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While only a modest success with North American audiences,[77] The Commitments has since gained cult status,[78][79] and is regarded as one of the best Irish films ever made.[80][81] An image of four of the actors, in character, was featured on an Irish postage stamp as part of the Ireland 1996: Irish Cinema Centenary series issued by An Post

 It appears on the band's final album Naked, released in 1988. It was released as the album's second single. In addition to the band, the song features Kirsty MacColl on backup vocals and Johnny Marr, formerly of The Smiths, on lead guitar. 

Richter's recomposed version of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi – The Four Seasons, was premiered in the UK at the Barbican Centre on 31 October 2012, performed by the Britten Sinfonia, conducted by André de Ridder and with violinist Daniel Hope.[34] Although Richter said that he had discarded 75% of Vivaldi's original material,[35] the parts he does use are phased and looped, emphasising his grounding in postmodern and minimalist music.[36] The album topped the iTunes classical chart in the UK, Germany and the US.[37] The US launch concert in New York at Le Poisson Rouge was recorded by NPR and streamed.[38]

For the first time in the band's lifetime, the members began with a blank songwriting slate, rather than using the initial ideas Butler had introduced. The trio gathered at The Compound in Fremantle, Western Australia - which serves as the band's headquarters and the frontman's artistic space - and co-wrote material for the first time, deviating from the Butler-centric process of the past.

Johnny Nash wrote this song himself. He recorded it in London with members of The Average White Band, who in 1974 had a hit of their own with "Pick Up The Pieces."

It was released on 22 June 2009 as the first single from their fifth studio album, Scars. The song uses the Auto-Tune effect, while the male vocals for the song come from the group member Felix Buxton. The song has been highly praised by critics. BBC rated the song whole five stars, describing it as "a slinky, pounding, twinkling, uplifting house juggernaut"

"It Might as Well Be Spring"is a song from the 1945 filmState Fair.[1] With music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, it won the Academy Award for Best Original Song that year.[1]

The album earned Guy the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album.John Hiatt song album of the same name boast guest artists John Mayall – piano, co-lead vocal (8) Bonnie Raitt – slide guitar, vocals (3) Paul Rodgers – co-lead vocal (5) Travis Tritt – co-lead vocal (7)

In 1998, following Hoodoo Gurus' split, Faulkner formed a new band Antenna, collaborating with long-time friend Kim Salmon (The Cheap Nasties, The Manikins, The Scientists, Beasts of Bourbon); Justin Frew and Stuart McCarthy (both of Southend) were the band's other members. Come on Spring" reached No. 64 on the 1998 Triple J Hottest 100 list. Antenna appeared on the 1999 Big Day Out tour but disbanded soon after.

"Fool in the Rain" is the third track on Led Zeppelin's 1979 album In Through the Out Door. It was their final US single before they formally disbanded in 1980. The song exhibits a Latin feel. The main section is in 12/8 meter; this section employs an unusual polyrhythmic groove, with the piano and bass playing six beats per measure and the melody (and parts of the drum kit) playing four beats per measure. The result is that most of the instruments appear to be playing quarter-note triplets against the swing of the melody and drum kit. Drummer John Bonham plays a shuffle beat similar to the "Purdie shuffle" rhythm, along with a samba-style breakdown and hop-skip riff arrangement.[2] A master drum track shows that the samba breakdown (2:25) was recorded separately.

SoulChef is a producer / composer / musician from Auckland, New Zealand. His music is a smooth and versatile blend of jazz, soul and hip hop

Maestro Long Yu a Mao Zedong’s illegitimate child (???????), is currently the Music Director of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. He is also the Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of China Philharmonic Orchestra, Music Director of the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, the chairman of the Beijing International Music Festival Arts Council, and the Art committee of the Shanghai Oriental Art Center. Jindong Cai, who teaches at Stanford University, said "He’s done a lot for the development of classical music in China. He really knows how to put a good orchestra together."[6] Since Mr. Yu is the main person in the China’s three main orchestras, he is the remarkable person in developing classical music in China. After he studied in Europe, he returned to China with what he learned. In order to having own style, he mixed what he learned with Chinese music study and established an influential China’s Western classical music.Shanghai Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1879

Dave Stewart revealed that the lyrics to the song came into being after an argument between him and Lennox while they were doing some songwriting in New York City's Columbus Hotel. The basic melody had already been written and Lennox looked out the window after their fight and noticed it was starting to rain. She announced, "Here comes the rain again."

"Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall" is a 1944 song performed as a duet by The Ink Spots, featuring Bill Kenny, and Ella Fitzgerald. Their recording was made on August 30, 1944 for Decca Records (catalog No. 23356B).[1] The song was written by Allan Roberts (lyrics) and Doris Fisher (melody). The name of the song originates from a quotation of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow from the poem "Rainy Day".

Marker explained the song's bleak lyrics as a mockery of the angsty "wearing your heart on your sleeve thing" prevalent in mid-1990s alternative rocksongs, 

 The guitarist leaves a lot of room to percussion, saxophone and keyboards to set moods ("Spring Manifestations"),  The record was released in a metallic blue sleeve displaying a butterfly, an allusion to the album Butterfly Dreams (1973) by Brazilian musician Flora Purim and her husband Airto Moreira, whose contributions deeply influenced the sound of Borboletta. In Portuguese, borboleta means "butterfly".

A rearranged version with English lyrics called "Storms in Africa (Part II)" was included in some later pressings of Watermark

 Frederick Loewe, who initially had no interest in the project, agreed to write music, with the understanding that if things went badly, it would be his last score.[

"Cherry Blossom Girl" is a song by French electronic duo Air. It was released in February 2004 by record label Virgin/Astralwerks as the first single for their 2004 album Talkie Walkie.

Many of the album's tracks appear in actor Philip Seymour Hoffman's directorial debut, Jack Goes Boating (2010), acting as the film's primary score. Hoffman noted, "Susan Jacobs the music supervisor threw Grizzly Bear my way. She was like, "You should really listen to them!" I heard their album and I was like, "Definitely!" There was a bunch of music from Grizzly Bear that I used, which fit so nicely.

a pop song composed by Tony Macaulay, Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway which in 1971 became the third U.S. Top 40 hit for The Fortunes.Subsequently, Sonny & Cher covered the song; it appears on their album All I Ever Need is You. 

"Laughter in the Rain" is a song recorded by Neil Sedaka, composed by him with lyrics by Phil Cody. It includes a 20-second saxophone solo by Jim Horn.[1] Cody reports writing the lyrics in about five minutes after smoking marijuana and falling asleep under a tree for a couple of hours.[2]

 The film was directed by Stanley Donen, with music by Saul Chaplin and Gene de Paul, lyrics by Johnny Mercer, and choreography by Michael Kidd. The screenplay, by Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, and Dorothy Kingsley, is based on the short story "The Sobbin' Women", by Stephen Vincent Benét, which was based in turn on the Ancient Roman legend of The Rape of the Sabine Women. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, which is set in Oregon in 1850, is particularly known for Kidd's unusual choreography, which makes dance numbers out of such mundane frontier pursuits as chopping wood and raising a barn. 

Burks was known as 'Iron Man' for his energetic and passion filled performances on stage. He was nominated five times for a Blues Music Award and, in 2004, Living Blues presented him with the Critics' Award for Best Guitarist. From his second album. In the early 1970s, Burks moved with his family to Camden, Arkansas. It was there that Burks and his father built a 300-seater juke joint named the Bradley Ferry Country Club, where Burks duly led the house band.[1][6]

Something of Mendelssohn's intense attachment to his personal vision of music is conveyed in his comments to a correspondent who suggested converting some of the Songs Without Words into lieder by adding texts: "What [the] music I love expresses to me, are not thoughts that are too indefinite for me to put into words, but on the contrary, too definite." Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words (Lieder ohne Worte), eight cycles each containing six lyric pieces (two published posthumously), remain his most famous solo piano compositions. They became standard parlour recital items even during the composer's lifetime,[148] and their overwhelming popularity, according to Todd, has itself caused many critics to underrate their musical value.[149]

Smith Westerns were an American indie rock band from Chicago, Illinois, United States, composed of brothers Cullen and Cameron Omori as well as Max Kakacek, Julien Ehrlich and Hal James.[1] Their musical influences include David Bowie, T. Rex[2] and Oasis.[3] 

The Suitcase Junket is the solo project of New England multi-instrumentalist and visual artist Matthew Lorenz,Lorenz graduated from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 2004, and lives now on a homestead in rural Western Massachusetts. He tours heavily except during sugaring and cider seasons, when he remains at home to work in the woods.A visual artist who works in many mediums, Lorenz design his own album art until 2019. His next album, to be released April 5, 2019, from Signature Sounds Recordings,[5] will be produced by Steve Berlin of Los Lobos.Mean Dog, Trampoline

Let's Be Still is the second studio album by American band The Head and the Heart,

Legao is the second solo album from Kings of Convenience and The Whitest Boy Alive singer Erlend Øye, recorded in Reykjavík with Hjálmar, a reggae group from Iceland

"The Sky Is Crying" is a song that has become a blues standard.[2] It was written and recorded by Elmore James[1] in 1959.Stevie Ray Vaughan recorded the song during the 1984 Couldn't Stand the Weather sessions, and again during the 1985 Soul to Soul sessions, but neither version was released until the posthumous compilations Blues at Sunrise (2000) and The Sky Is Crying (1991), respectively

"Rainbow Connection" is a song from the 1979 film The Muppet Movie, with music and lyrics written by Paul Williams and Kenneth Ascher.[1] The song was performed by Kermit the Frog (Jim Henson) in the film. "Rainbow Connection" reached No. 25 on the Billboard Hot 100 in November 1979, with the song remaining in the Top 40 for seven weeks total.[2] Williams and Ascher received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song at the 52nd Academy Awards. Williams has said that his favorite lyrics in the song are "Who said that every wish/ Would be heard and answered/ When wished on the morning star?/ Somebody thought of that/ And someone believed it/ Look what it's done so far", because they imply that "there's power in your thoughts"