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The song is the first collaboration in songwriting by Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich and Phil Spector. The song was composed over two days in Spector's office in New York. The title "Da Doo Ron Ron" was initially just nonsense syllables used as dummy line to separate each stanza and chorus until proper lyrics could be written, but Spector liked it ...
The song's playful lyrics include onomatopoeia, with the "motorboat" sound [5] (an extended raspberry) imitating a car's engine. [6] Possibly the best known of Guthrie's many children's songs, [7] it remains a family and sing-along standard into the 21st century. [6] [7] "Riding in My Car" is included in the popular sing-along songbook Rise Up ...
Even an eclectic car song list would feel incomplete without a prominent entry from the Beach Boys. American car culture isn’t defined by just one musical ambassador, but the Beach Boys ...
Bumper cars or dodgems are the generic names for a type of flat amusement ride consisting of multiple small electrically powered cars which draw power from the floor or ceiling, and which are turned on and off remotely by an operator. They are also known as bumping cars, dodging cars and dashing cars. The first patent for them was filed in 1921.
"Run" is a Britpop power ballad [2] composed using common time in the key of C major, with a tempo of 72 beats per minute. [7] It is written in the common verse–chorus form, and its chord progression goes Am–Fmaj7/A–G sus4, it repeats once, and later it changes to Am–F6/C–Gsus4, which also repeats one time, and then the sequence restarts. [7]
The terms "nursery rhyme" and "children's song" emerged in the 1820s, although this type of children's literature previously existed with different names such as Tommy Thumb Songs and Mother Goose Songs. [1] The first known book containing a collection of these texts was Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, which was published by Mary Cooper in 1744 ...
At the 49th Grammy Awards, the song won the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media. The same night, Newman's work for Cars won for Music in an Animated Feature Production at the 34th Annie Awards. [1] The song was also nominated for Academy Award for Best Original Song.
L.A. Run is a song written and composed by Alan Carvell and Brian O Shea, and recorded by the Carvells in 1977 which reached number 31 in the UK charts in November of the same year. The song is about the then-new craze of Skateboarding which had crossed-over from the US to the UK that same year.