Groban's father was born Jewish, and is a descendant of Russian and Polish immigrants ; he converted from Judaism to Christianity when marrying Groban's mother.

Groban's second album Closer, produced and written by Foster, was released on November 11, 2003.

During the first week of September 2006, Groban's single entitled " You Are Loved ( Don't Give Up )" was released exclusively on AOL's First Listen.

My lovely caller -- Joyce Holland was her name -- had previously done three filmed commercials for zing, and this evening, the fourth, a super production, had been filmed at the home of Louis Thor.

The fourth name was ( John ) Milton of Christ's College, followed by ( Richard ) Manningham of Peterhouse, who matriculated 16 October 1624.

Christ's College was well represented that year in the ordo, and the name highest on the list from that college was Milton's, fourth in the entire university.

And there I was shacked up with Eileen in that filthy fourth floor attic on Hudson Street.

Hino was the fourth son of an elderly farmer who lived on the coast, in Chiba, and divided his life between the land and the sea, supplementing the marginal livelihood on his small rented farm with seasonal employment on a fishing boat.

Erected on the site of pagan temples and three previous St. Sophias, the first of which was begun by Constantine, this fourth church was started by Justinian in 532 and completed twenty years later.

The radiation loss from the anode surface was computed according to Af where Af is the mean of the fourth powers of the temperatures Af and Af calculated analogously to equation ( 1 ).

Direct proportionality of the rate to the incident intensity has also been assumed in obtaining the value in the last column for the fourth sample of series 2, where the light intensity was reduced by use of a screen.

This patient was a 65-year-old white male accountant who entered the New York Hospital for his fourth and terminal admission on June 26, 1959, because of disabling weakness and general debility.

The fourth and last speaker was Thomas Davis.

The sailing in the spring of 1610 was Hudson's fourth in four years.

The purpose of this fourth voyage was clear.

Toward the end of his fourth hairy highball, while he was moodily making wet rings on the table-top with the bottom of the glass, he became aware that he was not alone.

Lemon was on with his fourth single of the game, a liner to center.

After playing a splendid first nine holes in 34 -- two strokes under par -- on this fifth and final day of the tournament ( Sunday's fourth round had been washed out by a violent rainstorm when it was only half completed ), Player's game rapidly fell to pieces.

Twenty minutes after the interruption, although it was still raining, the play was resumed at the point in the fourth act where it had been stopped.

The Lincolns ' fourth son, Thomas " Tad " Lincoln, was born on April 4, 1853, and died of heart failure at the age of 18 on July 16, 1871.

Konstantinos Porphyrogennetos, the fourth emperor of the Macedonian dynasty of the Byzantine Empire in the 9th century AD, referred to Asia Minor as East thema, " ανατολικόν θέμα " ( from the Greek words anatoli: east, thema: administrative division ), placing this region to the East of Byzantium, while Europe was lying to the West.

Born in Stockholm, Alfred Nobel was the fourth son of Immanuel Nobel ( 1801 – 1872 ), an inventor and engineer, and Andriette Ahlsell Nobel ( 1805 – 1889 ).

He was the fourth child of Ondrej Varchola ( Americanized as Andrew Warhola, Sr., 1889 – 1942 ) and Júlia ( née Zavacká, 1892 – 1972 ), whose first child was born in their homeland and died before their move to the U. S. Andy had two older brothers, Paul, born about 1923, and John, born about 1925.

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.