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Song title Artist(s) Notes 1920 "The Lavender Song" ("Das Lila Lied") Lyrics by Kurt Schwabach [1] 1928 "Prove It On Me" Ma Rainey [2] 1929 "If Love Were All" Noël Coward: Written for the operetta Bitter Sweet. [3] 1932 "Mad About the Boy" Noël Coward [2] 1937 "Easy Living" Billie Holiday, Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra [a] "My Funny ...
In 2008, the song was covered by the Finnish group Eläkeläiset. In the last episode of the first series of the BBC One drama Ashes to Ashes, a 31-year-old fictionalised version of Tom Robinson (portrayed by Mathew Baynton) is incarcerated with several members of the Gay Liberation Front. He sings "Glad to Be Gay" in his police-station cell.
Crosby was known as the "Queen of Gospel Song Writers" [3] and as the "Mother of modern congregational singing in America", [4] with most American hymnals containing her work. [5] Her gospel songs were "paradigmatic of all revival music", [ 6 ] and Ira Sankey attributed the success of the Moody and Sankey evangelical campaigns largely to Crosby ...
The song alludes obliquely to a gay truck driver. [2] In February 1978, the band released the live extended play Rising Free, which peaked at No. 18 in the UK Singles Chart and included his anthemic song "Glad to Be Gay", originally written for a 1976 London gay pride parade. [4] The song was banned by the BBC.
"Glad to Be Unhappy" is a popular song composed by Rodgers and Hart. [1] It was introduced in their 1936 musical On Your Toes , sung by Doris Carson and David Morris, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] although it was not popular at the time, as there was only one recording of the song.
I was glad' (Latin incipit: Laetatus sum) is an English text drawn from selected verses of Psalm 122. It has been used at Westminster Abbey in the coronation ceremonies of British monarchs since those of King Charles I in 1626.
Rosina Brandram as Queen Elizabeth in the original production, 1902. Merrie England is an English comic opera in two acts by Edward German to a libretto by Basil Hood.The patriotic story concerns love and rivalries at the court of Queen Elizabeth I, when a love letter sent by Sir Walter Raleigh to one of Queen Elizabeth's ladies-in-waiting, Bessie Throckmorton, ends up in the hands of the Queen.
The Crowned Clown [1] (Korean: 왕이 된 남자) is a 2019 South Korean television series starring Yeo Jin-goo, Lee Se-young, and Kim Sang-kyung.A remake of the 2012 film Masquerade, the series centers on the tale of a Joseon King and his doppelganger, a clown whom he puts on the throne to escape the intense power struggles afflicting the royal court.