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Humorous songs, or those containing humorous elements, are not necessarily novelty songs. Novelty songs are often a parody or humor song, and may apply to a current event such as a holiday or a fad such as a dance or TV program. Many use unusual lyrics, subjects, sounds, or instrumentation, and may not even be musical.
Eduard Artemyev has made space-themed music, for example for the space film Solaris (1972), although his best known and successfully covered space-themed sounding piece might be the theme song for non-space film Siberiade (1979). In 1973, Montrose released "Space Station #5" as a single from their self-titled debut album.
The song's driving rhythm, basically the first bar of a 3 2 clave, came to have widespread use in jazz comping and musicians still reference it by name. [4] Harmonically, the song features a five-chord ragtime progression (I-III7-VI7-II7-V7-I). [5] Recordings of The Charleston from 1923 entered the public domain in the United States in 2024. [6]
"Ballin' the Jack" (or sometimes "Balling the Jack") is a popular song from 1913 written by Jim Burris with music by Chris Smith. It introduced a popular dance of the same name with "Folks in Georgia's 'bout to go insane." It became a ragtime, pop, and traditional jazz standard, and has been recorded hundreds of times. [1]
NASA astronaut Catherine Coleman plays a flute aboard the International Space Station in 2011.. Music in space is music played in or broadcast from a spacecraft in outer space. [1] [failed verification] The first ever song that was performed in space was a Ukrainian song “Watching the sky...” [2] (“Дивлюсь я на небо”) sung on 12 August 1962 by Pavlo Popovych, cosmonaut ...
After 21 Emmys, 51 pros, 394 Stars, 32 winners and thousands of iconic performances, Dancing with the Stars celebrates its milestone 500th episode on Tuesday with a night full of star-studded ...
January 19 – The Salzburg Festival is revived. [1]September 4 – City of Birmingham Orchestra (England) first rehearses (in a city police bandroom). Later this month, its first concert, conducted by Appleby Matthews, opens with Granville Bantock's overture Saul; in November it gives its "First Symphony Concert" when Edward Elgar conducts a programme of his own music in Birmingham Town Hall.
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