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In 1939 "Antigonish" was adapted as a popular song titled "The Little Man Who Wasn't There", by Harold Adamson with music by Bernie Hanighen, both of whom received the songwriting credits. [3] 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.
Churches in general, and the Church of England in particular, have long used Jerusalem as a metaphor for Heaven, a place of universal love and peace. [a] In the most common interpretation of the poem, Blake asks whether a visit by Jesus briefly created heaven in England, in contrast to the "dark Satanic Mills" of the Industrial Revolution ...
A Walking Song" is a poem in The Lord of the Rings. It appears in the third chapter, entitled "Three is Company". It is given its title in the work's index to songs and poems. [T 1] There is a companion poem near the end of the novel. The poem has been set to music by the Danish group The Tolkien Ensemble.
"In the Garden" (sometimes rendered by its first line "I Come to the Garden Alone" is a gospel song written by American songwriter C. Austin Miles (1868–1946), a former pharmacist who served as editor and manager at Hall-Mack publishers for 37 years. According to Miles' great-granddaughter, the song was written "in a cold, dreary and leaky basement in Pi
The "Lyke-Wake Dirge" is a traditional English folk song and dirge listed as number 8194 in the Roud Folk Song Index.The song tells of the soul's travel, and the hazards it faces, on its way from earth to purgatory, reminding the mourners to practise charity during lifetime.
Knocked 'em in the Old Kent Road" is a British music hall comedy song written in 1891 by the actor and singer Albert Chevalier. The score was by his brother and manager Charles Ingle . [ 1 ] Chevalier developed a stage persona as the archetypal Cockney and was a celebrated variety artist, with the nickname of "The Singing Costermonger ".
The song is well-known today as the unofficial theme song of the Philadelphia Mummers Parade. [5]The song, by then long in public domain, was used in early American television commercials for Golden Grahams cereal in the 1970s, with the refrain reworked in various ways around the phrase "Oh, those Golden Grahams".
Bob Dylan recorded a version for his 2015 Frank Sinatra covers album Shadows in the Night. Barbershop quartet Crossroads performed Lucky Old Sun en route to the 2009 International Championship. [10] Asleep at the Wheel recorded a cover on their 1988 album Western Standard Time. Alligatoah, a German rapper recorded a cover on Fremde Zungen in 2018.