I played on it my secret songs, unexplained, passionate and peaceful ''.

Though they would produce some very memorable and lasting songs, Arlen and Mercer were not given strong material to work on.

Besides doing a single song, `` When The Sun Comes Out '', they worked on the ambitious American-Negro Suite, for voices and piano, as well as songs for films.

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.

Almost all songs on the band's albums are credited to " Woolfson / Parsons ".

Both of those songs appeared on Tales of Mystery and Imagination.

* 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.

* 1957 – American Bandstand, a show dedicated to the teenage " baby-boomers " by playing the songs and showing popular dances of the time, debuts on the ABC television network.

Well before the nineteenth century, sea songs were common on rowing vessels.

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.

His remaining secular works in this late period fall into three categories: first, large scale cantatas and one oratorio Habsburg written on patriotic themes or in response to the international political situation, pedagogical works written to aid his students in voice, and finally simple songs, rounds or canons written for home entertainment ; many with original poetry by the composer.

) Similarly, when Jewish families and larger groups sing traditional Sabbath songs known as zemirot outside the context of formal religious services, they usually do so a cappella, and Bar and Bat Mitzvah celebrations on the Sabbath sometimes feature entertainment by a cappella ensembles.

Each year, hundreds of Collegiate a cappella groups submit their strongest songs in a competition to be on The Best of College A Cappella ( BOCA ), an album compilation of tracks from the best college a cappella groups around the world.

The German metal band van Canto uses vocal noises to imitate guitars on covers of well-known rock and metal songs ( such as " Master of Puppets " by Metallica ) as well as original compositions.

Although they are generally classified as a cappella metal, the band also includes a drummer, and use amplifiers on some songs to distort the voice to sound more like a real guitar.

The album's title song received some pop radio airplay and crossed over to No. 96 on the Billboard Hot 100, and " 1974 ( We Were Young )" and " Saved By Love " also charted as Adult Contemporary songs.

Grant participated in Lifetime's 1st Annual " Girls & Guitars " benefit, singing numerous songs, including a duet with Melissa Etheridge on " You Can Sleep While I Drive ".

" Both these songs appeared on the second album, Klokkenluiders van Amsterdam.

Another of the show's signature elements is that many songs end on a single brief note played by one or more instruments.

The recordings of these bands and their songs were rarely heard or exported outside the originating countries but many can now be found on compilation albums and CDs from specialist record shops.

Among other composers who set Housman songs were John Ireland ( song cycle, Land of Lost Content ), Michael Head ( e. g. ' Ludlow Fair '), Graham Peel ( a famous version of ' In Summertime on Bredon '), Ian Venables ( Songs of Eternity and Sorrow ), and the American Samuel Barber ( e. g. ' With rue my heart is laden ').

In 1677, the General Assembly of East New Jersey banned the " singing of vain songs or tunes " on Sabbath.

As suggested by the albums ' titles, Sherman's first two LPs were mainly reworkings of old folk songs to infuse them with Jewish humor.

Every year, Harrison played seasonal songs, such as his holiday greeting " May You Always ” in the winter ( the Amy records single of this song made the Billboard Christmas charts in 1965 ), and Allan Sherman's summer camp novelty, " Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh ", throughout the summer months.

Andersson's next project was Mamma Mia !, a musical built around 24 of ABBA's songs, which has become a worldwide box-office blockbuster with versions in several languages currently being played in many countries, including the UK ( West End premiere in April 1999 ), Canada ( Toronto premiere in 2000 ), the USA ( Broadway premiere in 2001 ), and Sweden ( Swedish language premiere in 2005 ).

In 1962 and 1963, with his next band, Harmoniler (" The Harmonies "), he recorded cover versions of some of popular American twist songs and rearrangements of Turkish folk songs in rock and roll form, marking the beginning of the Anatolian rock movement, a synthesis of Turkish folk music and rock.

( although a few disco songs within the next year would later enter the chart ).

The group ’ s next release, Apocalypse ' 91 ... The Enemy Strikes Black, continued this trend, with songs like " Can't Truss It ", which addressed the history of slavery and how the black community can fight back against oppression ; " I Don't Wanna be Called Yo Nigga ", a track addresses on how the urban culture uses the word nigga outside of its usual derogatory context.

1982 saw a lull in activity from the Undertones, who only performed a single tour of continental Europe in August, and spent much of their time writing and recording songs for their next LP in their 8-track demo studio.

The resulting anxiety from fame and its hang-ups was especially evidenced by the group as its songs turned to darker themes of fear and alienation: the influence on their next work is self-explanatory.

With a batch of new songs, the Replacements entered a warehouse in Roseville, Minnesota to record their next album, with Twin / Tone co-owner Paul Stark engineering.

The next day, the names of the eight tracks not composed by Clint Mansell – Black Swans main composer – were released, listing The Chemical Brothers as contributing three new songs for the movie.

Of the other seven songs that were on the British release, two were released on the US version of the next Beatles album, Rubber Soul, two were back-to-back on the next US single and then appeared on Yesterday and Today, and three had already been on Beatles VI.

Barbara Jean gets through the first couple of songs all right, but then begins to tell rambling stories about her childhood instead of starting the next song.

In an interview with NME, Gillespie said that the band had written " euphoric rock ' n ' roll songs " for their next album.

During a three-week vacation visit to Ireland in October 1973, Morrison wrote seven of the songs that would make up his next album, Veedon Fleece.

Two of these songs would appear on his next album, Either / Or, which was another Kill Rock Stars release.

His next two songs / videos, " Back to My Roots " and " A Shade Shady ( Now Prance )" both went # 1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Music / Club Play chart and furthered his campy persona.

Norman's next musical was Love on Haight Street, also written in 1969, and another project that involved Norman was Bailey ; Some songs from these unreleased musicals appeared later on various albums.

Kooper was forced out of the group in April 1968 and became a record producer for the Columbia label, but not before arranging some songs that would be on the next BS & T album.

Delius's next work, Appalachia, introduces a further feature that would recur in later pieces — the use of the voice instrumentally in wordless singing, in this case depicting the distant plantation songs that had inspired Delius at Solano Grove.

The band's songwriting team of Eddie Brigati and Cavaliere then began providing most of their songs, and the hits kept coming for the next two years.

Over the next decade, he popularized several traditional folk songs, such as “ Foggy, Foggy Dew ” ( an English / Irish folk song ), “ Blue Tail Fly ” ( an old Civil War tune ), and “ Big Rock Candy Mountain ” ( an old hobo ditty ).