Each song or ditty was prefaced by an author's note which indicated the origin and meaning of the song as well as special interest the song had, musical arrangement, and most of the chorus and verses.

When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.

he collaborated on a song with William Hartman Woodin, who was Secretary of the Treasury, 1932-33.

Karl played well and his favorite song was a Schubert lullaby.

The song, he said, was called `` The Stream's Lullaby '', and when he sang, `` Gute ruh, Gute ruh, Mach't die augen zu, '' there was such longing and such simple sadness that it frightened me.

Later, when I was older, I found the song was part of Schubert's Die Schone Mullerin.

With shout and slow dance, with tears and song, with scream and contortion, the corner group was beset by hysteria and shivering, wailing, shouting, possession of something that seemed like an alien and outside force.

There was one of the new forte-pianos in the room and, as Claire rose to go, he asked her to sing him one song before she left.

There was about that song something incandescent, for this Brahms was Milstein at white heat.

To help him on this religious aspect of primitive jazz he had `` Big '' Miller, as a preacher-singer and Hannah Dean, Gospel-singer, while Oscar Brown Jr., an extremely talented young man, did a slave auctioneer's call, a field-hands' work song, and a beautifully sung Negro lullaby, `` Brown Baby '', which was one of the truly moving moments of the festival.

( Still another song in `` Strike Up The Band '' -- `` I've Got A Crush On You '' -- was retrieved from a 1928 failure, `` Treasure Girl ''.

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 ''.

it was the theme song of millions of American people, their personal problems no less urgent than those of the government.

Ward died in 1903, not knowing the national stature his music would attain, as the music was only first applied to the song in 1904.

At various times in the more than 100 years that have elapsed since the song was written, particularly during the John F. Kennedy administration, there have been efforts to give " America the Beautiful " legal status either as a national hymn, or as a national anthem equal to, or in place of, " The Star-Spangled Banner ", but so far this has not succeeded.

When Richard Nixon visited China in 1972, this song was played as the welcome music.

Popularity of the song increased greatly following the September 11, 2001 attacks ; at some sporting events it was sung in addition to the traditional singing of the national anthem.

He also performed the song on Red Sox opening day at Fenway Park in 2003, though the game was eventually rained out.

A tradition at one time observed on this day in England was to leave out soul cakes and sing a song for the dead.

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.

Grant followed the album with her second Christmas album, Home For Christmas in 1992, which included the song " Breath of Heaven ( Mary's Song )", written by Chris Eaton and Grant, and would later be covered by many artists, including Donna Summer, Jessica Simpson ( who acknowledged Grant as one of her favorite artists ), Vince Gill, Sara Groves, Point of Grace, and Broadway star Barbara Cook.

After she covered the 10cc song " The Things We Do For Love " for the Mr. Wrong soundtrack, Behind the Eyes was released in September 1997.

* Constantinople's change of name was the theme for a song made famous by The Four Lads and later covered by They Might Be Giants and many others entitled " Istanbul ( Not Constantinople )".

This song was also covered by Jimmy Buffett and is commonly played at his concerts.

The song has often been covered by other artists and gave Paul Young a hit single in 1991.

This song was covered by NOFX on their album titled 45 or 46 Songs That Weren't Good Enough to Go on Our Other Records, and also appears on the Fat Wreck Chords compilation Survival of the Fattest.

*" The Grave ", a song that McLean had written about the Vietnam War, was covered by George Michael in 2003 in protest against the Iraq War.

Gimbel and Charles Fox reworked the poem and the phrase into the song " Killing Me Softly with His Song ", recorded by Roberta Flack ( and later covered by The Fugees ).

The Irish singer / songwriter Tommy Makem wrote a lighthearted song about the town, " Fare Thee Well, Enniskillen ," covered by The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem and The Dubliners.

*" The Power of Love " ( Jennifer Rush song ) ( 1985 ), covered by Laura Branigan ( 1987 ) and Céline Dion ( 1993 )

The song was later covered by Wet Willie and also The Commitments.

The Who covered Jan and Dean's song " Bucket T " on their UK EP Ready Steady Who from 1966.

In 1976, Moon covered the Beatles ' song " When I'm Sixty-Four " for the soundtrack of the film documentary All This and World War II.

Page suggested that they attempt " Train Kept A-Rollin '", originally a jump blues song popularised in a rockabilly version by Johnny Burnette, which had been covered by The Yardbirds.

Thrash metal band Slayer later covered the song, with the last iteration of the lyric " Guilty of being white " changed to " Guilty of being right.

He also covered Mexican songs, like " Maria Bonita ", " Besame Mucho ", " La Raspa ", Angelitos Negros, and " Granada ( song )".

*" Madness ", a song by Prince Buster from the 1963 album I Feel the Spirit, covered by Madness on the 1979 album One Step Beyond ...

* A New England, a song by Billy Bragg, famously covered by Kirsty MacColl

The song has been covered by artists such as Geri Halliwell, Megadeth, Jessica Simpson, Lil ' Kim, Little Birdy, Billy Ray Cyrus, Faster Pussycat, KMFDM, Symarip, Operation Ivy and the Del Rubio Triplets and The Supremes.

Pale Saints covered the song in 1991.

In 2005, Sinatra's recording was sampled separately by the Audio Bullys and Radio Slave into dance tracks ( renamed into " Shot You Down " and " Bang Bang " respectively ), and by hip-hop artist Young Buck in a song titled " Bang Bang ", as well as covered for a single and music video by R & B artist Melanie Durrant.

For example, Bill Haley's incompletely bowdlerized cover of " Shake, Rattle and Roll " transformed Big Joe Turner's humorous and racy tale of adult love into an energetic teen dance number, while Georgia Gibbs replaced Etta James's tough, sarcastic vocal in " Roll With Me, Henry " ( covered as " Dance With Me, Henry ") with a perkier vocal more appropriate for an audience unfamiliar with the song to which James's song was an answer, Hank Ballard's " Work With Me, Annie ".

He also wrote " Technopolis " ( 1979 ), which contributed to the development of techno, and the international hit " Behind the Mask " ( 1978 ), a synthpop song for which he sang the vocals through a vocoder and which would later be covered by a number of international artists, including Michael Jackson and Eric Clapton.

" ( Sam Brown song ), also covered by Jamelia