Everett Miller, then assistant director for the Garrick Gaieties, a Theatre Guild production, needed a lyricist for a song he had written ; ;

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.

* Barbara Younger has written a children's book about the writing of the song: Purple Mountain Majesties: The Story of Katharine Lee Bates and " America the Beautiful ".

* Atomic Dog, a song that is popular world wide ; written and performed by Our Father Who Art of Funk ; " George Clinton " from Parliament and the Funkadelics

features the song, " All Quiet On The Western Front " ( written by Elton and Bernie Taupin ).

The album contains the signature track, " El Shaddai " ( written by Michael Card ) and the Grant-Chapman penned song, " In a Little While ".

Grant followed the album with her second Christmas album, Home For Christmas in 1992, which included the song " Breath of Heaven ( Mary's Song )", written by Chris Eaton and Grant, and would later be covered by many artists, including Donna Summer, Jessica Simpson ( who acknowledged Grant as one of her favorite artists ), Vince Gill, Sara Groves, Point of Grace, and Broadway star Barbara Cook.

The show's best-known and Sondheim's biggest hit song was almost an afterthought, written several days before the start of out of town tryouts.

The show's theme song, " The Ballad of Jed Clampett ", was written by producer and writer Paul Henning and originally performed by bluegrass artists Flatt and Scruggs.

Benny Andersson has written music to several films for screen and television ; the first attempt in the early 1970s for the obscure Swedish movie The Seduction Of Inga: the film flopped, but the ' Björn & Benny ' single " She's My Kind Of Girl " surprised the composers by being released in Japan and becoming a Top 10 hit ( the song renamed in Japan as " The Little Girl Of The Cold Wind ").

The song was originally written for movie and recording star Divine, who was unable to record the song before his death in 1988.

Queen Boadicea features in the opening lyrics of the song " The Good Old Days " written by Pete Doherty and Carl Barat for British rock band The Libertines from their 2002 album " Up the bracket ", the line reads, " If Queen Boadicea is long dead and gone, Still then the spirit in her children's children's children, it lives on ".

In 1953, a song called " Rock Around the Clock " was written for Haley.

By the 1920s, composers of Tin Pan Alley and Broadway used ballad to signify a slow, sentimental tune or love song, often written in a fairly standardized form ( see below ).

The song was written by Robin Moore and Staff Sgt.

* In the movie Wag the Dog, the fictitious unit 303 Special Forces has a song created titled " The Men of the 303 " that is played to a deliberately similar but original tune written by Huey Lewis for the film.

The Roy Harper song " All Ireland " from the album Lifemask, written in the days following the incident, is critical of the military but takes a long term view with regard to a solution.

In October 2010, T with the Maggies released the song Domhnach na Fola ( Irish for Bloody Sunday ), written by Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh and Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill on their debut album.

" He was not supposed to perform, but as he listened to the music of local musician Jesse Robinson who sang a song written for this occasion, Robinson sensed that he wanted to perform and handed him a microphone.

Love had written several songs, including an anti-cocaine song titled " Loser Dust ", during her time in rehab in 2005.

The show's theme song, written and performed by Gary Portnoy, and co-written with Judy Hart Angelo, lent its famous refrain, " Where Everybody Knows Your Name ", as the show's tagline.

The Southern Cross was written into the lyrics of " Advance Australia Fair " in 1901: " Beneath our radiant Southern Cross "; the song was adopted as the Australian National Anthem in 1984.

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

" Southern Cross " is also a 1982 song by the classic rock group Crosby, Stills and Nash, written by Rick Curtis, Michael Curtis, and Stephen Stills.

His poem ( and song ) " Auld Lang Syne " is often sung at Hogmanay ( the last day of the year ), and " Scots Wha Hae " served for a long time as an unofficial national anthem of the country.

It is also the basis of the Scots song Coulter's Candy.

In 1978, the song " Scotch Machine " by the pan-European group Voyage was released in the UK as " Scots Machine ".

Other pieces which are also well-known and widely played include the Scottish Fantasy for violin and orchestra, which includes an arrangement of the tune " Hey Tuttie Tatie ", best known for its use in the song Scots Wha Hae by Robert Burns.

His poem ( and song ) " Auld Lang Syne " is often sung at Hogmanay ( the last day of the year ), and " Scots Wha Hae " served for a long time as an unofficial national anthem of the country.

* Irish Guards: " St Patrick's Day " whose lyrics were the poem " Pulse of an Irishman " ( Beethoven did an arrangement of the march as part of a song cycle of Scots and Irish tunes ).

His Gaelic song about the event, " O, Is Àlainn an t-Àite ( pronounced: oh, iss ah-lin un t-ah-chuh ) " O, Fair is the Place ", is thought by many to be the first Scots Gaelic song composed in North America.

This gives a valuable insight into his approach to Scots song.

The song is mentioned in The Scots Musical Museum as The flowres of the Forrest, and the air ( or tune ) apparently survived, but several versions of the words were written down later, the most usual being by Jean Elliot published about 1755-see links below.

Scots / Australian singer-songwriter Eric Bogle refers to " Flowers of the Forest " in his song " No Man's Land ", in which he muses over the grave of a World War I soldier, and wonders whether " Flowers of the Forest " was played at the soldier's burial.

She used Gothic allegories in Standard English and songs in Lowland Scots to express passionate emotions-her song ' What ails this Heart o ' Mine ' being one of the most heart-rending ever written.

Macrae became a mainstay of television Hogmanay celebrations in the 1950s and 1960s with a rendition of his song ( in Scots ), " The Wee Cock Sparra ".

Scots Wha Hae ( English: Scots, Who Have ; ) is a patriotic song of Scotland which served for centuries as an unofficial national anthem of the country, but has lately been largely supplanted by Scotland the Brave and Flower of Scotland.

" Scots Wha Hae " is the party song of the Scottish National Party.

Sometimes known as ' Alasdair Mhic Colla Ghasda ', this Scots Gaelic waulking song has been recorded numerous times.

Also before and, for example Modern Scots: can, lang ( long ), man, pan, sang ( song ), sank, strang ( strong ), than ( then ) and wran ( wren ) from cann, lang, mæn, panne, sang, sanc strang, þanne and wrænna.

All three pieces are included on the soundtrack album, as well as the song " Dogs of War " that featured lyrics sung by the Scots Guards to Budd's themes.

In all versions of the song, Mary Hamilton is a personal attendant to the Queen of Scots, but precisely which queen is a mystery.

The thistle also features in the song The Thistle o ' Scotland, which uses the plant as a humorous metaphor for the prickly determinations of the Scots.

He wrote the lyrics to Icker in a Thrave, the 2007 Scots entry for the Liet-Lavlut song contest for minority languages in Europe.

The song was written when Burns toured the Highlands in 1787 and was first published in The Scots Musical Museum, appearing in volume III, 1790.

" My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose " is a 1794 song in Scots by Robert Burns based on traditional sources.