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.

" 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.

though in the classic traditional folk song, Dogie's Lament, also known as Git along little dogie, the " dogies " in question meant cattle strong enough to be herded from Texas to Wyoming, including weaners, yearling steers and other young, non-orphaned animals.

Since diamond also consists of carbon arranged in a crystalline lattice ( though of a different configuration ), scientists have nicknamed this star " Lucy " after the Beatles song " Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.

" Pull My Strings " was never recorded for a studio release, though the performance at the Bay Area Music Awards, which was the first and only time the song was ever performed, was released on the band's compilation album Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death.

The band's album debut, Tin Machine ( 1989 ), was initially popular, though its politicised lyrics did not find universal approval: Bowie described one song as " a simplistic, naive, radical, laying-it-down about the emergence of neo-Nazis "; in the view of biographer Christopher Sandford, " It took nerve to denounce drugs, fascism and TV [...] in terms that reached the literary level of a comic book.

Another hit song associated with McLean ( though never recorded by him ) is " Killing Me Softly with His Song ", which was written about McLean after Lori Lieberman, also a singer / songwriter, saw him singing his composition " Empty Chairs " in concert.

A new top 20 hit, " That Was Then, This Is Now " was released ( though Jones did not perform on the song ) as well as an album, Pool It !.

This last possibility seems to be supported by the 2007 oral biography of Thompson, which states that the term is taken from a song by Booker ; though, it does not explain why Thompson or Cardoso would have chosen the term to describe Thompson's journalism.

Parsons was inspired to cover the song after hearing an advance tape of the Sticky Fingers album sent to Kleinow, who was scheduled to overdub a part on the song ( Kleinow's part was not included on the released Rolling Stones version, though it is available on bootlegs ).

Additionally, there is software for Windows, Pocket PC, Linux, and Macintosh PCs that can decode and display karaoke song tracks, though usually these must be ripped from the CD first, and possibly compressed.

* The chorus of American popular song writer John Prine's song " Onomatopoeia " cleverly incorporates onomatopoeic words ( though as discussed, ' ouch!

Even though the album went platinum, the song proved to be their last hit.

Even though it was in essence a novelty song, it actually peaked at # 41 on the Billboard charts and received a Grammy nomination for best R & B song by a group.

Martina was only fifteen years old, but her ' honey-coated vox ' impressed them and they recorded a song called " Aftermath " ( though The Face ' 95 mentions that the first song they recorded together was called " Shoebox ").

The most famous recording of the song was credited to " Billy Murray and the Haydn Quartet ", even though Murray did not sing on it.

His work often parodies popular song forms, though Lehrer usually creates original melodies when doing so.

The playing of the song two years later during the seventh-inning stretch of the 1918 World Series, and thereafter during each game of the series is often noted as the first instance that the anthem was played at a baseball game, though evidence shows that the " Star-Spangled Banner " was performed as early as 1897 at opening day ceremonies in Philadelphia and then more regularly at the Polo Grounds in New York City beginning in 1898.

In 1999, a live US tour video of " Hey Boy, Hey Girl " was shown, even though the song was not in the top 40 at the time, and also released other singles before then at the time.

Maria responds passionately with her own song (" I Have a Love "), though, and Anita understands that Maria loves Tony as much as she had loved Bernardo.

Tork was a proficient musician, and though the group generally did not play their own instruments on their first two albums, he was an exception, playing what he described as " third chair guitar " on Mike Nesmith's song " Papa Gene's Blues " from their first album.

Instead, many people use audio compression to save storage space and download time, even though a single-bit error may corrupt the entire song.