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Irving Berlin. " Blue Skies " is a popular song, written by Irving Berlin in 1926. "Blue Skies" is one of many popular songs whose lyrics use a "bluebird of happiness" as a symbol of cheer: "Bluebirds singing a song/Nothing but bluebirds all day long." The sunny optimism of the lyrics are undercut by the minor key giving the words an ironic ...
The U.S. Air Force Blue Oh, they are men with a dream on America's team, They're a rugged and ready crew. And you can bet your boots the world looks up to U.S. Air Force Blue. To U.S. Air Force Blue! They know where they're goin', they've set their course, the sky's no limit in the Air Force. They took the blue from the skies and a pretty girl ...
Blue Sky (song) " Blue Sky " is a song by the American rock band The Allman Brothers Band from their third studio album, Eat a Peach (1972), released on Capricorn Records. The song was written and sung by guitarist Dickey Betts, who penned it about his girlfriend (and later wife), Sandy "Bluesky" Wabegijig. The track is also notable as one of ...
The music was written by Richard A. Whiting, the lyrics by Raymond B. Egan in 1918. Written during the Great War, the song tells of the parting of a soldier and his sweetheart. The title comes from the final line of the chorus: Till we meet again. As Whiting's daughter Margaret tells it, the song was intended for a 1918 contest at a Detroit ...
Writing in 1974, Richard Grid Powers quoted the lyrics of "The U.S. Air Force Blue" in his description of the organizational imagery and theory of the Air Force, which he described as counter-military, hyper-rationalist, aspiring to a "pure model of bureaucracy", and intentionally obliviating historical references in favor of a vision of the future in which air power was glorified to the ...
Song. Recorded. November 1941. Composer (s) Walter Kent. Lyricist (s) Nat Burton. " (There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover " is a popular World War II song composed in 1941 by Walter Kent to lyrics by Nat Burton. Made famous in the United Kingdom by Vera Lynn 's 1942 version, it was one of Lynn's best-known recordings and among ...
Song. Written. 1934. Composer (s) Cole Porter. Lyricist (s) Robert Fletcher, Cole Porter. " Don't Fence Me In " is a popular American song written in 1934, with music by Cole Porter and lyrics by Robert Fletcher and Cole Porter. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.
Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain. " Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain " is a song written by songwriter Fred Rose. First recorded by Elton Britt in 1946, then made more popular by Roy Acuff in 1947, the song has been covered by many artists, including Hank Williams Sr., Johnny Russell, Charley Pride, and Elvis Presley.