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Your support makes all the difference.A new concept album representing examples of music from the last 2,000 years is due out soon. `Twenty Centuries of Hits' ranges from fragments of ancient Greek music through plainsong right up to Hoagy Carmichael's `Stardust' and the Kingsmen's `Louie Louie'.
Number One with a Slingshot
All the way from AD1
Twenty centuries at the top
It's "Epitaph of Seikilos"
(Ancient Greek drinking song)
Still at number three
In the Big 2.0.0.0.
It hasn't shifted yet.
"Oxyrhynchus Hymn Fragment."
There's an ickle story behind this;
It's the anonymous Greek words
and notation of a 3rd-century hymn
found on a bit of papyrus in 1922.
Down to Number Eight
Another anonymous early
English hymn from Salisbury.
"Urbs Ierusalem Beata."
Wow. How Oasis is that?
The Anonymous Benedictine
Still holding steady at Number Nine
With "Ave Maris Stella"
No thanks, matey.
Gives me a headache
Watch out Saxons!
Brand new at Number Eleven
Is Wipo Of Burgundy
With "Victimae Paschali Laudes".
At Fifteen, "Quam Pulcra Est". Quite.
Then Number 16, "Greensleeves"
Not the Remix-Feat. Henry VIII.
The original by Richard Jones.
No change at Seventeen, "Barbara Allen"
Nineteen: "Swannee River"/"Amazing Grace"
Right up to the present time,
A double new entry at Number Twenty.
It's Bing with "Stardust".
And The Kingsmen with "Louie Louie".
Can't see that one lasting, pop pickers.
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