There is a quick change from the plaintive song to a conversational tone.

It won't be a `` tea '', however, but more of an international folk song festival, with singers from Chicago's foreign groups to sing Christmas songs from around the world.

( Still another song in `` Strike Up The Band '' -- `` I've Got A Crush On You '' -- was retrieved from a 1928 failure, `` Treasure Girl ''.

Like the Gershwins, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart were loath to let a good song get away from them.

Among the particular gems in this collection is the impudent opening song of `` The Garrick Gaieties '', an impressive forecast of the wit and melody that were to come from Rodgers and Hart in the years that followed ; ;

and the incisive style with which Charlotte Rae delivers the top-drawer Hart lyrics of `` I Blush '', a song that was cut from `` A Connecticut Yankee ''.

He shares with Mr. Morse a parody of the college anthems he once sang while his second song is whisked away from him by Virginia Martin, a girl with a remarkably expressive yip in her voice.

The full version of the song from Melbourne Punch, the fourth verse of which is pasted onto the urn

* " Atlantic ", a song by Thrice from Vheissu

* " Atomic ", a song by Tiger Army from Tiger Army III: Ghost Tigers Rise

* Atomic Dog, a song that is popular world wide ; written and performed by Our Father Who Art of Funk ; " George Clinton " from Parliament and the Funkadelics

Author James Basker states that the song has been employed by African Americans as the " paradigmatic Negro spiritual " because it expresses the joy felt at being delivered from slavery and worldly miseries.

Collins, Cash, and Norman were unable to discern if the power of the song came from the music or the lyrics.

* The San Francisco-based band Om mentions Absalom in their song " Kapila's Theme " from their debut album Variations on a Theme.

* " Atmosphere ", a song by Funkadelic from their 1975 album, Let's Take It to the Stage

She has referenced this independence from major labels in song more than once, including " The Million You Never Made " ( Not A Pretty Girl ), which discusses the act of turning down a lucrative contract, " The Next Big Thing " ( Not So Soft ), which describes an imagined meeting with a label head-hunter who evaluates the singer based on her looks, and " Napoleon " ( Dilate ), which sympathizes sarcastically with an unnamed friend who did sign with a label.

* The Star-Spangled Banner's tune was adapted from an old English drinking song by John Stafford Smith called " To Anacreon in Heaven ".

Like much of his mature work, it employs an idiosyncratic adaptation of Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique that enables the composer to produce passages openly evoking tonality, including quotations from historical tonal music, such as a Bach chorale and a Carinthian folk song.

In 2010, American dance recording artist Kelis released a song called " Acapella " as the first single from her album Flesh Tone.

" Find a Way ", from Unguarded, became the first Christian song to hit Billboard's Top 40 list, also reaching No. 7 on the Adult Contemporary chart.

* The song " Do-Re-Mi " from The Sound of Music, which is used to learn the order of the notes in the Solfege scale, just like the alphabet song is used to learn the order of the letters in the alphabetical order.

The elegant, harmonically-advanced music in this musical pays indirect homage to the compositions of Maurice Ravel, especially his Valses nobles et sentimentales ( whose opening chord is " borrowed " for the opening chord of the song " Liaisons "); part of this effect stems from the style of orchestration that Jonathan Tunick used.

Mr Judge's great innovation is to transform the Liebeslieder Singers from the evening-dressed, after-dinner line-up into 18th century ghosts weaving in and out of the action ... But Mr Judge's other great realisation is that, in Sondheim, the lyrics are not an adornment to a song but their very essence: understand them and the show will flow.

* Incubus ( song ), a song by British progressive rock band Marillion

The character and themes from the comic strip Little Nemo were used in a song " Scenes from a Night's Dream " written by Phil Collins and Tony Banks of the progressive rock group Genesis on their 1978 recording, ... And Then There Were Three ... Another progressive rock group, from Germany, called Scara Brae also recorded a musical impression of the comic on their rare self titled disc from 1981 ( the track was actually recorded 2 years earlier ).

One British folk / rock band ( 1969 – 2003 ), Lindisfarne, was even named after the island, while a Celtic Christian progressive rock band named after another island, Iona, has a song devoted to Lindisfarne on its album Journey into the Morn ( 1995 ).

*" The Moor ", a song by the Swedish progressive death metal Opeth on their album Still Life

* " Madrigal " ( Yes song ), a 1978 song by British progressive rock band Yes, from the album Tormato

* " Madrigal ", a song by Swedish progressive metal band Opeth, from the album My Arms, Your Hearse

*" Mother Superior ", a song on the album Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow by the progressive rock band Coheed and Cambria

* American progressive metal band Symphony X interprets multiple scenes of the epic in their song, The Odyssey ( 2002 ).

* The song Pavan from the progressive folk album Evensong by Amazing Blondel.

Canadian progressive rock band Rush have a movement titled " The Temples of Syrinx " in their song " 2112 " on their album 2112.

* Instrumental progressive metal band Animals as Leaders has a song titled Song of Solomon on their self-titled release.

" White Russian " is a song by progressive rock band Marillion from the album " Clutching at Straws ".

* In 1969, progressive rock band Yes covered the song " Something's Coming " as the B-side to their first single " Sweetness ".

* Sequoia Throne, a 2008 song by progressive metal band Protest the Hero

Combining a side-long song with an assortment of hard rock songs, an instrumental and even some comic songs, it was quickly cited as landmark work in progressive rock.

The Canadian progressive rock band Rush memorializes Rivendell in the song " Rivendell " on their second studio album Fly By Night.

* " Harlequin ," a progressive rock song by Genesis on Nursery Cryme

The same song was later covered in 2009 by American progressive metal band Dream Theater, released only on a 3-disc special edition of their album Black Clouds & Silver Linings.

The British progressive rock band Yes included an extended cover of this song on their 1969 debut album and have played their version live on many occasions.

The title song of the Sufi fusion band Indian Ocean's album Jhini is an energetic rendering of Kabir's famous poem " The intricately woven blanket ", with influences from Indian folk, Sufi traditions and progressive rock.

* The lyrics in the 1979 song " Rendezvous 6: 02 " by British progressive band U. K. describe a meeting at Waterloo