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In the UK, the full five-minute version was released as a single on black and silver vinyl, and gave him his chart debut at No. 42. A live version from the in-concert album Nine Tonight in 1981 was issued in the UK as a single and charted at No. 49, while a reissue of the original version in 1995 charted at No. 52. [12]
The song is told from the point of view of a soldier, who is feeling lonely. What helps him pull through is envisioning his mother waiting for him and a light burning in their house's window. This image adds to the song's hopeful tone. The chorus is as follows: [2] There's a light that's burning in the window Of a little house upon the hill
"Every Light in the House" is a song written by Kent Robbins and recorded by American country music artist Trace Adkins. It was released in August 1996 as the second single from his debut album Dreamin' Out Loud. It was his first Top 5 single on the Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) chart, where it peaked at #3.
Below, TIME rounded up the most surprising back stories behind the most famous Christmas carols. "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" In 1939, Chicago copywriter Robert L. May created the character of ...
This version includes the lyrics "bells will be ringing the sad, sad news" (that is, a Christmas alone) as opposed to Brown's original version which references the "glad, glad news" (that is, Christmas in general). A live version of the song was included on the compilation 4-CD box set called Selected Works: 1972–1999 released in 2000.
Like many folk songs, "The House of the Rising Sun" is of uncertain authorship. Musicologists say that it is based on the tradition of broadside ballads, and thematically it has some resemblance to the 16th-century ballad "The Unfortunate Rake" (also cited as source material for "St. James Infirmary Blues"), yet there is no evidence suggesting that there is any direct relation. [4]
Light Me Up is the debut studio album by American rock band The Pretty Reckless. It was released on August 27, 2010, by Interscope Records . The album received commercial success with the singles " Make Me Wanna Die ", " Miss Nothing ", and " Just Tonight ".
The song is sung by Joan Fontaine and a group of British soldiers in the 1942 film This Above All. The song was included in the 1969 musical Oh! What a Lovely War and in the 1970 musical film Darling Lili. The song is heard playing in the background of the train station scene in Episode 4 of the fourth season of the British drama Upstairs ...