Steinberg obviously has concluded that it is the lyric element which must dominate in this score, and he manages at times to create the effect of the whole orchestra bursting into song.

There is a quick change from the plaintive song to a conversational tone.

A crowd of 1,400 is expected for the ceremonies, which will be followed by the show in which the writers will lampoon baseball personalities in skit, dance and song.

What a discussion can ensue when the title of this type of song is in question.

If your favorite song is not here it must be an unfamiliar one.

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.

Among the particular gems in this collection is the impudent opening song of `` The Garrick Gaieties '', an impressive forecast of the wit and melody that were to come from Rodgers and Hart in the years that followed ; ;

He shares with Mr. Morse a parody of the college anthems he once sang while his second song is whisked away from him by Virginia Martin, a girl with a remarkably expressive yip in her voice.

" America the Beautiful " is an American patriotic song.

The song is one of the most beloved and popular of the many American patriotic songs.

The song is often included in songbooks in a wide variety of religious congregations in the United States.

Charles ' recording is very commonly played at major sporting and entertainment events, such as the Super Bowl, and WrestleMania 2 ; Charles gave a live performance of the song prior to Super Bowl XXXV, the last Super Bowl played before the September 11 terrorist attacks, as well as during Game 2 of the 2001 World Series after the attacks.

This song is also used in Ellen Raskin's The westing game.

The full version of the song from Melbourne Punch, the fourth verse of which is pasted onto the urn

* Atomic Dog, a song that is popular world wide ; written and performed by Our Father Who Art of Funk ; " George Clinton " from Parliament and the Funkadelics

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

Bruce Hindmarsh suggests that the secular popularity of " Amazing Grace " is due to the absence of any mention of God in the lyrics until the fourth verse ( by Excell's version, the fourth verse begins " When we've been there ten thousand years "), and that the song represents the ability of humanity to transform itself instead of a transformation taking place at the hands of God.

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

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 ".

With the help of Ziggy Elman, also in the band, he transformed a traditional Jewish melody into a popular song, `` And The Angels Sing ''.

Popularity of the song increased greatly following the September 11, 2001 attacks ; at some sporting events it was sung in addition to the traditional singing of the national anthem.

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 ).

*" The Ballad of Casey Jones " is a traditional song about railroad engineer Casey Jones and his death at the controls of the train he was driving.

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

though in the classic traditional folk song, Dogie's Lament, also known as Git along little dogie, the " dogies " in question meant cattle strong enough to be herded from Texas to Wyoming, including weaners, yearling steers and other young, non-orphaned animals.

Jim Kerr of Simple Minds was so moved by the results of the Enniskillen bombing in 1987 that he wrote new words to the traditional folk song " She Moved Through The Fair " and the group recorded it with the name " Belfast Child ".

Some traditional song narratives recall supernatural events or mysterious deaths.

In the Western world, Christmas carols and other traditional songs preserve religious lore in song form.

Field researchers in traditional song ( see below ) have encountered countless versions of this ballad throughout the English-speaking world, and these versions often differ greatly from each other.

Cecil Sharp had an influential idea about the process of folk variation: he felt that the competing variants of a traditional song would undergo a process akin to biological natural selection: only those new variants that were the most appealing to ordinary singers would be picked up by others and transmitted onward in time.

Thus, over time we would expect each traditional song to become aesthetically ever more appealing — it would be collectively composed to perfection, as it were, by the community.

Contemporaneously with Child came the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould, and later and more significantly Cecil Sharp who worked in the early 20th century to preserve a great body of English rural traditional song, music and dance, under the aegis of what became and remains the English Folk Dance and Song Society ( EFDSS ).

Around this time, composers of classical music developed a strong interest in traditional song collecting, and a number of outstanding composers carried out their own field work on traditional song.

People who studied traditional song sometimes hoped that their work would restore traditional music to the people.

The club's traditional guernsey colours are white guernseys with navy blue hoops, white shorts and navy and white hooped socks and the team song is " We Are Geelong ".

People from Hawick call themselves " Teries ", after a traditional song which includes the line " Teribus ye teri odin ".

Lavani is a combination of traditional song and dance, which particularly performed to the enchanting beats of ' Dholaki ', a drum-like instrument.

This view of the Irish-American experience is depicted by another traditional song, " Paddy's Lamentation.

Rock band Kagrra, are well known for using traditional Japanese musical instruments in many of their songs, an example being " Utakata " ( うたかた ), a song in which the koto has a prominent place.

Twenty years after his first CD, Kaira ( Hannibal, 1988 )-that was also the first CD ever recorded with solo kora pieces without any song -, Toumani Diabate alternates traditional pieces on a kora with leather rings and his own creations with a special tuning on a kora with wooden pegs.

The U. S. Library of Congress has a collection of 3, 000 versions of and songs inspired by " Amazing Grace ", some of which were first-time recordings by folklorists Alan and John Lomax, a father and son team who in 1932 traveled thousands of miles across the South to capture the different regional styles of the song.

Also this song was re-recorded by South African opera singer Leonore Veenemans as " My Land Suid-Afrika ".

No one claimed him, so a carnival took his body, mummified it, and toured all over the South with him, calling him the “ The Famous Mummy Man .” McLean ’ s song inspired radio station WGN in Chicago to tell the story and give the song airplay in order to raise money for a headstone for Anderson McCrew ’ s grave.

The A-side, a song called " Substitute ", then a recent worldwide hit for South African girl-group Clout, was considered more " radio friendly ".

In 2011, a South African court banned " Dubulu iBhunu ( Shoot the Boer )," a derogatory song degrading Afrikaners, on the basis that it violated a South African law prohibiting speech that demonstrates a clear intention to be hurtful, to incite harm, or to promote hatred.

Pop music really started in the South Asian region with the famous playback singer Ahmed Rushdi's song ‘ Ko-Ko-Korina ’ in 1966.

' Impi ' is also the title of a very famous South Africa song by Johnny Clegg and the band Juluka which has become something of an unofficial national anthem, especially at major international sports events and especially when the opponent is England.

* " Mach " ( Rainbow song ), released by the South Korean girl group Rainbow in 2010

; " Some Enchanted Evening ", from South Pacific ; " Getting to Know You " and " Shall We Dance " from The King and I ; and the title song as well as " Climb Ev ' ry Mountain " from The Sound of Music.

Lynn Anderson made famous a song full of proverbs, I never promised you rose garden ( written by Joe South ).

* Christy Moore sang a song about Biko called " Biko Drum " which makes several references to the South African hero.

* Stevie Wonder mentions the struggle in South Africa and Stephen Biko in a tribute concert to Bob Dylan in his song " Blowing in the Wind ".

During the first two months the group worked on demos at South Hill Park Recording Studios in Bracknell, Berkshire with producer / studio owner Michael Sparkes and song writer / arranger Tim Hawes.

Since 1997, the South African national anthem has been a hybrid song combining new English lyrics with extracts of the hymn Nkosi Sikelel ' iAfrika ( God Bless Africa ) and the former anthem Die Stem van Suid-Afrika ( The Call of South Africa ).

South African singer / songwriter Gert Vlok Nel compares Tintin to God in his Afrikaans song " Waarom ek roep na jou vanaand ", presumably because Tintin is a morally pure character.

The song has been used by as a National Anthem by the Scotland national rugby union team, ever since the winger, Billy Steele, encouraged his team-mates to sing it on the victorious Lions tour of South Africa in 1974.

South African musician Hugh Masekela recorded an anti-colonialist song entitled " Vasco da Gama ( The Sailor Man )", which contains the lyrics " Vasco da Gama was no friend of mine ".

He is also mentioned in a song about " Masculinity " in the play La Cage Aux Folles, and is mentioned in the Donovan song " Sunny South Kensington " on the Mellow Yellow album.

In 1998 he received an Outstanding Contribution Award for his TV -/ movie-soundtracks, and made a cameo-appearance in children's movie Abeltje as a member of a vocal group from South America learning his own song Smoorverliefd.

Engrish has featured occasionally in the Trey Parker and Matt Stone cartoon South Park, such as the song " Let's Fighting Love ", used in the episode " Good Times With Weapons ", which parodies the poorly translated opening theme sequences sometimes shown in anime, and in Parker and Stone's feature length Team America: World Police where the late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is depicted singing the song " I'm so Ronery ".