Miss Sutherland first sang Lucia at Covent Garden in 1959.

The first slaves in the United States sang work songs, and field hollers.

During the first half of the 19th century, some of the songs African-Americans sang also began to appear in use for shipboard tasks, i. e. as shanties.

He took a considerable risk during the mid-1960s, when the Civil Rights Movement sparked violence throughout the South by signing country music's first African-American singer Charley Pride, who sang rawer country than the smoother music Atkins had pioneered.

In 1584, the pastor and chronicler Balthasar Russow in his Chronica der Provinz Lyfflandt ( 1584 ) wrote of an established tradition of setting up a decorated spruce at the market square where the young men " went with a flock of maidens and women, first sang and danced there and then set the tree aflame ".

And, unlike her first disco hits, the track was not pitched up to make it faster and to render Gaynor's recorded voice in a higher register than that in which she actually sang.

The song began with the chorus, which all of them sang with each one alternating ( in lip-synch ) a mournful howl after each of the first three lines.

Hen wlad fy nhadau was also one of the first Welsh-language songs recorded when Madge Breese sang it on 11 March 1899, for the Gramophone Company, as part of the first recording in the Welsh language.

While Baum was in South Dakota, he sang in a quartet that included a man who would become one of the first Populist ( People's Party ) Senators in the U. S., James Kyle.

:" then they joined arms one upon the other, made a circle, went round the circle, with their feet stepping hard and stamping ; one sang first, with the others all following after.

Lee first sang professionally over KOVC radio in Valley City, North Dakota.

The zydeco favorite " Joli Blon " was one of the first songs Orbison sang in public.

Orbison was unhappy with the first two takes, but in the third, he abandoned the idea of using falsetto and sang the final high G sharp naturally, so astonishing everyone present that the accompanying musicians stopped playing.

In " The Note ", the first episode of Season Three, the bumper music featured a scatting female jazz vocalist who sang a phrase that sounded like " easy to beat.

Twain's mainstream pop acceptance was further helped by her appearance in the 1998 first edition of the VH1 Divas concert where she sang alongside Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Gloria Estefan and Aretha Franklin, and also by VH1's 1999 heavily aired Behind the Music, which concentrated on the tragic aspects of her early life as well as her physical attractiveness and Nashville's early resistance to her bare-midriff music videos.

He came down to the studio on the Mississippi Lad album, that's the first one I did for PolyGram, and he sang two of my songs, wouldn't accept any money, just trying to give me the best boost that he could.

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 first half of their performance consisted of rock standards, and during the second half, Ono took the microphone and along with the band performed an avant garde set, ending with music that consisted mainly of feedback, while Ono screamed and sang.

Verdi had also written the role of Aida for the voice of Teresa Stolz, who sang it for the first time at the Milan premiere.

Among Martin's first auditions in Hollywood, Martin sang, ' Indian Love Call '".

Furtado's first public performance was when she sang a duet with her mother at a church on Portugal Day.

In the first few moments of the play, it is revealed that someone sang the song earlier in the evening at a party, although who first sang it ( Martha or some other anonymous party guest ) remains unclear.

At the time, the queen had been considering Stanley for honours and titles, including his appointment as viceroy of Ireland ; but he was almost certainly in complete sympathy with the Jesuits, which order his brother had joined and whose members sang his praises.

* In January, 1976, Kermit the Frog sang this song, complete with a Muppet version of Lydia ( pig ), on the second episode of The Muppet Show, which featured Connie Stevens as the guest star.

He even sang a complete English song called " If You Come Today " ( Tick Tick Tick ) in one of his Bond films-Operation Diamond Racket in 1978.

In the late 1970s Ghiaurov sang the title role in the first complete stereo recording of Jules Massenet's opera Don Quichotte ( Don Quixote ).

Boxcar Willie, born as Lecil Travis Martin ( September 1, 1931 – April 12, 1999 ) was an American country music singer, who sang in the " old-time hobo " music style, complete with dirty face, overalls, and a floppy hat.

In 1958, she sang the part of Fricka in Wagner's Das Rheingold, the first instalment in Solti's complete stereophonic set of the Ring Cycle, released by Decca on LP and reel-to-reel tape.

Almost to the end of her life, Flagstad continued to sing in fine voice, although she increasingly sang mezzo-soprano material or in a mezzo range: besides the Rheingold Fricka ( a mezzo role ), Decca planned to cast her also as the Walkure Fricka and the Gotterdammerung Waltraute for its complete Ring ( in the event, the roles were sung by others ), and also to record her in Brahms ’ Four Serious Songs and Alto Rhapsody ; that these plans were shelved only by her final illness and death stands as a testament to her superbly consistent vocal abilities, and to the respect and affection in which she was held to the end by record companies and the public.

Lehmann sang in the first Bayreuth Festival in 1876, singing in the first complete performances of The Ring Cycle as Woglinde and Helmwige.

Murray, with the American Quartet, sang " It's A Long Way To Tipperary " as a straightforward march, complete with brass, drums and cymbals, with a quick bar of " Rule Britannia " thrown into the instrumental interlude between the first and second verse-chorus combination.

In 1951, he sang the role of Porgy opposite Camilla Williams's Bess in the most complete recording of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess made up to that time.

In 1951 she sang Bess in the landmark, first complete recording of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess.

She was part of himself, as if Jehovah designed to make the oneness and identity of man and woman perfect and complete ; and when the glorious work of their creation was finished, " the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy.

In the 1951 so-called " complete " recording of the opera, she sang both roles as well as that of Maria.

In 1880 she sang in England's first complete performance of Hector Berlioz ’ s La damnation de Faust at the Hallé Concerts, Manchester.

The composer Marco Rosano has created a new Stabat Mater for Andreas Scholl ; he sang the first complete performance of this work on 22 February 2008 at the City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney, accompanied by the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra under Paul Dyer.

She sang with Kathleen Ferrier on the occasion of Ferrier's first complete performanc of ' Messiah '.

Bono witnessed the recording of the song and recalled: I stood beside him and sang with him.

This version of the series included musical questions ( wherein Davidson, a former recording artist, sang songs for the celebrity to finish ), questions involving props in a panelist's square or presented as skits involving outside actors, " surprise " special guests, and even an episode done while the set was being struck down in preparation for the show going on the road.

On September 1, 1910, the choir sang the song, " Let the Mountains shout for Joy ", as their first ever recording.

Richardson sang background on " Running Bear ", but the recording wasn't released until September 1959, after his death.

Entering a recording studio for the first time, Harris sang on two of the five cuts that day, " Hurry, Hurry " and " Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well ", for the Decca label.

He was an American singer, who performed with Count Basie's band from 1961 to 1965 and sang on the 1969 Grammy Award-winning recording of the song " Little Green Apples ".

Session tapes from the initial 1 March 1967 recording of this song reveal that Lennon originally sang the line " Cellophane flowers of yellow and green " as a broken phrase, but McCartney suggested that he sing it more fluidly to improve the song.

Before recording the song, McClintock cleaned it up considerably from the version he sang as a street busker in the 1890s.

She became sufficiently famous for Columbia to invite her into the recording studio to make 78 rpm discs of four of the numbers she sang in these revues: Please sell no more drink to my father and He didn't oughter were on one disc ( recorded in 1926 ) and Don't tell my mother I'm living in sin and The Ladies Bar was on the other ( recorded 1930 ).

Michiya Mihashi, who originally sang Japanese folk min ' yō music and learned tsugaru-jamisen, released his debut single " Sake no Nigasa yo " as a recording singer in 1954.

Burke's career was revived with the July 23, 2002 release of Don't Give Up on Me on Fat Possum Records and produced by Joe Henry, where he sang songs written specifically for the album by various leading recording artists, including Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, Van Morrison, Elvis Costello and Tom Waits.

He was unable to play guitar, but he wrote, sang, and directed the recording of his last album, New World Order.

In 1986, Vaughan sang two songs, " Happy Talk " and " Bali Ha ' i ", in the role of Bloody Mary on an otherwise stiff studio recording by opera stars Kiri Te Kanawa and José Carreras of the score of the Broadway musical South Pacific, while sitting on the studio floor.

In 1991, not long after joining Dream Theater ( and before ever appearing on a Dream Theater recording ), he sang background vocals on the song " Life in Still Water " on Fates Warning's " Parallels " album.

For this performance they covered their heads and hands in multi-coloured metalised powders, stood on a table, and sang along and moved to a recording of Flanagan and Allen's song " Underneath the Arches ", sometimes for a day at a time.

ABBA sang the song " Waterloo ", and the group went on to become one of the most popular recording artists of all time.

While Ross sang lead on the group's debut recording, " I Want a Guy ", seventeen-year-old Ballard performed lead vocals on the second single, " Buttered Popcorn ".

As the performance was mimed instrumentally using the studio recording ( excluding the lead vocals which Grant Nicholas sang live ), Tidey was seen pretending to play along to bass parts not even recorded by him as well as miming along to Grant Nicholas's voice on the recording when it came to backing vocals, therefore fooling the audience into thinking that was his singing voice.

His sister, Patricia, sang with the vocal group The Crests, who had a number two hit in 1958 with " 16 Candles ", though she left the group before the recording.

To exact revenge on the label, Bators purposely sang off mic and the resulting recording was unusable.

Performers sang and / or played into a large acoustic horn and the master recording was created by the direct transfer of acoustic energy from the diaphragm of the recording horn to the mastering lathe, which was typically located in an adjoining room.

According to people who attended the recording sessions, Ellis didn't yet have lyrics for the closing theme, so he sang nonsense words to give an idea of how it would sound.