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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 ...
2009 Seattle. 2011 Broadway. 2012 Non-Equity tour. Catch Me If You Can is a musical drama with a libretto by Terrence McNally and a theatrical score by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman. It follows the story of a con artist named Frank Abagnale. [ 1] A majority of the plot is borrowed from the 2002 film of the same name, which in turn was based on ...
I'll Fly Away is an American television drama series that aired on NBC from October 7, 1991, to February 5, 1993. Set during the late 1950s and early 1960s, [1] [2] [3] in an unspecified Southern U.S. state, it stars Regina Taylor as Lilly Harper, a Black housekeeper for the family of district attorney Forrest Bedford, played by Sam Waterston (the character's name is a twist on the name of ...
A one-hit wonder is a musical artist who is successful with one hit song, but without a comparable subsequent hit. [1] The term may also be applied to an artist who is remembered for only one hit despite other successes (such as "Take On Me" by a-ha in the United States, [2] [3] [4] which topped a Rolling Stone magazine poll to find the top one-hit wonder).
Space Intro/Fly Like an Eagle on YouTube. " Fly Like an Eagle " is a song written by American musician Steve Miller for the album of the same name. [ 4] The song was released in the United Kingdom in August 1976 and in the United States in December 1976. [ 1] It went to number two on the US Billboard Hot 100 for the week of March 12, 1977.
Composed. 1929. ( 1929) Published. 1932. ( 1932) " I'll Fly Away " is a hymn written in 1929 by Albert E. Brumley and published in 1932 by the Hartford Music company in a collection titled Wonderful Message. [ 1][ 2] Brumley's writing was influenced by the 1924 secular ballad, "The Prisoner's Song".
Voyle Gilmore, Billy May. " Come Fly with Me " is a 1958 popular song composed by Jimmy Van Heusen, with lyrics by Sammy Cahn . "Come Fly with Me" was written for Frank Sinatra, and was the title track of his 1958 album of the same name. The song sets the tone for the rest of the album, describing adventures in exotic locales, in Bombay, Peru ...
Come Fly Away is a dance revue conceived, directed and choreographed by Twyla Tharp, around the songs of Frank Sinatra. The musical, set in a New York City nightclub, follows four couples as they look for love. It premiered on Broadway in March 2010 after tryouts in Atlanta and has received mostly warm reviews. [1]