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.

Several editions featuring Newton's first three stanzas and the verse previously included by Harriet Beecher Stowe in Uncle Tom's Cabin were published by Excell between 1900 and 1910, and his version of " Amazing Grace " became the standard form of the song in American churches.

Cash often included the song when he toured prisons, saying " For the three minutes that song is going on, everybody is free.

In 2009, Toyota commissioned Haden to perform three songs for television commercials for the third-generation Toyota Prius, including an a cappella version of the Bellamy Brothers 1970s song " Let Your Love Flow ".

Finally, the Quadra is a song where the same verse is repeated four times, either three singer verses followed by one chorus response, or one verse and one response.

Noted by the popular Hank Williams ' Jambalaya song, three of the primary dishes in Acadiana are " Jambalaya and-a crawfish pie and filé gumbo.

In 1987, Crowded House won the American MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist for their song " Don't Dream It's Over ", which was also nominated for three other awards.

I'd sure love to be a fly on the wall when he tries to explain putting a song in a rape scene for money to his teenage daughter … The deal was pushed through by a new business manager the other three hired.

( The VHS version of the 1980s, sharing the removal of the Scarecrow's laugh from Terry Gilkyson's title song, was expanded to include the story material from all three TV episodes, while retaining feature film structure and credits ; it was available for a relatively short amount of time.

Making prominent use of electronic instruments, the album, which reunited Bowie with Let's Dance producer Nile Rodgers, confirmed Bowie's return to popularity, hitting the number one spot on the UK charts and spawning three top 40 hits, including the top 10 song " Jump They Say ".

The song " Boadicea ", also from this album, would later be sampled by The Fugees on their single " Ready or Not " ( 1996 ), causing a brief stir because the group neither sought permission from Enya nor gave her credit initially, and by Mario Winans, who did give her credit ( the Winans track, " I Don't Wanna Know " which features a rap by P. Diddy and is officially credited to all three artists, became Enya's highest charting single in the US, when it peaked at # 2 on the Hot 100 in 2004 ).

It only reached number 12 on the country chart, his first song in three years to fail to make the top ten.

The song began with the chorus, which all of them sang with each one alternating ( in lip-synch ) a mournful howl after each of the first three lines.

Men at Work performed three songs for the 1985 Oz for Africa concert ( part of the global Live Aid program )-" Maria ", " Overkill ", and an unreleased song called " The Longest Night ".

In 1998, the group appeared on the album Happy Hour by Japanese female rockers Shonen Knife ( also a three piece ); they did backing vocals on the song " Sushi Bar ".

The main medium of pop music is the song, often between two and a half and three and a half minutes in length, generally marked by a consistent and noticeable rhythmic element, a mainstream style and a simple traditional structure.

The song became Robyn's first number one hit in Sweden, and her fourth top ten hit in both the UK and the US, peaking at number eight on the UK Singles Chart and at number three on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Songs chart.

It quickly became their second # 1 U. S. hit, staying on the top for three weeks, but the song failed to reach the Top 10 in the UK.

They scored another hit with songwriter, Alan O ' Day's " Rock and Roll Heaven ", a paean to several deceased rock singers: Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Otis Redding, Jim Croce and Bobby Darin are among the mentioned ( Croce and Darin died within three months of each other in late 1973, shortly before the song was released ).

Hell also co-wrote and sang lead vocals on the song " Never Mind " by The Heads, a 1996 collaborative effort between three former members of Talking Heads.

He has directed three videos for her and she contributed the theme song for Jonze's Being John Malkovich film.

" The last few years I had been complaining about that fact that there weren ’ t any females speaking to women above the age of 30, so I started thinking about how I was writing my songs and came up with the idea for “ Friday Night Girls " ... I wanted to write a three minute song with every Sex and the City episode that had ever existed, so I did.

* The Stability EP, a 2002 three song EP by Death Cab for Cutie

Dootone Records released The Penguins ' single " Hey Senorita " in late 1954 as the intended A-side, but a radio DJ flipped the record over to the B-side: " Earth Angel " worked its way up to # 1 on the Billboard charts ( the only Penguins song ever to fly that high ), and held that place for three weeks early in 1955.

The song has become a festive classic in the UK and Ireland over the years, and was voted the best Christmas song of all time three years running in 2004, 2005, and 2006 in polls by music channel VH1 UK, despite not achieving Christmas Number One when it was released.