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La golondrina (English: "The Swallow") is a song written in 1862 by Mexican physician Narciso Serradell Sevilla (1843–1910), who at the time was exiled to France due to the French intervention in Mexico.
The word villanelle derives from the Italian villanella, referring to a rustic song or dance, [2] and which comes from villano, meaning peasant or villein. [3] Villano derives from the Medieval Latin villanus, meaning a "farmhand". [4] The etymology of the word relates to the fact that the form's initial distinguishing feature was the pastoral ...
"Real Gone Kid" is a song by Scottish pop rock band Deacon Blue. Vocalist Ricky Ross wrote the song about a performance he saw of ex-Lone Justice singer Maria McKee during a time when Deacon Blue and Lone Justice toured together. The lyrics are a tribute to McKee, with the narrator using the term "real gone kid" as a designation for craziness ...
The song occurs in the chalk-drawing outing animated sequence, just after Mary Poppins wins a horse race.Flush with her victory, she is immediately surrounded by reporters who pepper her with questions and suggest that she is at a loss for words.
On her MDNA World Tour (2012), singer Madonna and her backup dancers incorporated a quick dab move into the opening dance routine to her song "Girl Gone Wild". [3] Some Quality Control artists had claimed the dab was invented by rapper Skippa Da Flippa, and that its origins were within the Atlanta hip-hop scene of the 2010s.
"The Popular Wobbly" is a labor song written by the Finnish-American songwriter T-Bone Slim. It is a parody of the 1917 hit "They Go Wild Simply Wild Over Me" by Joseph McCarthy and Fred Fisher. [1] [2] "The Popular Wobbly" first appeared in the 1920 edition of the Little Red Songbook published by the Industrial Workers of the World. [1]
Hokum is a particular song type of American blues music—a song which uses extended analogies or euphemistic terms to make humorous, [1] sexual innuendos. This trope goes back to early dirty blues recordings, enjoyed huge commercial success in the 1920s and 1930s, [ 1 ] and is used from time to time in modern American blues and blues rock .
Bow Wow Wow made their first appearance on Top of the Pops on 11 February 1982, performing "Go Wild in the Country", with lead singer Annabella Lwin debuting her trademark Mohican hairstyle. The song remained on the UK Singles Chart for 13 weeks, peaking at No. 7. [3] The B-side was the instrumental "El Boss Dicho!"