The tune came to him while he was on a ferryboat trip from Coney Island back to his home in New York City, after a leisurely summer day in 1882, and he immediately wrote it down.

Emerson: " I had my faithful roady Rocky tune the instrument to A 440 just prior to the audience coming in, but once the audience came into the auditorium and the temperature rose up then everything went out of tune.

His second-most popular hit, which came immediately after " The Banana Boat Song ", was the comedic tune " Mama Look at Bubu ", also known as " Mama Look a Boo-Boo " ( originally recorded by Lord Melody in 1956 ), in which he sings humorously about misbehaving and disrespectful children.

After singing with various dance bands and touring in vaudeville with the likes of Ted Mack, Leon Belasco, and comic bandleader Larry Rich, they first came to national attention with their recordings and radio broadcasts in 1937, most notably via their major Decca record hit, Bei Mir Bist Du Schön ( translation: " To Me, You Are Beautiful "), originally a Yiddish tune, the lyrics of which Sammy Cahn had translated to English and which the girls harmonized to perfection.

Instead, he opts for An Hour of Frank Talking, in which he unexpectedly reveals how he came to discover his – hitherto undisclosed – homosexuality ; however, none of the locals turns out to have heard the show, having anticipated a boring hour and chosen not to tune in.

Ragland Tiger's name came from the jazz tune " Tiger Rag " his middle initial " T " stands for The ( as in Rags The Tiger ), while Dudley Nightshade's was a play on the poisonous plant, " deadly nightshade ".

At the Glastonbury Festival on 27 June 2010 to close their set, Matt Smith, who plays the Eleventh Doctor, came on stage and performed with Orbital using the sample of the Doctor Who theme tune.

A firm fan favorite particularly amongst children, Big Daddy came to the ring in either a sequinned cape or else a Union Flag jacket and top hat to a theme tune in the form of " We Shall Not Be Moved " by The Seekers.

Engines were available in two states of tune: entry level models came with a power output of, while the Viva 90, introduced in October 1965, had a higher 9: 1 compression ratio and produced.

A similar claim is made that the tune came to the blind itinerant harpist Rory Dall O ' Cahan in a dream, and a documentary detailing this version was broadcast on the Maryland Public Television in USA in March 2000 .; reference to this was also made by historian John Hamilton in Michael Portillo's TV programme " Great British Railway Journeys Goes to Ireland " in February 2012.

He came up with a folk influenced tune, " Fat Old Sun ", which he still considers to be a personal favourite.

Their first real success came in 2000 with the remake of a very popular Russian tune, " Oriental Song ".

In 1814, Francis Scott Key wrote the poem " The Defence of Fort McHenry " ( later re-titled, " The Star-Spangled Banner "), which came to be sung to the tune of Stafford Smith's " Anacreon ".

Allegedly, when Kovacs first heard a recording of the tune, he immediately came up with a mental image of what would become The Nairobi Trio: three gorillas ( wearing derby hats and long overcoats ) mechanically miming to the music like wind-up toys.

His greatest commercial success came with his original recording of the song parody " On Top of Spaghetti " based on the tune of On Top of Old Smoky.

For serious drag strip use, buyers could specify the Super Duty 421 which came in three states of tune which all benefited from an increase in the compression ratio from 11. 0: 1 to 12. 0: 1 and an increase in the maximum shift point from 5900 rpm to a screaming 6400 rpm.

" Mannenberg " came to be considered " the unofficial national anthem " of South Africa, and the theme tune of the anti-apartheid movement.

Wheeler was driving home in his car when the line and tune " Yeah you are a shining light " came into his head.

It was further underlined by the song frequently sung in his honor, to the tune of " You Are My Sunshine ": " Luis García, he drinks Sangria / he came from Barça to bring us joy !/ He's five foot seven, he's football heaven / So please don't take our Luis away!

" The next day wads of mail came in raving about the new tune, so Irving Mills put a lyric to it.

The name " Precision " came from the use of frets ( as opposed to the fretless fingerboard of the double bass ); players of the electric instruments could play in tune much more easily-they could play with " precision.

What was probably considered the tune of 2002 came next and was a duet between US rapper Nelly and Kelly Rowland, a member of Destiny's Child.

We were rather drunk by the time we came to make the recording, which explains why it may have appeared a little out of tune.

Slowly he pulled out the hand throttle until the boat was moving at little more than a crawl, and watched Elaine rapidly spin from one station to another, tune in the null, then draw in a line on the chart.

The Schuman `` Chester '' takes off from an old William Billings tune with rousing woodwind and brass effect.

On the Electron version of Frak !, the tune was the main theme from " Benny Hill ".

* The Star-Spangled Banner's tune was adapted from an old English drinking song by John Stafford Smith called " To Anacreon in Heaven ".

In the 20th century, one of the most influential plays, Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's ( 1928 ) The Threepenny Opera was a reworking of The Beggar's Opera, setting a similar story with the same characters, and containing much of the same satirical bite, but only using one tune from the original.

It's a pleasure to be able to say to you: Welcome to Channel Four ", before heading into a montage of clips from its programmes set to the station's signature tune, " Fourscore ", written by Lord David Dundas, which would form the basis of the station's jingles for its first decade.

For example, diodes are used to regulate voltage ( Zener diodes ), to protect circuits from high voltage surges ( avalanche diodes ), to electronically tune radio and TV receivers ( varactor diodes ), to generate radio frequency oscillations ( tunnel diodes, Gunn diodes, IMPATT diodes ), and to produce light ( light emitting diodes ).

The theme tune for the series was written and performed by The Divine Comedy, and was later reworked into " Songs of Love ", a track from the album Casanova.

( The song " Woman of the World " from the same album was also offered as a potential theme tune, but rejected.

This manuscript has the tune depart from that which is used today at several points, one as early as the first bar, but is otherwise clearly a strong relative of the contemporary anthem.

The body of the report, from Conrad ’ s materialistic perspective, is good because it describes a people in tune with nature.

The tune style or form is technically designated " gospel songs " as distinct from hymns.

This was during U2's Elevation Tour, and from that point on during shows Bono would introduce the song as a tune that was originally about a lovestruck hangover but that Joey turned it into a gospel song.

He was name-checked in the classic Genesis tune " The Battle of Epping Forest " from Selling England by the Pound:

Mode ( etymology from Latin modus: " manner, tune, measure, due measure, rhythm, melody ") may mean:

On April 25, 2012, the Ecuadorian Space Agency announced that due a technological change in the video camera of its first satellite it will be adding a 3rd mission, which is to help organizations and individuals around the world monitor for small, most dangerous near-earth objects directly from orbit in real time and help fine tune the catalog of orbital debris by injecting the live video signal of the satellite into the Internet, thus turning the NEE-01 Pegasus in the first online, real-time video orbital sentry.

One of the most common manifestations of stanzaic form in poetry in English ( and in other Western European languages ) is represented in texts for church hymns, such as the first three stanzas ( of nine ) from a poem by Isaac Watts ( from 1719 ) cited immediately below ( in this case, each stanza is to be sung to the same hymn tune, composed earlier by William Croft in 1708 ):

A notable exception is his song " The Elements ", where he sets the names of the chemical elements to the tune of the " Major-General's Song " from Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance.

Much of the idea of the poem, including the flag imagery and some of the wording, is derived from an earlier song by Key, also set to the tune of The Anacreontic Song.

The lyrics from " The Star " were first published with the tune in The Singing Master: First Class Tune Book in 1838.

He would play a strange-sounding piano tune from sheet music, looking increasingly confused ; turning the sheet upside down, he would then play the actual tune, flashing a joyful smile of accomplishment to the audience ( he had, at first, been literally playing the actual tune upside down ).