What’s your song of the century (1900-2000)

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Blinded By the Light - MM.

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Is that what you listen to when you drive your RAM to the levee?

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Aaron Copland - Appalachian Spring

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The music, scored for a thirteen-member chamber orchestra, was created upon commission of the choreographer and dancer Martha Graham

Originally, Copland did not have a title for the work, referring to it simply as "Ballet for Martha"—a title as simple and direct as the Shaker tune 'Tis the Gift to be Simple quoted in the music. Shortly before the premiere, Graham suggested Appalachian Spring, a phrase from a Hart Crane poem, "The Dance" from a collection of poems in his book "The Bridge."

Because he composed the music without the benefit of knowing what the title was going to be, Copland was often amused when people told him he captured the beauty of the Appalachians in his music

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Roy Orbison - Running Scared

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