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 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.

Because they were marked with the letter K ( for Voronezh Komintern Factory ), Red Army troops adopted a nickname from Mikhail Isakovsky's popular wartime song, " Katyusha ", about a girl longing for her absent beloved, who has gone away on military service.

Many US soldiers adopted her song " These Boots Are Made for Walkin '" as their anthem, as shown in Pierre Schoendoerffer's academy award winning documentary The Anderson Platoon ( 1967 ) and reprised in a scene in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket ( 1987 ).

As was common at the time, the song was adopted and adapted by the besieging Protestants and it spread from there to the Low Countries.

In 1860, Belgium formally adopted the song and music as its national anthem, although the then prime minister, Charles Rogier edited out lyrics attacking the Dutch Prince of Orange.

Perhaps the most pervasive influence on the use of the term throughout the years has been the song " Yankee Doodle ", which was popular during the American Revolutionary War ( 1775 – 1783 ) as, following the battles of Lexington and Concord, it was broadly adopted by American rebels.

In 1961, Jaap Valkhoff wrote the lyrics which became popular among Feyenoord supporters who adopted the song as their unofficial hymn.

These fédérés were making their entryway into the city of Paris on 30 July 1792 after a young volunteer from Montpellier called François Mireur had sung it at a patriotic gathering in Marseille, and the troops adopted it as the marching song of the National Guard of Marseille.

Polka Paraguaya, which adopted its name from the European dance, is the most popular type of music and has different versions ( including the galopa, the krye ’ ÿ and the canción Paraguaya, or " Paraguayan song ").

Voters chose between " God Save The Queen ", " Jerusalem " and " Land of Hope and Glory " with the winning song, " Jerusalem ", being adopted as the official anthem for Team England.

The phrase has since been adopted by some science fiction fans as a humorous way to say " goodbye " and a song of the same name was featured in the 2005 film adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

In conjunction with this milestone occasion, a song was written by a City native and formally adopted by Newport News City Council in July 1989.

In 1987 the town council adopted it as their official town song.

Lewis adopted a battered top hat for sentimental, hard-luck tunes ( he called himself " the high-hatted tragedian of song ").

Used as the marching song of the failed republican rebellion of January 1891, in Porto, it was adopted as the national anthem of the newborn Portuguese Republic in 1911, replacing O Hino da Carta (), the anthem of the deposed constitutional monarchy.

On 31 January 1891, a republican-inspired rebellion broke out in the northern city of Porto and A Portuguesa was adopted by the rebels as their marching song.

Whiteman later adopted the piece as his band's theme song, and opened his radio programs with the slogan " Everything new but the Rhapsody in Blue.

In the 2000s the song was adopted by Leinster Rugby and it has become their Anthem.

supporters adopted the song in the early 1970s as an anthem with subtly changed lyrics:

" My Old Kentucky Home " is the official state song of Kentucky, adopted by the General Assembly on March 19, 1928.

Agrelot adopted the moniker " Don Cholito ", based on the song he was being associated with.

Female newspaper writers at that time customarily used pen names, and for Bly the editor chose " Nellie Bly ", adopted from the title character in the popular song " Nelly Bly " by Stephen Foster.

" The Scotsman " was officially adopted as the university's fight song in the 1960s.

This was adopted because the Grand Duke Alexis of Russia had a fondness for the actress who sang the song in the musical, which was playing in New Orleans at the time of the first Rex parade in 1872.