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* The Star-Spangled Banner's tune was adapted from an old English drinking song by John Stafford Smith called " To Anacreon in Heaven ".
By the 1920s, composers of Tin Pan Alley and Broadway used ballad to signify a slow, sentimental tune or love song, often written in a fairly standardized form ( see below ).
* In the movie Wag the Dog, the fictitious unit 303 Special Forces has a song created titled " The Men of the 303 " that is played to a deliberately similar but original tune written by Huey Lewis for the film.
Charlton fans ' chants have included " Valley, Floyd Road ", a song noting the stadium's address to the tune of " Mull of Kintyre ", and " The Red, Red Robin ".
" Schatz states that he would be "... more likely to use it in a live situation than on a recording — for a solo or to punctuate a particular place in a song or tune where I wouldn't be obliterating someone's solo.
The club's theme song is called " See the Bombers Fly Up " and is based on the tune of Johnnie Hamp's 1929 song " Keep Your Sunny Side Up " at an increased tempo.
But the term does not cover a song, dance, or tune that has been taken over ready-made and remains unchanged.
( The song " Woman of the World " from the same album was also offered as a potential theme tune, but rejected.
Harmonica tab is usually aligned with lyrics to show the tune and the timing, and usually states the key of the harmonica required for the song.
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.
The song is often used as the anthem of Esperanto, and is now usually sung to a triumphal march composed by Félicien Menu de Ménil in 1909 ( although there is an earlier, less martial tune created in 1891 by Claes Adelsköld, as well as a number of others less well-known ).
Those words were immediately followed by the original MTV theme song, a crunching classical tune composed by Jonathan Elias and John Petersen, playing over photos of the Apollo 11 moon landing, with the flag featuring MTV's logo changing various colors, textures, and designs.
If the story is true that troubadour Raimbaut de Vaqueiras ( about 1150-1207 ) wrote the famous Provençal song Kalenda Maya to fit the tune of an estampie that he heard two jongleurs play, then the history of the estampie extends back to the 12th century.
An 18th-century example of topical song intended as a feminist protest song is " Rights of Woman " ( 1795 ), sung to the tune of " God Save the King ", written anonymously by " A Lady ", and published in the Philadelphia Minerva, October 17, 1795.
* The song figures prominently in a plotline on the daytime soap opera Ryan's Hope in October 1988 when villain Max Dubujax plants a bomb in a music box that plays the tune.
The crowd cheered, started impromptu kick lines, and sang to the tune of The Howdy Doody Show theme song: " We are the Stonewall girls / We wear our hair in curls / We don't wear underwear / We show our pubic hairs ".
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.
The poem was set to the tune of a popular British song written by John Stafford Smith for the Anacreontic Society, a men's social club in London.
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.
For example, a song written in 1860 about a man fleeing slavery in Tennessee by escaping to Canada, entitled Song of the Free, was composed to the tune of Oh!
His Lysistrata ( 1902 ) includes the song and tune " The Glow-Worm ", which remains quite popular internationally.
The tune is probably based on the Scottish song " Thou Bonnie Wood of Craigielea " which Macpherson heard played by a band at the Warrnambool steeplechase.

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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 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.
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.

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