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The song is told through the eyes of a promiscuous young man who has had many sexual experiences, and plays upon the double-meaning of the word "heaven." He first recalls his baptism and how the preacher asked the protagonist (then a young boy), "Do you want to go to Heaven," referring to the religious concept of the afterlife (where good people go after their death).
"Monkey Gone to Heaven" was the first Pixies song to feature guest musicians: two cellists, Arthur Fiacco and Ann Rorich, and two violinists, Karen Karlsrud and Corine Metter. The band had signed to Elektra Records at the end of 1988, [ 2 ] so the "Monkey Gone to Heaven" single was their first American and major label release.
It peaked at number 10 on the Billboard Rap Songs, at number 57 on the Billboard Hot 100, and at number 73 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. [2] The song is dedicated to the memory of Tupac Shakur. Along with the single, a music video was produced to promote the album.
Schicksalslied, which John Lawrence Erb posits is "perhaps the most widely loved of all of Brahms's compositions and the most perfect of his smaller choral works", [1] is sometimes referred to as the "Little Requiem", [1] as it shares many stylistic and compositional similarities with Brahms's most ambitious choral composition.
"How Can I Keep From Singing?" (also known by its first line "My Life Flows On in Endless Song") is an American folksong originating as a Christian hymn. The author of the lyrics was known only as 'Pauline T', and the original tune was composed by American Baptist minister Robert Lowry .
The song was used as the theme song for the distribution outside Germany of the TV show series Deutschland 83. The song was used in AMC 's Breaking Bad , in a scene where Hank Schrader, Walter White, and Walter Jr. watch a video of the drug chemist Gale Boetticher singing the song at a karaoke bar on a vacation to Thailand.
Tillman was not first in publishing the song, an honor which goes to G. D. Pike in his 1873 Jubilee Singers and Their Campaign for Twenty Thousand Dollars. [5] Rather, Tillman's contribution was that he culturally appropriated the song into the repertoire of white southerners , whose music was derived from gospel , a style that was a distinct ...
The group reportedly auditioned the song for famed record producer Bobby Robinson while he was sick in bed, but he rejected them, stating the song "wasn't commercial enough". [5] When the Chords recorded their debut single for Cat Records, a cover of Patti Page 's " Cross Over the Bridge ", the label reluctantly allowed them to record "Sh-Boom ...