We're calling and we have a request: write some kitty ditties!
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From brain surgery to lovely Scottish ditties, robots really can do it all.
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"He told amusing stories and sang little ditties," Mr. Rockefeller recalled in 2002.
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We compiled the best of bandleader Questlove's cleverly subversive ditties for recent political guests.
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He also began making money from publishing the nonsense poems and ditties he wrote for friends.
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They sung a couple of doo-wop ditties while being completely dwarfed by a massive yacht.
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Like Mr. Rogers, Flobot Owens uses ditties, snacks, toys and group participation exercises as instructional tools.
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Identification is encouraged but, thankfully, hardly necessary to enjoy his latest batch of mordantly gleeful ditties.
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This way, I'm sparing myself having to sing the inevitable little ditties of praise and criticism.
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These algorithmically generated ditties end up in product videos, news clips and occasionally even on musicians' albums.
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Oh, and a thoroughly annoying Minstrel kept interrupting everyone with his lute and his parable-like ditties.
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He wrote and performed melodic ditties in a variety of subgenres, with lyrics full of provocative wordplay.
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"We started this Rockette kickline, singing 'We Are the Village Girls,' one of our ditties," he said.
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In one of his earnest poetic ditties, Massey wrote: A picture is so beautiful, When it is truthful.
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I started to write little ditties and sent them out to all the labels out in Los Angeles.
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Though they sound cleaner than ever, they make songs about deep lows sound like optimistic, bleep-blooping ditties.
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With midterm elections approaching, a look back at some anthems and ditties that have challenged the status quo.
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Amid the Gilbert and Sullivan pastiches and dance band ditties, all serviceable but unremarkable, a few stand out.
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Whereas Mr McCartney's lyrics can sound like childlike ditties, Mr Simon's often resemble free-form poems set to music.
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I began to write little ditties, but mostly I just broke down chords into violin, viola and cello parts.
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No, there is no nook in the hippocampus where we stash old ditties; music engages many parts of our brains.
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There are clip-clop ole West numbers, solemn hymns of uplift and lamentation and sardonic Brechtian ditties of social evil.
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Tell Me How You Really Feel eschews narrative-based ditties entirely, instead operating entirely in this second, more emotionally resonant mode.
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Luckily, a well-timed invasion saves us from having to listen to any more of Missandei's wine-fueled ditties about translators.
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The ditties sung in street parties, many of which date back to the 1930s, are an integral part of Brazil's cultural canon.
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The implications for music are less obvious: even in her wildest dreams Katy Perry isn't churning out anti-Xi Jinping protest ditties.
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This is not his Senate campaign soundtrack, BBQ for Beto, with ditties by KC and the Sunshine Band, Journey and Tim McGraw.
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Mr. Doyle makes do with just a few ditties by Stephen Schwartz, not in his "Wicked" vein, and a cast of 10.
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Growing up in rural Arkansas, he enjoyed the downhome clowning of Jerry Clower and Ray Stevens, but also liked Adam Sandler's sophomoric ditties.
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Perhaps those who already felt connected to Mr. Buffett's country-calypso ditties would relish the chance to hear them in a new context.
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In the early 1960s, a time when radio and television were hungry for little ditties, Ms. VerPlanck began working as a jingle singer.
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"On the Line" showcases some of her best and most personal writing, chronicling addiction, heartbreak and loss through sprawling ballads and cynical pop ditties.
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Meanwhile, Hans Zimmer's lush score, punctuated by a coterie of lively French-ish ditties, as always finds a perfect blend between the film's different worlds.
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Aaaaand: So dude finished the day with a season tally of 18 TDs to his name, including one of these little ditties: Lord. Have. Mercy.
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In "The Happy Prince," death is never far away, no matter how numerous Wilde's "purple moments" in the sheets or drunken ditties in the cafe.
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Mr. Buffett's denatured country-calypso ditties and horndog smarm seem awfully lowbrow, even in a Broadway environment debased for decades by singing cats and candlesticks.
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Shrugging it all off with the philosophical "never mind" resignation, the Chinese are happy to pocket the money while promoting their own "win-win cooperation" ditties.
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Other musicians like Keith Urban and Joe Walsh sang Xmas ditties as well, and were even joined by the likes of Hugh Jackman at one point.
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The hundreds of songs he recorded include election songs, children's songs, vaudeville songs, sports car songs, drinking songs, outlaw songs and lascivious ditties about Nellie the Barmaid.
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But over the decades, the genre that brought us "Guys and Dolls" has withered into a damp tangle of wan jokes floating in a slick of ditties.
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Some, like "Working in the Coal Mine," could be downright hokey, playing on post-war commercial ditties to distort Lee Dorsey's 1966 original into an eerie capitalist commentary.
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Cassandra is under no illusions about the hollowness of army rhetoric, which trains soldiers to "liberate" the Iraqi people by "jogging in cadence to cute little ditties about slaughter".
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Eurovision artists only have three minutes, shorter than the average chart song, and most viewers are hearing the song for the first time and alongside almost 30 other ditties.
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The band sound rattles, deploying skewed guitar shrieks and melodious ditties in equal measure, anchored by the supple, reliable rhythm section of bassist Tina Weymouth and drummer Chris Frantz's.
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A musician named Sarper Duman plays ditties while a kitty lounges upon his keys — and videos of the purr-fect performances are receiving upwards of 37,000 views on Instagram.
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In this new work, Mr. Mac, a playwright, performer and part-time bird of paradise, traces America through its ditties and anthems, from the Revolutionary War to present insurrections.
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There were songs you could sing every word to, ditties that drove you to dance and ballads so poignant in their descriptions of love and life that anyone could relate.
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"T2" never strays too far from laughs, most memorably in an exhilarating sequence that sends Renton and Simon to plunder a private club where partying Protestants belt out sectarian ditties.
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Now that Apple owns Shazam, which has long been among the best at identifying random ditties, Microsoft now has one less partner to help Cortana potentially regain its tune-tagging smarts.
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The Populele is for you, too: Refresh your repertoire with tunes from its continuously updated library, or use the Populele's built-in recording tool to share original ditties with your friends.
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Of course she's self-conscious about the fragility of the fluting ditties that pour out of her body-that's-a-burden, 18 tunelets on parade on this 33-minute breakout moment.
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Santi White — has a perpetually blithe and perky voice, a mezzo-soprano chirp that in an earlier decade might have been at home delivering bubble gum pop ditties on AM radio.
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Rather, she says, with the perkiness of a morning-show host, she chirped about the loveliness of the blue skies and hummed upbeat ditties as she whipped up banana-strawberry smoothies.
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That was one of a plethora of Yuletide ditties by Johnny Marks (1909-85), a Jewish song-writer whose other successes included "Rockin' around the Christmas Tree" and "A Holly Jolly Christmas".
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There's nothing flashy about the LA-based 30-something's ditties—they're relatively sparse, and warmly, lovably downtrodden ("Times are hard for dreamers / I wanna be a believer / I wanna know what it means").
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The album was full of catchy ditties like "Fell In Love Without You" and alternative anthems such as "This Is For Real," but it's also the point where the band began to become misunderstood.
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This crazy little robot, created by Gil Weinberg at the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology, can listen to the other players around it and play out little ditties in response to the music.
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B PLUS Leikeli47: Wash and Set (Hardcover/RCA) On her debut, the masked marvel keeps things simple, showing off her stuff in an impressive assortment of what are more chants, jingles, and ditties than songs.
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She'd heard of Mr. Grammer's "Kathy Grams," ditties he had uploaded to YouTube to boost the spirits of those in need of cheer, like his mother, Kathy, before she died of breast cancer in 2009.
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At times, his dazzling piano playing calls Art Tatum to mind; elsewhere, singing lighthearted ditties like "There's No Anesthetic for Love" in a repartee with his trio-mates, he sounds a lot like Louis Jordan.
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Its sixth album, "You're Welcome," landing next week, is full of muscular pop punk, soulful love confessionals, flippant ditties about the West Coast and quite possibly the band's most rousing chorus ever, on "Million Enemies."boweryballroom.commusichallofwilliamsburg.
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Nintendo games have long had great tunes—that 1986 Zelda theme is pure 8-bit elegance—but these Wii ditties were so damn catchy that listening today takes you right back to the exact channel they soundtracked.
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Backed by Matthew Dean Marsh on piano, guitar and banjo, the actors occasionally launch into songs that, at their best, like "Home," have the effortless, beautiful simplicity of ditties passed on from one cowboy campfire to the next.
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According to Ms. Zhou, Mr. Li is a songwriter for the People's Liberation Army who has written several well-known ditties, including a song about Mount Everest that was famously performed by Peng Liyuan, the wife of China's leader, Xi Jinping.
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Nearly nude as usual, the cowboy in recent weeks has posed with potential cabinet members in the lobby, sung original ditties alongside top advisers and watched the numbers of his social media followers — and sales of Naked Cowboy Oysters — tick steadily up.
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Yet only rarely does anyone in this musical production, which features Tex-Mex ditties for piano, guitar and banjo (all played with vernacular ease by Mike Brun), evince the quivering chin that betrays that these performers think that what they're doing is at all funny.
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Alongside her songs about love, heartbreak, her first day of high school, her mom and Lena Dunham (it's true—"You Are In Love" is about her), there are angsty ditties that take her foes and pie them in the face like the true dunces that they are.
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JON PARELES Damon Albarn has come up with another of his morose, midtempo, insinuating minor-key rock ditties — "I'm a long way from land/I don't know what to do," he sings — and he tops it lavishly, with strings, piano, (perhaps synthetic) horns and a West African balafon (marimba).
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Mr. Dorough, who died this week at 94, was a jazz musician, composer and singer, and the mastermind behind dozens of educational earwigs primarily in the '70s and '353s — a man who understood that the best way to trick children into learning was to wrap lessons inside irresistible, frequently funky ditties.
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Between us and the neighborhood, though, is the rest of the hourlong show: the semi-amusing nothing much of Ms. Michelson fooling with electronics as she sings little ditties about a dead bird, bosses around a few other performers wearing photos of cat faces on their heads and invites us to touch her anus.
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Our students also responded well to Thomson's music, which suggests concert bands playing waltzes in parks; military marches; church organs; parlor songs; schoolyard ditties; and bursts of flinty harmonies in moments of intensity — all folded into a score in which the goal is to make Stein's often illogical, playfully poetic words come through clearly.
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And I should also mention the four kiddie ditties about the life cycle of a cartoon frog—as you'll learn from the laff-riot live Big Mouth Strikes Again CD you can own if you buy the vinyl and stream if you don't, this mouthy touring machine has a G-rated set he'll serve up on request at folk festivals and other family affairs.
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I Am Brian Wilson tells the harrowing, heartbreaking story of the life of Brian—Beach Boys auteur and resident genius—which goes like this: Angel-headed boy from Hawthorne, California, at the dawn of the 1960s, smitten by the harmonic convergence of The Four Freshmen and the shimmering Spectorian grandeur of "Be My Baby," forms band with his two brothers and asshole cousin, calls it The Beach Boys and writes uber-catchy ditties of Zen-like simplicity about surfing, hot rods, and girls (despite being slapped deaf in his right ear by his sadistic tyrant of a father); boy becomes international pop star, boy has nervous breakdown and retires from touring and retreats to the studio where he gets into a pissing match with The Beatles and the race is on to get to the next level first; boy takes LSD, boy blows mind, boy sees God, boy starts hearing strange and beautiful music in his head, boy plays the studio like an instrument, sings choirs of angels, creates music of overarching majesty, astonishing beauty and profound sadness, boy makes greatest pop album of all time (Pet Sounds) and the greatest song of the 20th Century ("Good Vibrations").
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Despite these efforts to rely on wall-to-wall ditties, psalmodic chant still figures prominently in the Weekday liturgy.
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Drones & Vapid Ditties is a music DVD by Australian indie rock band Augie March. It was released on 6 September 2004 by BMG Australia. The initials of the words "Drones & Vapid Ditties" spell out the letters "DVD". Described on the back of the case as a "shambles",Steven Hocking (6 October 2004).
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'Connie On A Rubber Band' was a non album track that would later be included on 1976 compilation Odd Ditties.
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Versions of song tunes in the form of ditties for the dilli-tuyduk start in a long drawn-out sound going into the main melody.
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Many of the songs are in major scale, which gives them a joyous feeling, and included are also some rowdy ditties making fun of this or that.
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Is it so difficult to wait until you are out of the register office to exchange some home-made vows and a selection of inspiring hymeneal ditties?
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He participated in the political and musical experience of the Turin group Cantacronache, which offered an alternative to commercial ditties by putting in music some of his poems.
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He was one of the first persons to write songs for the concerts of Ethiopian serenaders. ‘Miss Ginger’ and ‘Dinah Dear,’ both in 1847, became very popular ditties.
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LA praised them for "finding inspiration in current affairs... rather than sticking to lovelorn ditties." In 2016, Dutch Party released the traditional folk song The Passenger for 2016 Presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders.
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He also composed cricketing ditties like "Willow the King," one of the most famous of all cricketing songs. His opera, "Cinderella" was performed at Harrow in 1883. His pupils included Elsie Hall and Mary Louisa White.
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Augie March - Drones & Vapid Ditties . dB magazine. Accessed 9 September 2008. the DVD contains numerous live performances (including a full set from the 2003 Meredith Music Festival), as well as a collection of all the band's music videos to that date.
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The band's second album, Brotherhood of Electric: Operational Directives, was released on February 9, 1999 through Time Bomb Recordings. Greg Prato of Allmusic said Wellwater Conspiracy "offer another intriguing collection of 60's-tinged ditties."Prato, Greg. [ "Brotherhood of Electric: Operational Directives"]. Allmusic.
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The authorities paid him £4 per annum less than his predecessor, no doubt because of his inexperience, but he received about £30 per year, plus 5 shillings for every polka and quadrille and one shilling and sixpence for accompaniments to the Christy's Minstrels ditties of the day.
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Featuring some of Mead's best-loved songs, such as the title track, "Nashville" and "Beauty," it remains his most-recognized and critically acclaimed album ("A knack for telling stories via catchy, concise pop ditties" said No Depression) to date. It was released June 7, 2004, on Nettwerk Records.
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Adrien Jean Joseph Marie Lagard (? in Lyon – 4 March 1878) was a 19th-century French composer. He wrote more than 200 songs and ditties on lyrics by, among others, Émile Carré, Léon Quentin, Arthur Lamy or Marc Constantin, compositions for orchestra including many quadrilles, as well as many learning methods.
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'Psychopaths' began to appear in vaudevilles, ditties (songs) and press articles. The psychopathy defense was reported internationally as having enabled a remorseless female child killer to go free, a usage still quoted in dictionaries today.Oxford English Dictionary 2011: Psychopath: 1885 Pall Mall G. 21 Jan. Article archive text via MLLE.
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At many events, Beaton not only serves as a key entertainer, but as the event emcee. Alex is known for his powerful stage presence and sense of humour. He frequently interacts and jokes with audiences while performing and in-between songs. One of his albums, Daft Ditties, is composed entirely of comedic songs.
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Grand Theft Bus is a Canadian band based in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada."Grand Theft Bus / Elliott Brood The Casbah, Hamilton ON - October 7, 2005". Exclaim!, By Shain Shapiro Nov 01, 2005 Known for short, catchy, genre jumping ditties and long meandering nonsensical improvisations with occasional magic and a touch of musical comedy.
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Trouser Press writer Ira Robbins described the album as a "treasure trove of memorable ditties". AllMusic's Mark Deming said the album "isn't purist's punk, but it's pure rock & roll, and there's nothing wrong with that." Village Voice critic Robert Christgau described the album as "good new-fashioned rock and roll at its wildest".
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Larry Flick from Billboard wrote that Todd Terry "reminds club-land of his ability to construct catchy ditties that offer no apologies for their straightforward pop feel." He described the track as a "appealing single (...) bolstered by a seductively breathy vocal by disco-era diva Shannon". He also complimented its "pleasantly repetitive hook".
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One of these is Martin Williams: > Joplin's "last period" is a strange collection of contradictions. Some of > his rags reach more toward concert music than did any Jazz up to Lennie > Tristano's, while others seem to revert to his 1900 style. Profoundly > ambitious passages lie side by side with meaningless, mechanical ditties.
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Sullivan's first biographer suggested that "Thespis will be best remembered by the exquisite musical setting to the simple little Gilbertian ballad". Several later commentators write favourably of the song. Walbrook finds it "one of the neatest of Gilbert's ditties, packed with cynicism and slyness, expressed in terms of sentimental tenderness."Walbrook, p. 33.
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Hatton remarked, 'I have culled the choicest of the old ditties... The names of Purcell, Arne, Shield, Dibdin, Horn and Bishop are household words, and no English collection would be complete which did not contain the best songs of these composers... New symphonies and accompaniments have been written to more than fifty of the old songs.'J.L. Hatton, The Songs of England : a Collection of English Melodies, including the most popular traditional ditties and the principal songs and ballads of the last three centuries. Edited with new symphonies and accompaniments by John Liptrot Hatton (Boosey & Co., London, ?1873), 'Preface' p. iii. The collection rose to 200 songs in two volumes, and the third brought the total to 272 by 1892.
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Soap-Passion - Jazz Jackson, InterprètesChicago Tribune, April 22, 1985 - CITY DITTIES . . . By Michael Sneed, Cheryl Lavin and Kathy O`Malley According to Connie Passalacqua's article in The Northwest Arkansas Times. It was after two months of playing his role that his acting ability impressed the powers at Young & the Restless enough to expand his role.
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Many poems and ditties emerged during the Kelly era (1878–80) relating their exploits. Some were later put to music. Stringybark Creek (below) was often sung, to the tune of "The Wearing of the Green", during the Outbreak. Offenders caught chanting or singing this piece were fined £2 or £5, in default one or two months.
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"For my ditties and my sleep no million is needed" is the new final line that Krylov added to the scene where the cobbler returns his money to the tax-farmer. And in the restatement of the fable by Aubépine in Offenbach's operetta the new moral is drawn that "This teaches you to be content with less" (Scene 4).
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Ranger Loops - Ranger Loops is a park ranger who is the main woman in the park. She keeps the peace and order in City Park. She is enthusiastic and loves leading the kids in flower-sniffing exercises and wild animal calls. She is also a banjo player who sings short musical ditties about park rules and obscure nature facts.
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Written and directed by David Rose, it was released in 2011. Tim has a featured role in the feature-length movie "Le Accelerator" and he co-stars in the film short Pier Pressure released in Autumn 2014.In 2020 Tim played the character Ezekiel Petrov in Episode 5 'Dad'of the horror series 'Dark Ditties' for Amazon Prime.
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Elly Jackson's first interest was in folk music. She was particularly interested in Carole King and Nick Drake whose music she discovered in her parents' record collection. Jackson's early musical material consisted of folk ditties influenced by Joni Mitchell. Her taste in music changed during her mid-teens when she became involved in the rave scene.
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He never forgot his Skolt Sámi roots and he would sometimes sing in Skolt Sámi, along with Finnish. He would borrow the musical form from various forms of popular music, e.g. the blues, but his scale in singing was wide, and included ditties and ethic music. Leo Gauriloff toured with Nils- Aslak Valkeapää ja Paroni Paakkunainen.
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The Toy Dolls had regularly toured and recorded new albums in the 1990s, including Fat Bob's Feet (1991), Absurd-Ditties (1993) and Orcastrated (1995), each continuing the band's humorous approach to punk rock and Oi! music. After the release of Orcastrated, and a number of successful tours, particularly the tour supporting Absurd-Ditties in 1993, bassist John "K'Cee" Casey became disillusioned with the band and left, and he subsequently moved to Japan where he got married. Gary Fun, former member of Martin Stephenson and the Daintees, joined the band just in time for the recording for the band's next album One More Megabyte. Thus, the band's line up officially consisted of lead singer and guitarist Michael "Olgar" Algar, bassist Gary "Gary Fun" Dunn and drummer Martin "Marty" Yule.
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The other half are 12-bar blues ditties that often sound as if Bob is making 'em up as he goes." "Time Out of Mind is fantastic," said Elvis Costello. "I think it might be the best record he's made." Some critics criticized Lanois's production for, as Currin wrote, "warping Dylan’s voice too much, for burying it in a cloud of effects.
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"Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes" was a Kevin Ayers single release. The song taken from his classic 1971 album Whatevershebringswesing (released three months later). It would be re-released as a single in 1976 when Ayers re- signed to Harvest Records. The B-side, 'Stars' was a non album track that would be later included on the 1976 compilation Odd Ditties.
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AllMusic's Kelly McCarthey writes "Whether in sweetly tender ballads or honky cowboy ditties, Van Zandt truly wrote of heartache and heartbreak with the best of them...For Van Zandt was of a different breed. In "Buckskin Stallion Blues" he sings 'If three and four were seven only, where would that leave one and two?' That's a contemplation for the ages." Amazon.
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Albert Craig, dubbed the Surrey Poet, was also born and raised in Meltham. His ditties mostly related to cricket and football. Australian textile magnate Godfrey Hirst was born at Royd Edge, Meltham in 1857. In 1890 he founded the Godfrey Hirst Woollen Mills at Geelong, Victoria, which in the early 20th century became the largest manufacturer of textiles in Australia.
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Huangmei is famous for its tea and tea-picking songs, which evolved into Huangmei opera (). The opera was derived from caicha (tea-picking — cha means tea) tunes and folk ditties which people sang while picking tea. It is a combination of local folk songs, dances, and some ancient operas. Huangmei opera flourished in the 18th century to become one of the most famous traditional Chinese opera forms.
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Ben Folds Five received positive reviews from NME, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, and Entertainment Weekly. Michael Gallucci praised the album as "a potent, and extremely fun collection of postmodern rock ditties that comes off as a pleasantly workable combination of Tin Pan Alley showmanship, Todd Rundgren-style power pop, and myriad alt-rock sensibilities." Robert Christgau of The Village Voice selected "Boxing" as a "choice cut".
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Retrieved on 12 July 2007. The Fiery Furnaces released their second album, Blueberry Boat, in the summer of 2004. It is also often interpreted as a multi-layered concept album. "Quay Cur," the ten-minute lead track on Blueberry Boat, switches from dirty, gurgling organ to slide-guitar-fueled ditties, pulsing electronic beats to abstract lullaby within a few minutes, highlighting the Fiery Furnaces' variety in songwriting.
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Thom Jurek of AllMusic rated the album three stars out of five, calling it "one solidly placed party anthem after another" but "strictly for contemporary country audiences." Country Weekly reviewer Jessica Phillips praised Butter and Crystal's vocals, but thought that the album lacked more serious songs to contrast the "unexceptional summer ditties." Her review gave it two-and-a-half stars out of five.
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In his review for Mojo magazine, Andrew Perry wrote that the album sees Cope "celebrating beer as an expression of Anglo-Saxon primitivism (say no to Southern European wine!), via a half- dozen thigh-slappin’ ditties which hark back, ironically, to the humoristic ‘acid-campfire’ songcraft" of Cope's 1989 album Skellington.Perry, Andrew. "Album of the week: Julian Cope – Drunken Songs". Mojo. 19 January 2017.
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The brocade workers lived a painful life. It is a complex and monotonous job to weave cloud-pattern brocades, and a journeyman must spend years to finish one. Due to Nanjing's climate, cold in winter and hot in summer, the workers labored in harsh conditions for low pay. To divert themselves from the monotony of their jobs, workers started singing popular ditties, which developed into baiju.
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Chinaski proceeded to record their fourth album, called Na na na a jiné popjevky (Na na na and Other Ditties). The single "Klára" (Clara) was the 14th most successful track on Czech radio in its first week of release. In the vote held for the Academy Prize, Chinaski took 2nd place behind Monkey Business and ahead of Lucie. The band won fifth place again at the Český slavík awards in 2001.
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On November 11, 2003, Sharissa contributed "Take Me as I Am" to the soundtrack of the 2003 romantic comedy film Love Actually; it features Wyclef Jean. An accompanying music video was released. The song peaked at number 96 on the Hot R&B;/Hip-Hop Songs Billboard chart. Baria A. Razzaq of Vibe criticized the song: "Wyclef Jean misleads her into regurgitating one of his ditties from The Carnival era".
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Jade plays tennis for the University of Arkansas and she aspires to be a professional in the near future. “For Christmas when we were kids, ironically Dia got the guitar and I got the karaoke machine. We quickly learned, however, what we were natural at and destined to become. She became really focused on her voice and began singing little country ditties at local county fairs and retirement centers.
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Like "Carey", "California" takes the form of a travelogue and uses a stream of consciousness narrative technique. Pitchfork critic Jessica Hopper describes both songs as "how-Joni-got-her- groove-back ditties". The lyrics tell of her time in France, a trip she took to Spain and an excursion to a Greek island. At the end of each story in each location she expresses her desire to be back in California.
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She also performs with her own project bands. She has rearranged Hokkien songs in a contemporary jazz style with Peace Kopitiam Jazz Band (2012 – 2014) and reworked dirty lyrics into Christmas ditties with alternative Christmas band, Naughty “Noor” Nice (2010 – 2015). In 2015, Dong collaborated with fellow Singapore Idol, Sezairi Sezali, on the first Mandarin and Malay pop track, ‘Starlight’, for Sing, Love, a SG50 musical project by Red Roof Records.
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He was the author or translator of the following: # Turandot, Princess of China, a drama from the German of Schiller, with alterations, 1836. # Faust, a Tragedy. Part the Second, 1842. # King Charles the First, a dramatic poem, 1846. # Love's Legends, poems, 1845. # Poems, Spring, 1853. # March and April Ditties, 1853. # A Satire for the Age, The Transcendentalists, 1853; 2nd ed. 1855. # Songs of the Present, 1854; 3rd ed. 1856.
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Valentina Telichkina was born January 10, 1945 (the day of the forty-year anniversary of his mother Линия жизни: Валентина Теличкина (2010 год). Она рассказывает о детстве, проведённом в небольшом селе, о поступлении во ВГИК и значительных работах в фильмах.). She was the seventh born, the youngest child of her parents. Valentina began to show her artistic talent from early childhood - singing ditties at concerts in the kindergarten.
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Many of the songs were already old by 1820, and the music was deeply American. In time, composer Virgil Thompson would find in the old shape-note hymns "the musical basis of almost everything we make, of Negro spirituals, of cowboy songs, of popular ballads, of blues, of hymns, of doggerel ditties, of all our operas and symphonies." Certainly their vernacular idiom was absorbed into the sinews and marrow of midwestern culture.
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Billboard (July 13, 1968): "This exciting fare, for Ike and Tina know how to infuse their soul performances with drive and spirit. In addition to the title song, 'So Fine,' there are 'You're So Fine,' the classic 'Ain't Nobody's Business,' 'We Need an Understanding' and others. The backgrounds are by the Ikettes. Cash Box (July 20, 1968): "Singing with zest and energy, Ike and Tina Turner render a solid set of potent ditties.
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Spin magazine included the record among thirty- three others in its mid-year list of the best albums of 2011, commenting that Anderson "unleashes everything from tinnitus-inducing, reverb-soaked guitar drones to light-as-air acoustic ditties and pseudo-industrial bangers. But it's her emotionally raw confessionals that bind these nine tracks." NME also included the record in its mid-year list. The album was included in numerous publications' year-end lists.
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As Grub Street became a metaphor for the commercial production of printed matter, it gradually found use in early 18th-century America. Early publications such as handwritten ditties and squibs were circulated among the gentry and taverns and coffee-houses. As in England, many were directed at politicians of the day. "Grub Street Productions," a partnership of American TV producers David Angell, Peter Casey and David Lee, produced the situation comedies Wings and Frasier.
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The songs were far more experimental than anything else in the band's catalog and featured heavy use of electronic musical elements. Writing for PunkNews.org, reviewer Jefftommy called the "odd duck of a record" a "pretty little song by a hardcore band of yore" and recommended the record for the band's fans; Razorcake critic Ty Stranglehold praised the "hauntingly strange little ditties with keyboards and a drum machine," as well as the band's experimentation.
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From 1914 to 1916 he took part in the World War I by serving aboard a hospital train organized by the Morozovs. He treated only heavily wounded soldiers and dressed a total of 35000 wounds. By 1916, Vertinsky started to employ a scenic figure of Pierrot, with powdered face, singing miniature novellas-in-song known as ariettas, or "Pierrot's doleful ditties". Each song contained a prologue, exposition, culmination, and a tragic finale.
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T.I.P. even has co-production credit on "Big Things Poppin'". The songs we're doing for his album are definitely right, yes indeed Mannie Fresh added. The beat Mannie Fresh and his accomplice came up with is another energetic brouhaha in step with some of their proven street ditties such as "Top Back". One of the more recent sessions he held for the album was with Eminem, someone who has his own dual- identity issues.
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Page10, From Fulwell to Fukuoka, written by Ronan Fitzsimons, Ardra Press Olga has written all the band's albums which include such titles as Absurd-Ditties, Fat Bob's Feet, Idle Gossip and Anniversary Anthems. Following the debut album Dig That Groove Baby, the band had a top 10 single in the UK in 1984, "Nellie the Elephant", reaching number 4 in the UK Singles Chart.Page536, British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.) Roberts, David (2006). London: Guinness World Records Limited.
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The critical reception of the album was mixed to negative. Jon O'Brien from AllMusic gave the album 3,5 out of 5 stars, stating that "Ryan has produced a surprisingly sophisticated and authentic debut". He also gave credit to his vocal abilities while recognising his "undeniable talents". Michael Hubbard from MusicOMH found that Lee Ryan's debut album "showcases vocal prowess" but he thought that the songs "are a mixed bag of made-to-order drivetime ditties and flaccid shelf filler".
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"She's a Fool" and "You Don't Own Me" both reached the Top 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1963. "Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows", released as a single two years later, reached #13. Unterberger also praised the songs "If That's the Way You Want It" and "Run, Bobby, Run" for being "good moody girl group ditties" which benefited from Quincy Jones's production, but he rated the pop ballads "Fools Rush In" and "Young and Foolish" as being "pedestrian".
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"Big" Jack Poggi or Pioggi (fl. 1906 - 1914) was an American saloon keeper and underworld figure in New York City at the start of the 20th century. A rival of "Big" Jack Zelig, he had been the chief bouncer at Callahan's Dance Hall"Danny's Music All On Strike; Chinatown Warblers Object To Italian Opera. Sicilian Patrons Threaten To Quit If Bowery Ditties Are Not Retired -- Volunteer Talent Headed Off by Pickets of Singing Waiter Corps -- Teutonic Failure".
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Telegraph received critical acclaim for its dark tone and Bell's songwriting. AllMusic wrote in its review of the album, "He specializes in upbeat, McCartneyesque ditties fleshed out with enchanting harmony vocals and big, wet production." A writer for Ultimate Guitar Archive praised Bell's vocals on the album, writing "his voice is pleasantly raspy and there's always a sense of unapologetic know-how in his delivery, without the bratty pseudo-punk attitude that litters many a radio station".
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John Byrom: Epigram on the Feuds between Handel and Bononcini, The Poems, The Chetham Society 1894–1895. Source: Literature Online. Although Byrom is clearly the author of the epigram, the last two lines have also been attributed to Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope. While the familiar form of the rhyme was not printed until around 1805, when it appeared in Original Ditties for the Nursery, it is possible that Byrom was drawing on an existing rhyme.
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Attaway further explains that "Calypso can be divided into two categories: the bracket form, for bouncy ditties that are mostly nonsense, and the ballade, the most common form for serious topics." However, Attaway admits "the humorous twist is a necessary part of any true Calypso song." Each song not only has sheet music in Calypso Song Book, but it also has a brief narration, except two songs, right next to the title which is provided by Attaway and an illustration by William Charmatz.
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According to Early, "Mother Goose" used to sing songs and ditties to her grandchildren all day, and other children swarmed to hear them. Finally, it was said, her son-in-law gathered her jingles together and printed them. No evidence of such printing has been found, and historians believe this story was concocted by Fleet's great-grandson John Fleet Eliot in 1860. Iona and Peter Opie, leading authorities on nursery lore, give no credence to either the Elwes-Thomas or the Boston suppositions.
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Since then, the band has continued to release albums and to tour widely, mainly across continental Europe, South America and Japan. After a gap of 14 years since their last gig in Britain, 2007 saw a string of UK dates taking in cities from Glasgow to London, including a "homecoming" for a show at Durham University. The band released a best of album, Ten Years of Toys. 1993 saw the popular live song "I'm a Telly Addict" on the album Absurd-Ditties.
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The NoZe Brothers delight in praising the memory of Brother Long NoZe in prose and song with ditties such as "This Old God", "When the NoZe is Blown up Yonder", and "Rock Around the Cross". The traditional NoZe saga "The Cry of the Enormous Rabbit" is usually recited semiannually. The society is based in Waco, Texas. It is forbidden for a NoZe Brother to reveal his identity to a non-member, unless it will directly result in him having sex.
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Elgar's duties were to train and conduct the band, and he was expected to have practical knowledge of the technique of flute, oboe, clarinet, euphonium and all string instruments.Reed, p.13 He was paid £32 annually – £4 per annum less than his predecessor, no doubt because of his inexperience. Additionally he was paid 5 shillings for each polka and quadrille he composed for the band, and one shilling and sixpence for accompaniments to the Christy's Minstrels ditties of the day.
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Narcoleptic Pianist on CDbaby (Somnifacient Records, 2002) – an hour-long nonstop piano solo written for insomniacs. Warped Children’s Songs (Somnifacient Records, 2007) – parodies of children’s songs, such as Mary Had A Business Plan and Row, Row, Row Your Raft. Piano Petrissage on CDbaby (Somnifacient Records, 2010) – an hour-plus nonstop piano solo composed and arranged for play during massage therapy sessions, yoga sessions, and meditation. Od-Ditties on CDbaby (Somnifacient Records, 2011) - Recorded Live at RavenCon 2011; songs to make your inner nerd snicker.
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Cheap at Half the Price differed from Frith's previous experimental albums in that it featured a collection of short songs and instrumentals in a "tongue- in-cheek pop vein". He also played a "cheap" Casio-101 on all the tracks and sang for the first time. AllMusic described Frith's singing on the album as "strange[ly] high-pitched", and the songs as "pop-like ditties" with a "simple and repetitive" structure. Leonardo Digital Reviews said most of the tracks had a "happy-go-lucky" feel to them.
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Halunkenpostille is the title of a collection of poetry by the German writer Fritz Graßhoff. It could be translated as Scoundrel's Postil, and it reflects the title of Bertolt Brecht's Hauspostille, a collection of poems, which parodies Martin Luther's Hauspostille, a collection of Bible commentaries. A recording of songs from the Halunkenpostille was subtitled Schräge Songs, halbseidene Lieder und wunderschöne Gedichte, which may be rendered as Cockeyed Songs, Dubious Ditties and Wonderful Poems. The style shows similarities to works by Erich Kästner, Walter Mehring and Joachim Ringelnatz.
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The son of a pharmacist mother and antiquarian father, Mathieu spent his early childhood in Fontenay sous Bois before acquainting himself with the piano. At age ten he started playing an organ - intended for use by his mother, but who never picked it up. After two years of taking courses, he started his first musical group at age 13 with two fellow students and friends from middle school. After many years travelling the world, mostly Africa (especially Kenya), he started penning some naive, minimalistic ditties.
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Music played a key role in Petrolini's theatrical style and is an important ingredient in many of his comedies. Many of his characters sing songs and ditties (filastrocche), or declaim verses to a musical accompaniment. Petrolini was often an interpreter, and sometimes also the author, of popular songs of the day, many of which were released as records. One of the biggest hits of 1926 was Una gita a li castelli – also known as Nanni – written by Franco Silvestri and performed (and arranged) by Petrolini.
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David Swann's The Privilege of Rain (published by Waterloo Press, with wood-cuts by Clare Dunne), is a collection compiled following a year as Writer in Residence at HMP Nottingham (prison). Katharine Towers' The Floating Man is a debut collection published by Picador. The 2011 award went to Lavinia Greenlaw won the prize for sound piece Audio Obscura. Shortlisted were Julia Copus for Ghost Lines, Robert Crawford for Simonides, Andrew Motion for Laurels and Donkeys and Christopher Reid for Airs and Ditties of No Man’s Land.
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One was often a man dressed as a woman. They sang 'popular ditties' and performed a mummer’s play.R. Hunt, Popular Romances of the West of England (Llanerch, 1993) Appendix E (facsimile of 1881 original) In The Delectable Duchy 'Q' (the writer Arthur Quiller-Couch ) tells of mummers, guise-dancers and darky parties in c1892. Bottrell describes guise-dances as light-hearted plays in doggerel with music and dance interludes. Perhaps these shows, formalised in Nance’s Cledry Plays were the last evolution of the mummers' art.
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They had Thomas, Emmeline, Olive and Ethel Chant. Laura Ormiston Chant Ormiston wrote and lectured on social purity, temperance, and women's rights. Her published works include pamphlets, hymns, a novel and a book of poetry and are described as reflecting "many of the tensions characterizing feminism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries". She also wrote the words and music for Action Songs for Children and several more volumes of music in the same vein, consisting of simple ditties embodying physical exercises for small children.
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Something/Anything was released in February 1972. White-labeled promotional DJ issues of the LP were pressed on colored vinyl — the first record on red vinyl, the second on blue. Billboard reviewed that Rundgren's songs "have an aura of being irreverent, irrelevant little ditties, while in reality they are penetratingly strident observations", and that he seemed to have had fun making the album. "Hello It's Me" was released as a single late in 1972, and reached #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 the following year.
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According to music historian Carl Caferelli, "You could conceivably think of virtually every cute novelty hit, from pre-rock ditties like “How Much Is That Doggie In The Window” to transcendent rock-era staples like “Iko Iko,” as a legitimate precursor to bubblegum's avowedly ephemeral themes." He went on to list such "important antecedents" as "I'm Henry VIII, I Am" (Herman's Hermits, 1965), "Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron" (Royal Guardsmen, 1966), "Ding, Dong! The Witch is Dead" (Fifth Estate, 1967), and "Green Tambourine" (Lemon Pipers, 1967).
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A clerk by a stockbroker, he became known in the early 1860s by his ditties in the cafés-concerts. With his friend Hector Monréal, they would collaborate during 40 years on the stages. His plays were presented on the most significant Parisian stages of the 19th century including the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique, Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques, Théâtre des Variétés, Théâtre du Château d'Eau. In 1870, during the Paris Commune, and in association with Monréal, he ran a satirical newspaper called the Fils du Père Duchêne illustré.
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Vocal range of the music is usually limited to one octave; dissonance and chromaticism are rare; and the overall simplicity of expression is striking. The influence of the air de cour extended beyond France. Collections were published in Germany, and more importantly in England, where translations were rather popular, as attested by the several publications and copies. There exists a delightfully titled publication: French Court-airs, with their Ditties Englished, (Edward Filmer, 1629), The air de cour had considerable influence on the development of the English ayre.
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For the most part, these musical plays were set to words written by his sister, the noted children's writer Mrs Ewing. His songs ran into hundreds, many of them with texts by himself. A few of the best known titles were Ae Fond Kiss, Crofte and Ye Faire Ladye, True Till Death, and Country House Ditties (1898). His concern to provide music for children, already noted, was pursued in Little Songs for Little Voices published in three volumes, including 76 short and simple songs.
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Its hero is "Owl Jolson", a young owl who croons popular ditties, such as the title song, against the wishes of his father, a classical music teacher.Gabbard (1996), pp. 49–50; Rogin (1998), pp. 3–4. Among the many references to The Jazz Singer in popular culture, perhaps the most significant is that of the MGM musical Singin' in the Rain (1952). The story, set in 1927, revolves around efforts to change a silent film production, The Dueling Cavalier, into a talking picture in response to The Jazz Singers success.
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Billboard reviewed the album saying: :Crosby singing Porter standards is calculated to be a sure-fire formula, and this album will doubtless enjoy a good sale. Sides were all cut in recent years, however, and some of them aren’t top calibre for the Groaner. However, the incomparable Crosby intelligence and projection are there, even if the voice sometimes isn’t, and his interpretations are impressive. This is his second album of Porter tunes, but the selection is fine, with all the ditties familiar favorites, with the possible exception of "I Never Realized".
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Aivi Tran and Steven "Surasshu" Velema's chiptune-inspired music has also been praised in reviews; Oliver Sava of The A.V. Club mentioned its range from "peppy retro" to Ghibli-esque "smooth jazz piano". According to Thurm, the musical numbers are characterized by "uplifting determination". Whitbrook wrote that they have evolved from being "little ... goofy ditties" to an integral part of the show's storytelling. Thurm wrote for Pitchfork that "music matters in Rebecca Sugar's work", more than in most musicals, by structuring the characters' lives rather than merely telling a story.
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He wrote drinking songs and love ditties which were very popular among the Greeks. He is also the author of a tragedy, of Politika Parallela (a comparison of various systems of government), of translations of Homer and Heraclitus, and of some philological works on the connection between ancient and modern Greek. His Hellenika Archaiologemata (Athens, 1853) contains an account of his life. Thomas K. Papathomas (1872-1936), a poet from Kastoria himself, published Christopoulos's "Complete Works" ("Χριστοποὐλου Ἀπαντα" in Greek) in 1931-1932 in Thessaloniki (Spyros Syros Press).
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His minimalist approach contrasted with the "flashier" style of most local guitarists of the time. Instead of long, epic solos, Adoro preferred "pretty little ditties" that often complement the tone of the song. His "less is more" method resembles that of many guitarists from Manila's '80s underground punk scene, particularly Bobby Balingit (The Wuds) and Resty Cornejo (Identity Crisis). During the band's later years, Adoro began to acquire a fascination with electric guitar noises and environmental sounds which he would incorporate to his style as the band's music progressed and became more experimental.
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Belafonte's version used lyrics adapted by Burgie and Attaway, though Belafonte is also credited. Burgie later described "Day-O" as "a song about struggle, about black people in a colonized life doing the most grueling work", saying "a lot of my work is based on songs and ditties that I've heard in the Caribbean". The song "Jamaica Farewell" was later recorded by Jimmy Buffett, Carly Simon and others. Belafonte recorded other songs written by Burgie, including "Island in the Sun", one of ten Burgie compositions on his 1957 album Belafonte Sings of the Caribbean.
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There's nothing odd about these ditties." Sarah Coxson, reviewer for fRoots magazine, wrote: "ODDiTTiES offers another insight into the duo's musical journey: a rich array of much- loved McGarrigle songs selected and recorded for a variety of projects between 1973 and 1990. It documents both their broad-ranging taste – from "The Log Driver's Waltz" to the lo-fi delights of "A La Claire Fontaine" – and that fine line between vulnerability and strength that characterizes their vocals. ODDiTTiES is one for completists, a whimsical and welcome addition to any McGarrigles collection.
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Not one of the fruity, contralto-like mezzo-sopranos usually assigned to Mahler's vocal output, von Stade performed his songs with a lightness of tone, downplaying the high emotions of Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen and conveying the innocent naïveté of the ditties from Des Knaben Wunderhorn.Jellinek, George: Stereo Review, October 1980, pp. 114-119 Her words were "clearly articulated and sensitively ccloured for expression", and she revealed the minutiae of Mahler's scores "with the accuracy of a master instrumentalist". There were times, indeed, when her interpretations could seem more carefully prepared than was desirable.
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In 1833, he tried his hand with Horatio D. Sheppard at editing a daily newspaper, the New York Morning Post, which was not a success. Despite this failure and its attendant financial loss, Greeley published the thrice-weekly Constitutionalist, which mostly printed lottery results. On March 22, 1834, he published the first issue of The New-Yorker in partnership with Jonas Winchester. It was less expensive than other literary magazines of the time and published both contemporary ditties and political commentary. Circulation reached 9,000, then a sizable number, yet it was ill-managed and eventually fell victim to the economic Panic of 1837.
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In March 2011, the band created a charity t-shirt for the Yellow Bird Project to raise money for Asylum Aid; an organization that provides specialist legal representation and advice to people seeking asylum in the UK. They also filmed a four-part video series called the "YBP Wilderness Sessions", to promote the release of the shirt. They were on the long list on the BBC's Sound of 2012 poll. Paul Lester compared them in The Guardian to fellow Londoners Mumford & Sons, commenting that the group "offer a glimpse of the pastoral with their infectious semi-acoustic ditties".
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In John's fictional world, each fifteen-minute episode is a cassette tape recording made by John, featuring John's commentary addressed directly to the listener and eavesdropping on John's daily life. Characters include his wife Mary, neighbour and agent Ken Worthington, their two teenage children Darren and Karen, and Mary's friend Joan Chitty, all voiced by Graham Fellows. Events are interspersed with his own bizarre bouncy keyboard ditties on such varied matters as Austin Ambassadors, garden centres and toast, all performed (usually badly) on his Yamaha Portasound electronic keyboard. Each programme is improvised, recorded and edited by Fellows using multitrack recording.
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Singer Tom Barnes released a CD entitled Three Day Ditties, which abandoned the louder rock sound of Engine 88, in favor of a more soft rock sound similar to that of his former project, Sordid Humor. His songs have gained a cult following and have been covered live by the band Counting Crows. Guitarist Damon Wood is now a Software Engineer at Pandora performing in a Pretenders tribute band, Message of Love, and in an R&B; cover band, Curtis Bumpy, in the San Francisco Bay Area. Bassist Eric Knight works at UC Berkeley and trains and coaches martial arts at SBG NorCal.
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Blue Man Group Limited Partnership, 73 F.Supp.2d 382 (1999) Dewan's 2007 album Words Of Wisdom (Eschatone Records) was the first in a series of folk archival recordings called the Humanitarium Series. Each record in the series will collect a set of song artifacts by theme: temperance, school songs, hymns, folksongs ancient and modern, institutional music, advertisement and persuasion, ditties, jingles, and popular music. He has also performed a song for the original soundtrack CD for the "Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?" television series, though this track was commissioned for the CD and never used in any other context.
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Alizée's three albums include a wide range of songs, from catchy pop tunes to soulful ballads. Radio France Internationale featured Gourmandises as their CD of the week, stating: > The ten songs on Alizée's debut album, Gourmandises (Goodies), have all been > expertly manufactured by the Farmer hit-machine. Sweet syrupy pop ditties > are wrapped in silky synths, violins and catchy techno beats and judging by > the success of Alizée's sexily alliterative second single, L'Alizé, the > Farmer team have hit upon a winning formula. > ...Gourmandises the French word for sweets (or candies) is the appropriate > title of French pop princess Alizée's debut album.
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The government threatened to withdraw its financial support from the theater. The criticism further addressed the play itself: "a combination of flawed dialogues and ditties attempting to toss salt on our open wounds" (Dr. Haim Gamzu); "This 'theatrash' (mahazevel) makes us all out to be despicable killers, citizens of a militarist, money-grabbing state." (Uri Porat); and "a scene about a reporter, who comes to interview a young widow whose husband died in the trenches, and plays at love with her, only a demonic or infirm mind could devise... it's a malicious abuse of thousands of bereaved parents" (Reuven Yanai).
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Sheira and Loli's Dittydoodle Works features music written and performed by the real-life inspiration for the series' main characters, twins Sheira and Loli Brayer. The sisters' performances on Sheira and Loli's Ditties for Little Kiddies-Volume #1, and Dittydoodle Works Celebrates the Holidays garnered two iParenting Media Awards. The show was approved by Common Sense Media. The characters' diverse personalities are designed to provide opportunities to teach positive emotional, social, and educational lessons as young viewers learn, along with the characters, about self-esteem, cooperation, relationships, fitness, and concepts about nature, the physical world, and literacy.
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"The Twelve" alienated Blok from many of his intellectual readers (who accused him of lack of artistry), while the Bolsheviks scorned his former mysticism and asceticism. Searching for modern language and new images, Blok used unusual sources for the poetry of Symbolism: urban folklore, ballads (songs of a sentimental nature) and ditties ("chastushka"). He was inspired by the popular chansonnier Mikhail Savoyarov, whose concerts during the years 1915–1920 were visited often by Blok. Academician Viktor Shklovsky noted that the poem is written in criminal language and in ironic style, similar to Savoyarov's couplets, by which Blok imitated the slang of 1918 Petrograd.
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The Fame received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 71, based on 13 reviews. AllMusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine called the album "music that sounds thickly sexy with its stainless steel synths and dark disco rhythms", and wrote that it is "glorious pop trash and a wicked parody of it." Nicole Powers of URB complimented its "irony-laden lyrics, delivered in a style that owes a little something to Gwen Stefani," as well as the album's "deluxe ditties".
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P. 51-55. The book is divided into fourteen so-called chapters, most of which are brief essays on religious topics. The eleventh chapter is headed 'Morning Meditation, with sixteen sobs of a sorrowful spirit, which she used for a mentall prayer, as also an addition of sixteen staves taken out of "Peter's Complaint" (Southwell's), which she usually played on the winde instrument,' and the twelfth is 'a Madrigall made by Bernye Grymestone upon the conceit of his mother's play to the former ditties.' The thirteenth chapter consists of 'Odes in imitation of the seven pœnitentiall psalms in seven severall kindes of verse.
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The Gospel Music Heritage initiative was conceived by Charles Humbard CEO of UPtv and entertainment executive Alvin V. Williams, former employee of UPtv. Charles Humbard and Alvin V. Williams were discussing how to create a day that would recognize the rich heritage of Gospel music with original programming surrounding it that could be attractive to advertisers. Williams spearheaded this initiative by researching the rich legacy of Gospel music and building a team of supporters. This research covered Field Hollers, Corn Ditties, Negro Spirituals, Quartet Music, Gospel Music, Southern Gospel, Contemporary Gospel, Country Music, Folk, and Christian Music.
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Playing successfully at concerts "of the free and easy type...not specially noted for their refinement", he was respected as "a really expert violinist" and "unequalled...as a comic singer of local ditties"."The Monthly Chroncle of North Country Lore and Legend", Walter Scott, 1891 He also "possessed very considerable gifts as an artist", often creating chalk likenesses of contemporary celebrities and local figures as part of his act."The Monthly Chroncle of North Country Lore and Legend", Walter Scott, 1891 Corvan sang about survival on the edge of poverty and other working class experiences. He supported the seamen's strike of 1851 and gave money from his performances to seafarers charities.
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Addie Prater Graham, (February 5, 1890 - April 1, 1978) was born in 1890 at Gilmore in Wolfe County in the mountains of eastern Kentucky. She was a masterful traditional singer whose life and repertoire reflect both deep tradition and an era of social change in the Appalachian Mountains. She sang ballads which trace back to the British Isles, others composed in America, frolic songs and ditties, and religious songs in the Primitive Baptist tradition. While the Old Baptist belief of her parents forbade the use of musical instruments, she became an accomplished unaccompanied singer in the complex, highly ornamented style of Kentucky's oral tradition.
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Stylus Magazine's Ryan Foley shared similar views, describing it as "beyond infectious" and claiming that they fill "their three-minute, pop-punk ditties with melodic snarl, flouncing sass, and enough lusty sing-along parts to keep the punters busy". IGN's Chad Grischow gave the album an Outstanding rating in his review of the album saying it was "not the most refined album you will buy this year, but surely one you will not regret". Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine was less favourable, calling it "tediously misogynistic" and "instantly memorable but thankfully wordless". Costello Music was voted the fourth-worst Scottish album ever in a 2007 online poll of music fans.
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Finnish artist Irwin Goodman has made a song and an album called St.Pauli ja Reeperbahn. The street is also mentioned in the Elvis Costello song "Human Hands", in Van Morrison's song "Heavy Connection", in Paul Kelly's song "Every Fucking City", in the Midnight Oil song "Mountains of Burma", the Sloppy Seconds song "Germany" from their album Destroyed and in the Runrig song "Song of the Earth". The heavy metal band Blue Cheer have a song called "Sweet Child of the Reeperbahn" on their 1991 album Dining with the Sharks. The punk band The Toy Dolls have a song titled "Caught up the Reeperbahn", first released on their 1993 album Absurd-Ditties.
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Humor and satire were a large part of the content of the trench journals. Most works of this type took the form of black humor, sometimes making light of subjects widely considered more serious. Short songs ("ditties") and poems often joked about terrible conditions, fear of death, and general cynicism on the perceived hopelessness and pointlessness of the war. The journal of the 55th West Lancashire Division, Sub Rosa, included this poem in 1917: > Little Jack Wrench Sat down in a trench With a 'pork and beans' and some > bread, When an Allemande shell On the parapet fell So he got 'iron rations' > instead.
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This unpopular proceeding was immortalised in Kipling's Departmental Ditties by The Rupaiyat of Omar Kalvin, which represents the finance member as plying the begging-bowl among his European countrymen. In his last budget (1887–88) he increased the salt duty by twenty-five per cent, and imposed an export duty on petroleum. Colvin welcomed his transfer on 21 November 1887 to Allahabad as Lieutenant- governor of the North-West Provinces and chief commissioner of Oudh, in succession to Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall. His father had been charged with "over- governing" the same provinces thirty years before, and the son resembled him in his personal attention to detail.
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Admitting that he wanted to release "a couple of ditties" before the United States presidential election of 2004, Wainwright described the collection as "some of the more daunting tracks, the operatic, weird stuff, some heavy numbers that relate to my classical sensibilities". Songs from the EP were produced by Marius de Vries, who collaborated with Wainwright for both Want albums, with mixing by Andy Bradfield (de Vries and Bradfield both mixed "Waiting for a Dream"). Guests include family members Martha Wainwright and Suzzy Roche, fellow musicians Teddy Thompson and Joan Wasser, and orchestral arrangements by Van Dyke Parks. Album artwork was made available for download from Wainwright's official website.
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Matt Windman of AM: New York wrote, "Brightman comes off as a gentler version of Jack Black, though still loud and rambunctious and a genuine class clown". Chris Jones of the Chicago Tribune noted, "What matters most — and what makes this show work — is that Brightman clearly has developed, and can show us he has developed, an emotional bond with his band." Cote noted, "You’d have to have zero sense of humor about pop to not enjoy Webber’s jaunty pastiche score, which sneaks elegant melodies in among the boilerplate stadium stompers." But Jones suggested, "the ever-savvy Andrew Lloyd Webber has kept himself and his ditties more in the background".
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Mad Magazine provoked an early legal backlash against parody when in 1961 the magazine published a songbook in which various topical ditties such as "The Last Time I Saw Maris", "Albert Einstein", and "There's No Business Like No Business" were included (in poem format; with a parenthetical phrase after each title, stating "Sung to the tune of..."). Several music publishers joined in a lawsuit taking the magazine to court. The matter eventually reached the U.S. Supreme Court, which declined to review the decision by a lower court dismissing the suit against Mad. Musical parody was briefly threatened in the mid-1990s when a case (Campbell v.
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William Purvis was the son of John Purvis, a waterman, and Margaret Purvis (who died in All Saints Poorhouse aged over 100). William was born early in the year of 1752 in Newcastle, and baptised at All Saints' Church on 16 February 1752. He was either blind from birth, or very shortly after, although he often made comments from which the onlooker would think he could see. Very rarely did he perform in the street, preferring to perform in ale houses, in which he would depend on the charity of the public, but as he seemed to bring trade and the public appeared to like his ditties this seemed an amicable arrangement.
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One notable aspect of the Victorians' commemoration of Guy Fawkes Night was its move away from the centres of communities, to their margins. Gathering wood for the bonfire increasingly became the province of working-class children, who solicited combustible materials, money, food and drink from wealthier neighbours, often with the aid of songs. Most opened with the familiar "Remember, remember, the fifth of November, Gunpowder Treason and Plot". The earliest recorded rhyme, from 1742, is reproduced below alongside one bearing similarities to most Guy Fawkes Night ditties, recorded in 1903 at Charlton on Otmoor: > Don't you Remember, > The Fifth of November, > 'Twas Gunpowder Treason Day, > I let off my gun, > And made'em all run.
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Billboard reviewed the album saying, inter alia: “With the title flicker still to open and run what promises to be a long course, this album of ditties featured in the film figures to do right well over the counter. Crosby and Miss Wyman, of course, star in the pic. While the Andrews Sisters do not appear in the movie, their efforts on this disk add plus values… Liner carries a synopsis of the film and fairly detailed biographies of the artists featured on the disk.” The Crosby and Jane Wyman duet “Zing a Little Zong” reached the No. 18 spot in the Best- sellers list and remained in the charts for six weeks.
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"The Betrothed" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling, first published in book form in Departmental Ditties (1886). It is a tongue-in-cheek work by the young bachelor Kipling, who affected a very worldly-wise stance. In it, he takes as his epigraph the report of evidence in a breach of promise case, "You must choose between me and your cigar". The poem simply has a narrator musing on the difference between his fiancée Maggie and his habit of smoking cigars: He weighs up Maggie's looks, and what she will be at fifty; the limitations of monogamy against "a harem of dusky beauties"; and the relatively unknown woman against the tried and tested "Counsellors" and "comforters".
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After separating from her husband, Chiquinha lived as an independent musician, playing piano in music instrument stores. She gave piano lessons to support her son João Gualberto, regardless of society critics because she was raising a child without a husband. She was devoted entirely to her music, which was very successful, as her career grew and she became very famous as a composer of polkas, waltzes, tangos and ditties. Chiquinha began to participate in balls and “chorões” reunions, normally reserved for men, where she met the flautist Joaquim Antônio da Silva Callado and started to play in his group, O Choro do Calado, being the first woman to play in this group.
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George Starostin called it one of the "catchiest ditties the band ever did: the interplay between the bloozy guitar and the poppy harmonica is amazing and promptly digs itself into your memory". Despite the single not reaching the charts, New Musical Express wrote that it was "good enough to have made the Chart". "A Song for Jeffrey" was ranked the 25th best Jethro Tull song by Rock – Das Gesamtwerk der größten Rock-Acts im Check. The song was performed on the Rolling Stones Rock 'n' Roll Circus in December 1968, although only Ian Anderson's vocals and flute were actually amplified from the live performance; the rest of the band mimed their parts, but the sound was pre-recorded.
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The album met with generally mixed reviews from critics and it wasn't as successful as their debut album. It also received mixed reactions from fans on its release. Spin gave the album a 6/10, calling the tracks "both their best and blandest yet." Reviewer Barry Walters added, "The middle of the road was always their destiny, it seems, and they arrive with blatantly pleasant but character-free ditties." FMV Magazine's Dan Jenko commented that the second half of the album was a lot stronger than the first, saying that "It's frustrating that once again The Kooks’ obvious potential has seemingly not been fulfilled, but unlike their second effort, Konk, the record does have some redeeming qualities".
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2, Jazzybee Verlag Jŭrgen Beck - Google Books Within a few years Oates had changed her repertoire of old-style British burlesques for the latest French fashion in musical-theatre, becoming one of the most adventurous and durable theatrical managers to successfully produce and play English- language opéra bouffe and opéra comique around America. Her Little Faust manner of staging, however, remained her manner throughout. The pieces were heavily botched, their comedy considerably lowered, their musical scores spattered with topical and local ditties, and the programmes perforated with variety acts, until they resembled far more the old English burlesques Oates had dropped from her repertoire than the very much more sophisticated French variety.Gänzl, Kurt.
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Augie March on stage at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival in October 2007 Augie March returned to the studio in 2004 to record a follow- up to Strange Bird. The band worked with two producers, Paul McKercher and Eric Drew Feldman, and recorded in Melbourne, San Francisco, and their own studio in Nagambie, Victoria. Donovan said it was more suited to the band's style; as they co-produced on all their albums, they took a great deal of interest in production. He said it also enabled them to work at their own pace, hence the four-year gap between releases. They released a DVD, Drones & Vapid Ditties, containing live performances and music videos, in mid-2004.
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She illustrated children's books, including her own The Educated Pig (Oxford University Press; 1949) and texts by others such as Ditties for the Nursery (Oxford University Press, 1954) by Iona Opie, Trouble for Tembo (Dolphin Books/ University of London Press, 1958) by Lesley Bourne, and Martin's Holiday (Dolphin Books/ University of London Press, 1960) by Enid Wiseman. Her work was featured on the cover of the 1956 Christmas edition of Radio Times. A 1947 portrait photograph of Walker, by John Gay, is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery. She was photographed by Gay for, and featured in, an article in The Strand Magazine, "Eight Young Artists in Search of an Editor", in which she was said to be living with her parents in Surbiton.
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The origin of campaign songs were partisan ditties used in American political canvasses and more especially in presidential contests. The words were commonly set to established melodies like "Yankee Doodle," "Hail, Columbia," "Rosin the Bow," "Hail to the Chief" "John Brown's Body," "Dixie" and "O Tannenbaum" ("Maryland, My Maryland"); or to tunes widely popular at the time, such as "Few Days," "Champagne Charlie," "The Wearing of the Green" or "Down in a Coal Mine," which served for "Up in the White House." Perhaps the best known of them was "Tippecanoe and Tyler too," (in which words by Alexander C. Ross were adapted to the folk tune, "Little Pigs"). First heard at Zanesville, Ohio, this spread rapidly over the country, furnishing a party slogan.
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To celebrate the return of Kevin Ayers to Harvest Records, in November 1976 the label reissued his 1971 neo-rockabilly single. This time the track was accompanied by another unreleased song from the Whatevershebringswesing sessions – "Fake Mexican Tourist Blues". This humorous track involves an unscrupulous Mexican trying to pair Ayers off with various members of his family; “Hey, brother, what about my mother / She's only just forty / She's especially naughty / She knows a lot a tricks / More than the younger chicks / And if you don't like my mother / I got a very nice brother.” Both songs were included on a collection Harvest released that year of Ayers rarities and B-sides entitled Odd Ditties, which this single helped to promote.
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Ewen, pg. 94 (T)hese publishers devised formulas by which songs could be produced with speed and dispatch... Songs were now to be produced from a serviceable matrix, and issued in large quantities: stereotypes for foreign songs, Negro songs, humorous ditties, and, most important of all, sentimental ballads. Some of the most notable publishers included Willis Woodward, the Witmark house of publishing, Charles K. Harris, and Edward B. Marks and Joseph W. Stern. Stern and Marks began writing together as amateurs in 1894, with "The Little Lost Child"; the song became a hit, selling more than two million copies of its sheet music after its successful promotion as an illustrated song and after it attracted the attention of popular stage performer Della Fox.
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" Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine said its content was "impending or simply imagined", adding "the very title of which embodies that fact, is essentially about masturbation, with Janet describing what her lover's "smooth and shiny [cock]" feels like against her lips while ostensibly rubbing herself off under the covers". An anecdote also stated Jackson became "the sex kitten every man dreamed she would be," opposed to formerly known as "a sweet fresh faced girl singing little ditties about young love." The lyrics "purposely leaves something to the imagination," leaving one to wonder what Jackson is referring to: "Could Janet be talking about the lips, chest, or a man’s procreation stick? For freakiness’ sake, I'd like to go with the last option over everything.
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In his review for AllMusic, Joseph McCombs called Solid State Warrior a "solid" sunshine pop album. While he describes the songs "Sleep Children" and "'Til We Meet Again" as "forgettable lullaby ditties", he says the song "What You Don't Know About the Girl" a "bona fide candy-coated delight". To summarize he notes that the album "continues in the sunny power pop mold; it doesn't tip over into exceedingly twee or baroque territory, but rather emphasizes bright melodies and playful arrangements." Power of Pop gave The Land of Pure Imagination an A+, saying it "deserves to be in the collection of every fan of great pop music..." and suggests that it should "be spoken of in the same hushed tones as that Jellyfish masterpiece, Spilt Milk".
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Cole won the Best Actor award at the Unrestricted View Horror Film Festival 2016 for his role as Pete in British comedy horror feature film Stag Hunt, starring alongside Mackenzie Astin. Recent work includes character roles in the Dark Ditties series on Amazon Prime. He also played a Radio DJ in feature film Borrowed Time and Captain William in feature film Richard the Lionheart: Rebellion In theatre, Cole recently played Meatball in the World Premiere of Lesley Ann Albiston's new play A Slice Of Eel Pie. He has appeared in leading roles including: Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hal in Loot, Nero in Britannicus, Wilson in The Ruffian on the Stair, Willie in Blue Remembered Hills, Mephistopheles in Dr Faustus, and various characters in Mamet's Edmond.
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At the turn of the century, this description summed up Fox's talent: > She is a delightful little fairy with whom to be cast upon desert places. > She has a continual childish sparkle of humor, never failing under trials > submerging the usual woman, and her distresses are as comic as her escapades > of fun. She doesn't think deeply, but she thinks often, and the result of > her fleecy little mental efforts are always silvered with a laugh.... Miss > Fox has no voice to brag upon, but her personality and piquancy, her > earnestness and fund of natural American humor make her an enjoyable singer > of tuneful ditties and chic airs. She dances with fairy grace, and turns a > joke into laughter with a snap of her fingers or flash of her eye.
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Kirshner achieved his first major success in the late 1950s and early 1960s as co-owner of the influential New York-based publishing company Aldon Music with partner Al Nevins, which had under contract at various times several of the most important songwriters of the so-called "Brill Building" school, including Carole King, Gerry Goffin, Neil Sedaka, Neil Diamond, Paul Simon, Phil Spector, Howard Greenfield, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil and Jack Keller. As a producer-promoter, Kirshner was instrumental in launching the careers of singers and songwriters, including Bobby Darin, with whom he collaborated on a number of advertising jingles and pop "ditties" - their first was called Bubblegum Pop. He was also responsible for finding Tony Orlando, Neil Diamond, Carole King, and Sarah Dash of Labelle, as well as discovering the occasional rock act, such as Kansas.
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Mad Loves title is a rough translation of L'amour fou, a story by French writer André Breton (pictured in 1923) Mad Love features Lush's "trademark 4AD ethereal" sound, which was described by Melody Maker as "succulent, individual melodies" and "romantic student ditties" which were sung in "gossamer voices". In addition, the EP features heavily treated layers of texturised guitars, processed with various effects units. The overall sound of Mad Love drew comparisons to the jangle pop stylings of REM and indie pop band Marine Girls, but several critics noted that Lush's post-punk roots were still present on the EP, partially due to several songs' shifting time signatures. Several elements of dream pop are also discernible on Mad Love, such as vocal tracks deliberately placed low in the mix and indecipherable lyrics, which Berenyi said "exist in a vacuum" to avoid misinterpretation.
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After leaving university Campbell spent some months busking, as well as training as a roulette dealer at the Golden Nugget Casino on Shaftesbury Avenue, before being accepted as a trainee reporter with the Mirror Group Newspapers. His first published work was Inter- City Ditties, his winning entry to a readers' competition in Forum, the journalistic counterpart to Penthouse magazine. This led to a lengthy stint writing pieces for the magazine with such titles as "Busking with Bagpipes" and "The Riviera Gigolo", written in a style calculated to lead readers at the time to believe they were descriptions of his own sexual exploits. As part of the Mirror Group training scheme Campbell spent a year at a local weekly paper and he quickly became the sports editor at the Tavistock Times, writing a column called 'Campbell's Corner'.
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However, the series also apparently refers to Sigmund Freud's famous attributed observation that "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar",attributed in Bartlett, Familiar Quotations, 15th Ed. as well as to Rudyard Kipling's "… a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.""The Betrothed," Departmental Ditties and Barrack Room Ballads, Ed. Project Gutenberg In "Double Bill", a 2012 series of large inkjet prints,John Baldessari: Double Bill, April 6 - May 12, 2012 Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris. Baldessari paired the work of two selected artists (such as Giovanni di Paolo with David Hockney, or Fernand Léger with Max Ernst) on a single canvas, further altering the appropriated picture plane by overlaying his own hand- painted color additions. Baldessari then names only one of his two artistic "collaborators" on each canvas's lower edge, such as …AND MANET or …AND DUCHAMP.
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One of New Zealand's early colonists, Jerningham Wakefield was unimpressed by one of Burns' lectures describing how the lecturer dressed "with sandals and strings of beads on his legs and wrists, a leopard-skin petticoat, a necklace of pig's tusks, and a crown of blue feathers a foot long, – sings NZ ditties to a tune!, and talks gibberish, which he translates into romantic poetry." In December 1845 Barnet Burns lodged a complaint to the Police Magistrate at Worship-Street, London against Henry Sproules Edwards, who had disrupted one of Burns' lectures by publicly denouncing him as a fraud. By 1847 Barnet Burns had a manager, Lionel Violet Gyngell who announced appearances by Barnet and Rosina Burns during a tour that included Hawkstone Hall,Hawkstone Hall Eddowes's Salopian Journal, 21 April 1847. Shrewsbury,Shrewsbury Chronicle, 26 April 1847.
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Unlike Clairvaux's more sombre tomes, de Coincy's book (whilst sharing much of the same ideological bedrock) tends more towards the indulgent or soft-hearted. Many of the songs de Coincy wrote were set to popular ballads then in vogue at the royal court, or borrowed the tune of pastoral or romantic ditties. The Miracles of Our Lady is one of the most popular works of Marianist literature from the period and it encapsulates a very particular set of Christian values, which saw in the Virgin Mary the most benevolent and humanistic aspect of salvation, intercession and mercy. Many of the songs are concerned with the key elements of the Virgin's earthly life - her conception, her birth, her childhood, her youth in the Temple, the events recorded in the Biblical gospels and her Dormition; the poems and stories are generally more concerned with her modern-day miracles.
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Following the album's instrumental introduction, "Navigate", the album opens with the title track "Cosmic Explorer"; a stadium EDM anthem designed to invoke the infinite possibilities of space, representing how Perfume perceive their future. "Miracle Worker" and "Next Stage with You" are described as "synth-drive" tracks that are both divided with singing and instrumental sections. The album's fifth track, "STORY", was originally performed at the 2015 SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas; it is a big room house song with "dark" and "industrial" elements. Erin Smith from Hello Asia noted that the darker elements of the song "aren't quite in sync with the sweet and catchy ditties Perfume are known for, but this direction suits them just as well..." "Sweet Refrain", one of the previously released tracks to receive an album mix, is a four-on-the-floor song which received mixed reviews upon its initial release in 2013.
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Brahms, who was known to be an ironic joker, filled his quota by creating a "very boisterous potpourri of student drinking songs à la Suppé"In a letter to Max Kalbeck in an intricately designed structure made to appear loose and episodic, thus drawing on the "academic" for both his sources and their treatment. The work sparkles with some of the finest virtues of Brahms's orchestral technique, sometimes applied for comic effect, such as the bassoons that inflate the light subject of "Fuchslied" (Was kommt dort von der Höh?).The comic effect is noted in Jan Swafford 1997:462. The inventive treatment includes tunes appropriated from the student ditties "Fuchslied", "Wir hatten gebauet ein stattliches Haus", "Hört, ich sing das Lied der Lieder", and most memorably, the broad, triumphant finale on "Gaudeamus igitur", which succinctly engages Brahms's sophisticated mastery of counterpoint, further fulfilling the "academic" aspect of his program, cheekily applied to the well-worn melody.
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Paul McCartney began writing the song as "I'm Backing the UK", inspired by the "I'm Backing Britain" campaign, which had gained wide national support in January 1968, a month before the Beatles departed for India to undertake a course in Transcendental Meditation. According to author Ian MacDonald, McCartney altered the title to "I'm Backing the USSR" and then, drawing on Chuck Berry's 1959 hit song "Back in the U.S.A.", arrived at the song's eventual title. Donovan, the Scottish singer- songwriter who joined the Beatles in India, said that "Back in the U.S.S.R." was one of the "funny little ditties" that McCartney regularly played at the ashram, adding that "of course, melodious ballads just poured out of him". In a November 1968 interview for Radio Luxembourg, McCartney said the song was inspired by Berry's "Back in the U.S.A." and was written from the point of view of a Russian spy returning home to the USSR after an extended mission in the United States.
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" At USA Today, Brian Mansfield affirmed that "a bittersweet edge makes even the liveliest songs more poignant." However, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic criticized the release as being "so cheerful" that it makes the album seem "a little churlish", and he felt the need "to complain that the songs here aren't grabbers: they're slow burns, designed to sink into the subconscious through repeated plays on radio, in- store sound systems, waiting rooms, and bumper music." Yet, Erlewine noted "that's fine", and called the album a "professional product at its finest, meticulously assembled, polished until it gleams, designed to be nothing more than thoroughly agreeable." At Daily News, Jim Farber highlighted that the album contains songs that are "sun-kissed, expensively constructed, and bound to reap a mint", but that is not necessarily a good thing because "like all Lady A ditties, they’re also lacking in little things like personality, detail and need.
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His solo cabaret The Wit & Whimsy of Alexander S. Bermange (St James Theatre and The Pheasantry, London) celebrates this style of his writing. His witty ditties have also been performed by the likes of Kit & The Widow (at London's Coliseum, Cadogan Hall, Wigmore Hall and Arts Theatre, the Edinburgh Festival, and on Friday Night Is Music Night on BBC Radio 2), Britt Ekland, and 4 Poofs & A Piano, featured in Miriam Margolyes's A Few of Our Favourite Things with Stephen Fry (Theatre Royal, Winchester), and included in his own comic musical entertainment Weird & Wonderful (Canal Café Theatre, London). A total of 42 of Alexander's comic songs have been released on the two albums Weird & Wonderful and Wit & Whimsy, which feature all-star line-ups of popular personalities and international musical theatre artists. Twenty tracks from Bermange's musicals have been released on the CD Act One, featuring 26 leading West End stars and produced by Mike Dixon.
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The Oggie Man had until that time offered his oggies (pasties) to sailors returning from sea, or from shore leave, from a box at the Albert Gate of the dock. It has been suggested that the sale of oggies here dated back to the 1700s.2002, Cyril Tawney on BBC Folkspan Program The first verse of "Oggie Man" runs > And the rain's softly falling and the Oggie man's no more. > I can't hear him calling like I used to before > I came through the gateway and I heard the sergeant say > "The big boys are a coming, see their stands across the way" > And the rains softly falling and the Oggie man's no more... In addition to presenting traditional ditties, Tawney composed a number of his own songs, the majority being written when he was in the Royal Navy and relating to that period – for example, Chicken on a Raft, which belongs to the call and response style of sea shanties.
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From the aforementioned description, Dying Vine is an onslaught of metallic brutality, as the death metal guttural growls, razor-sharp high-tech riffs, and impeccable double bass drumming are seemingly nonstop. As with most death metal-esque bands, you'd never know what Aletheian have to say lyrically, as it's darn near impossible to decipher any of the prose without the aid of a lyric sheet (which, wisely, is included in the CD booklet). But despite the group's "Christian spin" on the genre, Aletheian sound like your average, ordinary death metal band, as evidenced by such ditties as "Paragon," "Out from the Shadows," and "The Dividing Line."" John McEntire of HM Magazine writes "Since Alex Kenis joined Becoming the Archetype, Aletheian has been quick to quell any rumors about disbanding with performances, including this year’s Cornerstone, as well as a label deal and re-issue of 2005’s Dying Vine under Metal Blade’s Ironclad Recordings.
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Among Beatle biographers, Robert Rodriguez includes McCartney in his chapter covering the worst solo albums issued by the former band members between 1970 and 1980, saying: "For anyone wanting to get to the root of the most common rap against Paul's solo output, look no further …"Rodriguez, p. 178. While bemoaning the lack of quality control that allowed "charmless ditties" such as "Teddy Boy" to go under- developed, Rodriguez writes: "What made McCartney so frustrating a listen was not the absence of compelling musical ideas; it was the abundance of them. Had melodies like 'Momma Miss America' been teased out into compositions with a beginning, middle, end, and point, McCartney could have ended up as highly regarded in its own way as Plastic Ono Band: a full slate of focused, listener-friendly pop confections that might very well have given fans far less cause for bitterness at the Beatles' breakup."Rodriguez, pp. 178–79.
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Nick Mirov of Pitchfork wrote that Merritt "has proven himself as an exceptional songwriter, making quantum leaps in quality as well as quantity on 69 Love Songs." Robert Christgau, writing in The Village Voice, stated that despite his personal dislike of cynicism and reluctance to "link it to creative exuberance", the album's "cavalcade of witty ditties—one-dimensional by design, intellectual when it feels like it, addicted to cheap rhymes, cheaper tunes, and token arrangements, sung by nonentities whose vocal disabilities keep their fondness for pop theoretical—upends my preconceptions the way high art's sposed to." 69 Love Songs was voted second place in The Village Voices annual Pazz & Jop critics' poll for 1999, behind Moby's Play. The poll's creator Robert Christgau ranked it as the best album of the year on his "Dean's List". In 2012, it was ranked at number 465 in Rolling Stones list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
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He has written five concertos for orchestra: the first, variously translated as Naughty Limericks or Mischievous Folk Ditties (neither of which completely get the gist of the Russian which refers to a chastushka (часту́шка), an irreverent, satirical kind of folk song) is by far the best known, and was the work which first established him on the international stage. The second of the Concertos for Orchestra was subtitled Zvony (The Chimes), and was premiered by the New York Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein as one of the many commissions in honor of the orchestra's 125th anniversary. The third Concerto for Orchestra is based on old music of Russian provincial circuses. Concerto 4, Khorovody (round dances), was written in 1989, and Concerto 5, Four Russian Songs, was written in 1998. As well as a distinguished composer (he was made a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts in 1989 and received the Russian State Prize from President Boris Yeltsin in 1992), Shchedrin is a virtuoso pianist and organist, playing solo piano in the premieres of the first three of his six piano concertos.
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From The Adventures of Young Munchausen, 1865 1858 saw the publication of the first of more than a dozen children's books illustrated by Charles Bennett. Old Nurse's Book of Rhymes, Jingles & Ditties (1858) was, as the title suggests, a collection of children's verse with colour illustrations on every page and a frontispiece illustrating ‘Old Nurse at Home.’ Among the children's books that followed were the very short Nine Lives of a Cat (1860), with its twenty rather crudely illustrated pages and The Adventurers of Young Munchausen (1863), the story of a young man whose fantastic adventures ranged from discovering the source of the Nile to travelling in space in a balloon. The Stories that Little Breeches Told (1863) is dedicated by the author to his daughters Harriet and Polly (Mary), with a suggestion that he was already ill, as follows: > DEAR HARRIET AND POLLY, > As soon as Little Breeches had told me these stories, I told them to you; > but I am afraid I should soon have forgotten them, every one, if you had not > so carefully treasured them up.
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In his newspaper column he fought for many a popular cause, and his humour and kindly satire made him the best-known and best-loved journalist of his time in Western Australia. Murphy is credited with only a fraction of the poems he wrote, for once he was established at the Perth "Sunday Times" (around 1902), he didn't put his name on his work in any of his several columns (his main one being "Verse and Worse") in the Sunday Times or in his column "A Mingled Yarn" in the Kalgoorlie "Sun". AustLit list only 191 of his poems (almost none from the "Sunday Times"), however we can make an estimate of his very prolific pen for each week he typically had 5 new poems (plus several short ditties), and, as his career spanned almost 40 years, this equates to a maximum of somewhere around 10,000 poems. In addition to his main column in the Sunday Times, between 1902 and 1904 he produced a series of short 3 verse limerick style caricatures of various personalities in Perth and on the Goldfields.
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NOW Celebrity magazine 1 September 2004 page 68 Wavis recorded the "Denis Smokes Tabs/John is a Fig Roll" six track EP on Company Records (CR003) in 1979, and a collection of his tracks are on the 2005 compilation Potty, Dotty, Ditties of the Deft and Daft (Nursery Rhymes of the Apocalypse) released in 2005 by Dynamite Vision/Falling A Records (FASA3). Wavis most recent single was released in 2012, "Sunspots on the Moon (It's Snowin' Outside and It's June)", and is collaborating with fellow ex-South Shields resident Barry Lamb and Peter Ashby, who most recently have made a song together as Fictional Rage featuring Wavis O'Shave, called "Ballad of the Pokeawillies" In May 2011, O'Shave recorded interviews and songs for four shows for the new SKY TV 201 Channel 'Mindscape TV' to be screened early that summer, also available on the Mindscape TV Channel. O'Shave wrote his autobiography in May 2013, Felt Nowt! - The Wavis O'Shave Story, detailing his many stories involving celebrities including Prince Charles, Ricky Gervais, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad.
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Ceramists from St. Petersburg, the Arkhangelsk Oblast and Verkhovazhye, as well as wood master Oleg Arseniev and the folklore ensemble "Radonitsa" from the neighboring village of Lipki were invited to the festival. During the festival, the participants made a sculpture for fire burning “Shelotyanka”, the image of which was inspired by traditional northern motives, held a raku firing and a master class on making products on a potter's wheel, and also listened to a lecture by Ikhlas Alfakih, an artist and lecturer of sculpture at Damascus University about modern technologies of modeling from polymer materials. One of the days of the festival was dedicated to Arab culture: the quests tried tabbouleh, kabsu and coffee from a copper coffee pot, wrote their names in Arabic script and learned to dance the Syrian national dance. Then it was the turn for local residents to tell the Arab guests about their native culture. The program of the “Russian Day” included valiant amusements, ditties, round dances and a lunch with dishes of traditional Russian cuisine.
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London: Eclectic Entertainment Ltd. The AllMusic retrospective review by Wilson Neate stated "On Sea Shanties, there's nothing fey and flowery in Hill's bleak lyrics or his doomy Jim Morrison-like delivery, and psychedelia's melodic whimsy is supplanted by a physicality more in line with the visceral heft of metal progenitors...High Tide weren't a power trio, though, and it was the interplay of Hill's guitar with Simon House's violin that created the band's unique signature. Showing that rock violin needn't be a marginal adornment, House whips up an aggressive edge that rivals the guitar... High Tide had the muscularity of a no-nonsense proto- metal band, but they also ventured into prog territory with changing time signatures and tempos, soft-hard dynamics, multi-part arrangements, and even some ornate faux-Baroque interludes... Far from the collection of nautical ditties its name suggests, Sea Shanties is an overlooked gem encapsulating the shifting musical currents in late-'60s British rock."Neate, W. Allmusic Review accessed February 2, 2011 It was voted number 5 in the All-Time 50 Long Forgotten Gems from Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums.
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During the great depression of the 1930s, music hall entertainment made a comeback and Champion like other performers of the music hall genre, returned to performing and enjoyed popularity throughout the 1930s. Troupes of veterans were much in demand in the 1930s and Lew Lake's Variety, 1906–1931—Stars who Never Failed to Shine went on tour throughout the country early in the decade with Champion as a leading member. Critics hailed Champion as a success stating "He almost brought the house down with three of his typical ditties".The Performer, 6 May 1931 In 1932, Champion appeared at the royal variety performance with other representatives of old style music hall, including Vesta Victoria, Fred Russell and Marie Kendall.The Royal Variety Performance Cast List of 1932 , 30 May 1932, accessed October 2011 That same year he returned to the London Palladium, where he sang "Any Old Iron" and had some success. Further royal variety performance appearances took place again at the Palladium in 1935The Royal Variety Performance Cast List of 1935 , 29 October 1935, accessed 29 October 2011 and at the London Coliseum in 1938,The Royal Variety Performance Cast List of 1938 9 November 1938, accessed 29 October 2011 and he was seen in the successful London Rhapsody with the Crazy Gang at the Palladium in 1937 and 1938.
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