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unusual facts about Song Car-Tunes


Mother, Mother, Mother Pin a Rose on Me

Mother, Mother, Mother Pin a Rose on Me (1924) is a film, produced by Out of the Inkwell Studios, Inc. and released in June 1924, as part of the Song Car-Tunes series.


A Grand Night for Singing

After 41 previews, the Broadway production, directed by Walter Bobbie (who wrote the minimal book linking the tunes) and choreographed by Pamela Sousa, with vocal arrangements by Fred Wells and orchestrations by Michael Gibson and Jonathan Tunick, opened on November 17, 1993 at the Criterion Center Stage Right, where it ran for 52 performances.

Ali Baba Bunny

The film was edited into two of the Looney Tunes greatest hits features: The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (1979), and Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales (1982).

Ananias Davisson

Composer and publisher William B. Blake said it was "a book characteristic of that period, abounding in minor tunes."

Angus Cumming

Angus Cumming describes the Strathspey as an ‘Old Highland Reel’ and indeed twenty six of the tunes in the collection appear with an alternative Gaelic title.

Brightest and Best

It can be sung to a number of tunes, including "Morning Star" by James P. Harding and "Epiphany" by Joseph Thrupp.

Celtic Wedding

The album's liner notes state that the music was selected from a publication entitled Tonioù Breizh-Izel (Traditional Tunes from Lower Brittany), which contains over 3,000 tunes collected by Polig Monjarret, who collaborated with Paddy Moloney in choosing the tunes for the album.

Charles Pickard Ware

It is here that he transcribed many slave songs with tunes and lyrics, later published in Slave Songs of the United States which is the first collection of American folk music.

Collinz Room

The band members Ric Amieva, vocals; Lew Nottke, guitar; Kris Campbell, bass; and Luis Campos “Chocs”, drummer, known for their catchy tunes and eclectic style, continue to impress the music industry and fans alike as the next up-and-coming band bringing together the elements of unforgettable music and an explosive live show.

Crossing Bridges

"Olympic Reel" was written for the 1996 Summer Olympics, and segues into a medley of the other fiddle tunes and styles of the trio member's cultures, Scottish, Irish, and Texan folk music.

Dafydd Iwan

Dafydd Iwan's earliest material was Welsh translations of tunes by American folk / protest singers: Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and Bob Dylan.

David Mark Pearce

When one of his Allen and Heath colleagues, who was a friend of keyboardist Oliver Wakeman, asked Pearce to listen to some of Wakeman’s tunes, he was impressed.

Daytona USA: Championship Circuit Edition

The game also sported a soundtrack by Richard Jacques and Jun Senoue which, while featuring remixes of the original tunes and several new ones, did not feature the original tunes themselves.

Doctor Who and the Pirates

#The various songs use substituted lyrics in tunes from various Gilbert and Sullivan operettas.

Don Quarrie

There are a number of reggae tunes titled "Tribute to Donald Quarrie", one by Joe Gibbs and The Guerillas and one by Bongo Herman.

Eight-string bass guitar

Chris Squire of Yes often tunes his Raney 8-string bass eE-aA-aD-dG, so that notes played on the upper two courses sound as open fifths.

El Día que Murió el Silencio

A handsome and mysterious stranger, played by Darío Grandinetti, walks into the town square of Villaserena one day and strategically places loudspeakers around the town, blaring a variety of musical tunes.

Fairport Convention discography

Founded in 1967 and initially covering songs by artists such as Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell, they developed a devoted niche following by providing electrified and upbeat versions of traditional folk tunes mixed with their own compositions.

Francis O'Neill

He also collected tunes from some of the major performers of the time including Patsy Touhey, who regularly sent O'Neill wax cylinders and visited him in Chicago.

Guillaera

# Busco Una Mujer (Produced by Luny Tunes & Cheka)

Hal Geer

He was soon joined by veteran Looney Tunes director Friz Freleng, and together the two produced a number of compilation films and television specials, including The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie and Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales.

Following his employment at Disney, Geer worked at a number of independent production companies before being brought back to Warner Bros. by producer William L. Hendricks in 1967, beginning a twenty-year association with Looney Tunes.

Hemingway Corner

Martin is still an active songwriter, having penned tunes for Edwin the ex-lead singer for I Mother Earth, including co-writing the hit "Alive" from Edwin's debut Another Spin Around the Sun and playing on the follow-up album Edwin & the Pressure, and writing for country singer Tara Lyn Hart.

Henry Ainsworth

His publication of Psalms, The Book of Psalmes: Englished both in Prose and Metre with Annotations (Amsterdam, 1612), which includes thirty-nine separate monophonic psalm tunes, constituted the Ainsworth Psalter, the only book of music brought to New England in 1620 by the Pilgrim settlers.

Iwrestledabearonce EP

The EP contains five songs, all of which boast extreme tempo and change between various genres throughout, as well as the use of short cover tunes or samples (including the theme from Inspector Gadget as well as samples from other popular media such as Scary Movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Super Mario Bros. and Clerks).

Judgment!

The composition "Yokada Yokada" was named after the song "Yakety Yak", referring to "senseless dialogue between people," whilst "Alfred" was, of course, dedicated to producer Alfred Lion because of his "natural understanding of jazz in general," and because of the rapport that was established in the interpretation of Hill's tunes.

KKJZ

Horace Silver, Louie Bellson, and Bob Florence ("Bebop Charlie", "Nilestones"), and others have written tunes for “Carlitos Niles”.

Kodak Gallery

Gansky had previously been CEO of 1990s internet pioneer GNN, while Mohsenin had previously run Tunes Network, Inc., parent of the Tunes.com music discovery Website.

Les Elgart

Among their better-known tunes is "Bandstand Boogie", which was used by Dick Clark as the theme song for American Bandstand.

Lowell Mason

Following an earlier British model, Mason embarked on producing a hymnal whose tunes would be drawn from the work of European classical composers, such as Haydn and Mozart.

Mark Farina

Team Factory studios produced and still produces the majority of popular dance tunes that come out of Italy, including "What's Up" by DJ Miko, Hey Hey Guy by Ken Laszlo, "If You Say Goodbye" by Kate Project, and plenty of others.

Music of Final Fantasy XII

The only vocal piece in the game, it was set to tunes composed by Nobuo Uematsu, arranged by Kenichiro Fukui and produced by Motoki Matsuoka.

Orange Swirl

The heavily Beatles/Elvis Costello-influenced disc features 12 original tunes and one Lennon/McCartney classic, "She's Leaving Home".

Otto – Der Film

The film features a parody of Michael Jackson's music video Thriller, except that the zombie dancers are replaced here with lookalikes of the German folksinger Heino adapting the song's tunes to the lyrics of Heino's song "Schwarzbraun ist die Haselnuss".

Paris 1945

On January 25, 1945, Reinhardt recorded four tunes with Bernie Privin on trumpet, Peanuts Hucko on tenor saxophone, Mel Powell on piano, Josz Schulman on bass and Ray McKinley on drums.

Rajabai Clock Tower

During the British Raj, it played the tunes of "Rule Britannia", "God Save the King", "Home! Sweet Home!" and "A Handel Symphony", out of a total of sixteen tunes, which changed four times a day.

Rameau Poleon

He has been recorded by Smithsonian Folkways's Folkways Records label on the album Musical Traditions of St. Lucia, West Indies: Dances and Songs from a Caribbean Island, where he appears as lead fiddler on a kwadril suite of five dance tunes with the Kwadril Ensemble.

Robert Shaw Chorale

During its existence the Robert Shaw Chorale became arguably the best-known and most widely-respected professional choral organization in the United States, with repertoire ranging from J.S. Bach to folk music and Broadway theatre tunes.

Ruth Pointer

Continuing as a trio, the group found their biggest success covering tunes of rock, pop and New Wave with singles such as "Fire" (1978), "He's So Shy" (1980), and "Slow Hand" (1981).

Séamus Ennis

In 1951, Alan Lomax and Jean Ritchie arrived from America to record Irish songs and tunes.

Skedee, Oklahoma

And now the best part... in his research for the new book on The Cain's Ballroom, author, music historian, and Western swing expert John Wooley has discovered that Danny Cain (he had dropped the last "e" by the time Kwai Chang arrived in America) had settled in Skedee, Oklahoma, and was what we would think of now as an "old time fiddler" playing jigs and dance tunes popular at the time.

Smith's Hill High School

Recently many folk, recent and more up-beat popular tunes have been played, such as compositions by Coldplay and Lady Gaga.

Soul cake

American Hallowe'en composer Kristen Lawrence found two historical tunes associated with soul cakes as she was researching souling songs for her 2009 A Broom With A View album.

Suzanne Tamim

After winning a Gold Medal on Studio El Fan, she was hailed not only for her beauty but also for a voice that was equally suited to pop tunes and classical Arabic melodies.

Tara Bir Singh Tuladhar

With Sur Sudha he continued to collect traditional tunes from remote and rural areas of Nepal, from Terai region up to the villages high in the Himalayas, and to arrange these melodies for concerts on stages in Europe, India, Japan and the USA.

The Graceful Fallen Mango

The album is a collection of tunes recorded in Longstreth's bedroom on a 4-track machine and in his brother's basement on a computer.

The Pain Teens

Blood moved to New York City that year and began playing solo gigs on her ukulele doing 1920's tunes and original music, forming several groups, including The Moonlighters in 1998.

The Wabbit Who Came to Supper

On the 2005 Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3 DVD release, The Wabbit Who Came to Supper is presented in a restored unedited version with a commentary track provided by animation historian Jerry Beck and Warner Brothers' inker Martha Sigall, one of about 40 uncredited inkers and painters who labored on the Looney Tunes shorts.

Thierry Paulin

There, he started a career as an artist, dressed in drag and singing tunes by his favourite singer, Eartha Kitt.

Travellers in Space and Time

"Dance Floor" along with a few other tunes were popular among shoppers as they were featured on playlists for such stores as Forever 21, Hollister Co, and Old Navy.


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