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"Annie's Song" was written as an ode to Denver's wife at the time, Annie Martell Denver. Denver "wrote this song in January 1973 in about ten-and-a-half minutes one day on a ski lift" to the top of Aspen Mountain in Aspen, Colorado, as the physical exhilaration of having "just skied down a very difficult run" and the feeling of total immersion in the beauty of the colors and sounds that filled ...
"Little Girls" is a song from the musical Annie. [1] It was originally performed by Dorothy Loudon as the cruel orphanage keeper Miss Hannigan in the original cast of the show (1977). [2] Other performances include those by Carol Burnett in the 1982 film of Annie, Kathy Bates in the 1999 made-for-tv version and Taraji P. Henson in the 2021 live ...
"It's the Hard Knock Life" is a song from the musical Annie [1] with music by Charles Strouse and lyrics by Martin Charnin. [2] [3] [4] The song is sung by the eponymous protagonist, together with her fellow orphan girls, and is about how the girls are treated by Miss Hannigan.
Annie is a musical with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and a book by Thomas Meehan. It is based on the 1924 comic strip Little Orphan Annie by Harold Gray (which in turn was inspired from the poem Little Orphant Annie by James Whitcomb Riley ).
The song revolves around a character, Annie, who seems to be unpopular, weird, and perhaps insane. Raine Maida has stated that this song is about a girl contemplating murdering students at her school, similar to the 1999 Columbine High School Massacre , which occurred three weeks after this song was written.
Its lyrics are repeated as a personal motto by the character of Annie in Thomas Meehan's 1980 novelisation. It was the entry and concluding credits score for the 1982 film adaptation; an a capella version of the song was performed by Aileen Quinn as Annie during the scene at the White House where Annie and Warbucks meet Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Annie Laurie is used as a distinguishing feature by the fictional main character Richard Hannay in John Buchan's novel The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915). Bing Crosby included the song in a medley on his album 101 Gang Songs (1961) Annie Laurie is the song recorded by Doberman in the episode of The Phil Silvers Show 'Doberman The Crooner'
"The Greasy Chip Butty Song" is a football chant sung by the supporters of Sheffield United football club to the tune of "Annie's Song", glorifying life in Sheffield, in chief the chip butty but also nightlife, beer and tobacco products.