Initially, it was relatively unsuccessful, staying at the charts for only one week, but Haley soon scored a major worldwide hit with a cover version of Big Joe Turner's " Shake, Rattle and Roll ", which went on to sell a million copies and became the first ever rock ' n ' roll song to enter British singles charts in December 1954 and became a Gold Record.

In 1974, her song, " I Will Always Love You ", written about her professional break from Wagoner, went to number one on the country music charts.

To keep everyone calm, Kaye went on stage, his face lit by a flashlight, and sang every song he could recall as loudly as he was able.

Fuller went into a collaborative partnership with composer Ben Weisman and co-wrote one song, " Rock-A-Hula Baby ", for the film.

When the boys awakened from death, they rose up and joined in a song of praise to God for the miracle vouchsafed to them ; later, they went to Israel, where they married and reared children.

Nevertheless, the song often received standing ovations when performed in concert, went to number 22 in the Christian charts through a marketing deal with Rick Hendrix Company, and earned Brooks a 1993 GLAAD Media Award.

They then went on a joint tour together the song peaked at 26 on the hot ac chart and 51 on the country chart.

Kenny Olson went on to perform with several other bands, and has appeared on other studio recordings such as the song " I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know " from the Les Paul & Friends CD as well as a version of " Little Wing " with Chaka Khan on " The Power of Soul: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix ".

The band accepted ; the song went on, after reworking by Peart, to become " Tom Sawyer ".

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

The latter song also went to number one in America, making Orbison impervious to the current chart dominance of British artists on both sides of the Atlantic.

Although Orbison recorded and wrote standard structure songs before " Only the Lonely ", he claimed never to have learned how to write them: " I'm sure we had to study composition or something like that at school, and they'd say ' This is the way you do it ,' and that's the way I would have done it, so being blessed again with not knowing what was wrong or what was right, I went on my own way .... So the structure sometimes has the chorus at the end of the song, and sometimes there is no chorus, it just goes ... But that's always after the fact — as I'm writing, it all sounds natural and in sequence to me.

Bono began his music career working at Specialty Records where his song " Things You Do to Me " was recorded by Sam Cooke, and went on to work for the record producer Phil Spector in the early 1960s as a promotion man, percussionist and " gofer ".

At the same Turnmills gig, the Brothers also played a previously unreleased song at midnight to welcome 2007, which went down well with the crowd.

The song went on to win " Best Song of 2000 " at the MTV Europe Music Awards, " Best Single of the Year " at the BRIT Awards and an MTV Video Music Award for Best Special Effects.

The second single from the album, " You're My Best Friend ", the second song composed by John Deacon, and his first single, peaked at number sixteen in the United States and went on to become a worldwide Top Ten hit.

The song went to number two in the United Kingdom, and number thirteen on the US singles chart.

The song " Daddy " was described by lead singer Jonathan Davis " When I was a kid, I was being abused by somebody else and I went to my parents and told them about it, and they thought I was lying and joking around.

On the day of his death he woke up very early in the morning, went to chapel and meditated for three hours, sang a song on Kali and then he whispered, " If there were another Vivekananda, then he would have understood what this Vivekananda has done!

* The Residents included a song called " My Nigerian Friend " in their 2008 multimedia production The Bunny Boy: " He said that he was hiding from the government, And said that he was dying and had to find a friend, He offered me some money, if he could use my name, I told him I liked bunnies, then he went away.

After the Synchronicity tour ended in March 1984, the band went on hiatus while Sting recorded and toured in support of his successful solo debut LP, the jazz-influenced The Dream of the Blue Turtles, released in June 1985, Copeland recorded and filmed The Rhythmatist ( 1985 ) and Summers recorded another album with Robert Fripp ( Bewitched, 1984 ) and the theme song for the film 2010.

That year they released " Unfinished Sympathy " as a single, a string-arranged track at Abbey Road studio, scored by Will Malone, that went on to be voted the 10th greatest song of all time in a poll by The Guardian.

The song stayed at the top of the U. S. charts for five weeks and went Platinum ; it is to date Sting's only song from his post-Police career to top the U. S. charts.

Failure seemed destined a second time when the song became another that went unnoticed by the listening public, and Columbia Records made plans to drop the New Kids from the label.

Despite the record's massive success, follow-up singles such as " Mr. Turnkey " ( a song about a rapist who nails his own wrist to the jail wall as punishment for his crime ) went largely unnoticed by the public.

The Second Coming also contained " Pretty Child ", a song that went relatively unnoticed at the time, but which was to catapult the band to supergroup status a few years later.

However the song and the film both went unnoticed.

After its release as a single, the song became immediately popular, though initial sales were slow due to the song's actual title, " Escape " going unnoticed in the place of the oft-repeated cocktail.

The song went mainly unnoticed in the rest of the world, until it was rediscovered in 1980, when it became a US / UK number one hit for the American band Blondie.

The song was the # 1 hit in the U. S. for the five weeks encompassing March 1966, the # 1 hit on the Hot 100's end of the year chart for 1966, and the No. 21 song of 1960s, despite the later unpopularity of the Vietnam War and the competing " California Dreaming ", sharply dividing the popular music market.

" Babylon " was performed in the Mad Men episode of the same name Babylon_ ( Mad_Men )# ep6 despite the fact that the song would not be released until 10 years after the time in which the episode is set.

The unlikely collaboration performed the song live on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in promotion of Kiss My Ass: Classic Kiss Regrooved, and despite its hard-rock appeal, Brooks's version did appear on the country charts.

Dutch band Focus, containing Thijs van Leer and Jan Akkerman, began to assert symphonic prog with their second album Focus II ( Moving Waves ) ( 1971 ) despite their hit song " Hocus Pocus " ( which is noted for lead singer Thijs van Leer's yodeling ).

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.

And, despite continued denials by the band, it settled a five-year legal battle with Hudson, paying him $ 600, 000 after he proved he held the copyright to the song " Thug " which appeared on Eliminator.

The Cure performed " Burn " in the movie The Crow and " Dredd Song ", the theme song of the 1995 movie Judge Dredd starring Sylvester Stallone ( The former song despite never being released as a single nor ever played live, is regarded a fan favourite of Cure fans and fans of ' The Crow ').

In 2006, the label denied " Weird Al " Yankovic permission to release " You're Pitiful ", a parody of James Blunt's " You're Beautiful ", despite Blunt's own approval of the song.

It was her first of many singles to hit the charts — despite the fact that Clooney hated the song passionately.

We then see and hear a moving rendition of the song " Going Home " ( from the second movement of Dvorak's 9th symphony, New World Symphony ) sung by Jan Clayton, who ironically received no billing despite her stellar performance.

The song, despite never receiving an official US single release, has been lauded hugely by music critics in the years since its release in 1973.

The album, despite being a lush concept album, was in fact cut in a very workmanlike manner, with the band recording a particular song, then the track being presented to Peter Knight who quickly composed a suitable " linking " orchestral portion which the Decca musicians (' London Festival Orchestral ') then recorded.

It enjoyed a comeback in 1978-79 and was associated with college fraternity parties when it was sung, complete with the supposedly obscene lyrics, by Bluto ( John Belushi ) and his fellow Delta House brothers in the movie National Lampoon's Animal House despite the anachronism of the film taking place in 1962, a year before the Kingsmen recording ( although this is mitigated by the fact that the Deltas are fans of at least one black rock musician, and 1962 was 7 years after Richard Berry wrote the song ).

1944's " Rum and Coca-Cola " by the Andrews Sisters, a cover version of a Lord Invader song, became an American hit despite the song being a very critical commentary on the explosion of prostitution, inflation and other negative influences accompanying the American military bases in Trinidad at the time.

" MercyMe's song " I Can Only Imagine " was a crossover success despite having a clear Christian message.

But despite this wide array of talents, he is prone to frequent misunderstandings, on one occasion even singing the alphabet as one big long word ( from the song called " ABC-DEF-GHI ," pronounced " ab-keddef-gajihkel-monop-quristuv-wixyz "), pondering what it could ever mean.

The song is one of the band's most popular and well-known songs, despite failing to chart or achieve commercial success.

The song failed to make the UK Chart, in complete contrast to " All Around My Hat ", despite having much in common with its predecessor-a 12 / 8 time signature, upbeat tempo, solo verses and full harmony chorus.

However, the sixties pop group The Turtles sued De La Soul for using a sample from their 1969 hit " You Showed Me " for the interlude track " Transmitting Live from Mars ", despite the fact that The Turtles did not actually write the original song.

Arden thought the band's song would receive publicity by the film ; however, the film's UK release was delayed, and " I've Got Mine " subsequently failed to chart despite receiving good reviews.