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Aeglagh Vannin

The Society asked Mona Douglas, a leading authority on Manx culture, to deliver a talk on local folk song during their stay.

And Quiet Flows the Don

The lyrics for the folk song "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" by Pete Seeger and Joe Hickerson were adapted from a cossack folk song mentioned in And Quiet Flows the Don.

Automobile folklore

The figure is well known enough to have inspired a folk song Plastic Jesus, originally attributed to Ed Rush and George Cromarty, which has acquired many anonymous folk variants.

Blackleg Miner

Blackleg Miner is a 19th-century English folk song, originally from Northumberland (as can be deduced from the dialect in the song and the references in it to the villages of Seghill and Seaton Delaval).

Čížečku, čížečku

Čížečku, čížečku ("Siskin, o Little Siskin") is a traditional Czech children's folk song and a singing game which was performed in the past as an annual custom supposed to enhance the yield of poppy.

Edgmond, Shropshire

The folk song "The Edgmond Man's Souling Song" was released by folk musicians John Kirkpatrick and Sue Harris on their 1976 album Among The Many Attractions at the Show will be a Really High Class Band.

Eucalyptus coolabah

"Waltzing Matilda"—the coolabah tree is mentioned in this famous folk song

Fyvie

A folk song The Bonnie Lass o' Fyvie tells of a captain of dragoons who dies for the love of a Fyvie girl.

Green Bushes

Green Bushes is an English folk song (Roud #1040, Laws P2) which is featured in the second movement of Ralph Vaughan Williams' English Folk Song Suite, in Percy Grainger's Green Bushes (Passacaglia on an English Folksong), and in George Butterworth's The Banks of Green Willow.

Homarus gammarus

Homarus gammarus is traditionally "highly esteemed" as a foodstuff and was mentioned in "The Crabfish" a seventeenth century English folk song.

Kaleš bre Angjo

Kaleš bre Angjo (Macedonian: Калеш бре Анѓо) is a Macedonian patriotic folk song dating from the times of the Ottoman Empire.

Lambton Castle

This is also commonly mistaken to be the resting place of the mythical Lambton Worm, as depicted in the famous North East folk song, but locally the credit goes to the nearby Worm Hill, in Fatfield.

Live sådan

Live sådan contains two songs not written by Gasolin' themselves: "Keep on Knockin'" by Perry Bradford and made famous by Little Richard, and "Sort, sort, sort" which is an old Danish folk song.

London Court

The Fayre featured volunteers dressed in Elizabethan style costumes and included evening dramatic programmes and musical items, including excerpts from Twelfth Night, madrigals and folk singing.

Magnus Maximus

The popular Welsh folk song Yma o Hyd, recorded by Dafydd Iwan in 1981, recalls Macsen Wledig and celebrates the continued survival of the Welsh people since his days.

Mátyás Seiber

His output includes Ulysses (1947), a cantata on words by James Joyce and a clarinet concertino; scores to animated films, including Animal Farm (1954); a setting of the Scottish "poet and tragedian" William McGonagall's work, The Famous Tay Whale (written for the second of Gerard Hoffnung's music festivals); three string quartets; and choral arrangements of Hungarian and Yugoslav folk songs.

Nina Simone in Concert

"Go Limp", a humorous Folk song about a girl who is warned by her mother not to join the NAACP because it would cost her virginity.

Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1

Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1 in E Minor (1906, rev. 1914) is an orchestral rhapsody by Ralph Vaughan Williams based on folk songs he had collected in the English county of Norfolk, in particular in the port town of King's Lynn and the surrounding region.

Part song

Composers have also successfully used the part song medium to make contemporary arrangements of traditional folk song including that of Scotland, England, Wales and Ireland.

Play party

Folk songs, many of European and English origin, were used as means to give the attendants choreographed movements for each phrase.

Smile In Your Sleep

"Smile In Your Sleep", sometimes known as "Hush, Hush, Time To Be Sleeping" (Scots: "Hush, Hush, Time Tae Be Sleepin") is a Scottish folk song and lullaby written by Jim McLean and set to the tune of the Gaelic air, "Chi Mi Na Morbheanna" (literally "I will see the great mountains", or "The Mist Covered Mountain").

Swallow song of Rhodes

The "Swallow song of Rhodes" is the most famous ancient Greek folk song, performed by the children of Rhodes in springtime and preserved by Athenaeus.

The Browns

The group, composed of Jim Ed Brown and his sisters Maxine and Bonnie Brown, had a close, smooth harmony characteristic of the Nashville sound, though their music also combined elements of folk and pop.

Westlake, Daly City, California

For this reason, Westlake has become an icon for architectural blandness, exemplified by its endless rows of boxy houses, which were the inspiration for Malvina Reynolds’ folk song "Little Boxes," an anti-conformity anthem in the 1960s.

Zu Mantua in Banden

Zu Mantua in Banden (also known as the Andreas-Hofer-Lied) is one of the most popular folk songs and, since 1948, the official anthem of the current Austrian State of Tyrol, i.e. the Northern and Eastern part of the former County of Tyrol.


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All the News That's Fit to Sing

Civil rights figures Medgar Evers and Emmett Till were lionized in "Too Many Martyrs" (alternatively known as "The Ballad of Medgar Evers".) Two "talking blues" using the melody to the old folk song "John Hardy" jabbed sarcastic at Vietnam and the Cuban Missile Crisis.

An Awfully Big Adventure

In addition to the original film score composed by Richard Hartley, the Irish folk song "The Last Rose of Summer" is used as O'Hara's theme music throughout the film.

Angel Clare

"Feuilles-Oh/Do Space Men Pass Dead Souls On Their Way To The Moon?", the fifth track of the album, was a combination of the traditional Haitian folk song with a middle section based on the melody of J.S. Bach's "Christmas Oratorio" Choral N°33, and lyrics by Garfunkel's then fiancée, Linda Marie Grossman.

Arkansas Travelers

Both versions of the name derive from the old folk song, The Arkansas Traveler.

Armenian Dances

# Alagyaz (mm. 186–223), a folk song named for a mountain in Armenia, is a broad and majestic song; it serves as a contrast to the fast, upbeat songs that come both before and after.

Babe I'm Gonna Leave You

A fellow folk singer who guested on The Midnight Special, Janet Smith, took up the song and developed it further, playing it live at hootenanny folk-song events at Oberlin College, one performance of which was attended by Joan Baez.

Bairn

Examples of the term's use include the phrase "Jock Tamson's Bairns" as an idiomatic expression of egalitarian sentiment and the title of the 19th century Geordie folk song "Come Geordie ha'd the bairn." "Baloo Baleerie", a traditional Scottish lullaby, incorporates the term repeatedly, as does "The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry", a traditional folk song from Orkney.

Big Wheel Cannonball

It follows the same notes as the folk song Wabash Cannonball by The Carter Family, but its lyrics eulogise trucks and truckers rather than trains.

Champloose

Later, Champloose's version of the Okinawan folk song "Jin Jin" (Firefly) was a minor hit in British discos, and their ballad "Hana" (Flowers), with vocals by Kina's wife, became a weepy favourite in many Asian countries.

Çok Güzel Hareketler Bunlar

In Yilmaz Erdogan's management, BKM Mutfak players takes the stage and to give an active role to the audience, they let audience to rate the games.Yilmaz Erdogan's brother Deniz Erdogan wrote lyrics for a very familiar American folk song "Camptown Race" and that production became the generic music of the program.

Diamantinasaurus

The type species is D. matildae, in reference to the folk song "Waltzing Matilda", which was written by Banjo Paterson in nearby Winton.

Facta Loquuntur

# "House of the Rising Sun" (live, American folk song)

Graham Dodsworth

Dodsworth moved to Hawthorn in 1969 and while attending Kew High School first heard Danny Spooner conducting workshops demonstrating attitudes to the industrial revolution in England, transportation and other aspects of Australian history via folk song performance.

Guillermo Posadas

He composed the Mexican folk song Noche Feliz (Happy Night), recorded by the Italian tenor Enrico Caruso and sung in Spanish.

Hamish Henderson

He was also an accomplished folk song collector and discovered such notable performers as Jeannie Robertson, Flora MacNeil and Calum Johnston.

Hans Georg Nägeli

One version of the tune, sung by a bird (feathered) on Today, was described by its presenters as a "Folk Song", but also appears in various music editions of the Metrical psalter (as the tune "Zurich"), where it is correctly attributed to Nägeli.

Helena National Forest

The forest was the site of the 1949 Mann Gulch fire, which claimed the lives of 13 firefighters and which was the subject of both Norman Maclean's book Young Men and Fire and James Keelaghan's folk song "Cold Missouri Waters."

Idris Davies

He is now best known for the verses Bells of Rhymney from his 1938 Gwalia Deserta (meaning literally "Wasteland of Wales"), which were later adapted into a popular folk song.

Jackie Hyland

Hyland lived for 10 years in Drumshanbo, County Leitrim, Ireland as a child where she was proficient in Irish folk song and dance, appeared in several Irish magazines and newspapers and did runway work.

James Erb

Erb is best known for his various arrangements of the Folk song "Shenandoah", and among musicologists of the Renaissance for his work on the magnificats of Orlando Di Lasso.

Joey Smallwood

Smallwood is referenced in a line in the Newfoundland folk song, "Thank God We're Surrounded by Water" by Tom Cahill and Joan Morrissey.

Joseph H. Thompson

Entitled "Joe Thompson" it was sung to the tune of the American folk song "Old Black Joe" by Stephen Foster.

Kënga e Rexhës

Kënga e Rexhës (en. Rexha's Song) is a ballet by the composer Akil Mark Koci based on the Albanian folk song Kënga e Rexhës also known as Çohu Rexho.

Malaysia Forever

Malaysia Forever is a folk song written by Bobby Gimby in the early 1960s.

Malvina Reynolds

Reynolds was also a noted composer of children's songs, including "Magic Penny" (a traditional London folk song during the 1940s) and "Morningtown Ride," a top five UK single (December 1966) recorded by The Seekers.

Moral waiver

The Group W bench, a key element of Arlo Guthrie's 1967 folk song and extended monologue "Alice's Restaurant", is a reference to the moral waiver provision -- the W stands for "waiver"; he described that key element of the work as a waiting area where he mingled with other potential inductees awaiting consideration under moral waiver.

Old Maldah

Gombhira (Folk Song of Malda), Jatra, Charak and other cultural fair and festivals are celebrated gorgeously.

ONAR

The LP's hit song was "Den hrostao se kanena" (which had been pre-released as a CD-single and had already become golden) with the participation of Vasilis Papakonstantinou and later an adaptation to αν old folk song called "Istoria mou".

Peace, Love, Death Metal

The melody for "Kiss the Devil" is based on the traditional folk song "Sugar Baby".

Polk Miller

Miller's recorded renditions of the traditional gospel song Old-Time Religion, as well as the Confederate war song The Bonnie Blue Flag, as well as the folk song Watermelon Party are featured in the 2013 video game Bioshock: Infinite.

Rio en Medio

Working independently and in secret, she first created "The Bride of Dynamite", a collection of collage-like songs incorporating found sounds and electronic programming, lifting texts from disparate sources, and evoking traditional/folk song structure, themes and melodies.

Robert Pittman

Bob Pittman, sailor narrator of popular Newfoundland folk song "The Ryans and the Pittmans", which was partially composed around 1875 by W. H. LeMessurier and printed in Old Songs of Newfoundland (1912)

Run On

"God's Gonna Cut You Down" (also known as "Run On" or "Run On for a Long Time"), a folk song covered by many artists

Shady, New York

Sidney Robertson Cowell, folk song collector and wife of Henry Cowell (1903-1995)

Space Quest IV

The Astro Chicken theme music is a variation on the Chicken Reel, a traditional folk song best known for its use in animated cartoons.

Steve Ashley

During this period, Karl Dallas frequently linked Ashley’s name with Richard Thompson, as being in the vanguard of a new approach to folk song writing.

T with the Maggies

They were commissioned to record the folk song "Two Sisters" by Sam Shepard for his play Ages of the Moon, which opened in New York and Dublin, starring actors Stephen Rea and Seán McGinley.

The Irish Washerwoman

A folk song called "The Chemist's Drinking Song" is set to this tune with lyrics by John A. Carroll, based on an idea by Isaac Asimov.

Ticklish Reuben

"Ticklish Reuben" is a folk song written by Cal Stewart in 1900.

Timeline of Electronic Frontier Foundation actions

EFF successfully defends JibJab, the creators of a parody flash animation piece using Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land", and uncovered evidence that the classic folk song is in fact already part of the public domain.

Trutovsky

Vasily Fyodorovich Trutovsky (c. 1740–c. 1810), Ukrainian folk-song collector and composer

Virginia City, Nevada

"Darcy Farrow", a folk song written by Steve Gillette and Tom Campbell, mentions Virginia City and other places and landmarks in the area (including Yerington, the Carson Valley, and the Truckee River).

Volga-Volga

According to Orlova, the name of the film is taken from a popular Russian folk song, Stenka Razin, that Alexandrov sang while rowing with Charlie Chaplin in San Francisco Bay.

Wildwood

"Wildwood Flower", a traditional American folk song often associated with the Carter Family

Yaumati Kaifong Association School

Examples: The Yau Tsim Mong No-drug Alliance Kick-Off Ceremony in 14-02-09,Choir-The 8th English Folk Song Contest, The Yau Tsim Mong National Day and East Asian Games Parade in 20 September 2009 and many more.

Yerington, Nevada

"Darcy Farrow," a folk song written by Steve Gillette and Tom Campbell, mentions Yerington ("Her eyes shone bright like the pretty lights / That shine in the night out of Yerington town," 7-8) and other places and landmarks in the area, including Virginia City, the Carson Valley, and the Truckee River.

甜蜜蜜

"甜蜜蜜", a song by Teresa Teng, derivative of Indonesian folk song "Dayung Sampan"