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.

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

he collaborated on a song with William Hartman Woodin, who was Secretary of the Treasury, 1932-33.

Karl played well and his favorite song was a Schubert lullaby.

The song, he said, was called `` The Stream's Lullaby '', and when he sang, `` Gute ruh, Gute ruh, Mach't die augen zu, '' there was such longing and such simple sadness that it frightened me.

Later, when I was older, I found the song was part of Schubert's Die Schone Mullerin.

With shout and slow dance, with tears and song, with scream and contortion, the corner group was beset by hysteria and shivering, wailing, shouting, possession of something that seemed like an alien and outside force.

There was one of the new forte-pianos in the room and, as Claire rose to go, he asked her to sing him one song before she left.

There was about that song something incandescent, for this Brahms was Milstein at white heat.

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.

( Still another song in `` Strike Up The Band '' -- `` I've Got A Crush On You '' -- was retrieved from a 1928 failure, `` Treasure Girl ''.

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 ''.

it was the theme song of millions of American people, their personal problems no less urgent than those of the government.

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.

At various times in the more than 100 years that have elapsed since the song was written, particularly during the John F. Kennedy administration, there have been efforts to give " America the Beautiful " legal status either as a national hymn, or as a national anthem equal to, or in place of, " The Star-Spangled Banner ", but so far this has not succeeded.

When Richard Nixon visited China in 1972, this song was played as the welcome music.

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.

He also performed the song on Red Sox opening day at Fenway Park in 2003, though the game was eventually rained out.

A tradition at one time observed on this day in England was to leave out soul cakes and sing a song for the dead.

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.

The title song, " Alfie ", was written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, and was a hit for Cilla Black, Cher and Dionne Warwick.

* January 28 – Various artists, under the group name USA For Africa, including Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Michael Jackson, Billy Joel, Cyndi Lauper, Steve Perry, Kenny Loggins, Willie Nelson, Lionel Richie, Smokey Robinson, Kenny Rogers, Diana Ross, Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen, Huey Lewis, Tina Turner, Sheila E., Harry Belafonte, Lindsey Buckingham, Kim Carnes, Dionne Warwick, Waylon Jennings, Bob Geldof and Stevie Wonder, record the song " We Are the World ".

The song was titled " Don't Make Me Over ", the title ( according to the A & E Biography of Dionne Warwick ) supplied by Warwick herself, when she snapped the phrase at producers Burt Bacharach and Hal David in anger.

Bell later noted, " Dionne made a ( strange ) face when we finished song.

In 1990 Dionne recorded a song " It's All Over " with former member of Modern Talking Dieter Bohlen ( Blue System ).

On October 20, 2009, Starlight Children's Foundation and New Gold Music Ltd. released a song that Dionne recorded about 10 years prior called " Starlight ".

From November 1998 to July 1999 in the United States, a vocal version of the theme song performed by Dionne Warwick was played during the end credits.

For instance, she wrote the song Les Cinq Jumelles about the Dionne Quintuplets, which was set to the tune of " Little Brown Jug ".

In 1990, singer Melba Moore released a modern rendition of the song, which she recorded along with others including R & B artists Anita Baker, Stephanie Mills, Dionne Warwick, Bobby Brown, Stevie Wonder, Jeffrey Osborne, and Howard Hewett ; and gospel artists BeBe & CeCe Winans, Take 6, and The Clark Sisters.

The Love Boat theme song was sung by Jack Jones ( except for the last season, where a cover version by Dionne Warwick was used ).

This song was also honored for its cover version in 1986 by Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight, and Sir Elton John.

The best-known songs from the musical include the title song, which was an international hit for Dionne Warwick, released before the show's December 1968 Broadway opening ; " I'll Never Fall in Love Again ", a hit for Warwick in the US and Canada ( No. 6 and No. 1, respectively ) and for Bobbie Gentry in the UK ( No. 1 ); " Knowing When To Leave " ( also recorded by Warwick ), " She Likes Basketball " and " Turkey Lurkey Time ", a dance number featuring McKechnie, Lee and Sappington.

In 2006, she recorded the song " Family First " with niece Dionne Warwick and daughter Whitney Houston for the soundtrack to the movie Daddy's Little Girls.

The track " Walking In The Rain " was used as an ending song for Charlie's Angels in Japan and was released as a single, while the song " I'll Never Love This Way Again " was recorded by Dionne Warwick the following year.

King also scored another well-received hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and the Hot Dance Club Play with her cover version of the song " I Say a Little Prayer " ( originally recorded by Dionne Warwick in 1967 ), which featured on the soundtrack to the film, My Best Friend's Wedding.

Musical entertainments are provided by Dame Edna May Oliver as " The Lady in Red ", the Dionne quintuplets ( who were in reality only two years old at the time ) and Helen Morgan, sitting on the piano, turning on the tears with a torch song.

* Heartbreaker ( Dionne Warwick album ), or the title song ( see below )

*" Heartbreaker " ( Dionne Warwick song ), 1982

Another interpretation of a Dionne Warwick song was " La voce del silenzio " (" Silent Voices ") by Paolo Limiti and Elio Isola, presented in a live session during the show.

" Walk on By " was their cover of the Bacharach and David song written for ( and originally recorded by ) Dionne Warwick.

In 2009, Dionne Bromfield covered this song on her debut album " Introducing Dionne Bromfield ".

Among musicians, the song drew criticism from singer Dionne Warwick, and disapproval from Kool Moe Dee and Chuck D, who felt that although Shakur was one of the most substantive rappers of that period, he had gone too far with " Hit ' Em Up ".

Originally part of the score for Bacharach and David's 1968 musical " Promises, Promises ", the song had provided a top-ten hit for Dionne Warwick in January 1970.