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"Fight Fire with Fire" is a song by American band Kansas, written by #John and Dino Elefante for the 1983 album #DrasticMeasures. Charting at No. 58 on the #Billboard Hot 100, it became the twelfth Kansas single to chart on the #Top100. It was promoted with a music video starring #DanShor, which was blown up to #35MmFilm and displayed as a #trailer in movie theaters. The song was re-released on several compilation and live albums, including #TheBestOfKansas.
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"To Sir with Love" is the theme from #JamesClavell's 1967 film #ToSirWithLove. The song was performed by Scottish singer and actress #Lulu (who also starred in the film), and written by #DonBlack and #MarkLondon (husband of Lulu's longtime manager #MarionMassey). #MickieMost produced the record, with #MikeLeander arranging and conducting. The song peaked at the top of the #Billboard #Hot100, and became the best-selling single of 1967 in the United States.
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"Love Train" is a hit single by #theOJays, written by #KennyGambleAndLeonHuff. Released in 1972, it reached No. 1 on both the #RAndBSingles and the #Billboard #Hot100 in February and March 1973 respectively, and No. 9 on the #UKSinglesChart and was certified gold by the #RIAA. It was the O'Jays' first and only number one record on the US pop chart. The song has been considered one of the first songs of #discoMusic.
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"You Don't Know Me" is a song written by #EddyArnold and #CindyWalker in 1955. "You Don't Know Me" was first recorded by Arnold that year and released as a single on April 21, 1956, on #RCAVictor. The best-selling version of the song is by #RayCharles, who took it to number 2 on the #Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1962, after releasing the song on his number 1 album #ModernSoundsInCountryAndWesternMusic.
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"Sunroof" is a song by American singer #NickyYoure and Los Angeles-based musician and producer Dazy (Nick Minutaglio, who has also recorded as Snocker). It was released on December 3, 2021, through Thirty Knots and #ColumbiaRecords. By November 2022, the song had reached the #Billboard Hot 100 top 10, and been streamed 397 million times on #Spotify. In September 2022, the song topped the #CanadianHot100. It was the most popular song on #TikTok UK in 2022.
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"Don't Expect Me to Be Your Friend" is a song written and recorded by American singer #Lobo that appears on his album #OfASimpleMan. Released in 1972, the single peaked at No. 8 on the US #Billboard Hot 100 and was his third of four songs to top the Billboard #EasyListening chart, where it had a two-week stay at No. 1. Internationally, it peaked at No. 4 in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.
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"Standing in the Shadows of Love" is a 1966 hit single recorded by the #FourTops for the #Motown label. Written and produced by Motown's main production team #HollandDozierHolland, the song is one of the best-known Motown tunes of the 1960s. A direct follow-up to the #1 hit "#ReachOutIllBeThere" (even featuring a similar musical arrangement), "Standing in the Shadows of Love" reached #2 on the soul chart and #6 on the #Billboard Hot 100 in 1967.
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"Creeque Alley" is an autobiographical hit single written by #JohnPhillips and #MichellePhillips of #theMamasAndThePapas in late 1966, narrating the story of how the group was formed, and its early years. The third song on the album #Deliver, it peaked at number 5 on the US #Billboard pop singles chart the week of #MemorialDay 1967, becoming their last Top 10 hit. It made number 9 on the #UKSinglesChart, and number 4 on the Australian.
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"Half-Breed" is a popular song recorded by Cher in 1973. Cher's version, recorded with instrumental backing by L.A. sessions musicians from the #WreckingCrew, was recorded on May 21, 1973 at #LarrabeeSound in Los Angeles. Lyrically, the song describes the life of a girl who faces societal rejection due to having a #White father and #Cherokee mother. It contains themes of #racism and #doubleStandards. The song reached Number 1 on the #Billboard #Hot100.
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3/3 The flipside to this is that a QR code scan can feel like friction. It takes a few extra seconds to even get to know the bare minimum (the brand behind the billboard) and you may not bother to give that time to the billboard particularly if you did not like the products being showcased in the visual.

"Love Is Here and Now You're Gone" is a 1967 song recorded by the Supremes for the #Motown label. Written and composed by Motown's main production team Holland–Dozier–Holland, it became the second consecutive number-one pop single from the Supremes' album #TheSupremesSingHollandDozierHolland and the group's ninth overall chart-topper in the United States on #Billboard Hot 100, peaking March 1967.
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"Hot Fun in the Summertime" is a 1969 song recorded by #SlyAndTheFamilyStone. The single was released just prior to the band's high-profile performance at #Woodstock, which greatly expanded their fanbase. The song peaked at number 2 on the U.S. #Billboard #Hot100 singles chart, kept out of the number 1 spot by "#ICantGetNextToYou" by #theTemptations. "Hot Fun in the Summertime" also peaked at number 3 on the U.S. Billboard Soul Singles chart in autumn 1969.
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"Take the Money and Run" is a song recorded in 1976 by the #SteveMillerBand. A song about two young (possibly teenage) bandits and the #detective pursuing them, it was one of the many hit singles produced by the Steve Miller Band in the 1970s and featured on the 1976 album #FlyLikeAnEagle. The song peaked at number 11 on the U.S. #Billboard Hot 100 and at number 8 in Canada in July 1976 and also charted in #Australia.
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"Incomplete" is a song by American vocal group #BackstreetBoys from their fifth studio album, #NeverGone (2005). The #powerBallad was released on April 11, 2005, as the group's first single since they decided to reunite after a two-year hiatus. It was written by #DanMuckala, #LindyRobbins, and #JessCates, and it was produced by Muckala with #KevinRichardson on #piano. According to #Billboard magazine's #ChuckTaylor, the song is an "emotion-packed.
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"Having a Party" is a song by American singer-songwriter #SamCooke, released on May 8, 1962, by #RCAVictor. Produced by #HugoAndLuigi and arranged and conducted by #RenéHall, the song was the #Aside to "#BringItOnHomeToMe". The song peaked at number four on the US #Billboard #HotRAndBSides chart, and also charted at number 17 on the Billboard #Hot100.
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"Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)" is the second single released from #Styx's #TheGrandIllusion (1977) album. On the #Billboard Hot 100 pop chart in the U.S., the single peaked at #29 in April 1978. It also hit No. 20 on the Canada #RPM Top Singles chart the week of May 6, 1978. The song was written by guitarist #TommyShaw, who sings lead vocals on it.
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