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The work never mentions Finland and Russia directly, but the song was interpreted to replace Athens with Finland and Persia with Russia. [2] The work was the one of three published under the title 3 songs for chorus, Op. 31. Each song, however, has a different purpose and instrumentation. [1] [2]
Paul had encountered conflict as a result of his preaching in Thessalonica and Berea in northern Greece and had been carried to Athens as a place of safety. According to the Acts of the Apostles , while he was waiting for his companions Silas and Timothy to arrive, Paul was distressed to see Athens full of idols.
The song was featured in the 2005 film Munich. James Hill, a Canadian ukulele player, recorded a version of the song on ukulele for his album A Flying Leap. Nia Vardalos sang a snippet of the Greek version in the 2009 film My Life in Ruins. Los Umbrellos, a Danish musical group, used it as a base for their 1998 signature song "No Tengo Dinero".
"A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd Into Submission)" is a song written by American singer-songwriter Paul Simon. Originally recorded for Simon's 1965 UK-only debut, The Paul Simon Songbook , it was recorded soon after by Simon and his partner, Art Garfunkel , for the duo's third album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme .
"She's Given Up Talking" Paul McCartney: Paul McCartney Driving Rain: 2001 [44] "Silly Love Songs (Reprise)" Paul McCartney: Paul McCartney Give My Regards to Broad Street: 1984 [63] "Simple as That" Paul McCartney: Paul McCartney The Anti-Heroin Project – It's a Live-in World: 1986 [137] "Singing the Blues" (live) (Marty Robbins cover) Paul ...
The dance can be performed to the song pipilomatena, which describes a woman with small, soft eyes; alternatively, the phrase can refer to a woman with eyes the color of almonds or hazels. The dance's other name, patoula, is slang for a plump, pale woman. A full-figured woman with white skin was seen as the ideal of female beauty in the Pontos ...
1959: Frank Sinatra's album, Come Dance with Me!, [2] featuring Billy May and His Orchestra, Capitol SW-1069 (audio via YouTube) 1959: Oscar Peterson and His Trio on the album, A Jazz Portrait of Frank Sinatra, Verve MGV-8334 [3] (audio via YouTube) 1961: Peggy Lee - for her album Olé ala Lee [4] 1998: Barry Manilow, Manilow Sings Sinatra [5]
[1] [2] Matthew Greenwald of AllMusic commented that the song "simply celebrates the simple joy of pop music at the time." [3] In an interview with the Chicago Daily News in 1966, a year before the song's release, Mary Travers expressed contempt for the emergence of the folk rock genre: "(It's) so badly written. ... When the fad changed from ...