At the age of five, his young voice and exuberance won him a talent contest singing a then-popular song, " Have You Ever Gone Sailing ( Down the River of Memories ).

* The song " Silvertown Blues " from Mark Knopfler's album Sailing to Philadelphia deals with the construction of The Dome

: For the song by Sky Sailing, see Brielle ( song ).

After the release of Sailing the Seas of Cheese, in 1992 Primus released a cover song EP Miscellaneous Debris, with their version of XTC's " Making Plans for Nigel " receiving enough airplay to reach No. 30 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart.

Mosley contributed " When You're Down The Road " and " Just A Woman ", Lewis " There Is No Reason ", and Spence brought along " We Don't Know Now " and " Sailing ", a song which would be all but forgotten until Spence performed it with Moby Grape at a 1996 Palookaville gig.

The song " Sailing to Philadelphia " from Mark Knopfler's album of the same name, also has strong references to Mason and Dixon, and was inspired by Pynchon's book.

The song was given unrelated English words and under the title " Beyond the Sea " ( or sometimes " Sailing "), was a hit for Bobby Darin in the early 1960s, and George Benson in the mid-1980s.

*" Eleven ", a song on the Primus album Sailing the Seas of Cheese that is in 11 / 8 time

In the Pogues song " Thousands Are Sailing ", the ghost of an Irish immigrant laments, "... on a coffin ship I came / And I never even got so far that they could change my name.

Their song " Sailing Day " is used at the end credits of the anime movie One Piece: Dead End Adventure.

* main as a synonym for the ocean, as in the song " Sailing, Sailing "

The song appears on Knopfler's second solo album, Sailing to Philadelphia.

In 1997 she performed the song Sailing in a duet with Montserrat Caballé on the album Friends For Life.

* The Wiggles sang this song on their album and video Sailing Around the World.

In 2002, Trina Broussard released her first studio album entitled, Inside My Love, with the song Sailing as the first single.

A native of Cork, Lohan first came to prominence thanks to the inclusion of her song " Sailing By " on the second instalment of the hugely successful " A Woman's Heart " collection.

MFSB released " TSOP ( The Sound of Philadelphia )", a 1974 hit recording featuring vocals by The Three Degrees, which became the first disco song to reach number one, after " Love's Theme ", on the Billboard Hot 100 ; it was written as the theme song for Soul Train.

An 18th-century example of topical song intended as a feminist protest song is " Rights of Woman " ( 1795 ), sung to the tune of " God Save the King ", written anonymously by " A Lady ", and published in the Philadelphia Minerva, October 17, 1795.

Washington Irving, then editor of The Analectic Magazine in Philadelphia, reprinted the song in November 1814.

The playing of the song two years later during the seventh-inning stretch of the 1918 World Series, and thereafter during each game of the series is often noted as the first instance that the anthem was played at a baseball game, though evidence shows that the " Star-Spangled Banner " was performed as early as 1897 at opening day ceremonies in Philadelphia and then more regularly at the Polo Grounds in New York City beginning in 1898.

Don McLean wrote the song in Cold Spring, New York and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The song made its debut in Philadelphia, PA at Temple University when he was opening for Laura Nyro on March 14, 1971.

* Philadelphia MC Reef the Lost Cauze put out a song called " Nat Turner " on his album A Vicious Cycle.

*" Flipside ", a song by rapper Freeway from his 2003 album Philadelphia Freeway

On New Year's Day, the Ebenezer Baptist Church held an extended service including a roll call of the members, a song service led by Mary Philips, a student at the Philadelphia Bible Institute, and a temperance address for the children.

Later in the evening, following David Bowie's set, a video shot by the CBC ( Video Editor: Colin Dean ) was shown to the audiences in London and Philadelphia, as well as on televisions around the world ( though notably neither US feed, ABC or MTV chose to show the film ), showing starving and diseased Ethiopian children set to the song " Drive " by The Cars.

She is the first artist to win all three awards ( Oscar, Golden Globe and Grammy ) for a song that is composed and written, as well as performed, entirely by a single artist ( the only other such artist being Bruce Springsteen for his " Streets of Philadelphia " 1993: Oscar, 1994: Golden Globe & two Grammys ).

Merchant has said in interviews that after her split with 10, 000 Maniacs she was so eager to begin writing her own material that she went home that very day and composed the song " I May Know the Word ", which was originally meant to appear on the soundtrack to the Tom Hanks movie Philadelphia.

It lost out to The Piano for Best Original Screenplay while the song " A Wink and a Smile " lost out to " Streets of Philadelphia " ( another Tom Hanks movie ) for Best Original Song.

Arriving shortly before airtime at the Philadelphia studios, Cantor was reportedly told to cut the song because the NBC New York censors considered some of the lyrics too risqué.

The band performed the song at the Live Aid benefit concert in Philadelphia, on July 13, 1985.

In 1994, Philadelphia indie rock band The Strapping Fieldhands recorded a 3-track no-fi version of the song ( as well as a reprise that closes the album ) for its EP " In The Pineys ".

During the 1938 season the Redskins played their new fight song for fans in attendance at the games as they played the Philadelphia Eagles, the Brooklyn Dodgers, the Cleveland Rams, the New York Giants, the Detroit Lions, the Pittsburgh Pirates, and the Chicago Bears football teams.

* Philadelphia punk rock band Dead Milkmen have a song called " I Dream of Jesus ", in which the singer's mother finds Jesus who is trapped inside a bottle.

* Philadelphia-Bruce Springsteen-For the song " Streets of Philadelphia "

In 1985, The Dead Milkmen, a Philadelphia punk band, wrote a song about Charles Nelson Reilly called " Serrated Edge.

There is a quick change from the plaintive song to a conversational tone.

It won't be a `` tea '', however, but more of an international folk song festival, with singers from Chicago's foreign groups to sing Christmas songs from around the world.

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

Like the Gershwins, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart were loath to let a good song get away from them.

Among the particular gems in this collection is the impudent opening song of `` The Garrick Gaieties '', an impressive forecast of the wit and melody that were to come from Rodgers and Hart in the years that followed ; ;

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 ''.

He shares with Mr. Morse a parody of the college anthems he once sang while his second song is whisked away from him by Virginia Martin, a girl with a remarkably expressive yip in her voice.

The full version of the song from Melbourne Punch, the fourth verse of which is pasted onto the urn

* " Atlantic ", a song by Thrice from Vheissu

* " Atomic ", a song by Tiger Army from Tiger Army III: Ghost Tigers Rise

* Atomic Dog, a song that is popular world wide ; written and performed by Our Father Who Art of Funk ; " George Clinton " from Parliament and the Funkadelics

Author James Basker states that the song has been employed by African Americans as the " paradigmatic Negro spiritual " because it expresses the joy felt at being delivered from slavery and worldly miseries.

Collins, Cash, and Norman were unable to discern if the power of the song came from the music or the lyrics.

* The San Francisco-based band Om mentions Absalom in their song " Kapila's Theme " from their debut album Variations on a Theme.

* " Atmosphere ", a song by Funkadelic from their 1975 album, Let's Take It to the Stage

She has referenced this independence from major labels in song more than once, including " The Million You Never Made " ( Not A Pretty Girl ), which discusses the act of turning down a lucrative contract, " The Next Big Thing " ( Not So Soft ), which describes an imagined meeting with a label head-hunter who evaluates the singer based on her looks, and " Napoleon " ( Dilate ), which sympathizes sarcastically with an unnamed friend who did sign with a label.

* The Star-Spangled Banner's tune was adapted from an old English drinking song by John Stafford Smith called " To Anacreon in Heaven ".

Like much of his mature work, it employs an idiosyncratic adaptation of Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique that enables the composer to produce passages openly evoking tonality, including quotations from historical tonal music, such as a Bach chorale and a Carinthian folk song.

In 2010, American dance recording artist Kelis released a song called " Acapella " as the first single from her album Flesh Tone.

" Find a Way ", from Unguarded, became the first Christian song to hit Billboard's Top 40 list, also reaching No. 7 on the Adult Contemporary chart.

* The song " Do-Re-Mi " from The Sound of Music, which is used to learn the order of the notes in the Solfege scale, just like the alphabet song is used to learn the order of the letters in the alphabetical order.

The elegant, harmonically-advanced music in this musical pays indirect homage to the compositions of Maurice Ravel, especially his Valses nobles et sentimentales ( whose opening chord is " borrowed " for the opening chord of the song " Liaisons "); part of this effect stems from the style of orchestration that Jonathan Tunick used.

Mr Judge's great innovation is to transform the Liebeslieder Singers from the evening-dressed, after-dinner line-up into 18th century ghosts weaving in and out of the action ... But Mr Judge's other great realisation is that, in Sondheim, the lyrics are not an adornment to a song but their very essence: understand them and the show will flow.