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Offline pete edwards

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Re: Ancestry Top Twenty
« Reply #36 on: Thursday 21 August 08 15:44 BST (UK) »
I suppose if we go back far enough in time then I would say the immigrant song

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApxnAr6pRt0

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« Reply #37 on: Thursday 21 August 08 16:09 BST (UK) »
Fanfare for the Common Man - Aaron Copland   (no one famous in my tree)

It Ain't Necessarily So - George & Ira Gershwin    (don't believe everything grannie tells you...)

Where the Streets Have No Name - U2  (lazy enumerator)


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Re: Ancestry Top Twenty
« Reply #38 on: Thursday 21 August 08 16:17 BST (UK) »
Here's a couple of real oldies, Bing Crosby-As time goes by, Vic Damone- On a street where you live and Doris Day-Sentimental Journey :)
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« Reply #39 on: Thursday 21 August 08 16:56 BST (UK) »
Another One Bites The Dust - Queen


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Re: Ancestry Top Twenty
« Reply #40 on: Thursday 21 August 08 20:01 BST (UK) »
How about - ''I'm Alive'' - The Hollies !!

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« Reply #41 on: Thursday 21 August 08 20:11 BST (UK) »
Here's another, So Far Away- Carol King. 8)
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« Reply #42 on: Thursday 21 August 08 21:02 BST (UK) »
My Old Man - Ian Drury ;)
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« Reply #43 on: Thursday 21 August 08 21:31 BST (UK) »
Anyone done this one yet?

Help - The Beatles

or for the very difficult cases:

Imagine - John Lennon

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Re: Ancestry Top Twenty
« Reply #44 on: Thursday 21 August 08 21:34 BST (UK) »
Imagine - John Lennon

No-one does that here, surely?  ;)

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