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The word encore comes from the French encore, which means 'again, some more'; however, it is not used this way in French, but it is ancora in Italian. [21] French speakers commonly use instead either une autre ('another'), un rappel ('a return, curtain call') or the Latin bis ('second time') in the same circumstances. Italians use bis too. [21]
The Eurovision Song Contest 1971 was the 16th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Dublin , Ireland , following the country's victory at the 1970 contest with the song " All Kinds of Everything " by Dana .
Couched in piano, tremolo guitar, and a bevy of background singers, it features a gentler, slightly sweeter delivery compared to the almost gothic vocal performance found on the 1971 Musicor version. By the early seventies, Jones was a much more nuanced singer than he had been a decade earlier, and "Sometimes You Just Can't Win," which rose to ...
Judy Garland singing "Over the Rainbow" for the film The Wizard of Oz (1939), which became her signature song. A signature song is the one song (or, in some cases, one of a few songs) that a popular and well-established recording artist or band is most closely identified with or best known for.
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Nilsson was born in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City, on June 15, 1941. [7] [8] His paternal great-grandfather, a Swede who later emigrated to and became naturalized in the United States, created an act known as an "aerial ballet" (which is the title of one of Nilsson's albums).
But for its 11 p.m. encore, ... or otherwise just held out hope that Criss would appear during the encore singing his milky ballad, “Beth,” or hear Frehley’s “New York Groove,” there may ...
"Encore" is a 1983 R&B hit single for popular R&B/soul singer Cheryl Lynn. The song is written and produced by the highly successful Minneapolis funk duo, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis . Although the single peaked at #69 on the Hot 100 , it was the duo's first number one R&B hit as producers/writers and Lynn's second number one charting R&B single. [ 3 ]