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.

But the term does not cover a song, dance, or tune that has been taken over ready-made and remains unchanged.

* Gia ( song ), a single by Despina Vandi, taken from the album

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.

The title – taken from the first words of the song – means " Old Land of My Fathers ", usually rendered in English as simply " Land of My Fathers ".

The term " Screaming Fist " was taken from the song of the same name by legendary Toronto punk rock band The Viletones.

The mainstream pop punk of latter-day bands such as Blink-182 is criticized by many punk rock devotees ; in critic Christine Di Bella's words, " It's punk taken to its most accessible point, a point where it barely reflects its lineage at all, except in the three-chord song structures.

Dylan's song " Subterranean Homesick Blues " ( 1965 ), which may have taken its title from a Kerouac novel, included the line, " Johnny's in the basement, mixing up the medicine ", and his " Mr. Tambourine Man " ( 1965 ) requested " Take me on a trip upon your magic swirling ship ".

" Lecha Dodi ", a 16th century liturgical song with strong Kabbalistic symbolism, contains many passages, including its opening two words, taken directly from Song of Songs.

In several concerts, Art Garfunkel related that during the photo sessions for the album cover, several hundred pictures were taken that were unusable due to the " old familiar suggestion " on the wall in the background, which inspired the song " A Poem on the Underground Wall ".

The film itself has been widely sampled: Punk band Big Audio Dynamite used an audio clip from the movie in its song " Medicine Show "; the audio was taken from the scene in which a judge, after reading a long list of criminal charges, sentences Tuco to be " hanged from the neck until dead.

The song, which is a protest, against nuclear weapons, was written in 1987, implying that the Earth could be nearly completely devastated by nuclear weapons in 12 years without any action taken against them.

The sample, four looping chords taken from a few seconds of Lansky's piece, provides the entire harmony for the song.

The first single taken from the album was " Rock DJ ", a song inspired by Williams's UNICEF mentor, the late Ian Dury.

In 2001 he directed a 15 minute film for Gene's song " Is It Over " which is taken from the album Libertine.

The melody of the popular song No Other Love was later taken from the ' Victory at Sea ' theme entitled " Beneath the Southern Cross ".

The music is taken from the Cajun song " Grand Texas ".

Keyboard duties were taken over by highly-rated singer-keyboardist Paul Carrack, a former member of British soul-pop band Ace, who scored a major international hit with the song " How Long.

A music video for the song " Bastard Nation " taken from Wrecking Your Neck was also released, but again failed to receive airplay in the US.

Unterberger argued that although the song was " sometimes described as a ballad because of its light and mild nature, it's actually taken at a pretty brisk tempo.

* It illustrates an educational article specifically about the song from which this sample was taken.

* It illustrates an educational article specifically about the song from which this sample was taken.

* It illustrates an educational article specifically about the song from which this sample was taken.

* It illustrates an educational article specifically about the song from which this sample was taken.

" At the time of the album's release — which followed, chronologically, the up-tempo single version of the song, " Revolution " — that single word " in " was taken by many on the radical left as Lennon's acknowledgment, after considered thought, that violence in the pursuit of political aims was indeed justified in some cases.

* In the last sequence of Derek Jarman's The Tempest ( 1979 ), a film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play, the singer / actress Elisabeth Welch, appearing as ' a goddess ', sings the song ; which she had taken as her signature tune since 1933.