- Stacey Kent【 158 songs in total 】
- Stacey Kent is an American jazz singer. She is married to saxophonist Jim Tomlinson.
Stacey Kent is a Grammy nominated, Platinum-selling American jazz singer and recording artist. Kent was born in South Orange, New Jersey and attended Newark Academy in Livingston, New Jersey. Her paternal grandfather was Russian who grew up in France. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College. She travelled to England after graduation to study music at Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, where she met saxophonist Jim Tomlinson, whom she married on August 9, 1991.
In the 1990s, she began her professional career singing regularly at Café Boheme in London's Soho. After two or three years, she began opening for established acts at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London. Her first album, Close Your Eyes, was released in 1997.
Novelist Kazuo Ishiguro wrote the liner notes to Kent's 2003 album, In Love Again. Ishiguro first met Kent after he chose her recording of 'They Can't Take That Away from Me' as one of his Desert Island Discs in 2002 and Kent subsequently asked Tomlinson and Ishiguro to write for her. Ishiguro has said of his lyric writing that 'with an intimate, confiding, first-person song, the meaning must not be self-sufficient on the page. It has to be oblique, sometimes you have to read between the lines' and that this realisation has had an 'enormous influence' on his fiction writing. Tomlinson and Ishiguro co-wrote four songs on the album, Breakfast on the Morning Tram. The first of their songs, 'The Ice Hotel', won first prize in the International Songwriting Competition in April 2008. Tomlinson and Ishiguro continue to collaborate for Kent and she has recorded several more Tomlinson/Ishiguro songs on Dreamer in Concert, The Changing Lights and I Know I Dream.
Kent's album, The Boy Next Door, achieved Gold album status in France in September 2006. Breakfast on the Morning Tram (2007) achieved Platinum album status in France in November 2007 and Double Gold status in Germany in February 2008. Raconte-moi was recorded in French and achieved Gold status in both France and Germany and became the second best selling French language album worldwide in 2010.
In 2009, Stacey was awarded the Chevalier Dans L'Ordre Des Arts et Des Lettres. (Order of Arts and Letters) by the French Minister of Culture, Minister Christine Albanel. Culture Minister Albanel cited Kent “ as a painter of sentiment, spellbinding, mixing sophistication and sentiment, a luminous and unique talent ”. Previous recipients include Rudolf Nureyev, Philip Glass, and Yohji Yamamoto.
Dreamer In Concert (2011) was recorded in May, 2011, at La Cigale in Paris. The album includes three songs previously unrecorded by Kent: 'Waters of March' by Antonio Carlos Jobim, 'Postcard Lovers' by Jim Tomlinson with lyrics by Kazuo Ishiguro, and 'O Comboio' by Portuguese poet António Ladeira.
In 2013, Kent released The Changing Lights, a Brazilian-tinged album, covering Bossa Nova classics such as Jobim's How Insensitive and once again, collaborating with her songwriting team, Tomlinson/Ishiguro. In 2014, Stacey left Warner Records and signed to Sony. In 2014, she released her first album on Sony, Tenderly, an album of standards featuring Brazilian guitarist and one of the fathers of Bossa Nova, Roberto Menescal. Stacey met Menescal in Brazil in 2011, at the 80th Birthday celebration of O Cristo Redentor, the statue on Corcovado. They discovered that each was a fan of the other's work and decided to collaborate on an album of all standards, inspired by Menescal's love of the Julie London / Barney Kessel duo.
In 2014, Stacey was invited by Brazilian composer, Marcos Valle, to record and tour in celebration of Marcos' 50 years of his career. Together they recorded an album live in Rio, called Ao Vivo, and a DVD live from Birdland, New York City and Blue Note, Tokyo.
In 2017, Stacey recorded her next album for Sony, I Know I Dream: The Orchestral Sessions, her first album with orchestra, comprising 58 musicians, arrangements by Tommy Laurence, covering music from The Great American Songbook, French Chansons, songs from Edu Lobo and Antonio Carlos Jobim from Brazil, and further original songs from Jim Tomlinson with Ishiguro, Ladeira and his most recent songwriting partner, Cliff Goldmacher, from Nashville. Tomlinson/Goldmacher provide the title track.
Kent appeared in Ian McKellen's 1995 film version of Richard III, singing a jazz version of Christopher Marlowe's poem The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.
Jean-Claude Ellena, the French perfumer or 'nose,' who has been Hermès's exclusive in-house perfumer since 2004, cites Stacey Kent as one of his inspirations. In an excerpt from the book, LA SEDUCTION, by Elaine Sciolino: 'Ellena is said to be the most articulate perfumer in the world, capable of translating the scents he creates into poetry... It is this talent that sets him apart. He professes to draw inspiration from literary figures like Beaudelaire, composers like Debussy, painters like Cezanne and jazz singers like Stacey Kent. He spins his impressions into creations that trigger memories and fantasies.'
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Lyricist
Composer
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A Fine Romance
dorothy fields
2000
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A tarde(Provided)
2014-02
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Agarradinhos(Provided)
2015
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All I Do Is Dream Of You
2011-07
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All Too Soon
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Au Coin Du Monde
Benjamin Biolay, Keren Ann Zeidel
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Au Coin Du Monde(世界一隅)
2010-03
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Bookends
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Breakfast On The Morning Tram
2007-09
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Breakfast On The Morning Tram(忘情列車)
Kazuo Ishiguro
Jim Tomlinson
2011-10
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By Myself
2000
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12
C'est Le Printemps
Oscar Hammerstein Ii, Richard Rodgers
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C'est Le Printemps(春來了)(Provided)
2010-03
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14
Ces Petits Riens
2007-09
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15
Ces Petits Riens(幸福瑣事)
Serge Gainsbourg
Serge Gainsbourg
2011-10
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Chanson légère(Provided)
2014-02
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Close Your Eyes (feat. Andrew de Jong Cleyndert & Steve Brown)(Provided)
2013
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Close Your Eyes
2011-07
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Come Live With Me (film version)
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Corcovado
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Corcovado(靜夜星空)
Gene Lees
Antonio Carlos Jobim
2011-10
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Day In - Day Out
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Desuets(褪流行)(Provided)
2010-03
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24
Don't Be That Way
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Dreamer(夢想家)(Provided)
Antonio Carlos Jobim、Gene Lees
2011-10
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Dreamsville (feat. Simon Thorpe & Jasper Kviberg)(Provided)
2013
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27
Dreamsville
2001
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28
East of the Sun (feat. Dave Green & Jeff Hamilton)(Provided)
2013
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East of the Sun
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Easy to Remember
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Embraceable You
2015
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Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear To Tread)
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Hard Hearted Hannah
2007-09
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He Loves And She Loves
2000
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35
How Insensitive(Provided)
2014-02
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Hushabye Mountain (feat. Simon Thorpe & Jasper Kviberg)(Provided)
2013
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37
Hushabye Mountain
Eugene Booker Record
2001
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Hushabye Mountain*
Eugene Booker Record
2011-07
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I Get Along Without You Very Well
2003
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I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plan
2000
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I Wish I Could Go Travelling Again
2007-09
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I Won't Dance
2000
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43
I'm Putting All My Eggs In One Basket
2000
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44
I've Got a Crush on You (feat. Simon Thorpe & Jasper Kviberg)(Provided)
2013
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I've Got A Crush On You
2001
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Ice Hotel
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If I Had You
2015
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48
If I Were A Bell(假如我是鈴鐺)
Frank Loesser
Frank Loesser
2011-10
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If I'm Lucky
2015
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In the Still of the Night
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In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
2015
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52
Inutil Paisagem (If You Never Come to Me)
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Isn't It A Pity?
2001
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54
Isn't This a Lovely Day (feat. Simon Thorpe & Steve Brown)(Provided)
2013
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Isn't This a Lovely Day
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Isn't This A Lovely Day
Irving Berlin
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Isn't This A Lovely Day(To Be Caught In The Rain)
2000
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58
It Might As Well Be Spring
2011-07
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It Might As Well Be Spring(春來了)
Oscar Hammerstein II
Richard Rodgers
2011-10
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60
It's De-Lovely
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61
Jardin D'Hiver(冬天的花園)
2010-03
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Jardin D'hiver(冬日花園)
Benjamin Biolay、Keren - Ann Zeidel
Benjamin Biolay、Keren - Ann Zeidel
2011-10
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63
L'Etang(池塘)(Provided)
2010-03
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La Saison Des Pluies
Serge Gainsbourg
2007-09
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La Venus Du Melo(通俗劇的維納斯)(Provided)
2010-03
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66
La Vénus Du Mélo
Bernard Beaupere, Jean Karl Lucas, Emilie Sattonnet
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Landslide
2007-09
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68
Le Mal De Vivre
Monique Andree Serf
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69
Le Mal De Vivre(活著的苦痛)
2010-03
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70
Le premier bonheur du jour(Provided)
2014-02
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71
Les Eaux De Mars(三月小雨)
2010-03
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72
Les Vacances Au Bord De La Mer
Pierre Grosz, Michel Alain Jonasz
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73
Les Vacances(假期)
2010-03
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Let Yourself Go
2000
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75
Like a Lover(Provided)
2014-02
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76
Little Girl Blue (feat. Simon Thorpe & Jasper Kviberg)(Provided)
2013
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Little Girl Blue
2001
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Mais uma Vez(Provided)
2014-02
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79
Makin' Whoopee
2003
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80
Mi Amor
Claire Denamur
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81
Mi Amor(我的愛)(Provided)
2010-03
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More Than You Know
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My Heart Stood Still
2011-07
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Never Let Me Go
2007-09
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85
No Moon at All
2015
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O Barquinho(Provided)
2014-02
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O Bêbado e a Equilibrista / Smile(Provided)
2014-02
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O Comboio(火車)(Provided)
Antonio Ladeira
Jim Tomlinson
2011-10
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89
One For My Baby
Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer
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90
One For My Baby(And One More For The Road)
2000
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91
One Note Samba (Samba de uma Nota So)
2014-02
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92
Only Trust Your Heart
2015
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93
Ooh-Shoo-Be-Doo-Bee
2003
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Polka Dots & Moonbeams
2001
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Polka Dots And Moonbeams
2011-07
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Postcard Lovers
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Postcard Lovers(幸福寄情)(Provided)
Kazuo Ishiguro
Jim Tomlinson
2011-10
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Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars
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99
Raconte-Moi(告訴我…)
2010-03
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100
Raconte-Moi...
Bernard Beaupere, Jean Karl Lucas, Emilie Sattonnet
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101
Sait On Jamais?(怎知道?)
2010-03
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102
Samba Saravah
Pierre Elie Barouh, Vinicus Demoraes, Baden Powell
2007-09
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103
Samba Saravah(幸福森巴)
Vinicius De Moraes、Baden Powell
2011-10
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104
Say It Isn't So (feat. Dave Chamberlain & Matt Home)(Provided)
2013
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105
Say It Isn't So
2011-07
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106
Shall We Dance?
2000
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107
So Many Stars
2007-09
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108
So Nice
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109
So Romantic
2007-09
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110
Tangerine
2015
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111
Tenderly
2015
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112
Thanks For The Memory
2001
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113
That's All
2015
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114
The Best Is yet to Come (feat. Dave Chamberlain & Matt Home)
2013
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115
The Best Is Yet To Come(好戲登場)
Cy Coleman、Carolyn Leigh
2011-10
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116
The Boy Next Door (feat. Dave Chamberlain & Matt Home)(Provided)
2013
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117
The Changing Lights(Provided)
2014-02
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118
The Face I Love(Provided)
2014-02
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119
The Gentle Rain
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120
The Ice Hotel
2007-09
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121
The Ice Hotel(Live)
2007-09
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122
The Summer We Crossed Europe In the Rain(Provided)
2014-02
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123
The Trolley Song
2003
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124
The Very Thought of You
2015
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125
There Will Never Be Another You
2015
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126
There's A Lull In My Life
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127
They All Laughed
2000
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128
They Can't Take That Away from Me (feat. Simon Thorpe & Steve Brown)(Provided)
2013
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129
They Can't Take That Away From Me
2000
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130
They Can't Take That Away From Me(他們拿不走的)
Ira Gershwin
George Gershwin
2011-10
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131
They Say It's Wonderful (Live)
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132
They Say It's Wonderful
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133
This Happy Madness(Provided)
2014-02
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134
Thou Swell
2011-07
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135
Too Darn Hot (feat. Dave Chamberlain & Matt Home)(Provided)
2013
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136
Too Darn Hot
2011-07
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137
Under a Blanket of Blue (feat. Simon Thorpe & Jasper Kviberg)(Provided)
2013
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138
Under A Blanket Of Blue
2001
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139
Under a Blanket of Blue
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140
Under A Blanket Of Blue*
2011-07
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141
Violets For Your Furs
2001
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142
Waiter, Oh Waiter
2014-02
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143
Waters of March
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144
Waters Of March(三月小雨)
Antonio Carlos Jobim
Antonio Carlos Jobim
2011-10
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145
What A Wonderful World
2007-09
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146
What the World Needs Now Is Love (feat. Dave Chamberlain & Matt Home)
2013
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147
What The World Needs Now Is Love
2003
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148
What the World Needs Now Is Love
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149
What the World Needs Now
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150
When Your Lover Has Gone
2001
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151
You Are There (feat. Simon Thorpe & Jasper Kviberg)(Provided)
2013
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152
You Are There
2001
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153
You're Looking At Me
2001
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154
You're The Top
2003
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155
You've Got a Friend (feat. Dave Chamberlain & Matt Home)(Provided)
2013
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156
You've Got a Friend
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157
Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart
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158
's Wonderful
ira gershwin
2000