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Nothing from Nothing. " Nothing from Nothing " is a song written by Billy Preston and Bruce Fisher and recorded by Billy Preston for his 1974 album The Kids & Me. The song reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for one week in October 1974, becoming Preston's second solo chart-topper in the United States (following his 1973 hit "Will It Go ...
Supper's Ready. " Supper's Ready " is a song by English progressive rock band Genesis, recorded for their 1972 studio album Foxtrot. At 23 minutes in length, it is the band's longest recorded song. [a] Frontman Peter Gabriel wrote the lyrics, which mainly describe a personal journey of scenes from the Book of Revelation and good versus evil ...
Columbia, CBS, ARC. Songwriter (s) Joe Zawinul. "Birdland" is a jazz/pop song written by Joe Zawinul of the band Weather Report as a tribute to the Birdland nightclub in New York City, which appeared on the band's 1977 album Heavy Weather. The Manhattan Transfer won a Grammy Award with their 1979 version of the song, which had lyrics by Jon ...
See media help. " Kagome Kagome " (かごめかごめ, or 籠目籠目) is a Japanese children's game and the song (Warabe uta) associated with it. One player is chosen as the Oni (literally demon or ogre, but similar to the concept of "it" in tag) and sits blindfolded (or with their eyes covered). The other children join hands and walk in ...
The song's composer Dave Loggins had recorded "Pieces of April" for his 1972 debut album Personal Belongings from which it was single-released in January 1973. That was the same month the Three Dog Night version reached the Top 20, with Loggins' single release evidently being an attempt to generate a C&W hit.
The Entertainer (rag) " The Entertainer " is a 1902 classic piano rag written by Scott Joplin. [1] It was sold first as sheet music by John Stark & Son of St. Louis, Missouri, [2] and in the 1910s as piano rolls that would play on player pianos. [1] The first recording was by blues and ragtime musicians the Blue Boys in 1928, played on mandolin ...
The original lyrics [8] were composed on February 23, 1940, in Guthrie's room at the Hanover House hotel at 43rd St. and 6th Ave. (101 West 43rd St.) in New York. The line "This land was made for you and me" does not appear in the original manuscript at the end of each verse, but is implied by Guthrie's writing of those words at the top of the page and by his subsequent singing of the line ...
The 1948 film The Babe Ruth Story, a biopic of the baseball player of the same name, has this song play over the opening credits. The 1948 Fleischer Brothers cartoon, Base Brawl, features a sing-along version of the complete song. A 1954 version by Stuart McKay [18] shifted the lyrics two syllables forward to make the song end surprisingly early.