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.

However, the CRTC is also sometimes erroneously criticized for CBSC decisions — for example, the CRTC was erroneously criticized for the CBSC's decisions pertaining to the airing of Howard Stern's terrestrial radio show in Canada in the late 1990s, as well as the CBSC's controversial ruling on the Dire Straits song " Money for Nothing ".

In June 2008, on DJ Cisco's Urban Legend mixtape, Ice-T criticized DeAndre Cortez " Soulja Boy Tell ' Em " Way for " killing hip hop " and his song " Crank That " for being " garbage " compared to the works of other hip-hop artists such as Rakim, Das EFX, Big Daddy Kane and Ice Cube.

The mainstream pop punk of latter-day bands such as Blink-182 is criticized by many punk rock devotees ; in critic Christine Di Bella's words, " It's punk taken to its most accessible point, a point where it barely reflects its lineage at all, except in the three-chord song structures.

The practice was criticized in the chorus of the Dead Kennedys song " Pull My Strings ", a parody of the song " My Sharona " (" My Payola ") sung to a crowd of music industry leaders during a music award ceremony.

In response both to televangelist Jimmy Swaggart's June 1987 book Religious Rock ' N ' Roll: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, which had criticized the music of Norman and other Christian rock artists, and Swaggart's February 1988 admission of adultery with a prostitute, Norman wrote the song " Selah ", which had its last verse censored by Benson, which was: " My songs are spiritual fornication ,/ that's what this television preacher said ./ I guess he knows a lot about fornication ,/ I heard he wrote some sermons in a prostitute's bed.

Following a December 1966 recording session in which he was involved in a heated argument with Mike Love ( who vehemently criticized his lyrics for the song " Cabin Essence ") Parks ' involvement in SMiLE effectively ceased and he officially withdrew from the project in early 1967.

After country music changed toward pop music in the 2000s, he and George Strait criticized the state of country music on the song " Murder on Music Row ".

The lyrics of the song criticized the path hip hop music was taking and was interpreted by some as directing blame towards the popularity of West Coast Gangsta rap.

" Considine criticized " Black Hole Sun " and " Half ", stating that the former is " not a very good song " while the latter " is the virtual definition of a B-side.

Stalin praised the song for fulfilling what a national anthem should be, though he criticized the song's orchestration.

In his song " Wrong Nigga To Fuck Wit ", Ice Cube criticized NJS with the line: " It ain't no pop cause that sucks / And you can new jack swing on my nuts.

Gang of Four were criticized for allowing the company to use the song, a decision ostensibly at odds with their perceived anti-capitalist stance, but it was record label EMI, which owns all the band's early material, that lent Microsoft the rights and none of the band members had anything to do with it.

Because of this, some folk song fans criticized them for watering down their beliefs and commercializing their singing style.

But in later year, he criticized her late 1980s music career by his own song called " Queen of Hype Blues ".

As already mentioned, the song was particularly criticized vaffanculo: it is a real Masini outburst against his detractors, who set him a corrupter of youth, a loser, a pessimist, a singer who brings depression.

Alfred Moran, the executive director of Planned Parenthood of New York City, also criticized the song, fearing that it would undermine efforts to promote birth control among adolescents and that it would encourage teenage pregnancy.

After, he also had criticized the Gatineau Olympiques organisation for putting the ' Tomahawk Chop ' song, which he said was racist.

In 1987, Bosnian garage rock band Zabranjeno pušenje published a song entitled Dan Republike, in which they criticized the state of the economy and protested the general indifference to the ideals behind the holiday.

Their ( second ) debut album Mother's Finest from 1976 today is a rare collector's piece and contained with the ironic song " Niggizz Can't Sing Rock ' n Roll " ( although they were criticized for it by an important religious leader and dropped it from their live concerts ).

Although the album spawned the single " Julian ", radio stations criticized them for sounding like " generic American funk " and going as far as saying they sounded " too black ", with the result that the song was only a modest hit, peaking at # 53 in the RPM Hot 100 chart the week of January 30, 1988.

Their 1980 hit song Antisocial ( on the Répression album ) criticized the frenetic, dehumanizing pace of modern life and work in large cities.

Oliver Trager's book, Keys to the Rain: The Definitive Bob Dylan Encyclopedia, mentions that some have criticized this song as sexist.