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* The song's popularity was substantially enhanced in the early 20th century by performances and recordings by John McCormack ( 1884 – 1945 ) a world-famous Irish tenor in the fields of opera and popular music – who performed successfully in many major live venues in the United States and Europe.
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Bates was more fortunate, as the song's popularity was well established by the time of her death in 1929.
Britain's continued success in the war boosted the song's popularity.
The song's popularity led to a plethora of variations, sung by Polish patriots on different occasions.
The song's blue collar theme resonated with hard rock fans and this new found popularity led to the album being re-released by Mercury Records in the U. S.
The reunited Pogues played dates in the UK with support from the Dropkick Murphys in late 2005, and re-released their 1987 Christmas classic " Fairytale of New York " on 19 December, which went straight in at No. 3 in the UK Singles charts on Christmas Day 2005, showing the song's enduring popularity.
The song's popularity increased, and its first public performance took place in October, when Baltimore actor Ferdinand Durang sang it at Captain McCauley's tavern.
The song's popularity also spread across national borders, and verses were translated into other languages.
It was Ives ' first hit song and renewed the song's popularity in the twentieth century.
The controversy caused by the banning only increases the song's popularity and it ends up in the Top 20 in England.
The song's popularity developed slowly, needing 19 weeks to enter the U. S. Top 40.
The song's popularity hinged on its double entendre catchphrase, " Don't mess with my toot-toot ", containing both a drug and sex connotation, while its real meaning was a Cajun term of endearment meaning sweet heart, as in ' ma chère tout-tout.
Lantz soon adopted the song as Woody's theme music, and due to the song's popularity, Woody Woodpecker fan clubs sprang up, theaters held " Woody " matinées, and boys got the " Woody Woodpecker " haircut.
The video's popularity, as well as the song's positive message, helped the song become a huge modern rock radio hit and it was Grammy nominated for Best Hard Rock Performance in 2002.
Because of this, Carawan has been reluctant to claim credit for the song's widespread popularity.
Because of the song's message and popularity, it was established as the official folk song of Washington in 1987.
42 of his songs were on the top ten list of the radio program " Your Hit Parade ", a measure of a song's popularity.
The song's popularity led to the Andrews Sisters recording a version adapted to the women's point-of-view.
It became a No. 1 dance club hit in the US, and an album entitled In the Name of Love ( consisting mainly of tracks from Set, with two others from A Product Of ... ( Participation )) was released in the US to capitalize on the song's popularity.
The organization ultimately dropped the lawsuit when it noticed that membership significantly increased in the wake of the song's popularity.
Nearly 30 years later, Steve Lukather confessed that, despite the song's popularity, he hated " 99 " and that it's one of his least favorite Toto songs, which is why it was no longer performed live.
There is reason to believe the Billboard charting understated the song's popularity.
As the song's popularity increased in the U. S., so did the criticism and support it received from groups concerned with pregnancy and abortion.
With the massive expansion, eMusic will also introduce a new pricing schedule that will set individual song prices based upon the song's popularity.
The song's popularity led to increased ticket sales, concert DVDs, and television appearances.
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Moyers was inspired to focus on the song's power after watching a performance at Lincoln Center, where the audience consisted of Christians and non-Christians, and he noticed that it had an equal impact on everybody in attendance, unifying them.
Not to be outdone by Cleese, Idle was heard saying during the song's close: " I'd just like to be the last person at this meeting to say ' fuck '.
( In earlier seasons, the " Gossip Girls " and " Gloom, Despair .." sketches would both end with a repeat of the song's chorus, but in later years that practice was eliminated.
It was adopted as an anthem by the groups of disaffected Mexican urban youth known in the 1980s as bandas ; one banda named itself PND, after the song's initials.
The song " Show Me Love " was prominently used in the 1998 Lukas Moodysson film Fucking Åmål, and the song's title was used as the film's title in English-speaking countries.
A new, more uptempo arrangement of the theme song was introduced for the third season, but this did not assuage the song's critics, and elicited criticism from some who liked the original version.
" hook in " Earth Angel ," which was also the song's subtitle, was borrowed from the # 9 R & B hit of the same name by the Swallows.
This theory was not shared by Ross Fitzgerald, who argued that the defeat of the strike only several months before the song's creation would have at least been in Paterson's mind " subconsciously " and thus was likely as an additional inspiration for the song.
The passage in which Meursault accepts his impending execution was read over the end of the song " Asa Phelps Is Dead " by The Lawrence Arms ; read by guitarist Chris McCaughan, the excerpt parallels certain themes in the song's lyrics by bassist Brendan Kelly.
The song's lyrics reflect the invasion of France by foreign armies ( from Prussia and Austria ) that were underway when it was written.
Due to constant airplay of the song's music video on MTV, Nevermind was selling 400, 000 copies a week by Christmas 1991.
) The second single, " Can't We Talk It Over in Bed ", did not chart, but was released in 1989 by Grayson Hugh, the song's arranger, as " Talk It Over " becoming a Top 20 Pop hit.
Opus Dei retained some of the original song's English lyrics, but was delivered in a musical style that left the meaning of the lyrics open to further interpretation.
In a documentary programme about that album ( as part of the Classic Albums TV series ), lead singer Bruce Dickinson wanders through the avenues of Portmeirion and describes how the song was written and how the band's manager obtained permission from Patrick McGoohan to use dialogue from the show in the song's introduction.
She obliged, and he raped her at knifepoint ( many journalists mistakenly state she was raped at gunpoint, possibly due to the song's title ).
Despite the song's name, Poison Ivy wasn't the inspiration for this song but, due to the lyrics describing a girl with a very similar attitude to Ivy, it was quickly associated to the character.
For example, one episode depicts characters dancing to Will Smith's " Gettin ' Jiggy wit It " mere weeks after the song's release, whereas the sequence itself was designed and animated months earlier.
The song's overtly political content, Gillespie said it was about " American international terrorism ", made it controversial.
The song's video was shown on Beavis and Butt-Head, where the band was described as " chicks " who are " cool.
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