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"A Blossom Fell" is a popular song written by Howard Barnes, Harold Cornelius, and Dominic John and published in 1954.
"A Bushel and a Peck" is a popular song written by Frank Loesser and published in 1950.
"A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening" is a popular song with music by Jimmy McHugh and lyrics by Harold Adamson, published in 1943.
"A Sunday Kind of Love" is a popular song composed by Barbara Belle, Anita Leonard, Stan Rhodes, and Louis Prima and was published in 1946.
The Beatles and many other famous popular music performers have recorded at this studio, and The Beatles named their last studio LP Abbey Road.
The bandoneon, so named by the German instrument dealer, Heinrich Band (1821–1860), was originally intended as an instrument for religious and popular music of the day, in contrast to its predecessor, the German concertina (or Konzertina), considered to be a folk instrument by some modern authors.
"Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy" (also known as Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy) is a popular song written by Harry Stone and Jack Stapp and published in 1950.
CHUM deejays Mike Darrow and Bob Willson played popular music for teens to dance to with featured performances by Tommy Ambrose, Pat Hervey, the Walter Boys and the Mickey Shannon Combo.
His musical activity ranges over a wide variety of fields: beside his research as experimental composer and performer, Buccino also works for the cinema and the theatre as a composer, interpreter, musical consultant, as a rock, pop and jazz composer, arranger and guitarist, and as a singer-songwriter, busker and music journalist.
The Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop or Rock and Pop by Australian music journalist Ian McFarlane is a guide to Australian popular music from the 1950s to the late 1990s.
Frank Eyton (30 August 1894 – 11 November 1962) was an English popular music lyricist best known for co-writing the lyrics of Johnny Green's "Body and Soul" (1930) with Edward Heyman and Robert Sour.
"From the Candy Store on the Corner to the Chapel on the Hill" is a popular song by Bob Hilliard, published in 1956.
"Full Moon and Empty Arms" is a 1945 popular song by Buddy Kaye and Ted Mossman, based on Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2.
He had some moderate popular music hits in the 1910s with songs such as Your Eyes Have Told Me What I Did Not Know (1913), Tennessee, I Hear You Calling Me (1914), The Old Songs and one huge hit with his song K-K-K-Katy (1918), one of the most popular tunes of the World War I era.
He adopted his stage name in 1957 and started performing popular music (only later would his music be classified as enka, a term not in existence at the time of his debut).
"Have You Ever Been Lonely?" is a popular song with music by Peter De Rose and lyrics by Billy Hill (writing under the name of George Brown), published in 1932.
In 2002, an article on the website www.folklinks.com controversially claimed that "Hickory Wind" wasn't, in fact, written by Gram Parsons, but by Sylvia Sammons—a blind folksinger from Greenville, South Carolina—with Bob Buchanan later contributing an additional verse.
"I Can't Tell a Waltz from a Tango" is a popular song written by Al Hoffman and Dick Manning and published in 1954.
"I Should Care" is a popular song by Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston and Sammy Cahn, published in 1944.
"I've Got Five Dollars" is a 1931 popular song composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Lorenz Hart for the musical America's Sweetheart (1931) where it was introduced by Harriette Lake (a/k/a/ Ann Sothern) and Jack Whiting.
"Ireland Must Be Heaven, for My Mother Came from There" is a popular song with music by Fred Fisher and lyrics by Joseph McCarthy and Howard Johnson, published in 1916.
"It's a Lovely Day Today" is a popular song written by Irving Berlin and was published in 1950.
"Keep It a Secret" is a popular song written by Jessie Mae Robinson published in 1952.
It may also have profited from the "Latin explosion" in the United States of the 1990s, though some critics contend that the gap between Ricky Martin-style pop and metal is too great for Latin metal to have profited greatly.
"Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries" is a popular song with music by Ray Henderson and lyrics by Buddy G. DeSylva and Lew Brown, published in 1931.
"Love Letters in the Sand" is a popular song first published in 1931.
"May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You" is a popular song by Meredith Willson, originally published in 1950.
"Maybe You'll Be There" is a popular song composed by Rube Bloom, with lyrics written by Sammy Gallop.
"Mule Train" is a popular song written by Johnny Lange, Hy Heath, Ramblin' Tommy Scott and Fred Glickman.
"My Special Angel" is a popular song by Jimmy Duncan, published in 1957.
In a healthy cultural milieu NWEAMO celebrates both classical and popular music.
"Oh-Oh, I'm Falling in Love Again" is a popular song written by Al Hoffman, Dick Manning, and Hugo Peretti and Luigi Creatore and published in 1958.
"On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" is a popular song which refers to the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway (AT&SF).
"Outside of Heaven" is a popular music song written by Sammy Gallop and Chester Conn.
In rock and popular music, examples of songs that "emphasize parallel keys," include Perfect Day, Grass Roots' "Temptation Eyes", Lipps Inc's "Funkytown" and Dusty Springfield's You Don't Have To Say You Love Me.
Paris in the Spring is a popular song composed in 1935, with lyrics by Mack Gordon and music by Harry Revel.
"Polka Dots and Moonbeams" is a popular song with music by Jimmy Van Heusen and lyrics by Johnny Burke, published in 1940.
"Powder Your Face with Sunshine" is a popular song written by Carmen Lombardo and Stanley Rochinski, and published in 1948.
"The Autumn Waltz" is a popular song with music by Cy Coleman and lyrics by Bob Hilliard, published in 1956.
"The Man that Got Away" is a popular song, published in 1953 and was written for the 1954 version of the movie A Star Is Born.
"There's No Tomorrow", written by Al Hoffman, Leo Corday and Leon Carr, is one of two popular songs based on the Italian song "O Sole Mio" (music by Eduardo di Capua).
"They Say It's Wonderful" is a popular song written by Irving Berlin for the musical Annie Get Your Gun (1946), where it was introduced by Ethel Merman and Ray Middleton.
"This Could Be the Start of Something" (generally known as "This Could Be the Start of Something Big") is a popular song by Steve Allen, published in 1956.
"Till I Waltz Again with You" is a popular song written by Sid Prosen and published in 1952.
"Under the Bridges of Paris" is a 1914 popular song with music written by Vincent Scotto, the original French lyrics (entitled "Sous les ponts de Paris") by Jean Rodor (1914), and English lyrics by Dorcas Cochran (1952).
This series was itself a ground-breaker in that it was perhaps the first anime series to depict the entertainment industry - specifically popular music, which would be a major plot point in many anime to come from Creamy Mami to Perfect Blue.
The theme of the Concerto is borrowed in a popular-music love song whose lyrics include "The world outside will never know..." recorded by The Four Coins.
"What Can I Say After I Say I'm Sorry?" is a popular song by Walter Donaldson and Abe Lyman, published in 1926.
"You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me" is a 1932 popular song with music by Harry Warren and the lyrics by Al Dubin.
Sales of popular music had dropped more than 60 percent since its 1998 peak, leading to a few appeals during the night for people not to buy pirated goods.
"A Pirate Looks at Forty" is a song written and performed by American popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett.
Particularly involved with software art and internet art, he is a part of the readme culture, and is probably most well known for his ongoing so called "386DX" performances, in which he manipulates an antiquated computer with Microsoft Windows version 3.1 and an Intel 386 processor to perform MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) renditions of popular music hits while a synthesized text-to-speech voice "sings" the lyrics.
The usage came about because Borton was probably the first pilot to shout the words "Archibald, certainly not" (from a popular music-hall song written by George Robey) as he flew between the exploding German shells.
In 1993, he won the Editora Abril/USP (Nascente Project) prize on the category Popular Music - Songwriter.
The company produces popular music, film and television charts which have been syndicated by Nielsen, Billboard, Rolling Stone, and Entertainment Weekly, among others.
Following a secondary education at the independent school Ardingly College, he joined BBC Television as an in-house producer of light entertainment programmes in 1956, working on various programmes such as his father’s Billy Cotton Band Show and popular music programme Six-Five Special.
As a composer, Martinelli writes experimental music (with works commissioned by Sibelius Academy, and various festivals in Finland and Estonia, alone or together with Finnish composer Petri Kuljuntausta), incidental music (he wrote for documentaries, radio programs and theatre shows), and popular music (he is songwriter for the Italian singer Anna Maria Castelli).
Outside of popular music, Baerwald has worked extensively as both a songwriter and instrumental score composer in film and television, including the Golden Globe-nominated song from the Baz Luhrman musical Moulin Rouge! called "Come What May", for which he also won the International Film Music Award, and which has been covered by a wide variety of international artists.
Among his diverse research interests are American popular music of the 1920s-60s, including a focus on Irving Berlin and Jimmy Van Heusen; the theory and aesthetics of music of the mid-eighteenth through mid-twentieth centuries, including a focus on Igor Stravinsky; and Schenkerian theory and its reception history in the U.S.
Eden began writing about rock music under the abbreviated name Dawn Eden in 1985 for fanzines, eventually becoming a popular-music historian, writing for Mojo, Salon, New York Press, and Billboard, among others.
Johnny, Cock thy Beaver: popular music-making in 17th century England (1996)
A seminal work in his career, it brought him fame as an interpreter of traditional American folk music, as a brilliant finger-style guitarist, and as a folk-inspired composer whose songs "Dark as a Dungeon" and "Sixteen Tons", included in all editions of this album, have become classics of folk, country and popular music.
The Gershwin Prize was created and first awarded by the Library of Congress in 2007 under the leadership of Librarian of Congress James H. Billington to recognize "the profound and positive effect of popular music on the world’s culture" as part of the Library's mission to recognize and celebrate creativity.
The Global Chinese Pop Chart (全球华语歌曲排行榜, quánqiú huáyŭ gēqŭ páihángbàng) is a Chinese language popular music pop music chart compiled by 7 Chinese language radio stations.
Palmer worked with Melanie between 1996 and 2001, and with Haddaway between 2002 and 2003; in 2004 he started a popular music shop in London called Rockbottom, but this closed in 2011 after being damaged in the summer riots that year.
In 2005 Konex Foundation from Argentina granted him the Diamond Konex Award, one of the most prestigious awards im Argentina, as the most important personality in the Popular Music of his country in the last decade.
The most widely available album of Jaipongan outside of Indonesia is Tonggeret by singer Idjah Hadidjah and Gugum Gumbira's Jugala orchestra, released in 1987, and re-released as West Java: Sundanese Jaipong and other Popular Music by Nonesuch/Elektra Records.
Jim Reeves (1923–1964), American country and popular music singer-songwriter
Garten's music was first produced by Jaymz Bee, a popular music producer and radio personality on JAZZ.FM91.
The album also got the attention of popular music critic Robert K. Oermann: "I’m a huge fan of this man’s album. Its second single sizzles with zesty rhythm, yelping vocals, sidewinder guitar and a ridiculously catchy melody. The major-label “stars” on Music Row have nothing on this guy. Play this!"
He is one of the most popular music artists in Kosovo who rose to fame after releasing "Lyrical Warfare" and "Lej Flleshat", both of which has had over two million views on YouTube.
Not forgetting his popular music interests, in the early 70s he also produced albums by Bonnie Raitt (Give It Up) and Chris Smither.
Populärmusik från Vittula (2000) (trans. into English by Laurie Thompson under the titles Popular Music and Popular music from Vittula ISBN 978-0-00-714550-8)
In popular music, examples of songs in harmonic minor include "Easy Please Me" by Katy B, which is a pop song, in rare instances, written in pure harmonic minor.
Another of West's sons, Mike, is a musician who fronted the UK independent popular music band the Man from Delmonte during the late 1980s and early 1990s and has released several solo albums of New Orleans country music, especially being well known with the international touring act Truckstop Honeymoon.
Nakatsu's Mt. Hachimen was also home to the popular music festival, Concert on the Rock.
Thanks to this heritage and the musical work of Renato Carosone in the 1950s, Neapolitan is still in use in popular music, even gaining national popularity in the songs of Pino Daniele and the Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare.
A popular music hall, it hosted performances by Niccolò Paganini and Franz Liszt and Mr Keane the leading actor manager of the early nineteenth century.
Odjila was the first popular music band which had a concert in Kolarac hall in Belgrade, and the first band which played in Maribor theatre, ever since it was founded in the late 19th century.
"On The Warpath" was the first American popular music to incorporate a repeating tom-tom effect in the score.
Oto Pestner is one of the most prominent singers and composers of popular music from Slovenia, born in 1956 in Ljubljana.
In order to appeal to such a largely Euro-American, middle-aged and affluent demographic (the so-called "Baby Boomers" and "Generation X"), PBS has resorted to specials such as self-help programs with speakers such as Suze Orman, nostalgic popular music concerts, and special versions of PBS' traditionally popular "how-to" programs.
Richard Clayderman (born Philippe Pagès, 28 December 1953) is a French pianist who has released numerous albums including the compositions of Paul de Senneville and Olivier Toussaint, instrumental renditions of popular music, rearrangements of movie soundtracks, ethnic music, and easy-listening arrangements of popular works of classical music.
Bob McBride (1946–1998), lead vocalist for the Canadian popular music group Lighthouse
They remember growing up and listening to the popular music of the time (Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley) and generally being trendy.
RTÉ 2fm is a popular music and chat channel which commenced broadcasting as RTÉ Radio 2 on 31 May 1979, Brendan Balfe being the first voice to be heard on the station at midday, when he introduced the first presenter, Larry Gogan.
Later in 2004, the group was recognized for their vocal ability with numerous awards, including the PAVV Best Newcomer at the Golden Disk Awards and the Seoul Popular Music Awards.
1991 also saw the band take part in a huge concert at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, which celebrated Catalan popular music and also featured the three other leading Catalan bands of the time, Sau, Els Pets and Sangtraït.
The Valentino Orchestra—named after Rudolph Valentino—bases its repertoire of “sophisticated swing” on the standards of the golden age of American popular music—compositions by Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Hoagy Carmichael, and the many others who in the Jazz Age established what is often called the Great American Songbook.
Trip Shakespeare's commercial failure has been attributed to the band's poor timing: "1991 was the great embrasure of the grunge movement when Nirvana's Nevermind set the decade-long trend for the popular music charts," wrote AllMusic.com.
In 2012, former Minister of Culture Olivia Grange called for Johns to receive a posthumous honour in recognition of his contribution to Jamaican popular music.
WGPA AM 1100 originally broadcast popular music, which from the late 1940s to the late 1950s was primarily big band/swing featuring artists like Perry Como, Frank Sinatra, Artie Shaw, Glenn Miller, Doris Day and others.
The German Cabaret Legacy in American Popular Music (2013) links the emblematic musical style of the Weimar Republic with the contemporary English-speaking pop vernacular of the late 20th century.
Programming on WJLD initially consisted of popular music, news programs and radio adventure shows such as Superman and Tom Mix.
In the auctioning off of FM radio frequencies called ZeroBase, Holland Media Group acquired a lot allowing them to broadcast a popular music station virtually nationwide; this station was called Yorin FM with its most notable DJs being Rob Stenders, Robert Jensen and Henk Westbroek.
Along with enka-shi Haruo Oka's 1939 debut, his debut had a big impact on Japanese popular music because Japanese popular ryūkōka music of that time was mainly sung by classical music singers such as Ichiro Fujiyama and Noriko Awaya.