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Wednesday, August 07, 2002

Votes for the "Soundtrack of our City" can be submitted by mail to: Music Contest, History Center, 1212 Smallman St., Pittsburgh, PA 15222; or by logging on to: www.pghhistory.org. The deadline for submissions is Aug. 22.

Here's a sampling of the songs and artists people have voted for so far, in no particular order:

Songs

"Pumping Iron" -- Joe Grushecky and the Houserockers
"Five O'Clock World" -- The Vogues
"Pothole Pittsburgh Polka" -- The Knights of Harmony
"Long Way Home" -- The Stickers
"Since I Don't Have You" -- The Skyliners
"Ah Leah" -- Donnie Iris
"Have You Been to Jail for Justice?" -- Anne Feeney
"Misty" -- Erroll Garner
"Monongahela Sal" -- Bob Schmertz
"Rambunctious" -- Harold Betters
"Blue Moon" -- The Marcels.
"Pittsburgh's Hottest Babes" -- Karl Hendricks Trio
"Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania" -- Guy Mitchell
"Earth Angel" -- The Vogues
"But Not For Me" -- Ahmad Jamal
"The Rapper" -- The Jaggerz
"Take the A Train" -- Billy Strayhorn
"Send Me on My Way" -- Rusted Root
"Silent Radio" -- Hector in Paris
"Penny on the Floor" -- The Clarks
"Geraldine" -- Leon Daniels and the Elveenos
"Someone" -- The Contrails
"This Old World" -- Karl Mullen
"Lost in America" -- Gathering Field
"Wedding Ring" -- Affordable Floors
"In America" -- Charlie Daniels Band (for its reference to Steelers fans)
"Beat 'Em Bucs" -- Benny Benack
"You Gotta Believe" -- from the 1990 Pirates season
"Won't You Be My Neighbor" -- Mister Rogers
"The Middle" -- Jimmy Eat World
"Pennsylvania Polka"
"Here We Go Steelers (Pittsburgh's Goin' to the Super Bowl)"

Performers and composers

Billy Price
George Benson
Gene Kelly
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
B.E. Taylor
Harold Betters
Christina Aguilera
Perry Como
Billy Eckstine
Stephen Collins Foster
Henry Mancini
Shirley Jones
Art Blakey
Ray Brown
Slim Bryant
Lou Christie
Dakota Staton
Johnny Costa
Etta Cox
Roy Eldridge
Four Coins
Erroll Garner
Joe Harris
Victor Herbert
Earl "Fatha" Hines
Lena Horne
Phyllis Hyman
Ahmad Jamal
Eric Kloss
Oscar Levant
Lorin Maazel
Billy May
Billy Strayhorn
Stanley Turrentine
Tommy Turrentine
Bobby Vinton
Mary Lou Williams
Chatham Baroque
WDVE morning show CDs
Buzz Poets
Dharma Sons
Brownie Mary
The Distractions
The Gathering Field
Grapevine
Sleeping Giants
Voodoo Babies