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"Union Maid" is a union song, with lyrics written by Woody Guthrie in response to a request for a union song from a female point of view. [1] The melody is the 1907 standard "Red Wing" by Kerry Mills, [2] which was in turn adapted from Robert Schumann's piano composition "The Happy Farmer, Returning From Work" in his 1848 Album for the Young, Opus 68.
Not just any old song will do. Jakubowski explains that the strongest memories of music – and everything else – come from a certain period in our life, nicknamed the reminiscence bump.
Each year when the clock strikes midnight on New Year's, people around the world sing one song in unison. "Auld Lang Syne" has long been a hit at New Year's parties in the U.S. as people join ...
At some point in the mid-1980s, a pony-tailed upstate New York environmental activist named Jay Westerveld picked up a card in a South Pacific hotel room and read the following: "Save Our Planet ...
By the time the young light-skinned black woman from Harlem is due to get on her riverboat and return home, she has succeeded in turning Lazy Town into a lively community of swing musicians simply by singing. The cartoon concludes with the mammy washerwoman bending over, displaying the words "The End" across the undergarments covering her end.
Spin highly recommended the album, praising its "stunning, almost seamless sample-driven tracks." [9] Robert Christgau of The Village Voice gave the album an honorable mention and quipped that it was "West Indian daisy age from boogie-down Toronto", choosing the tracks "Ludi" and "My Definition of a Boombastic Jazz Style" as highlights. [10]
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"Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most" (1955) is a popular song with lyrics by Fran Landesman, set to music by Tommy Wolf. The title is a jazz rendition of the opening line of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, "April is the cruellest month". [1] The song describes how somebody feels sad and depressed despite all the good things associated with ...