The Songs canon

Sourced and sung.

Every song chosen by hand, with the recording to play it.
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SortEditorial Year Title
Subject·Africa✕clear
We Are the WorldUSA for Africa
Pop · Gospel

We Are the World

USA for Africa
1985

Forty-odd stars filed past a sign reading "Check your ego at the door," and Quincy Jones got them singing together.

★ 4.8
Pop rock · Synthpop

Africa

Toto
1982

Steve Porcaro layered the kalimba riff on a Yamaha GS-1; Paich wrote about a continent he had never visited.

★ 7.4