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A 1939 recording of the song by the Glenn Miller Orchestra, with vocals by Tex Beneke, became an 11-week hit on Your Hit Parade and reached #7. [ citation needed ] The Danish fusion-rock band Rainbow Band, later renamed to Midnight Sun, recorded a song based on the lyrics on two albums with two different vocalists, first in 1970, then in 1971.
They journey into the night, and at this point They began to hum softly, as hobbits have a way of doing as they walk along, especially when they are drawing near to home at night. With most hobbits it is a supper-song or a bed-song; but these hobbits hummed a walking-song (though not, of course, without any mention of supper and bed). [T 2] [1]
Fred Neil's 1967 song "Merry Go Round" is loosely based on the traditional song. [24] Long John Baldry's version appears on his 1971 album It Ain't Easy. Frank Sinatra Jr. recorded a version of the song, titled "Black Night", on his 1971 album Spice. Dolly Parton's version appears on her 1994 album Heartsongs: Live from Home. [7]
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me. A longer version by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, a charity established by the British government, is as follows: [4] First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out
"The Lion Sleeps Tonight" is a song originally written and first recorded in 1939 by Solomon Linda [2] under the title "Mbube", [3] through South African Gallo Record Company. In 1961, a version adapted into English by the doo-wop group the Tokens became a number-one hit in the United States.
Saturday Night Fever's boisterous opening scene — and the groovy dance numbers — often make people forget that the film itself is actually quite dark and dramatic as it charts Tony's attempts ...
"Over the Hills and Far Away" is a traditional English song, dating back to at least the late 17th century. Two versions were published in the fifth volume of Thomas D'Urfey's Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy ; a version that is similar to the second Wit and Mirth one appears in George Farquhar 's 1706 play The Recruiting Officer .
500 Miles" (also known as "500 Miles Away from Home" or "Railroaders' Lament") is a song made popular in the United States and Europe during the 1960s folk revival. The simple repetitive lyrics offer a lament by a traveler who is far from home, out of money and too ashamed to return.