They were concept albums, and typically began with an instrumental introduction which faded into the first song, often had an instrumental piece in the middle of the second LP side, and concluded with a quiet, melancholic, or powerful song.

" Gradually and unexpectedly, the song began to be played on the radio, and then be requested.

Don McLean ’ s song began the reference to the tragedy as " The Day the Music Died ".

As new genres of music, such as ragtime, blues and jazz, began to emerge in the early 20th century the popularity of the genre faded, but the association with sentimentality led to the term ballad being used for a slow love song from the 1950s onwards.

In April 1980, the track " Crying ” from the album began picking up airplay on Dutch radio stations and McLean was called to Europe to appear on several important musical variety shows to plug the song and support its release as a single by EMI.

The project began when diver Bill Smith was inspired to look for the wreck after hearing the Marillion song " Out of This World " ( from the album Afraid of Sunlight ), which was written about Campbell and Bluebird.

In May 2001, NBC began using " Only Time " to accompany commercials for their television series Friends, which helped the song top the Adult Contemporary and Adult Top 40 charts.

The song began with the chorus, which all of them sang with each one alternating ( in lip-synch ) a mournful howl after each of the first three lines.

The song was originally intended to be performed in 6 / 8 time, but had to be slowed down to its present rhythm when it began to be sung by large crowds.

The article began, " She goes barefooted when she feels like it, wears Levi's to class because they're more comfortable, and carries her Autoharp with her everywhere she goes so that in case she gets the urge to break into song it will be handy.

Composer Walter Niemann declared " The fact that Brahms began his creative activity with the German folk song and closed with the Bible reveals ... the true religious creed of this great man of the people.

Modern mambo began with a song called " Mambo " written in 1938 by brothers Orestes and Cachao López.

The two singles released, the anti-drug, anti-crime song " Pause " and street narrative " The Ave ", had little success, and the group began to look outdated.

In Columbia the concert ended with a near riot as Perkins began his first song as the closing act.

He began acting and composing for film with Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence ( 1983 ), which he starred in and composed the score for ; the song " Forbidden Colours " which he composed for it became a worldwide hit and he won a BAFTA Award for the film's score.

While Simon was in England that summer of 1965, radio stations around Cocoa Beach and Gainesville, Florida, began to receive requests for a song from the album Wednesday Morning, 3 A. M. called " The Sound of Silence ".

The song also began to receive radio airplay in Boston.

Bono began his music career working at Specialty Records where his song " Things You Do to Me " was recorded by Sam Cooke, and went on to work for the record producer Phil Spector in the early 1960s as a promotion man, percussionist and " gofer ".

Dutch band Focus, containing Thijs van Leer and Jan Akkerman, began to assert symphonic prog with their second album Focus II ( Moving Waves ) ( 1971 ) despite their hit song " Hocus Pocus " ( which is noted for lead singer Thijs van Leer's yodeling ).

In 1948 Alan Courtney — New York disk jockey and co-composer of the popular song, " Joltin ' Joe Dimaggio " — began a call-in program for the Storer station in Miami, Florida ( WGBS ) and then on Miami's WQAM, WINZ and WCKR the " Alan Courtney Open Phone Forum " flourished as an avowedly conservative and anti-communist political forum with a coverage area over the Southeastern U. S. and Cuba.

It was with their second album, 1978's More Songs About Buildings and Food that the band began its long-term collaboration with producer Brian Eno, who had previously worked with Roxy Music, David Bowie, John Cale and Robert Fripp ; the title of Eno's 1977 song " King's Lead Hat " is an anagram of the band's name.

" He began to use his musical skills around town, playing a song for a sandwich or coins.

Her live performances of the song throughout the decade began to take on a theatrical intensity not present on the album's single.

Early shows began with a cold open suggesting the sinister plot for that program, then cut to a shot of a big ocean wave and the start of the theme song.

The same technique is also noted in the book How to Rap, where diagrams are used to show how the lyrics line up with the beat – " stressing a syllable on each of the four beats gives the lyrics the same underlying rhythmic pulse as the music and keeps them in rhythm ... other syllables in the song may still be stressed, but the ones that fall in time with the four beats of a bar are the only ones that need to be emphasized in order to keep the lyrics in time with the music ".

The song, played in the key of F-sharp major, begins with a brass riff, backed by the constant pulse that typified disco.

Grey Haymes of Times Union remarked that the song was " re-made and re-modeled with a throbbing, fuzzed-out bassline and an irresistable techno pulse as the foundation for her hook-filled pop song.

A rhythmic interest in the song is that the tune keeps behind the main pulse, with the three " I got ..." phrases syncopated, appearing one beat behind in the first bar, while the fourth phase " Who could ..." rushes in to the song.

It was recorded using two 4-track tape machines, allowing seven tracks for the complex arrangement of the song ( and one for a pulse to synchronize the two machines ), a method not common at the time in recording at Abbey Road.

" The trigger pulse created by the CR-78 became a distinctive electronic / synth element of the song.

And I would further note that they all -- with one exception again -- sang in one key or another the same song.

My own stern hand has rent the ancient bond, And thereof shall the ending not have end: But not for me, that loved her, to be fond Lightly to please me with a newer friend Then hold it more than bravest-feathered song, That I affirm to thee, with heart of pride, I knew not what did to a friend belong Till I stood up, true friend, by thy true side ; ;

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

the doors of the D train slid shut, and as I dropped into a seat and, exhaling, looked up across the aisle, the whole aviary in my head burst into song.

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 ''.

Also, " Absalom, Absalom Would I die for you my son, I would have it all undone, The way it all came down " is found on the 1998 album Largo in the song " Gimme A Stone ".

The Irish anti-war song " Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye " and " When Johnny Comes Marching Home " share the same melodic material.

" Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye " is a popular traditional Irish anti-war and anti-recruiting song.

In 1986, she scored her first Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 song in a duet with Peter Cetera, " The Next Time I Fall ".

Amy Grant scored her first Billboard No. 1 song in 1986 with " The Next Time I Fall ", a duet with former Chicago singer / bassist Peter Cetera.

Following the 9 / 11 attacks, Grant's " I Will Remember You " saw a resurgence in popularity as many radio DJs mixed a special tribute version of the song.

* The song " Felicia " on the Straight On Till Morning album by Blues Traveler includes the line " I wouldn't feel so much like Casey who never got to bat.

* The song " Centerfield " by John Fogerty includes the line " Well, I spent some time in the Mudville Nine, watchin ' it from the bench.

The victory song of the Australian national cricket team is entitled " Under the Southern Cross I Stand ".

*" Creation ", a song by Zion I from Mind Over Matter

Cesare Borgia is mentioned in the song " B. I. B. L. E.

Clint Black's album " Nothin ' but the Taillights " includes the song " Ode to Chet ," which includes the lines "' Cause I can win her over like Romeo did Juliet, if I can only show her I can almost pick that legato lick like Chet " and " It'll take more than Mel Bay 1, 2, & 3 if I'm ever gonna play like CGP.

I wrote every note of that song and this is not what it was meant for ….

In 1974, her song, " I Will Always Love You ", written about her professional break from Wagoner, went to number one on the country music charts.