Males are innovative songsters, frequently plagiarising phrases from rivals and integrating them into their own tunes.
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A MINUS The Rough Guide to the Blues Songsters (World Music Network) Take the notes' terminological drift as a sign.
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These yellow-breasted songsters of America's wide open landscapes depend on healthy grasslands that play an important role in filtering water runoff.
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The club quickly became an heir apparent to the Village's old coffeehouses, which were peopled by poets and folk songsters in the 1950s and '60s.
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Unusual for a songbird, both males and females sing — and though they are not considered the most brilliant songsters, their flutelike voice is rich and memorable.
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But no composer has investigated it as methodically as Messiaen, for whom nature's songsters offered an escape from the default-mode serialism or historicism that inhibited French music in the middle of the 20th century.
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His other books on the subject included "Songsters and Saints: Vocal Traditions on Race Records" (1984), "Broadcasting the Blues: Black Blues in the Segregation Era" (2006) and "Barrelhouse Blues: Location Recordings and the Early Traditions of the Blues" (2009).
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Songsters and Saints: Vocal Traditions on Race Records. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 186. . and Chris SmithSmith, C. (1995). CD booklet.
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Cohen, Norm. “The Forget-Me-Not Songsters and Their Role in the American Folksong Tradition.” American Music, vol. 23, no. 2, 2005, pp. 137–219.
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The Salvation Army - Parramatta has a number of music sections, including Brass Band, Contemporary Worship Ensemble, Songsters, and junior groups. These serve the primary purpose of supporting corporate worship.
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He is an Ambassador for Girlguiding UK in Birmingham and also Patron of two charities: Side by Side Theatre Company (Stourbridge) and Wings, both charities for people with learning or development difficulties. He is a Vice-President of the Gentlemen Songsters Male Voice Choir,Gentlemen Songsters Male Voice Choir – Our History . Gsmvc.org.uk. Retrieved 12 October 2012. a local Patron of Fairtrade and in 2011 was made Honorary Colonel of the Warwickshire and West Midlands (South Sector) Army Cadet Force.
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The songster tradition both pre-dated and co-existed with blues music. It began soon after the end of slavery and the Reconstruction era in the United States, when African-American musicians became able to travel and play music for a living. Black and white musicians shared the same repertoire and thought of themselves as "songsters" rather than "blues" musicians. Songsters generally performed a wide variety of folk songs, ballads, dance tunes, reels and minstrel songs.
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Mahar 397 note 40. At least four versions of the song were published with different lyrics during the 19th century.Winans 149. A parody called "Clar de Track" appears in some playbills and songsters.
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Edward Chicken (1698–1746) was a Tyneside born teacher, poet and Parish Clerk. One of his poems was "The Collier’s Wedding". He was one of the earliest of the Geordie poets and songsters.
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Versions were printed in more songsters and performed in more minstrel shows than any other popular song in the antebellum period. In blackface minstrelsy, the name Lucy came to signify any sexually promiscuous woman.
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The term Kathakas in the sense of "storytellers" appears in ancient Hindu texts, such as the Mahabharata: Bards, actors, dancers, songsters and musical reciters of legends and stories are mentioned hundreds of times in the Hindu Epics.
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In 2003, Somers Songsters recorded the "IBM One Hundred Percent Club" song, to the tune of "I've Been Working On The Railroad", for the archives at the Somers complex as part of the IBM music reference room effort.
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White-crowned shamas are bred by local aviculturists in Borneo as cage-birds valued for their singing ability. They continue to be trapped as it is believed that wild-caught young birds are stronger, and better songsters, than those bred in captivity.
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Sacks and Sacks 14. Their shows had no great spectacle aside from some animated dancing. They gathered their repertoire from sheet music, mail order, library songsters, and by playing with other musicians. The Snowdens could not read music, so they learned everything by ear.
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However, there was also a change in song styles. Songsters often sang composed songs or traditional ballads, frequently about legendary heroes or characters such as "Frankie and Johnny" and "Stagger Lee". Blues singers, in contrast, tended to invent their own lyrics (or recycle those of others) and develop their own tunes and guitar (or sometimes piano) playing styles, singing of their own lives and shared emotional experiences. Many of the earliest recordings of what is now referred to as the blues were made by songsters who commanded a much wider repertoire, often extending to popular Tin Pan Alley songs of the day as well as the "authentic" country blues.
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A typical performance takes 30 minutes. The songs are: # "Summer Schemes" # "When I Set Out for Lyonnesse" # "Waiting Both" # "The Phantom" # "So I Have Fared" # "Rollicum-Rorum" # "To Lizbie Browne" # "The Clock of the Years" # "In a Churchyard" # "Proud Songsters" The title of the cycle is taken from "Proud Songsters":'''' The music critic Stephen Banfield has written, "in some ways this is Finzi’s richest score". The cycle contains two of Finzi's best-known songs in "Rollicum-Rorum" and "To Lizbie Browne"; which the composer himself described as "the two worst in the set" - "an opinion which says more about Finzi’s introvert character than his artistic judgement".
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Winans 147–8. Mahar's research found that "Miss Lucy Long" is the second most frequent song in popular songsters from this period, behind only "Mary Blane". The song enjoyed a resurgence in popularity from 1855–60, when minstrelsy entered a nostalgic phase under some companies.Mahar 36.
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However, there is no evidence for any of this.Rammel 91. Instead, Emmett may merely have written the words. Even these seem to partially derive from an earlier minstrel song called "Walk Along John" or "Oh, Come Along John", first published in various songsters in the early 1840s.
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"How Come You Do Me Like You Do?" became a national hit in 1924 for Marion Harris.Hollywood Songsters: Allyson to Funicello. James Robert Parish and Michael R. Pitts. Routledge, 2003. . p. 55 Austin would later achieve even greater fame with his recording of "My Blue Heaven" in 1927.
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In some cases, the books' color plates included handwritten poems framed by Skelding's floral designs. A number of the books she produced, such as Songsters of the Branches, were ribbon-bound. Skelding also chose the poems for a series of books featuring birds; these were illustrated by the artist Fidelia Bridges.
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The AUE is home to many Salvation Army musical sections, at Corps, Divisional and Territorial levels. Some groups of note include the Sydney Staff Songsters (Territorial), The Sydney Youth Band (Divisional). This territory is also well known for having many Salvation Army Bands, a list of which is found here.
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Including the recording also selected for the Anthology of American Folk Music five of Brown's six known recordings appear on the compilation album The Greatest Songsters: Complete Works (1927–1929). His sixth recorded song, “Great Northern Blues,” was not released and is considered to be lost. Brown died in 1937, probably in New Orleans.
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Prior to the emergence of medieval itinerant poets, there were already strolling minstrels in ancient Greece. An account also identified these strolling songsters as Rhapsodists during Homer's time. These were more than entertainers, with an account describing them as men who recorded honorable feats and aristocratic genealogies. They were thus supported by a culture of patronage.
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It begins after Oberon has ordered Puck to anoint the eyes of Demetrius with the love-juice. Titania and her fairies merrily revel ("Come all ye songsters of the sky"), and Night ("See, even Night"), Mystery ("Mystery's song"), Secrecy ("One charming night") and Sleep ("Hush, no more, be silent all") lull them asleep and leave them to pleasant dreams.
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His songs were later promoted by fellow protest songsters, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, and Joe Glazer. After disappearing from the public eye for almost forty years, Handcox emerged in the 1980s for the 50th anniversary celebration of the STFU in Memphis. In 1984, he composed two songs criticizing the presidency of Ronald Reagan."John L. Handcox." www.rambles.net.
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Having a complex song is also useful in defending a territory and deterring less experienced males from encroaching. Singing also occurs outside the breeding season, taking place throughout the year apart from the moulting period. The songsters are more commonly male although females also sing on occasion. The function of such out-of-season song is poorly understood.
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In 1758 Mrs. Arne's friend Mrs Delany wrote "the race of Youngs are born songsters and musicians" after hearing Young play the harpsichord. She notably portrayed the role of Ariel in William Shakespeare's The Tempest at the Smock Alley Theatre in 1761. Playwright John O'Keeffe was particularly taken by her performance and complimented her on her "charming face and small figure".
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The kibbutz movements distributed songsters and established the singalong as a central daily event in kibbutz life. Public singalongs were also seen as a way of teaching Hebrew to new immigrants from Europe and, later, from Middle Eastern countries. The state radio has also been a powerful force in promoting the Hebrew song. Until 1990, all radio and television stations were government owned and controlled.
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Gene Fowler's article entitled "'Physic Opera' on the Road: Texas Musicians in Medicine Shows". Journal of Texas Music History, 8(1) (2008); p. 11 As these shows declined, and listening to recorded music and dancing in juke joints and honky tonks became more popular, so the older songster style became less fashionable. Songsters had a notable influence on blues music, which developed from around the turn of the 20th century.
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Agutin’s family is Jewish. He was born in Moscow on July 16, 1968. His father was Nikolai Petrovich Agutin, a musician, and his mother was Lyudmila Leonidovna Shkol'nikova, an elementary school teacher. His father was a singer in the Soviet band VIA "Golubiye Gitary" (Blue Guitars) and worked as a manager for the popular Soviet musical groups "Veseliye Rebyata" (Happy Kids), "Poyuschiye Serdtsa" (Singing Hearts), and "Pesniary" (Songsters).
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Musicians were therefore segregated into two categories: gospel singers and blues singers, guitar preachers and songsters. However, when rural black music began to be recorded in the 1920s, both categories of musicians used similar techniques: call-and-response patterns, blue notes, and slide guitars. Gospel music was nevertheless using musical forms that were compatible with Christian hymns and therefore less marked by the blues form than its secular counterpart.
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In New York City, he was fortunate to become well acquainted with two venerated older Irish songsters: Joe Heaney of Carna, Co. Galway and the celebrated Traveler, Margaret Barry of Cork City. Other early influences include Ewan MacColl, Dominic Behan and The Clancy Brothers. He was a founding member of The Flying Cloud, who played at the Philadelphia Folk Festival in 1977 and recorded one eponymous LP for Adelphi Records the same year.
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An account of all the major developments in the tradition was published in Frank Wallace's The History of the Little Flock Hymnbook (it does maintain an anti-Taylor bias). Also by Frank Wallace, Spiritual Songsters contains biographies of many hymnwriters found in the Little Flock tradition and is published by Chapter Two. Adrian Roach wrote a History of the 1881 edition containing much biographical information on the hymnwriters. It is published by Bible Truth Publishers.
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Francis Thomas "Frank" Cox (4 December 192010 November 2007) and Frederick "Fred" Cox (4 December 192028 September 2013), known as The Cox Twins, were British entertainers in the Music Hall tradition. They were identical twin brothers. Their career began with Steffani's Songsters and they then appeared in the Ralph Reader RAF Gang Shows during World War II, touring Europe and North Africa. Later they went into Variety, performing in summer seasons and pantomime.
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By the end of March, "Old Dan Tucker" was a hit, and it quickly became the Virginia Minstrels' most popular song.Nathan 121. Robert Winans found the song on 49% of the minstrel playbills he surveyed from the 1843–1847 period (behind only "Miss Lucy Long"),Winans 148. and research by musicologist William J. Mahar suggests that it was behind only "Mary Blane" and "Lucy Long" in its frequency of publication in antebellum songsters.
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The name of F. C. Germon (or German) appears in credits as well.Mahar 405 note 37. Regardless of who originally wrote or composed it, "Mary Blane" was by far the most popular song in the lost-lover genre in antebellum blackface minstrelsy. Research by musicologist William J. Mahar's has found versions of the song in more songsters published between 1843 and 1860 than any other number, edging out such hits as "Miss Lucy Long" and "Old Dan Tucker".
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There is a growing view among scholarsFor example, Elijah Ward, Escaping The Delta, 2005, that the distinction made by experts such as Alan Lomax between "deep" blues singers and "songsters" is an artificial one, and that in fact most of the leading archetypal blues artists, including Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters, performed a wide variety of music in public, but recorded only that proportion of their material which was seen by their producers as original or innovative.
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As a teenager, Worsley helped with clearing bush on Banks Peninsula that is now being restored, and he wrote later in life: > It was a mad waste. The colonists in their greed for more grass seed and > sheep pasture burned millions of pounds worth of timber. They recklessly > destroyed the wonderful beauty of the bush, baring the soil until it was > carried away by landslides, and lowered the rainfall, and laid waste the > homes of countless sweet songsters.
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It has been said: "What the Marseilles Hymn was to Frenchmen, 'Tippecanoe and Tyler Too' was to the Whigs of 1840." In 1872 an attempt was made to revive the air for "Greeley Is the Real True Blue." The words, sometimes with music, of campaign songs were distributed in paper-covered song books or "songsters." Among these were the Log Cabin Song Book of 1840 and Hutchinson's Republican Songster for the presidential campaign of 1860, compiled by J. W. Hutchinson.
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Holland was born Margaret Foster in Pedmore, a suburb of Stourbridge, the youngest of eight children. She attended Stourbridge High School and began clerical work at British Road Services in Kingswinford, later working as a telephonist in Birmingham for a firm of stockbrokers. She began taking singing lessons and performed, at first, in some local musicals and with a Kingswinford-based male choir, the Gentlemen Songsters in Stourbridge."Sadness at acclaimed Stourbridge-born singer's death", Stourbridge News, 16 April 2014Stevenson, David and Elaine.
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The two largest, most successful American medicine shows were Hamlin's Wizard Oil Company, founded in Chicago by John and Lysander Hamlin, and the Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company, founded in 1881 by Charles Bigelow and John Healey. Hamlin's Wizard Oil Company troupes travelled in specially designed wagons, with built-in organs and space for musical performers. Their appeal was clean, moral, musical entertainment for the whole family. Part of their advertising included songsters, or small booklets of song lyrics and Wizard Oil advertising.
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These are still seen in public at Army campaigns, as well as at other festivals, parades and at Christmas. Across the world the brass band has been an integral part of the Army's ministry and an immediately recognisable symbol to Salvationists and non-Salvationists alike. The Salvation Army also has choirs; these are known as Songster Brigades, normally comprising the traditional soprano, alto, tenor and bass singers. The premier Songster Brigade in the Salvation Army is the International Staff Songsters (ISS).
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Gordon Rossiter is well known within the international movement of the Salvation Army, which he has documented through the medium of oil painting and ceramics. Motifs show amongst other things the activities of the Salvation Army, open-air services in the streets and market places, marching bands, songsters and Christmas caroling. He has also portrayed many musicians and soldiers. Besides these subjects Rossiter has a great fascination for landscapes, being inspired by the Scottish Highlands and Swedish forests and lakes.
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In June 2003 a choral work for mixed voices `Veni Emmanuel` was premiered by the International Staff Songsters of the Salvation Army at the Royal Albert Hall London. Kenneth Downie was selected to write the test piece for the Championship Section of the European Brass Band Championships, which was held in Glasgow in April 2004. The work is called St Magnus and is a set of variations on that tune. St Magnus was also selected in 2008 as the North American Brass Band Championships test piece.
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Retrieved March 17, 2014. After her extended visit to England, Bridges returned to the Browns home, where she continued to work and live much of the time. She spent a year working as a governess to Mark Twain's three daughters starting in 1883; Twain was also a collector of her work. In collaboration with the illustrator and book editor Susie Barstow Skelding, she created several books of poetry with her bird illustrations, including Winged Flower Lovers, and Songsters of the Branches during the 1880s.
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He also worked in the circus business, and as a comic singer in variety revues. He established himself as a popular songwriter during a four-year run at Robert Butler's American Music Hall, a variety theater located at 444 Broadway in what is now called Soho, but was then the heart of the lower Manhattan theater district. Pastor published "songsters," books of his lyrics which were sung to popular tunes. The music had no notation, as it was assumed that the audience had a collective knowledge of popular song.
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He was poet and singer and maintained an inordinately a large number of musicians and minstrels (three or four thousand) at his court. The band of musicians was known as Lashkar-e-Nauras (army of Nauras) they were paid by the government regularly. At Nauraspur he constructed Sangeet Mahal and residential mansions for songsters, minstrels and dancing girls. With great pomp the festival of Nauras (musical concert) was celebrated during his time. In a number of paintings Ibrahim Adil Shah II was depicted playing musical instruments like ‘’Tambur’’, ‘’Sitar’’, ‘’Veena’’ and ‘’Guitar’’.
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The work is most well known in its original setting and the composer's orchestral version. The most important are his arrangements for cello and piano, and for viola and piano; and by his friend A. Herbert Brewer for organ. There are arrangements for other instruments, including oboe and piano, recorder ensemble (Dom Gregory Murray), brass quintet (Roger Harvey),Roger Harvey, trombonist in the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble and for brass band and wind band. There is an adaptation for voice and piano published in 1960, "Haste ye feathered songsters", to words by Laurence Swinyard.
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A spectacular display with background music wows the crowds each year at Waterside Farm Showground, Canvey. Each year the Mayor of Castle Point holds a carol service at Runnymede Hall, Thundersley. Open to the public, this event is free to attend and is supported by the Salvation Army band and songsters. Now an annual event is The Noise Arts Festival, which was established in 2011 and takes place during the October half term, it is a mixture of comedy, music, workshops, and art across a number of venues mainly in the Thundersley area.
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"I'se The B'y" (also I's The Bye) is a traditional Newfoundland folk song/ballad. "I's the B'y" is in the Newfoundland English dialect, and translates to standard English as "I'm the Boy" or "I'm the Guy". The Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame decided to honour the song in 2005, officially accepting it as part of the Canadian Song Hall of Fame. Native Newfoundland folk songs have fared well in terms of continued popularity, due in part to their appearance in widely circulated publications such as Gerald S. Doyle's songsters.
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On July 27, 1901 appeared as one of National Police Gazette headlines for reviews of popular entertainers, "Paragraphs of Interest Concerning the Stage Lives and Doings of Vaudeville People, Here can be Found Many Items Which Will Interest Performers as Well as Theater Goers, Professionals Requested to Send in Photos." On the list of favorably reviewed entertainers that included ventriloquists, minstrels, songsters, aerialists, and comedians was listed Pat H. Chappelle and his The Rabbit's Foot Company among other vaudeville shows."Paragraphs of Interest of Vaudeville People Concerning the Stage ..." National Police Gazette, July 27, 1901.
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The band has released numerous CDs which are used in worship in many smaller Corps. The Songster Brigade is an 'adult choir' and is made up of men and women of all ages. They participate in Sunday meetings as an expression of and aid to worship. The Songsters have undertaken numerous tours of different parts of Australia, and have joined with other Songster groups on occasions, as part of a massed chorus and as a solo choir at events at the Sydney Opera House, and the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre.
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The Basic Uniform for most territories is Men White Shirt, Navy Blue Jacket, Navy Blue Trousers, Navy Blue Tie, Navy Blue Peaked Cap, Ladies White Blouse Navy Blue Jacket, Navy Blue Skirt, A white or blue gilded brooch, Navy Blue Bowler style hat, In Summer (May - September) Soldiers wear Summer Uniform which involves Ladies opting to wear an open neck blouse. Men wear short sleeves. All Soldiers wear epaulettes which are Navy blue for Soldiers and pale blue for Songsters and Bandsman. Some Female soldiers now opt to wear trousers in lieu of a skirt.
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144) He acknowledged his indebtedness to two ornithologists who provided him with information for his essay on Our Feathered Songsters, but commented parenthetically "I only wish they would not use their little guns so much."(p. 145) He also remarked negatively on catching trout in freshwater streams ("they are more beautiful there than in our fish basket" Logging of coast redwoods was well underway in the later 1800s along the central and northern California coast. In his 1879 booklet Anderson wrote of his concerns: > REDWOOD FORESTS . . . Although the supply of timber is very great in the > mountains it cannot be considered inexhaustible.
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R. Reid, Children's Jukebox: A Subject Guide to Musical Recordings and Programming Ideas for Songsters Ages One to Twelve, (ALA Editions, 1995), p. 98. Raffi's version of the song replaces the various foods with ones that would be more familiar to an American audience: spaghetti for Aikendrum's hair, meatballs for his eyes, cheese for his nose, and pizza for his mouth. This version was also the Barney & Friends version. A version of the song is included on the Folkways album "A Folk Concert in Town Hall, New York," recorded on January 1, 1959 and featuring Oscar Brand, Jean Ritchie, and David Sear.
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The main structure houses the two theaters that serve as performance spaces for the university's Department of Theatre Arts: the 478-seat Charity Randall Theatre and 151-seat Henry Heymann Theatre. The left wing of the building houses the Stephen Foster Memorial Museum and the Center for American Music which contains the University of Pittsburgh's Stephen Foster Collection and archive that includes manuscripts, copies of over 200 of his musical compositions, examples of recordings, songsters, broadside, programs, books, various memorabilia, and several musical instruments, including one of Foster's pianos. The memorial is also home to the university's Ethelbert Nevin Collection and the Society for American Music.
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In Nothing but the Blues. pp. 233–263. Though musicologists can now attempt to define the blues narrowly in terms of certain chord structures and lyric forms thought to have originated in West Africa, audiences originally heard the music in a far more general way: it was simply the music of the rural south, notably the Mississippi Delta. Black and white musicians shared the same repertoire and thought of themselves as "songsters" rather than blues musicians. The notion of blues as a separate genre arose during the black migration from the countryside to urban areas in the 1920s and the simultaneous development of the recording industry.
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In all but title, Lett was Ottawa's first poet laureate producing some two hundred and twenty-two poems and songs in his lifetime not including the many snippets of verse with which he habitually embellished his public speeches. His poetry provides a poetic editorial on many personalities and events in Canada's 19th century. His topics include: affection and romance; religion; homelands; loyalty, royalty and the flag; imperial wars and warriors; sporting life; social commentary; Bytown to Ottawa; colony to nation; bereavement, grieving and solace; reflections; and poets, poetry and songsters. They are full of the religious and political fire-and-brimstone rhetoric of the time.
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It has more recently been covered by Old Crow Medicine Show and White Ghost Shivers. "Cocaine Done Killed My Baby" :This song recorded by Mance Lipscomb has the same refrain, but lacks the "Tell it to me" theme. "Cocaine" :Another song of the same title (sometimes called simply "Cocaine" or "Simply Wild About My Good Cocaine") was recorded by bluesman Luke Jordan in 1927 as "Cocaine Blues", interspersed with verses from another song "Furniture Man".Paul Oliver Songsters and Saints: Vocal Traditions in Race Records, Cambridge University Press, 1984; Wolf-Reienhard Kemper Kokain in der Musik: Bestandsaufnahme und Analyse aus kriminologischer Sicht Song Nr.002-3, p.
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Donovan would also achieve the honour of the biggest selling album of the year with his "Ten Good Reasons" album going multi-platinum before the end of the year. One of the highlights of the Proms was the première of John Tavener's The Protecting Veil, performed by Steven Isserlis and the London Symphony Orchestra. Two new works by John McCabe were also premièred during the year: Sam Variations for violin, viola, cello, doublebass and piano, commissioned and performed by the Schubert Ensemble of London, and String Quartet No 5, performed by the Gabrieli Quartet at the Fishguard Festival. A choral work by McCabe's, Proud Songsters, was written to celebrate the 70th birthday of Stephen Wilkinson.
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Doll Face (1945), Miranda's first black-and-white film for Fox After World War II, Miranda's films at Fox were produced in black-and-white, indicative of Hollywood's diminishing interest in her and Latin Americans in general. A monochrome Carmen Miranda reduced the box-office appeal of the backstage musical, Doll Face (1945), in which she was fourth on the bill. Miranda played Chita Chula, billed in the show-within-the-film as "the little lady from Brazil"—a cheerful comic sidekick to leading lady Doll Face (Vivian Blaine) with one musical number and little dialogue. A New York Herald Tribune review read, "Carmen Miranda does what she always does, only not well";Hollywood Songsters: Garland to O'Connor. p.
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The Ex in 2008 Born in 1980 in Ethiopia, Melaku Belay lived as an orphan on the streets of Addis Ababa. As a child Belay earned a living shining shoes and taught himself to dance through participation in folk traditions and religious festivals. He worked for seven years as a dancer for tips in Addis Ababa's Kazanchis neighborhood at a local azmari bet—a tavern that hosts azmari story-songsters who accompany themselves on the masenko (a one-stringed violin) or krar (a type of lyre). Each night after work, the young Melaku slept under the bar and eventually saved enough money to buy the club, Fendika Azmari Bet, from its owners.
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Burl Ives' hit version, titled "Lavender Blue", was featured in the Walt Disney film So Dear to My Heart,James Robert Parish, Michael R. Pitts, Hollywood Songsters: Garland to O'Connor, Taylor & Francis, 2003, p.404 and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Subsequently there was a revival of interest in the song, several versions of which have been released in the US and the UK and achieved success in the charts. These include Sammy Kaye's 1949 version, charting at #5; Dinah Shore's in 1949 on her album Lavender Blue went to #1 on the Australian chart; and Sammy Turner's in 1959 reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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Tomson is a member of the Cash for Kids charity.Metro Radio – Cash for Kids charity, Metro Radio She was also the 2008 vice-president for the Tsunami Fund Raising charity,Our History Gentlemen Songsters Male Voice Choir when she helped to raise money for students at the Ban Kamala School, devastated by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. She is a patron of Someone Cares and in 2009 took part in the Great North Run to raise funds and awareness for the charity.Our Patron – Philippa Tomson Someone Cares In 2010 she ran the event for Brysons Animal Refuge and Ark on the Edge animal sanctuary, while in 2012 she ran again in aid of Ark on the Edge and also the Children's Heart Unit at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne.
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When he was 12, he began work in construction. At the age of 13, he worked as a waiter in a restaurant in Singapore before joining a Cantonese opera troupe under Cheng Hsin-pei. In 1928 at the age of 23, he married Chan Yat-chor (), the daughter of the actor known only by his nickname of "Bind-Legged Champ" (), and they had a son David Kwan Hon-chuen (). His film debut was in The Singing Lovers (aka Romance of the Songsters), made in the US for the Grandview Studios and only the second Cantonese-language talkie ever made. His first starring roles came two years later in Song of the Yesterday (aka Yesterday's Song) and Song of Sadness (both 1935). Kwan's first martial arts film was Knight of the Whip (1936).
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Juvenile bird, San José, Costa Rica In much of its range it is familiar in yards and gardens, similar to some other thrushes such as the American robin, the Eurasian blackbird, and the song thrush. In 1977, the Costa Ricans chose the yigüirro as a national symbol (over many much more colorful birds that inhabit the country) due to its strong and melodious song that always comes during the start of the rainy season. In addition, unlike many of the forest songsters of Costa Rica, the present bird has been familiar to the general population since the country's early history, thanks to the species' tendency to live near houses and settlements. The clay-colored thrush usually forages for fruit or invertebrates on the ground or near it, singly or in pairs, but flocks may feed high in fruiting trees.
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Richard Williams was recognised in the 1938 National Eisteddfod for his musical talent and at the age of 15 began touring with a troupe of singers around the music halls of the United Kingdom before returning home to join the fledgling Welsh National Opera. His musical career ended when his baby son contracted meningitis, making him profoundly deaf and Richard, appalled by the facilities to help children with this condition, decided to educate his son himself. With a part-time job selling insurance helping to keep the family going, he devoted the rest of his time to music and formed the Gentleman Songsters in 1951, followed by the Richard Williams Singers in 1965 and the Richard Williams Junior Singers in 1966. Each achieved remarkable success, with frequent broadcasts, recording sessions and tours of Europe and North America.
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Upon election, when asked what he wanted Salvationists to do, Brown said, 'Everything they can to make better known Jesus Christ and his saving power as the only hope for a sinning, suffering world; everything they can to demonstrate indisputably in what they say and do that the grace of God enables men and women to live clean and holy lives filled with the joy of service to God and their fellows; in short, everything they can to bring Heaven to earth.' Brown and his wife travelled extensively during the four- and-a-half years he was in office. In 1980, Brown inaugurated the International Staff Songsters in London, and he continued to maintain a lively interest in their ministry, both in the UK and many other countries where they have travelled. Brown received many honours during his lifetime, recognising his contribution to the field of literature as well as his work in the interests of the poor and underprivileged of society.
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