
Dionne Warwick
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Gene Pitney
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The Four Tops
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Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien, 16 April 1939, Hampstead, London, England, d. 2 March 1999, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England. A long-standing critical favourite but sadly neglected by the mass public from the early 70s until the end of the 80s, the career of the...
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Burt Bacharach
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Donna Summer
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B.J. Thomas
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