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.

In 2001, the Guinness Book of World Records awarded Brutal Truth the record for " Shortest Music Video " for 1994's " Collateral Damage " ( the song lasts four seconds ).

In June 2009 that jury awarded the recording industry plaintiffs a judgment of $ 80, 000 per song, or $ 1. 92 million.

* Record of the Year is awarded to the performer and the production team of a single song.

* Song of the Year is awarded to the writer ( s )/ composer ( s ) of a single song.

Despite both the Record of the Year award and Song of the Year being awarded for a single or for one track from an album, this award goes only to the composer ( s ) of the song whereas the Record of the Year award goes to the performer and production team of the song.

In 1994, the DC Rape Crisis Center awarded Amos a Visionary award for the song and the co-creation of RAINN.

He was awarded Grammys for two of his recordings ; best male contemporary vocal in 1969 for " Everybody's Talkin '", a prominent song in the Academy Award-winning movie Midnight Cowboy, and best male pop vocal in 1972 for " Without You.

* March 27 – John Lennon and Paul McCartney are awarded the Ivor Novello award for " Michelle ", the most performed song in Britain in 1966.

Despite the exposure of the song, the album did not sell as well as Something Like Human did, and to date has not been awarded even Gold status by the RIAA.

In the last days of his President mandate, he awarded the National Order Steaua României ( rank of ceremonial knighthood ) to the ultra-nationalist controversial politician Corneliu Vadim Tudor, a gesture which drew criticism in the press and prompted Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, fifteen Radio Free Europe journalists, Timișoara mayor Gheorghe Ciuhandu, song writer Alexandru Andrieș, and historian Randolph Braham to return their Romanian honours in protest.

* Song of the Year is also awarded for a single or individual track, but the recipient of this award is the songwriter who actually wrote the lyrics and / or melodies to the song.

Instead, the traditional set of national juries simply listened to the studio recordings of each song, through audio tapes, and awarded points accordingly.

The Grammy is awarded to the songwriter ( s ) of the winning song, not to the performing artist ( s ) ( except if the songwriter is also the performing artist ).

However the song became a # 1 hit in many countries, including Canada, Brazil, and the UK, and was awarded a gold disc.

In 2003, she was awarded the Woman of the Year prize by Avantaje magazine, her song " Lângă mine " was awarded " The Song of the Year " prize by Bucureşti and Actualitati Radio stadions ; she was awarded the Mamaia and Love Song Festival trophies for the same song.

Yate was awarded the tongue-in-cheek honour of being the 45th worst place to live in the UK, according to the Idler book of Crap Towns, while Half Man Half Biscuit's song ‘ The Referee's Alphabet ’ on their Cammell Laird Social Club album informs the listener that ‘ Y is for Yate, the kind of town that referees come from ’.

Wilson sued The Move for libel and the group lost the court case — they had to pay all costs, and all royalties earned by the song, which otherwise would have belonged to Wood as composer, were awarded to charities of Wilson's choice.

That year the song was awarded Best Single at the Kerrang!

He may be the only song writer ever to have collaborated with a secretary of the U. S. Treasury ; ;

He spoke no German but he could sing it and the words of the song were the only ones he knew in a foreign language.

This particular song at this particular time could only be interpreted as the ultimate in bad taste, callous exploitation beyond the bounds of decency.

Parsons himself only sang lead on one song (" The Raven ") through a vocoder, and can be heard singing backing vocals on a few others, including " To One in Paradise ".

Collins decided to record it in the late 1960s amid an atmosphere of counterculture introspection ; she was part of an encounter group that ended a contentious meeting by singing " Amazing Grace " as it was the only song to which all the members knew the words.

Starting the following game, the song ( a favorite among many fans, who appreciated its references to Wild Bill Hagy and Earl Weaver ) was only played ( along with a video featuring several Orioles stars performing the song ) after wins.

Initially, it was relatively unsuccessful, staying at the charts for only one week, but Haley soon scored a major worldwide hit with a cover version of Big Joe Turner's " Shake, Rattle and Roll ", which went on to sell a million copies and became the first ever rock ' n ' roll song to enter British singles charts in December 1954 and became a Gold Record.

On the other hand " Gülpembe ", composed by Kurtalan Ekspres bassist Ahmet Güvenç, a requiem for Manço's grandmother, caught older audiences and probably is the artist's most popular song, competing perhaps only with " Dağlar Dağlar ".

Chaplin's performance of a gibberish song did, however, give the Tramp a voice for the only time on film.

After that, in 1990, it was eliminated from the anthem and only sung in military events as part of the full song.

A deluxe digital version, available for download only, has 32 tracks including a rare 1987 live recording of the band's version of the Hunters & Collectors song " Throw Your Arms Around Me ".

Clint Black's album " Nothin ' but the Taillights " includes the song " Ode to Chet ," which includes the lines "' Cause I can win her over like Romeo did Juliet, if I can only show her I can almost pick that legato lick like Chet " and " It'll take more than Mel Bay 1, 2, & 3 if I'm ever gonna play like CGP.

" Pull My Strings " was never recorded for a studio release, though the performance at the Bay Area Music Awards, which was the first and only time the song was ever performed, was released on the band's compilation album Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death.

Progressive rock group Pink Floyd, when creating their rock opera The Wall, used disco-style components in their song, " Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2 " ( 1979 )— which became the group's only # 1 hit single ( in both the US and UK ).

" 9 to 5 ", the theme song to the feature film 9 to 5 ( 1980 ) Parton starred in along with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, not only reached number one on the country charts, but also, in February 1981, reached number one on the pop and the adult-contemporary charts, giving her a triple-number-one hit.

The title track, performed by both Newton-John and ELO, is ELO's only song to top the singles chart in the United Kingdom.

The song was written in 1977, but existed only as a demo recording of the chorus.

Cecil Sharp had an influential idea about the process of folk variation: he felt that the competing variants of a traditional song would undergo a process akin to biological natural selection: only those new variants that were the most appealing to ordinary singers would be picked up by others and transmitted onward in time.

It only reached number 12 on the country chart, his first song in three years to fail to make the top ten.

As the only country performer to participate, some worried that Brooks would turn his cover of the song originally sung by drummer Peter Criss, " Hard Luck Woman ", into a country song.

Brooks instead insisted on remaining true to the song, and requested that the members of Kiss perform the music on the track, the only song on the album that the band musically contributed.