This leads directly into the barroom (saloon) stomp "Blessing and a Curse, " a story song about "the bitter end for the chief of police" (sheriff).
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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.
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Only a year later, their song "The Story of My Life" hit the U.S. country music charts.
Dargel says he based the song on that story in particular because of what it said about CJ and Karen.
Participants were told to think of the first thing that came to mind - a vivid memory relating to a particular album, song, news story or even a band member.
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.
Group discussions, simulations, drama, song and dance and story-telling are some of the most commonly used methods.
And I was happily chatting to people over IM on Facebook back in the UK as a news story in the world of the Eurovision Song Contest starter to break.
That Mr. Zulawski found a fertile subject early on in the fallout of desire and obsession is evident in two vivid shorts made for Polish television, both involving love triangles: "Pavoncello" (1967), based on a story by Stefan Zeromski, and "The Song of Triumphant Love" ("Piesn triumfujacej milosci, " 1967), from a tale by Ivan Turgenev.
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With a song like Leonard Bernstein's "Somewhere" (from West Side Story), the melody is here, but it's unlike any version of the song I've heard recorded.
On the song Band Camp, Chesnutt tells the story of a high school romance spoiled by graduation.
The story is set in motion by the arrival of Song (Song Fang), a new babysitter for Simon (Simon Iteanu), whose mother, Suzanne (Juliette Binoche), is a busy actress with a complex home life.
"And there's a song I wrote for my mother called The Story of Us".
"There's definitely an art to be able to write a song that on one level is a pop song and one that also has to tell a story and keep an audience engaged in terms of a larger narrative arc, " he says.
And but the story was unfolding, and then I'd write the next song and then we'd record it.
It may be the only song that could plausibly have been inspired by the life story of Jim Plunkett.
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In a 1983 promotional interview published by his then record company Island, Waits credits a short story by Bukowski with giving him some of the inspiration for the song.
Gainesbourg, most recently seen in Michel Gondry's The Science of Sleep, infuses the song with qualities of Gondry's sad, surrealist love story.
This 2011 ESPN story nicely details the accident of history that led to professional baseball leading the way in playing the song at games.
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Later, Hughes collaborated with filmmakers Judd Apatow and Jake Kasdan, contributing to the song "Let's Duet" from the comedy Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.
Click the "Listen to the Story" link above to hear music writer Maura Johnston and Jay Smooth (of Illdoctrine.com) discuss the song and the cultural contributions of Usher and a famous collaborator.
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