Also included for the serious collector was Psyche's cover version of the Q Lazzarus song " Goodbye Horses " made famous by the movie The Silence of the Lambs.

Over the years MacColl recorded and produced upwards of a hundred albums, many with English folk song collector and singer A. L.

* August 22 – Lucy Broadwood, folk song collector and researcher ( b. 1858 )

These researchers include the pioneering American folk song collector Alan Lomax, whose work helped inspire the roots revival of the mid-20th century.

* July 14-Svend Grundtvig, Danish folk song collector ( b. 1824 )

According to author Simon Broughton, the composer and song collector Kodály identified songs that " apparently date back 2, 500 years " in common with the Mari people of Russia ; and, as well as the Mari, the ethnomusicologist Bruno Nettl indicates similarities in traditional Hungarian music with Mongolian and Native American musical styles.

North Carolina is known particularly for its tradition of old-time music, and many recordings were made in the early 20th century by folk song collector Bascom Lamar Lunsford.

* March 28 – Edith Fowke, folk song collector, author and radio presenter ( born 1913 )

Most important of the collector ’ s sources were the Copper Family of Rottingdean, who emerged as authorities on folk song and eventually as major recording artists.

* April 30-Edith Fowke, folk song collector, author and radio presenter ( d. 1996 )

1695 – 1753 ), Scottish folk song collector and singer

Versions of the song were collected in the 1920s in Northern Ireland by song collector Sam Henry.

He was also an accomplished folk song collector and discovered such notable performers as Jeannie Robertson, Flora MacNeil and Calum Johnston.

Folk song collector Gwilym Davies was given a notebook in 1971 by a Mrs. Hunt, of Greywell in Hampshire, in which the words of a poem, " The Death of John Lee ", were written .< ref >

Cecil Sharp is, I believe, the most important English folk song collector of the century.

* exact date unknown – Edward Bunting, Irish folk song collector

* John Bell ( folk music ) ( 1783 – 1864 ), English folk song collector

His wife, Helen Hartness Flanders, was a folk song collector and author of several books on New England ballads.

Carolina Nairne, née Oliphant, Lady Nairne ( 16 August 1766-26 October 1845 ) was a Scottish songwriter and song collector.

A version with a different tune ( but with the " fire and fleet " version of the lyrics ) was collected by the folk song collector, Hans Fried, from the singing of " an old Scottish lady ", Peggy Richards.

* 14 May-Frank Harte, singer and song collector ( died 2005 ).

* Ralph Vaughan Williams ( 1872 – 1958 ) English composer and song collector

Such a collector would own copies of every song in the entire Beatles catalogue except for all the songs provided on Rarities.

Conway was the main songwriter in the early line-up, with Shields describing the process: " for each song he'd write about 3 pages of lyrics and usually me and Colm would pick out the bits we liked and David would sing that ".

" We're Singing as One " is the theme song of the Community Games written, sung, arranged and produced by Colm O ' Loughlin, a former competitor at the Games.

In Seán Ó Seanacháin's song An Buachaill Caol Dubh, Aoibheal appears to a young couple and offers the man a hundred Fairy servants if he will renounce his mortal lover in exchange for the bed of Aoibheal herself.

The song, Aislean an Oigfear ( recte Aisling an Óigfhir, " The young man's dream "), had been transcribed by Edward Bunting in 1792 based on a performance by harper Donnchadh Ó Hámsaigh at the Belfast Harp Festival.

The world famous song Danny Boy is taken from a melody composed by Ó Catháin bard Ruairí Dall Ó Catháin.

As well as Ó Cíosóig, Jansch and his son Adam, she was also joined on stage by David Roback for renditions of " Suzanne " and " All This Remains ," a song Sandoval had contributed lead vocals and wrote lyrics to for Jansch's 2002 album Edge Of A Dream.

The town of Ennistymon is memorialized in the song " Ennistymon on the Inagh " by Tadhg Ó hEagráin.

" Follow Me Up to Carlow " is an Irish folk song celebrating the defeat of an army of 3, 000 English soldiers by Fiach Mac Aodh Ó Broin ( anglicised Fiach McHugh O ' Byrne ) at the Battle of Glenmalure, during the Second Desmond Rebellion in 1580.

Ó Riada told people that one should listen to sean-nós song either as a child would listen or as if they were songs from India.

*" Eileen Aroon ", a song written by Cearbhall Óg Ó Dálaigh

The song has also been recorded by Kate Price, Lintie, Acabella, Anam, The Irish Group, Caoilte Ó Súilleabháin, Nollaig Casey, Kate Crossan, Carmel Gunning, Sissel Kyrkjebo with the Chieftains, Sarah English, and Bruadar.

From his iconic early recording of the vision song " Aisling Gheal " whilst still a boy, through to his recordings with Tony McMahon and Noel Hill, Ó Lionáird established himself both as a masterful exponent of Sean nós and as a pioneer in its renewal and development.

When O Lochlainn included the song in Irish Street Ballads, he wrote down the lyrics from memory as he had learnt them from his mother.

* Lynn Sherr's 2001 book America the Beautiful discusses the origins of the song and the backgrounds of its authors in depth.

* Barbara Younger has written a children's book about the writing of the song: Purple Mountain Majesties: The Story of Katharine Lee Bates and " America the Beautiful ".

It was originally one of between 50 to 70 verses of a song titled " Jerusalem, My Happy Home " that first appeared in a 1790 book called A Collection of Sacred Ballads:

The song is heard in a choral rendition by Ken Darby in the 1968 John Wayne film, The Green Berets, based on Moore's book.

In Harper's book ( The Passions Of Great Fortune ), his comment on the song ends ".. there must always be some hope that the children of ' Bloody Sunday ', on both sides, can grow into some wisdom ".

The band's album debut, Tin Machine ( 1989 ), was initially popular, though its politicised lyrics did not find universal approval: Bowie described one song as " a simplistic, naive, radical, laying-it-down about the emergence of neo-Nazis "; in the view of biographer Christopher Sandford, " It took nerve to denounce drugs, fascism and TV [...] in terms that reached the literary level of a comic book.

The album ’ s title song was inspired by Jack Kerouac ’ s book, The Lonesome Traveller in which Kerouac tells the story of America ’ s “ homeless brothers ,” or hobos.

In another example, the word bra in the Swedish language means " good ", as in " a good song ", " a good book " or " Good day!

Because the final chapter of his book is a song, it is sometimes assumed that he was a member of the tribe of Levi, which served as musicians in Solomon's Temple.

The book of Habbakuk consists of five oracles about the Chaldeans ( Babylonians ) and a song of praise to God.

His critically acclaimed book Lyrics on Several Occasions of 1959, an amalgam of autobiography and annotated anthology, is an important source for studying the art of the lyricist in the golden age of American popular song.

Halker also draws heavily on the Knights songs and poems in his book on labor song and poetry, For Democracy, Workers and God: Labor Song-Poems and Labor Protest, 1865-1895 ( University of Illinois Press, 1991 ).

The biblical book Song of Solomon is considered a romantically phrased metaphor of love between God and his people, but in its plain reading, reads like a love song.

Metalcore band, Norma Jean, derived the title of their song " No Passenger: No Parasite " from the section in the book in which Lewis describes a fully Christian society as having " No passengers or parasites ".

Several key events occurred, which raised public awareness of the New Age subculture: the production of the musical Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical ( 1967 ) with its opening song " Aquarius " and its memorable line " This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius "; publication of Linda Goodman's best-selling astrology books Sun Signs ( 1968 ) and Love Signs ( 1978 ); the release of Shirley MacLaine's book Out on a Limb ( 1983 ), later adapted into a television mini-series with the same name ( 1987 ); and the " Harmonic Convergence " planetary alignment on August 16 and 17, 1987, organized by José Argüelles at Sedona in the U. S. state of Arizona.

* Argentine-American rock singer Kevin Johansen wrote a song inspired by Klein's book.

* Argentinian soloist Indio Solari referred to the book in the song " Nike is the Culture " ( Nike es la cultura ), singing, " You shout no logo, or don't you shout no logo, or you shout no logo no ".

Humor columnist Dave Barry frequently refers to the song line as a source of comedic value, particularly in his 1997 book Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs.

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 ".

" Bob Dylan highlighted Orbison's song structures in his book Chronicles: Volume One, specifically noting how they were " songs within songs ".

As she later stated in People, she found an old poetry book in a used book store in the L. A. area and used a poem as lyrics in the song.

* Shir ha-Shirim ( Song of Songs ), an esoteric book, that while seeming to be a love song, truly refers to the relationship between Jews and God.

The name of the book (" The Song of Songs of Solomon ") comes from a superscription: " The song of songs, which is Solomon's " ( which also constitutes the opening verse of the book ).