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I need to address the Burt Bacharach connection to Kanye West in a separate post here.

Bacharach was SAMPLED on a popular Luther Vandross song off his first album "Never Give Up" --the song being "A House Is Not A Home" which was a Bacharach song.

It never occurred to me that songwriters get songwriting credit if a sample from a song they wrote on is used! Duh.........................................

Apparently Carole Bayer Sager actually wrote on the KY song "Ghost Town"...

But technically, Steve, your answer is correct, as "Slow Jamz" by Kanye West and Jamie Foxx was easily a Top 20 hit.

So then "Arthur's Theme" could be skipped and one could go from Bacharach directly to KY, making the puzzle much simpler.

So actually, you could have WON the game at the moment you made the connection between the two, and had the "proof" --WON because there were less connectors involved--but alas, "challenging the puzzle's author with an answer involving fewer connectors" was NOT a condition I layed forth, so....

Let's just say you actually WON the game at that moment, and the rest was moot!

Note to self:

Sampling culture makes this game more interesting, due to how older songwriter's are lifted onto the shoulders of newer artists. I will need to be more careful, making sure there is NOT a more simple elegant solution, and create a condition wheras if a game player comes up with a more simple elegant answer to the puzzle, they can CHALLENGE the puzzle and win immediately upon a successful challenge!