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The "Jeep" brand has gone through many owners, starting with Willys-Overland, which filed the original trademark application for the "Jeep" brand-name in February 1943. [1] To help establish the term as a Willys brand, the firm campaigned with advertisements emphasizing Willys' prominent contribution to the Jeep that helped win the war. [ 1 ]
All that glitters: country music in America. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780879725747. Malone, Bill C. - McCulloh, Judith (1975) Stars of Country Music: Uncle Dave Macon to Johnny Rodriguez, University of Illinois Press; Mazor, Barry (2014). Ralph Peer and the Making of Popular Roots Music. Chicago Review Press. ISBN 978-1-61374-021-7.
Ten Blake Songs" are poems from Blake's "Songs of Innocence and of Experience" and "Auguries of Innocence", set to music by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1957. "Tyger" is both the name of an album by Tangerine Dream, which is based on Blake's poetry, and the title of a song on this album based on the poem of the same name.
"Take Me Home, Country Roads", also known simply as "Country Roads", is a song written by Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert and John Denver. It was released as a single performed by Denver on April 12, 1971, peaking at number two on Billboard ' s US Hot 100 singles for the week ending August 28, 1971.
The first known melody written for the song was sent in by Silas Pratt when the poem was published in The Congregationalist. By 1900, at least 75 different melodies had been written. [ 11 ] A hymn tune composed in 1882 by Samuel A. Ward , the organist and choir director at Grace Church, Newark , was generally considered the best music as early ...
Highwayman" is a song written by American singer-songwriter Jimmy Webb about a soul with incarnations in four different places in time and history: as a highwayman, a sailor, a construction worker on the Hoover Dam, and finally as a captain of a starship. Webb first recorded the song on his album El Mirage, released in May 1977
Aug. 12—THE TOLEDO Jeep Fest last weekend brought many fond memories for Mary Jane (Crothers) Spencer-Hulme, a former Blade reporter who was in the Thomas A. DeVilbiss High School class of '44 ...
In the film Going Places, Louis Armstrong sang the song to a racehorse named Jeepers Creepers. [1] The phrase "jeepers creepers", a minced oath for "Jesus Christ", predates both the song and film. [1] Mercer said that the title came from a Henry Fonda line in an earlier movie. [2] The lyrics include: Jeepers Creepers, where'd ya get those peepers?