Initially, it was relatively unsuccessful, staying at the charts for only one week, but Haley soon scored a major worldwide hit with a cover version of Big Joe Turner's " Shake, Rattle and Roll ", which went on to sell a million copies and became the first ever rock ' n ' roll song to enter British singles charts in December 1954 and became a Gold Record.

Initially created for Sierra On-Line by Mark Crowe and Scott Murphy ( who called themselves the " Two Guys from Andromeda "), the games parodied both science fiction properties such as Star Wars and Star Trek ( the theme song itself is a parody of the Star Wars theme ), as well as pop-culture phenomena from McDonald's to Microsoft.

Initially when the song was a hit, the town received unwanted publicity as many tourists and daytrippers drove through the town, took pictures, and even rolled their windows down to ask locals questions.

Initially, an upbeat plantation song and dance ended the act ; later it was more common for the first act to end with a walkaround, including dances in the style of a cakewalk.

Initially, Aegukga was sung to the tune of the Scottish folk song " Auld Lang Syne ", introduced to Korea by Western missionaries.

Initially Czukay had little interest in rock music, but this changed when a student played him The Beatles ' 1967 song " I Am the Walrus ".

Initially, the society adopted the maple leaf as it emblem, and its Quebec City branch was the first promoter of the song " O Canada " as symbols of the French-Canadian nation, together with the Carillon Sacré-Coeur flag.

Initially named Scollay Square Station, it was made famous in 1959 when The Kingston Trio performed a cover of a 1948 Boston protest song, originally known as " Charlie On the MTA " but became a national hit as " M. T. A .," about a man who is trapped to ride on the subway forever due to exit fares, an unpopular fare-collection method that survived until 2007 on some MBTA extensions.

Initially the song was titled " Run, Rabbit, Run ", changed by the writers moments before the recording took place.

Initially intended for Three Dog Night, when they were known as " Redwood ", it became a major highlight of 20 / 20 ( although Stephen Desper claims the song is a complete re-recording and not the original late 1967 track ).

Initially recorded at the Thomas family home, Rufus shopped the song to Vee-Jay Records in Chicago.

Initially this was on condition that the song must have a physical media release at the same time ; this rule was fully lifted on 1 January 2007, meaning all download sales are now eligible in the chart.

Initially the song was played at the funeral of 42 military plane crash victims.

Initially, Took attempted to rerecord as a single the song " Amanda " from the 1971 acoustic Shagrat session ( along with two other tracks, Blind Owl Blues and Mr Discrete ) with the assistance of the Pink Fairies rhythm section of Sanderson and Russell Hunter, whose band was temporarily defunct following the departure of Paul Rudolph.

Initially, the song was not meant to be released, as Hetfield had written it for himself, but after drummer Lars Ulrich heard it, it was considered for the album.

" Initially released on the soundtrack of the film, Con Air, the song was also issued on her " greatest hits " compilation entitled ( Songbook ) A Collection of Hits ( 1997 ) and would eventually win Best Female Country Vocal Performance from the Grammy Awards.

Initially the song was intended for Slade but no version by the band is known to exist.

Initially it was a love song and it was given to me through him, and yet for him it became a bit like a prayer.

Initially, the song " Running Back " was chosen to be a single ahead of " The Boys Are Back in Town ", the latter being seen as possibly too aggressive for some radio stations to play.

Initially a guest singer for S ' Express ( she appears in the video for the song " Hey Music Lover "), she went on to work with the electronic / pop / house-music group Electribe 101.

Initially, a song titled " I Need a Sure Thing " was to be used on the Spider-Man 2 soundtrack ; but, after having received a special screening of the film, Carrabba penned " Vindicated " in 10 minutes.

Initially some radio stations preferred not to mention the song by name and would instead refer to it as " a song by Meredith Brooks ".

Initially she was the winner of a competition to find a singer to sing the theme song and promote Hayao Miyazaki's now-popular anime film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, " Kaze no Tani no Naushika ", composed by Haruomi Hosono ( former Yellow Magic Orchestra member ).

Initially the White House reaction was that the bitter exchanges with Moscow over Cuba and the conflict in Laos had dampened prospects for a meeting.

Initially, Hamrick's reaction to A-Z going into the passenger car market was discouraging.

Initially the festival was held in October, but due to the inclement weather and local heavy clay soil ( like the battle ) making the festival difficult it was moved to July.

Initially in a literary revival Renaissance was determined to move away from the religion-dominated Middle Ages and to turn its attention to the plight of the individual man in society.

Initially it was conceived as a difference engine curved back upon itself, in a generally circular layout, with the long store exiting off to one side.

Initially led by Canovas del Castillo as moderate prime minister, what was thought at one time as a coup aimed at placing the military in the political-administrative positions of power, in reality ushered in a permanent civilian regime tat lasted until the 1931 Second Republic.

Initially Aster computer b. v. was called MCP ( Music print Computer Product ), because it was specialized in producing computer assisted printing of sheet music.

Initially the work was not well received, due, in part, to the many gaps in arguments and complicated equations.

Initially, it was " Thürer ," meaning doormaker, which is " ajtós " in Hungarian ( from " ajtó ", meaning door ).

Initially, Raimi invited Scott Spiegel to co-write Army of Darkness because he had done a good job on Evil Dead II, but he was busy on rewrites for the Clint Eastwood film The Rookie.

Initially built from wood, the fort was eventually rebuilt in stone.

Initially the source was Latin, later Gascon ( a branch of Occitan ) in the northeast, Navarro-Aragonese in the southeast and Spanish in the southwest.

Initially, a wireless room was established at Bletchley Park.

Initially bronze was made out of copper and arsenic to form arsenic bronze.

Initially, Old English was a diverse group of dialects, reflecting the varied origins of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms of England.

Initially his mother was reluctant to let him commit to an insecure football career, so he began an apprenticeship as an electrical engineer ; however he went on to turn professional in October 1954.

Initially, ice on the wings was blamed, but a later inquiry declared that slush on the runway had made a safe take-off almost impossible.

Initially he was counting the tempo with a metronome and looking for records with the same tempo.

Initially, the plan was also to include a rail connection between Boston's two major train terminals.

Initially the frigate squadron was mistaken for French warships and chased away by Swiftsure, returning the following day once the error had been realised.

Initially it was difficult to obtain a digital satellite or terrestrial receiver without a subscription to Sky or ONdigital respectively, but now the channel forms an important part of the Freeview package of channels.

Initially designed to run on AT & T Hobbit-based hardware, BeOS was later modified to run on PowerPC-based processors: first Be's own systems, later Apple Inc .' s PowerPC Reference Platform and Common Hardware Reference Platform, with the hope that Apple would purchase or license BeOS as a replacement for its then aging Mac OS.