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WCSC-TV (channel 5) is a television station in Charleston, South Carolina, United States, affiliated with CBS and owned by Gray Television. The station's studios are located in the West Ashley section of Charleston, and its transmitter is located in Awendaw, South Carolina .
The song's driving rhythm, basically the first bar of a 3 2 clave, came to have widespread use in jazz comping and musicians still reference it by name. [4] Harmonically, the song features a five-chord ragtime progression (I-III7-VI7-II7-V7-I). [5] Recordings of The Charleston from 1923 entered the public domain in the United States in 2024. [6]
The lyrics and music were composed by Park Jin-young. He stated that the lyrics were inspired by a quote he saw on graffiti while visiting New York City: "Better to light a candle than curse the darkness." [1] The song was promoted alongside the title track "Lies".
"Candle Song" (as "Anyone Can Light a Candle"): original version on the Jon & Vangelis album Page of Life (1991). "Change We Must": later added to the alternate US release of Page of Life (1998). Personnel
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The first performance of the song was at a 1982 concert in Carnegie Hall. [1]The song was written in 1982 [2] by group member Peter Yarrow as a pacifist response to the 1982 Lebanon War, an intention was reflected in the lyrics "Light one candle for the terrible sacrifice justice and freedom demand, Light one candle for the wisdom to know when the peacemaker's time is at hand."
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The question here then is to whether or not Babylon can be reached before the light of day faded and the candles must be lit. Naturally this time changed throughout the seasons. In the 1824 edition of The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia there's a description of the rhyme and the game, giving the distance as "six, seven or a lang eight".