Singing at dawn, during the hour before sunrise, is assumed to be important in defending the bird's territory.

His first documented commission, the Cantoria (" Singing Gallery "; 1431 – 1438 ) for the Cathedral of Florence proves that he must have been an accomplished artist long before joining the Sculptors Guild in 1432.

Known as The Singing Bobby, he became a local celebrity before starting to work the UK variety circuit, where he played 19 seasons in the northern English seaside resort of Blackpool.

It includes Singing from the Well ( in Spanish also titled " Celestino before Dawn "), Farewell to the Sea ( whose literal translation is " The Sea Once More "), Palace of the White Skunks, the Rabelaisian Color of Summer, and The Assault.

Step Singing is typically held the Sunday night before graduation.

To that must be added the number of published compilations of tunes that used his works ( not always with his permission ); " Sherburne ", a 1785 tune originally from the American Singing Book, a setting of the Nahum Tate carol " While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks ," appeared over seventy times in print before 1810.

Born a twin, the former Terence Perkins was employed as a milkman before becoming a professional singer, and was known to many as the ' Singing Milkman '.

David Singing before Saul, one of his later works, seems to hint at a return on the part of the venerable artist to the Rembrandtesque note of his youth.

During the fall of the Iron Curtain, Makem often proudly told the story that his song " The Winds Are Singing Freedom " had become a sort of folk anthem among Eastern Europeans seeing a new future opening before them.

In January 2007, shortly before his eighteenth birthday, he moved to Los Angeles after being spotted at Seth Riggs Singing Camp in 2006.

References: For more information about the historical employment of vibrato by classical vocalists, see Michael Scott's two-volume survey The Record of Singing ( published by Duckworth, London, in 1977 and 1979 ); John Potter's Tenor: History of a Voice ( Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2009 ); and Herman Klein's 30 Years of Music in London ( Century, New York, 1903 ).

In September, the studio released another Al Jolson part-talking picture, The Singing Fool, which more than doubled The Jazz Singers earnings record for a Warners movie.

Among the more unusual of his papers are his Experiments and Observations on the Singing of Birds, and his Essay on the Language of Birds.

Singing species that live on the trees are in a much more favourable situation, as trees allow different species to live according to their body weight.

His more recent films include The Singing Detective, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, A Scanner Darkly, Gothika, Zodiac and Tropic Thunder.

The oldest is the all-male Carleton Singing Knights, which has toured and recorded extensively over its more than 50-year history.

Edmunds had more UK hits during this time, including Elvis Costello's " Girls Talk ", Nick Lowe's " I Knew The Bride ", Hank DeVito's " Queen of Hearts " ( written for Edmunds and later a US hit for Juice Newton using the same arrangement ), Graham Parker's " Crawling from the Wreckage ", and Melvin Endsley's " Singing the Blues " ( originally a 1956 US # 1 hit for Guy Mitchell, and a UK # 1 for both Mitchell and Tommy Steele ).

Lloyd ’ s album The Singing Sailor ( 1955 ) with Ewan MacColl was an early milestone, which made an impression on Stan Hugill when he was preparing his 1961 collection, particularly as the performance style it embodied was considered more appropriate than that of earlier commercial recordings.

In his 1994 book " My Singing Teachers ," Torme cited Patty Andrews, lead singer of The Andrews Sisters, the most successful show business act of the 1940s ( second only to Bing Crosby ), as one of his favorite vocalists, saying, " They had more hit records to their credit than you could count, and one of the main reasons for their popularity was Patty Andrews.

Each year a new set of limited edition prints are published, and his most popular work, The Singing Butler sells more posters and postcards than any other artist in the UK.

The album, produced by Loui Dobin, now the director of Greene Family Camp, was quickly followed by 5 more albums: " Shiru Shir Chadash " ( 1973 ), " Ten Shabbat V ' Ten Shalom ( Give Us Sabbath and Give Us Peace )" ( 1974 ), " Eit Hazmir, The Time of Singing " ( 1977 ), and " nfty at 40: this is very good " ( 1980 ).

Singing consists mostly of vocables, though recordings and reports from the early 1900s and prior indicate there were a great deal more lyrics or vocal texts.

A revised Psalter in more modern idiom was published in 2004 under the title The Psalms for Singing.

; Singing Beast ( imagined by C. S. Lewis in Perelandra ): An animal that sits upon its haunches like a dog, but appears more like a horse.

It is estimated that he baptized more than 15, 000 believers during his years in ministry and, in addition, narrated The Singing Christmas Tree and Memphis Passion Play for twenty years.

2005's Talking Voice vs. Singing Voice saw the band change their sound yet again, to a style that seemed a more natural follow-up to Old than I Am the Portuguese Blues had been.

The crossbred dogs were generally larger in size as well as less of a challenge to train so they tended to be of more value than Singing Dogs.

The Singing Fool solidified Jolson's position atop the movie world ; not until Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs would any sound era film be more financially successful than this audience-pleasing blend of sentiment and show biz.

" A review of The Simpsons season 9 DVD release in The San Diego Union-Tribune highlighted " Lisa's Sax " along with " All Singing, All Dancing " and " Trash of the Titans " as some of the more memorable episodes of the series.

He remained a co-executive producer for the fifth and final season in 2005 and contributed two more episodes – " Dancing for Me " and " Singing For Our Lives ".

Perhaps reflecting its more controversial theme in Ireland, The Singing Flame was not published until 1978, well after O ' Malley's death.

Singing and music also played a role in society life as musical instruments became more available.

It formed more than twenty study and activity groups, such as Play-Reading, Architecture, Family History, French, German, Cycling, Walking, Painting, Book-Reading, Bobbin Lace, Singing for Fun, Humour, Wildlife and Bird-Watching.

The following year saw both the general introduction of sound throughout the industry and two more smashes for Warners: The Singing Fool, The Jazz Singers even more profitable follow-up, and Hollywood's first " all-talking " feature, Lights of New York.

Singing and crosstalk are minimized because the high-level output of a repeater is at a different frequency than the low-level input to other repeaters.

The most common reasons for abandoning children in literature are oracles that the child will cause harm ; the mother's desire to conceal her illegitimate child, often after rape by a god ; or spite on the part of people other than the parents, such as sisters and mothers-in-law in such fairy tales as The Dancing Water, the Singing Apple, and the Speaking Bird.

Lynn continued to reach the Top 10 until the end of the decade, including with 1975's " The Pill ", considered to be the first song to discuss birth control, other than the 1967 French-language song in French, Pilule d ' Or, sung by Luc Dominique, the former " Singing Nun ".

Steven Bochco has credited the serial as the chief inspiration for Cop Rock ( 1990 ), although unlike The Singing Detective, Bochco's drama features specially recorded musical numbers rather than pre-existing work.

The camp boxing instructor at the time was Fred Dyer, " The Singing Boxer ", who recalled in a 1926 interview how Mandell beat every soldier in the bantam weight class and was able to best men 10 lbs heavier than him.

Murphy ( who began writing The Worst Witch at the age of 15 ) based the Worst Witch books on her own experiences of school at Ursuline Convent in Wimbledon, England with Singing becoming Chanting, Chemistry becoming Potions and so on.

* June 10 – Spontaneous 100, 000 strong mass night-singing demonstrations in Estonia, that eventually give name to the Singing Revolution.

It is also home of the biannual Diana Singing, sponsored by the Churches of Christ, which attracts over 3, 000 people to the town in June and September ..

In October 2005, after the original of The Singing Butler sold for £ 740, 000, it came to light that Vettriano had used the artists ' reference manual The Illustrator's Figure Reference Manual to form his figures, using Irish actress Orla Brady for the ' lady in red.

Vettriano's elephant, ' The Singing Butler Rides Again ', was the highest bid for Lot of the night, selling to a phone bidder for £ 155, 000.

Whitmire premiered The Singing Christmas Tree in 1976, with a record attendance for as high 56, 000.

He produced two CDs for tenor vocalist Daniel Rodriguez, formerly ‘ The Singing Policeman ’, the first of which, The Spirit Of America, has sold over 400, 000 copies to date.