What's Your Favorite Song Associated With This Year's Kennedy Center Honorees? Vote!
While Trump's involvement will make many view these selections through a partisan lens, we're asking you to put that aside and simply tell us what's your favorite song associated with this year's honorees. We give you two choices for each honoree.
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For Crawford, the Tony-winning star of The Phantom of the Opera, you can choose between his two most famous solos in that show: 'The Music of the Night' and 'The Phantom of the Opera.'
For Gaynor, you can choose between her two top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100: her discofied remake of The Jackson 5's 'Never Can Say Goodbye' and her Grammy-winning No. 1 smash 'I Will Survive.'
For KISS, you can choose between their rock anthem 'Rock and Roll All Nite' and their image-broadening ballad 'Beth,' the band's first top 10 hit on the Hot 100.
For Stallone, you can choose between Hot 100-topping hits from two of his Rocky movies: Bill Conti's 'Gonna Fly Now' and Survivor's 'Eye of the Tiger.' Both songs were Oscar-nominated for best original song. (Fun Fact: Stallone is this year's only Kennedy Center Honors recipient who is associated with two No. 1 Hot 100 hits.)
For Strait, you can choose between 'Amarillo by Morning,' a 1983 hit that has long been a fan favorite, and 'Check Yes or No,' one of his record 44 No. 1 hits on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart.
What's your favorite of these 10 songs associated with this year's Kennedy Center Honorees? Vote!
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