In 2009, YMCK released their third album " FAMILY GENESIS ", made available for the first time on the iTunes Store in the U. S. A.

The result was a collection of 280 songs, ballads, ditties, brought together from all regions of America, more than one hundred never before published: The American Songbag.

There are times when one suspects that the songs that are dropped from musical shows before they reach Broadway may really be better than many of those that are left in.

These praise songs are probably the same performed at Matilda's coronation, but might have been used at other court ceremonies before Ealdred's death.

Well before the nineteenth century, sea songs were common on rowing vessels.

On 18 November 2008 the band released The BBC Sessions, which features songs from the period of 1996 – 2001 ( including the last recordings featuring Isobel Campbell before she left the band ), along with a second disc featuring a recording of a live performance in Belfast from Christmas 2001.

On February 1, 1999, Barış Manço died of a sudden heart attack before the release of his just finished last work Mançoloji ( Mançology or Manchology ) ( 1999 ), a double album containing the new recordings of his hit songs along with an unfinished instrumental song " 40.

Finn stated that the album contains some, " Unexpected twists and turns " and some songs that, " Sound like nothing we've done before.

Deicide managed to play three songs before the police decided to stop the concert and evacuate the club.

He spent his early youth attending Public School 149 in East New York, Brooklyn, where he began entertaining his young classmates with songs and jokes, before moving to Thomas Jefferson High School, but he never graduated.

They also recorded music, later released on the CD E-Z Listening Disc ( 1987 ), with Muzak style versions of their own songs to play before their concerts.

Kid Rock filled in for James Hetfield of Metallica, singing vocals on the songs " Enter Sandman ", " Sad But True ", and " Nothing Else Matters " and the turntables for " Fuel ", for three shows after Hetfield injured his spine riding a jet ski on Lake Lanier the day before the July 7 Atlanta concert.

The first English collections, Tommy Thumb's Song Book and a sequel, Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, are both thought to have been published before 1744, with such songs becoming known as ' Tommy Thumb's songs '.

These two songs were written in the weeks before Curtis took his own life.

Although Orbison recorded and wrote standard structure songs before " Only the Lonely ", he claimed never to have learned how to write them: " I'm sure we had to study composition or something like that at school, and they'd say ' This is the way you do it ,' and that's the way I would have done it, so being blessed again with not knowing what was wrong or what was right, I went on my own way .... So the structure sometimes has the chorus at the end of the song, and sometimes there is no chorus, it just goes ... But that's always after the fact — as I'm writing, it all sounds natural and in sequence to me.

* Griffin Silver-An aging rock star admired by Katchoo in her youth, Griffin's songs were printed in the series long before the character made his first appearance.

In 1979 they recorded songs under the name of Mental Torture before finally changing their name to The Associates.

Burnel and Ellis briefly took over vocal duties ( for one television appearance on The Word ) before enlisting Paul Roberts, who sang on most songs live, even those originally sung by Burnel.

Ten songs were recorded before the band returned to Derry prior to Christmas to write and record further songs for the album.

The band recorded a total of eight songs in five days before returning to Derry.

Other songs performed by Amos include The Doors ' " People are Strange ", Depeche Mode's " Personal Jesus ", Joni Mitchell's " The Circle Game ", Madonna's " Live to Tell " and " Like a Prayer ", Björk's " Hyperballad ", Led Zeppelin's " When the Levee Breaks " ( which she debuted in Austin, Texas, just after the events of Hurricane Katrina ), Kate Bush's " And Dream of Sheep " and Crowded House's " Don't Dream It's Over ", dedicating it to drummer Paul Hester who had died a week before.

Even before hostilities commenced in Europe, one of the most played songs on radio was Irving Berlin's " God Bless America ," popularized by CBS's own Kate Smith.

The same year, it was announced for September the release of Goin ' Down Rockin ': The Last Recordings, a set of twelve songs recorded by Jennings and bassist Robby Turner before his death in 2002.

On the 2008 album In Ear Park by the indie / pop band Department of Eagles, a bowed upright bass is featured quite prominently on the songs Teenagers and In Ear Park.

By April 2008 two songs off this album were posted online.

The songs " Girl U Want " and " Through Being Cool " were released as downloadable content for the video game Rock Band on August 19, 2008.

December, 2008 Exclusive songs on iTunes.

Connick did the arrangements for, wrote a couple of songs, and sang a duet on Kelli O ' Hara's album that was released in May 2008.

Before the end of 2008, Jeepster would also release another Belle & Sebastian compilation, The BBC Sessions, collecting the tracks that the band had recorded for the BBC in 1996, which included rarities and unreleased songs, together with live recordings from Belfast.

Kid Rock performed on VH1 Storytellers on November 27, 2008, giving an insight to how he wrote some of his hit songs.

" That was three different songs ... yet they were brought together to sound like one, which was fantastic ," lead guitarist John Echols said of " You Set The Scene " in the liner notes by Andrew Sandoval for the " Collector's Edition " of " Forever Changes " that was released by Rhino Records in 2008.

Notable songs include " God Was Never On Your Side " from Motörhead's 2006 album Kiss Of Death and " The Thousand Names Of God " from the 2008 album Motörizer.

"' Open Secrets ': Individualism and Middle-Class Identity in the songs of Rush ," Popular Music and Society Volume 31 No. 3, July 2008, pp. 313 – 328.

McDaniels was also featured in the 2008 video game, Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, making appearances in the songs " Walk this Way " and " King of Rock ".

On May 20, 2008, Scarlett Johansson's debut album, entitled Anywhere I Lay My Head, featured covers of ten Tom Waits songs.

Image Comics released Comic Book Tattoo ( 2008 ), a collection of comic stories, each based on or inspired by songs recorded by Amos.

Musical versions include the 1966 TV musical with songs by Moose Charlap, and Judi Rolin in the role of Alice, a Christmas 2007 multimedia stage adaptation at The Tobacco Factory directed and conceived by Andy Burden, written by Hattie Naylor, music and lyrics by Paul Dodgson and a 2008 opera Through the Looking Glass by Alan John.

On 16 January 2008 UK tabloid The Sun announced that Williams had been working on some songs with The Blockheads member Chaz Jankel.

Telluride is mentioned in the song " Smuggler's Blues " by Glenn Frey, and is the subject of and eponymous songs by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band in 1985, Kate Wolf, and Tim McGraw in 2001, which was re-recorded by Josh Gracin in 2008.

In November 2007, Numan confirmed via his website that work on a new album, with the working title of Splinter, would be under way throughout 2008, after finishing an alternate version of Jagged ( called Jagged Edge ) and the CD of unreleased songs from his previous three albums ( confirmed to be titled Dead Son Rising on 1 December 2008 via official mailing list message ).

In April 2008, the Brooklyn Academy of Music celebrated Paul Simon's works, and dedicated a week to Songs From the Capeman with a good portion of the show's songs performed by a cast of singers and the Spanish Harlem Orchestra.

September 9, 2008, saw the release of the studio album Day After Tomorrow, produced by Steve Earle and featuring three of his songs.

* British — Ali Campbell: " Nothing Ever Changes ( Pierrot )", from Flying High ( 2009 ); David Bowie: Pierrot in Turquoise ( 1993 ; includes following songs from the film of the same title: " Threepenny Pierrot ", " Columbine ", " The Mirror ", " When I Live My Dream & 2 "); Michael Moorcock and the Deep Fix: " Birthplace of Harlequin ", " Columbine Confused ", " Pierrot's Song of Positive Thinking ", and " Pierrot in the Roof Garden ", from The Entropy Tango and Gloriana Demo Sessions ( 2008 ); Petula Clark: " Pierrot pendu " (" Hanged Pierrot "), from Hello Mister Brown ( 1966 ); Placebo: " Pierrot the Clown ", from Meds ( 2006 ); Rick Wakeman: " The Dancing Pierrot ", from The Art in Music Trilogy ( 1999 ); Soft Machine: " Thank You Pierrot Lunaire ", from Volume Two ( 1969 ).

( In 2008, Billboard ranked the song No. 6 among all songs that charted in the 50-year history of the Hot 100.

On December 18, 2008, Prince premiered four songs from his new album on LA's Indie rock radio station Indie 103. 1.