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unusual facts about Popular Songs


Oppa, Oppa

Then, a month after the performance, SM Entertainment announced that both Donghae and Eunhyuk will promote the song on music shows: Music Bank on 16 December, Music Core on 17 December and Inkigayo on 18 December.



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Aleksandër Peçi

He graduated from the State Conservatory in Tirana (1974), then worked as the director of Palace of Culture in Përmet; from 1979 he was the artistic director of the National Ensemble of Popular Songs and Dances.

Anushka Manchanda

She later worked several times with him to create popular songs like "Thee Pidikka" (Arinthum Ariyamalum), "Kudakooli" (Kalvanin Kadhali), "Money Money" (Thimiru) and "Oh..Oh..Ennanamo" (Chennai 600028).

APEC Singapore 2009

The highlights of the night are the performance of the theme song by popular local artiste Kit Chan, written by Dick Lee, and a cover of popular songs such as Heal the World by the first Singapore Idol winner, Taufik Batisah.

Billboard Brasil

The overall chart is the Brasil Hot 100 Airplay, which is also split between regional music - forró, Axé, sertanejo, pagode - on Brasil Hot Popular Songs, and pop music - both Brazilian and foreign - on Brasil Hot Pop Songs.

Boswell Sisters

Connee's reworkings of the melodies and rhythms of popular songs, together with Glenn Miller's arrangements, and New York jazz musicians (including The Dorsey Brothers, Benny Goodman, Bunny Berigan, Fulton McGrath, Joe Venuti, Arthur Schutt, Eddie Lang, Joe Tarto, Manny Klein, Dick McDonough, and Carl Kress), made these recordings unlike any others.

Carlo Buti

Buti has been called the Bing Crosby and the "Frank Sinatra of Italy", because of his preference for the popular songs of the day over the more operatic-type songs.

Desirée Sparre-Enger

Several of her more popular songs, including "Cowgirl", "17 sai" and "Bumble Bee", have appeared on the Dance Dance Revolution game series.

Douglas Moore

Apart from classical compositions, Moore also composed several popular songs whilst at Yale together with poet and Hotchkiss School mate Archibald MacLeish and later in collaboration with John Jacob Niles.

Elizabeth Gillies

Gillies has a YouTube account called LizGilliesOfficial, where she uploads covers of popular songs including: "Wild Horses" by The Rolling Stones, "You and I" by Lady Gaga, "For No One" by The Beatles, "Jealous Guy" by John Lennon, "Father and Son" by Cat Stevens and "One and Only" by Adele.

Fast and Furry-ous

It also makes use of the popular songs "Winter", "I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover", and "In My Merry Oldsmobile".

Frank R. Adams

Adams wrote plays, musical comedies, and lyrics for popular songs, such as "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now".

Gabriele Oriali

Oriali is cited in the Luciano Ligabue song Una vita da mediano (A life as halfback), one of his most popular songs.

Georgi Parvanov

Bulgarian Christmas is a musical event each year at the time of Christmas in which Bulgarian performers sing their most popular songs in the audience of the President and his wife, and other VIP guests, the event is TV-broadcast on the national channel BNT and funds are being raised by sms and bank accounts.

Hammer Smashed Face

"Hammer Smashed Face" is one of the band's most popular songs, mainly due to a shortened version appearing in the film Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.

Hinduism in the Maldives

Hindi songs are the most popular songs in Maldives, especially the older ones from Mohammed Rafi, Mukesh, Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhonsle, Pankaj Udhas, Manhar Udhas.

Igor Kornelyuk

Igor Kornelyuk wrote more than 200 popular songs, many of which were recorded by popular Russian singers like Mikhail Boyarsky, Anne Veski, Edita Piekha and Philipp Kirkorov, and he wrote the soundtracks for some of the most renowned Russian films and TV-series directed by Vladimir Bortko like Gangsters of Saint-Petersburg, The Idiot, The Master and Margarita and Taras Bulba.

Jan Kal

To English-speaking readers who understand a little Dutch, perhaps his most accessible poems are his many sonnet versions of American popular songs, including those of Buddy Holly, Bob Dylan and his favourite, Frank Sinatra.

Keith Chan Fai-Young

He has Eason Chan, Miriam Yeung composed many songs such as, for example,Eason Chan's "K歌之王","Shall We Talk",Miriam's "少女的祈禱"these songs are very popular,Other popular songs with Jacky Cheung (張學友) and Anita Mui (梅艷芳) chorus of "相愛很難", Hacken Lee (李克勤), Kelly Chan (陳慧琳) chorus of "愛一個人".

La Nave del Olvido

The most popular songs were "La nave del olvido", "Nadie, simplemente nadie" and "Del altar a la tumba", in what proved to be one of the richest productions of José José, combining the talent of composers such as Armando Manzanero, Rubén Fuentes, Dino Ramos and Nacho González, among others.

La Revolución de Emiliano Zapata

In the era of psychedelic rock and under the influence of American hippies of the late 1960s, a young band from Guadalajara headed by Javier Martin del Campo, formed with the intention of interpreting contemporary popular songs of the era in their own style.

Lewis Brown

Lew Brown (1893–1958), lyricist for popular songs in the United States

Los Mustang

In October 1962, Los Mustang recorded their debut album on EMI-Odeon, featuring cover versions of popular songs like "Quinientas Millas", Peter, Paul and Mary's "500 Miles", Johnny Hallyday's "Madison Twist", and Spanish songs "He de saber" and "No lo ves".

Lucio Dalla

The album, however, included one of Dalla's most popular songs, "Nuvolari", named after the famous 1930s Italian racer.

Luis Aguirre Pinto

Four years later he began his first continental tour with Angela Ferrari, European tango performer, and in Lima, composed one of his first popular songs, the waltz Reminiscencia.

Mikhail Matusovsky

He is famous for his lyric poems many of which became lyrics of the popular songs: "School Walz", "In the Damp Earth-Huts", "The Sacred Stone", "The Windows of Moscow", "Don't Forget" and "Moscow Nights" which was sung at the Moscow Youth Festival in 1957 and was played also by American pianist Van Cliburn in the White House in 1979, on the occasion of a visit by the former president of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev.

Moonlight on the Highway

Kenith Trodd, Potter's producer and long-time friend since their days at Oxford, introduced the author to the popular songs of the 1930s and 40s through an article he wrote for the university magazine Isis.

Mrs. Elva Miller

Elva Ruby Connes Miller (October 5, 1907 – July 5, 1996), who recorded under the name "Mrs. Miller", was an American singer who gained some fame in the 1960s for her series of shrill and off-key renditions of then-popular songs such as "Moon River", "Monday, Monday", "A Lover's Concerto" and "Downtown".

Panzerballett

Panzerballett plays both original compositions by guitarist Zehrfeld and his creative arrangements of popular songs from rock ("Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple), to pop ("Ein Bisschen Frieden" by Nicole), to jazz ("Birdland" by Weather Report) to soundtrack (as the title theme The Simpsons).

Paul Misraki

He went to Paris to study classical composition, and by the 1930s had become an established jazz pianist, arranger and writer of popular songs; around this time he began composing film scores, with his first known work being for Jean Renoir's first sound film, On purge bébé, for which he was uncredited.

Phonte

The latter of these is intended as an homage to early 1980s R&B and pop music and features covers of popular songs such as a-Ha's "Take on Me", Toto's "Africa", and Joe Jackson's "Stepping Out".

Pimlico, Dublin

In popular songs by The Dublin city ramblers, The Dubliners, and Flogging Molly, Dublin in the Rare Old Times and The Rare Oulde Times respectively, the singers refers to being "born hard and late in Pimlico, in a house that ceased to be".

Popular Theatre Troupe

Their first production was Star Trick, a satire lampooning the Star Trek television series focussing on the absurdity of local Queensland politics interspersed with ironically sung old popular songs.

Presidio Brass

The group's repertoire is made up of classical and commercial music transcriptions, including selections from composers Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber and George Gershwin to popular songs from jazz legend Dave Brubeck, the rock band Queen and the Broadway smash hit, West Side Story.

Rajnigandha

Two popular songs were "Rajnigandha Phool Tumhaare" sung by Lata Mangeshkar and the Mukesh's "Kai Baar Yuheen Dekha hai," for which he won the National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer.

Richard Whiting

Richard A. Whiting (1891–1938), writer of popular songs, father of singer Margaret Whiting and actress Barbara Whiting Smith

Robert Léger

Léger, along with Huet and Rivard, is attributed as one of the main talents of the folk-rock group, Beau Dommage, and has written a large number of the bands popular songs from their self-titled debut album, Beau Dommage.

Selah Jubilee Singers

The Selah Jubilee Singers first recorded on April 28, 1938 for Decca, a session which included popular songs such as "Take My Hand, Precious Lord" (DE 7598), and in February 1941, "I'll Fly Away" (DE 7831).

Slab Fork, West Virginia

Slab Fork is the birthplace of Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter Bill Withers, who wrote and recorded popular songs such as "Ain't No Sunshine", "Lean on Me", "Just the Two of Us", "Use Me" and "Lovely Day".

Sparapet

After his assassination, Armenian Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan was referred to as the Sparapet in some popular songs, such as Alla Levonyan's "Sparapet", in reference to his military leadership in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Super Junior-T

The group released their debut single "Rokuko" on February 23, 2007 and on February 25, 2007, they officially debuted on SBS's Popular Songs, performing "Rokuko" and "First Express" with famous trot singer Bang Shilyi.

Susan McFarland Parkhurst

Susan McFarland was born in Leicester, Massachusetts, and composed popular songs and parlour piano solos during the 1860s.

The Legend of the Lion King

The Legend of the Lion King Show at Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World Resort was a stage performance retelling the story of the film using life size puppets, while the show at Disneyland Paris was a Broadway inspired performance that used human actors and featured popular songs from the movie.

Tito Guízar

In addition, Guízar performed both operatic and Mexican popular songs at Carnegie Hall, but he succeeded with his arrangements of popular Mexican and Spanish melodies such as Cielito Lindo, La Cucaracha, Granada, and You Belong to My Heart (English version of Solamente una Vez).

Victorian burlesque

An 1859 burlesque of Romeo and Juliet contained 23 musical numbers, some from opera, such as the serenade from Don Pasquale, and some from traditional airs and popular songs of the day including "Buffalo Gals", and "Nix my Dolly".

Žikica Jovanović Španac

Today Španac is best remembered in popular songs of Yugoslav Rock Group Riblja Čorba, and has a number of schools and a hospital in Valjevo named after him.