"to make Gwen more attractive, we couldn't! We, ourselves, felt that Mary Jane ended up being not only more attractive but more fun and more interesting, and we finally decided to let Peter end up with her, but it was ... as though the characters had taken over!"" The names ""Mary Jane"" and ""MJ"" are also common slang terms for marijuana. When asked about this, Stan Lee claimed it was purely coincidental, that he knew nothing about drugs and never tried marijuana. Gerry Conway succeeded Stan Lee as writer of ""The Amazing Spider-Man"" in 1972. Conway pushed Mary Jane to"
"Poor Mary ""Poor Mary"" or ""Poor Jenny"" is a popular English language nursery rhyme and singing game. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 1377. Lyrics vary considerably for this song. Over a hundred known variations have been collected in Britain since the 1880s, not least in the use of the names, including Jenny, Mary and Sally. Common modern versions include: One child of the group is chosen to be ""Jenny"" or ""Mary"" etc., and has to kneel in the middle of a circle, usually with head in hands. The other children join their hands and walk around"
"you all look like beautiful stars tonight"" and ""Look at you!"" Singer Lana Del Rey sampled the song on her song ""Blue Jeans"". Kendrick Lamar recently sampled another live version of this song in his track ""DNA"" from his 2017 album ""DAMN"". Mary Jane (Rick James song) ""Mary Jane"" is a song by American funk singer Rick James. It was released in 1978 as the second single from his debut album ""Come Get It!"". The song peaked in the top five on the R&B charts in the United States in 1978. As one of his earliest hits as a solo"
"get dressed, while she gives Jane and Michael some medicine, which comes out in different colors and flavors, much like in the film. Cleaning the kitchen up is similar to cleaning up the nursery in the film with Mary magically putting it back together. The song is mixed with It's A Small World, also a Sherman song in the final number of On the Record, a short lived revue of Disney songs. The song has characteristics of the fast-paced one-step, a popular dance in the 1910s. This musical number also appears in the ""Sing Along Songs"" series of Disney videos."
"Mary Blane ""Mary Blane"", also known as ""Mary Blain"" and other variants, is an American song that was popularized in the blackface minstrel show. Several different versions are known, but all feature a male protagonist singing of his lover Mary Blane, her abduction, and eventual death. ""Mary Blane"" was by far the most popular female captivity song in antebellum minstrelsy. ""Mary Blane"" has at least five different sets of lyrics, the most of any song of its type. All tell the same typical Victorian-era captivity narrative: A woman is kidnapped or captured and may do no more than await rescue"
"appear in the film or musical, such as Nellie Rubina and the Balloon Woman. The musical places more emphasis on Jane and Michael being naughty and their parents being dysfunctional to heighten the drama. Jane and Michael are constantly answering back and fighting, necessitating a new sequence where Mary brings Jane's doll Valentine and the other toys to life to berate them in the song ""Playing the Game"". This sequence, originally titled ""Temper Temper,"" was inspired from a chapter in the books titled ""Bad Wednesday"". George Banks has been expanded from the film: in the musical it is revealed that"
"they spot Blanche lying on the sand and rush to her aid. Jane is too caught up in her delusions to notice the policemen's presence. Among the film's most recognized images is Bette Davis as the aged Jane in blond Mary Pickford-like curls performing the syrupy song ""I've Written a Letter to Daddy."" Jane's final scene in the film is patterned on the final scene of ""Sunset Boulevard"", where Gloria Swanson's character descends the stairs for an imagined film scene after killing her lover. The success of the movie led the director to undertake a film using similar themes and"
"has been heavily sampled since its inception, including by artists LL Cool J and Mary J. Blige. The song was included in the soundtrack of the 2002 video game """". ""Billboard"" named the song #61 on their list of 100 Greatest Girl Group Songs of All Time. All Night Long (Mary Jane Girls song) ""All Night Long"" is a song written, arranged and produced by American musician Rick James for the Mary Jane Girls. In the U.S. the song enjoyed success on the Hot Black Singles Chart peaking at #11; on the Dance Chart it peaked at #8, but the"
"Madeleine (name) Madeleine is a feminine given name. It is a form of Magdalene, well known because of Mary Magdalene. In the United States, this name often appears under the spelling Madeline. Madeleine and Madeline are forms of Magdalene, which is well known as a name because of Mary Magdalene. Magdalene means ""from Magdala"". Mary Magdalene's name is thought to be derived from Magdala – a village on the sea of Galilee. In Aramaic, ""magdala"" means ""tower"" or ""elevated, great, magnificent"". Additionally, in German, ""Mädelein"" means ""little girl"". Madeline is a popular girls' name. It is the usual North American"
"Jane"" ! scope=""row"" | ! scope=""row"" | ""Sitting in My Kitchen"" ! scope=""row"" | ""Six, Sixty, Six"" ! scope=""row"" | ""Six Feet of Chain"" ! scope=""row"" | ""Slave Song Medley"" ! scope=""row"" | ""Sleep Walk"" ! scope=""row"" | ""Slow Fast"" ! scope=""row"" | ""Snowball"" ! scope=""row"" | ! scope=""row"" | ""Somebody Tell Me My Name"" ! scope=""row"" | ""Somewhere Out There"" ! scope=""row"" | ""Song for a Small Circle of Friends"" ! scope=""row"" | ""Song for Adam"" ! scope=""row"" | ""Song for My Parents"" ! scope=""row"" | ! scope=""row"" | ""Sonshine"" ! scope=""row"" | ""Soon I Will Be Home"" !"
"was the same or very similar to the song published decades later. The name ""Liza Jane"" or ""Eliza Jane"" was a standard female character name in minstrel shows. A tune ""Goodbye, Liza Jane"" was published by Eddie Fox in 1871. Harry Von Tilzer published ""Goodbye, Eliza Jane"" in 1903, which has some similarity to the later ""Li'l Liza Jane"". Natalie Curtis Burlin's book ""Negro Folk-Songs"", published in 1918, documents a version said to be a Negro folk song with an associated dancing game. In the ""Liza Jane"" dance, couples would dance in a circle, with an extra man in the"
"Joanne Joanne (alternate spellings Joann, Jo Ann, Johann, Johanne, Jo-Ann, Jo-Anne) is a common given name for females, being a variant of Joanna, the feminine form of John; derived from the Latin name Johanna with the meaning in Hebrew of ""God is gracious"". In Northern Ireland of 1975, ""Joanne"" was the most frequently used name for female newborns, though by the early years of the 21st century, the name had declined in popularity so that it could not be counted among the twenty most frequently used. Sometimes in modern English ""Joanne"" is reinterpreted as a compound of the two names"
"Mary Jane (Rick James song) ""Mary Jane"" is a song by American funk singer Rick James. It was released in 1978 as the second single from his debut album ""Come Get It!"". The song peaked in the top five on the R&B charts in the United States in 1978. As one of his earliest hits as a solo artist, it is one of his most notable songs. It was composed by James, along with keyboardist Billy Nunn, who was credited for the keyboards, strings, background vocals, helping to compose the song, arranging flute parts, and other instrumentation work. ""Mary Jane"""
"century. It has been popularized by ""Alice in Wonderland"", by Lewis Carroll. It was also popular in the Victorian era due to The Princess Alice, a daughter of Queen Victoria. In the US, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, was occasionally known as ""Princess Alice"" in the press and inspired a song called ""Alice Blue Gown."" In recent years in the US, the variants ""Alicia"", ""Alison"", and a short form, ""Allie"", have been more popular names: in 2010, Alison was the 38th most popular; Alicia was the 220th most popular,and Allie was the 189th most popular. All three names"
"original film version. The public finally saw the CinemaScope version ten years later when it closed Fox's documentary tribute to Marilyn, however this has not been released on DVD or VHS. The song was listed as the 12th most important film song of all time by the American Film Institute. Monroe's rendition of the song has been considered an iconic performance and has since been copied by other entertainers ranging from Madonna and Kylie Minogue to Geri Halliwell and Anna Nicole Smith. Madonna's video ""Material Girl"" uses a similar set and costumes for the singer and her male dancers. The"
"Mary Jane Girls The Mary Jane Girls were an American R&B, soul and funk group in the 1980s. They were protégées of singer Rick James. They are known for their hit songs ""In My House"", ""All Night Long"", ""Candy Man"", and their cover version of ""Walk Like a Man"". Joanne ""Jojo"" McDuffie was the lead singer, the others filling out the group's style and appearance. On the studio recordings, McDuffie was backed by session vocalists rather than the other Mary Jane Girls. The Mary Jane Girls released two albums in the 1980s and recorded a third which was never released."
"Marilyn (given name) Marilyn is a feminine given name. Marilyn is a blend of the English given names Mary and Lynn. It began to be used in the 1920s, and it reached its peak of popularity in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. Variants of the name includes: Maralyn, Marilynn, Marlyn, Marylyn, Marrilyn, Merilyn, Merrelyn and Merrilyn. The American musician and artist Brian Hugh Warner goes by the stage name Marilyn Manson. His stage name was formed by juxtaposing the names of two opposing American pop cultural icons, actress Marilyn Monroe and cult leader Charles Manson; as an actual given name,"
"other musicals is that the music is organic – the people in the film aren’t just putting it out there for no reason. I wanted musical numbers to be fully integrated into the story. So one number happens at a dance contest, one at a rally of workers on Jupiter, and one number is even used as a kind of musical assault perpetrated against Curtis in a bathroom. Curtis uses song to make a grand entrance when he is in the open air of Venus, but even then he is serenading the ladies there to persuade them to do business."
"the other child singing the first verse. The child in the centre then carries out the actions of the following verses, most importantly choosing a partner. The tune is widely known in Europe, and forms the first section of the folk dance tune ""La Bourrée des Galvachers"" from Burgundy, France. The melody was also used by Dmitri Shostakovich in his first Piano Concerto, op.35. Poor Mary ""Poor Mary"" or ""Poor Jenny"" is a popular English language nursery rhyme and singing game. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 1377. Lyrics vary considerably for this song. Over a hundred"
"his favourite songs.Chris de Burgh - Footsteps According to ""The Fiddlers companion"" website, the title ""Molly Bawn"" is an Anglicised corruption of the Gaelic ""Mailí Bhán,"" or Fair Mary (Fairhaired Mary, White Haired Mary). The symbol of a bird to represent a departing spirit from a dead body is common in art, particularly in scenes of the death of Christ. The idea of the spirit of a dead person returning to speak to the living is quite common in ballads. Examples include ""The Unquiet Grave"" and ""Murder at the Red Barn"". The idea that a woman might transform herself into"
"served as the inspiration for the character of Viney Butler in the film, on whose soundtrack she also appeared. She also shared her knowledge of local traditions and history with many folklife organizations in North Carolina. Mary Jane Queen Mary Jane Prince Queen (February 20, 1914 – June 29, 2007) was an American ballad singer and banjo player. She was once called a ""walking archive of mountain music"" for her knowledge of the traditional music of Appalachia. Queen was born in Jackson County, North Carolina, and lived in the Caney Fork area for much of her life. She was descended"
"Jane?"" and, the song with the opening lyric ""Hush, hush, sweet Charlotte"" having been written early in the film's development and having been played for Davis, she suggested ""Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte"" should serve as the movie's title. In the storyline of the film, the song is written for Davis' character: the aging Southern belle Charlotte Hollis, by her would-be lover John Mayhew whose murder thirty-seven years ago is generally ascribed to Charlotte. The song also effectively functions as the film's theme as its lyrics in effect reference how Charlotte will obsess over her lost love throughout most of her"
"popularity. In the early 19th century, Jane was again seen as a name with a certain amount of glamour. Joan became more popular in the early to mid-20th century, when it was ranked in the top 500 most popular names given to girls in the United States, but the name has again been displaced by Jane on the popularity charts in the 21st century. Alternate forms include: Jane Doe or Jane Roe is used in American law as a placeholder name for anonymous or unknown female participants in legal proceedings. ""Jane Roe"" was the legal pseudonym used by Norma McCorvey"
"sea shanties that the sailors on the player's ship may begin singing while sailing between islands while out of combat. In The Mentalist episode ""Ladies in Red"" Patrick Jane sings the tune to himself whilst attempting to find the correct code to open the victim's panic room. Australian singer-songwriter Sarah Blasko produced a cover of the song which featured in the series """". Spanish Ladies ""Spanish Ladies"" (Roud 687) is a traditional British naval song, describing a voyage from Spain to the Downs from the viewpoint of ratings of the Royal Navy. A ballad by the name ""Spanish Ladies"" was"
"names has also been popular with Christians because Saint Anne is traditionally the name of the mother of the Virgin Mary. Marianne (given name) Marianne is a female name. It is the French version of the Greek Mariamne, which is a variant of Mary, ultimately from the Hebrew Miriam, Mirjam (Aramaic: ""Mariam"") In late Greek ""Marianna"" was used. In 18th century France Marianne became a popular name as a variant of Marian, Marie. It can also be seen as a combination of Marie and Anne. It gave inspiration to several double names such as ""Marie-Anne"", ""Anne-Marie"" as well as other"
"in the 2017 film, """", by a character named Uncle Jack, portrayed by Paul McCartney. Maggie May (folk song) ""Maggie May"" (or ""Maggie Mae"") (Roud 1757) is a traditional Liverpool folk song about a prostitute who robbed a ""homeward bounder"": a sailor coming home from a round trip. John Manifold, in his ""Penguin Australian Song Book"", described it as ""A foc'sle song of Liverpool origin apparently, but immensely popular among seamen all over the world"". It became widely circulated in a skiffle version from the late 1950s. In 1964, the composer and lyricist Lionel Bart (the creator of the musical"
"or one of its variants include Anne Briggs, Martin Carthy, Liam Clancy, Chris Willett, Bert Jansch, Espers, Paul Wassif and Rebecca Hall. Rosemary Lane (song) Rosemary Lane or Bell Bottom Trousers is an English folksong: a ballad ( Roud #269, Laws K43) that tells a story about the seduction of a domestic servant by a sailor. According to Roud and Bishop """"An extremely widespread song, in Britain and America. Its potential for bawdry means that it was popular in male-centred contexts such as rugby clubs, army barracks and particularly in the navy, where it can still be heard, but traditional"
"rather than in his previous talk-singing in the Rex Harrison style, seen earlier in ""The Life I Lead."" This musical number also appears in the ""Sing Along Songs"" series of Disney videos. Although the notion of Mary Poppins gliding down a kite is mentioned incidentally in one of the P.L. Travers books, the metaphor of the mended kite (being a symbol of the mended Banks family) is taken from the 1961 Sherman Brothers screenplay treatment. The song was inspired by the Sherman Brothers' father, Al Sherman, who besides being a well-known songwriter in his day was also an amateur kite"
"for Best Written American Musical. The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: Performance credits below indicate both singing and dancing unless otherwise noted. One musical number, a seductive performance of ""Mr. Monotony"" by Garland wearing a tuxedo jacket, black fedora, and black nylons (a style of dress which would become something of a trademark in later years after she wore the same outfit in ""Summer Stock""), was cut from the film as it was deemed too risqué for a film supposedly set in 1912. Audiences finally got to see it in the 90s when an edited"
"the traditional ""When the Caissons Go Rolling Along"". The United States Marine Corps and US Naval Academy use a modified version of the Old King Cole lyrics, referencing Chesty Puller: ""Chesty Puller was a good Marine and a good Marine was he"". In the United States, what are now known as cadences were called ""jody calls"" or ""jody"" (also ""jodie"") from a recurring character, a civilian named ""Jody"", whose luxurious lifestyle is contrasted with military deprivations in a number of traditional calls. The mythical Jody refers to a civilian who remains at home instead of joining the military service. Jody"
"A Spoonful of Sugar ""A Spoonful of Sugar"" is a song from Walt Disney's 1964 film and the musical versions of ""Mary Poppins"", composed by Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman. It is an uptempo song sung by Mary Poppins (Julie Andrews), instructing the two children, Jane (Karen Dotrice) and Michael (Matthew Garber) to clean their room. But even though the task is daunting, with a good attitude, it can still be fun. The melody is heard throughout the film as Mary's leitmotif. As part of the interlude, she sees that Michael couldn't get out of the closet doors"
"recorded artist in music history. Popular Indian singers include: Popular playback singers of Nepal include: Famous Pakistani playback singers include: Playback singing is not as common in contemporary Hollywood as musicals are less frequent. It was, however, more widely used in the past. Notable Hollywood performances include Marni Nixon in ""West Side Story"" for Natalie Wood's portrayal of Maria, in ""The King and I"" for Deborah Kerr's Anna Leonowens, and for Audrey Hepburn's Eliza in ""My Fair Lady""; Bill Lee singing for John Kerr's Lieutenant Cable in ""South Pacific"" and for Christopher Plummer's Captain von Trapp in ""The Sound of"
"the manga, having settled on the name ""Josie Jones"", essentially nullifies this. The 2001 movie establishes her surname as Valentine, a name that Archie Comics has accepted. Many comic stories use Melody's beauty as a plot device. When male characters see her, they uncontrollably fall for her and lose all sense of anything else, frequently leading to chaos; although, she is usually oblivious to this. Despite any trouble that occurs for her or her friends, Melody maintains a cheerful, optimistic attitude. In the cartoon series, whenever the group is in a dangerous or potentially dangerous situation, Melody's ears would wiggle."