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.

Steinberg obviously has concluded that it is the lyric element which must dominate in this score, and he manages at times to create the effect of the whole orchestra bursting into song.

The same could be said for the song to which they make their entrance in the final scene.

A crowd of 1,400 is expected for the ceremonies, which will be followed by the show in which the writers will lampoon baseball personalities in skit, dance and song.

Certainly not in Orchestra Hall where he has played countless recitals, and where Thursday night he celebrated his 20th season with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, playing the Brahms Concerto with his own slashing, demon-ridden cadenza melting into the high, pale, pure and lovely song with which a violinist unlocks the heart of the music, or forever finds it closed.

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.

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 ''.

She found herself able to sing any role and any song which struck her fancy.

The full version of the song from Melbourne Punch, the fourth verse of which is pasted onto the urn

They were concept albums, and typically began with an instrumental introduction which faded into the first song, often had an instrumental piece in the middle of the second LP side, and concluded with a quiet, melancholic, or powerful song.

Common meter hymns were interchangeable with a variety of tunes ; more than twenty musical settings of " Amazing Grace " circulated with varying popularity until 1835 when William Walker assigned Newton's words to a traditional song named " New Britain ", which was itself an amalgamation of two melodies (" Gallaher " and " St. Mary ") first published in the Columbian Harmony by Charles H. Spilman and Benjamin Shaw ( Cincinnati, 1829 ).

Collins decided to record it in the late 1960s amid an atmosphere of counterculture introspection ; she was part of an encounter group that ended a contentious meeting by singing " Amazing Grace " as it was the only song to which all the members knew the words.

The U. S. Library of Congress has a collection of 3, 000 versions of and songs inspired by " Amazing Grace ", some of which were first-time recordings by folklorists Alan and John Lomax, a father and son team who in 1932 traveled thousands of miles across the South to capture the different regional styles of the song.

* " Atmosphere ", a song which became a hit for Russ Abbot in 1984

The original song Advance Australia Fair was composed by Peter Dodds McCormick under the pen-name ' Amicus ' ( which means ' friend ' in Latin ), in the late 19th century, and first performed by Andrew Fairfax at a Highland Society function in Sydney on 30 November 1878.

She has referenced this independence from major labels in song more than once, including " The Million You Never Made " ( Not A Pretty Girl ), which discusses the act of turning down a lucrative contract, " The Next Big Thing " ( Not So Soft ), which describes an imagined meeting with a label head-hunter who evaluates the singer based on her looks, and " Napoleon " ( Dilate ), which sympathizes sarcastically with an unnamed friend who did sign with a label.

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.

*" Take Me Out to the Ball Game " is a 1908 Tin Pan Alley song by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer which has become the unofficial anthem of baseball, although neither of its authors had attended a game prior to writing the song.

The song peaked at number seven in New Zealand and reached the top 20 in Australia.

The song " Boadicea ", also from this album, would later be sampled by The Fugees on their single " Ready or Not " ( 1996 ), causing a brief stir because the group neither sought permission from Enya nor gave her credit initially, and by Mario Winans, who did give her credit ( the Winans track, " I Don't Wanna Know " which features a rap by P. Diddy and is officially credited to all three artists, became Enya's highest charting single in the US, when it peaked at # 2 on the Hot 100 in 2004 ).

The album's lead single, " She's Every Woman " peaked at number-one on the Billboard Country Chart, however its follow-up single, " The Fever " ( a cover of an Aerosmith song ) only peaked at number 23, becoming Brooks's first released Country single to not chart on the Top 10.

The song peaked at number 2 on the Country Charts.

Among their most successful songs was " Surf City ", which topped both the Billboard and Cashbox music charts in June 1963 ; " Drag City ", which was a No. 10 hit on both the Billboard and Cashbox charts in 1963 ; and their song " The Little Old Lady from Pasadena ", which peaked at No. 3.

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

The song peaked at number seven on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart.

His two minutes in death were the inspiration for the song " Kickstart My Heart ", which peaked at No. 16 on the Mainstream U. S. chart, and which was featured on the 1989 album Dr. Feelgood.

The single peaked at # 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the summer of 1967, when Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash also made the song their own.

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.

The song peaked at # 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, but had a three-week run at # 1 on the R & B chart.

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.

Recorded at Great Linford Manor the single peaked at number five in the UK charts, but was the last song produced by Sam Williams.

Their song " Look Who's Perfect Now " was their only foray into the UK Singles Chart, where it peaked at No. 56 in May 1998.

The song peaked at No. 7 on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart, making it the band's 15th Top 10 standing on the list.

Redgum are known for their 1983 anti-war protest song " I Was Only Nineteen ", which peaked at # 1 on the National singles charts.

* Viola Wills covered the song in 1982, it peaked at number four on the dance charts.

The song peaked at # 26 on the Billboard Hot 100 on 27 November-11 December 1982.

Undaunted, The 5th Dimension covered the same song virtually note-for-note ( except for the last verse's upward modulation ), and their early 1967 version climbed into the top 20 on both R & B and pop stations and peaked at # 16 on the Hot 100, opening the fivesome's chart career.

The song peaked at # 45 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Because of several club remixes created mainly by Hex Hector, the song peaked at number 2 on the Hot Dance Club Play.

In Australia, the song debuted and peaked at number 22 on the ARIA Charts, on March 16, 2003.

Finally, on April 20, 2003, the song rose and peaked at number 24.