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.

Lee is today internationally recognized for her signature song " Fever ".

Wayne Smith's " Under Me Sleng Teng " was produced by King Jammy in 1985 on a Casio MT-40 synthesizer, and is generally recognized as the seminal ragga song.

Up until the time of Finland's independence in 1917 – 18, when the song began to be recognized as specifically applying to Finland, Pacius's tune and Runeberg's text were often also sung in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.

This was later recognized by CBS and others ( including music historian Jim Dawson in his book on " Rock Around the Clock ") as the first performance of a rock and roll song on a national television program.

In traditional music Slavonia is a distinct region of Croatia, and the traditional culture is preserved through folklore festivals, with prominence given to tamburica music and bećarac — a form of traditional song, recognized as an intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO.

Jolson is afraid of being recognized, but the crowd insists on a song.

Recently, smooth jazz stations throughout the United States have recognized Mangione's " Feels So Good " as their all-time number one song.

Thrash metal band Megadeth covered Nancy Sinatra's " These Boots Are Made For Walkin ' on their 1985 debut album Killing Is My Business ... and Business Is Good !, but is more often recognized as a parody rather than a true cover, and is considered controversial because song writer Lee Hazelwood deemed Megadeth's version to be " a perversion of the original ".

After the pop duo was formed, Twins started their career in the summer of 2001, and was recognized for the song " 明愛暗戀補習社 ".

One of his most recognized accomplishments was signing the Boston group Aerosmith to Columbia Records in the early 1970s at New York City's Max's Kansas City, which was mentioned in the 1979 Aerosmith song " No Surprise ", where Steven Tyler sings, " Old Clive Davis said he's surely gonna make you a star, just the way you are.

At each house, the resident responds by refusing lodging ( also in song ), until the weary travelers reach the designated site for the party, where Mary and Joseph are finally recognized and allowed to enter.

" Summertime Girls " remains as the band's most widely recognized song, along with fan favorites such as " Mean Streak ," " Rescue Me ," " Forever " to name a few.

) is a generally patriotic musical composition that evokes and eulogizes the history, traditions and struggles of its people, recognized either by a nation's government as the official national song, or by convention through use by the people.

In addition, Burnette's original song was recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.

Written by General Juan José Cañas with music composed by the Italian Juan Aberle in 1856, the anthem was adopted as the national song on September 15, 1879, and officially recognized by the government on December 11, 1953.

Among his many memorable contributions, perhaps none are as widely recognized as the song " Vierentwintig rozen " – " Twenty-four roses ", included in many of his one-man shows over the decades.

" So while the depth of the African-American work song traditions is now recognized, in the early 19th century they stood in stark contrast to the paucity of such traditions among Euro-Americans.

The song is recognized throughout Hispanic America as it picture scenes and stories common to all these countries, even though the story takes place in New York City.

Other ethnolinguistic groups such as the Visayan, Bikol, and Kapampangan, despite making music in their native languages have not been recognized as OPM, except in unusual cases like the Bisrock ( Visayan Rock music ) song " Charing " by Davao band 1017.

His voice was recognized and the song saved his life.

Despite the award's short span, the award helped solidify Gaynor as one of the best-known female disco artists from the 1970s and the song " I Will Survive " as one of the most recognized and top-selling songs from the genre.

The song is generally recognized as experimental and pushed the boundaries of industrial music at the time.

The song interweaves an account from his youth of star-crossed lovers with the locally recognized holiday Casimir Pulaski Day as indicated by the lyric, "... in the morning, in the winter shade, on the first of March, on the holiday ..."