and the incisive style with which Charlotte Rae delivers the top-drawer Hart lyrics of `` I Blush '', a song that was cut from `` A Connecticut Yankee ''.

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.

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.

Collins, Cash, and Norman were unable to discern if the power of the song came from the music or the lyrics.

The song features the lyrics, " If I'm Obelix, you are my boulder ".

The lyrics for the " Alabama Song " and another song, the " Benares Song " are in English ( albeit specifically idiosyncratic English ) and are performed in that language even when the opera is performed in its original ( German ) language.

The end result is a song that retains familiar phrases and lyrics, but offers something new.

Music for the alphabet song including some common variations on the lyrics

Mr Judge's great innovation is to transform the Liebeslieder Singers from the evening-dressed, after-dinner line-up into 18th century ghosts weaving in and out of the action ... But Mr Judge's other great realisation is that, in Sondheim, the lyrics are not an adornment to a song but their very essence: understand them and the show will flow.

In 1940, an RKO movie adaptation starred Granville Owen ( later known as Jeff York ) as Li ' l Abner, with Buster Keaton taking the role of Lonesome Polecat, and featuring a title song with lyrics by Milton Berle.

While the origins of hip-hop are believed to be from the Bronx, rival hip-hop group Juice Crew's lyrics were misunderstood to contain a claim in the song " The Bridge " that hip hop was directly a result of artists originating from Queensbridge.

According to this episode, Dr. Sam Beckett ( Scott Bakula ) influences Buddy Holly to change the lyrics from " piggy, suey " to " Peggy Sue ", thus setting up Holly's future hit song.

Queen Boadicea features in the opening lyrics of the song " The Good Old Days " written by Pete Doherty and Carl Barat for British rock band The Libertines from their 2002 album " Up the bracket ", the line reads, " If Queen Boadicea is long dead and gone, Still then the spirit in her children's children's children, it lives on ".

He retained elements of the original, but threw some country music aspects in to the song ( specifically, Western Swing ) and cleaned up the lyrics.

Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler ( also of Irish descent ) wrote the lyrics to the Black Sabbath song " Sabbath Bloody Sabbath " on the album of the same name in 1973.

The live performances for Hole's 1994 and 1995 tours became notorious in the media due to Love's fraught emotional state, with Love often altering hurtful song lyrics toward herself, dedicating songs to Cobain and Pfaff, provoking fans, throwing guitars into the audience, and breaking into screaming fits onstage.

The works feature various women in different emotional states, some accompanied by poems and song lyrics.

Love's song lyrics are predominantly told from a female's point of view, and her earlier work, particularly on Hole's first two albums, was noted for being highly aggressive and critical toward cultural definitions of women.

Improvisation is very important also, while singing a song the main singer can change the music's lyrics, telling something that's happening in or outside the Roda.

The Southern Cross was written into the lyrics of " Advance Australia Fair " in 1901: " Beneath our radiant Southern Cross "; the song was adopted as the Australian National Anthem in 1984.

The band, who all wore white shirts with a big, black S painted on the front, pulled black ties from around the backs of their necks to form a dollar sign, then started playing a new song titled " Pull My Strings ", a barbed, satirical attack on the ethics of the mainstream music industry, which contained the lyrics, " Is my cock big enough, is my brain small enough, for you to make me a star ?".

In addition, the band has played a reworked version of their song " MTV Get Off the Air ", re-titled " MP3 Get Off the Web ", with lyrics criticizing music piracy.

Breeskin had written the music to the Redskins fight song " Hail to the Redskins " and Marshall ’ s wife had penned the lyrics.

The song was retitled to " Alma Mater " in the 1980s when its lyrics were changed to refer to women as well as men.

Even in its most conventional appearance, the guests' song of praise to Marina, there are a few female dissenters criticizing the princess for her coldness.

There are for example fragments in ' Sapphic ' meter praising the Dioscuri, Hermes and the river Hebrus ( a river significant in Lesbian mythology since it was down its waters that the head of Orpheus was believed to have floated singing, eventually crossing the sea to Lesbos and ending up in a temple of Apollo, as a symbol of Lesbian supremacy in song ).

Compare also the following lines of Elvis Costello's song " Oliver's Army ": Oliver's Army are on their way / Oliver's Army is here to stay.

There are numerous titles of the song including, " Pat Works on the Railway " and " Paddy on the Railway ".

Notable among a number of songs commonly played and sung at various events such as commencement, convocation, and athletic games are: Stand Up and Cheer, the Acadia University fight song.

On Capp's exit, Lennon sang an impromptu version of his Ballad of John and Yoko song with a slightly revised, but nonetheless prophetic lyric: " Christ, you know it ain't easy / You know how hard it can be / The way things are goin ' / They're gonna crucify Capp!

For the late 19th century the music publishing industry found a market for what are often termed sentimental ballads, and these are the origin of the modern use of the term ballad to mean a slow love song.

There are musical genres and styles specific to each Celtic country, due in part to the influence of individual song traditions and the characteristics of specific languages:

* The song " Rocky Mountain Way " by Joe Walsh includes the line, " The bases are loaded and Casey's at bat.

The Corrido is a song where the singer part and the chorus response are equal, normally two verses by two responses.

Noted by the popular Hank Williams ' Jambalaya song, three of the primary dishes in Acadiana are " Jambalaya and-a crawfish pie and filé gumbo.

T contains 195 surviving cantigas ( 8 are missing due to loss of folios ) which roughly correspond in order to the first two hundred in E, each song being illustrated with either 6 or 12 miniatures that depict scenes from the cantiga.

The music video for the song depicts the team rapping that they are " not here to start no trouble " but instead " just here to do the Super Bowl Shuffle ".

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 ".

Episodes are called " sessions ", each of which follows a different musical theme, and episode titles are borrowed from notable album or song names ( e. g. " Sympathy for the Devil ", " Bohemian Rhapsody ", " Honky Tonk Women ", " My Funny Valentine ") or make use of a genre name (" Mushroom Samba ", " Heavy Metal Queen ").

Actually, there are varying degrees of " musicality "; Quran chanting and Adhan is not considered music, but classical improvised song, classical instrumental metric composition, and popular dance music are.

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

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 ).

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.

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

Between the 1959 – 60 Jack Hansen overdubs, the 1960s Norman Petty overdubs, various alternate takes, and Holly's undubbed originals, collectors can often choose from multiple versions of the same song.

In the later 19th century it took on the meaning of a slow form of popular love song and the term is now often used as synonymous with any love song, particularly the pop or rock power ballad.

By the 1920s, composers of Tin Pan Alley and Broadway used ballad to signify a slow, sentimental tune or love song, often written in a fairly standardized form ( see below ).

Black metal songs often stray from conventional song structure and often lack clear verse-chorus sections.

The song has often been covered by other artists and gave Paul Young a hit single in 1991.

They can often record and playback samples, and full audio tracks, so could be used to record an entire song.

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.

Generally speaking, he tended to use tap and other popular dance idioms to express joy and exuberance – as in the title song from Singin ' in the Rain or " I Got Rhythm " from An American in Paris, whereas pensive or romantic feelings were more often expressed via ballet or modern dance, as in " Heather on the Hill " from Brigadoon or " Our Love Is Here to Stay " from An American in Paris.

Nevertheless, the song often received standing ovations when performed in concert, went to number 22 in the Christian charts through a marketing deal with Rick Hendrix Company, and earned Brooks a 1993 GLAAD Media Award.

Rigolettos musical range includes band-music such as the first scene or the song La donna è mobile, Italian melody such as the famous quartet " Bella figlia dell ' amore ", chamber music such as the duet between Rigoletto and Sparafucile and powerful and concise declamatos often based on key-notes like the C and C # notes in Rigoletto and Monterone's upper register.

His poem ( and song ) " Auld Lang Syne " is often sung at Hogmanay ( the last day of the year ), and " Scots Wha Hae " served for a long time as an unofficial national anthem of the country.

It is the most serious and moving variety of flamenco or Spanish gypsy song, often dealing with themes of death, anguish, or religion.

The jazz soloist is often supported by a rhythm section who " comp " ( accompany the soloist ), by playing chords and rhythms that outline the song structure and complement the soloist.

The role of the KJ often includes announcing song titles and whose turn it is to use the microphone.