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Songs based on the figure of the Sandman include the 1950s classic "Mr. Sandman" by The Chordettes, [13] Roy Orbison's "In Dreams" in which the singer is put to sleep by "a candy-colored clown they call the sandman" to dream of his lost love, [14] and Metallica's "Enter Sandman" whose lyrics "juxtapose childhood bedtime rituals and nightmarish ...
The song appears in the first season of The Sandman, performed by John Cameron Mitchell. Mitchell's character, Hal Carter, sings the song as part of a drag performance. Molly Shannon performs the song during her 4/8/2023 monologue on Saturday Night Live, eventually being joined by Martin Short and various cast members.
Monroe recorded the first version of the song with his orchestra in May 1954. "Mr. Sandman" (or "Mister Sandman") is a popular song written by Pat Ballard and published in 1954. It was first recorded in May of that year by Vaughn Monroe & his orchestra and later that year by The Chordettes and the Four Aces.
The theme song in Finland was: Nukkumatti, nukkumatti lasten, illoin kulkee, heittää unihiekkaa. Päivän leikit aika lopettaa on, kun TV:n iltasatu alkaa. Satu päättyi näin ja lapset käyvät jo nukkumaan, siis hyvää yötä. In English, this means: Sandman, the children's own Sandman, makes his rounds at night, sprinkling dream sand.
"All Summer Long" is a song by Welsh musician and composer John Cale. It was released as a digital single in August 2013, while on the B-side was the song "Sandman (Flying Dutchman)" from Cale's album Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood from the previous year. [1] [2] "All Summer Long" was released only on this single, but not on any studio album.
Halloween II is a soundtrack by John Carpenter and Alan Howarth for the 1981 film of the same name. It was released in 1981 through Varèse Sarabande . An expanded 30th Anniversary Edition was released in 2009 through Alan Howarth Incorporated.
Like many of Orbison's songs, "In Dreams" rejects the typical song structure of rock music. [11] It begins like a lullaby with minimal acoustic guitar strums, with Orbison introducing the listener to "a candy-colored clown they call the sandman" half-spoken and half-sung in a Sprechgesang fashion. [ 6 ]
"The Japanese Sandman" is a song from 1920, composed by Richard A. Whiting and with lyrics by Raymond B. Egan. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The song was first popularized in vaudeville by Nora Bayes , and then sold millions of copies as the B-side for Paul Whiteman 's song " Whispering ".