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song and was
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.

song and credited
Parton refused, and that decision is credited with helping to make her many millions of dollars in royalties from the song over the years.
The song " Baby Doll " was used in the film Tapeheads, with newly recorded Swedish lyrics, and was credited to ( and shown in a music video by ) a fictitious Swedish band called Cube-Squared.
The song " Boadicea ", also from this album, would later be sampled by The Fugees on their single " Ready or Not " ( 1996 ), causing a brief stir because the group neither sought permission from Enya nor gave her credit initially, and by Mario Winans, who did give her credit ( the Winans track, " I Don't Wanna Know " which features a rap by P. Diddy and is officially credited to all three artists, became Enya's highest charting single in the US, when it peaked at # 2 on the Hot 100 in 2004 ).
Today, almost every folk song that is recorded is credited with an arranger.
Brown credited his then-second wife and two of their children as writers of the song to avoid concurrent tax problems with the IRS.
Brown performed the song in the film at Apollo Creed's final fight, shot in the Ziegfeld Room at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas and was credited in the film as " The Godfather of Soul.
The Who song " Tommy's Holiday Camp " ( from Tommy ) was credited to Moon, who suggested the action should take place in a holiday camp.
The most famous recording of the song was credited to " Billy Murray and the Haydn Quartet ", even though Murray did not sing on it.
The confusion, nonetheless, is so pervasive that, when " Take Me Out to the Ball Game " was selected by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Recording Industry Association of America as one of the 365 top " Songs of the Century ", the song was credited to Billy Murray, implying his recording of it as having received the most votes among songs from the first decade.
While the group was together, every song written by Lennon or McCartney was credited as Lennon – McCartney regardless of whether the song was a collaboration or written solely by one of the two ( except for those appearing on their first album, Please Please Me, which credited the songs to McCartney – Lennon ).
This is especially interesting because Arion is credited with the invention of the dithyramb, a dionysiac song.
His first recording, " Rocket 88 " with the Kings of Rhythm credited as " Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats ", in 1951, is considered a possible contender for " first rock and roll song ".
The movie's soundtrack is credited for starting the career of pop singer Christina Aguilera, whose first song to be released in the U. S. was her rendition of " Reflection ", the first single from the Mulan soundtrack.
* With Emerson, Lake & Powell, the main theme to " Touch & Go " is identical to the English folk song " Lovely Joan ", better known as the counterpoint tune in Ralph Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Greensleeves Not credited.
* Jambalaya ( On the Bayou ), ( 1952 ), a song credited to Hank Williams.
" Because Tolhurst was still on the payroll during the recording of Disintegration, he was credited in the album's liner notes as playing " other instruments ", however it has since been revealed that he contributed nothing to the album in either performance or song writing.
Heinlein credited the title of the song, " The Green Hills of Earth ", to the short story " Shambleau " by C. L. Moore ( first published in 1933 ).
" What's the New Mary Jane " was a song written by John Lennon ( but credited to Lennon – McCartney ) and performed by The Beatles.
Sometimes credited with inspiring Black Flag is The Middle Class, whose song " Out of Vogue " has been called the first hardcore record.
In 1998, the band was credited with the song Overtura: Astroantiquity / Attacatastrophy on the CD Songs of the Witchblade: A Soundtrack to the Comic Book, which Bjelland co-produced.

song and Myers
" Rock Around the Clock " is a 12-bar-blues-based song written by Max C. Freedman and James E. Myers ( the latter under the pseudonym " Jimmy De Knight ") in 1952.
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.
There were several earlier songs of the title " Rock Around the Clock " ( by Hal Singer and Wally Mercer ), but they are unrelated to the Freedman / Myers song.
Haley and his Comets began performing the song on stage ( Comets bass player Marshall Lytle and drummer Dick Richards say the first performances were in Wildwood, New Jersey at Phil and Eddie's Surf Club ), but Dave Miller, his producer, refused to allow Haley to record it for his Essex Records label ( Swenson suggests a feud existed between Myers and Miller ).
Myers next offered the song to Sonny Dae & His Knights, a novelty all-white musical group led by Italian-American Paschal Vennitti.
Other notable guest stars included: Cesar Romero as Chico's absentee father ; Tony Orlando as Chico's look-alike, the ex-fiance of a hostile woman he wants to date ; José Feliciano, who wrote the theme song, as Chico's womanizing famous-singer cousin Pepe Fernando ; Sammy Davis Jr. as himself ; Herbie Faye appeared as Bernie in the 1975 episode " Louie's Retirement "; Shelley Winters ( reuniting with Albertson, with whom she'd costarred in The Poseidon Adventure ) as the owner of the local bakery, Shirley Schrift ( her real name ); Jim Backus as Ed's friend who uses him as a " beard "— pretending to be playing cards with him when cheating on his wife ( Audra Lindley ); silent-film actress Carmel Myers as a former star who has fallen on hard times, brings in her car for repairs, and stays in the garage while looking for work ; George Takei as Ed's supposed long-lost son from his time in Japan during World War II ; Cesare Danova as Aunt Connie's Spanish aristocrat boyfriend, the Count de Catalan, in the second episode in which she appeared ; comedian Joey Bishop as an inept robber ; Bernie Kopell as a plastic surgeon ; Rose Marie as a CB radio enthusiast with whom a lonely Ed connects on New Year's Eve ; Penny Marshall, as a waitress ; football star Rosey Grier as himself, Della's date for a charity benefit dance ; Larry Hovis as a customer in the second episode of the first season ; and Jim Jordan ( of radio's Fibber McGee and Molly ) as a mechanic who used to be a big businessman, until he was victimized by his own company's retirement-age mandate ).
Mike Myers has stated that he was inspired to create the character after hearing the song " The Look of Love " on the radio, which was the theme song of Ursula Andress ' character, Vesper Lynd, in the 1967 version of Casino Royale.
In the movie Wayne's World, Wayne ( played by Mike Myers ) takes a guitar and plays several notes of the song in the original theatrical release.
In 1993, the Mike Myers feature film So I Married an Axe Murderer included the song " Brother " on its soundtrack.
Even if not one of the best known Kraftwerk songs, the track gained some notoriety in the United States, when it was used slightly sped up as the theme song for " Sprockets ", the German television spoof by Mike Myers on Saturday Night Live.
Myers and Peno – the band's main song writers – began working on a proposed new album, but this proved difficult as Peno had moved to Melbourne.
Though Larry Myers had assured Dylan that his old compositions were not sacrilegious, Dylan would say he would not " sing any song which hasn't been given to me by the Lord to sing.
The station was launched by its original owners, Border Television at 8am on 14 April 1993 when Managing Director and Breakfast show host John Myers played " The Best " by Tina Turner as its first song.
This group made a number of television performances ( with Myers in character as Powers ) and had a minor hit with the song " BBC ".
The song, like the majority of The Nolans ' hit singles, was written by Ben Findon, Mike Myers and Robert Puzey.
The song is also featured in the 1993 Mike Myers cult classic So I Married An Axe Murderer.
The original screenplay was written by Peter Myers and Ronald Cass ( who also wrote most of the song numbers and lyrics ).
The station was launched in October 2000, a year after the GMG Group won its first broadcast licence-after an introduction by Tom Jones, the station's founding managing director John Myers introduced the song " A Star is Born ".
Joanna Myers as Nurse O ' Brien, and as the singer of the title song
" Hold My Hand " is a popular song, written by Jack Lawrence and Richard Myers.
The beginning of the performance features a short scene of Mike Myers as Austin Powers, while another song from the movie's soundtrack, " Soul Bossa Nova ", was being played in the background.
* " Hold My Hand " ( 1953 song ), by Jack Lawrence and Richard Myers

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