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Recorded just two years before his death, ...My Huckleberry Friend features, by and large, updated arrangements of most of Mercer's most popular tunes as interpreted by the author himself. The instrumentation relies heavily (but not exclusively) on a flute-lead horn section, electric piano and latin tinged percussion.
Hundreds of versions of the song have been recorded and it has been featured in many media. [4] [25] Mercer recorded the song in 1974 for his album My Huckleberry Friend. [26] In 2007, saxophonist Dave Koz recorded a version from his standards music album, At the Movies, sung by Barry Manilow.
The songs are listed in the index by accession number, rather than (for example) by subject matter or in order of importance. Some well-known songs have low Roud numbers (for example, many of the Child Ballads), but others have high ones. Some of the songs were also included in the collection Jacobite Reliques by Scottish poet and novelist ...
The song returned to the top ten of the Hot 100 for the third time in its 38th week on the chart. "I'm Yours" would go on to chart for a total of 76 weeks, making this the longest chart run in Billboard magazine history, up until the 87-week run of Imagine Dragons' "Radioactive" and the 79-week run of AWOLNATION's "Sail", both set in 2014.
Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a musical with music and lyrics by Roger Miller, and a book by William Hauptman. Based on Mark Twain 's classic 1884 novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , it features music in the bluegrass and country styles in keeping with the setting of the novel.
"The More We Get Together", now regarded today as a popular English-language children's song, of American origin, [1] [2] was originally written by Irving King as the anthem of the Ancient Order of Froth Blowers, to be sung to an old Viennese tune, "O du lieber Augustin".
After The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Huck describes his own adventure in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, including how he escapes from his drunken, abusive father, and how he met Jim, the runaway slave. Like Tom, Huck often engages in somewhat unruly behavior, but in reality he has a very kind heart and a deeply caring personality, sometimes ...
Beneath dis stone I'm forced to lie, All by de means ob de blue tail fly. An scratch 'im &c. Ole Massa's gone, now let him rest, Dey say all tings am for de best; I neber shall forget till de day I die, Ole Massa an de blue tail fly. An scratch 'im &c. De hornet gets in your eyes an nose, De skeeter bites y'e through your close,