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He worked it up into a song with Davis and Malone. The "boom" part of the song was a result of a kid kicking a ball against the garage while they were rehearsing. It sounded good, so they added it to the song. In September 1957, the Monotones recorded "The Book of Love"; it was released on the Mascot label in December that year.
Coon! Coon!" was published in the Song-book of the Commandery of the State of Pennsylvania, A. Groux, printer. [5] Photograph of two white children pointing at a Black man used to illustrate the song lyrics. The Library of Congress has a photograph of two Caucasian children pointing at an African American described as illustrating a line from ...
In 1970, rock musician Ringo Starr surprised the public by releasing an album of Songbook songs from the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, Sentimental Journey.Reviews were mostly poor or even disdainful, [25] but the album reached number 22 on the US Billboard 200 [26] and number 7 in the UK Albums Chart, [27] with sales of 500,000.
Other publications of American song, such as those in The Wa-Wan Press editions presented works by less-known American composers. By the end of the 20th century, several composers emerged as the leaders of American art song composition, especially Aaron Copland (1900–1990), Samuel Barber (1910–1981), and Ned Rorem (1923–2022).
"A Bird in a Gilded Cage" is a song composed by Arthur J. Lamb and Harry Von Tilzer. It was a sentimental ballad (or tear-jerker) that became one of the most popular songs of 1900, [1] reportedly selling more than two million copies in sheet music. [2] [3] Jere Mahoney and Steve Porter recorded two early popular versions of this song. [3]
Eliot wrote "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" between February 1910 and July or August 1911. Shortly after arriving in England to attend Merton College, Oxford in 1914, Eliot was introduced to American expatriate poet Ezra Pound, who instantly deemed Eliot "worth watching" and aided the start of Eliot's career.
Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509641-X. Mahar, William J. (1999). Behind the Burnt Cork Mask: Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture. Chicago: University of Illinois Press. Nathan, Hans (1962). Dan Emmett and the Rise of Early Negro Minstrelsy ...
"The Book of Love" is a song written by Stephin Merritt and attributed to The Magnetic Fields, an American indie pop group founded and led by him. "The Book of Love" appears on Magnetic Fields' three-volume concept album 69 Love Songs , which contains 69 tracks described as "love songs", 23 tracks in each of the three volumes.