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Under The Southern Cross I Stand" is the victory song of the Australian cricket team. It is typically sung by the players in the style of a raucous chant [1] after every victory and "treated with reverential consideration and respect" within the team. [2] The official lyrics are as follows. [3] Under the Southern Cross I stand,
Peel's stand-in on his BBC Radio 1 slot, Rob da Bank, also played the song at the start of the final show before Peel's funeral. [citation needed] The song mentions two England cricketers in its lyrics – "And it could be Geoff and it could be John" refers to Geoffrey Boycott and John Snow. The song is dedicated to both of them. [4] [5]
Written from a third-person perspective, [6] El Grillo concerns the cricket. [7] The opening section is about the cricket's lengthy song, while the second one compares crickets and songbirds. The song concludes by suggesting that crickets may be better singers than songbirds, particularly because they sing all the time, rain or shine. [7]
The song was covered by John Williams for Steven Spielberg's 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Spielberg himself called Williams's work "When You Wish Upon a Star meets science fiction". [citation needed] The song was covered by Kiss bassist Gene Simmons on his self-titled 1978 solo album. "It spoke to me," he declared.
"De Ghumaa Ke" literally means "Swing It Hard". The song's lyrics were written by Manoj Yadav. [5]"We were looking at various ideas to determine what direction we can take because we wanted to make a fun song, a dhamaal song on which people can dance, they can sing and we wanted to use more of a colloquial term, which was an idea that came in late.
Harrison co-wrote the song's lyrics with Bunbury Tails creator David English. The eponymous Rajbun was a character in the series based on English's friend and cricketer Rajendrasinh Jadeja, [1] [2] [3] one of a team of cricket-playing rabbits – in this case, from Bangalore in India.
The lyrics reference sociopolitical issues, the Haitian Revolution and cricketing laws that were seen as unjust and introduced to reduce the West Indian dominance of cricket. [1] With Rudder referencing Haitian general Toussaint Louverture who was imprisoned and died shortly before the Haitian Revolution succeeded, as well as Jean-Jacques ...
The song was recorded by Buddy Holly and the Crickets from June to August 1958 at Norman Petty's studio in Clovis, New Mexico. Holly lip-synched to recordings of "It's So Easy!" and his song "Heartbeat" on the television program American Bandstand on October 28, 1958.