" Amazing Grace " saw a resurgence in popularity in the U. S. during the 1960s and has been recorded thousands of times during and since the 20th century, occasionally appearing on popular music charts.

With the advent of recorded music and radio, " Amazing Grace " began to cross over from primarily a gospel standard to secular audiences.

Where Edwin Othello Excell sought to make the singing of " Amazing Grace " uniform throughout thousands of churches, records allowed artists to improvise with the words and music specific to each audience.

" Amazing Grace " is emblematic of several kinds of folk music styles, often used as the standard example to illustrate such musical techniques as lining out and call and response, that have been practiced in both black and white folk music.

Following the appropriation of the hymn in secular music, " Amazing Grace " became such an icon in American culture that it has been used for a variety of secular purposes and marketing campaigns, placing it in danger of becoming a cliché.

The 1982 science fiction film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan used " Amazing Grace " amid a context of Christian symbolism, to memorialize the death of Mr. Spock but more practically, because the song has become " instantly recognizable to many in the audience as music that sounds appropriate for a funeral " according to a Star Trek scholar.

On August 2, 2011, Barrymore directed the music video for the song " Our Deal ", for the band Best Coast, which features Chloë Grace Moretz, Miranda Cosgrove, Tyler Posey, Donald Glover, Shailene Woodley and Alia Shawkat.

The bulk of the band's music has always included synthetic instruments in some form or another, and this is a great source of contention in the Rush camp, especially the band's heavy reliance on synthesizers and keyboards during the 1980s, particularly on albums Grace Under Pressure, Power Windows, and Hold Your Fire.

Eastwood was nominated for Best Original Score, while the song " Grace is Gone " with music by Eastwood and lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager was nominated for Best Original Song.

Newton-John re-recorded some tracks from Grace and Gratitude in 2010 and re-released the album as Grace and Gratitude Renewed on the Green Hill music label.

In August 1969, a few days after the band headlined at a free concert in New York's Central Park, they performed in what Grace Slick called an early " morning maniac music " slot at the Woodstock festival, for which the group was joined by noted British session keyboard player Nicky Hopkins.

Actors and dancers in blackface appeared in music videos such Grace Jones's " Slave to the Rhythm " ( 1980, also part of her touring piece A One Man Show ) and Taco's " Puttin ' on the Ritz " ( 1984 ).

His show was a mixture of music, chat and current affairs and over the next couple of decades, he interviewed every British Prime Minister on the show as well as royalty including Prince Philip, Anne The Princess Royal and Princess Grace of Monaco.

Notable music and arts representatives include Susan Grace, a pianist with appearances at Carnegie Hall, Stephen Scott, a neo-classical composer, and Ofer Ben-Amots, an Israeli composer.

* Saving Grace, former name of Canadian country music duo now known as One More Girl

Bernstein's music has some stylistic similarities to Copland's music, most notably in his western scores, particularly sections of Big Jake, in the Gregory Peck film Amazing Grace and Chuck, and in his spirited score for the 1958 film adaptation of Erskine Caldwell's novel God's Little Acre.

Artists that got their start here include Chuck & Joni Mitchell, Alice Cooper, The White Stripes, The Detroit Cobras, MC5, The Stooges, Savage Grace, Ted Nugent, Grand Funk Railroad, the Red Hot Chili Peppers recording their Freaky Styley album, the publication of Creem Magazine, the first rock journal, the first to use the terms " punk rock " and " heavy metal " and the first to give recognition to music of the likes of David Bowie, Iggy Pop, The Smiths, among many others.

* Shelley Breen, Heather Payne, Denise Jones, and Terry Jones ( singer ) of Christian pop music group Point of Grace

Born in Newark, New Jersey, Ward studied music in New York and became an organist at Grace Episcopal Church in Newark in 1880.

The Neo-Traditional genre in Filipino music is also gaining popularity, with artists such as Joey Ayala, Grace Nono, Bayang Barrios, Cocojam, and Pinikpikan reaping relative commercial success while utilizing the traditional musical sounds of many indigenous tribes in the Philippines.

In the 1980s, Trevor Horn's hugely popular productions for ABC's The Lexicon of Love, Yes ' 90125, Frankie Goes to Hollywood's Welcome to the Pleasuredome, and Grace Jones ' Slave to the Rhythm are decidedly slicker and more sophisticated examples of the opulent " Wall of Sound " approach in British New Wave / Hi-NRG dance music — all of these recordings utilize a large string orchestra and dozens of synthesizer and guitar overdubs with featured sound effects and treatments.

The marketing of Elvis Costello's My Aim Is True included advertisements in three UK music papers from which a poster of Costello could be constructed, and the first 1, 000 pressings contained an insert headed Help Us Hype Elvis, which, if completed and returned to Stiff, ensured that a friend would received a free copy.

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 ?".

He is also a respected composer of orchestral and sacred music, and wrote soundtracks for television such as Mr. Broadway and the animated mini-series This Is America, Charlie Brown.

The album strongly revitalized Parton's somewhat stagnant music career, spending five weeks at number one on Billboard's Country Albums chart, selling several million copies and producing four Top 10 country hits including Phil Spector's " To Know Him Is to Love Him ", which went to number one.

Some groups, particularly Man Is the Bastard, took influence from sludge metal and noise music.

This skyscraper was the filming location for R & B group Dru Hill's music video for " How Deep Is Your Love ," directed by Brett Ratner, who also directed the movie Rush Hour, whose soundtrack features the song.

* Dru Hill's music video How Deep Is Your Love at YouTube

Snoop Dogg appeared in a song from the film Singh Is Kinng in 2008 which further popularized hip hop music amongst the people of India.

The group also picked up a cult following in Australia thanks to the support of the Sydney rock radio station 2JJ ( now Triple-J ) and the nationally broadcast weekly music TV show Countdown, which screened all of the band's early videos ( beginning with their first Australian single release-" This Is Pop "); thanks to this interest, the group made two well-received tours there in 1979 and 1980.

While the music partially continued the punk-oriented style that was introduced on The Cult Is Alive, this time the band focused more on traditional heavy metal.

Doe Maar's newfound success continued with Is Dit Alles ( Is That All ; a song that questions the perfect marriage ) and gave rise to the Nederpop ( New Dutch Wave ) explosion ; ( relatively ) young bands singing in their own language at a time when serious music fans snubbed it, something that Ernst was concerned about.

1977 ); Hughes, Glenn: Pierrot's Mother ( 1923 ); Johnstone, Will B .: I'll Say She Is ( 1924 revue featuring the Marx Brothers and two " breeches " Pierrots ; music by Tom Johnstone ); Macmillan, Mary Louise: Pan or Pierrot: A Masque ( 1924 ); Millay, Edna St. Vincent: Aria da Capo ( 1920 ); Renaud, Ralph E .: Pierrot Meets Himself ( 1933 ); Rogers, Robert Emmons: Behind a Watteau Picture ( 1918 ); Shephard, Esther: Pierrette's Heart ( 1924 ).

In 1978, the Rutles ' mockumentary film All You Need Is Cash, a collaboration between Python members and Saturday Night Live, was aired on NBC television, as written by Idle, with music by Innes.

Apple was introduced to the music industry in 1994, when she gave a demo tape containing the songs " Never Is a Promise ", " Not One of Those Times ", and " He Takes a Taxi " to her friend who was the babysitter of music publicist Kathryn Schenker.

Several music cues from the program are still used today as background music during prize descriptions on The Price Is Right.

* He was featured in the 1996 documentary Henry Miller Is Not Dead that featured music by Laurie Anderson.

Under the Museum of Modern Art Department of Film, the film collection owns prints of many familiar feature-length movies, including Citizen Kane and Vertigo, but the department's holdings also contains many less-traditional pieces, including Andy Warhol's eight-hour Empire, various TV commercials, and Chris Cunningham's music video for Björk's All Is Full of Love.

Both Liquid Architecture and What Is Music are annual festivals of modern music and sound art.

Other notable bands from the Sydney music scene are Angelspit, Wolfmother and Thy Art Is Murder.

* The Beat Is The Law-Fanfare For The Common People ( 2011 )-critically acclaimed music documentary about Pulp's rise to fame.

On the soundtrack release of the music from All You Need Is Cash, The Rutles were officially: