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Jimmy Crack Corn. " Jimmy Crack Corn " or " Blue-Tail Fly " is an American song, a mock-elegy or pseudo-lament, which first became popular during the rise of blackface minstrelsy in the 1840s through performances by the Virginia Minstrels. It regained currency as a folk song in the 1940s at the beginning of the American folk music revival and ...
"Fly Away" is a song by American singer Lenny Kravitz. It was released as the fourth single from his fifth studio album, 5 (1998). Released to the radio on May 11, 1998, "Fly Away" peaked at number 12 on the US Billboard Hot 100. Outside of the United States, "Fly Away" topped the charts in Iceland and the United Kingdom and peaked within the ...
Background. About the song, Tones said, "'Fly Away' is about chasing your dreams, reaching your goals, and the realities that come with it." [ 6] The song was announced on social media on 9 November 2020, by showing only a snippet of it. [ 7] It was used in a largely successful Qantas campaign called "Fly Away."
"Fly" is an alternative rock, [2] [3] [4] reggae, [5] [6] reggae fusion, [7] and pop rock song, [8] that incorporates elements of dancehall [9] and ska. [10] Sugar Ray's lead singer Mark McGrath explained that this song had a bouncy beat, yet it was about death; "Fly" too seemed like a bright, up-tempo song but "there is this stark imagery in ...
Music video. "A Thousand Miles" on YouTube. " A Thousand Miles " (originally titled " Interlude ") is the debut single of American pop singer Vanessa Carlton. Produced by Curtis Schweitzer and Ron Fair, the song was released as the lead single for Carlton's first album, Be Not Nobody (2002). First released to US radio in February 2002, it ...
It was released as a single on 20 June 1975, [ 3] the only single released from the album. Like the rest of the album, the song is autobiographical, and addresses an attempted suicide by John. At 6 minutes and 45 seconds, it was long for a single, but owing to the highly personal nature of the lyrics, John refused to let it be cut down to a ...
Purple Haze. For other uses, see Purple Haze (disambiguation). " Purple Haze " is a song written by Jimi Hendrix and released as the second single by the Jimi Hendrix Experience on March 17, 1967, in the United Kingdom. The song features his inventive guitar playing, which uses the signature Hendrix chord and a mix of blues and Eastern ...
Albuquerque (song) " Albuquerque " is the last song of "Weird Al" Yankovic 's Running with Scissors album (1999). At 11 minutes and 23 seconds, it is the longest song Yankovic has ever recorded. With the exception of the choruses and occasional bridges, the track is mostly a spoken word narration about a made-up person's life in Albuquerque ...