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.

The song was rerecorded for a tribute album to Gaiman that was assembled by the Dancing Ferret entertainment group titled Where's Neil When You Need Him?

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.

* " Abduction " ( song ), a 2005 song by Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson

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.

* bin Laden ( song ), a 2005 hip hop song by Immortal Technique and Mos Def

* bin Laden Weed, a hip hop song on Three 6 Mafia's 2005 album Da Unbreakables

Love had written several songs, including an anti-cocaine song titled " Loser Dust ", during her time in rehab in 2005.

Another version of the song was recorded by Chris Kline in August 2005.

During a relatively quiet 2005, he recorded the vocals for the song "( She Can ) Do That ", co-written with Brian Transeau, for the film Stealth.

He contributed back-up vocals on TV on the Radio's song " Province " for their album Return to Cookie Mountain, made a commercial with Snoop Dogg for XM Satellite Radio, and joined with Lou Reed on Danish alt-rockers Kashmir's 2005 album No Balance Palace.

*" Heavy Metal " ( Clap Your Hands Say Yeah song ) ( 2005 )

The song was also sung at Bush's 2005 inauguration by Guy Hovis, former cast member of The Lawrence Welk Show.

In 2005, Sinatra's recording was sampled separately by the Audio Bullys and Radio Slave into dance tracks ( renamed into " Shot You Down " and " Bang Bang " respectively ), and by hip-hop artist Young Buck in a song titled " Bang Bang ", as well as covered for a single and music video by R & B artist Melanie Durrant.

The song " Parisien Du Nord " by Cheb Mami is a recent example of how the genre has been used as form of protest, as the song was written as a protest against the racial tensions that sparked the 2005 French riots.

In 2005, the American indie / alternative rock band The Bravery released a video for their debut single, " An Honest Mistake ," which features the band performing the song in the middle of a Rube Goldberg machine.

* The song " The Incomparable Mr. Flannery " by band Clutch from their 2005 album Robot Hive / Exodus mentions the REO Speed Wagon.

* " Spin " ( Trey Anastasio song ), 2005

* 1998: Tom Jones recorded the song several times between 1998 and 2005.

Staind appeared on The Howard Stern Show on August 10, 2005, to promote their new album Chapter V. They performed acoustic renditions of the single " Right Here " and Beetlejuice's song " This is Beetle ".

On 22 December 2005 the BBC broadcast a live performance ( recorded the previous week ) on the Jonathan Ross Christmas show with Katie Melua filling in for the late Kirsty MacColl, the first time the band had played the song live on television.

The song has become a festive classic in the UK and Ireland over the years, and was voted the best Christmas song of all time three years running in 2004, 2005, and 2006 in polls by music channel VH1 UK, despite not achieving Christmas Number One when it was released.

Shelley also performed the song live, with Plant, Daltrey, Gilmour, Hook and Jeff Beck at the 2005 UK Music Hall of Fame.

TMBG covered the Devo song " Through Being Cool " in the 2005 Disney movie, Sky High.