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

In the more casually constructed musicals of the Nineteen Twenties and Nineteen Thirties there would seem to have been less reason for eliminating a song of merit.

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.

Also, " Absalom, Absalom Would I die for you my son, I would have it all undone, The way it all came down " is found on the 1998 album Largo in the song " Gimme A Stone ".

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.

When he discovered that the original Desiree, Glynis Johns, was able to sing ( she had a " small, silvery voice ") but could not " sustain a phrase ", he devised the song " Send in the Clowns " for her in a way that would work around her vocal weakness, e. g., by ending lines with consonants that made for a short cut-off.

During the Labor Day weekend in 1952, The Saddlemen were renamed Bill Haley with Haley's Comets ( inspired by a popular mispronunciation of Halley's Comet ), and in 1953, Haley's recording of " Crazy Man, Crazy " ( co-written by Haley and his bass player, Marshall Lytle although Lytle would not receive credit until 2001 ) became the first rock and roll song to hit the American charts, peaking at no. 15 on Billboard and no. 11 on Cash Box.

By the Victorian era, ballad had come to mean any sentimental popular song, especially so-called " royalty ballads ", which publishers would pay popular singers to perform in Britain and the United States in " ballad concerts.

In the beginning, everyone would stand for the song.

The Smiths song " Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now " refers to Caligula: " What she asked of me at the end of the day / Caligula would have blushed ".

When " Too Drunk to Fuck " came out in May 1981, the song caused much controversy in the UK as the BBC feared the single would reach the Top 30 ; this would require a mention of the song on Top of the Pops.

" He then demoed the song that would provide his commercial breakthrough.

" 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.

" Babylon " was performed in the Mad Men episode of the same name Babylon_ ( Mad_Men )# ep6 despite the fact that the song would not be released until 10 years after the time in which the episode is set.

They met Mark Mothersbaugh around 1970, who introduced them to the pamphlet " Jocko Homo Heavenbound ", which includes an illustration of a winged devil labeled " D-EVOLUTION " and would later inspire the song " Jocko Homo ".

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 ).

Diddley sensed the choice of song would end his career then and there, and instead sang his # 1 hit " Bo Diddley ".

Coppola would later use Morrison's well-known song " The End " in Apocalypse Now.

Cecil Sharp had an influential idea about the process of folk variation: he felt that the competing variants of a traditional song would undergo a process akin to biological natural selection: only those new variants that were the most appealing to ordinary singers would be picked up by others and transmitted onward in time.

Thus, over time we would expect each traditional song to become aesthetically ever more appealing — it would be collectively composed to perfection, as it were, by the community.

129 ) indicate that the poet, his brothers and Pittacus made plans to overthrow him and that Pittacus subsequently betrayed them ; Alcaeus and his brothers fled into exile where the poet later wrote a drinking song in celebration of the news of the tyrant's death ( frag.

During 1976, Grant wrote her first song (" Mountain Man "), performed in public for the first time — at Harpeth Hall School — the all-girls school she attended, recorded a demo tape for her parents with church youth-leader Brown Bannister, then later when Bannister was dubbing a copy of the tape, Chris Christian, the owner of the recording studio, heard the demo and called Word Records.

In 1940, an RKO movie adaptation starred Granville Owen ( later known as Jeff York ) as Li ' l Abner, with Buster Keaton taking the role of Lonesome Polecat, and featuring a title song with lyrics by Milton Berle.

The song was later featured in the film The Birdcage ( 1996 ) and performed by Robin Williams and Christine Baranski.

Offered the song by Dylan, Sheryl Crow later recorded an up-tempo cover of " Mississippi " for her The Globe Sessions, released in 1998, before Dylan revisited it for Love and Theft.

" BDP used this riff in the song " Remix for P is Free ," and it was later resampled by artists such as Black Star and dead prez.

( This initial version of the song played more slowly and about half an octave higher than the later hit version.

Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and song of the British Isles from the later medieval period until the 19th century and used extensively across Europe and later the Americas, Australia and North Africa.

In the later 19th century it took on the meaning of a slow form of popular love song and the term is now often used as synonymous with any love song, particularly the pop or rock power ballad.

The song was the # 1 hit in the U. S. for the five weeks encompassing March 1966, the # 1 hit on the Hot 100's end of the year chart for 1966, and the No. 21 song of 1960s, despite the later unpopularity of the Vietnam War and the competing " California Dreaming ", sharply dividing the popular music market.

* Constantinople's change of name was the theme for a song made famous by The Four Lads and later covered by They Might Be Giants and many others entitled " Istanbul ( Not Constantinople )".

*" Cadilac " ( T. Rex song ), a B-side from " Telegram Sam " later released on The Slider

In 1977, Saratoga Springs, NY disc jockey Tom L. Lewis introduced the Disco Bible ( later renamed Disco Beats ), which published hit disco songs listed by beats per minute ( tempo ), as well as by either artist or song title.

The Arts Lab hosted a free festival in a local park, later immortalised by Bowie in his song " Memory of a Free Festival ".

Towards the end of the year, Bowie performed the song for Marc Bolan's television show Marc, and again two days later for Bing Crosby's televised Christmas special, when he joined Crosby in " Peace on Earth / Little Drummer Boy ", a version of " The Little Drummer Boy " with a new, contrapuntal verse.

The song was recorded on 26 May 1971 and a month later received its first radio airplay on New York ’ s WNEW-FM and WPLJ-FM to mark the closing of The Fillmore East, a famous New York concert hall.

Gimbel and Charles Fox reworked the poem and the phrase into the song " Killing Me Softly with His Song ", recorded by Roberta Flack ( and later covered by The Fugees ).

When the boys awakened from death, they rose up and joined in a song of praise to God for the miracle vouchsafed to them ; later, they went to Israel, where they married and reared children.

In April 1980, the track " Crying ” from the album began picking up airplay on Dutch radio stations and McLean was called to Europe to appear on several important musical variety shows to plug the song and support its release as a single by EMI.

In 1963, Bob Dylan was set to appear on the show, but network censors rejected the song he wanted to perform, " Talkin ' John Birch Paranoid Blues ", as potentially libelous to the John Birch Society.

The unlikely collaboration performed the song live on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in promotion of Kiss My Ass: Classic Kiss Regrooved, and despite its hard-rock appeal, Brooks's version did appear on the country charts.

Several versions of the Nights theme song " Dreams Dreams " appear throughout the games in the series.

" I'm Just Here for the Music " reached # 87 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Abdul's 15th song to appear on the chart.

Up to eight of the themes used in Turandot appear to be based on traditional Chinese music and anthems, and the melody of a Chinese song named " Mò Li Hūa ( 茉莉花 )", or " Jasmine ", is included as a motif for the princess.

The first two lines of the song appear in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway.

* They appear in the 1986 Hank Wangford Channel 4 television series The A to Z of C & W singing the Hank Williams song " Cold, Cold Heart ".

* Portions of Brooke's poem " The Hill " appear at the beginning of the video for the Pet Shop Boys song " Se a vida é ( That's the way life is )".

Others believe Robert Johnson sang this song in regards to the deal that was made with Legba in which Johnson exchanged his soul for his extraordinary guitar skills that seemed to appear suddenly.

The film is considered the swan song for the " Big Three " Universal horror monsters – Count Dracula, the Wolf Man and Frankenstein's monster – although it does not appear to fit within the loose continuity of the earlier films.

The song " Uncle Sam Blues " did not appear but was later released on the eponymous Hot Tuna album.

* The electro-rock band Judge Rock pays homage to Crisis in their 2012 song Westerner, in which Jonah Hex, Bat Lash, Nighthawk ( DC Comics ), Johnny Thunder and Scalphunter ( DC Comics ) appear, along with the alien abduction taking them through time in episode three of the Crisis comic-book.

Elements of popular culture that appear as backdrops to the main story include the song " If I Were a Rich Man ", from Fiddler on the Roof ; a recorded orchestral performance of The Beatles ' song " Yesterday "; The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson ; and televised boxing matches.

" Bright Side of the Road " was a joyful, uplifting song that would appear on the soundtrack of the movie, Michael.

Many " song films "— often referred to as " filmed inserts " at that time — were produced by UK artists so they could be screened on TV when the bands were not available to appear live.

With the song getting airplay across the South and Southwest, Perkins was booked to appear along with Elvis Presley at theaters in Marianna and West Memphis, Arkansas.

* In the 1997 music video for the highly popular song " Mo Money Mo Problems " by Notorious B. I. G, rap moguls Sean Combs and Mase, appear to be dancing in front of the Unisphere.

In reality, Clinton was the only member of the Parliaments to appear in the song, as the other members were unable to travel to Detroit for the recording session ( session singers and musicians rounded out the recording ).

Two versions of the song ( fast and slow ), based on the original Parliament version, appear on the 1996 live Funkadelic release Live: Meadowbrook, Rochester, Michigan – 12 September 1971.

Linkin Park contributed their instrumental song " Session " to the film as well, although it did not appear during the course of the film.

" If I can't play my song, I'd rather not appear on the show.

In 2009, Moreno recorded a song with 30 Seconds to Mars to appear on their album This Is War, but was not finished.

Bono performs a version of this song while playing the character " Dr. Robert " in the movie Across the Universe while several of the protagonists appear to be under the influence of psychoactive substances at a New York club and, later, on Dr. Robert's tour bus.