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Producer (s) Bob Johnston. " Famous Blue Raincoat " is a song by Leonard Cohen. It is the sixth track on his third album, Songs of Love and Hate, released in 1971. The song is written in the form of a letter (many of the lines are written in amphibrachs ). The lyric tells the story of a love triangle among the speaker, a woman named Jane, and ...
1854. Genre. Parlor song. Songwriter (s) Stephen Foster. " Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair " is a parlor song by Stephen Foster (1826–1864), published by Firth, Pond & Co. of New York in 1854. Foster wrote the song with his estranged wife Jane McDowell in mind. The lyrics allude to a permanent separation.
The song begins with Boni saying "I'm looking for a man in finance, with a trust fund, 6' 5", blue eyes." [14] It continues to repeat the lyrics. [14] She delivers the lyrics in a rhythmic manner [15] and incorporates vocal fry. [5] For a version of the song made for Loud Luxury, lyrics were added "Guys, I'm still fucking looking for my man.
Richard Rodgers. Lyricist (s) Lorenz Hart. " Blue Moon " is a popular song written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart in 1934 that has become a standard ballad. Early recordings included those by Connee Boswell and by Al Bowlly in 1935. The song was a hit twice in 1949, with successful recordings in the U.S. by Billy Eckstine and Mel Tormé .
Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado and music by Galt MacDermot. The work reflects the creators' observations of the hippie counterculture and sexual revolution of the late 1960s, and several of its songs became anthems of the anti-Vietnam War peace movement .
Jimmy Crack Corn. " Jimmy Crack Corn " or " Blue-Tail Fly " is an American song, a mock-elegy or pseudo-lament, which first became popular during the rise of blackface minstrelsy in the 1840s through performances by the Virginia Minstrels. It regained currency as a folk song in the 1940s at the beginning of the American folk music revival and ...
Verses from Sir Walter Scott's 1810 narrative poem The Lady of the Lake, including "The Boat Song" ("Hail to the Chief") with which the clan welcomes the arrival by boat of their chieftain Roderick Dhu, were set to music around 1812 by the songwriter James Sanderson (c. 1769 – c. 1841); a self-taught English violinist and the conductor of the Surrey Theatre, London, who wrote many songs for ...
Tangled Up in Blue. " Tangled Up in Blue " is a song by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, which was released as the opening track of his 15th studio album Blood on the Tracks (1975). The song was written by Dylan and produced by David Zimmerman, Dylan's brother. Released as a single, it reached No. 31 on the Billboard Hot 100.