Who wrote “America the Beautiful”? The lyrics for “America the Beautiful” were written by Katharine Lee Bates in the summer of 1893. The author, poet, and professor, who died at the age of 69 in 1929, originally wrote the song as a poem, which she had simply referred to as “A...
From Musgraves’ Deeper Well album comes this exquisitely-crafted song that questions whether there is a higher power guiding life events, or if situations are simply the results of a series of random chances. Musgraves wrote the song with Shane McAnally and Josh Osborne. Musgraves has ...
The Beach Boys – Surf’s Up “Columnated ruins domino…” Quite simply one of the most beautiful lyrics ever written – and one of the strangest too. Full of layers of surreal symbolism, it’s the product of the truly unique imagination of the lyrical genius Van Dyke Parks...
though he says he wants to do it “a few more times”—the song is ready to depart again, to return to the air. He has only been its occasional transmitter.“It’s so old,” he says. “It’s older than I am, and I wrote it.“ ...
I was watching many Democrats simply accept and treat as settled fact that he could do the things he was doing, instead of treating the things he was doing as somewhere between a power grab and a crime… Don’t treat that as done. Treat that as provisional. Treat that as an effort he...
The Godmother of Soul also reflected on the impact of her tribute moments after she took the stage. "It meant no matter what voice I'm in—I'm hoarse, I have a cold—but whatever, I had to, I was giving it up for Tina Turner, 'cause she's simply the ...
When it comes to signature songs, The Beatles simply do not have one. They released too many important songs, too many incredibly popular songs, and too many greatest-of-all-time songs to have their back catalogue reduced to one, two or even a dozen standouts. The Beatles' massive 'Hey...
Of course, you could stop this at any time – simply pass a funding bill and override a veto – but choose not to, perhaps for fear of being on the wrong side of a Presidential tweet, or of a primary challenge.Satisfying your base seems to you the only way to protect your job. ...
forms deserted them when they touched the question of musical form and of melody. Indeed their music, except in rare instances, was an adornment which the poetry could have dispensed with, and may be regarded in the main simply as a concession to the immemorial custom of treating music and ...
That there’s now an Oscar nomination too is simply surreal. “As a lover of movies and film and everything, it’s so crazy and amazing to be recognized in that world, because it’s a world in which I don’t usually live,” Gsus added. “It’s absolutely fantastic...