Just as Bates had been inspired to write her poem, Ward too was inspired to compose his tune.

* The French Marquise de Créquy wrote in her book " Souvenirs ", that the tune Grand Dieu Sauve Le Roi, was written by Jean-Baptiste Lully in gratitude for the survival by Louis XIV of an anal fistula operation.

Misty Rowe, a mainstay member of the " Gossip Girls ", would enhance the comedy of the sketch by singing her part of the verse out of tune ( as a young child would do ).

" She says that Goro now wants her to agree to marry the wealthy man Yamadori, who then is arriving with his entourage to a musical accompaniment that quotes the same Japanese folk tune that Gilbert and Sullivan set as " Mi-ya sama " in The Mikado.

As the off-stage chorus hums a wordless, melancholy tune, Butterfly, her child and Suzuki begin the long wait for Pinkerton to come.

The music was written ( based on a folk tune ) by Christina Macpherson, who wrote that she " was no musician, but she would do her best.

The piece was very much a farce, and included such moments as Lavinia singing an aria to the tune of " Oops !... I Did It Again " by Britney Spears, after her tongue has been cut out ; Saturninus and Lucius engaged in a swordfight, but both being played by the same actor ; Chiron and Demetrius ' played ' by a gas can and a car radio respectively ; the love child being born with a black moustache.

Later, Astaire and Pan presented Rogers with a gold feather for her charm bracelet, and serenaded her with a ditty parodying Berlin's tune:

Chebotareva described how Tatiana sometimes sat beside " Volodia " at the piano as he played a tune with one finger and talked to her in a low voice, wearing a mysterious expression on his face.

" 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 last sequence of Derek Jarman's The Tempest ( 1979 ), a film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play, the singer / actress Elisabeth Welch, appearing as ' a goddess ', sings the song ; which she had taken as her signature tune since 1933.

The D pipes are most commonly used in ensembles, while the flat-pitched pipes are more often used for solo playing — often a fiddler will " tune down " his or her instrument to play with a piper's flat set, but the inflexibility of other instruments used in Irish music ( accordions, flutes, etc.

Although Gilman had gained international fame with the publication of Women and Economics in 1898, by the end of World War I she seemed out of tune with her times.

She does not seem to be able to carry a tune or play anything other than off-key renditions of songs such as " Glow Worm " or " Sweet Sue " on the saxophone, and many of her performances devolve into disaster.

" Whether it's a flighty old tune like ' I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby ' ... a schmaltzy German love song, ' Das Lied Ist Aus ' or a French one ' La Vie en Rose ', she lends each an air of the aristocrat, yet she never patronises ... A folk song, ' Go ' Way From My Window ' has never been sung with such passion, and in her hands ' Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

Despite her stoic appearance, she is humming the tune to a nursery rhyme.

After talking to the police and returning to her apartment, Helen hears a young girl's voice humming the same tune as Markie.

Owens ' vocals, described by rock n ' roll writer Alwyn W. Turner as being " wonderfully expressive ", were capable of sounding " almost, but not quite " out of tune, which in his opinion led to Owens ' sounding innocent in her songs ; music critic Albin Zak describes her vocals as being able to intone desire and vulnerability.

The latter became her signature tune and was also the theme song of Francis first motion picture of the same name.

In 1974, Lamarr filed an invasion of privacy lawsuit to the tune of $ 10 million for the unauthorized use of her name in the Mel Brooks satire Blazing Saddles ; the case was settled out of court.

It featured a cover of the Motown classic " Little Darling ( I Need You )", " Echoes Of Love " ( written for, but not recorded by, Al Green by James Mitchell, then of the Memphis Horns, and Earl Randle, both of whom had worked with Green a good bit, to which Simmons added some music and lyrics co-writing the finished version with Mitchell and Randle ; the song was later covered by the Pointer Sisters and ex-New Seekers vocalist Lyn Paul ), and " You Belong To Me " ( co-written by McDonald and Carly Simon, who had a hit with her own version of the tune ).

The album opens with her rendition of the traditional tune Morning Has Broken popularized by Cat Stevens.

After The Rugrats Movie and seeing the " new " Angelica in the film, Klasky changed her tune: " I think she's great for the show ; I love Angelica.

A tune began to whirl inside his head.

He was so anxious to capture the tune in his head, he asked fellow passenger friend Harry Martin for his shirt cuff to write the tune on.

Pufnstuf commented that " decision-makers in Hollywood, and some big-name stars, have personal recollections of plopping down on the family-room wall-to-wall shag sometime between 1969 and 1974 to tune in to multiple reruns of the Kroffts ' Saturday morning live-action hits ," and quoting Marty Krofft as saying that the head of Universal Studios, Ronald Meyer, and leaders at Sony Pictures all had been fans of Krofft programs.

The two of us drove it back up together, and on the long drive up there, somewhere between Portland and Seattle, she told me she had a tune in her head.

The title sequence used in the 1997 series was a complete different theme tune featuring a golden head with hexagons showing clips.

In Joe Simpson's 1988 book, Touching The Void, he talks about not being able to get the tune " Brown Girl in the Ring " by Boney M, out of his head.

After a week of try and failure, this English translation was used by Seeger in 1962 with an adaptation of " an extraordinary melody put together by an Massachusetts Institute of Technology student Waters who had put a new tune to a mystical ballad Great Silkie " which he couldn't get out of his head, without permission.

Modern congas use a screw-and-lug tension head system, which makes them easier to tune ( or detune ) this modern type of tension system is attributed to Carlos " Patato " Valdes a popular Cuban Conguero.

( A popular chant spawned from this to the tune of " Can't Take My Eyes Off You " by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons: " We love you Freddie, because you've got red hair, we love you Freddie because you're everywhere, we love you Freddie, you're Arsenal through and through " Later when he shaved his head this was updated to " We love you Freddie, because you've got no hair ").

: “ can point to particular places in a tune by Schubert and say: look, that is the point of the tune, this is where the thought comes to a head .” ( p. 47 )

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

" The furniture and appliances in each home are identical, including the big red clocks with Chairman Mao's head, radiating psychedelic colors to the tune " The East Is Red.

The album's first single, " Stuck on You " ( an ironically catchy mid-tempo track that metaphorically compares heroin to a nagging tune stuck in one's head ), became a minor alternative-radio hit and achieved light to medium rotation on MTV, but failed to chart significantly.

In the documentary In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story, Bono tells how he woke up for a concert's sound check, following a late night listening to the soundtrack to David Lynch's Blue Velvet, and had the tune in his head, figuring it was another Orbison song (" In Dreams " was the only Orbison song on that album ).

The hymn tune " St Magnus ", usually sung at Ascensiontide to the text " The head that once was crowned with thorns ", was written by Jeremiah Clarke in 1701 and named for the church.

; Annoying: This toon simply features a deranged looking person, dressed in a pink shirt and underpants, dancing manically to a song that goes " Oh my word, this tune is annoying, yes I know, It's really annoying, I can't get this song out of my head.

After eventually finding sleep, he awoke with another song in his head, which he at first presumed to be a different Orbison tune.

When McCartney arrived at Lennon's Weybridge home for a writing session, he had the tune in his head, but " The lyrics were disastrous, and I knew it.

A more gruesome version of the story is that the dance derives from a rough game of football that the inhabitants of Tulloch played with the severed head of an enemy ; the Gaelic words to the tune bear this out.

Meanwhile, the pub owner is losing at poker to the head of the local organized crime syndicate, to the tune of $ 50, 000.

Rest yo ' head upon my breast while Mommy hums a tune ;

Rest yo ' head upon my breast while Mammy hums a tune ;