Each song or ditty was prefaced by an author's note which indicated the origin and meaning of the song as well as special interest the song had, musical arrangement, and most of the chorus and verses.

When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.

he collaborated on a song with William Hartman Woodin, who was Secretary of the Treasury, 1932-33.

Karl played well and his favorite song was a Schubert lullaby.

The song, he said, was called `` The Stream's Lullaby '', and when he sang, `` Gute ruh, Gute ruh, Mach't die augen zu, '' there was such longing and such simple sadness that it frightened me.

Later, when I was older, I found the song was part of Schubert's Die Schone Mullerin.

With shout and slow dance, with tears and song, with scream and contortion, the corner group was beset by hysteria and shivering, wailing, shouting, possession of something that seemed like an alien and outside force.

There was one of the new forte-pianos in the room and, as Claire rose to go, he asked her to sing him one song before she left.

There was about that song something incandescent, for this Brahms was Milstein at white heat.

To help him on this religious aspect of primitive jazz he had `` Big '' Miller, as a preacher-singer and Hannah Dean, Gospel-singer, while Oscar Brown Jr., an extremely talented young man, did a slave auctioneer's call, a field-hands' work song, and a beautifully sung Negro lullaby, `` Brown Baby '', which was one of the truly moving moments of the festival.

( Still another song in `` Strike Up The Band '' -- `` I've Got A Crush On You '' -- was retrieved from a 1928 failure, `` Treasure Girl ''.

and the incisive style with which Charlotte Rae delivers the top-drawer Hart lyrics of `` I Blush '', a song that was cut from `` A Connecticut Yankee ''.

it was the theme song of millions of American people, their personal problems no less urgent than those of the government.

Ward died in 1903, not knowing the national stature his music would attain, as the music was only first applied to the song in 1904.

At various times in the more than 100 years that have elapsed since the song was written, particularly during the John F. Kennedy administration, there have been efforts to give " America the Beautiful " legal status either as a national hymn, or as a national anthem equal to, or in place of, " The Star-Spangled Banner ", but so far this has not succeeded.

When Richard Nixon visited China in 1972, this song was played as the welcome music.

Popularity of the song increased greatly following the September 11, 2001 attacks ; at some sporting events it was sung in addition to the traditional singing of the national anthem.

He also performed the song on Red Sox opening day at Fenway Park in 2003, though the game was eventually rained out.

A tradition at one time observed on this day in England was to leave out soul cakes and sing a song for the dead.

The song " The Raven " featured lead vocals by the actor Leonard Whiting, and, according to the 2007 remastered album liner notes, was the first rock song to use a digital vocoder, with Alan Parsons speaking lyrics through it.

And I would further note that they all -- with one exception again -- sang in one key or another the same song.

In her first song she waved away one encroaching photographer who dared approach the throne unbidden and thereafter the boys with the cameras had to unsheathe their 300 mm. lenses and shoot at extreme range.

If your favorite song is not here it must be an unfamiliar one.

The song is one of the most beloved and popular of the many American patriotic songs.

* " Animals ", by Coldplay as one of the B-sides for " Clocks " ( song )

Parsons himself only sang lead on one song (" The Raven ") through a vocoder, and can be heard singing backing vocals on a few others, including " To One in Paradise ".

The one occasion where the band was introduced as " The Alan Parsons Project " in a live performance was at Night of the Proms 1990 ( at the time of the group's break-up ), featuring all Project regulars except Woolfson who was present but behind the scenes, while Parsons stayed at the mixer except during the last song, where he played acoustic guitar.

It was originally one of between 50 to 70 verses of a song titled " Jerusalem, My Happy Home " that first appeared in a 1790 book called A Collection of Sacred Ballads:

Grant followed the album with her second Christmas album, Home For Christmas in 1992, which included the song " Breath of Heaven ( Mary's Song )", written by Chris Eaton and Grant, and would later be covered by many artists, including Donna Summer, Jessica Simpson ( who acknowledged Grant as one of her favorite artists ), Vince Gill, Sara Groves, Point of Grace, and Broadway star Barbara Cook.

" () or " A. B. C's " () is one of the best-known English language alphabet songs, and perhaps the one most frequently referred to as " the alphabet song ", especially in the United States.

He usually spent months on one song and was constantly rewriting them.

Dylan meant that title, of course, and he means this one too, which doesn't make " Love and Theft " his minstrelsy album any more than Self Portraits dire " Minstrel Boy " was his minstrelsy song.

In 1989 Jonathan Hellyer became lead singer, and the band extensively toured the U. S. and Europe with back-up vocalist Annie Conway and had one minor hit with the song " Cha Cha Heels ", a one-off collaboration sung by American actress and singer Eartha Kitt.

Kraus argues that " the whole song stands so near the events that one feels everywhere as if the terrible pictures of the destruction stand still immediately before the eyes of the one lamenting.

This song was recorded just one day after the disaster occurred.

Initially, it was relatively unsuccessful, staying at the charts for only one week, but Haley soon scored a major worldwide hit with a cover version of Big Joe Turner's " Shake, Rattle and Roll ", which went on to sell a million copies and became the first ever rock ' n ' roll song to enter British singles charts in December 1954 and became a Gold Record.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame listed one song by Blind Lemon Jefferson of the 500 songs that shaped rock and roll.

Today, the song remains one of his most popular works.

The earliest reported example of this musical form is the song " Kalenda Maya ", supposedly written by the troubadour Raimbaut de Vaqueiras ( 1180-1207 ) to the melody of an estampida played by French jongleurs.

Although usually thought of as a spiritual, the earliest recorded use of the song was as a rallying anthem for the Contrabands at Fort Monroe sometime before July 1862.

Faith No More's song " Epic " is considered by some to be the earliest incarnation of nu metal, with antiMusic writing " Epic was ( unfortunately for a truly avant-garde outfit like Faith No More ) the model prototype of what more than a few AR label recruiters were looking to tap.

Two of the earliest recordings which have a funk beat and lyrics which are rhymed in rhythm over this type of beat were released by comedian Pigmeat Markham, " Here Come the Judge " which was released in 1968 by the Chess label and in 1969 another song about running numbers called " Who Got The Number?

* April 9 – French typesetter Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville sings the French folk song " Au Clair de la Lune " to his phonautograph ; producing the world's earliest known sound recording ( however, it is not rediscovered until 2008 ).

Marks and Joe Stern published The Little Lost Child, promoting its release with the earliest version of music video known as the illustrated song.

His body of Catholic religious music was highly popular in 19th century Germany, and he composed one of the earliest song cycles, Die Temperamente beim Verluste der Geliebten ( Temperaments on the Loss of a Lover ).

W. C. Handy recorded one of the earliest cover versions of a ODJB song when he released a recording of " Livery Stable Blues " by Handy's Orchestra of Memphis on Columbia Records in 1917, as Columbia A2419 and Columbia 2912, recorded on September 25, 1917.

One of the most famous Bolden numbers is a song called " Funky Butt " ( known later as " Buddy Bolden's Blues "), which represents one of the earliest references to the concept of " funk " in popular music, now a musical subgenre unto itself.

Astaire declares his preference for bachelorhood and the song – this number was the brainchild of scriptwriter Dwight Taylor and is found in his earliest drafts – emerges naturally and in mid-sentence.

The song Sumer is icumen in, which was first written down in the abbey about 1240, is the earliest known four part harmony from Britain.

In the earliest commercials, Lucky Charms cereal had no theme song ; the action was accompanied by a light instrumental " Irish " tune.

A fatal accident on the Bangor and Piscataquis Railroad between Bangor and Old Town in 1848 is the subject of the earliest known railroad song, Henry Sawyer.

The earliest demo of the song, recorded in Almería, had no refrain and only one verse: " There's no one on my wavelength / I mean, it's either too high or too low / That is you can't you know tune in but it's all right / I mean it's not too bad ".

Several musical tributes to the Munich air disaster have been recorded, the earliest being the song " The Flowers of Manchester ".

The earliest surviving version of the song is in a broadside printed in England between 1672 and 1685, under the name Diddle Diddle, Or The Kind Country Lovers.

One of the earliest uses of the TR-808 for a live performance was by Yellow Magic Orchestra in December 1980 for the song " 1000 Knives ," an electro rendition of member Ryuichi Sakamoto's " Thousand Knives " ( 1978 ).

One of the earliest Japanese songs that was said to have partly used it is Rentarō Taki's " Kōjō no Tsuki ," which was called or " school song " in the Meiji period.

At 4 ft 9 inches tall, she received the nickname Little Miss Dynamite in 1957 after recording the song " Dynamite "; and was one of the earliest pop stars to have a major contemporary international following.

This song was one of the earliest prototypical rock and roll songs, and was covered by Jerry Lee Lewis and Mike Bloomfield's Electric Flag ( as " Wine ").

* " Sour Milk Sea ", a Harrison song later recorded by Jackie Lomax as one of the earliest Apple Record singles.

Today, Northwestern's official color is purple, although white is something of an official color as well, being mentioned in both the university's earliest song, Alma Mater ( 1907 ) (" Hail to purple, hail to white ") and in many university guidelines.

The track " Open My Eyes " has been said to be the inspiration behind one of the earliest songs written by KISS, " Love Her All I Can ", a song originally intended for the pre-KISS band Wicked Lester.

The song " Planet Rock " was one of the earliest hits of the hip hop music genre and remains one of its pioneering recordings.

Thomas " Daddy " Rice introduced the earliest slave archetype with his song " Jump Jim Crow " and its accompanying dance.