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"Lovely" was met with widespread critical acclaim. Jon Blistein writing for Rolling Stone magazine called "Lovely" a "smoldering ballad". [11] The Times ' Raisa Bruner described the song as "somber" and "haunting", writing "[there] [is] little to celebrate in the dark, brooding lyrics, but still 'Lovely' finds beautiful sounds in that pained ...
Anschütz based his text on a 16th-century Silesian folk song by Melchior Franck [citation needed], "Ach Tannenbaum". In 1819 August Zarnack wrote a tragic love song inspired by this folk song, taking the evergreen, "faithful" fir tree as contrasting with a faithless lover. The folk song first became associated with Christmas with Anschütz ...
The song is sung by Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle and her street friends. It expresses Eliza's wish for a better life. It expresses Eliza's wish for a better life. In addition to pronouncing "lovely" as "loverly", the song lyrics highlight other facets of the Cockney accent that Professor Henry Higgins wants to refine away as part of his ...
Oh, What a Lovely War! is an epic musical developed by Joan Littlewood and her ensemble at the Theatre Workshop in 1963. [1] It is a satire on World War I , and by extension on war in general. The title is derived from the "somewhat satirical" [ 2 ] music hall song "Oh!
"Lovely Day" is a song by American soul and R&B singer Bill Withers. Written by Withers and Skip Scarborough, it was released on December 21, 1977, and appears on Withers's sixth album, Menagerie (1977). Withers holds a sustained note towards the end which, at 18 seconds, is one of the longest ever recorded on an American pop song.
These songbooks were extremely popular and introduced such favorites as "Oh, How Lovely Was the Morning", "Improve the Shining Moments", and "Choose the Right". A new edition of the Sunday School songbook entitled Deseret Sunday School Songs was published in 1909.
"Oh, Pretty Woman", or simply "Pretty Woman", is a song recorded by Roy Orbison and written by Orbison and Bill Dees. [3] It was released as a single in August 1964 on Monument Records and spent three weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 from September 26, 1964, making it the second and final single by Orbison (after "Running Scared") to reach number one in the United States. [4]
"Lovely Lonely Man" is a song from the 1968 musical film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. It was written by Richard & Robert Sherman and sung by Sally Ann Howes as Truly Scrumptious . In the song, she pines for eccentric inventor Caractacus Potts (played by Dick Van Dyke ) at her family's estate after she has an outing with the inventor and his ...