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Lydia, the Tattooed Lady" is a 1939 song written by Yip Harburg and Harold Arlen. [1] It first appeared in the Marx Brothers film At the Circus (1939) and became one of Groucho Marx's signature tunes. It subsequently appeared in the movie The Philadelphia Story (1940), sung by Virginia Weidler as Dinah Lord.
Lyrical similarities signify that the song shares "The Unfortunate Rake" with "St. James Infirmary Blues" as a common ancestor. A later song that draws on elements from the ballad is the Eric Bogle song "No Man's Land". A version of the song, renamed to "A Young Trooper Cut Down", was recorded on the 2016 Harp and a Monkey album War Stories.
His best known song An Eala Bhàn ("The White Swan") was produced there for home consumption, but in a remarkable series of ten other compositions he describes what it looked, felt, sounded and even smelt like to march up to the front, to lie awake on the eve of battle, to go over the top, to be gassed, to wear a mask, to be surrounded by the ...
The name, "Lydia", meaning "the Lydian woman", by which she was known indicates that she was from Lydia in Asia Minor. Though she is commonly known as "St. Lydia" or even more simply "The Woman of Purple," Lydia is given other titles: "of Thyatira ," "Purpuraria," and "of Philippi ('Philippisia' in Greek)."
The Song of Albion is a trilogy of fantasy novels by American writer Stephen Lawhead, consisting of The Paradise War (1991), The Silver Hand (1992) and The Endless Knot (1993). The series combines Christian religious themes with Celtic mythology and tells the tale of a pair of university students who stumble into an alternate world (Albion).
"Bible Black" is a song by British-American heavy metal band Heaven & Hell from their 2009 album, The Devil You Know. It was released on March 20, 2009, on WAXQ. [2]
On January 29, 2013, the band released the album art, release date, and the first single off the album. [2]The band released a deluxe edition of the album on October 15, 2013.
Porter would frequently return to the list song form, notable examples include "You're the Top" from the 1934 musical Anything Goes, [25] [26] [27] "Friendship", one of Porter's wittiest list songs, from DuBarry Was a Lady, [28]: 483 and "Farming" and "Let's Not Talk About Love" both from Let's Face It!