Salimi says the transplants were longing to feel a sense of identity, and some of the old songs his company sang would make them cry.
The old songs are rooted in local earth and feeling, and so, too, were his: not in England, properly speaking, but in Cornwall, that misty Celtic promontory running out into the Atlantic.
Commenting on The Song of Songs from the Old Testament, Escriva once put this idea in lyrical form.
And musicians come to hear the age-old songs with fifteen-syllable lines and themes of migration and survival.
Well, I think it's - I didn't write any songs in the old days, but after I met Leonard, he said why aren't you writing your own songs.
Mr. TOM CHAPLIN (Vocalist, Delmore Brothers): (Singing) We were just a plain old hillbilly band was the plain old country style, we'd never played the kind of songs that it drives anybody wild...
The graduates sing karaoke to songs by Jennifer Lopez or old Western hits from the days when the wall still stood.
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Others say that producers are dusting off the classics and readying them for colour releases after the success of many remixed old Bollywood songs.
The fine was levied on the 40-year-old because he paid for the web link over which the songs were downloaded.
We have producer Joe Henry to thank for getting the reluctant 82-year-old legend back into the recording studio to lay down new songs.
In the end, the US band were a good call and songs from the forthcoming album went down well alongside old favourites like PDA, Slow Hands and Evil.
"The songs we sing talk about an old era, a past era, not a new one, " he says.
' With these songs, I feel like the old-school folks who love traditional music are going to love this, but it's also cool enough, and topically challenging enough, that young people are going to dig it, too.
It is certainly true that the Stones did spend a few days in early 1964 dashing out songs on an old two-track recorder in Regent Sounds Studio at 4 Denmark Street - and the rest is musical history.
But about a year after her diagnosis she became very interested in the songs that her 11-year-old granddaughter was listening to.
But if she keeps doing new songs in the same vein as the old, why should the listener bother with the new release, the old favorites being the perfect expression of the old style?
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Transmitted from older women to young girls, Chakkirako employs a medley of centuries-old songs and dances to entertain and reaffirm the continuing cultural identity of the performers and their community.
She is seeking rights to release songs the pair recorded before 19-year-old Lina committed suicide.
When I was 9 and 10 years old I would spend hours singing his songs and imitating the way he played the guitar.
Rhett Miller ought to be a household name by now: With model-esque good looks, considerable stage presence, and an arsenal of catchy pop songs, the charismatic frontman for alt-country favorite Old 97's doesn't want for raw materials.
This disc falls into the latter category, but Lawson expresses his spirituality here via old-fashioned love songs, not honky-tonk love songs, mind you, which usually involve drinking and cheating and possibly firearms.
Previous years have seen Cirque du Soleil-style acrobats hanging from the rafters of the library's basement, a 12-piece orchestra playing songs popular during Prohibition and five old-school barbers in a pop-up grooming shop to freshen up any scraggly-bearded gentlemen, gratis, on the spot.
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Two music directors, including the 85-year-old music maestro Naushad, have been brought in to rework and clean up original songs with new generation technology.
His subjects are taken, in the essayist's tradition, from the familiar things of life: sport, growing old, name-dropping, taking a nap, popular songs and so on.
They put on some old clothes, they drink a lot of rum, they sing songs, they go down to the ocean.
She went from Orgeon juvenile detention at 13 years old to the stereotypical route to stardom for tough girls, first you pole dance, then you write some songs, then you sing them, then you become a rock star.
Over the past 15 years, Old 97's frontman and solo singer Rhett Miller has come up with more good songs about bad love than just about any other songwriter.
They will grow old, but their hits never will -- once people first fall in love with those songs, the songs will mean something powerful and evocative to them for the rest of their lives.
With no movie technique (but a great cameraman, Ed Lachman), Simmons has assembled her interests as if in a toy chest: old movies and TV commercials, Broadway songs, good-to-feel-bad bathos, and the effluvia of domestic life.
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