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Arthur Baker (producer), the Glossary

Arthur Baker (born April 22, 1955) is an American record producer and DJ best known for his work with hip hop artists like Afrika Bambaataa and Planet Patrol, as well as British group New Order.^[1]

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American electro musicians
Post-disco musicians

A&M Records

A&M Records was an American record label founded as an independent company by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss in 1962.

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Adele Bertei

Adele Maria Bertei (born 1955) is an American singer, songwriter, writer, and director.

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Aerosmith

Aerosmith is an American rock band formed in Boston in 1970.

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Lance Taylor (born on April 17, 1957), also known as Afrika Bambaataa, is an American DJ, rapper, and producer from the South Bronx, New York. Arthur Baker (producer) and Afrika Bambaataa are American electro musicians.

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Al Green

Albert Leornes Greene (born April 13, 1946), known professionally as Al Green, is an American singer, songwriter, pastor and record producer best known for recording a series of soul hit singles in the early 1970s, including "Take Me to the River", "Tired of Being Alone", "I'm Still in Love with You", "Love and Happiness", and his signature song, "Let's Stay Together". Arthur Baker (producer) and al Green are A&M Records artists.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.

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Alternative dance

Alternative dance (also known as indie dance or underground dance in the United States) is a musical genre that mixes alternative rock with electronic dance music.

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Angel Moraes

Angel Moraes (August 7, 1965 – February 27, 2021) was an electronic music DJ from Brooklyn, New York.

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Apartheid

Apartheid (especially South African English) was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s.

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ARIA Charts

The ARIA Charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association.

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Artists United Against Apartheid

Artists United Against Apartheid was a 1985 protest group founded by activist and performer Steven Van Zandt and record producer Arthur Baker to protest against apartheid in South Africa.

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Astrid Williamson

Astrid Williamson (born 28 November 1968) is a Scottish musician, composer, and songwriter.

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Ö3 Austria Top 40

Ö3 Austria Top 40 is the official Austrian singles chart, as well as the radio show which presents it, aired Tuesdays on Hitradio Ö3.

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Babylon Zoo

Babylon Zoo were an English rock band formed in 1992 in Wolverhampton.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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Beastie Boys

Beastie Boys were an American hip hop/rap rock group from New York City, formed in 1981.

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Beat Street

Beat Street is a 1984 American dance drama film featuring New York City hip hop culture of the early 1980s.

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Beat Street (soundtrack)

Beat Street (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) – Volume 1 and Beat Street (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) – Volume 2 are soundtrack albums for the 1984 drama film of the same name.

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Big Bam Boom

Big Bam Boom is the twelfth studio album by American duo Daryl Hall & John Oates, released by RCA Records on October 12, 1984.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan; born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter.

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Born in the U.S.A.

Born in the U.S.A. is the seventh studio album by the American singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen, released on June 4, 1984, by Columbia Records.

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Born in the U.S.A. (song)

"Born in the U.S.A." is a song written and performed by American singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen and released in 1984 on the album of the same name as its opening track.

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Boston

Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949) is an American rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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Buffalo Stance

"Buffalo Stance" is a song by Swedish singer-songwriter Neneh Cherry, released in November 1988 by Circa and Virgin as the first single from the singer's debut album, Raw Like Sushi (1989).

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Candy Girl (New Edition song)

"Candy Girl" is the debut single by New Edition from their debut album ''Candy Girl''.

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Confusion (New Order song)

"Confusion" is the sixth single released by British group New Order in August 1983 with the catalogue number FAC 93.

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Cover Me (Bruce Springsteen song)

"Cover Me" is a song written and performed by American rock singer Bruce Springsteen.

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Cyndi Lauper

Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper (born June 22, 1953) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and activist. Arthur Baker (producer) and Cyndi Lauper are American freestyle musicians.

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Dance Club Songs

Dance Club Songs was a chart published weekly between 1976 and 2020 by Billboard magazine.

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Dance music

Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing.

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Dancing in the Dark (Bruce Springsteen song)

"Dancing in the Dark" is a song written and performed by American rock singer Bruce Springsteen.

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Diana Ross

Diana Ross (born March 26, 1944) is an American singer and actress. Arthur Baker (producer) and Diana Ross are American freestyle musicians.

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Disco (Pet Shop Boys album)

Disco is the first remix album by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys, released on 17 November 1986 by Parlophone in the United Kingdom and by EMI America Records in the United States.

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Double Exposure (band)

Double Exposure is an American, Philadelphia-based disco group.

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Downtown Music Holdings

Downtown Music Holdings is an independent rights management and music services company based in the US State of New York.

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Dutch Charts

Dutch Charts, GfK Dutch Charts, MegaCharts is a chart company responsible for producing a number of official charts in the Netherlands, of which the Single Top 100 and the Album Top 100 are the most known ones.

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Electro (music)

Electro (or electro-funk).

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Emergency Records

Emergency Records was an American independent record label from 1979 to 1989.

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Empire Burlesque

Empire Burlesque is the twenty-third studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on June 10, 1985 on Columbia Records.

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Fred Zarr

Frederick I. Zarr (born September 26, 1955) is an American musician, record producer, composer and arranger based in Brooklyn, New York. Arthur Baker (producer) and Fred Zarr are American electro musicians.

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Freeez

Freeez were an English electronic music group, initially known as one of the UK's main jazz-funk bands of the early 1980s before transitioning to an electro style.

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Freestyle music

Freestyle, or Latin freestyleKlanten, Robert (1995).

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Fried Green Tomatoes

Fried Green Tomatoes is a 1991 American comedy-drama film directed by Jon Avnet and based on Fannie Flagg's 1987 novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe.

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Gamble and Huff

Kenneth Gamble (born August 11, 1943, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) and Leon A. Huff (born April 8, 1942, Camden, New Jersey) are an American songwriting and production duo credited for developing the Philadelphia soul music genre (also known as Philly sound) of the 1970s.

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GfK Entertainment charts

The GfK Entertainment charts are the official charts for music, home video, and video games in Germany and are gathered and published by GfK Entertainment (formerly Media Control and Media Control GfK International), a subsidiary of GfK, on behalf of.

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Girls Just Want to Have Fun

"Girls Just Want to Have Fun" is a single by the American singer-songwriter Cyndi Lauper, written by Robert Hazard.

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Hall & Oates

Daryl Hall & John Oates, commonly known as Hall & Oates, were an American rock duo formed in Philadelphia in 1970.

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Happy Days (North End song)

"Happy Days" is a 1981 disco song by North End, produced and written by Arthur Baker, Russell Presto, Tony Carbone.

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Hip hop music

Hip hop or hip-hop, also known as rap and formerly as disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s from the African American community.

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Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs

The Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart ranks the most popular R&B and hip hop songs in the United States and is published weekly by Billboard.

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I.O.U. (Freeez song)

"I.O.U." is a song by British musical group Freeez, released in 1983.

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Interpolation (popular music)

In popular music, interpolation (also called a replayed sample) refers to using a melodyor portions of a melody (often with modified lyrics)from a previously recorded song but re-recording the melody instead of directly sampling it.

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Jennifer Holliday

Jennifer Yvette Holliday (born October 19, 1960) is an American actress and singer.

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Jill Jones

Jill Jones (born July 11, 1962) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress, who performed as a backing vocalist for Teena Marie and Prince in the 1980s.

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Jill Jones (album)

Jill Jones is the self-titled debut solo album from the artist of the same name; Jill Jones.

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Kraftwerk

Kraftwerk ("power plant") are a German electronic band formed in Düsseldorf in 1970 by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider.

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Levi Strauss & Co.

Levi Strauss & Co. is an American clothing company known worldwide for its Levi's brand of denim jeans.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts (script), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Morales and Munzibai

Morales and Munzibai (aka "M and M") were a professional remix and dance record editing duo composed of John Morales (born 1954, The Bronx, New York) and Sergio Munzibai.

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Neneh Cherry

Neneh Mariann Karlsson; born 10 March 1964), better known as Neneh Cherry, is a Swedish singer, songwriter, rapper, occasional disc jockey and broadcaster. Her musical career started in London in the early 1980s, where she performed in a number of punk and post-punk bands in her youth, including the Slits and Rip Rig + Panic.

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New Edition

New Edition is an American R&B/pop group from the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, formed in 1978 by singer/rapper Bobby Brown with Ralph Tresvant serving as the group's lead singer for over 40 years.

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New Order (band)

New Order are an English rock band formed in 1980 by vocalist and guitarist Bernard Sumner, bassist Peter Hook, and drummer Stephen Morris.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Nona Hendryx

Nona Bernis Hendryx (born October 9, 1944) is an American vocalist, record producer, songwriter, musician, and author.

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Notting Hill

Notting Hill is a district of West London, England, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

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Official New Zealand Music Chart

The Official New Zealand Music Chart (Te Papa Tātai Waiata Matua o Aotearoa) is the weekly New Zealand top 40 singles and albums charts, issued weekly by Recorded Music NZ (formerly Recording Industry Association of New Zealand).

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Old-school hip hop

Old-school hip hop (also spelled old skool) (also known as disco-rap) is the earliest commercially recorded hip hop music and the original style of the genre.

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Paisley Park Records

Paisley Park Records was an American record label founded by musician Prince in 1985, which was distributed by and funded in part by Warner Bros. Records.

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Pet Shop Boys

Pet Shop Boys are an English synth-pop duo formed in London in 1981.

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Philadelphia soul

Philadelphia soul, sometimes called Philly soul, the Philadelphia sound, Phillysound, or The Sound of Philadelphia (TSOP), is a genre of late 1960s–1970s soul music characterized by funk influences and lush string and horn arrangements.

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Planet Patrol

Planet Patrol is an American electro group originating in the 1980s. Arthur Baker (producer) and Planet Patrol are American electro musicians.

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Planet Rock (song)

"Planet Rock" is a song by the American hip hop artists Afrika Bambaataa and the Soul Sonic Force.

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PolyGram

PolyGram N.V. was a multinational entertainment company and major music record label formerly based in the Netherlands.

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Post-disco

Post-disco is a term to describe an aftermath in popular music history circa 1979–1986, imprecisely beginning with the backlash against disco music in the United States, leading to civil unrest and a riot in Chicago known as the Disco Demolition Night on July 12, 1979, and indistinctly ending with the mainstream appearance of new wave in 1980.

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Princess Superstar

Concetta Suzanne Kirschner (born February 25, 1971), better known as Princess Superstar, is an American rapper and DJ.

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Princessa (singer)

Princessa is a house music rapper/singer from New York City.

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Quincy Jones

Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933) is an American record producer, songwriter, composer, arranger, and film and television producer. Arthur Baker (producer) and Quincy Jones are A&M Records artists.

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Red Bull Music Academy

The Red Bull Music Academy (RBMA) is a world-traveling series of music workshops and festivals that was founded in 1998 by Red Bull GmbH.

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Remix

A remix (or reorchestration) is a piece of media which has been altered or contorted from its original state by adding, removing, or changing pieces of the item.

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Sampling (music)

In sound and music, sampling is the reuse of a portion (or sample) of a sound recording in another recording.

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Soul music

Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in the African-American community throughout the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Soulsonic Force

Soulsonic Force (also referred to as Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force) is an American electro-funk and hip hop ensemble led by Afrika Bambaataa who helped establish hip-hop in the early 1980s with songs such as "Planet Rock." They were also influential in the birth of the electro movement in America and helped pave the way for modern dance music styles such as electro-funk as well as the entire Miami bass scene.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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Spaceman (Babylon Zoo song)

"Spaceman" is a song by British rock band Babylon Zoo, released on 15 January 1996 as the lead single from their debut album, The Boy with the X-Ray Eyes (1996).

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Steven Van Zandt

Steven Van Zandt (né Lento; born November 22, 1950), also known as Little Steven or Miami Steve, is an American musician and actor. Arthur Baker (producer) and Steven Van Zandt are record producers from Massachusetts.

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Taylor Dayne

Taylor Dayne (born Leslie Wunderman; March 7, 1962) is an American singer. Arthur Baker (producer) and Taylor Dayne are American freestyle musicians.

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Táta Vega

Táta Vega (born Carmen Rosa Vega, October 7, 1951) is an American vocalist, whose career spans theater, film, and a variety of musical genres.

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Ten Percent (song)

In 1976, Salsoul Records released their eighth release, Walter Gibbons' remix of Double Exposure's disco song "Ten Percent".

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The Clothes Show

The Clothes Show is a British television show about fashion that was broadcast on BBC One from 1986 to 2000, and from 2006 on UKTV Style and Really.

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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

The Encyclopedia of Popular Music is an encyclopedia created in 1989 by Colin Larkin.

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Tim Wheeler

Timothy James Arthur Wheeler (born 4 January 1977) is an Irish singer, songwriter and musician from Northern Ireland.

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Tina Turner

Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939 – May 24, 2023) was a singer, songwriter, and actress.

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Tom Moulton

Thomas Jerome Moulton (born November 29, 1940) is an American record producer.

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Tommy Boy Records

Tommy Boy Records is an American independent record label and multimedia brand founded in 1981 by Tom Silverman.

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Toney Lee

Toney Lee is an American singer, songwriter and producer, best known for his club hit "Reach Up", famously sampled by Phats & Small for their 1999 hit "Turn Around".

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Tony Moran

Anthony "Tony" Moran is a DJ, record producer, remixer, singer and songwriter known for remixing popular songs.

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Twelve-inch single

The twelve-inch single (often written as 12-inch or 12) is a type of vinyl (polyvinyl chloride or PVC) gramophone record that has wider groove spacing and shorter playing time with a "single" or a few related sound tracks on each surface, compared to LPs (long play) which have several songs on each side.

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UK singles chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently titled the Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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Ultratop

Ultratop is an organization which generates and publishes the official record charts in Belgium.

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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Baker_(producer)

Also known as Arthur Baker (musician), Arthur Baker and the Backbeat Disciples, Criminal Element Orchestra, The Message Is Love (song), The Opera House (song).

, Hip hop music, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, I.O.U. (Freeez song), Interpolation (popular music), Jennifer Holliday, Jill Jones, Jill Jones (album), Kraftwerk, Levi Strauss & Co., London, Massachusetts, Morales and Munzibai, Neneh Cherry, New Edition, New Order (band), New York City, Nona Hendryx, Notting Hill, Official New Zealand Music Chart, Old-school hip hop, Paisley Park Records, Pet Shop Boys, Philadelphia soul, Planet Patrol, Planet Rock (song), PolyGram, Post-disco, Princess Superstar, Princessa (singer), Quincy Jones, Red Bull Music Academy, Remix, Sampling (music), Soul music, Soulsonic Force, South Africa, Spaceman (Babylon Zoo song), Steven Van Zandt, Taylor Dayne, Táta Vega, Ten Percent (song), The Clothes Show, The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, Tim Wheeler, Tina Turner, Tom Moulton, Tommy Boy Records, Toney Lee, Tony Moran, Twelve-inch single, UK singles chart, Ultratop, United Nations, Virgin Books, Visa Inc., Walter Gibbons, West End Records, Whatever You Want (Tina Turner song), Worm (dance move).

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American electro musicians

Post-disco musicians

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