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.

Collins, who has a history of alcohol abuse, claimed that the song was able to " pull her through " to recovery.

No one claimed him, so a carnival took his body, mummified it, and toured all over the South with him, calling him the “ The Famous Mummy Man .” McLean ’ s song inspired radio station WGN in Chicago to tell the story and give the song airplay in order to raise money for a headstone for Anderson McCrew ’ s grave.

Although Orbison recorded and wrote standard structure songs before " Only the Lonely ", he claimed never to have learned how to write them: " I'm sure we had to study composition or something like that at school, and they'd say ' This is the way you do it ,' and that's the way I would have done it, so being blessed again with not knowing what was wrong or what was right, I went on my own way .... So the structure sometimes has the chorus at the end of the song, and sometimes there is no chorus, it just goes ... But that's always after the fact — as I'm writing, it all sounds natural and in sequence to me.

It has been claimed that during the gruesome torture of Balthasar Gérard ( the assassin of William of Orange ) in 1584, the song was sung by the

The influence was two-way ; Numan claimed that Nine Inch Nails ' song " Closer " is his favourite hit single of all time, and influenced his music.

This arrangement was issued on their second LP, In the Wake of Poseidon, although for copyright reasons it was renamed " The Devil's Triangle " and Robert Fripp claimed authorship, with Holst receiving no composer credit. A third progressive-rock band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, performed an arrangement of " Jupiter " with lyrics which they entitled " Joybringer ". Black Metal / Viking Metal band Bathory arranged a section of " Jupiter " as the melody of the song " Hammerheart ", from the album Twilight of the Gods.

Myers claimed the song had been written specifically for Haley but, for various reasons, Haley was unable to record it himself until April 12, 1954.

The " Funky Butt " song was one of many in the Bolden repertory with rude or off-color lyrics popular in some of the rougher places Bolden played, and Bolden's trombonist Willy Cornish claimed authorship.

Days later, YouTube reinstated the videos, while Radiohead claimed " it's our song, let people hear it.

Former Megadeth drummer Jimmy DeGrasso has claimed to vehemently hate the song.

The record was a hit, but Carrott always claimed people were buying it for the B-side and not for the song.

It has been claimed that the theme from the Largo was adapted into a spiritual-like song " Goin ' Home ", by composer Harry Burleigh, whom Dvořák met during his American sojourn, and lyricist William Arms Fisher, but the song was actually written by Fisher and based on Dvořák's Largo theme.

Ovid and other writers have claimed ( either fancifully or mistakenly ) that the etymology of her name was " lover of song " derived from the Greek and instead of ).

As an April Fools ' Day joke, Hanson covered the song " Wait and Bleed " by the heavy metal band Slipknot, and the website Shockhound claimed that Hanson would record an entire album of Slipknot covers.

He claimed Hawkinsville and Macon home in his 2005 song " Stay Strapped ".

The band had recorded a song, " Humans Being ", for which Eddie claimed he had to write all the lyrics since Hagar's were " too cheesy ".

Composed in the late 1920s by Phil Baxter ( a native Texan who lived for a time in Dumas ) and Carl Moore, the song has also sometimes been claimed by Dumas in Desha County in southeastern Arkansas.

McCartney originally claimed he had written " Yesterday " during the Beatles ' tour of France in 1964 ; however, the song was not released until the summer of 1965.

Reports claimed that the song was a major success in the popular charts in Spain.

He claimed to be a descendant of the " Tim Finnegan " whose death and resurrection are celebrated in the song Finnegan's Wake.

Jazz composer Keith Jarrett claimed that the song had been based on one of his own compositions, titled " Long As You Know You're Living Yours ".

McClintock claimed credit for writing the song, though it was likely partially based on other ballads, including An Invitation to Lubberland and The Apple-Knocker's Lament.