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The song released on 5 December 2005 in the United Kingdom as the second single from the album. "Ugly" is a midtempo pop rock and R&B ballad that contains lyrics about personality and body-image issues. It received comparisons to " Unpretty " by girl group TLC and " Beautiful " by Christina Aguilera. "Ugly" is the band's final single released ...
De Colores. " De colores " ( [Made] of Colors) is a traditional Spanish language folk song that is well known throughout the Spanish-speaking world. [ 1] It is widely used in the Catholic Cursillo movement and related communities such as the Great Banquet, Chrysalis Flight, Tres Días, Walk to Emmaus, and Kairos Prison Ministry .
The song appeared in a form close to its modern version in a precursor called "The Sporting Hero, or, Whiskey in the Bar" in a mid-1850s broadsheet. [5] [6] The song collector Colm Ó Lochlainn, in his book Irish Street Ballads, [7] described how his mother learnt "Whiskey in the Jar" in Limerick in 1870 from a man called Buckley who came from ...
March 22, 2009. ( 2009-03-22) Flight of the Conchords is an American sitcom that was first shown on HBO on June 17, 2007. The show follows the adventures of a struggling two-man band from New Zealand, as its members seek fame and success in New York City. The show stars the duo of Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie, who also perform as real-life ...
Pamulinawen is a popular old Ilocano folk song possibly from the pre-Spanish era. [ 1] It is about a girl with a hardened heart. [ 2] who does not need her lover's pleading. [ 3] It is about courtship and love. [ 4][ 5] The term pamulinawen translates to "alabaster", a very type of stone. [ 6] It is used as the woman's name in the song ...
"The Sound of Silence" (originally "The Sounds of Silence") is a song by the American folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel, written by Paul Simon. The duo's studio audition of the song led to a record deal with Columbia Records, and the original acoustic version was recorded in March 1964 at Columbia's 7th Avenue Recording Studios in New York City for their debut album, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M ...
Las Mañanitas. "Las Mañanitas" Spanish pronunciation: [las maɲaˈnitas] is a traditional Mexican [ 1] birthday song written by Mexican composer Alfonso Esparza Oteo. It is popular in Mexico, usually sung early in the morning to awaken the birthday person, and especially as part of the custom of serenading women.
Bill Lamb, About.com Awards and other recognition "Mercy" won the 2008 MOJO Award for Song of the Year. MOJO editor Phil Alexander called the song a "timeless" classic that "could really have come from any period in time over the last 50 years". The single was nominated for a BRIT Award in 2009, for Best British Single. Duffy's performance of "Warwick Avenue" at the ceremony helped to increase ...