Thus, on the highroad, a troop of soldiers `` marched in their own dust and sang '', while on the footpath one man walks alone.

In the following year her father undertook to give a course in Hebrew theology to Johns Hopkins students, and this brought to the Szold house a group of bright young Jews who had come to Baltimore to study, and who enjoyed being fed and mothered by Mamma and entertained by Henrietta and Rachel, who played and sang for them in the upstairs sitting room on Sunday evenings.

He composed songs and set them to music and sang them in a soft, melodious voice, and when his audience had had enough of music he would discourse on politics or tell stories of his western adventures guaranteed to excite the emotions of men and women alike.

Callimachus sang that Apollo rode on the back of a swan to the land of the Hyperboreans during the winter months.

Symbolically, Marian Anderson ( a noted opera singer of her day ) sang a rendition of " America the Beautiful " on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1939 after being refused use of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution because of her skin color.

Woolfson sang lead on many of the group's hits ( including " Time " and " Eye in the Sky ") and the record company pressured Parsons to use him more, but Parsons preferred " real " singers, which Woolfson admitted he was not.

Parsons himself only sang lead on one song (" The Raven ") through a vocoder, and can be heard singing backing vocals on a few others, including " To One in Paradise ".

The hymn was translated into other languages as well: while on the Trail of Tears, the Cherokee sang Christian hymns as a way of coping with the ongoing tragedy, and a version of the song by Samuel Worcester that had been translated into the Cherokee language became very popular.

The work contexts in which African-Americans sang songs comparable to shanties included: boat-rowing on rivers of the south-eastern U. S. and Caribbean ; the work of stokers or “ firemen ,” who cast wood into the furnaces of steamboats plying great American rivers ; and stevedoring on the U. S. eastern seaboard, the Gulf Coast, and the Caribbean — including " cotton-screwing ": the loading of ships with cotton in ports of the American South.

Patrice Michaels sang a number of his arias on the CD Divas of Mozart's Day.

Unlike the Israelite worship assembly, which was only able to look on during Temple worship as the Levitical Priest sang, played, and offered animal sacrifices, in the New Testament, all Christians are commanded to sing praises to God.

" when he and Butt-Head are working the late shift at Burger World ) and also having him almost say the forbidden word ( such as one time when he sang " Liar, liar, pants on ..." and pausing before " fire " ( in the " Liar!

They also sang " Peggy Sue " on The Arthur Murray Party on December 29 and were given a polite introduction by Kathryn Murray.

Apart from learning how to exist on one meal a day and other artistic exercises, he worked at an open-air park show, sang and yodelled with any band that would have him and worked with a traveling medicine show.

Dwight Yoakam sang backup on the tribute.

The show had requested that he sing the Merle Travis-penned Tennessee Ernie Ford hit " Sixteen Tons ", but when he appeared on stage, he sang " Bo Diddley " instead.

Also during this time, Moonglows founder Harvey Fuqua who sang background on many of Diddley's home studio recordings was introduced to Gaye, and asked him to join the Moonglows.

In 1990, he appeared on " Kool Thing ", a song by the alternative rock band Sonic Youth, and along with Flavor Flav, he sang on George Clinton's song " Tweakin '", which appears on his 1989 album The Cinderella Theory.

Devon folk singer Seth Lakeman sang about Childe the Hunter on his 2006 album Freedom Fields.

A boy soprano named Dixon Boyd sang a Durante solo motet and a few other passages enchantingly.

Hatfield and Strohm shared songwriting credits and often sang together in harmony or octaves, creating a memorable " boy-girl " sound rarely encountered in rock ( except in the work of X and a few later indie bands such as Velocity Girl, Hazel, Quasi, Low, Mates of State, and Rainer Maria ).

Ashcroft composed a paean called " Let the Eagle Soar " which he sang at the Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in February 2002, which was satirically featured in Michael Moore's 2004 movie Fahrenheit 9 / 11 and has been frequently mocked by comedians such as David Letterman, Stephen Colbert and David Cross, to name a few.

Marlene Dietrich sang songs successfully in her films, and Rodgers and Hart wrote a few well-received films, but even their popularity waned by 1932.

Bailey later said " She sang a few songs that she had written, and I thought to myself, this kid is like nineteen years old, where does she get this?

Squire sang background vocals on a few of the ABWH tracks, with Tony Levin doing all the bass on those songs.

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.

The production starred Richard Burton, Julie Andrews and Robert Goulet. The trio appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show and sang a few numbers from the musical, along with an appearance by Lerner and Loewe.

Big Bill Broonzy and Memphis Minnie cut a few sides each backed up by their own jug bands ; Memphis Minnie also sang and played with The Memphis Jug Band.

She rarely sang on the band's songs during this time ; a vocal contribution to " I've Been Waiting for You " (), being one of her few.

Burke sang the theme song to Love Thy Neighbor, a short-lived comedy series about a Black couple who move in next to a bigoted white household in a white suburb in Los Angeles, that ran for a few months in June 1973 as ABC's answer to All In The Family.

Though James and Knowles were later seen at a red carpet event following the film's release embracing each other, James expressed her displeasure with Knowles at a Seattle concert in January 2009, a few days after Knowles sang her song, " At Last ", at the first inaugural ball for Barack Obama.

1977 also saw the release of the Godley & Creme album " Consequences ", on which Vaughan sang one of the few tracks to achieve popularity outside of the album: " Lost Weekend ".

He therefore sang the first few lines in gibberish before finding the words again.

Senesino left England in 1736, and appeared in a few more productions in Italy: he sang at Florence from 1737 to 1739, and then in Naples till 1740, making his final appearance in Porpora's Il trionfo di Camilla at the Teatro San Carlo.

He also conducted the Huddersfield Glee and Madrigal Society, the Bournemouth Municipal Choir and the Nottingham Oriana Choir, one of the very few which sang only from memory.

Within her first few years at MGM, Powell made six films, appeared on radio programs, performed in theatre productions ( including The Student Prince ) and even sang at the inauguration ball for President Harry S. Truman on January 20, 1949.

Like Mamie Smith, Hegamin sang in a lighter, more pop-tune influenced style than the rougher rural-style blues singers such as Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith who became more popular a few years later.

At the performance, Nirvana began to play, and Kurt Cobain sang the first few lines of the song, " Rape Me ", much to the horror of MTV execs, before continuing their regular performance of " Lithium ".

For a few years in the late 1990s, he toured a concert version of Porgy and Bess, partly in honor of his father, who sang the role for Sidney Poitier in the 1959 film version, and partly " to preserve the score's jazziness " in the face of " largely white orchestras " who tend not " to play around the bar lines, to stretch and bend ".

" He played solo in The White House ( twice ) and played solo for The Pope-and played ( and sang ) his last show in San Francisco a few days before he died in Oakland, quite likely somewhat older than he had always maintained.

Due to a lack of real professional management these few pop groups failed to build out a durable international career, a trend which continued during the 1970s when the most successful artists sang in their native tongue.