Secombe spoke via a TV recording, as did his great friend Robert Graves.

Other recording artists who have had popular success with his songs include Matt Monro and Frank Sinatra (" My Kind of Girl "), Shirley Bassey (" Goldfinger "), Harry Secombe (" If I Ruled the World "), Nancy Sinatra (" You Only Live Twice "), Maureen McGovern (" Can You Read My Mind "), and Diana Krall (" When I Look in Your Eyes ").

The first recording of " This Is My Song " was made by Harry Secombe with Wally Stott responsible for arranging and conducting.

Actors from the Tertiary to Quintessential Phases who appeared were Toby Longworth ( Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz ), Samantha Béart ( Random Dent ), Andy Secombe ( Colin the Security Robot ), Philip Pope ( Krikkit song ) and a recording of the voice of Douglas Adams as Agrajag.

Popular electronics include: electronic sound modules ; laptop computers used to activate loops, sequences and samples ; metronomes and tempo meters ; recording devices ; and personal sound reinforcement equipment ( e. g., a small PA system to amplify electronic drums and provide a monitor for singing ).

A 1989 recording of Enya singing " Oíche Chiúin ", an Irish language version of " Silent Night ", has been reissued at least twice: on The Christmas EP ( which otherwise contains several non-holiday related previously issued recordings by Enya ) and the 1997 edition of the charity album A Very Special Christmas.

At one point, Dell is singing along with a cassette recording of Busey singing the song " Why Baby Why " ( which Busey recorded, but still remains unreleased ).

An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics, or singing, although it might include some non-articulate vocal input ; the music is primarily or exclusively produced by musical instruments.

Heart Management Ltd. are a widely successful music industry management consortium currently forming a choreographed, singing / dancing, all-female pop act for a recording deal.

Word of their experimentation spread and in 1969, a British guitarist and multi-instrumentalist named Phil Lithman and the mysterious N. Senada ( whom Lithman had picked up in Bavaria where the aged avant-gardist was recording birds singing ) paid them a visit, and decided to remain.

In 1907, a Victor Records recording of Enrico Caruso singing Ruggero Leoncavallo's " Vesti la giubba " becomes the first to sell a million copies.

A blackbird singing, followed by the same recording with the blackbird singing with 5 voices

Her first professional recording with Ike Turner was singing background for him on Ike's record, " Box Top ".

The recording can be found on a compact disc of Alessandro Moreschi's singing ; a recording of his performance of the Ave Maria is available on the web.

Jones set up his own recording studio called Sunday School, as well being involved in his daughter's ( Jacinda Jones ) singing career.

A notable recording of a popular song, such as Judy Garland singing Over the Rainbow ( from The Wizard of Oz ), Mary Martin singing Never Never Land ( from Peter Pan ), Allan Jones singing The Donkey Serenade ( from The Firefly ), or Danny Kaye singing Inchworm ( from Hans Christian Andersen ) would be heard while the cutouts played on the screen, animated by a concealed puppeteer.

While working on a few demos for a male singer, he made three song demos of himself singing and playing, but Nunes heard them and insisted that he re-record and release them himself as a solo recording artist.

" He set up a little recording studio in his trailer and we would go in and work on songs together, singing harmonies all the time.

On December 11, 1969, the Flyers introduced what would become one of the team's best-known traditions: playing a recording of Kate Smith singing God Bless America instead of the The Star-Spangled Banner before important games.

To this day, the team plays the song before major playoff games, currently with Lauren Hart ( daughter of Hall of Fame Flyers broadcast announcer Gene Hart ) performing the first part of the song, a recording of Smith singing the second part, and Lauren Hart joining the recording for the finale.

Throughout the 1973 – 74 season, the Flyers often used a recording of Kate Smith singing " God Bless America " instead of the national anthem.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

special equipment required for registering respiration and for recording the contraction of smooth muscles under various conditions was developed by the Instruments Section ( Victor Jackman, W. C. Barnes, J. F. Reiss ) ; ;

In all of this extensive and expensive effort, the camera was downgraded to the status of recording instrument for art work produced elsewhere by the actor or by the author.

It was about that time, a board member said later, that Dr. Thomas G. Pullen, Jr., State superintendent of schools, told Dr. Jenkins and a number of other education officials that he would not talk to them with a recording machine sitting in front of him.

The very first recording was made for RCA Victor in 1929 with Nathaniel Shilkret conducting the Victor Symphony Orchestra, drawn from members of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Gershwin was on hand to " supervise " the recording ; however, Shilkret was reported to be in charge and eventually asked the composer to leave the recording studio.

Then, a little later, Shilkret discovered there was no one to play the brief celesta solo during the slow section, so he hastily asked Gershwin if he might play the solo ; Gershwin said he could and so he briefly participated in the actual recording.

He compares this to the work of the historian Thucydides, who found it difficult recording speeches verbatim but instead had the speakers say what he felt was appropriate for them to say on the occasion while adhering as much as possible to the general sense.

DiFranco was one of the first independent artists to own her own label, which has allowed her a considerable degree of creative freedom over the years, including, for example, providing all instrumentals and vocals and recording the album herself at her home on an analog 8-track reel to reel, and handling much of the artwork and packaging design for her 2004 album Educated Guess.

This effect is now done electronically using DSP, but originally the effect was created by playing the same recording on two synchronized tape players, and then mixing the signals together.

During 1976, Grant wrote her first song (" Mountain Man "), performed in public for the first time — at Harpeth Hall School — the all-girls school she attended, recorded a demo tape for her parents with church youth-leader Brown Bannister, then later when Bannister was dubbing a copy of the tape, Chris Christian, the owner of the recording studio, heard the demo and called Word Records.

He played it over the phone, and she was offered a recording contract, five weeks before her 16th birthday.

A soundtrack recording was released on LP, and a DVD release was issued in June 2007.

The concert was recorded by Columbia Records, preserving for the first time musical passages and numbers not included on the original Broadway cast recording.

It was recorded for the original Broadway cast recording but not included on the LP release ; it was reinstated on a later CD release.

Unfortunately, the drawings are long gone ; no recording was made.

An English-language version, simply titled Kristina, was staged in concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City for two nights in September 2009, yielding a live recording, and at the Royal Albert Hall for one night in April 2010.

The song was originally written for movie and recording star Divine, who was unable to record the song before his death in 1988.

In the liner notes to Buddy Holly: The Definitive Collection, Billy Altman notes that " Peggy Sue " was originally written as " Cindy Lou " ( after Holly's niece ), but Holly changed it prior to recording as a tip of the hat to Crickets drummer Jerry Allison's girlfriend, Peggy Sue Gerron.

Charles ' recording is very commonly played at major sporting and entertainment events, such as the Super Bowl, and WrestleMania 2 ; Charles gave a live performance of the song prior to Super Bowl XXXV, the last Super Bowl played before the September 11 terrorist attacks, as well as during Game 2 of the 2001 World Series after the attacks.

Sound recording and the telephone played important roles in a global transformation of society.

* 1888 – An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's " The Lost Chord ", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.

During the January 1969 sessions for the Let It Be album, the Beatles played a slow impromptu version of " Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues " — although not written by Holly, it was popularized by him — with Lennon mimicking Holly's vocal style ; the recording was eventually released in the mid-1990s on Anthology 3.

Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording and unconventional song structures.

The disc contained a recording of Richard Strauss's Eine Alpensinfonie ( in English, An Alpine Symphony ), played by the Berlin Philharmonic and conducted by Herbert von Karajan.

" In 2004, the Manchester Evening News published a contradictory story that a young musician from Wilmslow called David Browning played the trumpet on both the original recording of the theme in 1960 and a re-recording in 1964, for a one-off payment of £ 36.

Guy Sigsworth has played clavichord in a modern setting with Björk, notably on the studio recording of " All Is Full of Love ".

* Headphones, used to listen to one recording while the other recording is being played to the audience, or to listen to both recordings simultaneously ; and

Before recording, Parsons and Harris played a preliminary three show mini-tour as the headline act in a Warner Brothers country-rock package.

* 1954 – Elvis Presley made his radio debut when WHBQ Memphis played his first recording for Sun Records, " That's All Right.

As his coffin was lowered into the ground, a recording of the Tarzan yell he invented was played three times, at his request.

A September 18 recording session finished the album, adding the horns and strings, as well as some additional piano from Randi, who played all the keyboard parts on the album as the band now had no keyboard player.

After two nights of recording, the tape ( sealed inside a 44 gallon drum along with the system's other sensitive components ) was retrieved and played before an excited LNPIB.

Hewitt played only Davis Cup matches for the remainder of the year, recording five-set wins over Roger Federer and Juan Carlos Ferrero in the semifinals and final respectively, as Australia went on to win the Davis Cup.

The song is a staple at Iron Maiden concerts, where the recording is played after the final encore.

Before his death he played extensively in colleges, concert halls, coffee houses and also on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, as well as recording three further albums for Vanguard Records.

" So What " and " All Blues " had been played by the sextet at performances prior to the recording sessions, but for the other three compositions, Davis and Evans prepared skeletal harmonic frameworks that the other musicians saw for the first time on the day of recording, to allow a fresher approach to their improvisations.

Stitt's playing with the group is found on a recording made in Olympia, Paris ( where Davis and Coltrane had played a few months before ) and the Live in Stockholm album.

The zinc disc was immersed in a bath of chromic acid ; this etched the groove into the disc where the stylus had removed the coating, after which the recording could be played.