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.

This was mainly due to the song " I Am What I Am ", which became a hit at dance clubs, and then on the Club Play chart in late 1983 / early 1984.

The " I " in the lyrics was usually only implied, mainly because it did not quite fit the rhythm of the song, like the version on First Two 7 " s on a 12 ".

Rei Momo ( 1989 ) was the first solo album by Byrne, after leaving Talking Heads, that features mainly Afro-Cuban, Afro-Hispanic, and Brazilian song styles including popular dances including merengue, Cuban Son, samba, mambo, cumbia, cha-cha-chá, bomba, and charanga.

In 2008, Justice's video for their song " Stress " was boycotted by several major music television channels due to allegations of racism and violence ; the video depicts several youths committing various crimes throughout the streets of Paris, with the youths mainly being of North African descent.

Because of several club remixes created mainly by Hex Hector, the song peaked at number 2 on the Hot Dance Club Play.

It was published by Endophasia Publications and mainly consists of his artwork, photography, song lyrics from Incubus, and additional writings and thoughts.

In 1985, New Jersey rock band Bon Jovi filmed most of their music video for the song " In and Out of Love " in Seaside Heights, mainly on the boardwalk.

As the song is set in the present, his mentioning in the lyrics of " the bad wind of an horrendous disease " was interpreted at the time as a reference to AIDS, mainly by music journalists who were not familiar with Poe's story.

Gaye later played the song to Berry Gordy, who refused to release it due mainly to its jazz-oriented sound, which Gordy labeled " outdated ".

The song " Robert Smith in meiner Kneipe " by German singer / songwriter Tommy Finke is mainly about Smith going into a fictional bar and drinking beer with the singer / songwriter.

Successful mainly in German-speaking countries, he is best known in the English-speaking world for his 2001 single " Hey Baby ( Uhh, Ahh )", a cover version of the Bruce Channel song " Hey!

As a songwriter, Maurice contributed mainly to melody, with his brothers writing the lyrics that they would sing on the finished song ( for the most part ).

* Richard Wright of Pink Floyd used a Minimoog mainly during the song Shine on you Crazy Diamond

The male of the nominate subspecies, which is found throughout most of Europe, is all black except for a yellow eye-ring and bill and has a rich melodious song ; the adult female and juvenile have mainly dark brown plumage.

The song " Mississippi Moon " is mainly inspired on the song " If I Could Fly ", which King's X played in shows after they had changed their name to its definite version, King's X.

*" Mille Mille Grazie " ( song with mainly German lyric ) ( 1963, No. 9 )

Usually considered to be of more lasting value are his lyrics, mainly dealing with love, which led his contemporaries to hail him as their master in song ( unsers sanges meister ).

They were mainly clerical students at the universities of France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and England who protested the growing contradictions within the Church, such as the failure of the Crusades and financial abuses, expressing themselves through song, poetry and performance.

The song focused mainly on when more than 13, 000 residents in and near Greenville, Mississippi evacuated to a nearby, unaffected levee for its shelter at high ground.

* In 1999, German hip-hop group Die Fantastischen Vier ( The Fantastic Four ) released the song " MfG " (" Mit freundlichen Grüßen ", German for " Best regards ", literally " With friendly greetings "), also mainly consisting of TLAs.

He mainly helps to expand on the musical framework created by Thom Yorke, and is known for his contributions to " Karma Police ", ( he created the effect that closes the song and his backing vocals during the chorus are an integral part of the song ), " Lucky " ( creating the effect that opens the song ) and " Treefingers " ( his guitar chords were processed electronically to sound like ambient music ).

Filming of the European trip scenes was done mainly in Switzerland, including Saanen for the train station and bridge scenes, Montbovon for the churches, and Gstaad for a song sequence.