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Blowin' in the Wind. " Blowin' in the Wind " is a song written by Bob Dylan in 1962. It was released as a single and included on his album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan in 1963. It has been described as a protest song and poses a series of rhetorical questions about peace, war, and freedom. The refrain "The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the ...
Due to the song's good performance "Birds of a Feather" was released on July 2 as the second single from the album. [8] In its thirteenth week on the Hot 100, "Birds of a Feather" reached a new peak of number five, [9] while ascending to number one on the multimetric Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and Hot Alternative Songs charts in its twelfth ...
"On A Slow Boat to China" is a popular song by Frank Loesser published in 1948. The song is a well-known pop standard, recorded by many artists, including a duet between Rosemary Clooney and Bing Crosby (for their album Fancy Meeting You Here (1958)), Ella Fitzgerald, Joni James, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Jimmy Buffett, Fats Domino and Liza Minnelli.
This expression was popularized in the American song "The Sidewalks of New York" (melody and lyrics by Charles B. Lawlor and James W. Blake) in 1894. [4] Part of the chorus: Boys and girls together, me and Mamie O'Rourke. Tripped the light fantastic. On the sidewalks of New York. The phrase occurs in Nella Larsen's 1929 novel, Passing, when the ...
Living Next Door to Alice. " Living Next Door to Alice " is a song co-written by Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman. Originally released by Australian pop band New World in 1972, [1] the song charted at No. 35 on the Australian chart. The song later became a worldwide hit for British band Smokie.
Lambert wrote the song with a songwriting collective known as the "Love Junkies," which is composed of Hillary Lindsey, Lori McKenna, and Liz Rose. [3] She described the writing process for the song as "fun" and that the hook was inspired by an idiom often used by her mom and grandma ("it will all come out in the wash") that she felt described getting "over the hump" after her last record ...
Love Yourself. " Love Yourself " is a song recorded by Canadian singer Justin Bieber for his fourth studio album Purpose (2015). The song was released as a promotional single on November 9, 2015, and as the album's third official single on December 7, 2015. [citation needed] It was written by Bieber, Ed Sheeran and Benny Blanco, and produced by ...
Robert Christgau claimed that the song has Eddie Van Halen "wielding his might in the service of antimacho". [35] Slant Magazine observed that the song was an "uncharacteristic dalliance with the rock idiom". [36] The track also won praise from Jackson biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli, who stated that the song was "rambunctious". [21]