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I think The Elements is a better candidate. But I’d say it’s really a toss up between Poisoning Pidgeons in the Park and National Brotherhood Week.
Loudon Wainwright III - One Man Guy
Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode
Kate Bush - [space to be filled in by gaffa] though it’s obviously Wuthering Heights
I had more but I thought to draw a distinction between a ‘signature’ song and ‘biggest hit’ or ‘most well known song’. Example: For Joni Mitchell what? Big Yellow Taxi probably but I bet she hasn’t played that in decades. John Lennon, Imagine? hardly typical of his output.
That said I will chuck in:
Zeppelin - Stairway
The 'orrible Oo - My Generation*
Sabbath - Paranoid
Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water
*Argh, Im tying myself in knots here. I suppose these days it’d be one of the CSI themes, oh well.
Sting - “Roxanne” (he revamps it and reworks it regularly, but he never drops it from his set, because he KNOWS it’s expected and he KNOWS it’s become his signature song, even though it’s an older song from before he became a solo act)
Barry Manilow–At the Copa, Copacabana
ABBA–Dancing Queen
Murray Head–One Night in Bangkok
Beyoune–Single Ladies (Put a Ring on it). I am no fan of her type of music, but the first time I heard that song, I was blown away.
Ella Fitzgerald: *Lady Be Good *(both fast and slow versions)
Bing Crosby: *White Christmas.
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Shirley Bassey: *Goldfinger.
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Marilyn Monroe: *Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friends.
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Johnny Mathis: *Misty.
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Connie Francis: *Where the Boys Are.
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Leslie Gore: *It’s My Party.
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Liza Minnelli: *Cabaret.
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