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Desmond introduced the song when Meriwether won the pageant. [2] On September 11, 1955, Bert Parks, who was hired by the Miss America pageant to host the ceremonies, sang the song to Meriwether who won the pageant that same year. In 1977, the band Styx referenced the theme in their song "Miss America" from the album "The Grand Illusion". [3]
Bernie Wayne (born Bernard Weitzner; March 6, 1919 – April 18, 1993) was an American composer who wrote over 1,000 songs and music for commercial jingles.He was best known for "Blue Velvet", which was recorded as a hit by numerous artists, and "There She Is", the song long associated with the Miss America pageant, as well as songs written for Elvis Presley, Broadway musicals and Hollywood ...
"Here She Comes" is a song recorded by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler for the soundtrack to the 1984 restoration version of the 1927 German film Metropolis. It was released in 1984 by CBS Records, written by Giorgio Moroder and Peter Bellote, and produced by Moroder. Tyler re-recorded the song on her 2004 album Simply Believe.
"There She Is, Miss America" is the song performed every year when the new Miss America is crowned. The song, which was written by Bernie Wayne for the Miss America competition, has been sung ...
A statue of Bert Parks in Atlantic City commemorates his association with the Miss America pageant. Parks's first game show was Party Line on NBC (broadcast from New York City NBC flagship station WNBT), which involved viewers calling in to answer questions and win $5 prizes; Party Line ran from June 8 to August 31, 1947, making its one surviving episode the oldest known game show and one of ...
Here were these [servicemen] going over there and dying for a cause—we don’t even know what it was really all about. And here are these young kids, that were free, bitching about it.
O'Hara selected the title Miss America for the album because she found its contents "so much unlike what those two words together said". [6] In Now, Kim Hughes noted the album's minimalist production and varied musical styles, comparing its "acoustic guitar sound and liberal use of lap steel" to the country genre, while also finding that the "slinky bass lines and cool piano" of certain tracks ...
Her post comes after she made a surprise appearance at Newport Folk Festival on Friday (26 July) where she joined Irish musician Hozier along with Mavis Staples, Nathaniel Rateliff, Alison Russell ...