Each song or ditty was prefaced by an author's note which indicated the origin and meaning of the song as well as special interest the song had, musical arrangement, and most of the chorus and verses.

Everett Miller, then assistant director for the Garrick Gaieties, a Theatre Guild production, needed a lyricist for a song he had written ; ;

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.

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.

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.

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 order for the song to become the anthem, it had to face a vote between the Royal anthem God Save the Queen, the " unofficial anthem " Waltzing Matilda and Song of Australia.

*" Take Me Out to the Ball Game " is a 1908 Tin Pan Alley song by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer which has become the unofficial anthem of baseball, although neither of its authors had attended a game prior to writing the song.

The shanty was a distinct type of work song, developed especially in American-style merchant vessels that had come to prominence in decades prior to the American Civil War.

When he discovered that the original Desiree, Glynis Johns, was able to sing ( she had a " small, silvery voice ") but could not " sustain a phrase ", he devised the song " Send in the Clowns " for her in a way that would work around her vocal weakness, e. g., by ending lines with consonants that made for a short cut-off.

The theme song introduces the viewer to the world's most fortunate hunting accident – whereby Jed shoots at game but instead hits " black gold, Texas tea ": he had discovered oil.

PolyGram ( London Records ' parent company at that time ) had pressed a number of promo singles and 12 " versions of the song, sending them out to both radio and record stores in the UK.

In 1989 Jonathan Hellyer became lead singer, and the band extensively toured the U. S. and Europe with back-up vocalist Annie Conway and had one minor hit with the song " Cha Cha Heels ", a one-off collaboration sung by American actress and singer Eartha Kitt.

The Rolling Stones had an early hit covering the song.

By the Victorian era, ballad had come to mean any sentimental popular song, especially so-called " royalty ballads ", which publishers would pay popular singers to perform in Britain and the United States in " ballad concerts.

In 1996, a song in Breton represented France in the 41st Eurovision Song Contest, the first time in history that France had a song without a word in French.

Love had written several songs, including an anti-cocaine song titled " Loser Dust ", during her time in rehab in 2005.

The team took a risk by recording and releasing the song before the playoffs had even begun, but were able to avoid embarrassment by going on to win Super Bowl XX by a then-record margin of 46 – 10.

A broadside song Captain Kidd's Farewell to the Seas, or, the Famous Pirate's Lament was printed shortly after his execution and popularised the common belief that Kidd had confessed to the false charges.

The UK punk scene of the late 1970s introduced bands that glorified their working-class heritage: Sham 69 had a hit song " The Cockney Kids are Innocent ".

Although it began as a song cycle ( as reflected also by its title ), Arnold Schoenberg's Gurre-Lieder ( 1900 – 1903 / 1910 – 11 ) evolved into one of the century's largest secular cantatas.

The Ontario pavilion also had its own theme song: " A Place to Stand, A Place to Grow ", which has evolved to become an unofficial theme song for the province.

The ballad evolved from " Hey Jules ", a song widely accepted as being written to comfort John Lennon's son, Julian, during his parents ' divorce.

Portuguese music: In the 1960s and 70s, José Afonso led a return to more traditionally styled fado music, which later evolved into a number of new song forms that incorporated socio-political lyrics and foreign influences.

The musical forms most associated with music hall evolved in part from traditional folk song and songs written for popular drama, becoming by the 1850s a distinct musical style.

They began performing humbly on New York City street corners with a hat at their feet and a song repertoire that consisted of a mix of barbershop arrangements and a cappella renditions of classic doo wop pieces that evolved to focus less on oldies and barbershop and more on contemporary rock music.

By 1948 the song had sold about 100, 000 copies in Africa and among black South African immigrants in Great Britain and had lent its name to a style of African a cappella music that evolved into isicathamiya ( also called mbube ), popularized by Ladysmith Black Mambazo.

Their third hit, " Flowers in the Rain ", was the first song played at the launch of BBC Radio 1 in 1967, and the band evolved over a three year period.

was slightly simpler and more economical to the song structure, which had evolved rapidly from the debut album.

According to Alice Cooper on his radio show Nights with Alice Cooper, Anderson claimed to have written the first two movements of " Starship Trooper " alone, though the " Disillusion " movement ( which evolved from an earlier song " For Everyone ", heard on Something's Coming: The BBC Recordings 1969 – 1970 and The Word Is Live ) is credited to Chris Squire.

" Würm " originally evolved from a song called " Nether Street " by Howe's earlier group, Bodast.

He emerged as one of the creators of the Soviet " mass song ", a new genre which evolved from a fusion of Russian, Ukrainian, Jewish and Armenian musical folklore, early 20th-century urban popular music and romance, revolutionary marches and protest song, Central European operetta, and tsarist-era waltzes.

When the band evolved into an alternative rock group in the 1990s, their 1991 album Go Figure included a controversial revamp of that song.

This song's style and melody are said to have evolved from another folk song called Gōshū Ondo from Shiga Prefecture, known as Goshu in earlier days.

Eventually the work evolved under the title " Real Life ", a song Lennon would record at least six takes of in 1979 and 1980, and then abandoned.

Traditionally, a maskandi muso had one song, a long one that evolved as the story of the musician's life grew.

As their Friday evening programming evolved, ABC retired the traditional TGIF logo and phased out the theme song.

Morrison originally wrote the song about breaking up with his girlfriend Mary Werbelow, but it evolved through months of performances at Los Angeles ' Whisky a Go Go into a nearly 12-minute opus on their self-titled album.

It is sometimes stated that the song evolved when Plant played to Page the guitar arrangement which eventually found its way onto the album.

" Their song " That Funny Jas Band from Dixieland ," recorded November 8 of 1916, is among first recorded uses of the word " Jas ," which eventually evolved from " jas ," to " jass ," to the current spelling " jazz.

After releasing the single " That Beauty Is You " they evolved into the indie dance band Nixon and released the song " Sweet Temptation.

The song " Daylight Again " evolved out of Stills ' guitar-picking to accompany on-stage stories regarding the south in the Civil War, seguing into " Find the Cost of Freedom ," which had been the b-side of the " Ohio " single in 1970.