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*'''[[Led Zeppelin]]''' - "[[Stairway to Heaven]]" [http://www.fenderplayersclub.com/artists_lounge/featured_artists/led_zeppelin.htm]
*'''[[Led Zeppelin]]''' - "[[Stairway to Heaven]]" [http://www.fenderplayersclub.com/artists_lounge/featured_artists/led_zeppelin.htm]
*'''[[Peggy Lee]]''' - "[[Fever (1956 song)|Fever]]" [http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/03/16/showbuzz/index.html]
*'''[[Peggy Lee]]''' - "[[Fever (1956 song)|Fever]]" [http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/03/16/showbuzz/index.html]
*'''[[Linkin Park]]''' - "[[In The End]]" [http://www.lpassociation.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=62]
*'''[[Loretta Lynn]]''' - "[[Coal Miner's Daughter (song)|Coal Miner's Daughter]]" [http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/10/06/showbuzz/index.html]
*'''[[Loretta Lynn]]''' - "[[Coal Miner's Daughter (song)|Coal Miner's Daughter]]" [http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/10/06/showbuzz/index.html]
*'''[[Lynyrd Skynyrd]]''' - "[[Free Bird]]" [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DEEDD1739F933A2575AC0A96E948260]
*'''[[Lynyrd Skynyrd]]''' - "[[Free Bird]]" [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DEEDD1739F933A2575AC0A96E948260]

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A signature song is the one song (or, in some cases, one of a few songs) that a popular and well-established singer, or band, is most closely identified with, even if they have had success with a variety of songs. The term is generally not applied to the successful song of a so-called "one-hit wonder" — an artist who is closely identified with one song because he has had no other successful songs.

Artists may have different signature songs in different parts of the world depending on where they are praised; or they have more than one, even in one area of the world. In the cases in which an artist or band has more than one signature song, the songs are often from one particular album that was considered their best work. In some cases, there may be a divergence between the artist's most commercially successful song and the song most commonly associated with that artist by the media (e.g. Britney Spears' "...Baby One More Time", "Oops!... I Did It Again", respectively), resulting in each song receiving references to being the artist's "signature song".

The expression "signature song" is also occasionally used to refer to a recurring song in commercials.

Examples of signature songs

Notes

  1. ^ McDermott, John. 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Cream (liner notes). 2000, Universal International Music.
  2. ^ This is a cover of an Otis Redding song.

See also

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