who wrote the song carry me back to old virginny
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Carry Me Back to Old Virginny "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" is a song which was written by James A. Bland (1854–1911), an African American who wrote over 700 songs. It is "not" an adaption by Bland of the "Carry Me Back to Old Virginia" by the Christy Minstrels, also known by the title; "Floating Scow of Old Virginny", a song copyrighted by Edwin Pearce Christy in 1847. Bland simply appropriated the song title. Bland's song bears no resemblance to it melodically, harmonically, or in the lyrics (except that both songs are minstrel songs). The latter song was very
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Carry Me Back to Old Virginny "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" is a song which was written by James A. Bland (1854–1911), an African American who wrote over 700 songs. It is "not" an adaption by Bland of the "Carry Me Back to Old Virginia" by the Christy Minstrels, also known by the title; "Floating Scow of Old Virginny", a song copyrighted by Edwin Pearce Christy in 1847. Bland simply appropriated the song title. Bland's song bears no resemblance to it melodically, harmonically, or in the lyrics (except that both songs are minstrel songs). The latter song was very
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to Old Virginny'. The song with "such a pleasurable melody and such discomfiting politics that it has fascinated bandleader Ketch Secor since he was a kid in Virginia" led him to write "Carry Me Back to Virginia," for the group's album. As Secor reveals: Carry Me Back to Old Virginny "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" is a song which was written by James A. Bland (1854–1911), an African American who wrote over 700 songs. It is "not" an adaption by Bland of the "Carry Me Back to Old Virginia" by the Christy Minstrels, also known by the title; "Floating
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and performance of popular music, and by the second half of the century more than 100 composers were writing songs and dances for the theatre and salon. Minstrel shows were enthusiastically received, and in 1855 the first black minstrel theatre was opened. The local minstrel performer James A. Bland composed songs that attained phenomenal success, especially "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" (1878) and "Oh, dem Golden Slippers" (1879). The latter became the 'theme song' of the Mummers, who established clubs and formally inaugurated the annual tradition in 1901 of dressing in extravagant costumes and parading on New Year's Day
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Epps, first or lead tenor; Archie Johnson, baritone; Clarence Smith, second tenor; Alphonso DeWitt, basso; and Walter Lightfoot, baritone. They gained national prominence and toured between 1900 and 1912. At one performance, Mark Twain introduced Polk Miller at Madison Square Garden. Although he did not perform in blackface, Polk sometimes billed himself as "The Old Virginia Plantation Negro" and performed Negro spirituals and pop and folk tunes such as James A. Bland's "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny". Miller and his quartet played colleges and military schools, as well as the "most exclusive social clubs" in New York, Boston, Baltimore,
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1, 2006, the House Rules Committee of the General Assembly voted down bill SB682, which would have made "Shenandoah" the official state song. <poem> Carry me back to old Virginny. There's where the cotton and corn and taters grow. There's where the birds warble sweet in the spring-time. There's where this old darkey's heart am long'd to go. There's where I labored so hard for old Massa, Day after day in the field of yellow corn; No place on earth do I love more sincerely Than old Virginny, the state where I was born. [CHORUS] Carry me back to old
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[CHORUS]</poem> <poem> On de floating scow ob ole Virginny, I've worked from day to day, Raking among de oyster beds, To me it was but play; But now I'm old and feeble, An' my bones are getting sore, Den carry me back to ole Virginny To ole Virginny shore. [CHORUS] Den carry me back to ole Virginny To ole Virginny shore, Oh, carry me back to ole Virginny, To ole Virginny shore. Oh, I wish dat I was young again, Den I'd lead a different life, I'd save my money and buy a farm, And take Dinah for my wife;
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But now old age, he holds me tight, And I cannot love any more, Oh, carry me back to ole Virginny, To ole Virginny shore. When I am dead and gone to roost, Lay de old tambo by my side, Let de possum and coon to my funeral go, For dey are my only pride; Den in soft repose, I'll take my sleep, An' I'll dream for ever more, Dat you're carrying me back to ole Virginny, To ole Virginny shore.</poem> Americana string band Old Crow Medicine Show's 2012 album, "Carry Me Back", derives its name from 'Carry Me Back
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28, 1997, the Virginia Senate voted to designate "Carry Me Back to Old Virginia" as state song emeritus and a study committee initiated a contest for writing a new state song. The song was representative of the commonwealth in many ways. "When Clifton A, Woodrum was in Congress, the House of Representatives couldn't adjourn until the honorable Democrat from Roanoke, Virginia with a rich and varied baritone voice led the body in a rendition of "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny]". In January 2006, a state Senate panel voted to designate "Shenandoah" as the "interim official state song." On March
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Virginny. There's where the cotton and the corn and taters grow; There's where the birds warble sweet in the spring-time. There's where this old darkey's heart am long'd to go. Carry me back to old Virginny, There let me live till I wither and decay. Long by the old Dismal Swamp have I wandered, There's where this old darkey's life will pass away. Massa and Missis have long gone before me, Soon we will meet on that bright and golden shore. There we'll be happy and free from all sorrow, There's where we'll meet and we'll never part no more.
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popular during the California gold rush and the American Civil War. Many parodies were written on this melody and became popular with miners, Civil War soldiers and civilians. Bland's version, the best known, was written in 1878 when many newly-freed slaves were struggling to find work. The song has become controversial in modern times, with critics viewing the lyrics as racially insensitive. A third reworded version was Virginia's state song from 1940 until 1997, using the word "Virginia" instead of "Virginny." In 1997, it was retired as state song, largely due to controversy over the lyrics' racial content. On January
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Dropkick Murphys, and Flogging Molly. The name derives from "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny", former official state song of Virginia. The song "Levi" is "about a soldier who grew up in the wild hillbilly woods of Virginia." First Lieutenant Leevi Barnard—from Ararat, Virginia—on his first tour of duty overseas with the National Guard, was "killed by a suicide bomber" in Baghdad's Dora Market in 2009. Near the end of the NPR broadcast, where Secor first heard the story in 2009, several of the late lieutenant's friends, part of the funeral congregation, "broke into Barnard's favorite song" . . "Wagon
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Evening by the Moonlight" (1879), "Oh! Dem Golden Slippers" (1879) (the theme song for the long-running Philadelphia Mummers Parade), "Hand Me Down My Walking Cane" (1880) and "De Golden Wedding" (1880). His best-known song is "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" (1878), which, in a slightly modified form, was the official State Song of Virginia from 1940 to 1997. It was retired and designated "state song emeritus" in the latter year, because of controversy over its racial nature. Often called "The World's Greatest Minstrel Man", Bland toured the United States, as well as Europe. Bland's earliest recorded minstrel performance was
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and country music incarnations through the medium of "race music" and "hillbilly" recordings. Many minstrel tunes are now popular folk songs. Most have been expunged of the exaggerated black dialect and the overt references to blacks. "Dixie", for example, was adopted by the Confederacy as its unofficial national anthem and is still popular, and "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" was sanitized and made the state song of Virginia until 1997. "My Old Kentucky Home" remains the state song of Kentucky. The instruments of the minstrel show were largely kept on, especially in the South. Minstrel performers from the last
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seal was designed in 1776, and the flag was first used in the 1830s, both were made official in 1930. The majority of the other symbols were made official in the late 20th century. The Virginia reel is among the square dances classified as the state dance. In March 2015, after 20 years without a state song, Virginia received two: "Our Great Virginia" (official traditional state song) and "Sweet Virginia Breeze" (official popular state song). In 1940, Virginia made "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" the state song, but it was retired in 1997 and reclassified as the state song
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called "Collegiate Hot" that to many people exemplifies the music of the "Roaring Twenties". The most noted musician who played with Brigode was trombonist Abe Lincoln. Brigode hosted the "White Rose Gasoline Show" on radio, featuring his band. The band also made gramophone records for various record labels, including OKeh, Edison, Cameo and Pathé Records; their biggest hit was a 1925 version of "Yes Sir, That's My Baby" for Columbia Records. The band's theme song was "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny". Dwight Eisenhower was among the band's fans. Brigode himself played violin and clarinet, but mostly acted as master
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Liza Jane", "My Grandfather's Clock" and "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny". These songs carried a large amount of more philosophical and emotional content than say "Camptown Races" which was a major hit before the war. This was likely one of the reasons that so many American folk songs from this period are remembered today. C.A. White wrote many great songs of the era such as "Marguerite", "Moonlight on the Lake", "When 'Tis Moonlight", and "The Fisherman and His Child". Songs such as "Barney, Take Me Home Again" and "I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen" were designed to go together.
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first prominent African American songwriter and is known for his ballad, "Carry me Back to Old Virginny". "In the Evening by the Moonlight" and "Golden Slippers" are well known songs of his, and he wrote other hits of the period including "In the Morning by the Bright Light" and "De Golden Wedding." Bland wrote most of his songs from 1879 to 1882; in 1881 he left America for England with Haverly's "Genuine Colored Minstrels". Bland found England more rewarding than the United States and stayed there until 1890; either he stopped writing songs during this period or he was unable
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in bringing the United States Department of Veterans Affairs hospital, now known as the Salem Veterans Affairs Medical Center to his district. The hospital brought many jobs to the region during the Great Depression. Woodrum was a fierce promoter of his state and region, and very fond of the song, "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny". The song was representative of the commonwealth in many ways. "When Clifton A, Woodrum was in Congress, the House of Representatives couldn't adjourn until the honorable Democrat from Roanoke, Virginia with a rich and varied baritone voice led the body in a rendition of
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Marine Band was founded in 1798. Some fifty years later, in 1851, the city's first choral society, the Washington Saengerbund, was formed. Other 19th century musicians included the minstrel singer and songwriter James Bland ("Carry Me Back to Old Virginny"). In 1872, the Coloured American Opera Society formed. Washington native John Philip Sousa was conductor of the U.S. Marine Band from 1880 to 1892. He wrote 132 marches, including "The Washington Post" and "The Stars and Stripes Forever". Sousa formed his own band after leaving the Marine Corps that performed 15,623 concerts worldwide. Later groundbreaking musicians included James Reese Europe,
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mid-1920s. The first may have been on December 26, 1924 at station WOO in Philadelphia. Besides his many guest appearances, he hosted "The Voice of Firestone" (1936), "The Chase and Sanborn Hour" (1937–39), and "Kraft Music Hall" (1947–48), among other programs. Eddy frequently used his radio shows to advance the careers of promising young singers. While his programs often featured "serious" music, they were never straitlaced. It was in a series of comedy routines with Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy on the "Chase and Sanborn Hour" that Eddy's name became associated with the song "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny",
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a Monday", "Lucy D" (a melody that sounds like the later Simon & Garfunkel hit, "Scarborough Fair", but depicts the murder of a beautiful young woman by her unrequited lover), "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny", "Stack of Blues", "Old Blue", "Cherry Red", and "New Orleans" (better known as "The House of the Rising Sun"), which would become a hit for the British rock group, The Animals a few years later. Laine's last four albums at Columbia, "Hell Bent for Leather", "Deuces Wild", "Call of the Wild", and "Wanderlust" were arranged by a young John Williams. Williams recently said the
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Alma Gluck Alma Gluck (May 11, 1884October 27, 1938) was a Romanian-born American soprano. Gluck was born as Reba Feinsohn to a Jewish family in Iași, Romania, the daughter of Zara and Leon Feinsohn. Gluck moved to the United States at a young age. Although her initial success came at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, Gluck later concertized widely in America and became an early recording artist. Although various sources claim that Her recording of "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" for the Victor Talking Machine Co. was the first celebrity recording by a classical musician to sell
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in 1844." Genuine appreciation among white observers for music and dance so clearly (if not purely) African in origin existed then and now. Charles Dickens praised the intricacies of the "lively hero" (believed to be Master Juba) whom he watched in a New York performance in 1842. Many songs that originated in minstrelsy (such as "Camptown Races" and "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny") are now considered American classics. While it was originally performed by whites costumed in either fanciful "dandy" gear or pauper's rags with their faces covered in burnt cork, or blackface, the minstrels were joined in the
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"Carry Me Back to Old Virginny]". Woodrum died of a heart attack in Washington, D.C., October 6, 1950. He was interred in Fairview Cemetery, Roanoke, Virginia. His son and namesake also became a lawyer in Roanoke, but only survived him by 9 years. His grandson Chip Woodrum continued the family tradition of opposing the Byrd organization, and served in the Virginia House of Delegates, where he became known (among other accomplishments) for updating Virginia's Freedom of Information Act. The Roanoke-Blacksburg Regional/Woodrum Field Airport (ROA) was activated in May 1930 due to the efforts of Rep. Woodrum to acquire the land
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and conclusive." The soundtrack is composed exclusively of vintage recordings with a clear vinyl undertone. Most of this recordings originated from the catalogue of Discos Qualiton and include the Piano Sonata No. 14 in C minor, K. 457 and "Six sonatas for flute and harpsichord" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Mozart’s aria "Misero! o sogno", K.431; "Warum?" from "Fantasiestücke" by Robert Shumann, and "Carry me back to old Virginny”. The final mix for the soundtrack was completed at In Your Year Studios in Richmond, Va. Monroe Hill Monroe Hill is a 2015 documentary film by Eduardo Montes-Bradley made possible, in part,
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Old Virginny", "The Banks of the Daisies. My Love's an Arbutus", "The Meeting of the Waters", "Loch Lomond", "Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes", and "I'se Gwine Back to Dixie". Besides teaching music at the Seagle Music Colony, Seagle also taught at the Homer Institute in Kansas City. His students included John Seagle, Saba Doak, James Hardesty Johnson, J. Erwin Mulch, and Capt. Donald W. Johnston, who organized the 102nd Infantry Division Chorus. Oscar had a son named John, who was one of his prominent students. Oscar Seagle died on December 19, 1945 in Dallas, Texas. A theater at
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chart at #6, making it the highest charting album in the band's history, selling 43,000 copies in its first week. He produced and Mixed Gaslight Anthem Brian Fallons new project The Horrible Crowes "Elsie". On December 2, 2011, "Huffington Post" blogger Jon Chattman named "Elsie" the #2 album of 2011. He wrote, "Out of nowhere, this Gaslight Anthem (don't call it a) side project resonated with me so strongly. There's not a bad song on this." [11] Also Old Crow Medicine Show Carry me Back Available on CD, vinyl, and cassette,[58] the album "sold over 17,000 copies in its debut
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Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty "Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty" is a music hall song written by Arthur J. Mills, Fred Godfrey and Bennett Scott in 1916. It was popular during the First World War and tells a story of three fictional soldiers on the Western Front suffering from homesickness and their longing to return to "Blighty" - a slang term for Britain. Fred Godfrey wrote the song with Bennett Scott and A.J. Mills after passing a music hall in Oxford where a show called "Blighty" was showing. He recounts: "One of us suddenly said “What
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and when Haggard asked Owens for a sum of money to pay back debts incurred in Las Vegas, Owens agreed only if he received half of “Sing Me Back Home,” to which Haggard agreed. Haggard, who later felt he had been taken, sued to get his ownership of the song back. Although Haggard wrote or co-wrote most of the tracks on "Sing Me Back Home", the song credits also list several important figures from his musical past, such as Lefty Frizzell, who wrote "Mom and Dad's Waltz" and was arguably Merle's biggest musical inspiration. In addition, a young Haggard had
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knowing I'll be in a better place/Release my soul, carry me home". NPR premiered "Carry Me Home" in July 2015; its official release came in August with the Sweeplings' debut album "Rise & Fall". When the Sweeplings signed with Nettwerk in 2018, they offered an acoustic version of the song ahead of the deluxe version re-release of the album. The official trailer for the final season of the Netflix series "Longmire" is set to "Carry Me Home". "Dean and Bradley float across vast landscapes of dusty tones" for the song, wrote "Popdust", which also rated "Rise & Fall" as its
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on which had the poem "Rabbi Ben Ezra" by Robert Browning in it. Inspired by this turn of events, Lennon wrote "Grow Old with Me" as an answer to Ono's song, and rang her back to play it to her over the phone. The two new songs, "Grow Old with Me" and "Let Me Count the Ways" were originally meant for inclusion on the "Double Fantasy" album. However, Lennon and Ono were working on a tight deadline to get the album finished and released before Christmas, and decided to postpone recording of the song until the following year (1981) for
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place) by the Vrouemonument (woman's monument) This American folk song, Ellie Rhee, (or "Carry me back to Tennessee" written in 1865 by Septimus Winner (1827-1902), is widely considered to have influenced the South African song. Sweet Ellie Rhee, so dear to me<br> Is lost forever more<br> Our home was down in Tennessee<br> Before this cruel war <br> Then carry me back to Tennessee<br> Back where I long to be<br> Amid the fields of yellow corn<br> To my darling Ellie Rhee Originally in the Afrikaans version it was "Sarie Maré" which then became "Marais". Mijn lieve Sarah Marais is ver weg
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Take Me Back (Imperials song) "Take Me Back," a ballad about a plea for forgiveness, was a 1965 hit song by Little Anthony and the Imperials. It was a "Billboard" Top 20 Pop Hit, peaking at #16, and was a Top 20 R&B Hit as well, peaking at # 15. The song was one of 5 hit singles taken from their 1964 hit album, "Goin' Out of My Head", and was composed by songwriter Teddy Randazzo, who also wrote several previous Imperials hit singles, including Goin' Out Of My Head and Hurt So Bad, and was produced by Randazzo and
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included multiple people over the years. "Hail to Old OSU" is the fight song for Oregon State University. It was written by Harold a. Wilkins (Class of 1907) in 1914. The song consists of two verses and a chorus. It was originally called "Hail to Old O.A.C." and has officially remained unaltered except in the school initials as the school's name underwent changes to Oregon State College, and later, Oregon State University. The OSU Alma Mater, "Carry Me Back", was written by W. Homer Maris. Within a vale of western mountains,<br> There's a college we hold dear.<br> Her shady slopes
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in the United States as "Awake, awake", sung by Mary Sands in Madison County, North Carolina on August 1, 1916. The differences in titles and some lyrics may also be a result of the song being handed down through the unwritten, oral tradition, or adapting from different sources, and where each performer may add their own verses and nuances to the song. These songs have been sung using different tunes. Relation to other songs such as "Old Virginny"/"Man of Constant Sorrow" and "Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies" have also been noted. The song was recorded commercially as "O!
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two days of publication. He was released from arrest after promising to destroy all of the remaining copies. Shortly after his release is when he wrote, "Oh Where, oh Where Ish Mine Little Dog Gone". The song reappeared in 1864 when McClellan was a presidential candidate. In 1880 the words were rewritten as a campaign ditty on behalf of Ulysses S. Grant. Winner's 1865 love song "Sweet Ellie Rhee", (or "Carry me back to Tennessee") is widely considered to have been introduced to South Africa by Americans working in the Transvaal gold mines, and to have greatly influenced the well-known
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to the "Carry Me Back" promotional tour in 2012. As a teacher of old-time music at Augusta Heritage Center of Davis & Elkins College in Elkins, West Virginia he'd attracted the attention of the group who "wanted to get Old Crow back together and on the road again." "He got the gig" because Secor "knew that anyone who worked at Augusta knew all about old-time music." The group's ninth album, "Remedy", was released in July 2014 by ATO Records and produced by Ted Hutt—who produced their previous studio record. The album features a collaboration with Bob Dylan, "Sweet Amarillo", and
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The lyrics of Burnett and Arthur are very similar with minor variations, and as Arthur's song was the earliest recording of the song that was released, the tune and lyrics of Arthur's version became the source from which most later versions were ultimately derived. A number of similar songs were found in Kentucky and Virginia in the early 20th century. English folk song collector Cecil Sharp collected four versions of the song in 1917-1918 as "In Old Virginny", which were published in 1932 in "English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians". The lyrics were different in details from Burnett's but
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Mean to Me (Brett Eldredge song) "Mean to Me" is a song recorded by American country music artist Brett Eldredge. It was released on July 14, 2014 as his fifth single and the fourth single from his debut studio album, "Bring You Back". He attributes his success to Courtney Erickson and Rachel Miller who co-wrote said song. The song has sold 477,000 copies in the US as of April 2015. The website "Taste of Country" gave the song a positive review, saying that "In a way, ‘Mean to Me’ is Eldredge’s answer to a test brought to him after two
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11 attacks; as her husband Michael McKean describes it, "On September 11, 2001, Annette found herself without an airline to carry her back down to Los Angeles from Vancouver, where she films "Smallville". So she drove a rental car down. The two of us drove it back up together, and on the long drive up there, somewhere between Portland and Seattle, she told me she had a tune in her head." The "tune in her head" became "Potato's in the Paddy Wagon", one of three songs the couple wrote for "A Mighty Wind", including the Oscar-nominated song "A Kiss at
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Lift Me Up (Christina Aguilera song) "Lift Me Up" is a song by American singer-songwriter Christina Aguilera, taken from her sixth studio album "Bionic" (2010). The song was written and produced by Linda Perry, who also provided all the song's instrumentation. Perry and Aguilera previously collaborated on Aguilera's records "Stripped" (2002) and "Back to Basics" (2006), and on her compilation "" (2008), and the singer enlisted Perry again to work on "Bionic" as the main producer. However, Perry only wrote and produced "Lift Me Up". Described as an empowering piano ballad, "Lift Me Up" talks about being thankful to someone
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6, 2010. Lift Me Up (Christina Aguilera song) "Lift Me Up" is a song by American singer-songwriter Christina Aguilera, taken from her sixth studio album "Bionic" (2010). The song was written and produced by Linda Perry, who also provided all the song's instrumentation. Perry and Aguilera previously collaborated on Aguilera's records "Stripped" (2002) and "Back to Basics" (2006), and on her compilation "" (2008), and the singer enlisted Perry again to work on "Bionic" as the main producer. However, Perry only wrote and produced "Lift Me Up". Described as an empowering piano ballad, "Lift Me Up" talks about being thankful
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'Of course not.'" Kesha said of the song on Twitter: "My new song with Macklemore reminds me of being 16 chasing wild dreams not knowing those moments would be so precious." Caitlin Kelley of "Billboard" deemed "Good Old Days" a "mellow yet catchy pop song". Mark Braboy of "Vibe" praised Macklemore for showcasing "his best, introspectively rapping", and Kesha providing "some soul-stirring vocals to make the song hit home". Madeline Roth of MTV News wrote that "the nostalgic track is a stripped-back affair". Alex Ungerman‍ of "Entertainment Tonight" felt Kesha's voice "soars over a piano ballad that is somehow both
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word 'bout what you did with her would get back to me"). Swift wrote the song when she was sixteen years old. She wrote the song because "something really, really dramatic and crazy" was happening to her, and she needed "to address it in the form of music". According to the "Country Weekly" magazine, she was inspired to write it after she discovered that her boyfriend at the time had cheated on her. The first line that came to her was the title, and she wrote the chorus in five minutes. Swift has also said that many of the lyrics
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No. 15 album of 2015 on the strength of key tracks including "Carry Me Home". NPR likened the song to Dean's previous work with John Paul White of The Civil Wars, calling it "a dark, expansive piece of rootsy pop, and Dean and Bradley are more subtle players" than White and Joy Williams. iTunes placed "Carry Me Home" on its list of the 25 best singer-songwriter tracks of 2015. Carry Me Home (Sweeplings song) "Carry Me Home" is a 2015 song by American pop–folk duo the Sweeplings. The song premiered on NPR in July 2015, and was released as part
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Rebel Song', as she explains in her live album "How About I Be Me (And You Be You)?". Many years before U2 wrote a song about the Bloody Sunday massacre it was John Lennon who wrote, recorded and performed a song called 'Sunday Bloody Sunday' (included, along with another song about Ireland, 'The Luck Of The Irish', in the album 'Some Time In New York City', 1972). Lennon had Irish roots, as did his songwriting partner Paul McCartney, who also wrote a song about British imperialism in Ireland ('Give Ireland Back to the Irish'). Irish rebel music In Ireland, a
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Pepper and his wife lived in a cottage at Denham, Buckinghamshire, next to the producer Michael Barry, as was revealed in November 1956 when Pepper was an early subject of the BBC television programme "This Is Your Life". Pepper's notable songs include "Hear My Song, Violetta", adapted from a German tango called "Hoer mein Lied, Violetta" (Rudi Lukesch/Othmar Klose); the English lyrics for "I Lost My Heart in Heidelberg" (1935), and the words and music for "Goodnight, God Bless". Another song Pepper wrote is "Carry Me Back to Green Pastures", recorded by Red Allen. Pepper died on 26 June 1970,
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a negative review, wrote that the "power-chorded "Bar-ba-Sol," ... is the only place Cook flexes any muscle" "Newsday" magazine's Glenn Gamboa wrote that "He stretches boundaries creatively with the metallic, grinding "Bar-Ba-Sol" - part Pearl Jam fist-pumper, part Alice in Chains slither." Come Back to Me (David Cook song) "Come Back to Me" is the second official single released from "American Idol" season 7 winner David Cook's major label debut studio album, "David Cook" (2008). It was released as a joint double-A single with "Bar-ba-sol". "Come Back to Me" was written by Espionage, the Norwegian songwriting and music production team
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Carry Me (song) "Carry Me" is a song by Norwegian DJ and music producer Kygo, featuring vocals from American singer Julia Michaels. It was released as sixth single from the album Cloud Nine. It was released via digital download on August 12, 2016 by Sony and Ultra. The song was written by Kygo, Michaels and Justin Tranter and produced by Kygo. The song was performed in the 2016 Summer Olympics closing ceremony in the Maracanã Stadium on August 21, 2016. "Carry Me" was written Kygo, Julia Michaels and Justin Tranter and produced by Kygo. "Carry Me" features Julia Michaels' lead
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Marion Raven dated briefly while M2M were on tour with Hanson. According to Raven, once the tour ended he never contacted her, effectively ending the relationship. The song "Miss Popular" is about "that one popular girl in school who goes around bad-mouthing everyone" then eventually "it all comes back to her", while "Jennifer" is about wanting to dislike "the girl your boyfriend is constantly comparing you to" but not being able to as she is a nice person. Raven wrote the song "Leave Me Alone" about a guy who dumped her then wanted her back, and wrote the song "Sometimes"
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that we did on the new album that we sort of did twenty years late. An old friend our ours, Dan Hartman, wrote this song. I remember back in the day he came up to me and said 'You know, I have this great song I wrote for you guys. It's you, you know? – you have to sing this song.' And unfortunately we had just finished an album, we couldn't put it on the album so I said sorry Dan. About six months later I was watching MTV and there it was, and it was a hit for him,
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Shut Me Up (Old Dominion song) "Shut Me Up" is a song by American country music group Old Dominion. It was released in November 2014 as the first single from their self-titled EP. Band members Matthew Ramsey and Brad Tursi wrote the song with Andrew Dorff. Carrie Horton of "Taste of Country" reviewed the single favorably, writing that "The hard-rock vibe of ‘Shut Me Up’ instantly grabs listeners in the first heavy drum beats and guitar chords and is on full display during the electric guitar-heavy bridge. Fans won’t find twang here, but that sure doesn’t mean ‘Shut Me Up’
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an old fashioned love song / Comin' down in three part harmony / Just an old fashioned love song / One I'm sure they wrote for you and me". According to the Karen Carpenter biography "Little Girl Blue" by Randy L. Schmidt, Williams originally intended the song for The Carpenters, who were in the middle of a string of hits with their own brand of "old fashioned love songs," including two of Williams' own compositions, "We've Only Just Begun" and "Rainy Days and Mondays." Although this was the first song Williams had written specifically for the Carpenters, Richard Carpenter rejected
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days of captivity in Israel". He wrote that he "continued to protest by refusing to speak or walk, forcing my captors to carry me. Pain was used to force me to comply, and of course, when pain didn't work, they applied more pain, with the same result". In an interview he said that "I forced them to carry me everywhere. I wouldn't open my mouth for most of the time. They were very rough with me. They put my arm behind my back and twisted my joints. This was basically torture. I screamed, but I also told them that you
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"Sing for Me" as a personal anthem for Aguilera. Jon Caramanica of "The New York Times" wrote that "Sing for Me" was reminiscent of the "old Christina" and that her "voice veers volcanic." "Billboard" Andrew Hampp wrote that if "Army of Me" is "Lotus" answer to her 2003 song "Fighter" then "Sing for Me" has "aims of being" a new version of her 2002 song "Beautiful". He also noted that the song is a gift to "diehard" Aguilera fans. Jim Farber of the "New York Daily News" thought that the singer appeared to be snarling as she sings about "nothing
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of both big room and trap music as a free download with Mr.Black. KSHMR collaborated with Jake Reese to release "Carry Me Home" on 15 June 2018, a progressive house song originally premiered at his 2018 Ultra Music Festival performance. Commenting on the track's production, KSHMR stated, "Carry Me Home started with the drop melody. I was scared I wouldn’t find a vocal I loved just as much, but Jake Reese and [co-writer Joren van der Voort] blew me away with what they wrote." He released Greek-influenced single "Opa" with Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike on 22 July 2018, and
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successful, but sonically similar songs. He needed to go in a different direction or risk boring his fans, and he did. This beautiful ballad makes him all the more interesting." The music video was directed by Shane Drake and premiered in September 2014. Mean to Me (Brett Eldredge song) "Mean to Me" is a song recorded by American country music artist Brett Eldredge. It was released on July 14, 2014 as his fifth single and the fourth single from his debut studio album, "Bring You Back". He attributes his success to Courtney Erickson and Rachel Miller who co-wrote said song.
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an idea for a song!” Four hours later it was all finished, and the whole country was singing it soon afterwards. I got — not very much." The chorus lyric "Take me back to dear old Blighty/Put me on a train to London town" was included in "The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations". Recordings by Florrie Forde and Ella Retford are the most commonly heard versions, though Dorothy Ward first sang it. Jolly Old Fellows performed the song in 1930. British blues singer Kevin Coyne also released a version on his 1978 LP "Dynamite Daze". Noël Coward used the song for
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Carry Me Home (Sweeplings song) "Carry Me Home" is a 2015 song by American pop–folk duo the Sweeplings. The song premiered on NPR in July 2015, and was released as part of the album "Rise & Fall" in August. The song was later used as the backdrop for the official trailer for the final season of the Netflix series "Longmire". "Carry Me Home" was written by singer-songwriters Cami Bradley and Whitney Dean, known collectively as the Sweeplings. The song is about the loss of loved ones, "written from the perspective of the one leaving." Lyrics include "Lay down my bones
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much resistance to going back into writing and performing publicly again that I realised I wasn’t going to be able to break through it until I literally wrote a song about the resistance itself." She songs on the song, "It’s taken me a long time to feel better babe / I’ve only just begun to feel my heart again." Helen Brown, a writer for "The Daily Telegraph", suggested the line "You want me to let go/ You want me to lose control/ But I don’t want to lose control," was a response to "critics who find her too smooth and
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his 1931 stage production "Cavalcade", about British life in the first two decades of the twentieth century and in the 1944 film "This Happy Breed". It was also used in the Errol Flynn film "Let’s Make Up" in 1956. A recording of the song by Cicely Courtneidge from the 1962 film "The L-Shaped Room" was sampled at the beginning of the title track of the album "The Queen Is Dead" by The Smiths. The song was also used in the film Flyboys. Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty "Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty" is a music hall
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fad dances of the 1960s. The song is noted for the spoken recitation heard in the introduction which goes: "You broke my heart / 'Cause I couldn't dance / You didn't even want me around / And now I'm back / To let you know / I can really shake 'em down" The song is noted for its false ending at 2:26. Berry Gordy wrote "Do You Love Me" with the intention that The Temptations, who had no Top 40 hits to their name yet, would record it. However, when Gordy wanted to locate the group and record the song,
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as a "confident club-ready cut", writing "JoJo gets her swagger back on the Danja-produced "Sexy to Me". RyanSeacrest.com wrote that "this new club track will make you want to get up out of your seats and drop a few moves!" Sexy to Me "Sexy to Me" is a song recorded by American singer JoJo. It was written by JoJo, James Washington, Marcella Araica, Kenna and Nathaniel "Danja" Hills, who also produced the song. "Sexy to Me" was written by Marcella Araica, Nathaniel Hills, Joanna Levesque, James Washington and Kenna Zemedkun, with the production helmed by Danja. In an interview with
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chart to the number one spot. The song also extended the band's record for most number ones on the chart by a female-fronted band. The band performed the song on live television on Conan O'Brien's late night show "Conan". The song tells the story of a musician who sold her soul to the devil in exchange for success in music, harking back to the old legend of musicians going down to the crossroads in the Mississippi Delta to make deals with the devil for fame and fortune. Take Me Down (The Pretty Reckless song) "Take Me Down" is a single
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isn’t country. In fact, it’s one of the most fun, catchy and genuinely great country songs we’ve heard this summer." The song's music video was released in October 2014 and was directed by Marcel Chagnon. The song reached number 58 on the Country Airplay chart for the week ending January 17, 2015. Shut Me Up (Old Dominion song) "Shut Me Up" is a song by American country music group Old Dominion. It was released in November 2014 as the first single from their self-titled EP. Band members Matthew Ramsey and Brad Tursi wrote the song with Andrew Dorff. Carrie Horton
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me the song the way I was thinking when I wrote it was like, "What if this nightmare just happened that I decided to do this album and everything just started coming back on me?" Matthew came back, Stan’s little brother, and he came back to kill me. Just all this shit just started happening. So, it was kinda like "Bad Guy" to me is more like, technically to me, is more like an intro to the album, like, okay, this is what’s about to happen. Here it is. And then picking up from the "Criminal" skit where "The Marshall
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Got Your Back "Got Your Back" is a song by American hip hop recording artist T.I., released on June 1, 2010, as the lead single (third overall) from his seventh studio album "No Mercy" (2010). The song features American R&B singer-songwriter Keri Hilson. T.I. wrote the song with Young Jedi, alongside the track's producer DJ Toomp. "Got Your Back" was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on December 15, 2010. In an interview with Jamie Foxx, when asked about the song, T.I. said, "[It's] basically just me showing my appreciation to all the ladies who got
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a joke. In the original 1980 video Phil Rudd played drums, while the 1986 video showed Simon Wright, who replaced Rudd in 1983. Rudd returned to AC/DC in 1994. Jesse Fink's book "Bon: The Last Highway" contains claims from two former girlfriends of Bon Scott, Silver Smith and "Holly X" (a pseudonym) that Scott wrote parts of the song before his death on 19 February 1980. You Shook Me All Night Long "You Shook Me All Night Long" is a song by Australian hard rock band AC/DC, from the album "Back in Black". The song also reappeared on their later
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into Tony! Toni! Toné!, who got them into the ASCAP Music Awards. There, Color Me Badd approached producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis and started singing for them. The producers advised that, being a multicultural group, they write a half-English, half-Spanish song. They wrote "I Adore Mi Amor" back in Oklahoma City with their producer and friend Hamza Lee. Giant Records executive Cassandra Mills heard a tape of the band singing the song, and they signed with Giant on August 11, 1990. After signing the group, Mills asked producer Dr. Freeze for a song for Color Me Badd to record
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on a cot. He tells a nurse that the only thing that will cure his homesickness is hearing from his "old home town". The chorus is as follows: The sheet music can be found at Pritzker Military Museum & Library. The song was performed by Billy Jones for Edison Blue Amberol and by Will R. Anderson for Columbia. Bring Me a Letter from My Old Home Town Bring Me a Letter from My Old Home Town is a World War I era ballad song released in 1918. A.G. Delamater wrote the lyrics. Will R. Anderson composed the music. The song
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Sounds Like Life to Me "Sounds Like Life to Me" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Darryl Worley. It was released in January 2009 as the second single from his album "Sounds Like Life". The song made its chart debut in early 2009, becoming Worley's first Top 40 country hit since "I Just Came Back from a War" in late 2006-early 2007. It was written by Worley, Wynn Varble and Phil O'Donnell. Worley co-wrote "Sounds Like Life to Me" with Wynn Varble (who has also written several of Worley's other singles) and Phil O'Donnell.In the
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couldn't really get why he wasn't, you know, why he was with me and why he wasn't with her and it was just a whole moment. And you know, cut to three years later, I break up with him and I had to remember who I was. You know, so it's all like different perspectives and it's all learning in progress for me." Nick Levine from BBC Music wrote that " the bouncy Back to Love, seems to want to rewrite Coldplay's Viva la Vida. The music video for the song and premiered on 21 October 2011 on her YouTube
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song for Andriano's wife, he wrote it as " a simple "I miss you" song, with a hint of, "I know I'm gone a lot, but please don't leave me." [It] sounds a little like well-worn territory for some, I suppose. But I've never felt like this in my life, and I'm 34 years old and have been married for 9 years". He wrote it to express his relief that he found someone who can help him through his "real-life problems", and that he married her as soon as he could. Dan wrote this song to talk about his desire
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on the song. The song received generally positive reviews from music critics. About.com writer Bill Lamb rated "Come Back to Me" three and a half stars out of five; he praised its pop sound and Hudgens' "engaging personality", but criticized it for having a manufactured sound from the "Disney pop factory". Moreover, Lamb wrote: "'Come Back to Me' is unlikely to linger too long in your memory, but it also fails to generate any annoying after taste. Program it into your listening when you need a contemporary, breezy, light pop confection... Sure, you are being manipulated by the corporate music
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again, where she begins to perform her rap while sitting on a couch behind Tweet's photo shoot or reprising her role as the DJ. The video then cuts back to Tweet posing for more camera shots while lip-syncing to the song. Credits adapted from the liner notes of "It's Me Again". Turn da Lights Off "Turn da Lights Off" is a song by American singer Tweet from her second studio album, "It's Me Again" (2005). It features guest vocals from American rapper Missy Elliott, who co-wrote and co-produced the song with Kwamé. The song was released on October 5, 2004,
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album "Killing the Blues" was recorded on weekends in Vancouver during breaks in filming "The Chris Isaak Show" in 2004. The album is a mix of new and old material, dating as far back as 1977 (the title song). After Shawn Colvin recorded "Killing the Blues" in 1994 she wrote, "Larry Campbell from New York told me in 1981 while we were in a band together that I should learn this song by his friend, Roly Salley. Just when you think there's no new way to say anything, you hear a song like this and think, that's as good as
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bridge and raced to safety. He persevered, and became the first ever to reach the Pole solo. Describing his 57-day push, he wrote, "What drove me to continue then was the thought of countless people who had helped and supported me, and the knowledge that I could never face them if I gave up." In this trip he cooperated with the Canadian Air Force and received his supplies from its helicopters. After the trip he questioned such extensive support and decided to carry supplies on his own back. In August 1970, Uemura climbed Denali (then known as Mt McKinley) solo,
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show of the 2011 leg and it was a duet with Kylie Minogue at Brixton Academy in London, 4 November 2011. Also they sang together Kylie Minogue' song "Confide in Me". 17 November 2010 at Union Chapel in London, United Kingdom Adam Anderson was absent due to he has thrown his back out after trying to carry an old piano. It was the first Hurts' acoustic concert. That day Tali Lennox was on scene, she sat on the chair and plucked rose petals.<br> 15 January 2011 at The Shibuya DUO Music Exchange in Tokyo, Japan Adam Anderson was absent due
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string sound fueled by punk rock energy, it has influenced acts like Mumford & Sons and contributed to a revival of banjo-picking string bands playing Americana music — leading to variations on it. The group released their sixth studio album, "Volunteer", through Columbia Nashville on April 20, 2018 — coinciding with their 20th anniversary as a group. They released "50 Years of Blonde on Blonde" on April 28, 2017 (their first album on Columbia Nashville). Previous studio albums were "O.C.M.S." (2004), "Big Iron World" (2006), "Tennessee Pusher" (2008), "Carry Me Back" (2012), and "Remedy" (2014). Their song "Wagon Wheel", written
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Greg May, Jeff Cassin, and Henry Chang, The Uncommons occupies the space of the former Village Chess Shop. Funded in part by a successful Kickstarter campaign, The Uncommons is Manhattan's only board game cafe as of 2015 and has been featured on television shows, including NickMom's, "Take Me to Your Mother". In an interview of Laura Marling, John Seabrook, for "The New Yorker", wrote, "...the Uncommons is the kind of laid-back, N.Y.U.-student-heavy place where you’d expect to hear a song by the twenty-five-year-old British singer-songwriter, a folkie who, with her new album, "Short Movie", has turned her hand to rock.
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to "Cry Me a River"; she denied the rumors, explaining, "You know, it's funny. I read that I wrote this song and I wrote these lyrics and that's not my style. I would never do that." Annet Artani, who co-wrote Spears' 2003 song "Everytime", stated that the song was written as a response to "Cry Me a River". When asked during an interview with Diane Sawyer on "PrimeTime" in 2003, if "Everytime" was about Timberlake, Spears responded, "I'll let the song speak for itself." "Cry Me a River" is an R&B song with an instrumentation that features clavinet, guitars, beatboxing,
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Give Me Back My Hometown "Give Me Back My Hometown" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music singer Eric Church. It was released in January 2014 as the second single from his 2014 album "The Outsiders". The song reached number one on the US "Billboard" Country Airplay chart in May 2014. It also peaked at number 4 on Hot Country Songs. Church wrote this song with Luke Laird. Matt Bjorke of "Roughstock" gave the single 4 out of 5 stars, saying that "Jay Joyce’s production once again finds musically interesting things to do while Church earnestly sings
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Bring Me a Letter from My Old Home Town Bring Me a Letter from My Old Home Town is a World War I era ballad song released in 1918. A.G. Delamater wrote the lyrics. Will R. Anderson composed the music. The song was published by M. Witmark & Sons in New York, New York. On the cover is a group of "greater Vitagraph players" sitting around a table, writing letters. Behind them is a service flag with a red border and one blue star. It was written for both voice and piano. The song opens with a wounded soldier laying
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Hush", Rice starred in a more prestigious production, a three-act play at the Adelphi Theatre in London. Moreover, Rice wrote and starred in "Otello" (1844); he also played the title character in "Uncle Tom's Cabin". Starting in 1854 he played in one of the more prominent (and one of the least abolitionist) "Tom shows", loosely based on Harriet Beecher Stowe's book. (Lott, 1993, 211). "The Virginny Cupids" was an operatic olio and the most popular of the time. It is centered on a song "Coal Black Rose", which predated the playlet. Rice played Cuff, boss of the bootblacks, and he
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on February 16, 1942. The construction of Watauga Dam and its reservoir required the purchase of of land, Watauga Dam was completed and its gates opened December 1, 1948. The dam's first generator went online August 30, 1949, and the second went online September 29, 1949. The total cost of the Watauga project was just over $32 million. The Old Crow Medicine Show song "Half Mile Down", on the 2012 album "Carry Me Back", is about the flooding of the narrator's home town (Butler, Tennessee) due to the construction of the dam. Watauga Dam Watauga Dam is a hydroelectric and
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Carry Me in Your Dreams "Carry Me in Your Dreams" was the Albanian entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 2009, held in Moscow, Russia. The song was composed by Edmond Zhulali and Agim Doçi, composers of Albania's first entry to Eurovision, "The Image of You" by Anjeza Shahini, and is performed by Albanian singer Kejsi Tola in English. It finished 17th with 48 points. The song was the winner of Festivali I Këngës 47, the festival used to select Albania's Eurovision entry. Albania was the first country to select and publicly present its song. The song was chosen as the
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Gordy, who was looking to sign acts into his fledgling company. Originally the label was to be called Tammy Records, which he named after the Debbie Reynolds hit, "Tammy", that is until a record label of the same name took notice, forcing Gordy to alter the name to Tamla Records. After discovering Johnson, he convinced him to sign with Tamla and in February 1959, the 20-year-old Johnson co-wrote and recorded the song, "Come to Me". Gordy assembled several musicians, including bassist James Jamerson and drummer Benny Benjamin, and background vocalists the Rayber Voices, to contribute to the song with Johnson.
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track in then out again, and took the reverb back off when reintroducing the song: "A bit like opening a door, closing it, then opening it again and walking in". The lyric paraphrases Johnny Tillotson's 1962 single "Send Me the Pillow That You Dream On", and broadly references the 1964 comedy "Carry On Cleo" ("Oooh, I say"). In the mainstream British music press, "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others" was mentioned in the context of "The Queen Is Dead". In the "NME", Adrian Thrills wrote, "As an album with humour never far from its surface, it is fitting that "The
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Song Contest …Ivana Radovniković – Dora 2007, songs "Samo probaj" (Dare to love me), which is loved by teenagers, and "Cafe". …Claudia Beni – he discovered her talent as she was 14 years old on her live-performance with group "Teens"; Marko wrote her first songs and with song "Tako hrabar da me ostaviš" (So brave so you can leave me) she won Debut Award in 2001. Two years after she wins Dora with song "Više nisam tvoja" by Andrej Babić …Vanda Winter – they met in 1998 in Rock Academia, while Vanda was only 14 years old; Marko connected her
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Hodges wrote the song while staying in a rented house at Lake Hamilton, Arkansas, for three days in 1973 in order to come up with new material. According to Mitchell, Green wrote the words and Green and Hodges wrote the tune together. Green dedicated his performance on the record to "...Little Junior Parker, a cousin of mine, he's gone on but we'd like to kinda carry on in his name.." According to one writer, "Green's song squares the singer's early religious convictions with more earthly interests", but when the singer became a pastor of the Full Gospel Tabernacle Church in
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presence succeeds in binding the album together". In fact, literally the song is similar to the concept of the whole album, with Bowie reflecting on the past of his career and looking at his old age and his imminent death. As James E. Perone wrote, "The vague references suggest a look back at a lifetime of wasted moments. [...] The somewhat tired-sounding approach Bowie takes on the song works perfectly within the context of the album's focus on aging." The song was remixed by ex-Nine Inch Nails bass player/keyboardist Danny Lohner for the soundtrack to the 2003 film "Underworld". Maynard
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opening in each of the first four bars to just four eighth notes opening the fifth, then back to two eighth notes and an eighth-note triplet opening the sixth bar, which then has a more offset longer note than any of the previous bars, was one cause of Bornstein's concern. Notable recordings continued into the 1950s, starting with Stan Kenton's version with June Christy. Willow Weep for Me "Willow Weep for Me" is a popular song composed in 1932 by Ann Ronell, who also wrote the lyrics. The song form is AABA and it is written in 4/4 time, although
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to the battle song "John Brown's Body". These were published in the "Chicago Tribune" on December 16, 1861. Even more than the previous words the new words glorify the violent anti-slavery acts of the abolitionist John Brown and his followers. The third verse directly refers to the attack on the armory in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. Verse four compares John Brown to John the Baptist.He captured Harper’s Ferry, with his nineteen men so few, And frightened "Old Virginny" till she trembled thru and thru; They hung him for a traitor, themselves the traitor crew, But his soul is marching on.
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It Over", he co-wrote and co-produced the track "No Clouds", and co-wrote the track "Saturday". He co-wrote and produced several tracks on Raghav's 2004 album "Storyteller" and 2012 album "The Phoenix". He produced several tracks from Tyler James' 2005 album "The Unlikely Lad", including the single "Foolish", and the track "Best for Me" (featuring Amy Winehouse). He co-wrote and produced the song "Take Your Time" from Simon Webbe's 2006 album "Grace". He co-wrote and produced Amy Winehouse's 2003 album "Frank" and 2006 album "Back to Black", including a remix of the song "Back to Black". He produced Skepta's 2012 song
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vacation, and it contains scenes on a yacht, on a footage from a festival and poolside shenanigans. Recording and management Personnel Credits adapted from "Cloud Nine" liner notes. Carry Me (song) "Carry Me" is a song by Norwegian DJ and music producer Kygo, featuring vocals from American singer Julia Michaels. It was released as sixth single from the album Cloud Nine. It was released via digital download on August 12, 2016 by Sony and Ultra. The song was written by Kygo, Michaels and Justin Tranter and produced by Kygo. The song was performed in the 2016 Summer Olympics closing ceremony
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who felt isolated at Harvard, wrote the song after "becoming frustrated with that hermit's life I was leading, the ascetic life. And I think I was starting to become frustrated with my whole dream about purifying myself and trying to live like a monk or an intellectual and going to school and holding out for this perfect, ideal woman. And so I wrote the song. And I started to turn around and come back the other way." "El Scorcho" addresses Cuomo's shyness and inability to approach a girl while at Harvard; he explained that the song "is more about me,
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an acoustic-like track that repeats the chorus of its original song. Reviews among music critics were generally mixed. Said William Ruhlmann of Allmusic, "fifteen-year-old Mandy Moore's debut album sounded like it was inspired almost entirely by listening to recent hit albums by 'N Sync, the Backstreet Boys, and Britney Spears," citing stylistic similarities between album tracks "So Real" and "Let Me Be the One" to the Backstreet Boys' "Backstreet's Back", and saying that Moore's "occasional growls" were similar to Spears' "...Baby One More Time". Ruhlmann stated that Moore could "carry a tune", but "with no particular distinction", saying that aside
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The song features American R&B singer-songwriter Keri Hilson who he wrote the DJ Toomp-produced track with. "Ya Hear Me" was the fourth official single from the album. It was produced by ATL producer Keith Mack, who has previously produced tracks such as "Live in the Sky", "Ride wit Me" and "My Type", for T.I.. It was sent to the iTunes Store on July 28, 2010. The song, "Get Back Up" featuring American pop and R&B singer Chris Brown, was the fifth official single to be released from "No Mercy". It was released on October 29, 2010 to the iTunes Store.
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11 on Billboard's Top Rock Tracks chart. When Jim Vallance was asked about the track, he recalled that they wrote the song during January 1984 and that: "Adams and I originally wrote "Let Me Down Easy" for Stevie Nicks, but I don't know if she ever heard the song. Regardless, I thought Roger did a superb job." Let Me Down Easy (Roger Daltrey song) "'Let Me Down Easy'" is a song by Roger Daltrey, who at the time was the former lead singer of The Who. The song was written by Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance and included on Daltrey's
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lower register, all against the backdrop of a dark and moody production. It's what we have come to expect from her but with a modern twist that perfectly mixes Celine's classic sound with today's sound – I love it. Welcome back Celine!." KEZK-FM wrote that "On her new song "Loved Me Back to Life," Dion seems to be channeling Rihanna, Miley and Katy with a heavily produced pop song written by Sia (...) that has her stuttering "back to life" over a bevy of synths. (...) Say goodbye to the "My Heart Will Go On" Celine Dion you used to
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