Jordan had recorded a song called "Caldonia" and other popular songs in the late nineteen forties and nineteen fifties.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

"Auld Lang Syne," by the eighteenth century Scottish poet Robert Burns, is a song about friends and remembering times long ago.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

Years later,Woody described what singing meant to him: "When you sing a song, it reaches out and enters people's ears.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

Nothing unusual there. But instead of being sad or tense about the snow, they write a song about it.

VOA: special.2009.01.26

In nineteen forty-three, George Moriarty wrote a song designed to support American forces fighting in World War Two.

VOA: special.2011.04.04

"Big Night" and "Good Will Hunting." At the Rounder anniversary concert, she performed a song from her two thousand seven album "Seastories."

VOA: special.2010.04.19

You can tell all kinds of stories in a song, and put your ideas across to another person."

VOA: special.2010.06.13

His name is Jose Feliciano. Here he plays a song that is based on traditional Spanish guitar music.

VOA: special.2010.05.12

Yet his greatest influence may have come from popularizing a song that he himself did not write.

VOA: special.2009.07.27

Many years ago, Pepsi Cola sold its drink with a song that began, "Pepsi Cola hits the spot, twelve full ounces,that's a lot."

VOA: special.2009.09.20

One of the best-liked songs in Britain then was a song about the better life in America.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

His name is Woody Guthrie. He is singing a song about men who look for work as they travel from town to town.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

Experts say it all started with a song by the American singer and guitarist Muddy Waters.

VOA: special.2009.06.21

Performers of bebop left the traditional musical melody and played a song freely, with the music and rhythm that was felt at the time.

VOA: special.2009.05.03