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The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia
"The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" is a 1972 Southern Gothic murder ballad by Bobby Russell, first recorded by Vicki Lawrence, reaching No. 1 in 1973.
The Nights
"The Nights" is a 2014 song by Swedish DJ and producer Avicii, written and sung by Nicholas Furlong, released on The Days / Nights EP and known for appearing on the FIFA 15 soundtrack.
The One That Got Away (Katy Perry song)
The One That Got Away: 2011 Katy Perry ballad from Teenage Dream, written with Dr. Luke and Max Martin; her only Teenage Dream single to miss Hot 100 No. 1, peaking at No. 3; revived virally in 2026.
The Pajama Game
The Pajama Game is a 1954 Broadway musical by Adler and Ross, book by Abbott and Bissell from the novel 7½ Cents, about a pajama factory strike; 1,063 performances, 1955 Tony for Best Musical, 1957 Doris Day film.
The Parting Glass
The Parting Glass is a traditional Scottish farewell song, Roud 3004, sung in Scotland and Ireland at the end of gatherings and at funerals. Lyrics known by 1605; first printed with its melody in Ó Lochlainn's Irish Street Ballads (1939); popularized by the Clancy Brothers' 1959 album.
The Passenger (song)
The Passenger (song) is Iggy Pop's 1977 song from Lust for Life, lyrics by Pop and music by Ricky Gardiner, produced by David Bowie in Berlin. A UK number 22 hit on its 1998 re-release, it is famed for its looping four-chord riff and covers by Siouxsie and the Banshees.
The Peace (song)
"The Peace" is a drumless vocoder-driven song by underscores (April Harper Grey) from her 2026 album U on Mom+Pop; a romance ballad with an Ayodeji-directed smoky video and a Frost Children remix.
The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical)
The Phantom of the Opera (1986) is Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical based on Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel, premiered in London 9 October 1986 and on Broadway 26 January 1988; original cast Michael Crawford, Sarah Brightman, Steve Barton; longest-running Broadway musical.
The Planets
The Planets, Op. 32 (H. 125) is Gustav Holst's seven-movement orchestral suite composed 1914–16, based on the astrological characters of Mars through Neptune, premiered privately in 1918 under Adrian Boult and publicly complete in 1920 under Albert Coates.
The Power (Snap! song)
The Power (Snap! song): 1990 Eurodance single by German producers Luca Anzilotti and Michael Münzing, sampling Jocelyn Brown and Chill Rob G; UK number 1, US Hot 100 number 2, template for Eurodance.
The Power of Love (Frankie Goes to Hollywood song)
The Power of Love (Frankie Goes to Hollywood song): 1984 ZTT synth-pop ballad by Johnson, Gill, O'Toole and Nash, produced by Trevor Horn; third consecutive UK number one, later a Christmas staple despite no Christmas lyrics.
The Power of Love (Huey Lewis and the News song)
The Power of Love is a 1985 Huey Lewis and the News song written for Back to the Future, the band's first Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 (two weeks from August 24, 1985), and an Academy Award Best Original Song nominee.
The Power of Love (Jennifer Rush song)
The Power of Love (Jennifer Rush song): 1984 power ballad, lead single from the album Jennifer Rush, recorded in Germany. UK #1 but only US #57; covered by Air Supply (1985), Laura Branigan (1987), and Celine Dion (1993, US #1).
The Prayer (Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli song)
The Prayer is a 1998 bilingual operatic pop duet by Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli, written by David Foster and Carole Bayer Sager for Quest for Camelot; it won the 1999 Golden Globe and was Oscar- and Grammy-nominated.
The Producers (musical)
The Producers: The New Mel Brooks Musical is a 2001 Broadway musical by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan, directed by Susan Stroman, based on Brooks's 1968 film; it ran 2,502 performances and won a record 12 Tony Awards.
The Prom (musical)
The Prom is a 2018 Broadway musical comedy with music by Matthew Sklar, book by Bob Martin and Chad Beguelin, about Broadway stars aiding Indiana teen Emma; seven Tony nominations, Netflix film 2020.
The Purple People Eater
The Purple People Eater is a 1958 MGM novelty single by Sheb Wooley about a one-eyed, one-horned flying monster; it spent six weeks at No. 1 on Billboard and became a Halloween classic.
The Rake's Progress
The Rake's Progress is Igor Stravinsky's only full-length opera, a three-act neoclassical work with libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, inspired by Hogarth's paintings and premiered at Venice's Teatro La Fenice on 11 September 1951.
The Real Slim Shady
The Real Slim Shady is a 2000 Eminem single from The Marshall Mathers LP, produced by Dr. Dre, opening with 'Will the real Slim Shady please stand up?'. It was the album's first single, MTV's most-played video of 2000, and a defining Slim Shady-era hit.
The Reason (Hoobastank song)
"The Reason" is a 2004 power ballad by American rock band Hoobastank, from the album The Reason. Written by Dan Estrin and Doug Robb, it peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, went 4x platinum in the US, and earned two 2005 GRAMMY nominations.
The Red Flag
The Red Flag: socialist song written in 1889 by Jim Connell, anthem of the British, Northern Irish, and Irish Labour parties. Usually sung to O Tannenbaum, though Connell intended The White Cockade; sung by 393 Labour MPs in 1945.
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" is Gil Scott-Heron's 1970 satirical spoken-word protest poem, first on Small Talk at 125th and Lenox, re-recorded for Pieces of a Man (1971), later a National Recording Registry selection and global protest slogan.
The Rhythm of the Night
"The Rhythm of the Night" is a 1993 Eurodance single by Italy's Corona, produced by Francesco Bontempi with vocals by Jenny B; it topped the Italian chart, hit UK number 2 and US number 11, and was later sampled in "RITMO."
The Rocky Horror Show
The Rocky Horror Show is Richard O'Brien's 1973 glam-rock musical, premiered at London's Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, basis of the 1975 cult film The Rocky Horror Picture Show, about Brad, Janet, and Frank-N-Furter.
The Room Where It Happens
"The Room Where It Happens" is Aaron Burr's second-act showstopper in Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical Hamilton, sung by Leslie Odom Jr., dramatizing the 1790 dinner-table bargain trading Hamilton's debt-assumption plan for the capital on the Potomac, and marking Burr's turn from waiting to acting.
The Rose (song)
"The Rose" (song): 1977-1978 ballad by Amanda McBroom, recorded by Bette Midler for the 1979 film The Rose on Atlantic; peaked at No. 3 Billboard Hot 100 in 1980, won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song and a 1981 Grammy.
The Safety Dance
"The Safety Dance" (1982) by Men Without Hats, written by Ivan Doroschuk, is a synth-pop protest against club bouncers banning pogoing; it hit No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1983 and entered the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2020.
The Sash
The Sash ("The Sash My Father Wore") is a loyalist ballad sung at Orange Order parades in Northern Ireland and Scotland, its melody adapted from Johnny Patterson's Irish music-hall song "The Hat My Father Wore".
The Schuyler Sisters
"The Schuyler Sisters" is a song from Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical Hamilton, in which sisters Angelica, Eliza, and Peggy walk through New York as the American Revolution begins.
The Secret Garden (musical)
The Secret Garden is a 1991 Broadway musical by Lucy Simon (music) and Marsha Norman (book and lyrics), adapted from Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1911 novel; it ran 709 performances at the St. James Theatre and won three Tony Awards including Best Book of a Musical.