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2. The Star-Spangled Banner - Wikipedia

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   "The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States. The lyrics come from the "Defence of Fort M'Henry", [2] a poem written by American lawyer Francis Scott Key on September 14, 1814, after he witnessed the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy during the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812.

3. Simple Gifts - Wikipedia

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   See media help. "Simple Gifts" is a Shaker song written and composed in 1848, generally attributed to Elder Joseph Brackett from Alfred Shaker Village. It became widely known when Aaron Copland used its melody for the score of Martha Graham 's ballet, Appalachian Spring, premiered in 1944. [1]

4. Battle Hymn of the Republic - Wikipedia

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   The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square and West Point Band performing "Battle Hymn of the Republic".. The "Battle Hymn of the Republic", also known as the "Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory" or the "Glory, Glory Hallelujah" outside of the United States, is an American patriotic song that was written by the abolitionist writer Julia Ward Howe during the American Civil War.

5. New Orleans (Hoagy Carmichael song) - Wikipedia

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   The song was recorded by Bennie Moten 's Kansas City Orchestra and the Casa Loma Orchestra as an up-tempo number, but failed to achieve success until Carmichael released a slower version of the song with Scottish vocalist Ella Logan. [2] It was based on the chord progression from the bridge of two earlier standards: "You Took Advantage of Me ...

6. The Holy City (song) - Wikipedia

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   The Holy City (song) The Holy City is a religious Victorian ballad dating from 1892, with music by Michael Maybrick writing under the alias Stephen Adams, with lyrics by Frederic Weatherly. Its sheet music sales made it one of the most commercially successful songs in the UK and United States around the beginning of the 20th century, and also ...

7. Let Me Call You Sweetheart - Wikipedia

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   See media help. "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" is a popular song, with music by Leo Friedman and lyrics by Beth Slater Whitson. The song was published in 1910 and was a huge hit for the Peerless Quartet in 1911. A recording by Arthur Clough was very popular the same year too. [1] A 1924 recording identifies a Spanish title, "Déjame llamarte mía".

8. Money for Nothing (song) - Wikipedia

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   Audio. "Money for Nothing" on YouTube. " Money for Nothing " is a song by British rock band Dire Straits, the second track on their fifth studio album Brothers in Arms (1985). It was released as the album's second single on 28 June 1985 through Vertigo Records. The song's lyrics are written from the point of view of two working-class men ...

9. Red Wing (song) - Wikipedia

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   Lyricist (s) Thurland Chattaway. "Red Wing" is a popular song written in 1907 with music by F.A Mills and lyrics by Thurland Chattaway. Mills adapted the music of the verse from Robert Schumann 's piano composition "The Happy Farmer, Returning From Work" from his 1848 Album for the Young, Opus 68. The song tells of a young Indian girl's loss of ...