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Live video. "Free Bird" (live, 1977) on YouTube. " Free Bird ", [ 4][ 5][ 6] also spelled " Freebird ", [ 7][ 8][ 9] is a song by American rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, written by guitarist Allen Collins and lead singer Ronnie Van Zant. The song was released on their 1973 debut studio album . Released as a single in November 1974, "Free Bird ...
Ethnomusicologist Conrad LaForte points out that, in song, the lark (l'alouette) is the bird of the morning, and that it is the first bird to sing in the morning, hence waking up lovers and causing them to part, and waking up others as well, something that is not always appreciated. In French songs, the lark also has the reputation of being a ...
Free as a Bird. " Free as a Bird " is a single released in December 1995 by English rock band the Beatles. The song was originally written and recorded in 1977 as a home demo by John Lennon. In 1995, 25 years after their break-up and 15 years after Lennon's murder, his then surviving bandmates Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr ...
One Sunday morning in 1932, Sinclair had an inspiration in church and dashed home to write down the words to "Kookaburra". In 1934, she entered the song into a competition run by the Girl Guides Association of Victoria , with the rights of the winning song to be sold to raise money for the purchase of a camping ground, eventually chosen as ...
Lyrics usually include the line (or a slight variation): "The cuckoo is a pretty bird, she sings as she flies; she brings us glad tidings, and she tells us no lies." [ 1 ] [ 2 ] According to Thomas Goldsmith of The Raleigh News & Observer , "The Cuckoo" is an interior monologue where the singer "relates his desires — to gamble, to win, to ...
5.5.5.4 D. Melody. "Bunessan". Performed. 1931. ( 1931) " Morning Has Broken " is a Christian hymn first published in 1931. It has words by English author Eleanor Farjeon and was inspired by the village of Alfriston in East Sussex, then set to a traditional Scottish Gaelic tune, "Bunessan". [ 1] It is often sung in children's services and in ...
Songwriter (s) Thomas Bishop. Composer (s) Larry Groce. Lyricist (s) Billy Reeves. Shoo Fly, Don't Bother Me or Shew! fly, don't bother me is a minstrel show song from the 1860s that has remained popular since that time. It was sung by soldiers during the Spanish–American War of 1898, when flies and the yellow fever mosquito were a serious enemy.
The Beatles UK singles chronology. " Let It Be " (1970) " Yesterday " (1976) " Back in the U.S.S.R. " (1976) " Yesterday " is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney. It was first released on the album Help! in August 1965, except in the United States, where it was issued as a ...