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"Three Times a Lady" is a 1978 song by American soul group Commodores for their album Natural High, written by lead singer Lionel Richie. It was produced by James Anthony Carmichael and Commodores. It was Commodores' first number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 , topping the chart for two weeks on August 12, 1978, and also reached number one ...
Dickson starred in a few silent films, including Eastward Ho! (1919) and Paying the Piper (1921). During her early days on the London stage, Dickson was introduced to (as well as centenarian) Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, later the Queen Mother. The two became close friends and their friendship lasted until Dickson's death at age 102.
A Crusade song (Occitan: canso de crozada, Catalan: cançó de croada, German: Kreuzlied) is any vernacular lyric poem about the Crusades. Crusade songs were popular in the High Middle Ages : 106 survive in Occitan , forty in Old French , thirty in Middle High German , two in Italian , and one in Old Castilian . [ 1 ]
The musical arrangement of the hymns also lost much importance. The number of popular melodies to which new and old texts were sung sank rapidly. These tunes were mostly Isorhythmically reshaped and sung by the community in increasingly long-stretched tones. The songs were interrupted by organ interludes at the end of the choral line.
A completely revised and updated paperback edition of Dickson's autobiography, A Shirt Box Full of Songs, was released to tie-in with the new album, together with an audiobook and Kindle edition. Her first online show, Barbara Dickson: Ballads And Blether , streamed on 20 March 2021 with a limited-edition DVD and CD of the evening available ...
The first period of Geisslerlied began in 1258 in response to the breakdown of civil order in northern Italy.Permanent warfare, famine, and an apparent demise of the moral order in contemporary life gave rise to a movement of public flagellation accompanied by singing; the penitents implored the help of God to ameliorate their sufferings, but never formed a specific sect, and neither did they ...
This was exemplified by their 1972 album Below the Salt, which contained several early music songs and from which they released the a cappella single of the sixteenth-century carol "Gaudete", which reached number fourteen in the UK singles chart, arguably the greatest mainstream success for medieval folk rock, as the band were occasionally ...
From the late Middle Ages there is a gargoyle of a pig playing the bagpipes at Melrose Abbey [6] and the carving of an angel playing bagpipes at Rosslyn Chapel. [8] There are literary references in Scotland to the fiddle, often called the fethill, fedhill or rybid. [9] In the Late Middle Ages several churches acquired pipe organs. [10]