* 1954 Songs in an Intimate Style

* Songs of the Wobblies: 1954 LP

Ralph Vaughan Williams composed both kinds: " festival " cantatas such as Toward the Unknown Region ( 1907 ), Five Mystical Songs ( 1911 ), and Five Tudor Portraits ( 1936 ), and sacred cantatas including Sancta civitas ( 1926 ), Benedicite ( 1930 ), Dona nobis pacem ( 1936 ), and Hodie ( 1954 ).

He also wrote or compiled several other books, including Burl Ives ' Songbook ( 1953 ), Tales of America ( 1954 ), Sea Songs of Sailing, Whaling, and Fishing ( 1956 ), and The Wayfaring Stranger's Notebook ( 1962 ).

There are also a few antecedents to folk rock present in pre-British Invasion American rock ' n ' roll, including Elvis Presley's 1954 cover of the Bill Monroe bluegrass standard " Blue Moon of Kentucky "; Buddy Holly's self-penned material, which strongly influenced both Dylan and The Byrds ; Ritchie Valens ' recording of the Mexican folk song " La Bamba "; Lloyd Price's rock ' n ' roll adaptation of the African-American folk song " Stagger Lee " ( which had originally been recorded by Mississippi John Hurt in 1928 ); Jimmie Rodgers ' rock ' n ' roll flavored renditions of traditional folk songs ; and the folk and country-influenced recordings featured on The Everly Brothers ' 1959 album, Songs Our Daddy Taught Us.

* Joe Glazer, Songs of Joe Hill, Smithsonian Folkways, 1954

* 1954 The Love Songs of Mr. B ( EmArcy )

Ward conducted the Doctors Orchestral Society of New York from 1949 to 1955, wrote his Third Symphony and his First Sonata for Violin and Piano in 1950, the Sacred Songs for Pantheists in 1951, and was music director of the Third Street Music School Settlement from 1952 to 1955, and wrote the Euphony for Orchestra in 1954.

* Four Last Songs / Arabella ( highlights ) ( Ackermann, Matacic ) ( 1953, 1954 ) Naxos 8. 111145

* 1954 Songs For Young Lovers

* Songs for Eve ( 1954 )

* The People Speak Out: Translations Of Poems And Songs Of The People Of China, 1954

The Screen Songs were eventually resurrected in 1951 as " Kartune Musical Shorts " ( ending in 1953 ), and as one-shot Noveltoons in 1954 (" Candy Cabaret ") and 1963 (" Hobo's Holiday ").

* 3 Songs of Jocelyn Brooke ( 1954 ) for high voice and ensemble

* Songs and Dances of Norway ( 1954 )

# Edith Fulton Fowke ( Literary Editor ) and Richard Johnston ( Music Editor ), Folk Songs of Canada ( 1954 ), pp. 170 – 171, " A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go " ( 1 text, 1 tune )

* Kentucky Mountains Songs ( 1954 )

* Courting Songs ( 1954 )

* 4 Songs for soprano and piano ( T: James Joyce ) op. 34 ( 1954 )

In 1954, the Glee Club provided the music for an RKO film, Songs of the Colleges, which featured scenes from colleges and universities from around the country.

For a time it appeared that a common European army might be created, but the project for a European Defense Community was rejected by the French National Assembly in 1954.

Regardless of its unadjusted allotment, each State is guaranteed by law a minimum allotment each year equal to the allotment which it received in fiscal year 1954 -- increased by a uniform percentage of 5.4865771 which brings total 1954 allotments to all States up to $23,000,000.

The mechanism of action of these drugs has not been completely worked out, but certain of them appear to act by reducing the oxidised form of iodine before it can iodinate thyroglobulin ( Astwood, 1954 ).

Moritz came to Texas in 1954 but his freshman football efforts were hampered by a knee injury.

by H. Bengtson, Stuttgart 1954 that the reign of Antoninus comprised " a succession of grossly wasted opportunities ," given the upheavals that were to come.

* Aga Khan III, " Memoirs of Aga Khan: World Enough and Time ", London: Cassel & Company, 1954 ; published same year in the United States by Simon & Schuster.

Since conference and of the Food and Agriculture Organization's publication World Festival of Trees, and a resolution of the United Nations in 1954: " The Conference, recognising the need of arousing mass consciousness of the aesthetic, physical and economic value of trees, recommends a World Festival of Trees to be celebrated annually in each member country on a date suited to local conditions "; it has been adopted by the Netherlands.

The six-cylinder engines of these cars from 1954 up to 1965 were designed by Tadek Marek.

Nin appeared in the Kenneth Anger film Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome ( 1954 ) as Astarte ; in the Maya Deren film Ritual in Transfigured Time ( 1946 ); and in Bells of Atlantis ( 1952 ), a film directed by Guiler under the name " Ian Hugo " with a soundtrack of electronic music by Louis and Bebe Barron.

* Lehrer, Tom, The Tom Lehrer Song Book, introduction by Al Capp ( 1954 ) Crown Publishers

The Roman epic The Eagle, based on the 1954 novel The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff, was filmed on location in Achiltibuie for a week in October 2009.

Sacrifice bunts ( sacrifice hits since 1954 ), which would lower a batter's on-base percentage, are not included in the calculation for on-base percentage, as bunting is an offensive strategy – often dictated by the manager – the use of which does not necessarily reflect on the batter's ability and should not be used to penalize him.

Regeneration of track and stations was completed by 1954.

The Bank's original home was in Walbrook in the City of London, where during the building's reconstruction in 1954 archaeologists found the remains of a Roman temple of Mithras ( Mithras was – rather fittingly – worshipped as being the God of Contracts ); the Mithraeum ruins are perhaps the most famous of all twentieth-century Roman discoveries in the City of London and can now be viewed by the public.

Blue Steel was the result of a Ministry of Supply memorandum from 5 November 1954 that predicted that by 1960 Soviet air defences would make it prohibitively dangerous for V bombers to attack with nuclear gravity bombs.

In 1954, Compañía ‘ Ron Bacardi ’ S. A. paid him homage when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature of his novel The Old Man and the Sea ( 1952 ), in which he honored the Company by mentioning its Hatuey beer.

Chaplin continued being a subject to political controversy throughout the 1950s, especially as he was awarded the International Peace Prize by the Communist World Peace Council and lunched with Chou En-Lai in 1954, and when he briefly met Nikita Khrushchev in 1956.

" Smile ", composed originally for Modern Times ( 1936 ) and later set to lyrics by John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons, was a hit for Nat King Cole in 1954.

In 1947 almost one in five films had been comic in nature, but by 1954 this was down to ten percent.

Cleveland won the league championship in its first NFL season, followed by two more in 1954 and 1955.

The film won the 1954 Prix Jean Vigo, but was banned by French censors for its criticism of French colonialism.