The band, who all wore white shirts with a big, black S painted on the front, pulled black ties from around the backs of their necks to form a dollar sign, then started playing a new song titled " Pull My Strings ", a barbed, satirical attack on the ethics of the mainstream music industry, which contained the lyrics, " Is my cock big enough, is my brain small enough, for you to make me a star ?".

" Pull My Strings " was never recorded for a studio release, though the performance at the Bay Area Music Awards, which was the first and only time the song was ever performed, was released on the band's compilation album Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death.

The practice was criticized in the chorus of the Dead Kennedys song " Pull My Strings ", a parody of the song " My Sharona " (" My Payola ") sung to a crowd of music industry leaders during a music award ceremony.

Pull My Daisy ( 1959 ) is a short film that typifies the Beat Generation.

Originally intended to be called The Beat Generation the title Pull My Daisy was taken from the poem of the same name written by Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Cassady in the late 1940s.

Pull My Daisy was accordingly praised for years as an improvisational masterpiece, until Leslie revealed in a November 28, 1968 article in The Village Voice that the film was actually carefully planned, rehearsed, and directed by him and Frank, who shot the film on a professionally lit studio set.

Pull My Daisy was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 1996, as being " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant ".

* Guardian article mentioning the play Beat Generation and the fact that Pull My Daisy was pulled from its third act.

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* Jack Kerouac ( wrote ), Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie ( directed ) Pull My Daisy ( 1958 )

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* Jack Kerouac writes and narrates the " beat " movie, Pull My Daisy.

In 1958 she appeared in her first film, Pull My Daisy.

* Pull My Daisy ( 1958 )

His next three albums, Pull My Chain, Unleashed, and Shock ' n Y'all, produced three more Number Ones each, and all of the albums were certified multi-platinum.

In 2008, an iPhone app called Pull My Finger was one of the most popular apps in Apple's App Store, purchased over 50, 000 times in less than one week.

The phrase is now the focus of a legal battle between Pull My Finger and iFart over the use of the phrase.

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David Amram has composed more than 100 orchestral and chamber music works, written many scores for Broadway theater and film, including the scores for the films Splendor in the Grass and The Manchurian Candidate ; two operas, including the Holocaust opera The Final Ingredient, a comic opera Twelfth Night with a libretto by Joseph Papp ; and the score for the 1959 film Pull My Daisy, narrated by novelist Jack Kerouac.

Pictures on a String, their first album for Virgin Records, followed in 1983 yielding the dance club hit " Get Off My Case ".

By mid-April, " Dixie Fried ", " Put Your Cat Clothes On ", " Right String, Wrong Yo-Yo ", " You Can't Make Love to Somebody ", " Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby ", and " That Don't Move Me " had been recorded.

They have cited several acts that have influenced their work, including Joni Mitchell, The Incredible String Band (" we have all the String Band records our rural sensibilities are similar "), The Beatles (" really became enthralling to us through their psychedelism ") and My Bloody Valentine (" even if we don't sound like them, there's a connection in terms of the approach to music ").

Internationally he is best known for his opera The Bartered Bride, for the symphonic cycle Má vlast (" My Fatherland "), which portrays the history, legends and landscape of the composer's native land, and for his First String Quartet From My Life.

Other major works composed in these years were the E minor String Quartet, From My Life, a series of Czech dances for piano, several choral pieces and three more operas: The Kiss, The Secret and The Devil's Wall, all of which received their first performances between 1876 and 1882.

" Midnight Call Blues ", " Four String Joe ", " Goin ' Home ", and " Pickin ' My Way " ( 1932 ) with Carl Kress.

* Smetana: String Quartet No. 1 in e minor " From My Life " ( Decca 452 239-2 ) ( 2003 )

* String Quartet No. 2, Movement 2 (" Baubles, Bangles and Beads "), Movement 3 (" And This Is My Beloved ")

His best-known works include the symphonic poems La Mort de Tintagiles ( after Maeterlinck ), La Bonne Chanson ( after Verlaine ), A Pagan Poem ( after Virgil ), and Memories of My Childhood ( Life in a Russian Village ), as well as the song-cycle Five Irish Fantasies ( to words by W. B. Yeats and Heffernan ), and the chamber works Music for Four String Instruments and Two Rhapsodies for oboe, viola and piano.

featuring " String ", " Who Jumped In My Grave "*, " German Song ", " Angelhead "*

*" All On My Own " / " String Along ", Decca F11225 1960

A second film, The Halfway House ( 1944 ), led to her being put under contract by Michael Balcon of Ealing Studios, and this was followed by many other film roles as a child actress including Dead of Night ( 1945 ) with Sir Michael Redgrave, Pink String and Sealing Wax ( 1946 ), Nicholas Nickleby ( 1947 ), My Sister and I ( 1948 ) and Anna Karenina ( 1948 ), with Vivien Leigh.

Special guests included Yo La Tengo, Ralph Stanley, Yim Yames of My Morning Jacket, Yonder Mountain String Band, Ray Benson, Jason Roberts of Asleep at the Wheel, Aaron Neville, Joan Osborne, Hot 8 Brass Band, Dan Zanes, John Hammond, Charlie Musselwhite, and more.

Lang, Dr. John, Henry Butler, Joan Osborne, Third Day, Yo La Tengo, Yim Yames of My Morning Jacket, Yonder Mountain String Band, Ray Benson

Harburg " Over the Rainbow ", " It's Only a Paper Moon "; with Ted Koehler " Stormy Weather ", " I've Got the World on a String ", " I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues ", " Let's Fall in Love "); with Johnny Mercer (" Blues in the Night ", " That Old Black Magic ", " One for My Baby ", " Come Rain or Come Shine ", " Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive "; and with Ira Gershwin " The Man that Got Away ")

In another resemblance, the song " Captain Kennedy " bears similarities to a tune entitled " My Name Is John Johanna " as recorded by Kelly Harrell and the Virginia String Band in 1927, appearing as part of the " ballads " section of Harry Smith's famed Anthology of American Folk Music from 1952.

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# String For My Kite ( Version 2 Backing Track, Take 1 ) (*)

Levitin returned to the studio in 2002, producing three albums for Quebec blues musician Dale Boyle: String Slinger Blues ( 2002 ), A Dog Day for the Purists, 2004, and In My Rearview Mirror: A Story From A Small Gaspé Town ( 2005 ), the latter two of which won the annual Lys Blues Award for best Canadian Blues album.