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We Are Family (song), the Glossary

"We Are Family" is a song recorded by American vocal group Sister Sledge.^[1]

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Babes in Toyland (band) songs
Cotillion Records singles
Pittsburgh Pirates
Sister Sledge songs
Songs about families
Songs written by Bernard Edwards

Album

An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track or cassette), or digital.

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Anna Kendrick

Anna Cooke Kendrick (born August 9, 1985) is an American actress.

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Atlantic Records

Atlantic Recording Corporation (simply known as Atlantic Records) is an American record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson.

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Babes in Toyland (band)

Babes in Toyland was an American alternative rock band from Minneapolis, Minnesota, formed in 1987.

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Barney & Friends

Barney & Friends is an American children's television series targeted at children aged two to five, created by Sheryl Leach.

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Bear in the Big Blue House is an American children's television series created by Mitchell Kriegman and produced by Jim Henson Television for Disney Channel's Playhouse Disney preschool television block.

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Bernard Edwards

Bernard Edwards (October 31, 1952 – April 18, 1996) was an American musician, songwriter and record producer, known primarily for his work in disco music with guitarist Nile Rodgers, with whom he co-founded Chic.

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Bette Midler

Bette Midler (Inside the Actors Studio, 2004 born December 1, 1945) is an American singer, actress, comedian, and author.

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Between the Lions

Between the Lions is an American animated/live-action/puppet educational children's television series designed to promote reading.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.

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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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Calista Flockhart

Calista Kay Flockhart (born November 11, 1964) is an American actress.

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Canadian dance chart

The Canadian dance chart was first known to be published on November 13, 1976 by RPM magazine under the name Top 30 Disco Playlist.

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Cash Box Top 100 Pop Singles

The Cash Box Top 100 Pop Singles (also known as the Cash Box Top 100) was a record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Cash Box magazine, which began publication in 1942.

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Cashbox (magazine)

Cashbox, also known as Cash Box, is an American music industry trade magazine, originally published weekly from July 1942 to November 1996.

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Chic (band)

Chic (stylized CHIC), currently called Nile Rodgers & Chic, is an American disco band that was formed in 1972 by guitarist Nile Rodgers and bassist Bernard Edwards.

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Christine Baranski

Christine Jane Baranski (born May 2, 1952) is an American actress.

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Coming 2 America

Coming 2 America is a 2021 American romantic comedy film that serves as a sequel to the 1988 film Coming to America starring Eddie Murphy and directed by Craig Brewer, from a screenplay by Barry W. Blaustein and David Sheffield, the original writers, and Kenya Barris, and a story by Blaustein, Sheffield, and Justin Kanew, based on characters created by Murphy.

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Cotillion Records

Cotillion Records was a subsidiary of Atlantic Records (from 1971 part of WEA) and was active from 1968 through 1985.

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Cultural diversity

Cultural diversity is the quality of diverse or different cultures, as opposed to monoculture.

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Dan Futterman

Daniel Paul Futterman (born June 8, 1967) is an American actor, screenwriter, and producer.

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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, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)

"Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)" is a song by American R&B band Chic. We Are Family (song) and Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah) are song recordings produced by Nile Rodgers, songs written by Bernard Edwards and songs written by Nile Rodgers.

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Dianne Wiest

Dianne Evelyn Wiest (born March 28, 1948) is an American actress.

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Disco

Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the late 1960s from the United States' urban nightlife scene.

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Disney Channel

Disney Channel is an American pay television channel that serves as the flagship property of Disney Branded Television, a unit of the Disney Entertainment division of The Walt Disney Company.

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Donna Summer

Donna Adrian Gaines (December 31, 1948May 17, 2012), known professionally as Donna Summer, was an American singer and songwriter.

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Eddie Murphy

Edward Regan Murphy (born April 3, 1961) is an American comedian, actor, and singer.

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European Dance Radio Chart

The European Dance Radio Chart (also known as European Dance Radio Top 25) was a weekly chart compiled by pan-European magazine Music & Media.

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European Hot 100 Singles

The European Hot 100 Singles was compiled by Billboard and Music & Media magazine from March 1984 until December 2010.

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Garage house

Garage house (originally known as "garage"; local terms include "New York house" and New Jersey sound) is a dance music style that was developed alongside Chicago house music.

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Gene Hackman

Eugene Allen Hackman (born January 30, 1930) is an American retired actor.

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Grammy Hall of Fame

The Grammy Hall of Fame is a hall of fame to honor musical recordings of lasting qualitative or historical significance. We Are Family (song) and Grammy Hall of Fame are Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients.

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Hank Azaria

Henry Albert "Hank" Azaria (born April 25, 1964) is an American actor.

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He's the Greatest Dancer

"He's the Greatest Dancer" is a 1979 song by the American vocal group Sister Sledge. We Are Family (song) and He's the Greatest Dancer are Cotillion Records singles, Sister Sledge songs, song recordings produced by Nile Rodgers, songs written by Bernard Edwards and songs written by Nile Rodgers.

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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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Hot Stuff (Donna Summer song)

"Hot Stuff" is a song by American singer Donna Summer from her seventh studio album Bad Girls (1979), produced by English producer Pete Bellotte and Italian producer Giorgio Moroder and released as the lead single from Bad Girls in 1979 through Casablanca Records. We Are Family (song) and Hot Stuff (Donna Summer song) are 1979 songs and RPM Top Singles number-one singles.

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Irish Recorded Music Association

The Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA) is a non-profit association set up in 1999 to promote certain interests of the music industry in Ireland.

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James Masterton

James Masterton (born 2 September 1973) is a British music critic and columnist, his work focusing on the UK Singles Chart having been an online fixture on various sites since the 1990s.

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Jerry L. Greenberg

Jerry L. Greenberg is an American music executive, who at 32, was the youngest president of any major record company in the recording industry and received that title in 1974 as President of Atlantic Records.

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Joel Whitburn

Joel Carver Whitburn (November 29, 1939 – June 14, 2022) was an American author and music historian, responsible for setting up the Record Research, Inc.

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Justin Timberlake

Justin Randall Timberlake (born January 31, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor.

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Kent Music Report

The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by music historian David Kent from May 1974 through to January 1999.

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Library and Archives Canada

Library and Archives Canada (LAC; Bibliothèque et Archives Canada) is the federal institution tasked with acquiring, preserving, and providing accessibility to the documentary heritage of Canada.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C. that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de facto national library of the United States.

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List of signature songs

A signature song is the one song (or, in some cases, one of a few songs) that a popular and well-established recording artist or band is most closely identified with or best known for.

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Lost in Music

"Lost in Music" is a song by American vocal group Sister Sledge, released in July 1979 as the third single from their third studio album, We Are Family (1979), an album entirely written, produced, and arranged by Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards (of the group Chic). We Are Family (song) and Lost in Music are 1979 songs, 1993 singles, Cotillion Records singles, Sister Sledge songs, song recordings produced by Nile Rodgers, songs written by Bernard Edwards and songs written by Nile Rodgers.

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Melody Maker

Melody Maker was a British weekly music magazine, one of the world's earliest music weeklies; according to its publisher, IPC Media, the earliest.

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MLB.com

MLB.com is the official site of Major League Baseball and is overseen by Major League Baseball Advanced Media, L.P. (a subsidiary of MLB).

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Music & Media was a pan-European magazine for radio, music and entertainment.

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Music recording certification

Music recording certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped, sold, or streamed a certain number of units.

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Music Week

Music Week is a trade publication for the UK record industry distributed via a website and a monthly print magazine.

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Musica e dischi

("Music and Records") was the oldest and longest-running music industry publication in Italy.

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Nathan Lane

Nathan Lane (born Joseph Lane; February 3, 1956) is an American actor.

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National Recording Registry

The National Recording Registry is a list of sound recordings that "are culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant, and/or inform or reflect life in the United States." The registry was established by the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000, which created the National Recording Preservation Board, whose members are appointed by the Librarian of Congress. We Are Family (song) and National Recording Registry are United States National Recording Registry recordings.

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Nick Jr. Channel

The Nick Jr.

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Nickelodeon

Nickelodeon (occasionally shortened to Nick) is an American pay television channel owned by Paramount Global through Paramount Media Networks' subdivision, Nickelodeon Group.

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Nielsen Holdings

Nielsen Holdings plc (or Nielsen) is an American information, data and market measurement firm.

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Nile Rodgers

Nile Gregory Rodgers Jr. (born September 19, 1952) is an American musician, songwriter and record producer.

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Official Charts Company

The Official Charts Company (OCC or Official Charts; previously known as the Chart Information Network, CIN, and the Official UK Charts Company; legally known as the Official UK Charts Company Limited) is a British inter-professional organisation that compiles various official record charts in the United Kingdom, Ireland and France.

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Official Finnish Charts

The Official Finnish Charts (Suomen virallinen lista; Finlands officiella lista) are national record charts in Finland compiled and published by Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland.

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Paul Lester

Paul Lester is a British music journalist, author and broadcaster from Elstree, Hertfordshire.

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PBS Kids

PBS Kids (stylized as PBS KIDS) is the brand for most of the children's programming aired by PBS in the United States.

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Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, also known as "the Trib", is the second-largest daily newspaper serving the Greater Pittsburgh metropolitan area of Western Pennsylvania.

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Playhouse Disney

Playhouse Disney was a brand of programming blocks and international cable and satellite television channels that were owned by the Disney Channels Worldwide unit (now Disney Branded Television) of The Walt Disney Company's Disney–ABC Television Group.

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Power Station (recording studio)

Power Station at BerkleeNYC is a recording studio at 441 West 53rd Street in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Midtown Manhattan in New York City.

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Record Mirror

Record Mirror was a British weekly music newspaper published between 1954 and 1991, aimed at pop fans and record collectors.

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Record Mirror Club Chart

The Record Mirror Club Chart (also known as RM Club Chart) was a weekly chart compiled by British trade paper Music Week.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African-American communities in the 1940s.

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Robert Zemeckis

Robert Lee Zemeckis (born May 14, 1952) is an American filmmaker.

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Robin Williams

Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951August 11, 2014) was an American actor and comedian.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture.

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RPM (magazine)

RPM (and later) was a Canadian music-industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada.

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Samantha Jade

Samantha Jade Gibbs (born 18 April 1987) is an Australian singer and songwriter.

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September 11 attacks

The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001.

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Sesame Street

Sesame Street is an American educational children's television series that combines live-action, sketch comedy, animation and puppetry.

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Single (music)

In music, a single is a type of release of a song recording of fewer tracks than an album or LP record, typically one or two tracks.

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Sister Sledge

Sister Sledge is an American musical vocal group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Society for American Baseball Research

The Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) is a membership organization dedicated to fostering the research and dissemination of the history and record of baseball, primarily through the use of statistics.

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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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South Beach

South Beach, also nicknamed colloquially as SoBe, is a neighborhood in Miami Beach, Florida.

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South Florida

South Florida, sometimes colloquially shortened to SoFlo, is the southernmost region of the U.S. state of Florida.

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SpongeBob SquarePants (character)

SpongeBob SquarePants is the protagonist of the eponymous American animated television series. Voiced by Tom Kenny, he is characterized by his optimism and childlike attitude.

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The Birdcage

The Birdcage is a 1996 American comedy film produced and directed by Mike Nichols.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Randy Watson Experience

The Randy Watson Experience is a supergroup which includes hip-hop/R&B musicians Questlove and James Poyser.

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The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962.

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The Witches (2020 film)

The Witches (also known as Roald Dahl's The Witches), is a 2020 dark fantasy comedy horror film co-produced and directed by Robert Zemeckis, who co-wrote the screenplay with Kenya Barris and Guillermo del Toro, based on the 1983 novel The Witches by Roald Dahl.

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Toleration

Toleration is when one allows, permits, an action, idea, object, or person that one dislikes or disagrees with.

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Tom McGowan

Thomas McGowan (born July 26, 1959) is an American actor.

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Top 40

In the music industry, the Top 40 is a list of the 40 currently most popular songs in a particular genre.

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Trolls Band Together

Trolls Band Together is a 2023 American animated jukebox musical comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Universal Pictures, based on the Good Luck Trolls dolls from Thomas Dam.

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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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We Are Family (album)

We Are Family is the third studio album by the American R&B vocal group Sister Sledge, released on January 22, 1979, in the United States and on April 30, 1979, in the United Kingdom by Cotillion Records.

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We Are Family Foundation

We Are Family Foundation (WAFF) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded by musician Nile Rodgers and his life partner, Nancy Hunt.

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Willie Stargell

Wilver Dornell Stargell (March 6, 1940 – April 9, 2001), nicknamed "Pops" later in his career, was an American professional baseball left fielder and first baseman who spent all of his 21 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) (1962–1982) with the Pittsburgh Pirates.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Are_Family_(song)

Also known as I got all my sisters with me, We Are Family (Jordan Pruitt Song), We Are Family (Sister Sledge song).

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We Are Family (song), the Glossary

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See also

Babes in Toyland (band) songs

Cotillion Records singles

Pittsburgh Pirates

Sister Sledge songs

Songs about families

Songs written by Bernard Edwards

References