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Rainy weather can make you sleepy, but the reason behind that feeling is actually pretty scientific. We break down the changes your body goes through before a storm, including how it reacts to ...
Maas, author of “Sleep for Success! Everything You Must Know About Sleep But are Too Tired to Ask,” said nearly everyone experiences an afternoon lull in their energy. It comes down to the ...
A contrafact is a musical composition built using the chord progression of a pre-existing song, but with a new melody and arrangement. Typically the original tune's progression and song form will be reused but occasionally just a section will be reused in the new composition. The term comes from classical music and was first applied to jazz by ...
The song is widely used as a running cameo in The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends, usually with the excerpt "Many brave hearts are asleep in the deep, so beware, beware". The first few lines, referred to as "Stormy the Night" are sung in Act 2, Scene 16 of Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill .
The most famous recording of this song featured Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm on The Flintstones "No Biz Like Show Biz" episode (which originally aired September 17, 1965). The clip of them performing this song was sometimes played during the closing credits in the show's final season (1965–1966), this episode being the opener of that season.
One famous recording of the song with the Mercer lyrics is by Ella Fitzgerald on her album Like Someone in Love from 1957. Fitzgerald recorded the song again in 1964 for her album Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Johnny Mercer Songbook and once more in 1978. "Midnight Sun" also became part of the repertoire of Carmen McRae after she recorded it first ...
The song debuted at No. 4 in the first issue of Canada's RPM Top Forty-5s chart, [6] while reaching No. 5 on Canada's CHUM Hit Parade [7] and No. 6 on New Zealand's Lever Hit Parade. [8] Cash Box described it as "an extremely pretty soft Latin beat romancer that really grows on you with each listen." [9]
"Sunny Afternoon" is a song by the Kinks, written by Ray Davies [7] and released as a single in June 1966. The track was included on the Face to Face album released in late October, and served as the title track for a 1967 compilation album .