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.

A poignant sense of nostalgia accompanied the recordings of several gospel and blues singers in the 1940s and 1950s who used the song to remember their grandparents, traditions, and family roots.

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

Catullus ' love poem " Vivamus mea Lesbia atque amemus " in the translation by Ben Jonson was set to music ( lute accompanied song ) by Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger.

This is believed to be one of the oldest fertility rites in the UK ; revellers dance with the Oss through the streets of the town and even through the private gardens of the citizens, accompanied by accordion players and followers dressed in white with red or blue sashes who sing the traditional ' May Day ' song.

In the Christmas special " Endgame " during Margaret's alleged death scene, a compilation of clips from past episodes are accompanied by the song " River Runs Deep " performed by J. J. Cale.

The Heart of Saturday Night ( 1974 ), featuring the song "( Looking for ) The Heart of Saturday Night ", revealed Waits's roots as a nightclub performer, with half-spoken and half-crooned ballads often accompanied by a jazz backup band.

The song " Blue Valentines " was also unique for Waits in that it featured a desolate arrangement of solo electric guitar played by Ray Crawford, accompanied by Waits ' vocal.

On 8 April 1904, Leoncavallo accompanied Caruso at the piano as they recorded the song.

In 1904 for the Gramophone ( and Typewriter Company ) he accompanied the tenor Fernando De Lucia in L ' anima ho stanca from Adriana Lecouvreur and in the song Luntananza, an effort which critic Michael Henstock ( in his biography of De Lucia ) declares is hardly inspired by De Lucia's fine performances.

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.

He is accompanied by his young nephew ( Kyle ) to Nashville, Tennessee, where he is supposed to record a song.

The consort song, which was the most popular form of vernacular polyphony in England in the third quarter of the sixteenth century, was a solo song for a high voice ( often sung by a boy ) accompanied by a consort of four consort instruments ( normally viols ).

More recently, the re-released works of English toilet humour specialist Ivor Biggun include " Southern Breeze ", a song about a " Famous French Farteur " who describes in rhyme a stroll through a farmyard, accompanied by appropriate farting noises.

That fall, a TV special marking the 30th anniversary of American Bandstand saw an all-star " supergroup " perform the song ( accompanied by 1950s-era footage of Haley and the Comets ).

In May 2007, he accompanied Robyn Hitchcock and Ruby Wright in performing the song " Gigolo Aunt " at a tribute for Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett in London, which he did on mandolin .< ref >

One memorable aspect of the show was the regular closing number, where Johnny Young would croon a ballad version of The Beatles ' song " All My Loving " ( with which Young had had an Australian hit in 1966 ), accompanied by the entire cast, in an almost lullaby style, individually wishing all of the cast good night.

* Shabdam-The dancing is accompanied by a poem or song with a devotional or amorous theme.

He was accompanied on stage by four Marillion members ( Mark Kelly, Steve Rothery, Ian Mosley and Pete Trewavas ) for one song: ' Market Square Heroes '.

The album was accompanied by the release of the single, " Music Non Stop ", featuring the other omitted song, " Insects ", as a b-side.

The song was accompanied by a video directed by Walter Stern, of an animatronic singing fetus.

Anchors Aweigh is a 1945 American Technicolor musical comedy film directed by George Sidney and starring Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, and Gene Kelly, in which two sailors go on a four-day shore leave in Hollywood, accompanied by music and song, meet an aspiring young singer and try to help her get an audition at MGM.

A few days later, wearing a white suit, he played an abridged version of the song at the Oscars, accompanied by the house orchestra.

In the earliest commercials, Lucky Charms cereal had no theme song ; the action was accompanied by a light instrumental " Irish " tune.