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And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going. " And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going " (also known in short as just " And I Am Telling You ") is a torch song from the Broadway musical Dreamgirls, with lyrics by Tom Eyen and music by Henry Krieger. In the context of the musical, "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" is sung by the character Effie White, a ...
Jeepers Creepers (song) " Jeepers Creepers " is a popular song and jazz standard. The music was written by Harry Warren and the lyrics by Johnny Mercer for the 1938 movie Going Places. [1] It was premiered by Louis Armstrong and has been covered by many other musicians. [2] The song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song in ...
1860. Songwriter (s) Stephen Foster. " Old Black Joe " is a parlor song by Stephen Foster (1826–1864). It was published by Firth, Pond & Co. of New York in 1860. [1] Ken Emerson, author of the book Doo-Dah! (1998), indicates that Foster's fictional Joe was inspired by a servant in the home of Foster's father-in-law, Dr. McDowell of Pittsburgh ...
New York [ 3] " When I Grow Too Old to Dream " is a popular song with music by Sigmund Romberg and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, published in 1934 . The song was introduced by Evelyn Laye and Ramon Novarro in the film The Night Is Young (1935). [ 4] It has since become a pop standard, recorded by many artists, notably Nat King Cole, The ...
For the song by Phil Ochs (based on the Noyes poem), see The Highwayman (poem). " Highwayman " is a song written by American singer-songwriter Jimmy Webb about a soul with incarnations in four different places in time and history: as a highwayman, a sailor, a construction worker on the Hoover Dam, and finally as a captain of a starship.
"The Water Is Wide" may be considered a family of lyrics with a particular hymn-like tune. [1]"O Waly Waly" (Wail, Wail) may be sometimes a particular lyric, sometimes a family tree of lyrics, sometimes "Jamie Douglas", sometimes one melody or another with the correct meter, and sometimes versions of the modern compilation "The Water Is Wide" (usually with the addition of the verse starting "O ...
Gus Dudgeon. " Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding " is a medley of two songs written by English musician Elton John and songwriter Bernie Taupin, and performed by John. It is the opening track of the 1973 double album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road . The first part, "Funeral for a Friend", is an instrumental created by John while thinking of ...
It's quite a song title, too. If we take a trip down memory lane and look at Olivia's debut album Sour, the phrase "teenage dream" came up in her music before. In Sour's opening track "Brutal ...