Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
According to singers discussing the use of the plena, they stated it was song with lyrics that related to a current event. For example, if someone drowned or was killed, a plena would be written about it. [8] Tintorera del Mar, [9] Mataron a Elena, El Obispo de Ponce, and Matan a Bumbum [10] were some plenas which became wildly popular. [11]
He popularized the modern plena as a Latin song style. Concepción was born in Cayey , Puerto Rico , and was a prolific composer, writing music based on contemporary Puerto Rican scenes and vistas. He wrote over 100 mambos , calypsos, boleros and plenas songs to honor cities such as San Juan , Mayagüez , Ponce , Yauco , Plena Criolla (for ...
The song has been recorded by many artists, including: Peter, Paul and Mary on LifeLines (1995) and LifeLines Live (1996) Dave Guard and the Whiskeyhill Singers (featuring Judy Henske) on Dave Guard and the Whiskeyhill Singers (1962). The Kingston Trio on Time To Think (1963). Cisco Houston on Cisco Sings the Songs of Woody Guthrie (1963).
Portrait of Franz Schubert by Franz Eybl (1827) Walter Scott " Ellens dritter Gesang" ("Ellens Gesang III", D. 839, Op. 52, No. 6, 1825), in English: "Ellen's Third Song", was composed by Franz Schubert in 1825 as part of his Op. 52, a setting of seven songs from Walter Scott's 1810 popular narrative poem The Lady of the Lake, loosely translated into German.
Written in response to the 9/11 Tragedy. The song makes reference to a passenger on Flight 93. [4] Responses to the song were later turned into a book. [5] Michael Jackson "What More Can I Give" n/a (never released) 2001: Performed at an October 2001 benefit concert. Originally intended as a benefit single, but it was never released ...
It was the penultimate #1 single of the 1960s, and the song also spent three weeks atop the easy listening chart [10] and was used in commercials for United Airlines in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The song also topped the charts in Canada, and reached No. 2 in both the UK and Ireland in February 1970. In fact, it was the only version of the ...
"Jet Airliner" is a song composed by Paul Pena in 1973 and popularized by the Steve Miller Band in 1977. Pena wrote and recorded "Jet Airliner" in 1973 for his New Train album. [4] However, New Train was not released until 2000, [5] due to conflicts between him and his label.
The song is sung from the perspective of a man who has, temporarily, survived a mid-air collision.In his dying words, he describes in graphic detail what he remembered of the collision and his current condition: his arms have been severed, his co-pilot is already lifeless beside him, blood is rapidly leaving his body and pooling underneath him, and a paramedic indicates that no medical ...