“Blue Velvet” is a song recorded by Japanese singer Shizuka Kudo for her thirteenth studio album, I’m Not. It was released by Pony Canyon as the album’s leading single in May 1997. It served as the third ending theme song to the Fuji Television anime series Dragon Ball GT, from episode 42 to episode 50. […]
Let’s Jump The Broomstick
“Let’s Jump the Broomstick” is a song written by Charles Robins and performed first by a black Nashville group, Alvin Gaines & The Themes, in 1959, then covered that year by Brenda Lee. Her version of Let’s Jump The Broomstick” originally released on Decca Records, reached No.12 in the United Kingdom in 1961. The song […]
Non Più Andrai
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has composed more than 600 operas, concertos, masses, dances, arias, Singspiele and so on, and many have interesting stories behind them. The aria with the most stories and myths, however is Non più andrai, farfallone amoroso, the famous finale of the first act of Le Nozze di Figaro (K.492/1786). It is usually […]
Florrie Forde
Florrie Forde was an Australian-born British vaudevillian performer and popular singer, notable in music hall and pantomime. From 1897 she lived and worked in the United Kingdom, where she found her greatest success, as one of the most popular stars of the early 20th century as a music hall entertainer and recording artist. Forde was […]
Lily Morris
Lily Morris was an English music hall performer, who specialised in singing comedic songs. She was born in the Holborn area of London, the daughter of Maurice Crosby, a cigar maker and amateur songwriter. He directed her early career, which started in music halls in 1894, when she was 11 years old. Her first successful […]
The Trolley Song
“The Trolley Song” is a song written by Ralph Blane and Hugh Martin and made famous by Judy Garland in the 1944 film Meet Me in St. Louis. In a 1989 NPR interview, Blane and Martin reminisced about the song’s genesis. They were assigned to write a song for the trolley scene in the film. […]
The Pleasure Fair
The Pleasure Fair was a musical performing group based in Los Angeles in the mid-1960s. The original group membership included Robb Royer, Tim Hallinan, Michele Cochrane and Stephen Cohn. Robb Royer obtained his first guitar when he was 19 years old and a college sophomore at San Fernando Valley State College in Northridge (now California […]
Gurenge
“Gurenge” (“Red Lotus”) is a song by Japanese pop singer Lisa from her fifth studio album Leo-Nine. It was released as her fifteenth single digitally on April 22, 2019, and received a physical release on July 3, 2019. Commercially, the single peaked at number three on the Oricon Singles Chart, and number two on Billboard […]
Walking The Dog
Walking the Dog is one of many musical numbers written in 1937 by George Gershwin for the score for the Fred Astaire – Ginger Rogers film Shall We Dance. In the film, the music accompanies a sequence of walking a dog on board a luxury liner. In 1960, the sequence was published as “Promenade” to accompany […]
Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Green Day)
“Boulevard of Broken Dreams” is a song by American rock band Green Day. The power ballad is the fourth track from their seventh studio album American Idiot (2004). Reprise Records released “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” as the second single from American Idiot in November 2004. The song’s lyrics were written by lead singer Billie Joe […]