The album's title song received some pop radio airplay and crossed over to No. 96 on the Billboard Hot 100, and " 1974 ( We Were Young )" and " Saved By Love " also charted as Adult Contemporary songs.

Released in late 1973, the song topped the singles chart in February 1974, and reached the lower regions of Billboard's Hot 100 ( it eventually also charted in the UK, reaching No. 7 in 1976, representing Parton's first UK success ).

" Starman ", issued as an April single ahead of the album, was to cement Bowie's UK breakthrough: both single and album charted rapidly following his July Top of the Pops performance of the song.

The latter song also charted # 30 on Billboards Adult Contemporary chart.

Although four songs were released as singles to promote the album ( lead single " Everything I Need ", " Man With Two Hearts ", " Maria ", and " Hard Luck Story "), only the first song charted in the US, and that only at No. 47.

In his first session for Monument in Nashville, Orbison took on a song that RCA had refused, " Paper Boy ", backed by " With The Bug " as the B-side, but neither charted.

It became Sondheim's most popular song after Frank Sinatra recorded it in 1973 and Judy Collins's version charted in 1975 and 1977.

* Australian singer Rolf Harris recorded a song called " The Court Of King Caractacus " in 1964 ; it was a hit in Australia and also charted in the US and UK.

Newton-John charted with " Magic " ( No. 1 Pop, No. 1 AC ), " Suddenly " with Cliff Richard ( No. 20 Pop, No. 4 AC ) and the title song with the Electric Light Orchestra ( No. 8 Pop, No. 2 AC ).

( In 2008, Billboard ranked the song No. 6 among all songs that charted in the 50-year history of the Hot 100.

The band were able to showcase their ability on the album to juxtapose pert pop ballads (" Kayleigh ", charting at No. 2 in the United Kingdom, behind charity fundraiser " You'll Never Walk Alone " by The Crowd, and " Lavender ", which charted at No. 5 ) with longer song cycles of lost youth, first love, drug abuse, drink, prostitution and, ultimately, rebirth and redemption, all inspired by Fish's life experiences.

After Mariska Veres took over the vocals, the group charted a world-wide hit with the song " Venus ", which reached # 1 on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 in February 1970.

The song was used both in the game adverts, and released as a single, which charted in the UK at number 55.

In 1967, Peaches & Herb's version of the song charted on both Billboards Hot 100 and R & B Singles charts peaking at # 13 and 16, respectively.

The Spanish-only version of the song (" Por Amor Viveremos ") charted in 1975.

Hayward's " Voices in the Sky " charted as a single in the UK ( No. 27 ), as did Lodge's " Ride My See-Saw " ( No. 42, No. 15 in France ) – still their concert finale number today – which featured Pinder's non-album song " A Simple Game " as ' B ' side.

The album's title song also charted in the US, at No. 58.

The song became their first charted hit in nineteen years peaking at number-one on the Billboard dance singles chart.

Dodd has had many recording hits, charting on nineteen occasions in the UK Top 40, including his first single " Love Is Like a Violin " ( 1960 ), produced on Decca Records by Alex Wharton, which charted at number 8 ( UK ), and his song " Tears " ( Columbia ), which topped the UK charts for five weeks in 1965, selling over a million copies.

In 1962, the group released their first album, featuring the single " Sherry ", which was not only their first charted hit but also their first number-one song.

That year, they released their first song, " I Met Him on a Sunday "; after local success, it was licensed to Decca Records for national broadcast and charted at # 50.

The song charted in the UK at no.

In 1992, when U2 released their song " Even Better Than the Real Thing ", the Perfecto remix reached a higher charted position than the original song.

The song was a # 1 hit and the album also charted.

he collaborated on a song with William Hartman Woodin, who was Secretary of the Treasury, 1932-33.

Besides doing a single song, `` When The Sun Comes Out '', they worked on the ambitious American-Negro Suite, for voices and piano, as well as songs for films.

'', and Berman sifted out all alone on the stage with the ambling chords and beat of the song just whispering into being.

To help him on this religious aspect of primitive jazz he had `` Big '' Miller, as a preacher-singer and Hannah Dean, Gospel-singer, while Oscar Brown Jr., an extremely talented young man, did a slave auctioneer's call, a field-hands' work song, and a beautifully sung Negro lullaby, `` Brown Baby '', which was one of the truly moving moments of the festival.

Today, in the era of the integrated musical when an individual song must contribute to the over-all development of the show, it is understandable that a song, no matter how excellent it may be on its own terms, is cut out because it does not perform the function required of it.

* " Alien ", a song by Bush on the album Sixteen Stone

* " Alien ", a song by Erasure on the album Loveboat

* " Alien ", a song by Japan on the album Quiet Life

* " Alien ", a song by Lamb on the album Fear of Fours

* " Alien ", a song by Nerina Pallot on the album Dear Frustrated Superstar

* " Alien ", a song by Thriving Ivory on their self-titled album

* " Alien ", a song by Tokio Hotel on the album Humanoid

* " My Alien ", a song by Simple Plan on the album No Pads, No Helmets ... Just Balls

He also performed the song on Red Sox opening day at Fenway Park in 2003, though the game was eventually rained out.

Songs and poetry often rely on ambiguous words for artistic effect, as in the song title " Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue " ( where " blue " can refer to the color, or to sadness ).

Its album Pimp to Eat featured guest appearances by various members of Rhyme Syndicate, Odd Oberheim, Jacky jasper ( who appears as Jacky Jasper on the song " We Sleep Days " and H-Bomb on " War "), D. J.

A tradition at one time observed on this day in England was to leave out soul cakes and sing a song for the dead.

Parsons himself only sang lead on one song (" The Raven ") through a vocoder, and can be heard singing backing vocals on a few others, including " To One in Paradise ".

The hymn was translated into other languages as well: while on the Trail of Tears, the Cherokee sang Christian hymns as a way of coping with the ongoing tragedy, and a version of the song by Samuel Worcester that had been translated into the Cherokee language became very popular.

In the 1960s with the African American Civil Rights Movement and opposition to the Vietnam War, the song took on a political tone.

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

Cash often included the song when he toured prisons, saying " For the three minutes that song is going on, everybody is free.