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Alone Again (Naturally)
Gilbert O'Sullivan
Last week
2Weeks at no. 1
5Weeks on chart
12Imprint/Promotion Label:
Mam
Billboard Hot 100™
Week of September 2, 1972
This Week
Award
Last Week
Peak Pos.
Wks on Chart
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Alone Again (Naturally)
Gilbert O'Sullivan - 2
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Mam
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Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress)
The Hollies - 3
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Epic
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I'm Still In Love With You
Al Green - 4
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Hi
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Brandy (You're A Fine Girl)
Looking Glass - 1
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Hold Your Head Up
Argent - 5
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Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me
Mac Davis - 10
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Columbia
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Goodbye To Love
Carpenters - 7
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You Don't Mess Around With Jim
Jim Croce - 9
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ABC
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Rock And Roll Part 2
Gary Glitter - 17
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Bell
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Back Stabbers
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The Guitar Man
Bread - 13
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Motorcycle Mama
Sailcat - 12
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(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want To Be Right
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Koko
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Black & White
Three Dog Night - 23
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Saturday In The Park
Chicago - 20
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Columbia
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Lookin' Through The Windows
Jackson 5 - 16
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Motown
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Coconut
Nilsson - 8
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RCA Victor
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Beautiful Sunday
Daniel Boone - 24
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Mercury
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Join Together
The Who - 22
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Decca
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Go All The Way
Raspberries - 28
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The Happiest Girl In The Whole U.S.A.
Donna Fargo - 11
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Dot
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Power Of Love
Joe Simon - 27
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Spring
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Honky Cat
Elton John - 40
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Uni
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Baby Let Me Take You (In My Arms)
Detroit Emeralds - 25
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Westbound
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Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast
Wayne Newton - 15
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Chelsea
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Sealed With A Kiss
Bobby Vinton - 19
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Epic
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Run To Me
Bee Gees - 37
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Atco
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Popcorn
Hot Butter - 33
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Musicor
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Small Beginnings
Flash - 29
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Capitol
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Pop That Thang
The Isley Brothers - 34
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T-Neck
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Where Is The Love
Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway - 18
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Atlantic
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Everybody Plays The Fool
The Main Ingredient - 42
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RCA Victor
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Play Me
Neil Diamond - 44
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Uni
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You're Still A Young Man
Tower Of Power - 36
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Warner
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Speak To The Sky
Rick Springfield - 49
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Capitol
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How Do You Do?
Mouth & MacNeal - 26
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Philips
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Sweet Inspiration/Where You Lead
Barbra Streisand - 38
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Columbia
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This World
The Staple Singers - 39
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Nights In White Satin
The Moody Blues - 47
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Deram
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When You Say Love
Sonny & Cher - 32
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Kapp
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The City Of New Orleans
Arlo Guthrie - 46
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Reprise
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My Ding-A-Ling
Chuck Berry - 63
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Chess
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Michael Jackson - 51
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Motown
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Gone
Joey Heatherton - 35
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MGM
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Easy Livin
Uriah Heep - 54
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Mercury
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Get On The Good Foot-Part 1
James Brown - 55
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Polydor
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The Coldest Days Of My Life (Part 1)
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Brunswick
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America
Yes - 59
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Atlantic
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Starting All Over Again
Mel And Tim - 50
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Stax
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Happy
The Rolling Stones - 41
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The Rolling Stones/Rolling Stones
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Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
The Partridge Family Starring Shirley Jones Featuring David Cassidy - 45
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Bell
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Put It Where You Want It
The Crusaders - 53
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Blue Thumb
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Use Me
Bill Withers - 80
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Sussex
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Garden Party
Rick Nelson And The Stone Canyon Band - 67
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Decca
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My Man, A Sweet Man
Millie Jackson - 58
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Spring
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Rock Me On The Water
Jackson Browne - 60
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Asylum
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I Believe In Music
Gallery - 72
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Sussex
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Burning Love
Elvis Presley - 68
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RCA Victor
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A Simple Man
Lobo - 56
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Big Tree
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Tight Rope
Leon Russell - 82
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Shelter
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In The Ghetto
Candi Staton - 52
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Fame
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Why/Lonely Boy
Donny Osmond - 85
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MGM/Kolob
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If You Leave Me Tonight I'll Cry
Jerry Wallace - 71
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Decca
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Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart
The Trammps - 66
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Buddah
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That's The Way God Planned It
Billy Preston - 65
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Apple
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Your Wonderful, Sweet Sweet Love
The Supremes - 69
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Motown
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You Wear It Well
Rod Stewart - 87
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Mercury
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Jackie Wilson Said (I'm In Heaven When You Smile)
Van Morrison - 74
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Warner
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In The Quiet Morning
Joan Baez - 73
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A&M
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Alabama Wild Man
Jerry Reed - 62
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RCA Victor
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Geronimo's Cadillac
Michael Murphey - 79
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A&M
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My Guy
Petula Clark - 70
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MGM
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Sweet Caroline (Good Times Never Seemed So Good)
Bobby Womack & Peace - 84
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United Artists
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I'm Coming Home
Stories - 61
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Kama Sutra
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In Time
Engelbert Humperdinck - 75
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Parrot
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Love Song
Tommy James - 86
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Roulette
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From The Beginning
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - 89
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Cotillion
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For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her
Simon & Garfunkel - -
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Columbia
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Freddie's Dead (Theme From "Superfly")
Curtis Mayfield - 93
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Curtom
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Don't Ever Be Lonely (A Poor Little Fool Like Me)
Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose - -
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United Artists
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Wholy Holy
Aretha Franklin With James Cleveland & The Southern California Community Choir - 81
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Atlantic
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A Piece Of Paper
Gladstone - 99
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ABC
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Beat Me Daddy Eight To The Bar
Commander Cody - 83
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Paramount
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How Could I Let You Get Away
The Spinners - 91
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Atlantic
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I Will Never Pass This Way Again
Glen Campbell - 90
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Capitol
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Thunder And Lightning
Chi Coltrane - -
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Columbia
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Good Time Charlie's Got The Blues
Danny O'Keefe - -
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Signpost
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Loving You Just Crossed My Mind
Sam Neely - -
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Capitol
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Listen To The Music
The Doobie Brothers - -
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Warner
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Think (About It)
Lyn Collins - -
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People
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91
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Down By The River
Albert Hammond - 92
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Mums
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Life And Breath
Climax featuring Sonny Geraci - -
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Rocky Road
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93
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Summer Sun
Jamestown Massacre - 94
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Warner
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Toast To The Fool
The Dramatics - 95
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Volt
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I've Got To Have You
Sammi Smith - 100
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Mega
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A Sunday Kind Of Love
Lenny Welch - 96
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Atco
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Guess Who/Them Changes
B.B. King - 97
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ABC
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Lady Eleanor
Lindisfarne - -
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Elektra
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Fool's Paradise
The Sylvers - -
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Pride
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Whatever Turns You On
Travis Wammack - -
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Fame