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.

For the 2005 tour to New Zealand the Lions management commissioned a song, " The Power of Four ", although it met with little support amongst Lions fans at the matches and was not used on the 2009 Tour.

They met Mark Mothersbaugh around 1970, who introduced them to the pamphlet " Jocko Homo Heavenbound ", which includes an illustration of a winged devil labeled " D-EVOLUTION " and would later inspire the song " Jocko Homo ".

The song " Going to the Chapel " is then played as we see Henrietta marry a member of the guard, Scarlett marry Chester, David marry his girlfriend, Tom marry his distant cousin Deirdre ( whom he met at Charles's wedding and instantly fell for ), Matthew with a new partner ( Duncan Kenworthy ), Fiona marry Prince Charles ( a joke ), and Charles and Carrie with their son -- presumably not married.

American singer-songwriter Tom Paxton, who met Hurt and played on the same bill as him at the Gaslight in Greenwich Village around 1963, wrote and recorded a song about him in 1977 entitled " Did You Hear John Hurt?

In Hollywood, Jones met Elvis Presley for the first time who he recalls singing his song as he walked towards him on set.

* In 2012, the Swedish singer Thåström released the album " Beväpna dig met vingar " which includes a song called " Samarkanda ".

In 1929, the boogie-woogie pianist Speckled Red recorded a song entitled " The Dirty Dozen ", which includes lyrics such as " I like yo ' momma — sister, too / I did like your poppa, but your poppa would not do ./ I met your poppa on the corner the other day / I soon found out he was funny that way.

She met Garrel in 1969 and contributed the song " The Falconer " to his film Le Lit de la Vierge.

He first met George Gershwin, who was working as a song plugger in Jerome H. Remick's, in 1916.

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.

The following year, Webb met singer and producer Johnny Rivers, who signed him to a publishing deal and recorded his song " By the Time I Get to Phoenix " on his 1966 album Changes.

The song was inspired by actual reservists from Johnstown whom Hawkins met during a USO sponsored performance at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington D. C.

The film met modest success, but a song from the film, titled " Last Dance ", reached number three on the Hot 100 and resulted in Summer winning her first Grammy Award.

Jim DeRogatis ' book Staring At Sound states that The Flaming Lips song " Kim's Watermelon Gun " is a " song that paints an impressionistic portrait of [...] Kim Deal ", whom band member Steven Drozd befriended when they met at Lollapalooza.

The song " My Old School " is a well-known example, referring to Annandale ( Annandale-on-Hudson, New York is the location of Bard College, which both attended and where they met ), and the Two Against Nature album ( 2000 ) contains numerous references to the duo's original home region, the New York metro area, including the district of Gramercy Park, The Strand Bookstore and well-known upmarket food business Dean & DeLuca.

Kravitz met saxophonist Karl Denson and invited him to play on the song, " Let Love Rule.

The album was met with mixed reviews, with one of the larger subjects of criticism being that the last two tracks on the album were basically the same song.

On 29 January 1968, she performed this song on national TV, and at this occasion briefly met future ABBA member Agnetha Fältskog, who also performed her first single in the same programme.

Jan and Brad, who have never met, develop a feud over the use of the party line, as Brad is constantly using the phone to chat with one young woman after another, singing to each of them an " original " love song supposedly written just for her, though he only changes the name or language he sings in.

He has released two 7 song albums as well as a full length LP on Sub Pop Records, all of which were met with great critical acclaim.

Their first release was the 2001 single " Rapture ", a song Ali wrote in 30 minutes based on a relationship with an Australian man she met in a nightclub.

In particular, Mann's song " Deathly ", on her album Bachelor No. 2 or, the Last Remains of the Dodo, features the lyric " Now that I've met you / Would you object to / Never seeing each other again ", which was used by Claudia as line of dialogue in the film.

The halls created a demand for new and catchy popular songs that could no longer be met from the traditional folk song repertoire.