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John McCormack
Irish tenor
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Morton Feldman
American avant-garde composer
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Nathaniel Shilkret
American composer, conductor, clarinetist, pianist, business executive, and music director
3
Paul Whiteman
American jazz musician and radio personality
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Skeeter Davis
American singer-songwriter
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Lefty Frizzell
Popular country music singer-songwriter, Rockabilly Hall of Fame inductee
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John Mellencamp
American rock singer-songwriter, musician and painter
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Jim Lauderdale
American musician
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Richard Palmer-James
British musician and lyricist
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Bobby Bare
American singer-songwriter
10
Alan Menken
American composer
11
Paul Anka
Canadian-American singer, songwriter and actor
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Black Francis
American singer, songwriter and guitarist
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Lead Belly
American folk and blues musician
14
Tom Kelly
American musician, songwriter
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Ferde Grofé
American composer, arranger, pianist and instrumentalist
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Lionel Richie
American singer-songwriter, musician, record producer and actor
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The Strangeloves
US band pretending to be Australian
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Woody Guthrie
American singer-songwriter and folk musician
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Will Jennings
American songwriter
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John Prine
American country singer/songwriter
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Jack Lawrence
American songwriter
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Jimmy Kennedy
Northern Irish songwriter, lyricist
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Tony Hatch
English composer for musical theatre and television; noted songwriter, pianist, arranger and producer
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Keith Urban
New Zealand-born Australian country music singer
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
English composer
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Wang Chung
British band
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John Abercrombie
American jazz guitarist
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Johnny Mercer
American lyricist, songwriter, singer and music professional
