In the essay, Wright described how, as a young girl, she misheard the last line of the first stanza from the 17th-century ballad " The Bonny Earl O ' Moray ".

Their first release, " Buick 59 ," ( based on Todd Rhodes's double-entendre R & B hit " Rocket 69 ") was backed with a ballad called

The first single from Spellbound was the ballad, " Rush, Rush ," which topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for five consecutive weeks, and was noted for its music video and Rebel Without a Cause motif featuring Keanu Reeves in the James Dean role.

He first appeared in a 17th-century broadside ballad, and unlike many of the characters thus associated, managed to adhere to the legend.

This was the first BBC " radio ballad ".

and its first three singles, two more singles were released in the second half of 2003 with up-tempo " Thank You Baby " (# 11 in the UK, Top 20 in Germany ) and just before Christmas the romantic, acoustic ballad " When You Kiss Me ", at least a minor hit in both territories.

On the Indigo Girls album 1200 Curfews ( Disc 2 ) Amy Ray starts the song " Land of Cannaan " ( which originally was on their 1987 Strange Fire album ) by saying " When I first wrote this song it was a ballad, and then I heard The Replacements, and it wasn't any more.

The first, by Don Ho, starts with the familiar tempo, then settles into a ballad style.

It was the ballad, " Lucky Man ", which was a song Lake wrote when he had his first guitar at the age of 12, that brought the band to prominence.

Written and composed by Jeff Barry and Peter Allen, the ballad became her first No. 1 Pop ( two weeks ), second No. 1 AC ( three weeks ) and third Top 10 Country ( No. 6 ) hit and earned Newton-John two more Grammys for Record of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Performance-Female.

The first definite reference to the ballad, Titus Andronicus ' Complaint, is an entry in the Stationers ' Register by the printer John Danter on 6 February 1594, where the entry " A booke intitled a Noble Roman Historye of Tytus Andronicus " is immediately followed by " Entred also vnto finde that none in all that Authors Works ever receiv'd greater Alterations or Additions, the language not only Refin'd, but many Scenes entirely New: Besides most of the principal Characters heighten'd and the Plot much incresas'd.

The first single, the ballad " Te Extraño, Te Olvido, Te Amo ", was reminiscent of his earlier work.

Manannán has strong ties to the Isle of Man, where he is referenced in a traditional ballad as having been the nation's first ruler.

The ballad is about coming home for the first time without a partner being there after a break up.

* Dante Gabriel Rossetti, " The White Ship: a ballad "; first published 1881 in his collected Ballads and Sonnets.

Many times it is the ballad that the child learns first, no Mother Goose melodies are as familiar, and it is strange indeed to listen to a little tot singing of the courtly days of old, the knights and ' ladyes ' and probably the tragic death of the lover.

In 1817 he appeared as a violinist in public, and in this year composed a ballad, first called " Young Fanny " and afterwards, when sung in Paul Pry by Madame Vestris, " The Lovers ' Mistake ".

Brown's first full lead vocal performance was on the New Edition ballad, " Jealous Girl ", which was a minor hit when it charted in 1983.

In 1978, Summer released her version of the Jimmy Webb ballad, " MacArthur Park ", which became her first US number one hit.

Marty Balin contributed the haunting ballad " Caroline " to their first album Dragon Fly, but did not join the band again until January 1975.

On the strength of these releases and constant playing in local clubs and schools, the band established a fan base in the Chicago area, but was unable to break into the mainstream until an earlier song, the power ballad " Lady " ( from Styx II ), began to earn some radio time, first on WLS in Chicago and then nationwide.

The new line-up released one album, Edge of the Century, featuring the Dennis DeYoung ballad " Show Me the Way ", which received an additional boost just prior to the first Persian Gulf War.

The power ballad " Silent Lucidity ", which featured an orchestra, became the band's first Top 10 single.

" An Invitation to Lubberland " was a broadside ballad first printed in 1685.

This is the first time in over a year that a song hits # 1 that is not either a disco song or a ballad, signalling the potential resurgence of rock.

The 350th anniversary of the King James Bible is being celebrated simultaneously with the publishing today of the New Testament, the first part of the New English Bible, undertaken as a new translation of the Scriptures into contemporary English.

To illustrate, the first blessing in the King James Bible reads: `` Blessed are the poor in spirit ; ;

Deck Cadet James L. Cahill and Seaman Walter Brooks had been the first to leave.

Although americium was likely produced in previous nuclear experiments, it was first intentionally synthesized, isolated and identified in late autumn 1944, at the University of California, Berkeley by Glenn T. Seaborg, Leon O. Morgan, Ralph A. James, and Albert Ghiorso.

The first governor of South Australia, John Hindmarsh, clashed frequently with others, in particular with the Resident Commissioner, James Hurtle Fisher.

James Bradley first tried to measure stellar parallaxes in 1729.

* 1963 – American civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi.

* 1968 – James Anderson, Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U. S. Marine.

* 1768 – James Cook begins his first voyage.

* 1902 – James C. Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.

Tradition relates that in 814, the body of Saint James the Greater was discovered in Compostela and that Alfonso was the first pilgrim to that famous medieval ( and modern ) shrine.

The character originated in folktales circulated among lumberjacks in the Northeastern United States and eastern Canada, first appearing in print in a story published by Northern Michigan journalist James MacGillivray in 1906.

It was from a hill on Arapawa Island in 1770 that Captain James Cook first saw the sea passage from the Pacific Ocean to the Tasman Sea, which was named Cook Strait.

Phillip assigned a convict, James Ruse, land at Rose Hill ( now Parramatta ) to establish proper farming, and when Ruse succeeded he received the first land grant in the colony.

His uncle, Josiah Turner, together with business partner James Starley used this as a basis for the ' Coventry Model ' in what became Britain's first cycle factory.

In Acts 11: 30 and, we see a collegiate system of government in Jerusalem though headed by James, according to tradition the first bishop of the city.

The first documented account of a bare-knuckle fight in England appeared in 1681 in the London Protestant Mercury, and the first English bare-knuckle champion was James Figg in 1719.

The lyrics were written in honor of Green Beret James Gabriel, Jr., the first Native Hawaiian who died in Vietnam, who was executed by the Viet Cong while on a training mission on April 8, 1962.

During the Anglo-French War ( 1627 – 1629 ), under Charles I, by 1629 the Kirkes took Quebec City, Sir James Stewart of Killeith, Lord Ochiltree planted a colony on Cape Breton Island at Baleine, Nova Scotia and Alexander ’ s son, William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling established the first incarnation of “ New Scotland ” at Port Royal.

" He quotes Charles Lyell as saying " Continents, therefore, although permanent for whole geological epochs, shift their positions entirely in the course of ages " and claims that the first to throw doubt on this was James D. Dana in 1849.

The name " curl " was first suggested by James Clerk Maxwell in 1871.

Christian Science metaphysics teach that God is Spirit and cites the first chapter of Genesis as the true story of creation, where in the King James Bible, " man " is both " male and female ", created " in the image and likeness " of God.

# The final piece of the puzzle, thermal transpiration, was theorized by Osborne Reynolds, but first published by James Clerk Maxwell in the last paper before his death in 1879.

Mather's first published sermon, which appeared in 1686, concerned the crime and punishment of James Morgan, a reprobate who in a drunken rage impaled a man with an iron spit.