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To: JakeStraw who wrote (25448)	3/7/2001 10:55:36 PM
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'Over the Rainbow' Tops Song-Of-The-Century List Wednesday March 7 6:44 PM ET dailynews.yahoo.com By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The ballots are in, and the top song of the 20th century is ... ``Over the Rainbow,'' according to a poll released on Wednesday by a music-industry trade group. The 1939 ballad, first sung by Judy Garland in the movie ''The Wizard of Oz'' topped a list of 365 Songs of the Century compiled by the Recording Industry Association of America (news - web sites) and the National Endowment for the Arts. Rounding out the top five: ``White Christmas'' by Bing Crosby; ``This Land Is Your Land'' by Woody Guthrie; ``Respect'' by Aretha Franklin; and ``American Pie'' by Don McLean. The list includes a wide selection of pop, rock, jazz, country and patriotic songs from all decades, with the 1950s and 1960s especially well-represented. ``Rapper's Delight'' by the Sugar Hill Gang is the highest-ranked rap song, at No. 162. Bob George, director of the Archive of Contemporary Music, a nonprofit popular-music library in New York, said all best-of lists were inherently subjective but more recent pop-music genres such as electronic dance music, punk rock and rap were given short shrift. ``These are songs a lot of people would recognize if they were white, middle-class and old,'' George said. ``It's a great list for people who go to baseball games.'' Voters Chose From List The list was compiled from ``about 200'' ballots filled out by musicians, critics, industry professionals, elected officials and amateur music fans, RIAA spokeswoman Amy Weiss said. Voters chose from a list of 1,100 songs selected for popularity and historical significance. ``We wanted a broad cross-section of people who cared about music,'' Weiss said. Weiss said the RIAA sent out about 1,300 ballots and around 200 were returned. The two organizations released the list to highlight a new music-history-education project that will be introduced to 10,000 fifth-grade teachers next fall. The curriculum will be developed by Scholastic Inc., and songs will be streamed digitally to school computers by the AOL+School service of AOL Time Warner Inc. The past year has seen a spate of best-of music lists. ''Yesterday'' by the Beatles topped two separate best-song lists: one by Rolling Stone magazine and MTV, another by England's BBC Radio 2. Music-video channel VH1 picked ``(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction'' by the Rolling Stones as its No. 1 song. The RIAA list ranked ``Yesterday'' 56th and ``Satisfaction'' 16th. ``I would have picked 'Trans-Europe Express' by (German electronic outfit) Kraftwerk,'' said George of the Archive of Contemporary Music.