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.

The tune came from the folk song Kopala studienku ( She Dug A Well ) suggested to him by his fellow student Jozef Podhradský ( 1823 – 1915 ), a future religious and Pan-Slavic activist and gymnasial teacher.

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.

Richard left America with his clothes, his biwa and his image of Acala and, on the freighter which took him to Japan, he plucked at the biwa, trying to make the sounds he wrought resemble an ancient Japanese tune he had once heard.

An incident also mentioned was when Major Jenkins had invited Gunners Milligan and Edgington to his bivouac to play some jazz with him, only to discover that the musicianship of the aforementioned gunners was far superior to his own ability to play the military tune ' Whistling Rufus '.

" When Jennings was eight, his mother taught him to play guitar with the tune " Thirty Pieces of Silver ".

While he was there his hosts played him a traditional Celtic folk tune called " The Craigeelee " and Paterson decided that it would be a good piece to set lyrics to, producing them during the rest of his stay.

After recording a handful of acoustic titles during 1924-1926, his signing with Irving Mills allowed him to record for nearly every label, often recording different versions of the same tune for numerous labels.

This interest was first manifested in Weber's incidental music for Schiller's translation of Gozzi's Turandot, for which he used a Chinese melody, making him the first Western composer to use an Asian tune that was not of the pseudo-Turkish kind popularized by Mozart and others.

" He compared it to an episode of The Twilight Zone where the astronaut comes home, and his wife can't figure out what's different about him, "... until it dawns on her that instead of a cool song from 1997 playing ... it's some tune she's never heard.

In the same account, Themistocles is said to have rejected an attempt by the poet to bribe him, then likened himself as an honest magistrate to a good poet, since an honest magistrate keeps the laws and a good poet keeps in tune.

This was not a serious vocal, however ; it was done in one take with the tune deliberately pitched too high for him.

The Neal Hefti tune, " The Kid from Red Bank ," refers to him.

" saw him run his fingers to the end of the finger-board of the violin, and run them back insensibly ," he wrote, " and all with alacrity and in very good tune, which nor any in England saw the like before.

On 7 June 1989 he sang the theme tune for the soap Neighbours at the dispatch box, lampooning the differences between Lawson and Sir Alan Walters, who was critical of Lawson's policies ( Thatcher still refused to sack him ).

Faced with Blacky's fury, she quickly changes her tune and now assures him that she wants to marry him as Marko also pleads his case and denies any wrongdoing.

Upon hearing the melody, Clark told him that if he could write lyrics as good as the melody, she wanted to record the tune as her next single.

" She went on to note that while he was " incredibly kind and generous ", he always wanted to get things done the way that he wanted, and would " tune you out if you displeased him.

When Morrison tried to squeeze in one last tune during the end of that first session, Payne spoke up and pleaded to Merenstein to permit him to participate.

Hayes's lyrics were turned into a song in 1936 by Earl Robinson, who wrote in 1986, "' Joe Hill ' was written in Camp Unity in the summer of 1936 in New York State, for a campfire program celebrating him and his songs ..." Hayes gave a copy of his poem to fellow camp staffer Robinson, who wrote the tune in 40 minutes.

At the start of the cartoon, Mickey is seen whistling to the tune of The Simple Things, Pluto sniffing behind him, spots a mussel as he tries to cover up miniature geysers along the way.

The 1970s found him introducing his popular " rational humorous songs ", which combined humorous lyrics with a rational self-help message set to a popular tune.

Pablo Casals claimed never to have heard a violinist play in tune before Ysaÿe, and Carl Flesch called him " the most outstanding and individual violinist I have ever heard in my life.

After the final fade to black a sequence featuring an actor playing the Minstrel would be shown as he sung these lyrics to the tune of " Early One Morning ": " We'll have the merry time again with Robin and his Merry Men and the folk who'll bring him to you then now beg a word with you.

In Tommy Smith's view, Shankly was completely in tune with the city of Liverpool ; he loved the supporters and they loved him, mainly " because they knew he understood them ".