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.

Her recording of " Sentimental Journey " was the first song placed in the Grammy Hall of Fame.

In karaoke it is extremely common for furigana to be placed on the song lyrics.

Howard Trafford, a student at Bolton Institute of Technology ( now the University of Bolton ), placed a notice in the college looking for musicians sharing a liking for The Velvet Underground's song " Sister Ray ".

* " Haddocks ' Eyes " / The Aged Aged Man / Ways and Means / A-sitting On a Gate, the song is A-sitting On a Gate, but its other names and callings are placed above.

After 2 weeks the song was placed on the stations playlist, while there was no record released.

His final album, 1999's Staying Power, resulted in his last hit song " Staying Power ," which placed # 45 on the Billboard R & B charts.

The song " Delirious " also placed in the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

* The English songwriter Nigel Blackwell has placed a number of references to the novel in a number of his songs, including the song titled, " Thy Damnation Slumbereth Not " from the album Cammell Laird Social Club.

During the shooting of Help !, a piano was placed on one of the stages where filming was being conducted and McCartney would take advantage of this opportunity to tinker with the song.

The Semitic languages have a form of ablaut ( changing the vowels within words, as in English sing, sang, sung, song ) that is sometimes called infixation, as the vowels are placed between the consonants of the root.

The breakthrough came with Bob Dylan's " Like a Rolling Stone ", although CBS tried to make the record more " radio friendly " by cutting it in half and spreading it over both sides of the vinyl, both Dylan and fans demanded that the full six-minute take be placed on one side and that radio stations play the song in its entirety.

However, the song was written before the mountain got its name ; in 1928, after the song had been released, some Utah residents jokingly placed a sign at the base of the hills labeling it the " Big Rock Candy Mountain ", along with a sign next to a nearby spring proclaiming it " Lemonade Springs ".

He placed 53 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 between 1957 and 1973 including " Poor Little Fool ", which holds the distinction of being the first # 1 song on Billboard magazine's then newly created Hot 100 chart.

He represented Turkey in the 1990 Eurovision Song Contest with the song " Gözlerinin Hapsindeyim " which was placed seventeenth.

The producers promptly placed her with Antonio " L. A ." Reid who offered the singer a contract with his label Arista Records after hearing one song she wrote and sung in front of him and his staff.

The group represented Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest in Riga, Latvia, with the song " Ne Ver ', Ne Boysia ", where they placed third.

The melody was used by Tom Springfield in the song " The Carnival Is Over " that placed The Seekers at # 1 in 1965 in Australia and the UK.

For Ministry's next album, Jourgensen released the song " No W ", an attack on then-U. S. President George W. Bush ; an alternate version of the track was placed on the multi-performer compilation Rock Against Bush, Vol.

Her song, " Fairytale Story ", placed 7th out of 12 songs in the national final.

Her song, One More Night was placed 13th in the 2003 Eurovision Song Contest.

The song only received 7 points, all from Italy, and she placed 18th, ahead of only Finland.

Peacock started performing at Maurice's American Bar and his song " So Attractive " was placed with a music publisher.

Some productions have placed the song " Beautiful City " after the finale to show the resurrection.

Her song " Everything I Want " placed 11th in the Eurovision Song Contest 2002.