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Song of General Kim Il-sung

According to North Korean sources, their satellite Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2, supposedly launched in a test on 5 April 2009, is broadcasting this song among other data.


Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now

The Chipmunks and The Chipettes covered this song for the album in the 2011 film Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, sung alongside Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" and Katy Perry's "Firework".

Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov

The Hunt for Red October (1990), in which Alexandrov's national anthem is sung by Sean Connery's submarine crew, led by Danish actor Sven-Ole Thorsen.

All Saints' Church, Ryde

Music sung ranges from Tallis and Byrd to more modern composers - communion settings by Kenneth Leighton and Grayston Ives and anthems by Malcolm Archer, Colin Mawby, Alan Ridout and Paul Edwards.

Amaral discography

Si tú no vuelves (If You Don't Come Back), is a cover of a Miguel Bosé song, and was sung together with Chetes, appearing on the soundtrack of the film "Efectos Secundarios".

Amir Meenai

The famous ghazal 'sarakatee jaayey hai rukh se naqab aahista, aahista...' attributed to Ameer Minai has been sung in a film starred by Rishi Kapoor and Tina Munim.

Artur Gold

He closely collaborated with his brother Henryk Gold and with Jerzy Petersburski with whom he arranged music for his famous ensembles; they were among the most popular composers in interwar Poland and many of their hits were sung throughout the whole country.

Atelier Meruru: The Apprentice of Arland

There are four in-game songs: "Alchemic Girl Meruru" by Marie, "Cloudy" sung by Chata, "Little Crown" sung by Mutsumi Nomiyama and "Renkinshoujo Meruru no uta," a vocal version of one of the game's battle themes.

Beans in My Ears

"Beans in My Ears" is a song created and sung by protest singer and contributing editor to folk-centric Broadside Magazine, Len Chandler.

Billy Jack Goes to Washington

A new version of the song "One Tin Soldier" (the original theme for Billy Jack) sung by Teresa Laughlin is played over the closing credits.

Born on the Bayou

Another French adaptation ("Dans Le Bayou") penned by Jean Fauque was sung by Johnny Hallyday on his 1996 album "Destination Vegas".

Canberra International Music Festival

Other recent significant commissions and premieres in the CIMF include Arvo Pärt's Fourth Symphony, Henryk Górecki's ...songs are sung... for string orchestra, the concert premiere of Einojuhani Rautavaara's The Gift of the Magi and Peter Sculthorpe's "Shining Island".

Corrina Joseph

She has also sung on productions by artists like Underground Solution, Kamasutra, Masterbuilders, Nightmares on Wax, Classen Collective, Russ Gabriel and Harlem Zip Code.

Female of the Species

Written and sung by frontman Tommy Scott in tribute to his late father, who was reported to dislike his son's taste of music, "Female of the Species" is a funky, upbeat Latin-flavoured number with feel-good sounding vibes and vocals reminiscent of lounge singers such as Perry Como and Frank Sinatra combined with keyboardist Franny Griffiths' trademark sound effects and Scott's dark humoured lyrics.

Galaxy Express 999

The movie is notable for having two songs written and performed by Mary MacGregor, 'Love Light' and the ending theme 'Sayonara' of which her version, sung in English, was used for the film.

Gong Sung-jin

Gong Sung-jin (born April 20, 1953) is a member of the Grand National Party (also known as the Hannara Party) in South Korea, representing the Gangnam District of Seoul.

Goober Peas

It has been recorded and sung by scores of artists, including Burl Ives, Tennessee Ernie Ford and The Kingston Trio.

Heer Raanjha

The soundtrack includes the following tracks, composed by Madan Mohan, with lyrics by Kaifi Azmi, and is especially remembered for the poignant Ye Duniya Yeh Mehfil Mere Kaam Ki Nahin, sung by Mohd. Rafi.

Hop, Look and Listen

The song playing on the opening titles is "You Never Know Where You're Goin' Till You Get There", which had been sung by Sylvester a few weeks earlier in Back Alley Oproar.

Hymn of the day

According to Carl Schalk, the hymn of the day came out of the singing of the gradual which is sung before the epistle reading.

Italian classical music

Thus, we know that there was a vibrant troubador tradition in the 12th century in the Provence in their language and we know that 1000 miles away on the island of Sicily there was also a vibrant troubador tradition at the Hohenstaufen court of Frederick II, songs sung in the dialect of the people (very much influenced, for example, by Arabic), but it is conjecture as to exactly what either one sounded like.

Jo In-sung

These episodes were about wrestling training in order to encourage South Korean national team before the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Kaif Bhopali

He was a well-known poet in the Urdu mushaira circles, he is most known as the writer of songs like Chalo Dildar Chalo sung by Mohd. Rafi, in Kamal Amrohi's 1972 classic, Pakeezah.

Kathy Ann Kelly

Some of the songs included were new versions of the traditional songs from all over the world previously sung by the group from as early as 1970s; notably "Amazing Grace", "Motherless child", "Old Black Joe", "The Rose of Tralee".

Khadja Nin

Her breakthrough, however, came in 1996 with her widely popular album Sambolera, which was sung in Swahili, Kirundi, and French.

Kim Il-sung Square

Kim Il-sung Square is a large city square in the center of Pyongyang, DPRK (North Korea), and is named after the country's founding leader, Kim Il-sung.

Leva-me aos Fados

In the "Stones World", the Portuguese singer interprets the themes "Brown Sugar" and "No Expectations", later sung alive and in duet with Mick Jagger in 2007 during the concert by the band in the Alvalade XXI Stadium.

Louis Poterat

His first great successes dated to the end of the 1930s, and were his adaptations of foreign-language songs into French (J'attendrai, to music by the Italian composer Dino Olivieri, in 1938, sung by Rina Ketty ; Sur les quais du vieux Paris, to music by the German composer Ralph Erwin, the first success of the singer Lucienne Delyle, in 1939).

Luis García Sanz

It was further underlined by the song frequently sung in his honor, to the tune of "You Are My Sunshine": "Luis García, he drinks Sangria/he came from Barça to bring us joy!/He's five-foot seven, he's football heaven/So please don't take our Luis away!"

Makafushigi Adventure!

"Mystical Adventure!" was sung by Jimi Tunnell, though the lyrics were not a literal translation of the original Japanese.

Moments to Remember

According to the Four Lads Frank Busseri, the introductory verses were sung by Lois Winters of the Ray Charles Singers and the spoken words in mid-song were recited by Pat Kirby of the Steve Allen Tonight Show.

Music of Tonga

These hymns are still sung in the largest Methodist church, the Free Wesleyan Church of Tonga.

Pass This On

The song is prominently featured in the film Magic Magic, both in its original version as well as being sung by Michael Cera.

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.

Rakesh Kumar Tripathi

Many Noted singers of Hindi and Bengali music field have sung songs written by Rakesh Tripathi, such as Sonu Nigaam, Sunidhi Chauhan, June Bannerjee, Vinod Rathore, Srikanto Acharya, Shubhomita, Raghav, Rupankar, Jojo, etc.

Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross

The nursery rhyme was very popular before the twentieth century, it was sung every day by William Ewart Gladstone to his children as they had "rides on his foot, slung over his knee".

Second Time Around

"The Second Time Around", song written by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen introduced in the 1960 film High Time, sung by Bing Crosby and many others

Sung-jae

Kim Sung-Jae (born 1976), South Korean retired football player

Tale for a Deaf Ear

Tale for a Deaf Ear is an opera in one act with music and lyrics by Mark Bucci, sung in three languages and based on a story by Elizabeth Enright that appeared in the April 1951 edition of Harper's Magazine.

The Ice Follies of 1939

(Crawford had already sung on-screen in a few early musicals like The Hollywood Revue of 1929 and Montana Moon.)

The John B. Sails

Alan Lomax included the song in his 1935 collection, Deep River of Song, as "Histe Up The John B Sail"; sung by the Cleveland Simmons Group, Old Bight, Cat Island, Bahamas, July 1935.

The Rapscallions

Oxley had sung lead roles in campus productions of Man of La Mancha and The Marriage of Figaro and was studying for an operatic career.

The Roses of Success

In the film it is sung when "Grandpa Potts" (played by Lionel Jeffries) is caught in the Vulgarian inventors' workshop and is forced to modify a car that both floats and flies or face the consequences.

The Way You Look Tonight

It is also sung by Allison Munn in the series finale of the WB sitcom What I Like About You and was used in the Friends episode "The One With Unagi." The song was also performed by the band MouseRat on the "Parks and Recreation" episode "Galentine's Day", wherein Andy Dwyer dedicated it to April Ludgate.

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

The song has been covered by many artists including The Chieftains, Loreena McKennitt, The Dubliners, Dolores Keane, Dead Can Dance (sung by Lisa Gerrard), Altan, Solas, The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, Dick Gaughan, Orthodox Celts, Amanda Palmer, Fire + Ice, The Irish Rovers (as "The Wind That Shakes the Corn"), Sarah Jezebel Deva, Martin Carthy, Declan de Barra and Belfast Food.

Thirukkadigai

As one of the 108 Divya Desams, places of worship sung about by the early-medieval Alvars in their "Mangalasasanam" (praise-songs), it is a holy site of particular importance to Vaishnavism.

Uniklubi

Jussi Selo, singer for Uniklubi, has previously sung for Lovex, as well as guest backing vocals on some of Negative's tracks.

Vivo per lei

There is also a Greek version called Se Thelo edo sung by Dimitra Galani and Giorgos Karadimos.

Vjetar s Dinare

The opening track Zaustavi se vjetre plays out as a conversation between Thompson and the Dinaric winds, sung by a Dalmatian klapa, in which Thompson begs the winds to tell him about his family.

Wilhelmenia Fernandez

Since then she has sung in operas and recitals in cities all over the world, her most notable roles being Carmen, Carmen Jones (for which she received the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1992 as Best Actress in a Musical), and Aïda, a role she has performed in Luxor and at the Pyramids in Egypt.


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