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.

Until then, the song was sung in Australia as a patriotic song.

The song quickly gained popularity and an amended version was sung by a choir of 10, 000 at the inauguration of the Commonwealth of Australia on 1 January 1901.

Johnny Appleseed is remembered in American popular culture by his traveling song or Swedenborgian hymn (" The Lord is good to me ..."), which is today sung before meals in some American households.

The song is traditionally sung during the seventh-inning stretch of a baseball game.

Notable among a number of songs commonly played and sung at various events such as commencement, convocation, and athletic games are: Stand Up and Cheer, the Acadia University fight song.

*" ABC – DEF – GHI ", a song sung by Big Bird of Sesame Street

In analyzing the text of the song, Max Cryer wrote that it " is not intended to be sung by the young in love, but by a mature performer who has seen it all before.

The song was sung by Jerry Scoggins ( backed by Flatt and Scruggs ) over the opening and end credits of each episode.

BAO recently achieved a new record in Sweden on the Svensktoppen chart by staying there for 243 weeks with the song Du är min man (" You Are My Man "), sung by Helen Sjöholm.

In 1989 Jonathan Hellyer became lead singer, and the band extensively toured the U. S. and Europe with back-up vocalist Annie Conway and had one minor hit with the song " Cha Cha Heels ", a one-off collaboration sung by American actress and singer Eartha Kitt.

There also exists a Vocaloid song sung by Len Kagamine, Dream Eating Monochrome Baku, about the Baku, depicting it / him as a sharply dressed blond boy ( Len Kagamine ) with an elephant cane.

It is unclear when exactly is the song first sung by new recruits, but it is assumed to be sometime after completing training.

" There was a gospel song that was sung ( at his bedside ) and ( when it was done ) he said ' wow ' with a thumbs up ," Mitchell told Reuters, when asked to describe the scene at Diddley's deathbed.

After that, in 1990, it was eliminated from the anthem and only sung in military events as part of the full song.

" The Sign of the Southern Cross " is a song by Black Sabbath written in 1981 which was sung by Ronnie James Dio.

*" Calypso ", a 1985 song sung by France Gall

The Jacksons ( previously The Jackson 5 ) did many disco songs from 1975 to 1980, including " Shake Your Body ( Down to the Ground )" ( 1978 ), " Blame it on the Boogie " ( 1978 ), and " Can You Feel It " ( 1980 )— all sung by Michael Jackson, whose 1979 solo album, Off the Wall, included several disco hits, including the album's title song, " Rock with You ", " Workin ' Day and Night ", and his second chart-topping solo hit in the disco genre, " Don't Stop ' til You Get Enough ".

One more example is the song " Thunderstruck " by ACDC in which a player begins drinking when the word thunder is sung and switches to the next player the next time it is sung.

Carmina Dalhousiana, a song created in 1882, is commonly played and sung at various events around Dalhousie, such as commencement and convocation, and athletic games.

Another early appearance on record followed in 1987, where Enya provided spoken ( not sung ) vocals in Irish on the song " Never Get Old " on Sinéad O ' Connor's debut album, The Lion and the Cobra.

This song would later be adapted into " Christmas Is All Around " and sung by the character of Billy Mack in Richard Curtis ' 2003 film Love Actually, in which Grant also stars.