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American folk music is a broad category of music including bluegrass, gospel, old time music, jug bands, Appalachian folk, blues, Cajun and Native American music. [ not verified in body ] The music is considered American either because it is native to the United States or because it developed there, out of foreign origins, to such a degree that ...
The song, recognized as "the best-selling single of all time", was released before the pop/rock singles-chart era and "was listed as the world's best-selling single in the first-ever Guinness Book of Records (published in 1955) and—remarkably—still retains the title more than 50 years later".
The song is an ode to a girl on her 16th birthday, and it’s one of the most recognizable tracks of the doo-wop era. The 1984 John Hughes movie Sixteen Candles was reportedly taken from the song ...
The American folk music revival began during the 1940s and peaked in popularity in the mid-1960s. Early folk music performers include Woody Guthrie, [1] Lead Belly, Pete Seeger, Ewan MacColl (UK), Richard Dyer-Bennet, Oscar Brand, Jean Ritchie, John Jacob Niles, Susan Reed, Mississippi John Hurt, [2] Josh White, and Cisco Houston.
All About You (Hilary Duff song) All God's Chillun Got Wings (song) All My Trials; All the Pretty Little Horses; All-American Bitch; Amen (gospel song) American Life (song) Animal Fair (song) Apples and Bananas; Arcadia (Lana Del Rey song) The Arkansas Traveler (song) Aura Lea
2. The Office. Song: "The Office Theme" by The Scrantones PureWow Editor Alexandra Hough shares that The Office theme stands out because “it’s so simple and easily recognizable”—and I ...
A database of songs in folk song collections, field recordings and folk song publications. Iceland: Íslenzk fornkvæði: Jón Sigurdsson, Svend Grundtvig: The original classification is still in use. India: Pattole Palame: by Nadikerianda Chinnappa 1924. A collection of Kodava language folk songs, belonging to the district of Kodagu. Ireland ...
Beautiful Sunday (song) Beer, Beer, Beer; A Beuk o' Newcassell Sangs; Bingo (folk song) The Birthday Party (song) The Bishoprick Garland; The Bitter Withy; Blackbird (Beatles song) Blackleg Miner; Blacksmith (song) Blaydon Races; Blow the Man Down; Blow the Wind Southerly; Blyth and Tyneside Poems & Songs; Boar's Head Carol; Bob Cranky's Adieu ...