Eileen got to dancing, just a little tiny dancing step to a hummed tune that you could hardly notice, and trying to pick up strange men, but each time I was ready to say to hell with it and walk out she'd pull herself together and talk so understandingly in that sweet husky voice about the good times and the happiness we'd had together and there I was back on the hook.

Slowly he pulled out the hand throttle until the boat was moving at little more than a crawl, and watched Elaine rapidly spin from one station to another, tune in the null, then draw in a line on the chart.

Ward was generally considered the best music as early as 1910 and is still the popular tune today.

Just as Bates had been inspired to write her poem, Ward too was inspired to compose his tune.

The tune came to him while he was on a ferryboat trip from Coney Island back to his home in New York City, after a leisurely summer day in 1882, and he immediately wrote it down.

He was so anxious to capture the tune in his head, he asked fellow passenger friend Harry Martin for his shirt cuff to write the tune on.

It has been associated with more than 20 melodies, but in 1835 it was joined to a tune named " New Britain " to which it is most frequently sung today.

The first known instance of Newton's lines joined to music was in A Companion to the Countess of Huntingdon's Hymns ( London, 1808 ), where it is set to the tune " Hephzibah " by English composer John Jenkins Husband.

On the Electron version of Frak !, the tune was the main theme from " Benny Hill ".

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

The first was a radio receiver, such as the Icom PCR-1000, that could tune into the Reverse Channel, which is the frequency that the phones transmit data to the tower on.

In the 20th century, one of the most influential plays, Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's ( 1928 ) The Threepenny Opera was a reworking of The Beggar's Opera, setting a similar story with the same characters, and containing much of the same satirical bite, but only using one tune from the original.

First transmission in this format was episode 7351 on 31 May 2010 with a new set of titles and re-recorded theme tune.

" Porter described Atkins as respectful of musicians when recording — if someone was out of tune he would not single that person out by name.

The electric bass was easily amplified with its built-in pickups, easily portable ( less than a foot longer than an electric guitar ), and easier to play in tune, thanks to the metal frets.

The painting was very much in tune with the political climate at the time.

In the grand final, Essendon were pitted against Carlton and in a match that was a total travesty as a contest they overwhelmed the Blues to the tune of 73 points, 18. 17 ( 125 ) to 6. 16 ( 52 ).

The theme tune for the series was written and performed by The Divine Comedy, and was later reworked into " Songs of Love ", a track from the album Casanova.

( The song " Woman of the World " from the same album was also offered as a potential theme tune, but rejected.

Nineteenth century scholars and commentators mention the widespread belief that an old Scots carol, " Remember O Thou Man " was the source of the tune.

It was recorded as being sung in London theatres in 1745, with, for example, Thomas Arne writing a setting of the tune for the Drury Lane Theatre.

* The French Marquise de Créquy wrote in her book " Souvenirs ", that the tune Grand Dieu Sauve Le Roi, was written by Jean-Baptiste Lully in gratitude for the survival by Louis XIV of an anal fistula operation.

Following the flight, Gagarin told the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev that during reentry he had whistled the tune " The Motherland Hears, The Motherland Knows " ().

Supposedly, the tune was inspired by a military man and golfer who whistled a characteristic two-note phrase ( a descending minor third interval ) instead of shouting " Fore !".

Pitt whistled the air of the popular tune Gentle Shepherd, tell me where, and the House laughed.

Theater practice has plenty of superstitions: one of them is whistling: in most theaters ( especially in opera houses, where the odds are that a catchy opera tune will be unconsciously whistled ), whistling on stage is thought to bring bad luck or at least a bad performance.

The show also changed theme songs, with the vocalise tune used on Nickelodeon replaced by a mostly whistled tune in the Disney version.

A later recurring mini-serial in the show was " Whippit Kwik the Cat Burglar ", whose whistled signature tune made Chester a national favourite.

From the early 1980s, the theme tune was a loop of the instrumental section of The Associates ' 1982 hit " Party Fears Two ", which replaced the original ' whistled ' flute piece, " Smokey Joe ".

Although his employer said he was a " very hard and dependable worker who kept himself to himself ", in 1971, Bremer was demoted to kitchen work after customers complained that he talked to himself, and that " he whistled and marched in tune with music played in the dining room ".

Arthur Lourié called the theme a " trite, intentionally silly motif ," adding, " This tune can be whistled by any Soviet man on the street ...." ( Coincidentally, Conductor Evgeny Mravinsky echoed Lourié when he called it a generalized image of spreading stupidity and triteness.

This deviation from the standard rhyme scheme ( with ' best ' replacing the expected ' worse ' to rhyme with ' curse ') leads into the first appearance of the chorus, which consists of the title and a whistled tune.

During the delay they whistled a highland tune and began to improvise a dance.

Also includes a discussion by Tom of marching songs, including " The March from The Bridge on the River Kwai " ( to the tune of the " Colonel Bogey March "), whistled in the film due to the lyrics (" The words were dirty ").

The tune is whistled in the fadeout of the Simon and Garfunkel song " Punky's Dilemma ", from their 1968 album Bookends.

Hitler always walked diagonally from one corner to another when crossing a room, and he whistled a marching tune.

The sniper, whether psychopathic marksman or murderer by intent, would hardly have walked to his vantage point with rifle over shoulder, whistling a marching tune.

A hymn tune composed by Samuel A.

Laws were passed in the US which prohibited the FCC type acceptance and sale of any receiver which could tune the frequency ranges occupied by analog AMPS cellular services.

* In the movie Wag the Dog, the fictitious unit 303 Special Forces has a song created titled " The Men of the 303 " that is played to a deliberately similar but original tune written by Huey Lewis for the film.

It's a pleasure to be able to say to you: Welcome to Channel Four ", before heading into a montage of clips from its programmes set to the station's signature tune, " Fourscore ", written by Lord David Dundas, which would form the basis of the station's jingles for its first decade.

* Creation ( William Billings ), a hymn tune composed by William Billings

He arrived on the first night in a replica of the A-Team van, smoking a cigar and accompanied by Post & Carpenter's A-Team theme tune.

Each madrāšâ had its qālâ (), a traditional tune identified by its opening line.

Spurred by the perception that women were not treated equitably in many religions, some women turned to a Female Deity as more in tune with their spiritual needs.

Scholes quotes a keyboard piece by John Bull ( 1619 ) which has some similarities to the modern tune, depending on the placing of accidentals which at that time were unwritten in certain cases and left to the discretion of the player ( see musica ficta ).

He also points to several pieces by Henry Purcell, one of which includes the opening notes of the modern tune, set to the words " God Save The King ".

Lully set words by the Duchess of Brinon to music, and de Créquy claims the tune was later plagiarised by Handel.

On these changes, Carr said: " The Office of the Governor should be less associated with pomp and ceremony, less encumbered by anachronistic protocol, more in tune with the character of the people.

you were gone, with lyrics and arrangement by Ms. Heather, was originally composed as a Gospel tune.

"), with the duo ( and sometimes a guest star sitting between Buck and Roy ) ' dueling ' by playing guitar and banjo to the tune of " Cripple Creek ", telling jokes and reciting one-liners.

Misty Rowe, a mainstay member of the " Gossip Girls ", would enhance the comedy of the sketch by singing her part of the verse out of tune ( as a young child would do ).

The words were written by Evan James and the tune composed by his son, James James, both residents of Pontypridd, Glamorgan, in January 1856.