Banks's earliest setup included a Hammond L-111 organ, a Hohner Pianet N and a Mellotron mkII, all of which ( as well as grand piano ) are first heard on the Trespass album ( except the Hammond, which was replaced with a L-122 model, with a brighter sound than the L-111, used only in the early demo tracks ).

Vocalist and rhythm guitarist, Ade Blackburn ( born Adrian Everett Blackburn, Liverpool, 1968 ), and lead guitarist, Hartley ( born Jonathan Christopher Hartley, Liverpool, 1968 ), formed the earliest incarnation of the band around 1984, initially known as Sunny Rainy Afterlife and offering home-made demo cassettes through a local free circulation magazine.

The earliest reported example of this musical form is the song " Kalenda Maya ", supposedly written by the troubadour Raimbaut de Vaqueiras ( 1180-1207 ) to the melody of an estampida played by French jongleurs.

Although usually thought of as a spiritual, the earliest recorded use of the song was as a rallying anthem for the Contrabands at Fort Monroe sometime before July 1862.

Faith No More's song " Epic " is considered by some to be the earliest incarnation of nu metal, with antiMusic writing " Epic was ( unfortunately for a truly avant-garde outfit like Faith No More ) the model prototype of what more than a few AR label recruiters were looking to tap.

Two of the earliest recordings which have a funk beat and lyrics which are rhymed in rhythm over this type of beat were released by comedian Pigmeat Markham, " Here Come the Judge " which was released in 1968 by the Chess label and in 1969 another song about running numbers called " Who Got The Number?

* April 9 – French typesetter Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville sings the French folk song " Au Clair de la Lune " to his phonautograph ; producing the world's earliest known sound recording ( however, it is not rediscovered until 2008 ).

Marks and Joe Stern published The Little Lost Child, promoting its release with the earliest version of music video known as the illustrated song.

His body of Catholic religious music was highly popular in 19th century Germany, and he composed one of the earliest song cycles, Die Temperamente beim Verluste der Geliebten ( Temperaments on the Loss of a Lover ).

W. C. Handy recorded one of the earliest cover versions of a ODJB song when he released a recording of " Livery Stable Blues " by Handy's Orchestra of Memphis on Columbia Records in 1917, as Columbia A2419 and Columbia 2912, recorded on September 25, 1917.

One of the most famous Bolden numbers is a song called " Funky Butt " ( known later as " Buddy Bolden's Blues "), which represents one of the earliest references to the concept of " funk " in popular music, now a musical subgenre unto itself.

Astaire declares his preference for bachelorhood and the song – this number was the brainchild of scriptwriter Dwight Taylor and is found in his earliest drafts – emerges naturally and in mid-sentence.

The song Sumer is icumen in, which was first written down in the abbey about 1240, is the earliest known four part harmony from Britain.

In the earliest commercials, Lucky Charms cereal had no theme song ; the action was accompanied by a light instrumental " Irish " tune.

A fatal accident on the Bangor and Piscataquis Railroad between Bangor and Old Town in 1848 is the subject of the earliest known railroad song, Henry Sawyer.

Several musical tributes to the Munich air disaster have been recorded, the earliest being the song " The Flowers of Manchester ".

The earliest surviving version of the song is in a broadside printed in England between 1672 and 1685, under the name Diddle Diddle, Or The Kind Country Lovers.

One of the earliest uses of the TR-808 for a live performance was by Yellow Magic Orchestra in December 1980 for the song " 1000 Knives ," an electro rendition of member Ryuichi Sakamoto's " Thousand Knives " ( 1978 ).

One of the earliest Japanese songs that was said to have partly used it is Rentarō Taki's " Kōjō no Tsuki ," which was called or " school song " in the Meiji period.

At 4 ft 9 inches tall, she received the nickname Little Miss Dynamite in 1957 after recording the song " Dynamite "; and was one of the earliest pop stars to have a major contemporary international following.

This song was one of the earliest prototypical rock and roll songs, and was covered by Jerry Lee Lewis and Mike Bloomfield's Electric Flag ( as " Wine ").

* " Sour Milk Sea ", a Harrison song later recorded by Jackie Lomax as one of the earliest Apple Record singles.

Today, Northwestern's official color is purple, although white is something of an official color as well, being mentioned in both the university's earliest song, Alma Mater ( 1907 ) (" Hail to purple, hail to white ") and in many university guidelines.

The track " Open My Eyes " has been said to be the inspiration behind one of the earliest songs written by KISS, " Love Her All I Can ", a song originally intended for the pre-KISS band Wicked Lester.

The song " Planet Rock " was one of the earliest hits of the hip hop music genre and remains one of its pioneering recordings.

Thomas " Daddy " Rice introduced the earliest slave archetype with his song " Jump Jim Crow " and its accompanying dance.

The earliest recorded use of this term in English is in Thomas Hacket's 1568 translation of André Thévet's book on France Antarctique ; Thévet himself had referred to the natives as Ameriques.

The earliest recorded use of this term in English dates to 1648, in Thomas Gage's The English-American: A New Survet of the West Indies.

The first authoritative knowledge of the earliest ballroom dances was recorded toward the end of the 16th century, when Jehan Tabourot, under the pen name " Thoinot-Arbeau ", published in 1588 his Orchésographie, a study of late 16th-century French renaissance social dance.

It was during this cruise with Hornigold that the earliest known report of Teach was made, in which he is recorded as a pirate in his own right, in command of a large crew.

It is also the earliest recorded and earliest written language of the Mon – Khmer family, predating Mon and by a significant margin Vietnamese.

The archaeological site of Xihoudu in Shanxi Province is the earliest recorded use of fire by Homo erectus, which is dated 1. 27 million years ago.

However, the earliest known civilizations had codes of law, containing both civil and penal rules mixed together, though not always in recorded form.

The earliest recorded introductions were to Barbados and Martinique.

The earliest recorded use of the terms Christianity ( Greek ) and Catholic ( Greek ), dates to this period, the 2nd century, attributed to Ignatius of Antioch c. 107.

The earliest event recorded in the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba in Constantine's reign is an attack by Vikings and the plundering of Dunkeld " and all Albania " in his third year.

Christian alternative music has its roots in the early 1980s, as the earliest efforts at Christian punk and new wave were recorded by artists like Andy McCarroll and Moral Support, Undercover, The 77s, Adam Again, Quickflight, Daniel Amos, Youth Choir ( later renamed The Choir ), Lifesavers Underground, Michael Knott, The Altar Boys, Breakfast with Amy, Steve Taylor, 4-4-1, David Edwards and Vector.

One of the most attractive old streets is Smith Street and is the earliest street in Dartmouth to be recorded by name ( in the 13th century ).

Evidence for the fire hypothesis is the sudden increase in widespread ash deposits at the time that people arrived in Australia, as well as land-management and hunting practices of modern Aboriginal people as recorded by the earliest European settlers before Aboriginal society was devastated by European contact and disease.

Its earliest recorded use in the prevalent modern sense, as a female dominant in S & M, dates to 1967.

Its origins are postulated from illustrated sermon texts ; the earliest recorded visual scheme was a now lost mural in the Saints Innocents Cemetery in Paris dating from 1424-25.

The earliest recorded visual example is from the cemetery of the Church of the Holy Innocents in Paris ( 1424 – 25 ).

In his First Epistle to the Corinthians ( c 54-55 ), Paul the Apostle gives the earliest recorded description of Jesus ' Last Supper: " The Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, ' This is my body which is for you.

The earliest emperor recorded in Kojiki and Nihon Shoki is Emperor Jimmu.

In 1879 Essendon played Melbourne in one of the earliest night matches recorded when the ball was painted white.

" One year later, the earliest recorded use in reference to a theological distinction was by Sir Thomas More, who spoke of " Tyndale his evangelical brother Barns ".

The earliest written evidence is found in the Linear B clay tablets in the " Room of the Chariot Tablets ", an LMIII A-context ( c. 1400 BC ) region of Knossos, in Crete, making Greek the world's oldest recorded living languages.

The earliest recorded beginnings of geometry can be traced to early peoples, who discovered obtuse triangles in the ancient Indus Valley ( see Harappan Mathematics ), and ancient Babylonia ( see Babylonian mathematics ) from around 3000 BC.

The adjective derived from this noun, * þiudiskaz, " popular ", was later used with reference to the language of the people in contrast to the Latin language ( earliest recorded example 786 ).