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"The Wanderer" is a song written by Ernie Maresca and originally recorded by Dion, released on his 1961 album, Runaround Sue. The song, with a 12-bar blues-base verse and an eight-bar bridge, tells the story of a travelling man and his many loves. The song is ranked number 243 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of ...
"The Wanderer" is a song by Irish rock band U2, and the tenth and final track from their 1993 studio album, Zooropa. It is one of the few U2 songs without Bono on lead vocals, instead featuring country singer Johnny Cash .
The song also became the unofficial anthem of Major League Baseball's Montreal Expos (since relocated to become the Washington Nationals). [15] [16] "The Happy Wanderer" was selected as the winner of Trinidad's 1955 Road March title, awarded to the song which was most played by steelbands during that year's Trinidad and Tobago Carnival season. [17]
"The Wanderer" incorporates heavy new wave styled synth riffs and a shuffling beat. Vocally, it was a return to her understated 1975 debut sound - soft, whispery phrases were the norm in this song, taking on an almost Elvis Presley effect, instead of the power belt she had used often since her 1977 album Once Upon a Time and 1978 hit single "Last Dance".
"Runaround Sue" was covered by then 15-year-old Leif Garrett in 1977. The song was the second of four releases from his debut album, all of which became U.S. chart hits.All four songs were covers of major hits from 1959 to 1963, including Dion's two biggest hits.
"Vandraren" (The Wanderer) is a song with music composed by Mats Wester and lyrics written by Py Bäckman. [1] The song was recorded by Nordman as the opening track of their self-titled debut studio album Nordman. [1] Becoming a major hit in Sweden, it was given the Rockbjörnen award in the "Swedish song of the year 1994" category. [2]
"Der Wanderer" (D 489) [formerly D 493] is a lied composed by Franz Schubert in October 1816 for voice and piano. A revised version was published near the end of May 1821 as opus 4, number 1. The words are taken from a German poem by Georg Philipp Schmidt (von Lübeck) . [ 1 ]
Antonia Florence Ridge (7 October 1895 – 18 June 1981) [1] was a Dutch-born writer and broadcaster, who wrote the English lyrics for Friedrich-Wilhelm Möller's popular song, "The Happy Wanderer" [2] (originally "Der fröhliche Wanderer" or "Mein Vater war ein Wandersmann "), and others of his works.