Though they would produce some very memorable and lasting songs, Arlen and Mercer were not given strong material to work on.

After we got a script and the spots for the songs were blocked out, we'd get together for an hour or so every day.

These little songs, however, were sweet nothings from the heart, tender memories of his childhood, little melodies that anyone could hum and that would make one want to weep.

This features the marching songs of several nations, recorded as though the various national bands were marching by your reviewing stand.

Her `` Rockabye Your Baby '' was as good as it can be done, and her really personal songs, like `` The Man That Got Away '' were deeply moving.

Clever light songs were overly coy, tragic songs a little too melodramatic.

Such songs were originally addressed to Apollo, and afterwards to other gods: to Dionysus, to Apollo Helios, to Apollo's son Asclepius the healer.

Freudiana, Gaudi and Gambler were three musicals that included some Project songs like " Eye in the Sky ", " Time ", " Inside Looking Out ", and " Limelight ".

Communities either could not afford music accompaniment or rejected it out of a Calvinistic sense of simplicity, so the songs were sung a cappella.

The U. S. Library of Congress has a collection of 3, 000 versions of and songs inspired by " Amazing Grace ", some of which were first-time recordings by folklorists Alan and John Lomax, a father and son team who in 1932 traveled thousands of miles across the South to capture the different regional styles of the song.

People decorated their homes and trees with paper flags ; there were ritual races, processions, dances, songs, prayers, and finally human sacrifices.

The Lesbian or Aeolic school of poetry " reached in the songs of Sappho and Alcaeus that high point of brilliancy to which it never after-wards approached " and it was assumed by later Greek critics and during the early centuries of the Christian era that the two poets were in fact lovers, a theme which became a favourite subject in art ( as in the urn pictured above ).

These songs were typically performed while adjusting the rigging, raising anchor, and other tasks where men would need to pull in rhythm.

Well before the nineteenth century, sea songs were common on rowing vessels.

Such songs were also very rhythmic in order to keep the rowers together.

They were notably influenced by songs of African-Americans, such as those sung whilst manually loading vessels with cotton in ports of the southern United States.

Shanty repertoire borrowed from the contemporary popular music enjoyed by sailors, including minstrel music, popular marches, and land-based folk songs, which were adapted to suit musical forms matching the various labor tasks required to operate a sailing ship.

Shakers today are most known for their cultural contributions ( especially style of music and furniture ). The Shakers composed thousands of songs, and also created many dances ; both were an important part of the Shaker worship services.

He also wrote songs, including his Seven Early Songs ( Sieben Frühe Lieder ), three of which were Berg's first publicly performed work in a concert that featured the music of Schoenberg's pupils in Vienna that year.

In the swing era they were usually either arrangements of popular songs or they were entirely new compositions.

Lead Me On ( 1988 ) contained many songs that were about Christianity and love relationships, but some interpreted it as not being an obviously " Christian " record.

On the Adult Contemporary chart, all five songs were top 10 hits, with two of the five (" Baby Baby " and " That's What Love Is For ") reaching No. 1.

There were two styles dominating the Dutch hip hop landscape: Extince, known for his easy flows, catchy songs and funky tunes, while hardcore performers like Westklan and Osdorp Posse found their own niche group of fans.

Ralph Vaughan Williams produced his most famous settings of six songs, the cycle On Wenlock Edge, for string quartet, tenor and piano ( dedicated to Gervase Elwes ) in 1909, and it became very popular after Elwes recorded it with the London String Quartet and Frederick B. Kiddle in 1917.

Andersson met Björn Ulvaeus in June 1966, and the two started writing songs together, their first being " Isn't It Easy To Say ", eventually recorded by The Hep Stars.

Andersson has written the music to songs recorded by Anders Ekborg (" Han Som Har Vunnit Allt ") and Barbara Dickson (" The Day The Wall Came Tumbling Down ").

During her career in show business, Bardot starred in 47 films, performed in numerous musical shows, and recorded 80 songs.

She participated in various musical shows and recorded many popular songs in the 1960s and 1970s, mostly in collaboration with Serge Gainsbourg, Bob Zagury and Sacha Distel, including " Harley Davidson "; " Je Me Donne A Qui Me Plaît "; " Bubble gum "; " Contact "; " Je Reviendrais Toujours Vers Toi "; " L ' Appareil À Sous "; " La Madrague "; " On Déménage "; " Sidonie "; " Tu Veux, Ou Tu Veux Pas?

One of the other songs from the project called " European Boy " was recorded in 1987 by disco group Splash.

Here he recorded the series of acoustic songs, including " Crying, Waiting, Hoping " and " What to Do ," known as the " Apartment Tapes ," which were released after his death.

According to Billy Altman's liner notes to the Geffen / Universal compilation, Buddy Holly: The Definitive Collection, in addition to " True Love Ways ", during the October 1958 sessions at Decca's Pythian Temple, Holly also recorded two other songs, " It Doesn't Matter Anymore " and " Raining In My Heart.

In 1927, Jefferson recorded another of his now classic songs, the haunting " See That My Grave Is Kept Clean " ( once again using the pseudonym Deacon L. J. Bates ) along with two other uncharacteristically spiritual songs, " He Arose from the Dead " and " Where Shall I Be.

They became an increasing area of interest for scholars in the 19th century and most were recorded or catalogued by George Malcolm Laws, although some have since been found to have British origins and additional songs have since been collected.

In 1962 and 1963, with his next band, Harmoniler (" The Harmonies "), he recorded cover versions of some of popular American twist songs and rearrangements of Turkish folk songs in rock and roll form, marking the beginning of the Anatolian rock movement, a synthesis of Turkish folk music and rock.

Among his various musical credits, Mumy has recorded and written songs with America, toured with Shaun Cassidy, and played in Rick Springfield's band in the film, Hard to Hold.

In addition to the many songs recorded by him, in 1956 he co-wrote, with Jody Williams, the pioneering pop song " Love Is Strange ", a hit for Mickey & Sylvia in 1957.

In 1971, the Irish band Skara Brae recorded its first and only LP ( simply called Skara Brae ), all songs in Irish.

Also in 1983, he recorded tracks including " In England and In Africa " and " Sing Like Billy Bragg " which were used as a ‘ demo ’ to secure a further Peel Session in 1984, where he performed three songs including " Hands Together Eyes Closed ".

Neil Finn and his brother Tim recorded songs they had co-written for their own album, Finn.

Performances on this tour, at the Town and Country Club in London, were recorded live and given a limited release in Australia, while individual songs from those shows were released as B-sides of singles in some countries.

In May 1999 Crowded House issued a compilation of unreleased songs, Afterglow, which included the track " Recurring Dream ", recorded when the group were still called The Mullanes and included Craig Hooper on guitar.

In the late fifties Johnny Cash recorded songs for his first two concept albums, Songs of Our Soil and Ride This Train, in which were released in 1959 and 1960 respectively.

Within the record, joke commercials recorded by the band and actual jingles from recently outlawed pirate radio station Radio London were interspersed between the songs, ranging from pop songs to hard rock and psychedelic rock, culminating with a mini-opera titled " Rael.

During the summer they recorded these songs for their final album, Bedtime for Democracy, which was released in November.