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Emily (Dave Koz song)

single by American Smooth jazz saxophonist Dave Koz

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 6, 2024
Entity authorityQ5372018 ↗
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"Emily" is the debut single by American smooth jazz saxophonist Dave Koz, from his self-titled debut album released in 1990. The album proved to be one of the first to spawn hit singles in the genre smooth jazz.

The song was written for his then newborn niece.

Track listings and appearances

The song has appeared on several albums apart from Dave Koz, notably in Pure Moods and Greatest Hits.

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“Emily (Dave Koz song)” enters the record as single by American Smooth jazz saxophonist Dave Koz. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Emily, Dave and song can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Emily (Dave Koz song)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.