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.

Final Fantasy IV Official Soundtrack is nearly the same release as Final Fantasy IV: Original Sound Version, the soundtrack album for the original game, except that the songs were rerecorded by TOSE, resulting in minor differences, some song titles were slightly changed, and a 45th track was added, " Theme of Love ( Arranged )", which had previously only been released as a piano version on the second track of Piano Collections Final Fantasy IV.

Another song from the album, " Maybe He'll Know ", was rerecorded by Lauper on her second solo album, True Colors, in 1986.

The powerfully frenetic opening theme song from the original series was rerecorded and slowed to a mournfully funereal pace, and practically everyone in the original cast of recurring characters returned for the new episodes except Noah Beery, Jr., who had died in the interim.

Most recently, this song was rerecorded and added to their 2010 CD World Gone Crazy.

" The latter track was previously featured on Come On Pilgrim, and appears on Surfer Rosa as a rerecorded version of the original song.

Takanori Nishikawa .< ref > hybrid_incubi, “ Behind the Music: Takanori Nishikawa ,” tmrevolutionist, 28 June 2006, accessed 29 July 2006 < http :// community. livejournal. com / tmrevolutionist / 141135. html >.</ ref > This song was rerecorded in 1997 and also rearranged in 2000 as TMR ’ s twelfth single ( Black or White?

The extended song was rerecorded by the Misfits with Michale Graves singing, on the album " Cuts from the Crypt ".

Since Glassjaw abruptly ended their contract to sign with Warner Bros., Roadrunner retained the rights to that song and refused to let the newly rerecorded " Convectuoso " be released on the final album despite being on promotional copies.

The song was rerecorded, though there is little difference to the song itself with no lyrical changes at all.

" Wilson produced a recording, but feeling that Brian was holding back again, Jardine went ahead and rerecorded the song six months after Brian's version was released on 20 / 20.

Three of the songs from Mississauga Goddam, namely " We Oh We ", " I Believe in the Good of Life " ( a rerecorded version of the same song from the first album ), and " Builds the Bone ", are featured in the Canadian motion picture Whole New Thing.

He made a guest appearance on the album Get Ready !, and rerecorded the 1982 song " Stop ou encore ", which went originally platinum in Belgium.

In the 1970s Crocker ran a television commercial featuring the song " We've Only Just Begun ," which was later rerecorded by The Carpenters and sold as a single: It became the duo's signature song.

The song " Shinainaru Death Mask " from their first album had been rerecorded and the band's first promotional music video was filmed for the song, but everything else was new material.

The song was rerecorded for the 2007 documentary film Welcome Back Riders.

Because of this, all the songs are rerecorded and the song order is shuffled around considerably ; this and the addition of several new songs and links creates a more balanced structure of alternating short and long sequences.

When rerecorded for the Biggs version, that theme is drastically altered to D, C, B ♭, C. Thus, the tension of the original version ( from the use of E flat in a song based in D ) is quite deflated.

In 1999, the group, minus former bandleader Luther Campbell, rerecorded the song as " Bill So Horny " during the impeachment of U. S. President Bill Clinton for allegedly lying under oath about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky.

Although it was rerecorded a number of times for future versions of the show, and various different themes were used during the late 1970s and early 1980s, " TSOP " returned in the late 1980s and remained the theme song for Soul Train through the disco, 1980s R & B, new jack swing, hip-hop, and neo soul eras of black music.

The song was rerecorded in 2005 by Phantom Planet and re-released as " California 2005 ", a much mellower version of the song than the original.

Everett Miller, then assistant director for the Garrick Gaieties, a Theatre Guild production, needed a lyricist for a song he had written ; ;

Besides doing a single song, `` When The Sun Comes Out '', they worked on the ambitious American-Negro Suite, for voices and piano, as well as songs for films.

My own stern hand has rent the ancient bond, And thereof shall the ending not have end: But not for me, that loved her, to be fond Lightly to please me with a newer friend Then hold it more than bravest-feathered song, That I affirm to thee, with heart of pride, I knew not what did to a friend belong Till I stood up, true friend, by thy true side ; ;

The same could be said for the song to which they make their entrance in the final scene.

Even in its most conventional appearance, the guests' song of praise to Marina, there are a few female dissenters criticizing the princess for her coldness.

They will kneel and plead for Boris' leadership in a strangely intense song, its phrases irregularly broken as if gasping for breath, but when the police with their cudgels move away, they mock and grumble and fight among themselves.

A crowd of 1,400 is expected for the ceremonies, which will be followed by the show in which the writers will lampoon baseball personalities in skit, dance and song.

In the more casually constructed musicals of the Nineteen Twenties and Nineteen Thirties there would seem to have been less reason for eliminating a song of merit.

Songs and poetry often rely on ambiguous words for artistic effect, as in the song title " Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue " ( where " blue " can refer to the color, or to sadness ).

* " Animals ", by Coldplay as one of the B-sides for " Clocks " ( song )

Demand was high for black gospel recordings of the song by H. R. Tomlin and J. M. Gates.

The 1982 science fiction film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan used " Amazing Grace " amid a context of Christian symbolism, to memorialize the death of Mr. Spock but more practically, because the song has become " instantly recognizable to many in the audience as music that sounds appropriate for a funeral " according to a Star Trek scholar.

Also, " Absalom, Absalom Would I die for you my son, I would have it all undone, The way it all came down " is found on the 1998 album Largo in the song " Gimme A Stone ".

There are for example fragments in ' Sapphic ' meter praising the Dioscuri, Hermes and the river Hebrus ( a river significant in Lesbian mythology since it was down its waters that the head of Orpheus was believed to have floated singing, eventually crossing the sea to Lesbos and ending up in a temple of Apollo, as a symbol of Lesbian supremacy in song ).

The Laudes Regiae, or song commending a ruler, that was performed at Matilda's coronation may have been composed by Ealdred himself for the occasion.

* " Atmosphere ", a song which became a hit for Russ Abbot in 1984

In order for the song to become the anthem, it had to face a vote between the Royal anthem God Save the Queen, the " unofficial anthem " Waltzing Matilda and Song of Australia.

*" When Johnny Comes Marching Home " ( sometimes " When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again ") is a popular song of the American Civil War that expressed people's longing for the return of their friends and relatives who were fighting in the war.

The song plays during the opening credits for the highly acclaimed John Ford movie " My Darling Clementine.

The lyrics for the " Alabama Song " and another song, the " Benares Song " are in English ( albeit specifically idiosyncratic English ) and are performed in that language even when the opera is performed in its original ( German ) language.