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Live video. "American Pie live performance on BBC, July 29, 1972" on YouTube. " American Pie " is a song by American singer and songwriter Don McLean. Recorded and released in 1971 on the album of the same name, the single was the number-one US hit for four weeks in 1972 starting January 15 [2] after just eight weeks on the US Billboard charts ...
It has been described as the country's "unofficial national anthem". [ 1 ] The title was Australian slang for travelling on foot (waltzing) with one's belongings in a "matilda" (swag) slung over one's back. [ 2 ] The song narrates the story of an itinerant worker, or " swagman ", boiling a billy at a bush camp and capturing a stray jumbuck ...
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star. " Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star " is an English lullaby. The lyrics are from an early-19th-century English poem written by Jane Taylor, "The Star". [1] The poem, which is in couplet form, was first published in 1806 in Rhymes for the Nursery, a collection of poems by Taylor and her sister Ann.
The key lyric in the song is "the rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain", which contains five words that a Cockney would pronounce with [æɪ] or [aɪ] [1] – more like "eye" [aɪ] than the Received Pronunciation diphthong [eɪ]. With the three of them nearly exhausted, Eliza finally "gets it", and recites the sentence with all "proper" long-As.
My Favorite Things (song) " My Favorite Things " is a song from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music. In the original Broadway production, the song was introduced by Mary Martin playing Maria and Patricia Neway playing Mother Abbess. Julie Andrews, had first sung the song on a 1961 Christmas special for The Garry Moore Show.
The rhyme as illustrated by Dorothy M. Wheeler. " Baa, Baa, Black Sheep " is an English nursery rhyme, the earliest printed version of which dates from around 1744. The words have barely changed in two and a half centuries. It is sung to a variant of the 18th century French melody "Ah! vous dirai-je, maman".
Side four. "Well (Baby Please Don't Go)" "Jamrag". "Scumbag". "Au". " Sunday Bloody Sunday " is a song written by John Lennon and Yoko Ono that was first released on their 1972 Plastic Ono Band album with Elephant's Memory, Some Time in New York City. The song addresses the Bloody Sunday massacre of 1972 and is one of two on the album that ...
Willow (song) " Willow " is a song by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift from her ninth studio album, Evermore (2020). It was released on December 11, 2020, by Republic Records as the lead single from the album. "Willow" is a chamber folk love song making use of several metaphors to convey the singer's romantic state of mind, such as ...