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 of the Ode to Joy from Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 is the European anthem ; the United Nations and the African Union also have unofficial anthems.

Rhodesia's use of the well-known Beethoven tune has since caused the playing of " Ode to Joy " to be controversial in modern-day Zimbabwe.

The tune " Despair ," in the 1791 collection, cites the death of " Amanda " ( referring to his wife, Martha Day, who died in childbirth in the same year ) in a paraphrase of Alexander Pope's Ode on Solitude.

He wrote the lyrics to the popular hymn, " Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee " ( 1907 ), sung to the tune of Beethoven's " Ode to Joy ".

The effervescent and punk tinged tune was completed for this release, and was declared " a worthy addition to the Joy Division canon " by BBC 6Music DJ Mark Radcliffe.

* The tune by George Frederick Handel generally used for the Christmas carol Joy to the World

The famous Christmas carol " Joy to the World " is a good example: it is debated whether the tune of this hymn is by George Frideric Handel or by Mason himself, but it certainly sounds inspired by European classical music.

Jigsaw's arrangement of the Johann Sebastian Bach tune, Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring was featured on their 1970 debut album Letherslade Farm.

He composed the tune for the old hymn " O Mother Dear, Jerusalem ", retitling the work " Materna ".

It's a pleasure to be able to say to you: Welcome to Channel Four ", before heading into a montage of clips from its programmes set to the station's signature tune, " Fourscore ", written by Lord David Dundas, which would form the basis of the station's jingles for its first decade.

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 ".

"), with the duo ( and sometimes a guest star sitting between Buck and Roy ) ' dueling ' by playing guitar and banjo to the tune of " Cripple Creek ", telling jokes and reciting one-liners.

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 ).

( homēréō ), another related verb, besides signifying " meet ", can mean "( sing ) in accord / tune ".

The metre is often denoted by a row of figures besides the name of the tune, such as " 87. 87. 87 ", which would inform the reader that each verse has six lines, and that the first line has eight syllables, the second has seven, the third line eight, etc.

This can be indicated by verbal statements at the beginning of a composition, for example, " Tune Low C to C flat ", or " If necessary, tune high G to G sharp ".

In some modern jazz styles, dominant 7th chords in a tune may contain altered 9ths ( either flattened by a semitone, which is called a " flat 9th ", or sharpened by a semitone, which is called a " sharp 9th "); 11ths ( sharpened by a semitone, which is called a " sharp 11th "); 13ths ( typically flattened by a semitone, which is called a " flat 13th ").

As the closing credits roll the Inquisitors race to the Old Bailey by double-decker bus, to the tune of " Devil's Galop ", only to arrive just as the words " THE END " appear.

From this period we sometimes know the origins and authors of rhymes — for instance, " Twinkle Twinkle Little Star ", which combined the 18th-century French tune " Ah vous dirai-je, Maman " with a poem by English writer Jane Taylor and ' Mary Had a Little Lamb ', written by Sarah Josepha Hale of Boston in 1830.

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 phrase uses the homophonic qualities of " tune a " and " tuna ", as well as the homographic pun on " bass ", in which ambiguity is reached through the identical spellings of ( a string instrument ), and ( a kind of fish ).

Also in that year, " The Huckle-Buck ", recorded by band leader and saxophonist Paul Williams, was the # 1 R & B tune, remaining on top of the charts for nearly the entire year.

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.

His Lysistrata ( 1902 ) includes the song and tune " The Glow-Worm ", which remains quite popular internationally.

The tune again was possibly based on the old melody of " Go to the Devil and Shake Yourself ", composed by John Field ( 1782 – 1837 ) sometime before 1812.

She introduced America to the suggestive version of the belly dance known as the " hootchy-kootchy ", to a tune said to be improvised by Sol Bloom ( and now more commonly associated with snake charmers ) which he had made as an improvision when his dancers had no music to dance to.

Holst himself adapted the theme from " Jupiter " as a hymn tune under the name of " Thaxted ", specifically for the words " I Vow to Thee My Country ".