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.

was replaced by that of Henry Mancini, although his song " Just for Tonight " ( a re-working of " A Perfect Paris Night ") is used in the film.

In 1995 he released a new live version as the ' Roy Wood Big Band ', which charted at # 59, and in 2000 he joined forces with Mike Batt and The Wombles, for a re-working of " I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday " and of the Wombles ' hit " Wombling Merry Christmas ", together in one song which reached # 22.

For the 2004 baseball season the band released a re-working of an old Boston Red Sox song, " Tessie ".

Corgan later stated his regret with not re-working the song for Gish, as the two versions are nearly identical.

Most recently, Neil Young's 2012 album Americana features a song called Tom Dula, a re-working of Thomas Land's original poem.

He has also recorded a re-working of Mind Trick, a song from Jamie Cullum's album Catching Tales.

Mr. Oizo's song " Patrick122 " features a re-working of Gary's Gang's song " Do It At The Disco ".

According to Rikky Rooksby, the bassline on the intro is a re-working of the three-note bass motif present in the Four Tops ' 1965 song " I Can't Help Myself ( Sugar Pie Honey Bunch )", where Chuck Berry provided the chord arrangement.

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 ".

The slang phrase " L7 " can be heard in the Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs song " Wooly Bully " (" Let's not be L7, come and learn to dance ..."), in the Rick James song " Bustin ' Out " (" L7-just a little too damn straight ..."), and in the Paul McCartney song " C Moon " (" I could be L7 and I'll never get to heaven if I fill my head with glue ").

The Shim Sham is 10 phrases of choreography ( each phrase lasting four 8-counts ), so it does not usually take up an entire song.

Today in the Lindy Hop scene, once the Shim Sham choreography is over, dancers typically grab a partner and break into lindy hop for the remainder of the song.

The 1966 hit song " Lil ' Red Riding Hood " by Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs takes the wolf's point of view.

The 1966 hit song " Lil ' Red Riding Hood " by Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs takes the Wolf's point of view, implying that he wants love rather than blood.

Their biggest hit single in the United Kingdom, 1980's " The Greatest Cockney Rip-Off ", was a parody of Sham 69's song " Hersham Boys ".

The song first appeared as a B-side on the 1994 single " Small Bit of Love " and is also on the 2002 compilation Play It Again, Sham !.

" George Davis is Innocent " was also a song on Sham 69's 1978 debut album Tell Us the Truth, and the song " The Cockney Kids Are Innocent " ends with a namecheck.

" Hanging by a Moment " was the third song in chart history to be named the " No. 1 Song of the Year " on the Billboard Hot 100 despite not having reached No. 1 on any weekly Billboard Hot 100 survey ( after Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs ' " Wooly Bully " in 1965 and Faith Hill's " Breathe " in 2000 ).

* Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs ' 1965 hit " Wooly Bully " was originally called " Hully Gully ," but the band could not record it under that name due to the prior existence of a recorded song with that title.

In 2006, Pursey recorded a new version of the Sham 69 hit " Hurry Up Harry " as an unofficial World Cup song in aid of a cancer charity ; " Hurry Up England " was recorded with Graham Coxon's band but credited to ' Sham 69 & the Special Assembly '.

" ( New World Order ), a song by Ministry ( band ) from Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs

* " Grey ", a song from the album Paris Kills by the Finnish gothic rock band The 69 Eyes

Hermann ( 1906 ) identifies as such * ansulaikom the victory songs of the Batavi after defeating Quintus Petillius Cerialis in the Batavian rebellion of 69 AD ( according to Tacitus ' account ), and also the " nefarious song " accompanied by " running in a circle " around the head of a decapitated goat sacrificed to ( he presumes ) Wodan, sung by the Lombards at their victory celebration in 579 according to the report of Pope Gregory the Great ( Dialogues ch.

The band's recent albums, i ( 2004 ) and Distortion ( 2008 ), both followed the album theme structure of 69 Love Songs: The song titles on i begin with the letter ( or, in the case of half the songs ' titles, the pronoun ) " I ", whilst Distortion was an experiment in combining noise music with their typically unconventional musical approach.

Additionally, he is one-third of the infrequent, live-only musical extravaganza the Three Terrors ensemble, whose other principal members include 69 Love Songs album's Dudley Klute and LD Beghtol ; past themes of these performances have included: French pop, movie themes ( including the title song from Deep Throat ), intoxication, and New York.

The country-styled song became a modest hit for Mitchum, reaching # 69 on the Billboard Pop Singles Chart.

However, a week or so before the opening night, John Rich, the theatre director, insisted on having Johann Christoph Pepusch, a composer associated with his theatre, write a formal French overture ( based on two of the songs in the opera, including a fugue based on Lucy's 3rd act song " I'm Like A Skiff on the Ocean Toss'd ") and also to arrange the 69 songs.

Also in 1995, McCoy appeared on The 69 Eyes ' songs " Vietnamese Baby " and the song " Wild Talk from the album Savage Garden ( The 69 Eyes album ).

* " Seeing ", a song on the Moby Grape album Moby Grape ' 69

* Angels ( album ), or the title song, by The 69 Eyes, 2006

The 69 Eyes have a song called " Suspiria Snow White " on their album Back in Blood.

* A sample from the film is featured in the song, " Psalm 69 ", by Ministry.

* 1974 ( 69 ) Composes theme song for the ABC sitcom Paper Moon, based on a 1973 Peter Bogdanovich film of the same name.

* " Never Say Die " ( The 69 Eyes song ), 2007