and Hocus Pocus, as well as featuring in animated films such as Oliver & Company and Fantasia 2000.
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  Billie Holiday
  Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday was a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. Above all, she was admired worldwide for her deeply personal, intimate approach to singing.
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  Bob Dylan
  Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman; May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and musician who has been a major figure in music for six decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was at first an informal chronicler, and later an apparently reluctant figurehead of social unrest. A number of his songs such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'" became anthems for the American civil rights and anti-war movements. His early lyrics incorporated a variety of political, social and philosophical, as well as literary influences. They defied existing pop music conventions and appealed hugely to the then burgeoning counterculture. Initially inspired by the songs of Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson, Hank Williams, and the performance style of Little Richard, Dylan has both amplified and personalized musical genres, exploring numerous distinct traditions in American song—from folk, blues and country to gospel, rock and roll, and rockabilly, to English, Scottish, and Irish folk music, embracing even jazz and swing.
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• Bruce Buschel
  Bruce Buschel is a writer and restaurateur.
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  Carole King
  Carole King (born February 9, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. King and her former husband Gerry Goffin wrote more than two-dozen hits during the 1960s, many of which have become standards. As a singer, King's album Tapestry topped the U.S. album chart for 15 weeks, in 1971, and remained on the charts for more than six years.
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• Charlie Calello
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• David Geffen
  David Geffen (born February 21, 1943) is an American record executive, film producer, theatrical producer and philanthropist. Geffen is noted for creating Asylum Records in 1970 (which was sold to the Warner Music Group who merged it with Elektra Records in 1972 to form Elektra/Asylum Records), and Geffen Records in 1980, along with his later role as one of the three founders of DreamWorks SKG in 1994.
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• Debussy
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• Diane Paulus
  Diane Paulus (born 1966 in New York City, USA) is an American director of theater and opera who became Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theater (ART) at Harvard University in 2009. Paulus was nominated for the Best Director Tony Award for her revival of Hair. She has received the 2009 Harvard College Women’s Leadership Award and the Columbia University IAL Diamond Award.
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  Duane Allman
  Howard Duane Allman (November 20, 1946 – October 29, 1971) was an American guitarist, respected session musician, and a co-founder of the southern rock group The Allman Brothers Band. He is best remembered for his brief but influential tenure in that band, his expressive slide guitar playing and improvisational skills.
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  Elton John
  Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is an English singer-songwriter, composer and pianist. He has worked with his songwriting partner Bernie Taupin since 1967; they have collaborated on more than 30 albums to date.
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  Elvis Costello
  Declan Patrick MacManus (born 25 August 1954), known by the stage name Elvis Costello, is a British singer-songwriter. He came to prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s and later became associated with the Punk/New Wave genre. Steeped in word play, the vocabulary of Costello's lyrics is broader than that of most popular songs. His music has drawn on many diverse genres; the critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine describes him as a "pop encyclopedia," able to "reinvent the past in his own image".Stephen Thomas Erlewine, [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql;=10:ly09kect7q70 Get Happy!! [Ryko Bonus Tracks]], Allmusic. Retrieved 17 September 2007.
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• Gary Katz
  Gary Katz is an American record producer, most famous for his work in that capacity on every Steely Dan album recorded during the first run of their career, from ''Can't Buy A Thrill in 1972 to Gaucho'' in 1980, as well as the Donald Fagen solo album, The Nightfly in 1982. His other production credits include albums by 10cc, Joe Cocker, Rosie Vela and Eye to Eye.
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• Italians
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  Jackson Browne
  Jackson Browne (born Clyde Jackson Browne; October 9, 1948) is an American rock singer-songwriter and musician who has sold in excess of 17 million albums in the United States alone.
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• Jane Siberry
  Jane Siberry (born October 12, 1955 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, known for such hits as "Mimi on the Beach", "I Muse Aloud", "One More Colour" and "Calling All Angels". She has also released material under the name Issa.
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  Janis Ian
  Janis Ian (born Janis Eddy Fink, April 7, 1951) is an American songwriter, singer, musician, columnist, and science fiction author. She had a career singing in the 1960s and 1970s, and has continued recording into the 21st century. In 1975, Ian won a Grammy Award for her song, "At Seventeen".
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• Jenny Lewis
  :For the Primeval character, see Jenny Lewis (Primeval).
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• John Coltrane
  John William Coltrane (sometimes abbreviated "Trane"; September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Working in the bebop and hard bop idioms early in his career, Coltrane helped pioneer the use of modes in jazz and later was at the forefront of free jazz. He was prolific, organizing at least fifty recording sessions as a leader during his recording career, and appeared as a sideman on many other albums, notably with trumpeter Miles Davis and pianist Thelonious Monk.
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  Joni Mitchell
  Joni Mitchell, CC, (born Roberta Joan Anderson; November 7, 1943) is a Canadian musician, songwriter, and painter.
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• Judith Jamison
  Judith Anna Jamison (born May 10, 1943, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American dancer and choreographer, best known as the Artistic Director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
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• Judy Kuhn
  Judy Kuhn (born May 20, 1958) is an American singer and actress.
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  Leontyne Price
  Mary Violet Leontyne Price (born February 10, 1927) is an American soprano. Born and raised in the segregated Deep South, she rose to international fame during a period of racial change in the 1950s and 60s, and was the first African-American to become a leading prima donna at the Metropolitan Opera.
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• Lisa Germano
  Lisa Germano (born June 27, 1958) is an American singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who has released seven albums featuring her often-hushed vocal style, confessional lyrics, and distinctive violin. Her 1994 album Geek the Girl received widespread critical acclaim, including being featured as a top album of the 1990s by the music magazine Spin. She is also known as a guest performer and/or session musician on over sixty records by a variety of artists, including John Mellencamp, Simple Minds, David Bowie, Yann Tiersen, Neil Finn, Sheryl Crow, Iggy Pop, Jewel and Eels.
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• Melissa Manchester
  Melissa Manchester (born February 15, 1951) is an American singer-songwriter and actress. Beginning in the 1970s, she has recorded generally in the adult contemporary genre. She has also appeared as an actress on television, in films, and on stage.
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  Navajo people
  The Navajo, or Diné, of the Southwestern United States are the second largest Native American tribe of Northern America. In the 2000 U.S. census, 298,197 people claimed to be fully or partly of Navajo ancestry. The Navajo Nation constitutes an independent governmental body which manages the Navajo Indian reservation in the Four Corners area of the United States. The traditional Navajo language is still largely spoken throughout the region, although most Navajo speak English fluently as well. Navajo refer to themselves in their native language as Diné, which is translated as "the people" in English. Dineh carved medicine dancers are an example of Navajo appropriation of Hopi techniques.
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• Nina Simone
  Eunice Kathleen Waymon (February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003), better known by her stage name Nina Simone (), was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist. Although she disliked being categorized, Simone is most associated with jazz music. Simone originally aspired to become a classical pianist, but her work covers an eclectic variety of musical styles that include classical, jazz, blues, soul, folk, R&B;, gospel, and pop. Her vocal style is characterized by intense passion, a loose vibrato, and a slightly androgynous timbre, in part due to her unusually low vocal range which veered between the alto and tenor ranges (occasionally even reaching baritone lows). Also known as The High Priestess of Soul, she paid great attention to the musical expression of emotions. Within one album or concert she could fluctuate between exuberant happiness and tragic melancholy. These fluctuations also characterized her own personality and personal life, amplified by bipolar disorder with which she was diagnosed in the mid-1960s, something not widely known until after her death in 2003, though she wrote of it openly in her autobiography published in 1992. According to Nadine Cohodas, Simone's biographer, Ms. Simone was first diagnosed with multiple personality disorder and later with schizophrenia.
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• Nona Hendryx
  Nona Hendryx (born October 9, 1944 in Trenton, New Jersey) is an American vocalist, producer, songwriter, musician, author, and actress.
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• Patti Labelle
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  Pete Seeger
  Peter "Pete" Seeger (born May 3, 1919) is an American folk singer and an iconic figure in the mid-twentieth century American folk music revival:See Richard Silverstein,
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• Phoebe Snow
  Phoebe Snow (born July 17, 1952) is a singer, songwriter, and guitarist, best known for her 1975 hit "Poetry Man."
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• Ravel
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  Rickie Lee Jones
  Rickie Lee Jones (born November 8, 1954) is an American vocalist, musician, songwriter, and producer. Over the course of a three-decade career, Jones has recorded in various musical styles including rock, R&B;, blues, pop, soul, and jazz standards.
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  Rosanne Cash
  Rosanne Cash (born May 24, 1955) is an American singer-songwriter and author. She is the eldest daughter of the late country music singer Johnny Cash and his first wife, Vivian Liberto Cash Distin.
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  Sandra Bernhard
  Sandra Bernhard (born June 6, 1955) is an American comedian, singer, actress and author. She first gained attention in the late 1970s with her stand-up comedy in which she often bitterly critiques celebrity culture and political figures. Bernhard is number 97 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 greatest standups of all time.
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• Sarah Dash
  Sarah Dash (born August 18, 1945) is a singer and actress. Her first notable appearance on the music scene was as a member of Patti LaBelle & the Bluebelles. Dash has had a full career, moving from singer, to songwriter, session musician, sideman for famous bands that include Patti LaBelle, The Rolling Stones, and Keith Richards.
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  Suzanne Vega
  Suzanne Nadine Vega (born July 11, 1959) is an American songwriter and singer known for her eclectic folk-inspired music.
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  Theresa Bernstein
  Theresa Ferber Bernstein (March 1, 1890?, Philadelphia – February 12, 2002) was an American artist and painter.
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  Todd Rundgren
  Todd Harry Rundgren (born June 22, 1948) is an American musician, singer-songwriter and record producer. Hailed in the early stage of his career as a new pop-wunderkind, supported by the certified gold solo double LP Something/Anything? in 1972, Rundgren's career has produced a diverse range of recordings as solo artist, and during the seventies and eighties with the band Utopia. He has also been extremely active as a producer and engineer on the recorded work of other musicians.
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  Toshi Reagon
  Toshi Reagon (born in Atlanta in 1964) is an American folk/blues musician. She is the daughter of Freedom Singers co-founders Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, founder of Sweet Honey in the Rock, with whom she has sometimes collaborated on musical projects and of Cordell Hull Reagon, a leader of the civil rights movement in Albany, member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and co-founder of The Freedom Singers. She is also the goddaughter of folk singer, Pete Seeger and named after his wife, Toshi Seeger.
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  Van Morrison
  Van Morrison, OBE (born George Ivan Morrison; 31 August 1945) is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician. His live performances at their best are regarded as transcendental and inspired; while some of his recordings, such as the studio albums Astral Weeks and Moondance, and the live album ''It's Too Late to Stop Now'', are widely viewed as among the greatest ever made.
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• Bottom Line
  The Bottom Line was a music venue at 15 West Fourth Street between Broadway and Washington Square Park in New York City's Greenwich Village. During 1970s the club played a major role in maintaining Greenwich Village's status as a cultural mecca.
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• Brill Building
  The Brill Building (built 1931 as the Alan E. Lefcourt Building and designed by Victor Bark Jr.
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• Bronx, New York
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  Danbury, Connecticut
  Danbury is a city in northern Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. It has an estimated population (as of July 1, 2009 ) of 79,743. Danbury is the fourth largest city in Fairfield County and is the seventh largest city in Connecticut.
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• hungry i
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  Lenox, Massachusetts
  Lenox is a town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. Set in Western Massachusetts, it is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 5,077 at the 2000 census. It is the site of Tanglewood, summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Lenox includes the villages of New Lenox and Lenoxdale.
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• Tin Pan Alley
  Tin Pan Alley is the name given to the collection of New York City-centered music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century.
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• Al Kooper
• Alice Cooper
• And When I Die
• Anika Noni Rose
• Arif Mardin
• Audra McDonald
• Barbra Streisand
• BBC Radio 2
• Bette Midler
• Billie Holiday
• Blood, Sweat & Tears
• Bob Dylan
• Bottom Line
• Brill Building
• Bronx, New York
• Bruce Buschel
• Carole King
• Catskill Mountains
• Charlie Calello
• Clive Davis
• Columbia Records
• Curtis Mayfield
• Danbury, Connecticut
• David Geffen
• Debussy
• Diane Paulus
• doo-wop
• Duane Allman
• Elton John
• Elvis Costello
• Gary Katz
• Gerry Goffin
• Gonna Take a Miracle
• gospel music
• hungry i
• Italians
• Jackson Browne
• Jane Siberry
• Janis Ian
• jazz
• Jenny Lewis
• Jimmy Mack
• John Coltrane
• Joni Mitchell
• Judith Jamison
• Judy Kuhn
• Kenny Gamble
• Labelle
• Lenox, Massachusetts
• Leon Huff
• Leontyne Price
• Lisa Germano
• Maynard Ferguson
• Melissa Manchester
• minor
• Morticia Addams
• Mother's Spiritual
• Navajo people
• Nazz
• Nested
• New York Tendaberry
• Nina Simone
• Nona Hendryx
• Ogg
• ovarian cancer
• Patti Labelle
• Pete Seeger
• Peter, Paul & Mary
• Peter, Paul and Mary
• Phoebe Snow
• Pirates (album)
• Rabbit Fur Coat
• Ravel
• Rhythm and blues
• Rickie Lee Jones
• Rilo Kiley
• Rosanne Cash
• Runt (album)
• Russian Jewish
• Sandra Bernhard
• Sarah Dash
• Season of Lights
• show tunes
• Soul music
• Steely Dan
• Suzanne Vega
• The 5th Dimension
• The Bottom Line
• The Charts
• the Shirelles
• The Supremes
• The Tonight Show
• Theresa Bernstein
• Three Dog Night
• Tin Pan Alley
• Todd Rundgren
• Toshi Reagon
• Van Morrison
• Verve Records
• Wedding Bell Blues

• To a Child
• The Right to Vote
• A Wilderness
• Melody in the Sky
• Late for Love
• A Free Thinker
• Man in the Moon
• Talk to a Green Tree
• Trees of the Ages
• The Brighter Song
• Roadnotes
• Sophia
• Mother's Spiritual
• Refrain
• Man in the Moon (live)

• Sexy Mama
• Children of the Junks
• Money
• I Am the Blues
• Stormy Love
• Cat-Song, The
• Midnite Blue
• Smile (With Mars at the End)
• Someone Loves You (Unreleased demo version)
• Get Me My Cap (Unreleased demo version)
• Coffee Morning (Unreleased demo version)

• Wedding Bell Blues
• Billy's Blues
• California Shoeshine Boys
• Blowing Away
• Lazy Susan
• Good by Joe
• Flim Flam Man
• Stoney End
• I Never Meant to Hurt You
• He's a Runner
• Buy and Sell
• And When I Die

• Brown Earth
• When I Was a Freeport and You Were the Main Drag
• Blackpatch
• Been on a Train
• Up on the Roof
• Upstairs by a Chinese Lamp
• Map to the Treasure
• Beads of Sweat
• Christmas in My Soul

• You Don't Love Me When I Cry
• Captain for Dark Mornings
• Tom Cat Goodby
• Mercy on Broadway
• Save the Country
• Gibsom Street
• Time and Love
• The Man Who Sends Me Home
• Sweet Lovin' Baby
• Captain Saint Lucifer
• New York Tendaberry
• Save the Country (single version)
• In the Country Way

• I Met Him on a Sunday
• The Bells
• Monkey Time/Dancing in the Street
• Desiree
• You've Really Got a Hold on Me
• Spanish Harlem
• Jimmy Mack
• The Wind
• Nowhere to Run
• It's Gonna Take a Miracle
• Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing (live)
• (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman (live)
• O-o-h Child (live)
• Up on the Roof (live)

• Wedding Bell Blues
• Blowin' Away
• Billy's Blues
• Stoney End
• And When I Die
• Lu
• Eli's Comin'
• Stoned Soul Picnic
• Timer
• Emmie
• The Confession
• Capt. St. Lucifer
• Gibson Street
• New York Tendaberry
• Save the Country
• Blackpatch
• Upstairs by a Chinese Lamp
• Beads of Sweat
• When I Was a Freeport and You Were the Main Drag

• You Don't Love Me When I Cry
• Captain for Dark Mornings
• Tom Cat Goodby
• Mercy on Broadway
• Save the Country
• Gibsom Street
• Time and Love
• The Man Who Sends Me Home
• Sweet Lovin' Baby
• Captain Saint Lucifer
• New York Tendaberry

• Goodbye Joe
• Billy's Blues
• And When I Die
• Stoney End
• Lazy Susan
• Hands Off the Man
• Wedding Bell Blues
• Buy and Sell
• He's a Runner
• Blowin' Away
• I Never Meant to Hurt You
• California Shoeshine Boys

• Sexy Mama
• Children of the Junks
• Money
• I Am the Blues
• Stormy Love
• The Cat-Song
• Midnite Blue
• Smile

• Mr. Blue (The Song of Communications)
• Rhythm and Blues
• My Innocence
• Crazy Love
• American Dreamer
• Springblown
• The Sweet Sky
• Light
• Child in a Universe
• The Nest

• I Met Him on a Sunday
• The Bells
• Monkey Time / Dancing in the Street
• Desiree
• You've Really Got a Hold on Me
• Spanish Harlem
• Jimmy Mack
• The Wind
• Nowhere to Run
• It's Gonna Take a Miracle

• Angel in the Dark
• Triple Goddess Twilight
• Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow
• He Was Too Good to Me
• Sweet Dream Fade
• Serious Playground
• Be Aware
• Let It Be Me
• Gardenia Talk
• Ooh Baby, Baby
• Embraceable You
• La La Means I Love You
• Walk on By
• Animal Grace
• Don't Hurt Child
• Coda

• Sweet Blindness
• Wedding Bell Blues
• And When I Die
• Blowin' Away
• Eli's Comin'
• Goodbye Joe
• Stoney End
• It's Gonna Take a Miracle
• Stoned Soul Picnic
• Lu
• Save the Country
• When I Was a Freeport and You Were the Main Drag
• Blackpatch
• Time and Love
• Sexy Mama
• Up on the Roof

• Oh Yeah Maybe Baby (The Heebie Jeebies)
• A Woman of the World
• The Descent of Luna Rosi
• Art of Love
• Lite a Flame (The Animal Rights Song)
• Louise's Church
• Broken Rainbow
• Walk the Dog & Light the Light (Song of the Road)
• To a Child
• I'm So Proud/Dedicated to the One I Love

• Luckie
• Lu
• Sweet Blindness
• Poverty Train
• Lonely Women
• Eli's Comin'
• Timer
• Stoned Soul Picnic
• Emmie
• Woman's Blues
• Once It Was Alright Now (Farmer Joe)
• December's Boudoir
• The Confession

Born: 1947-10-18

Died: 1997-04-08