I had my itunes on my hard drive (taken off phone), and my elderly mother deleted the itunes icon, placed it in recycling and deleted the recycling, how do I or can I get those songs back....please help.

Anyone know who I can contact besides 1800myiphone, to see if I can get my itunes (my songs) re-placed on my phone. My elderly parent delected the itunes icon (she says she didn't know what it was) and moved it to the recycle bin, and then deleted it. Any help would be appreciated, have spent some time on phone with 800-my-iphone, and got a website, which hasn't helped a bit.Thanks,

It is the users responsibility to maintain a backup of their files.
If you have failed to keep a backup, that is not good.
If the content is on your iDevice and it was purchased via iTunes, connect the device (DO NOT SYNC) then select File > Transfer Purchases.
If the content is on the device but was not purchased via iTunes, you're out of luck mostly. Do a google search, you can find utilities that will allow you to extract the content.
If you are in the US and running iTunes 10.3 or later, there is an option to redownload previously purchased iTunes content. To do this, in iTunes select Purchased, then at the bottom select Download Previously Purchased. There are options for Music, Apps, and iBooks. Select the "Not in My Library" option and download what you want.

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