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.

you were gone, with lyrics and arrangement by Ms. Heather, was originally composed as a Gospel tune.

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.

For example, the tune ' Austria ' ( originally Haydn's ' Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser ') is associated today with the hymn ' Glorious things of thee are spoken ', just as ' New Britain ' an American folk melody, believed to be Scottish or Irish in origin ; has since the 1830s been associated with ' Amazing grace '.

The pilot episode ( where it was originally called I'm Sorry, They're At It Again ) opened with Graeme Garden and Jo Kendall singing the words of " Three Blind Mice " to the tune of " Ol ' Man River " followed by Bill Oddie and Tim Brooke-Taylor performing the lyrics of " Sing a Song of Sixpence " to the melody of " These Foolish Things ".

In Britain, Tony Hatch's theme tune to the long-running soap opera Emmerdale Farm was originally performed on the cor anglais, as was also the version of Harry South's theme tune played at the end of each episode of The Sweeney.

The tune was written originally as " Amarren Al Loco " (" Tie up the crazy guy ") by Cuban bandleader Rosendo Ruiz Jr. – also known as Rosendo Ruiz Quevedo – but became best known in the arrangement by René Touzet which included a rhythmic ten-note " 1-2-3 1-2 1-2-3 1-2 " riff.

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.

The term " cover " goes back decades when cover version originally described a rival version of a tune recorded to compete with the recently released ( original ) version.

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.

A number of songs from this period match trouvère originals exactly in form, indicating that the German text could have been sung to an originally French tune, which is especially likely where there are significant commonalities of content.

Prior to the acquisition of Sim developer Maxis by Electronic Arts in 1997, plans were originally made in 1996 to develop SimCity 3000 as a fully 3D game, in tune with the emergence ( at the time ) of 3D computer and video games.

Hit tunes were originally published in sheet music format, so many artists were encouraged to introduce or promote the tune in different styles, formats or areas of popularity.

In later years, a re-recording of a tune originally introduced or popularised by a certain artist was called covering a song.

Although the original theme tune has been left unaltered, the background musical score for most episodes ( which were originally stock music from the Capitol Records library ) was replaced with more modern, synthesized music.

Although originally a classical pianist, Barry took a correspondence course ( with jazz composer Bill Russo ) and working as an arranger for the Jack Parnell and Ted Heath's Orchestra, he formed his own band in 1957, The John Barry Seven, with whom he had some hit records on the EMI Columbia label, including " Hit and Miss ", the theme tune he composed for the BBC's Juke Box Jury programme, a cover of the Ventures ' " Walk Don't Run ", and a cover of the theme for the United Artists Western The Magnificent Seven.

" Bugle Boy " became a very successful rock cover of the classic swing tune originally introduced and popularized in 1941 by the famous Andrews Sisters, of whom Midler has repeatedly referenced as her idols and inspiration, as far back as her first appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.

As the anthem is inspired by a folk tune, there is a choreography to it as well, originally directed by Tongmi.

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.

The original French words were written in June 1871 by Eugène Pottier ( 1816 – 1887, previously a member of the Paris Commune ) and were originally intended to be sung to the tune of " La Marseillaise ".

In addition, the tune was later covered not only by Whitney Houston and her mother Cissy as a duet for her sophomore release Whitney, but also by Barbra Streisand, who recorded it originally for The Broadway Album released in 1985.

Likewise the harmonies and tune characteristics / ' strophe patterns ' of much of the music of Polynesia is western in style and derived originally from missionary influence via hymns and other church music.

Oskar prepared a film which was originally named Radio Dynamics, tightly synchronized to Ralph Rainger's tune " Radio Dynamics ".

The single's title track, a cover tune ( originally recorded by Tenpole Tudor ), also appeared on Folkémon as a bonus track, although in a different version.