Celebrate St. Patrick's Day by listening to popular Irish songs from Thin Lizzy, The Dubliners and U2. Add these to your St. Patrick's Day song playlist.
Years later, it’s now customary in many English-speaking counties to sing Auld Lang Syne on New Year’s Eve to bid farewell to the old year. The song is also commonly heard at funerals, graduations, and other formal occasions as a way to say goodbye. Auld Lang Syne is even popular ...
Played at funerals for Albert Einstein and Princess Grace of Monaco, and in slow motion scenes in war films, like in Oliver Stone's 1986 film "Platoon," which was parodied in the 1996 "Seinfeld" episode "The Fatigues." Also in the 2001 movie "Amélie." You may have heard electronic ...
According to The Telegraph, the most popular song to be played at British funerals is not a somber, traditional tune, but a comedy tune from national treasures Monty Python. “Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life,” the lighthearted take on death that closes out 1979’s The Life of ...
Listen closely about a minute later, when Hendrix plays a portion of the musical piece "Taps," a song traditionally played on a bugle at United States military members' funerals. Hendrix just took you on anApocalypse Now-style tour through war. You heard bombs explode all around you, you...
Way before Titanic transformed Celine Dion into a friend of the bereaved (‘My Heart Will Go On’ is the most popular song to be played at funerals in the UK and US), the moose-featured old squawker won at 1988 Eurovision with ‘Ne Partez Pas Sans Moi’, which almost means ‘They Do...
GODFATHER THEME - Nino Rota's score was removed at the last minute from the list of 1973 Academy Award nominees when it was discovered that he had used the theme in Eduardo De Filippo's 1958 comedy Fortunella. Although in the earlier film the theme was played in a brisk, staccato and co...
Usually there was no piano because these bands served many purposes: playing for dances at night, marching in daytime parades, playing for funerals or riding around the city on wagons to advertise products. As a result, the piano in jazz developed in a separate line of its own until the ...
Musicians played nearby on a temporary stage erected within the monastery's grounds. Two singers and a small dance troupe fronted the instrumentalists, and on the dirt field below the stage at least two dozen people danced along to the songs. These festivities were part of the ritual that a...
We played because the winters were long and cold and dark. There was nothing else to do. Maybe as a result, basketball was deadly serious business. Away games were played at the end of eight-hour bus rides or harrowing plane landings in frozen, remote villages. Our opponents were tough, ...