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The origins of the song were traced by D. K. Wilgus, a music scholar and professor at UCLA, to a mid-nineteenth-century broadside ballad printed by Catnach Press in London, entitled "Standing on the Platform", with the subtitle "Waiting for the train". The song recounted the story of a man who met a woman at a railway station, who later falsely ...
Yoshiki said the song became a hit and was a shock to their fans, but they eventually came to like it and it became "X Japan's theme song." [1] Rolling Stone referred to the song as "November Rain, minus the bullshit" and called it X's first big chart hit. [2] A live performance of "Endless Rain" was included as the B-side to their 1990 single ...
"Desperados Waiting for a Train" is a song written by Guy Clark and originally recorded by Jerry Jeff Walker for his 1973 album Viva Terlingua. It subsequently appeared on Rita Coolidge's 1974 album Fall into Spring, David Allan Coe's third album, The Mysterious Rhinestone Cowboy (1974), Tom Rush's album Ladies Love Outlaws the same year, before Clark's own rendition was released on his first ...
Despite the fact that "Waiting for the Sun" was not released as a single or how it did not surpass Morrison Hotel's much more popular songs "Peace Frog" and "Roadhouse Blues" in significance, "Waiting for the Sun" is considered to be one of the Doors' best songs of all time for its haunting composition and lyrics, with it gaining mostly positive reviews from critics.
"Robert De Niro's Waiting..." is a song written by Sara Dallin, Siobhan Fahey, Keren Woodward, Steve Jolley, and Tony Swain, recorded for English girl group Bananarama's eponymous second studio album. Produced by Jolley & Swain, it was released as the album's second single on 20 February 1984. It namechecks American actor Robert De Niro.
The single version (alternatively known as "French Take") includes a different intro than the LP cut and lacks an entire verse and some of the chorus lyrics. There were also two-period remixes, an extended and an instrumental version. The extended version was sometimes called the "disco version" and exists in two different lengths (5:42 and 7:18).
"Waiting for the Robert E. Lee" is an American popular song written in 1912, with music by Lewis F. Muir and lyrics by L. Wolfe Gilbert. The "Robert E. Lee" in the title refers to the steamboat of that name.
"When This Rain Stops" is a song recorded by South Korean singer and Red Velvet member Wendy for her first extended play, Like Water. Composed and written by minGtion, it is a slow-tempo ballad that describes Wendy's autobiographical story containing a message of sympathy and consolation.