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The New Christy Minstrels singles chronology. "Saturday Night". (1962) " Today ". (1964) "Silly Ol' Summertime". (1964) "Today" is a 1964 folk song that was a hit for The New Christy Minstrels. Written by the group's founder, Randy Sparks, it was introduced in the American comedy-Western film Advance to the Rear (1964) and released on the album ...
[33] [7] [34] In April 1965, they performed the song on the 37th Academy Awards telecast, where it won the Oscar for Best Original Song. The group would later reach No. 114 in 1969 with a version of another Sherman Brothers title song from a Disney film, "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang". [34]
The Nocturne in E minor, Op. posth. 72 No. 1, WN 23, was composed by Frédéric Chopin for solo piano in 1826. [1] It was Chopin's first composed nocturne, although it was the nineteenth to be published, in 1855, along with two other early works: a funeral march in C minor and three écossaises. The composition features an unbroken line of ...
History. The term nocturne (from French nocturne "of the night") [1] was first applied to musical pieces in the 18th century, when it indicated an ensemble piece in several movements, normally played for an evening party and then laid aside. Sometimes it carried the Italian equivalent, notturno, such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 's Notturno in D ...
Take Me Home, Country Roads. " Take Me Home, Country Roads ", also known simply as " Country Roads ", is a song written by Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert and John Denver. It was released as a single performed by Denver on April 12, 1971, peaking at number two on Billboard ' s US Hot 100 singles for the week ending August 28, 1971.
Nocturne is a live double album and video by English rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees, released on 25 November 1983 by Polydor Records. Co-produced by Mike Hedges , Nocturne features performances recorded at two shows at the Royal Albert Hall in London, on 30 September and 1 October 1983, featuring Robert Smith (of the Cure ) on guitar.
Entry chronology. "Duett" (1994) "I evighet" (1996) . " Nocturne " is a song recorded by Irish-Norwegian duo Secret Garden – Fionnuala Sherry and Rolf Løvland – with music composed by Løvland and lyrics written by Petter Skavlan [no]. It represented Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 1995 held in Dublin, resulting in the country's ...
Nocturnes (Chopin) Frédéric Chopin wrote 21 nocturnes for solo piano between 1827 and 1846. They are generally considered among the finest short solo works for the instrument and hold an important place in contemporary concert repertoire. [1] Although Chopin did not invent the nocturne, he popularized and expanded on it, building on the form ...