When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.

In her first song she waved away one encroaching photographer who dared approach the throne unbidden and thereafter the boys with the cameras had to unsheathe their 300 mm. lenses and shoot at extreme range.

Ward died in 1903, not knowing the national stature his music would attain, as the music was only first applied to the song in 1904.

The song " The Raven " featured lead vocals by the actor Leonard Whiting, and, according to the 2007 remastered album liner notes, was the first rock song to use a digital vocoder, with Alan Parsons speaking lyrics through it.

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.

William Walker ( composer ) | William Walker, the composer who first joined John Newton's verses to " New Britain ", to create the song that has become " Amazing Grace "

Common meter hymns were interchangeable with a variety of tunes ; more than twenty musical settings of " Amazing Grace " circulated with varying popularity until 1835 when William Walker assigned Newton's words to a traditional song named " New Britain ", which was itself an amalgamation of two melodies (" Gallaher " and " St. Mary ") first published in the Columbian Harmony by Charles H. Spilman and Benjamin Shaw ( Cincinnati, 1829 ).

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:

Several editions featuring Newton's first three stanzas and the verse previously included by Harriet Beecher Stowe in Uncle Tom's Cabin were published by Excell between 1900 and 1910, and his version of " Amazing Grace " became the standard form of the song in American churches.

This verse is also featured in William Billing's popular Sacred Harp song " David's Lamentation ", first published in 1778.

Created by the Scottish-born composer, Peter Dodds McCormick, the song was first performed in 1878, but did not gain its status as the official anthem until 1984.

The original song Advance Australia Fair was composed by Peter Dodds McCormick under the pen-name ' Amicus ' ( which means ' friend ' in Latin ), in the late 19th century, and first performed by Andrew Fairfax at a Highland Society function in Sydney on 30 November 1878.

** " ABC " ( Jin song ), Jin's first single off his 4th album " ABC " ( American-born Chinese )

* ABCs ( song ), the first official single by rapper K ' naan on his album Troubadour

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

In 1997, DJ Gruff dissed Articolo 31 in a track titled 1 vs 2 appearing on the first album of the beatmaker Fritz da Cat, but Articolo 31's lawyers obtained a retraction of the record, and its reissue without the song.

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

During 1976, Grant wrote her first song (" Mountain Man "), performed in public for the first time — at Harpeth Hall School — the all-girls school she attended, recorded a demo tape for her parents with church youth-leader Brown Bannister, then later when Bannister was dubbing a copy of the tape, Chris Christian, the owner of the recording studio, heard the demo and called Word Records.

" 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.

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.

The song was first copyrighted in 1835 by the Boston-based music publisher Charles Bradlee, and given the title " The A. B. C., a German air with variations for the flute with an easy accompaniment for the piano forte ".

Benny Andersson has written music to several films for screen and television ; the first attempt in the early 1970s for the obscure Swedish movie The Seduction Of Inga: the film flopped, but the ' Björn & Benny ' single " She's My Kind Of Girl " surprised the composers by being released in Japan and becoming a Top 10 hit ( the song renamed in Japan as " The Little Girl Of The Cold Wind ").

The song quickly gained popularity and an amended version was sung by a choir of 10, 000 at the inauguration of the Commonwealth of Australia on 1 January 1901.

Though Jive Records did not push the album it gained infamy when radio station WSUC-FM ( 90. 5 ) of Cortland, NY was fined $ 23, 700 by the FCC for playing the song Yo Da-Lin In the Valley then the largest fine against a radio station.

She gained recognition for co-writing the song " Money for Nothing " for Darin Zanyar, his debut single.

The song gained popularity throughout the 19th century and bands played it during public events, such as July 4th celebrations.

The band gained a reputation for experimenting with song arrangements throughout its career.

Carmen initially gained its reputation through a series of productions outside France, and was not revived in Paris until 1883 ; thereafter it rapidly acquired celebrity at home and abroad, and continues to be one of the most frequently performed operas ; the " toreador's song " from Act 2 is among the best known of all operatic arias.

Originally released in 1978, the single was re-released in 1979, and it was then that the Police gained widespread recognition in the United Kingdom, as well as scoring a minor hit with the song in several other countries.

Aotearoa gained some prominence when it was used by New Zealand band Split Enz in the lyrics to their song " Six Months in a Leaky Boat ".

In the mid-1960s, Karloff gained a late-career surge of American popularity when he narrated the made-for-television animated film of Dr. Seuss ' How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and also provided the voice of the Grinch, although the song, " You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch " was sung by American voice actor Thurl Ravenscroft.

During this period the band gained their first international recognition when rising British pop star Donovan, who saw them during his stint on the US West Coast in early 1966, mentioned the Airplane in his song " The Fat Angel ," which subsequently appeared on his Sunshine Superman LP.

The song " Hello From The Gutter " was released as a single, and the music video gained regular airplay on MTV's Headbangers Ball.

He produced a single by the group, " Lonesome Mood ", a jazz-type song that gained local attention.

The China O ' Brien films have a limited cult film status but have gained notoriety in the late 1990s because a then-unheard of singer / songwriter Tori Amos ( then going by her birth name Ellen Amos ) recorded a song, " Distant Storm ," which can only be heard by viewing the original film.

While John Denver may have aided in the popularity, the song gained most of its popularity from loyal Prine fans in the midwest.

Presley had first performed " Heartbreak Hotel " during a live show in December 1955 during a tour of the Louisiana Hayride, but the song gained strong popularity after his appearance on Stage Show in March 1956.

In 1961, Bristol gained national attention when the song " Bristol Stomp ", by The Dovells hit # 2 on the Billboard pop chart.

In 1961, Bristol gained national attention when the song " Bristol Stomp ", by The Dovells hit # 2 on the Billboard pop chart.

The band's first single, a cover of The Kinks song " Stop Your Sobbing " ( produced by Nick Lowe and recorded at the July Regents Park sessions ) was released in January 1979 and gained critical attention.

Dragon Ash has gained some popularity outside Japan when the song Shizuka na Hibi no Kaidan Wo was used as the ending theme for the popular Japanese movie, Battle Royale.

In the 2009 film Law Abiding Citizen, the song Sin's a Good Man's Brother is featured in the closing credits, which gained the band some extra recognition with today's youth.

The city gained travelers as Route 66 passed through it ; " Joplin, Missouri " is among the lyrics to Bobby Troup's legendary song, immortalizing the city among others on the famous highway.

It may also be referred to as " stomping " or " raving " and each are referring to the bouncing motion, gained from the euphoric style of music, usually to the beat of the bass or beat of a music, and most modern songs have a climax moment where the dancer waits at a beat free moment of the song, and explodes with energy after the tense build up to " mosh " with others.

The song gained renewed interest when it was mentioned in the 2002 Vin Diesel movie xXx.

His humorous song soon gained widespread popularity among the Russian soldiers.

She also gained notoriety for her performance in a duet with Brizuela, of the theme song of the successful Puerto Rican telenovela, Coralito: Mi Pequeño Amor ( Coralito: My Little Love ), which Brizuela had written.