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"Excursion Around The Bay" is a folk song written by Johnny Burke (1851-1930) in Newfoundland. It was covered by Great Big Sea on their 1993 and 2000 albums, Great Big Sea and Road Rage, and then again on their live recording, Great Big DVD and CD. Most recently it was featured on their album Courage & Patience & Grit.
The song "Ode to Mel Bay" (written and first recorded by Michael "Supe" Granda of the Ozark Mountain Daredevils and featured on the album The Day Finger Pickers Took Over the World by Tommy Emmanuel and Chet Atkins), is a light-hearted song about Mel Bay's encyclopedia of guitar chords and the books in general.
The lyrics as given in The Scottish Students' Song Book of 1897 are as follows: [2] Sing Ho! for a brave and a valiant bark, And a brisk and lively breeze, A jovial crew and a Captain too, to carry me over the seas, To carry me over the seas, my boys, To my true love so gay, She has taken a trip on a gallant ship Ten thousand miles away. Refrain
During the verse, the lyrics "Got to find a dock and a bay" are heard more than once, as well as several other references to Redding's song. In 2013, Redding's son Otis Redding III performed the song at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Brannan Street Wharf on the Embarcadero in San Francisco's South Beach neighborhood.
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"The Ryans and The Pittmans (We'll Rant and We'll Roar)" - traditional, additional lyrics by W.H. LeMessurier "Saltwater Joys" - Wayne Chaulk performed by Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers "Song for Newfoundland" - Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers "Sonny's Dream" - Ron Hynes "Squid-Jiggin' Ground" - A. R. Scammell "Tickle Cove Pond ...
Berlin's deal with MGM for the package of songs that included "I Want to Go Back to Michigan" was $500,000 plus a percentage of box office receipts, which was an unusually advantageous contract for a songwriter and amounted to twenty percent of the film's total budget of $2.5 million. [11] The film won the 1948 Academy Award for Best Musical Score.
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