After he had finished the first two volumes of his Lincoln, Sandburg went to work assembling a book of songs out of hobo and childhood days and from the memory of songs others had taught him.

" In his collections of folk songs, Sandburg added a class dynamic to popular understandings of American folk music.

A group of American archivists and researchers that included John A. Lomax, his son Alan Lomax, poet Carl Sandburg, musician and activist Pete Seeger and others collected, recorded, and published old ballads, prison songs, Appalachian folk music and black blues.

He also hosted a radio show, Your Ballad Man, in 1949 that was broadcast nationwide on the Mutual Radio Network and featured a highly eclectic program, from gamelan music, to Django Reinhardt, to Klezmer music, to Sidney Bechet and Wild Bill Davison, to jazzy pop songs by Maxine Sullivan and Jo Stafford, to readings of the poetry of Carl Sandburg, to hillbilly music with electric guitars, to Finnish brass bands – to name a few.

Among the songs included were " Jesse James ", " The Old Chisholm Trail ", " Sweet Betsy From Pike ", and " The Buffalo Skinners " ( which George Lyman Kittredge considered " one of the greatest western ballads " and which was praised for its Homeric quality by Carl Sandburg and Virgil Thomson.

He composed songs and set them to music and sang them in a soft, melodious voice, and when his audience had had enough of music he would discourse on politics or tell stories of his western adventures guaranteed to excite the emotions of men and women alike.

And when the singing began, it was the Gouldings who sang the old Irish songs the best.

The first slaves in the United States sang work songs, and field hollers.

The work contexts in which African-Americans sang songs comparable to shanties included: boat-rowing on rivers of the south-eastern U. S. and Caribbean ; the work of stokers or “ firemen ,” who cast wood into the furnaces of steamboats plying great American rivers ; and stevedoring on the U. S. eastern seaboard, the Gulf Coast, and the Caribbean — including " cotton-screwing ": the loading of ships with cotton in ports of the American South.

During the first half of the 19th century, some of the songs African-Americans sang also began to appear in use for shipboard tasks, i. e. as shanties.

Although the original had been one of Marc Almond's all-time favourite songs, he had never read the lyrics and thus incorrectly sang " What'll it be, what'll it be, you and me " instead of " Falling free, falling free, falling free ".

She sang only two songs in the film, " Que Sera, Sera ( Whatever Will Be, Will Be )" which won an Academy Award for Best Original Song and " We'll Love Again ".

Hen wlad fy nhadau was also one of the first Welsh-language songs recorded when Madge Breese sang it on 11 March 1899, for the Gramophone Company, as part of the first recording in the Welsh language.

Connick did the arrangements for, wrote a couple of songs, and sang a duet on Kelli O ' Hara's album that was released in May 2008.

The people who actually sang these songs and lived in the Appalachian Mountains never used these terms to describe their own music.

They sang, had a band / orchestra, composed songs, and gave much attention to its cultivation.

The Sirens lived on three small, rocky islands called Sirenum scopuli and sang beautiful songs that enticed sailors to come to them, which resulted in the crashing of their ship into the islands.

Visualizing herself as a singer since her high school years, Hatfield sang in school choirs and briefly played in a cover band called The Squids, which played ( though not exclusively ) Rush songs.

He sang on a few records and then began to write songs, several of which were popular in the 1950s and 1960s.

Marlene Dietrich sang songs successfully in her films, and Rodgers and Hart wrote a few well-received films, but even their popularity waned by 1932.

Following the conferral of her degree, Smith delivered the commencement address and sang / played two songs accompanied by long-time band member Lenny Kaye.

The zydeco favorite " Joli Blon " was one of the first songs Orbison sang in public.

Gellar sang several of the songs during the Buffy the Vampire Slayer musical episode " Once More, with Feeling ", which spawned an original cast album.

Later, they sang solo songs and Brown sang " Queen of the Night ".

Bailey later said " She sang a few songs that she had written, and I thought to myself, this kid is like nineteen years old, where does she get this?

Melich said of the night He was visibly taken by the university choir, who sang two songs during the evening, ' Children Will Listen ' and ' Sunday ', and then returned to reprise ' Sunday '.

The composers, who sang their own songs, included Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey, Michael John LaChiusa, Andrew Lippa, Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Lin-Manuel Miranda ( accompanied by Rita Moreno ), Duncan Sheik, and Jeanine Tesori and David Lindsay-Abaire.

The moments of sung melody, in the usual sense, come most often when the character is actually supposed to be singing, as in folk songs and liturgical chants.

Religion was stripped of ornament and ceremony, and made as plain and simple as possible ; sermons and songs often used repetition to get across to a rural population of poor and mostly uneducated people the necessity of turning away from sin.

Primitive Baptists in the Appalachian region often used " New Britain " with other hymns, and sometimes sing the words of " Amazing Grace " to other folk songs, including titles such as " In the Pines ", " Pisgah ", " Primrose ", and " Evan ", as all are able to be sung in common meter, of which the majority of their repertoire consists.

* Political songs: Alcaeus often composed on a political theme, covering the power struggles on Lesbos with the passion and vigour of a partisan, cursing his opponents, rejoicing in their deaths, delivering blood-curdling homilies on the consequences of political inaction and exhorting his comrades to heroic defiance, as in one of his ' ship of state ' allegories.

Many American folk songs are identical to British songs in arrangements, but with new lyrics, often as parodies of the original material.

Grant and Smith continue to have a strong friendship and creative relationship, often writing songs for or contributing vocals to each other's albums.

He often plays songs on his acoustic guitar which typically end in him being severely hurt and in some cases almost killed.

All members of the group were openly gay and their songs reflected this, often containing political commentary on gay-related issues.

It consisted of racy and often satirical spoken ( English ) dialogue, interspersed with songs that are deliberately kept very short to minimize disruptions to the flow of the story.

The rhyming songs, poems and tales written in the form of ballads often relate to the itinerant and rebellious spirit of Australia in The Bush, and the authors and performers are often referred to as bush bards.

Simon Frith identifies the origins of the power ballad in the emotional singing of soul artists, particularly Ray Charles and the adaptation of this style by figures such as Eric Burdon, Tom Jones and Joe Cocker to produce slow tempo songs often building to a loud and emotive chorus backed by drums, electric guitars and sometimes choirs.

Black metal songs often stray from conventional song structure and often lack clear verse-chorus sections.

The live performances for Hole's 1994 and 1995 tours became notorious in the media due to Love's fraught emotional state, with Love often altering hurtful song lyrics toward herself, dedicating songs to Cobain and Pfaff, provoking fans, throwing guitars into the audience, and breaking into screaming fits onstage.

" Slant Magazine also gave the album three out of five stars, saying " It's Marianne Faithfull's substance-ravaged voice that comes to mind most often while listening to songs like " Honey " and " For Once in Your Life.

Videos were made for most songs, often by Hexstatic, and used a lot of stock footage.

Songs often used the audio from the videos as samples incorporated into the music, such as with the songs " Timber " ( released as a single in 1998 ) and " Pan Opticon ".

While performers and singers garnered the lion's share of public attention, producers working behind the scenes played an equal, if not more important role in disco, since they often wrote the songs and created the innovative sounds and production techniques that were part of the " disco sound.

DJs and remixers would often remix ( that is, re-edit ) existing songs using reel-to-reel tape machines.

Their often discordant pop songs feature unusual synthetic instrumentation and time signatures that have proven influential on subsequent popular music, particularly New Wave, industrial and alternative rock artists.

Due to rights issues with their back catalog, Devo often would use re-recorded songs for films and ads.