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 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 ?".

The title track was a big hit and was used for Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney's theme song for his campaign in 2011 and 2012. It reached platinum a year after its release.

Early shows began with a cold open suggesting the sinister plot for that program, then cut to a shot of a big ocean wave and the start of the theme song.

Police Squads opening sequence was based on the 1950s cop show M Squad, ( which starred Lee Marvin ), which opened with footage of a police car roving through an after-dark urban setting with a big band playing a jazz theme song in the background.

Apu is also a vegan, and is rumored to be a big fan of the Cheap Trick song, " Dream Police " even though he knows the words imperfectly.

Other notable guest stars included: Cesar Romero as Chico's absentee father ; Tony Orlando as Chico's look-alike, the ex-fiance of a hostile woman he wants to date ; José Feliciano, who wrote the theme song, as Chico's womanizing famous-singer cousin Pepe Fernando ; Sammy Davis Jr. as himself ; Herbie Faye appeared as Bernie in the 1975 episode " Louie's Retirement "; Shelley Winters ( reuniting with Albertson, with whom she'd costarred in The Poseidon Adventure ) as the owner of the local bakery, Shirley Schrift ( her real name ); Jim Backus as Ed's friend who uses him as a " beard "— pretending to be playing cards with him when cheating on his wife ( Audra Lindley ); silent-film actress Carmel Myers as a former star who has fallen on hard times, brings in her car for repairs, and stays in the garage while looking for work ; George Takei as Ed's supposed long-lost son from his time in Japan during World War II ; Cesare Danova as Aunt Connie's Spanish aristocrat boyfriend, the Count de Catalan, in the second episode in which she appeared ; comedian Joey Bishop as an inept robber ; Bernie Kopell as a plastic surgeon ; Rose Marie as a CB radio enthusiast with whom a lonely Ed connects on New Year's Eve ; Penny Marshall, as a waitress ; football star Rosey Grier as himself, Della's date for a charity benefit dance ; Larry Hovis as a customer in the second episode of the first season ; and Jim Jordan ( of radio's Fibber McGee and Molly ) as a mechanic who used to be a big businessman, until he was victimized by his own company's retirement-age mandate ).

In 1992, Selena ’ s stardom got a big boost with the song, " Como La Flor " off a new album, Entre a Mi Mundo.

Her nickname was " la tragédienne de la chanson ", and amongst her big hits were " Les goélands ", " Johnny Palmer ", " C ' est mon gigolo " and " Tu ne sais pas aimer "-- the latter song became a theme for French sufferers of AIDS.

The controversy arising from the song, although a big hit for Gall, threw her career off-track in France for several years.

The song was also a big success in Sweden, debuting at the top of the Swedish Singles Chart, on March 20, 2003.

This is extended in the latter part of the song to those who make half-hearted attempts at social change, and who protest the " big " problems but are not willing to make changes in their own lives to respect what they claim is right for all of society.

* " Take The Money and Run "- a hit song by the Steve Miller Band-tells the story of two bandits who " go down to old El Paso " and " get into a great big hassle.

On Friday 1 December 1989, Bob Geldof called Pete Waterman to ask if he would consider producing a new version of the song featuring the big stars from that time.

The song became a big hit and was the number one single in France and Japan.

Originally the song described a child being recruited into hobo life by tales of the " big rock candy mountain ".

While she is in hospital, the song " I Fall to Pieces " becomes a big Country / Pop crossover hit for Cline.

But despite this wide array of talents, he is prone to frequent misunderstandings, on one occasion even singing the alphabet as one big long word ( from the song called " ABC-DEF-GHI ," pronounced " ab-keddef-gajihkel-monop-quristuv-wixyz "), pondering what it could ever mean.

His first big profit in the business came when Vanilla Ice ( Robert Van Winkle ) agreed to sign over royalties from Van Winkle's smash hit " Ice Ice Baby, because the song included material written by Knight's client Floyd ' Earthquake ' Brown.

* " Katyusha's song " composed by Nakayama Shimpei is the first big kayōkyoku ( pop music ) hit in Japan

The song “ Soul Limbo ”, featuring marimba by Terry Manning, was a big hit ( later used by the BBC as their theme for cricket coverage on both TV and, latterly, radio's “ Test Match Special ”), as was their version of “ Hang ' em High ”.

Even though it was not released as a country song, it was among the first big hits to use what was to become the Nashville sound – a string orchestra and legato harmonized background vocals.

Juvenile had his first start with working with big rapper names like Lil Wayne in the song " Back That Thang Up ", which was a big hit in the early 2000s.