Although Purcell published Lillibullero in his compilation Music's Handmaid of 1689 as " a new Irish tune ", it is probable that Purcell appropriated the tune as his own, a common practice in the musical world of the time.

" Nottingham Ale " is an English drinking song sung to the tune of " Lillibullero "

A well-regarded argument for the persistence of Lillibullero as a signature tune of the BBC World Service was that its powerful and simple structure was an effective means of identifying the broadcaster.

This Corps was established during the Second World War and so the BBC's official wartime use of Lillibullero described above may well have played a part in its selection by REME, but it seems more likely that the BBC's reliance on REME for its wartime development and coverage led to the BBC adopting the march at around that time as a signature tune ( as mentioned previously ).

Tristram's uncle, Captain Toby Shandy, a British Army veteran of the fighting in Ireland and the Low Countries during King William's reign, whistles the tune to Lillibullero when he is offered any opinion or argument which would require passionate rebuttal or which he finds embarrassing or upsetting.

It has also been suggested that Kipling's " My name is O ' Kelly, I've heard the reveille .." was written to the common Irish song and Army marching tune Lillibullero.

Bellamy found a different tune but agreed that Lillibullero was more likely to have been on Kiplings mind at the time of composition.

Eileen got to dancing, just a little tiny dancing step to a hummed tune that you could hardly notice, and trying to pick up strange men, but each time I was ready to say to hell with it and walk out she'd pull herself together and talk so understandingly in that sweet husky voice about the good times and the happiness we'd had together and there I was back on the hook.

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.

Ward was generally considered the best music as early as 1910 and is still the popular tune today.

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

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.

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.

It has been associated with more than 20 melodies, but in 1835 it was joined to a tune named " New Britain " to which it is most frequently sung today.

The first known instance of Newton's lines joined to music was in A Companion to the Countess of Huntingdon's Hymns ( London, 1808 ), where it is set to the tune " Hephzibah " by English composer John Jenkins Husband.

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 ".

The first was a radio receiver, such as the Icom PCR-1000, that could tune into the Reverse Channel, which is the frequency that the phones transmit data to the tower on.

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.

First transmission in this format was episode 7351 on 31 May 2010 with a new set of titles and re-recorded theme tune.

" Porter described Atkins as respectful of musicians when recording — if someone was out of tune he would not single that person out by name.

The electric bass was easily amplified with its built-in pickups, easily portable ( less than a foot longer than an electric guitar ), and easier to play in tune, thanks to the metal frets.

The painting was very much in tune with the political climate at the time.

In the grand final, Essendon were pitted against Carlton and in a match that was a total travesty as a contest they overwhelmed the Blues to the tune of 73 points, 18. 17 ( 125 ) to 6. 16 ( 52 ).

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.

Nineteenth century scholars and commentators mention the widespread belief that an old Scots carol, " Remember O Thou Man " was the source of the tune.

It was recorded as being sung in London theatres in 1745, with, for example, Thomas Arne writing a setting of the tune for the Drury Lane Theatre.

* 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.

The tune was officially adopted as the Commonwealth's anthem in 1952 by governor Luis Muñoz Marín, and the words were officially adopted in 1977 by governor Carlos Romero Barceló.

In 1974, Scottish comedian Billy Connolly adopted a comical ode to the boot called " The Welly Boot Song " as his theme tune, and it became one of his best-known songs.

The tune of " Finlandia " was also adopted by Biafra for its national anthem " Land of the Rising Sun " during its attempted secession from Nigeria.

After a trial period of three years the Swiss tune was adopted indefinitely in 1965.

It was based on a Cambodian folk tune and written by Chuon Nath, the anthem was originally adopted in 1941 and reconfirmed in 1947, around the time of independence from France.

After World War II, South Korea kept the words, put to a new tune ( changed from Auld Lang Syne ), while North Korea adopted this newly-written piece in 1947.

" The Fields of Anfield Road " was adopted by Liverpool supporters to the same tune, but with adapted lyrics referencing their history and stadium.

The tune of this chorus was later adopted as a Christian Easter hymn tune Thine Be The Glory, Risen Conquering Son.

Cranbrook continues in use as a hymn tune in the United States, where it was not adopted as the tune of a popular secular song and is customarily used with the lyrics of Philip Doddridge's Grace!

The tune was that of " Ode to Joy ", the Fourth Movement from Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, which had been adopted as the official European Anthem by the Council of Europe in 1972 ( it remains Europe's anthem today ).

The fact that the Council of Europe had adopted this tune as the " Anthem of Europe " in January 1972 apparently did not perturb the Rhodesian government ; John Sutherland and Stephen Fender comment that Rhodesia's choice proved deeply embarrassing for the British Labour administration, whose leaders now had to respect a melody associated with Rhodesia when attending official European functions.

As regimental identities emerged songs were adopted for marching, like ‘ The British Grenadiers ’, based on a 17th-century dance tune.

In the 1960s, the tune was adopted by Coventry City as their club anthem.

Stafford Smith is best known for writing the music for " The Anacreontic Song ", which became the tune for the American patriotic song The Star-Spangled Banner following the War of 1812, and in 1931 was adopted as the national anthem of the United States of America.

( It was common for " student culture " to travel: the University of Illinois also adopted " wa-hoo-wa ," and the tune of the Yale " Boola Boola ", for example, became the basis of the " Boomer-Sooner " song of the University of Oklahoma.

Crosby wrote many poems supporting the Union cause, including " Dixie for the Union " ( 1861 ), a poem written before the outbreak of hostilities to the tune of Dixie, a tune adopted later by the Confederate States of America as a patriotic anthem.

IMT originally had its own self-titled theme song, but for most of the run of the show it adopted the tune of Gee, But You're Swell, written by Abel Baer and Thomas Tobias in 1936.

This is in tune with another Tribune newspaper ( Orlando Sentinel ), which redesigned its newspaper a few months previously, and created a brand synergy with Tribune sister operation and CW affiliate WSFL-TV ( Channel 39 ), which relocated its operations to the Sun-Sentinel offices in 2008 and adopted a logo matching the capital " S " in the new logo.

The tune was adopted to the lyrics and the new Salaamathi was complete.

During the 1980s it adopted The Beatles ' " When I'm Sixty-Four " as its theme tune ( because of the lyric " Send me a postcard, drop me a line, stating point of view ").