well-known song
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song
noun
uk/sɒŋ/us/sɑːŋ/
a usually short piece of music with words that ...
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(Definition ofsongfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It reminds me of thewell-knownsongabout the quartermaster's store and all the things one finds in it.
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He released his first single irukani-notta-shounen (boy who rode on the dolphin) in 1973, which was his mostwell-knownsong.
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It was the band's first single and has since become the band's mostwell-knownsong.
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It would go on to become the band's mostwell-knownsongas it received substantial radio play throughout the 1990s.
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Using these, they perform awell-knownsongas a duet.
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The show usually ends with the hosts performing awell-knownsong.
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Vill du bli min fru was their mostwell-knownsongin 1995.
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The film took its name from thewell-knownsongand dance.
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They would pick a typicalwell-knownsongfrom the other artist's repertoire in a bid to prepare a remake / or cover version of the song and vice versa.
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Its subject is a man who has a girlfriend he knows only through the telephone; it was the firstwell-knownsongto refer to the device.
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It is perhaps their mostwell-knownsong.
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Some well-known songs reflecting the 'loose-verse / tight-chorus' model.
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It contains eight acoustic arrangements of his more well-known songs.
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Many of their more well-known songs were either re-worked or extended.
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It utilized a combination of plastic and tin, and a mechanism that used spooled rolls of punched paper with well-known songs programmed onto them.
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They perform sound-alike cover versions of well-known songs.
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Usually, these songs are throw-awayssimple modifications of existing, well-known songs.
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In other words, there would be a stronger story that might match the well-known songs.
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The most well-known songs of the album is the power ballad and hard rock track.
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The focus of this series is to showcase favorite and well-known songs picked from the most recent years.
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