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Francis James Barraud (16 June 1856 – 29 August 1924) was an English painter. He is best known for his painting His Master's Voice, one of the most famous commercial logos in the world, having been adopted as a recording industry trademark used by various corporations including RCA Victor, EMI, HMV, JVC and Deutsche Grammophon.
Isley also performed on the song "How Much a Dollar Cost" alongside the singer-songwriter James Fauntleroy. [16] Producer and rapper Pete Rock provided some backing vocals and scratches to the song "Complexion (A Zulu Love)", and as he stated, the contribution was unusual, as he was not the producer for the track. [17]
"The Hearse Song" is a piece of folklore with an unusually large number of variants, created over several generations. Carl Sandburg, in his 1927 book American Songbag, printed two early variations, the first being: [7] The Old Grey Hearse goes rolling by, You don't know whether to laugh or cry; For you know some day it'll get you too,
The phrase was coined in the late 1890s from the title of a painting by English artist Francis Barraud, which depicted a dog named Nipper listening to a wind-up disc gramophone and tilting his head. [5] In the original, unmodified 1898 painting, the dog was listening to a cylinder phonograph. [6]
She also declared it her personal favorite painting, [2] saying "At this moment The Song of the Lark had come to represent the popular American artistic taste on a national level." [ 3 ] Willa Cather 's 1915 novel The Song of the Lark takes its name from the painting, which is also used as the novel's cover art.
The Treachery of Images (French: La Trahison des images) is a 1929 painting by Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte. It is also known as This Is Not a Pipe, [2] Ceci n'est pas une pipe [2] and The Wind and the Song. [3] It is on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. [1] The painting shows an image of a pipe.
Finally, the song changes into a minor-key musical theme: root, major second, minor third, major second—that has recurred throughout the album, as the main theme to "Another Brick in the Wall", the instrumental section of "Hey You", and will be heard in the album's climax, "The Trial". The riff is repeated in E minor, with E minor and D Major ...
Illustration for "The Conqueror Worm", by W. Heath Robinson, 1900 "The Conqueror Worm" is a poem by Edgar Allan Poe about human mortality and the inevitability of death. It was first published separately in Graham's Magazine in 1843, but quickly became associated with Poe's short story "Ligeia" after Poe added the poem to a revised publication of the story in 1845.