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"Night Moves" is a song by American singer-songwriter Bob Seger. It was the lead single from his ninth studio album of the same name (1976), which was released on Capitol Records. Seger wrote the song as a coming of age tale about adolescent love and adult memory of it. It was based on Seger's teenage love affair, which he experienced in the ...
Bill Monroe's 1941 and 1952 recordings, both under the title "In the Pines", were highly influential on later bluegrass and country versions.Recorded with his Bluegrass Boys and featuring fiddles and yodelling, they represent the "longest train" variant of the song, and omit any reference to a decapitation.
"Mattinata" (Italian pronunciation: [mattiˈnaːta]; English: "Morning") was the first song ever written expressly for the Gramophone Company (the present day EMI). Composed by Ruggero Leoncavallo in 1904, it was dedicated to Enrico Caruso, who was the first to record it in April, 1904 with the composer at the piano. Ever since, the piece has ...
Dan McGinty dressed so fine, Stood looking at a very high stone wall, When his friend, young Pat McCann, Says, “I’ll bet five dollars, Dan, I could carry you to the top without a fall.” So on his shoulders he took Dan, to climb the ladder he began, And soon commenced to reach up near the top; When McGinty, cute old rogue,
You're gonna foul up your life if you don't write another verse of that song!' " Martin told EW . The lyrics were changed to, “Have yourself a merry little Christmas; let your heart be light.
And dressed herself up in her dead brother's clothes. She cut her hair close, and she stained her face brown, And went for a soldier to fair London Town. Then up spoke the sergeant one day at his drill, "Now who's good for nursing? A captain, he's ill." "I'm ready," said Polly. To nurse him she's gone, And finds it's her true love all wasted ...
"Dress" was recorded at Yeovil's Icehouse Studio as part of the Dry sessions. The song, like the album, generated an overwhelmingly strong critical response, though the song failed to chart. The lyrics tell the story of a woman who's trying to impress a certain man with a dress ("Must be a way that I can dress to please him").
CMJ called it one of Album of the Year's "best pop songs" in July 1997. [6] The liner notes for the 2003 compilation This Is It: The Best of Faith No More stated that the song took on "poetic grandeur" following the band's 1998 split. [7] Consequence of Sound ranked it as the second-greatest Faith No More song in 2015, behind only "Midlife ...