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popular song

noun

a song that is written to have an immediate and wide appeal and is usually popular for only a short time, but that sometimes is of a sufficiently high quality to become part of the permanent repertoire of popular music and jazz. Compare standard ( def 12 ).

First recorded in 1835–45

The most popular song of the year was “Happy Days Are Here Again!”

This “Popular Song” music video is The Addams Family meets… Wicked.

Italians gave the world grand opera, and in Sinatra, Italian culture gave the world the foremost craftsman of popular song.

Softly Amy began to hum a popular song, but Mollie interrupted her impatiently.

"My Maryland" was then the popular song of the South, sung in camp, on the march, and in parlors and concert-halls.

It was half-past eleven, when Kitty came home humming the chorus of a popular song.

Jerrys imitation of a phonograph rendering a popular song of her own impromptu composition ended suddenly.

Popular song of fourteen years ago just reached our nearest neighbour in the Solar System.

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