"1880. A copy of ""Apollo's Medley"", dating from around 1790, published in Doncaster and rediscovered in 2010, contains a song referring to ""Sweet Molly Malone"" on page 78 – this ends with the line ""Och! I'll roar and I'll groan, My sweet Molly Malone, Till I'm bone of your bone, And asleep in your bed."" Other than this name and the fact that she lives in Howth near Dublin, this song bears no other resemblance to the familiar ""Molly Malone"". The song was later reprinted in a collection entitled ""The Shamrock: A Collection of Irish Songs"" (1831) and was published"
"In the green KVHV codex the song is to be found on page 537. The song provides the nickname ""Cockles"" for the landlord, Mr Mussels, in Barbara Sleigh's children's novel ""No One Must Know"" (1962). Londoners adapt the song for their own needs often in a light vein, the major change being the lines: As she wheeled her wheel-barrow, Through Wealdstone and Harrow The song is always sung at the lunches and dinners of London's '07 Club, which was founded in 1907 by staff of the London County Council. Singer Allan Sherman did a parody of the tune in the"
"her ""Aberdeen Shawl"", and basks in the admiration of her neighbours. The song is a rare musical documentation of the Dublin street-seller - Molly Malone being the only other and most famous example. Street-stalls have long since disappeared from the corner of Patrick Street and the Coombe but a market consisting of street stalls is held on nearby Meath Street every Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The song portrays a caricature or stereotype of a Dublin stall-holder, in which the working-class subject is patronised (i.e., gently made fun of and celebrated at the same time.) The meter of the song suggests"
"Merrily We Roll Along (song) ""Merrily We Roll Along"" is a song written by Charlie Tobias, Murray Mencher, and Eddie Cantor in 1935, and used in the ""Merrie Melodies"" cartoon ""Billboard Frolics"" that same year. It is best known as the theme of Warner Bros.' ""Merrie Melodies"" cartoon series. In the 1970s, it was adopted by WGN as the theme music for ""The Ray Rayner Show"", which featured Warner Bros. cartoons. In 1995, it was used as the closing theme of ""The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries"". The song shares a title with the 1934 play ""Merrily We Roll Along"" by"
"Carousel (Melanie Martinez song) ""Carousel"" is a song by American recording artist Melanie Martinez. The song was featured on Martinez's debut EP, ""Dollhouse"" (2014) and her debut studio album, ""Cry Baby"" (2015). ""Carousel"" was released on May 19, 2014, as the second single from ""Dollhouse"". A music video accompanying the song was released October 15, 2014. It was used as the theme song for season four of American television show ""American Horror Story"". This song is featured in a preview for FX's anthology series, """", with the theme also being a riff on the song. Melanie told the ""Huffington Post"""
"Although later versions place the locale of the song near Houston, early versions such as ""Walk Right In Belmont"" (Wilmer Watts; Frank Wilson, 1927) and ""North Carolina Blues"" (Roy Martin, 1930) — both essentially the same song as ""Midnight Special"" — place it in North Carolina.[12] Most of the early versions, however, have no particular location. Only one recording, collected by the Lomaxes at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, actually identifies the railroad operating the Midnight Special — the Illinois Central which had a route through Mississippi. More likely the song refers to the Missouri Pacific's Houston to New Orleans train"
"Runnin' Wild (Airbourne song) ""Runnin' Wild"" is the 1st single from the album ""Runnin' Wild"" by the Australian hard rock band Airbourne. The music video for this song shows Airbourne in the back of a truck playing while being chased by police. It also features a guest appearance by Lemmy Kilmister of Motörhead as the driver of the truck, eventually locking the pursuing policemen inside the truck (whilst wearing a Motörhead jacket) after it has stopped and the band has left it. ""Runnin' Wild"" is featured in the EA Sports video games ""Madden 08"", ""NASCAR 09"" and ""NHL 09"", and"
"on the children's television series ""Barney and Friends"". Tønsberg Sjømannsforenings shantykor (The Shanty Choir of the Tonsberg Sailors' Association) recorded it in Oslo on April 14, 1965. It was released on the extended play ""Shanties"" (HMV 7EGN 53). The song features in a 1982 animated advert for Shell UK that depicts the Brent oilfield. The song was sung by the crew (with modified lyrics) aboard the Navy vessel as Marty Pascal (Rob Schneider) was forced to walk the plank after an attempted mutiny in the 1996 comedy ""Down Periscope"" starring Kelsey Grammer and Lauren Holly. In the episode ""The Work"
"Riding with Private Malone ""Riding with Private Malone"" is a song written by Wood Newton and Thom Shepherd, and recorded by American country music artist David Ball. It was released in August 2001 as the first single from his album ""Amigo"". The song reached a peak of #2 on the ""Billboard"" Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts (now Hot Country Songs) chart, and #36 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. It was Ball's first Top 40 country hit since ""Look What Followed Me Home"" in 1995. ""USA Today"" referred to it as ""the country song that tapped most subtly and profoundly"
"studios. She was also often cast as leading lady opposite Jack Benny, Harold Lloyd, Franchot Tone, and Charles Butterworth, among others. In ""42nd Street"" (1933), Merkel played a streetwise show girl who was Ginger Rogers' character's buddy. In the famous ""Shuffle Off to Buffalo"" number, Merkel and Rogers sang the verse: ""Matrimony is baloney. She'll be wanting alimony in a year or so./Still they go and shuffle, shuffle off to Buffalo."" Merkel appeared in both the 1934 and the 1952 film versions of ""The Merry Widow"", playing different roles. One of her most famous roles was in the Western comedy"
"in a baby carriage,"" which is immediately followed by a fast guitar lick that ends with ""Shave and a Haircut"", segueing into the guitar solo. The song was featured in the movie ""Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure"" during the mall-chase scene, as well as in ""Jury Duty"" as Pauly Shore's stripping song. A cover of the song appeared on the PlayStation 2 game """" as the final track in the game. It is claimed that the high popularity the song gained by its inclusion in ""Guitar Hero"" was the reason the band decided to reunite in 2007, as it sparked"
"in a carriage, which was drawn by a decrepit old mare that he had kept for years. The song so endeared the Baltimore voting public to Latrobe that he was re-elected as Mayor of Baltimore against all odds. McNulty was thereafter recruited to work for the presidential campaigns of both Stephen Grover Cleveland (D) (1837–1908) and William Jennings Bryan (D) (1860–1925). McNulty died of a heart attack in Baltimore in 1932 at the age of 73. For the reader's ease of understanding, the archaic term ""whiffletree"" in the song below does not refer to a variety of tree, but, rather,"
"the car's origins: it came from a soldier, Private Andrew Malone, and it stated: ""If you're reading this, then I didn't make it home,"" implying that Malone wished for his car to be sold to another person should he die during the war. Throughout the rest of the song, the singer restores the car and begins driving it. On some occasions, he claims to see a ""soldier riding shotgun"" in the front seat (i.e., Private Malone's ghost) and the radio would tune itself to an oldies radio program, ""especially late at night."" By the third verse, the singer has wrecked"
"in 1811; Afro-Caribbeans rowing a boat in Antigua ca.1814; Black stevedores loading a steamboat in New Orleans in 1841; and a Euro-American crew hauling halyards on a clipper-brig out of New York ca.1840s. Other such multi-job songs were: ""Round the Corn(er), Sally"", ""Fire Down Below"", ""Johnny Come Down to Hilo"", ""Hilo, Boys, Hilo"", ""Tommy's Gone Away"", ""The Sailor Likes His Bottle-O"", ""Highland Laddie"", ""Mudder Dinah"", ""Bully in the Alley"", ""Hogeye Man"", ""Good Morning, Ladies, All"", ""Pay Me the Money Down"", ""Alabama, John Cherokee"", ""Yankee John, Stormalong"", and ""Heave Away (My Johnnies)"". While the non-sailor occupations noted above were mainly within"
"song was often employed in Western soundtracks, particularly those of director John Ford (being one of his favorite hymns) and it features in many of Ford's most famous films. The melody is played paradoxically in ""Stagecoach"" (1939), in the early scene is which Claire Trevor's character Dallas is run out of town. It also appears in Ford's ""Tobacco Road"" (1941), ""My Darling Clementine"" (1946), ""Three Godfathers"" (1948), ""Wagon Master"" (1950), twice in ""The Searchers"" (1956), and ""7 Women"" (1966). The song is also heard in Gene Fowler, Jr.'s ""The Oregon Trail"" (1959) and in Elliot Silverstein's ""Cat Ballou"" (1965). It"
"song originated with female prisoners at HMP Wakefield. A sprig was taken from Hatfeild Hall (Normanton Golf Club) in Stanley, Wakefield, and grew into a fully mature mulberry tree around which prisoners exercised in the moonlight. However, there is no evidence to support this hypothesis. The Christmas carol, ""As I Sat on a Sunny Bank"", collected by Cecil Sharp in Worcestershire, has a very similar melody; as does the related ""I Saw Three Ships."" Another possible interpretation of the rhyme is that it references Britain's struggles to produce silk, mulberry trees being a key habitat for the cultivation of silkworms."
"swagman camped by a billabong Under the shade of a coolibah tree, And he sang as he watched and waited till his ""Billy"" boiled, ""You'll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me."" ""Chorus:"" Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda, You'll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me, And he sang as he watched and waited till his ""Billy"" boiled, ""You'll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me."" Down came a jumbuck to drink at that billabong, Up jumped the swagman and grabbed him with glee, And he sang as he shoved that jumbuck in his tucker bag, ""You'll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me."" ""(Chorus)"" Up rode the squatter,"
"a breakstrain, with whistling. A great believer in public participation as Goldman toured with his band in countless venues, he encouraged audiences likewise in ""On the Mall"" to sing along and then whistle with the band. Audience clapping in sync with the score is also common. The concluding strain of the march can be sung with lyrics written by Goldman's wife Adelaide Maibrunn Goldman. To reinforce the physical setting and the title, renditions have been known to substitute the words ""On the Mall"" in lieu of some of the lyrics. On the Mall ""On the Mall"" is a famous march"
"Big Wheel (song) ""Big Wheel"" is a song written and recorded by Tori Amos. It was chosen as the first single from her album ""American Doll Posse"". However, multiple radio stations rejected ""Big Wheel"" because the acronym MILF is repeated in the bridge of the song. An edited version was played on some radio stations that eliminated the MILF acronym, changing it to ""M-I-M-I"". The music video for ""Big Wheel"", based on the concept of still photographs coming to life, is a slide show of pictures from Blaise Reutersward's photo shoot for Amos's album. The music video, for which Amos"
"throughout. In 2004, the song was ranked number 438 on ""Rolling Stone"" magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. ""Pitchfork Media"" placed it at number 16 on its list of ""The 200 Greatest Songs of the 1960s"". The song is featured in the films ""Sid and Nancy"", ""Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels"", ""Transporter 3"", ""The Runaways"", ""Faster"", ""Friday Night Lights"", """" (in which Iggy Pop played the role of Curve, one of the villains), """", the skateboard video by Flip entitled ""Sorry"", an episode of the teen drama ""Skins"" (Episode 2.9: ""Cassie""), an episode of the"
"Hell on Wheels (song) ""Hell on Wheels"" is a disco song performed by American singer-actress Cher from her sixteenth studio album, ""Prisoner"". It was written by Bob Esty and Michele Aller and produced by Esty. It was released as the album's first and only international single in late 1979. The song was also added to the ""Roller Boogie"" soundtrack in 1979. Lyrically, the track is about ""follow what you like"". ""Hell on Wheels"" initially received mixed reviews from critics, but in 1999 Randy Cordova from ""The Arizona Republic"" praised the song, calling it a ""roller-disco anthem"". Cher starred in one"
"album in 1967 in the folk style and a very different adaptation, by Gillette and Linda Albertano. Their version was later recorded by the well-known Canadian folk duo Ian and Sylvia for their album, Play One More. The song deals with a match race between two champion horses. According to most song versions, Tenbrooks ""ran all around The Midwest and beat the Memphis train,"" while ""out in California Molly did as she pleased, came back to Kentucky and got beat with all ease."" This song is a fictional account of the July 4, 1878 match race between the Kentucky horse"
"it was not a hit in the United States, but it was popular in Australia, France, and the UK, where it climbed to number four in the UK Singles Chart. The publicity for the single said, ""If these sides don't move you, see a doctor – you're dead."" The lyrics to the song are about a horse ride, with a definite western flavor, with the music having a loping, horse like cadence. The group also appeared in the 1956 film, ""Rumble on the Docks"". In 1957, they became one of the first American rock and roll acts to tour the"
"the throne Weel ye ken it is his own. Was you ever in Quebec? Bonny laddie, Highland laddie, Loading timber on the deck, My bonny Highland laddie. High-ho, and away she goes, Bonny laddie, Highland laddie, High-ho, and away she goes, My bonny Highland laddie. Was you ever in Callao Where the girls are never slow? Was you ever in Baltimore Dancing on the sanded floor? Was you ever in Mobile Bay, Screwing cotton by the day? Was you on the Brummalow, Where Yankee boys are all the go? The Lawland Lads think they are fine But oh they're vain"
"Melody Trail Melody Trail is a 1935 American Western film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Gene Autry, Ann Rutherford, and Smiley Burnette. Written by Sherman L. Lowe and Betty Burbridge, the film is about a singing cowboy who goes after the men who kidnapped the baby he should have been babysitting. The film features the songs ""On the Melody Trail"", ""A Lone Cowboy on the Lone Prairie"", and ""Western Lullaby"". A radio and music star, Gene Autry (Gene Autry), and his friend, comedian Frog Millhouse (Smiley Burnette), attend a rodeo where Gene falls in love with one of the"
"Flirtin' with Disaster (song) ""Flirtin' with Disaster"" is a song by the southern rock band Molly Hatchet. It is the only single from the band's second album of the same title. The song remained on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 for 10 weeks, peaking at 42. The song is Molly Hatchet's most famous, and has appeared in the films ""Suspect Zero"", ""The Dukes of Hazzard"", ""Straw Dogs"" and the video games ""NASCAR 98"" and ""Rock Band"". It also appeared in ""My Name Is Earl"", ""Supernatural"" and ""King of the Hill"". The song is also alluded to in the title of a"
"her local town. Unfortunately, Sarah's chance of freedom was cut short when her mum caught her in a library. At the end, Sarah is back in uniform the next day and waits for a bus to get to school. In 2004 the song was licensed for use in advertisements for the Ford Territory 4-wheel drive (SUV) vehicle. It has been used in two other TV advertisements, reportedly earning Lloyd payments of ""hundreds of thousands of dollars"". In 2008, truck driver Mark O'Keefe sued Lloyd, claiming that the two of them wrote the song together on ""a series of beer coasters"""
"the American television series ""Twin Peaks"", ""Big Ed"" Hurley (Everett McGill) sings the song to his hospitalized wife, Nadine (Wendy Robie). Since about 1990 fans of the English football side Notts County FC have sung the song during games, to the words 'I had a wheelbarrow, the wheel fell off'. See ""The Wheelbarrow Song"". In 1991, Swedish comedy group(s) Galenskaparna och After Shave performed a variant in their ""Grisen i Säcken"" revue. Alternative country band The Gourds gangstered the lyrics to ""On Top of Old Smoky"" in the song ""I'm troubled"" on their 1998 release ""Gogitchyershinebox"". The Mexican trio in"
"She Moves in Her Own Way ""She Moves in Her Own Way"" is a song by British band The Kooks and is featured on their debut studio album, ""Inside In/Inside Out"" (2006). It was released 26 June 2006 as the fifth single from that album, charting at number seven in the UK Singles Chart (see 2006 in British music). The music video features the band in Tijuana, Mexico. The song is also featured on the 2006 compilation album, ""The Acoustic Album"", and the 2007 compilation, """" (EMI). The song was featured at the end of the pilot episode of the"
"Deborah Evans Price, of ""Billboard"" magazine reviewed the song favorably, calling it a ""rollicking country ode to flipping a coin and hitting the road in search of a better life 'somewhere greener, somewhere warmer.'"" She goes on to say that ""passion and energy permeate Messina's strong vocal attacks on this infectious tune."" A music video was released for the song directed by Roger Pistole. Messina is shown performing with an old-fashioned microphone in a run-down wooden shack in the countryside and leaning against the counter of a diner, dressed as a waitress. Throughout the video are scenes of men traveling"
"Jesus Built My Hotrod ""Jesus Built My Hotrod"" is a song by American rock band Ministry, released as the first single from their fifth studio album, """". It was written by the band's frontman Al Jourgensen, bassist Paul Barker, drummer Bill Rieflin, session keyboardist Michael Balch, and the Butthole Surfers lead singer Gibby Haynes, and was co-produced by Jourgensen and Barker. An industrial metal track, it features elements of rockabilly and psychobilly, and is influenced by the Trashmen 1963 hit ""Surfing' Bird"", and Flannery O'Connor novel ""Wise Blood""; the song’s instrumentation is defined by its polyrhythmic structure. The song was"
"in this lockjawed mess ... The music that I wrote for it is not intended to be bright and shiny for bright and shiny's sake. It's intended to be what the seductiveness of speed is like, represented in music."" The title, Jenkins said, ""refers to a life that's all propped up. You know, the beautiful people who lead bright and shiny lives that on the inside are all fucked up."" The video features many scenes with motor scooters and a 1960 Chevrolet Impala filmed around San Francisco. Several changes were made for the studio recording. In the demo version, Jenkins"
"their song ""Back Where You Belong"". In the video the Collingdale Chief of Police Robert Morris began the video with an homage to the TV show ""Hill Street Blues"". After giving a short speech, he told the officers: ""Let's be careful out there"", a signature line from the TV show.. Part of the video was filmed in neighboring Philadelphia under the Walt Whitman Bridge. A significant portion of Collingdale's area is made up of four cemeteries, three of which are active. Eden Cemetery is an African-American cemetery, where many notable persons are buried, including singer Marian Anderson, physician Rebecca Cole,"