Ballad is also sometimes applied to strophic story-songs more generally, such as Don McLean's " American Pie ".

In 2008, New York City radio station Q104. 3 FM WAXQ named Don McLean's " American Pie " number 37 in their 2008 Top 1, 043 Songs Of All Time listener-generated countdown.

The tragedy is later termed " The Day the Music Died ", popularized in Don McLean's 1972 song " American Pie ".

The tragedy is later termed " The Day the Music Died ", popularized in Don McLean's 1972 song " American Pie ".

" American Pie " is considered Don McLean's magnum opus and his signature song.

The Day the Music Died, dubbed by Don McLean's song " American Pie ", was an aviation accident that occurred on February 3, 1959, near Clear Lake, Iowa, where rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. " The Big Bopper " Richardson, as well as the pilot, Roger Peterson, perished.

On February 3, 1959, a day that has become known as The Day the Music Died ( from Don McLean's song " American Pie "), Richardson was killed in a plane crash in Iowa, along with Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens.

A notable example of a non-R & B hit with two parts was the single release of Don McLean's " American Pie ".

In 1977, Cheung won first runner-up by singing Don McLean's " American Pie " at the Asian Music Contest held by Rediffusion Television ( RTV ).

Altamont has often been suggested as a likely interpretation of one verse of Don McLean's classic rock song " American Pie ", with lines alluding to " Jumping Jack Flash ", Hell's Angels, and " Sympathy for the Devil ".

Iglesias departs from the love song theme on the album with a version of Don McLean's " Vincent " (" Starry Starry Night ").

* Don McLean's song " Vincent " plays during the meteor shower.

The band also became famous for its cover songs, an example being Don McLean's " American Pie ".

Their recording is adapted from Don McLean's version of the song.

The EP included two new tracks, a raucous cover of Don McLean's " American Pie ", and an unusual track called " The Death of Your Blood is My Indulgence ", a tribute to their label, Victory Records, which is primarily known for its hardcore acts.

A somewhat different, but still recognisable as the same song, version appeared on Don McLean's 1972 LP American Pie, titled just ' Babylon '.

They played songs like Rod Stewart's " Maggie May " and Don McLean's " American Pie.

# " Bye Bye Miss American Thighs "-2: 27 ( parody of Don McLean's " American Pie ")

His work can be heard on Don McLean's classic " American Pie ".

Don McLean's song " American Pie " makes reference to " Eight Miles High " with the lines " The Birds flew off with a fall-out shelter / Eight miles high and falling fast.

" His works and innovations inspired and influenced contemporary and later musicians, notably The Beatles, Elvis Costello, The Rolling Stones, Don McLean, Bob Dylan, and Eric Clapton, and exerted a profound influence on popular music.

During the Renaissance, the genre of chivalric romance became popular in literature, growing ever more idealistic and eventually giving rise to a new form of realism in literature popularised by Miguel de Cervantes ' Don Quixote.

Mozart, in many ways Gluck's successor, combined a superb sense of drama, harmony, melody, and counterpoint to write a series of comedies, notably Così fan tutte, The Marriage of Figaro, and Don Giovanni ( in collaboration with Lorenzo Da Ponte ) which remain among the most-loved, popular and well-known operas today.

Glen Morgan and James Wong's early influence on The X-Files mythology led to their introduction of popular secondary characters who would continue for years in episodes written by others, such as the Scully family: Dana's father, William ( Don S. Davis ); her mother, Margaret ( Sheila Larken ); and her sister, Melissa ( Melinda McGraw ).

The film stars of the time that starred in these films, playing both heroes and villains alike include Greer Garson, Cary Grant, James Cagney, Raymond Massey, Basil Rathbone, Walter Slezak, Dana Andrews, Don Ameche, Richard Loo, Humphrey Bogart, Paul Henreid, Richard Conte, Anthony Quinn and the most popular film star of the era, John Wayne.

A chap-book called " Vida política y militar de Don Tomás Zumalacárregui ", which gives the facts of his life with fair accuracy, is very popular in Spain.

Bradman is immortalised in three popular songs from different eras, " Our Don Bradman " ( 1930s, by Jack O ' Hagan ), " Bradman " ( 1980s, by Paul Kelly ), and " Sir Don ", ( a tribute by John Williamson performed at Bradman's memorial service ).

Mario Luis Kreutzberger Blumenfeld ( December 28, 1940 ), better known by his stage name, Don Francisco, is a Chilean television personality, and a popular television personality on the Univision network reaching Spanish-speaking viewers in the United States.

* Several scenes of the popular Bollywood film Don: The Chase Begins Again were filmed in the Petronas towers and its skybridge.

The vaudeville talents of Graham Kennedy, Don Lane and Bert Newton earned popular success during the early years of Australian television.

It mixes highbrow programming along with popular non-English language television series broadcast in their original language, such as Inspector Rex, Rex in Rome, Don Matteo.

Since Encabulla was a popular community board of sorts, and since NASA did some community work in Puerto Rico, the occasional NASA astronaut or community liaison person would visit Don Cholito and follow the joke ( sometimes with puzzled looks in their faces ).

The United States, meanwhile, saw league bowling soar in the 1960s and early 1970s — partially influenced by popular professional bowlers Don Carter, Dick Weber, Carmen Salvino and Earl Anthony.

Leslie's Don Caesar de Bazan in Ruy Blas and the Blasé Roué ( 1888, a take off of Victor Hugo ’ s play Ruy Blas ), was perhaps the most popular of his later parts, and he and Farren starred at the Gaiety and toured in this production and in Miss Esmeralda, and Joan of Arc ( 1891 ).

His drawing-room sketches included his own popular songs, such as " See me Dance the Polka ", " The Happy Fatherland ", " The Polka and the Choir-boy ", " Thou of My Thou ", " The French Verbs ", " Go on Talking-Don ’ t Mind Me ", " I Don ’ t Mind Flies ".

It was made by painting vibrant abstract patterns on the film itself, synchronizing them to a popular dance tune by Don Baretto and His Cuban Orchestra.

In North America, Don has also been made popular by films depicting the Mafia, such as The Godfather series, where the crime boss would claim for himself the signs of respect that were traditionally granted in Italy to nobility.

* Reggaeton becomes a popular music genre among young people, with artists such as Daddy Yankee and Don Omar crossing over to U. S. markets.

Australia: The prime time variety show format was popular in the early decades of Australian television, spawning such series as In Melbourne Tonight, The Graham Kennedy Show, The Don Lane Show, and Hey Hey It's Saturday, which ran for 27 years.

During this time, Mr. Mister toured with other popular acts including Don Henley, The Bangles, Eurythmics, Tina Turner, and Adam Ant.

Because Martín Fierro has been widely considered ( beginning with Leopoldo Lugones's El Payador, 1916 ) the fountainhead or pinnacle of Argentine literature, Argentina's Don Quixote or Divine Comedy, and because Borges was certainly Argentina's greatest twentieth-century writer, Borges's 1953 book of essays about the poem and its critical and popular reception-El " Martín Fierro " ( written with Margarita Guerrero )-gives insight into Borges's identity as an Argentine.

In the United States, popular national hosts who are associated with morning drive include Howard Stern, Ryan Seacrest and Don Imus, while Sean Hannity ( east coast ) and Michael Savage ( west coast ) are associated with afternoon drive.

Ramón Gómez Valdés de Castillo ( September 2, 1923 – August 9, 1988 ), often credited as Ramón Valdéz, was a Mexican actor of film and television best known for his portrayal of Don Ramón in the popular sitcom El Chavo del Ocho.