When you first hear Blackbird, a standout track on the new album, its a pretty, playful song - almost a nursery rhyme.
With a pick on his thumb, he played a descending melody that was apparently on its way to becoming a song.
The Pakistani group Junoon last year released a video for its song "Accountability" that starred a polo pony eating at a posh hotel.
He still struggles to understand why the Broadway world often thumbs its nose when a theater song has commercial success.
The film also scooped a nomination for its theme song, sung by Adele, which went to number two in the UK singles chart in October.
Route 66 had its own hit song, a television show and a brand of petrol named after it, and it played a prominent role in any discussion of the American roadfaring experience.
The never-ending theme: A classic original has its swan song.
Hadfield took a few liberties with the lyrics of the 1969 Bowie song, which became a hit upon its 1973 rerelease.
It's performed by a trumpeter whose lungs were too weak to play on the song and was never a hit in its homeland, reaching number 116 in the charts.
The Gracenote technology works by "listening" to a few seconds of a song and matching it to its unique audio fingerprint in the Gracenote database.
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Political correctness raises its obligatory head: one song is about a love affair between an American and a Middle Eastern Muslim, complete with Pakistani musicians.
Today, it has 435 million registered users in 119 countries and recently served up its 25 billionth song, downloaded by a man in Germany. iTunes also now sells much more than music: Customers can download movies, TV shows, games, books, podcasts and more.
While Apple legitimized buying music online by making the process simple for consumers, the music industry has railed against its insistence on sticking to a one-size fits all price of 99 cents per song for digital tracks in its iTunes store.
Twilight, that moment at the end of the day when the sun has just set and the stars are about to rise, it's the inspiration for this week's What's in a Song, our occasional series from the Western Folklife Center about one song and its story.
Like Apple at its iPhone 5 launch last year, Samsung made a song and dance about new camera capabilities on Thursday night.
So the great jukebox is the cloud exists but it will cost you a pretty penny for it to sing its sweet song.
Steve Turner's book Amazing Grace: The Story of America's Most Beloved Song tells the story of composer John Newton's conversion from slave trader to abolitionist, and traces the evolution of the song from its composition in 1772 as a hymn with no set tune to the version familiar today.
Like many Nouvelle Vague reinventions, the lyric for "The Killing Moon" is delivered in a girlish deadpan, removing the song from its sad sentiments.
Its title, meaning Milk Brigade, plays on a popular Javanese song, Kopi Susu (Milk Coffee).
Just listen to the title song, a witty commentary about the Internet and its pervasive impact on Brazilian culture.
Sprint worked hard for more than two years to bring Clearwire to its knees with the long term scheme of buying it back for a song.
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Every time Pandora adds another listener, its costs go up because it has to pay royalties every time a song is played and those royalty costs keep going up.
These days, music and technology are inexorably linked -- from creation and recording, to distribution and discovery, it's hard to imagine a song reaching our ears that hasn't made its way through some electronic filter.
On first listen, the song could be mistaken for a whimsical ditty, with its pop theme of angst-ridden love.
But that is precisely what the BJP and its allies did on March 19: the Hindu rightist organization held a colorful song-and-dance pageant involving some 500 artists in a majestic 14th-century complex in Delhi.
Making the most of Meiburg's most sweetly restrained falsetto, the song paints a blurry but beautiful picture of nature in all its graceful vulnerability.
Opening with "Pluto, " an ode to the "overthrown" planet (and closing with "Pluton, " a French re-imagining of the song), the record makes its cheekiness immediately apparent.
Sotheby's said the bowl is a "remarkable and exceptionally beautiful example of Song pottery, celebrated for its thin potting, fine near-white body and ivory coloured glaze".
Mr. WANG: Eventually, the song found its way down to Panama where Los Mozambiques took the fusion process a few steps further.
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