Mercer's lyrics are characterized by an unerring ear for rhythmic nuances, a puckish sense of humor expressed in language with a colloquial flair.

all the words of its clever lyrics came through with perfect clarity.

If one of Mr. Rodgers' melodies seemed to deserve a better fate than interment in Boston or the obscurity of a Broadway failure, Mr. Hart was likely to deck it out with new lyrics to give it a second chance in another show.

and the incisive style with which Charlotte Rae delivers the top-drawer Hart lyrics of `` I Blush '', a song that was cut from `` A Connecticut Yankee ''.

While the group only recorded one album together as the Analog Brothers, a few bootlegs of its live concert performances, including freestyles with original lyrics, have occasionally surfaced online.

The song " The Raven " featured lead vocals by the actor Leonard Whiting, and, according to the 2007 remastered album liner notes, was the first rock song to use a digital vocoder, with Alan Parsons speaking lyrics through it.

Moody and Sankey began publishing their compositions in 1875, and " Amazing Grace " appeared three times with three different melodies, but they were the first to give it its title ; hymns were typically published using the first line of the lyrics, or the name of the tune such as " New Britain ".

Many American folk songs are identical to British songs in arrangements, but with new lyrics, often as parodies of the original material.

It was produced by Playwrights Horizons with book by John Jiler, music and lyrics by Ray Leslee.

It was directed by Glenn Casale with original music and lyrics by Ben Schatz.

The third a cappella musical to appear Off-Broadway, In Transit, premiered 5 October 2010 and was produced by Primary Stages with book, music, and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez, James-Allen Ford, Russ Kaplan, and Sara Wordsworth.

House of Love in 1994 continued in the same vein, boasting catchy pop songs mingled with spiritual lyrics.

The album struck a much darker note, leaning more towards downtempo, acoustic soft-rock songs, with more mature ( yet still optimistic ) lyrics.

Maasstraat became famous as the first group combining reggae with Dutch lyrics, inspiring acts like Postmen, for example.

Tim Blake ( synthesiser player on Planet Gong ) produced a solo album called " Blake's New Jerusalem ", including a 20 minute track with lyrics from Blake's poem.

A Little Night Music is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler.

Sondheim's engagement with threes extends to his lyrics.

Anyone Can Whistle is a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents and music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.

The lyrics were mostly written by Earle Crooker, but he had left the project, with the score needing vast improvement.

Lerner would often struggle with writing his lyrics.

In 1940, an RKO movie adaptation starred Granville Owen ( later known as Jeff York ) as Li ' l Abner, with Buster Keaton taking the role of Lonesome Polecat, and featuring a title song with lyrics by Milton Berle.

The stage musical, with music and lyrics by Gene de Paul and Johnny Mercer, was adapted into a Technicolor motion picture at Paramount in 1959 by producer Norman Panama and director Melvin Frank, with a score by Nelson Riddle.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart.

The Neapolitan cantautore Pino Daniele has often fused genres as diverse as R & B, pop, jazz, rock, fusion, blues and tarantella to produce a sound uniquely his own, with lyrics variously in Italian, Neapolitan, or English.

With Sequencer, the band sought to improve upon the weaknesses they found in Dreams by combining sequencing, diverse melodies, and commanding lyrics.

Now an iconic figure in France, he achieved fame through his elegant songs with their harmonically complex music for voice and guitar and articulate, diverse lyrics ; indeed, he is considered one of France's most accomplished postwar poets.

His lyrics have been described as intensely personal and mystical, incorporating recurrent themes from his own personal mythos, and his songwriting and singing have been compared ( usually favourably ) to Syd Barrett and early Pink Floyd, referred by Ka-Spel, as being more a folk coincidence, not a direct influence ... Ka-Spel have mentioned so diverse influences and musical references as: Xenakis, Beatles, Otomo Yoshihide, Radiohead, Nurse With Wound, ( early ) David Bowie, Brainticket, Can, ( early ) The Residents, Magma, Ilicht, Es, Throbbing Gristle, etc.

Heri Joensen expressed a similar description of pagan metal as bands that sing about " pre-Christian, European traditions, be they historical or mythological " and notes that it is " musically extremely diverse because it is more about the lyrics than the music ".

Lyricist to the album ; Clint Boge, has commented that the themes throughout Begins Here are complex, ambiguous and deeply diverse, and has hinted that his own life experiences have formed the basis for numerous lyrics within the album, such as Without Wings.

The melody is commonly sung with diverse other lyrics as well.

Shahriar ’ s verse takes diverse forms, including lyrics, quatrains, couplets, odes, and elegies.

A diverse album stylistically with lyrics whose content seem not to match the music, it features the suburban blueprint sound but it is used more as a foundation than a showcase.

In the diverse Soviet republics fans translated his originally Russian lyrics into their native languages as well.

Block Out, formed in 1991, initially inspired by various diverse bands and grunge / hard rock-oriented, after the release of Crno, belo i srebrno started to move towards a darker, heavier atmosphere and sound under Nikola Vranjković's songwriting, combining elements of doom metal, psychedelic rock, hard rock and punk rock with social-related lyrics.

The album is a musical departure from their previous work, featuring a more diverse, yet pop-oriented sound, and it contains lyrics associated with rapping-prowess, political insight, and social commentary.

In the Music Production Lab, children can pick from a diverse array of songs, and perform on-stage, where the lyrics pop up, like Karaoke.

Whether they are put into the music categories of the times or not, they have had a strong influence on many younger bands having diverse styles due to their willingness ‘ in dismantling ’, or emancipating rock by boldly moving away from standard instrumentations and song styles into a resultant provocative amalgam with strong melodic hooks and poignant lyrics.

Herizon Magazine dubbed the Wyrd Sisters ' 1997 release Raw Voice, " a collection of 11 lyrically intelligent and musically diverse songs that can best be described as folk-pop-jazz fusion with a feminist bent " and said of the band's 2001 release Sin & Other Salvations, the lyrics were marked by " elegant, spare poetry " and new band member Kiva's " ethereal tones enhance the beautiful harmonies that have marked the previous three recordings ".

Although deemed thrash metal rather than black metal by today's standards, the album's lyrics and imagery focused more on anti-Christian and Satanic themes than any before it.

Common themes and references present in Love's lyrics from her early career included body image, rape, suicide, misogyny, conformity, elitism, pregnancy, prostitution, and death.

Her later work was more introspective in its lyrics as opposed to aggressive ; Hole's Celebrity Skin and Love's solo album, America's Sweetheart, focused more on celebrity life, Hollywood, and drug addiction, while also carrying on past themes of vanity and body image, and Nobody's Daughter was lyrically reflective of Love's past relationships and her struggle to sobriety, with the majority of its lyrics having been written while Love was in rehab in 2006.

Deicide has received considerable controversy relating to their albums and lyrics, which include vehement anti-Christian themes, such as " Death to Jesus ", " Fuck Your God ", " Kill the Christian ", " Behead The Prophet " and " Scars of the Crucifix ", among others.

It used minor chords that made the tracks darker and more moody, and its lyrics tended to be about unrequited love or more somber themes that dealt with the reality of what inner city teens were experiencing emotionally.

The initial model for English odes was Horace, who used the form to write meditative lyrics on various themes.

" However, many punk rock lyrics deal in more traditional rock ' n ' roll themes of courtship, heartbreak, and hanging out ; the approach ranges from the deadpan, aggressive simplicity of Ramones standards such as " I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend " to the more unambiguously sincere style of many later pop punk groups.

Queercore lyrics often treat the themes of prejudice, sexual identity, gender identity, and individual rights.

The lyrics of modern pop songs typically focus on simple themes – often love and romantic relationships – although there are notable exceptions.

Like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political in emphasis.

Kylander's lyrics range from the difficulties of the immigrant labourer's experience to more humorous themes.

Their lyrics focus on pain and personal alienation rather than traditional heavy metal themes.

The passage in which Meursault accepts his impending execution was read over the end of the song " Asa Phelps Is Dead " by The Lawrence Arms ; read by guitarist Chris McCaughan, the excerpt parallels certain themes in the song's lyrics by bassist Brendan Kelly.

Many popular Japanese songs and television-show themes feature disjointed phrases in English amongst the otherwise Japanese lyrics.

Visual media such as album art, band photos, Web site design, and merchandise all highlight the dark and violent outlook of Viking metal lyrics and themes.

CASS / Hawley Griffin's lyrics often contain references to themes and plot issues within Alan Moore's and H. G. Wells ' works, including but not restricted to The League of Extraordinary Gentleman series or The Invisible Man.

He modelled his work on the " choral " lyrics of Stesichorus at least in so far as he wrote narratives on mythical themes ( often with original variations from the traditional stories ) and structured his verses in triads ( units of three stanzas each, called " strophe ", " antistrophe " and " epode "), so closely in fact that even the ancients sometimes had difficulty distinguishing between the two poets Whereas however ancient scholars collected the work of Stesichorus into twenty-six books, each probably a self-contained narrative that gave its title to the whole book, they compiled only seven books for Ibycus, which were numbered rather than titled and whose selection criteria are unknown.

Many were based on traditional European folk tunes, with lyrics that reflected the lives, experiences and concerns of lumberjacks, with the themes of cutting, hauling, rolling and driving, as well as narrative songs that involved romance.

The album followed similar themes to their previous work with observations of life expressed through Cocker's sexualised, sometimes dark and witty lyrics.

Gira's lyrics still favored themes of depression, death, greed and despair, but were actually sung, rather than the chanting or shouting typical of earlier material.

" At its birth, the genre of industrial music was different from any other music, and its use of technology and disturbing lyrics and themes to tear apart preconceptions about the necessary rules of musical form supports the suggestion that industrial music is modernist music.

Stereolab often incorporates socio-political themes into their lyrics.