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"Rockin' Chair is a 1929 popular song with lyrics and music composed by Hoagy Carmichael. Musically it is unconventional, as after the B section when most popular songs return to A, this song has an A-B-C-A 1 structure. Carmichael recorded the song in 1929, 1930, and 1956. Mildred Bailey made it famous by using it as her theme song. [1]
The first song to became "popular" through a national advertising campaign was "My Grandfather's Clock" in 1876. [3] Mass production of piano in the late-19th century helped boost sheet music sales. [3] Toward the end of the century, during the Tin Pan Alley era, sheet music was sold by dozens and even hundreds of publishing companies.
"Rockin' Chair" was McCrae's sole entry into the US top 10 on both the pop and soul charts. The single hit number nine on the US pop charts, and hit number one on the US soul chart for one week. [4] In Canada, "Rockin' Chair" spent two weeks at number 23.
It was in this Piercebridge hotel that the author encountered a remarkable clock that inspired the song. The song, told from a grandchild's point of view, is about his grandfather's clock. The clock is purchased on the morning of the grandfather's birth and works perfectly for 90 years, requiring only that it be wound at the end of each week.
Brawl Stars is a multiplayer online battle arena [1] and third-person hero shooter [2] video game developed and published by Finnish video game company Supercell. [3] The game was released worldwide on 12 December 2018, on iOS and Android platforms. [4] The game features a variety of game modes, each with a distinctive objective.
"Montgomery Brawl" is a comedic "rap anthem" [3] recounting the events of the Montgomery Riverfront brawl. [4] Writing for The Fader, journalist Jordan Darville described the song's beat as "pure boilerplate Michigan" and detailed that "Gmac adopts the posture of a friend who’s outlining the video for someone who hasn’t seen it, bursting with pride throughout."
The family often hosted Saturday night gatherings, creating small music and dance hall in the home for local ranchers with both Josephine and Mildred at the piano. Mildred also accompanied her mother to traditional native ceremonies, where she heard and practiced the traditional songs and lyrics that would later influence her unique singing voice.
"Ninety Years Without Slumbering" is episode 132 of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. The title comes from the lyrics of the song "My Grandfather's Clock", which is sung or played throughout the episode as a recurring motif.