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.

") According to the liner notes of his first ( self-titled ) album, musician Bob Dylan dedicated the first song he ever wrote to Bardot.

It was especially noted that the birth and death of some notable persons coincided with separate appearances of the comet, such as with writers Mark Twain ( who correctly speculated that he'd " go out with the comet " in 1910 ) and Eudora Welty, to whose life Mary Chapin Carpenter dedicated the song Halley Came to Jackson.

Besides his fame as a scholar, he was a friend of both Robert Schumann, with whom he corresponded, and Felix Mendelssohn, who dedicated a song to him.

They dedicated an acoustic version of Duke Ellington's " Jump for Joy " to him, a song they never performed at any other time of their career.

The lyrics of the song call for abstinence from alcohol and other drugs, a novel ideology for rock musicians which initially found a small but dedicated following.

* Singer Melissa Etheridge dedicated the song " Tuesday Morning " in 2004 to his memory.

She subsequently wrote a song " Peaceable Kingdom " which was inspired by and is dedicated to Rachel Corrie.

John Herald, a bluegrass singer wrote a song dedicated to Martha, entitled " Martha: Last of the passenger pigeons ".

While the birthday cake is being brought to the table, the song " Happy Birthday to You " or some other dedicated birthday song is sung by the guests. A birthday cake with lit novelty candles.

She previously dated actor Owen Wilson ; her album C ' mon C ' mon ( 2002 ) featured the song " Safe and Sound ", which was dedicated to him and which, according to the album's liner notes, was an autobiographical account of their relationship.

The song is dedicated to a Fenian poet named John Boyle O ' Reilly, who was deported to Australia because of his poetry.

Bodeck befriended them, and Campion wrote a song dedicated to Bodeck.

The Beat Fleet, a Croatian hip hop band, wrote a song called " Data " for their album Galerija Tutnplok dedicated to Data.

In the 1970s Coen Moulijn also had a song dedicated to him named " Coentje Coentje Coentje ".

That evening, Rouget de Lisle wrote Chant de guerre pour l ' Armée du Rhin and dedicated the song to Marshal Nicolas Luckner, a Bavarian in French service from Cham.

It includes a song titled " A New Star is Born ", which is dedicated to her late father.

Its worldwide fame was because the Neapolitan song Funiculì Funiculà was dedicated to it.

In the premiere show of the final season of The Oprah Winfrey Show on September 10, 2010, Simon surprised Oprah and the audience with a song dedicated to Oprah and her show lasting 25 years ( an update of a song he did for her show's 10th anniversary ).

Although McLean dedicated the American Pie album to Buddy Holly, none of the musicians in the plane crash are identified by name in the song itself.

Dweezil Zappa dedicated the song " Willie the Pimp " to Beefheart at the " Zappa Plays Zappa " show at the Beacon Theater in New York City on the day of his death, while Jeff Bridges exclaimed " Rest in peace, Captain Beefheart!

* The well-known partisan song " Komandant Stane " (' Commander Stane ') is dedicated to him.

" In order to gain Goebbels ' cooperation, however, in extending the German music copyright laws from 30 years to 50 years, in 1933 Strauss dedicated an orchestral song, Das Bächlein (" The Little Brook ") to him.

He created a new arrangement of the song " Solitude " and dedicated it to Anderson in 1939.