query: who sang the song going up to the country

pos: Going Up the Country on several television commercials for GEICO motorcycle insurance. Several musicians have recorded renditions of "Going Up the Country", including Luca Prodan, Kitty, Daisy & Lewis, Deerhoof, and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Going Up the Country "Going Up the Country" (also Goin' Up the Country) is a song adapted and recorded by American blues rock band Canned Heat. Called a "rural hippie anthem", it became one of the band's biggest hits and best-known songs. As with their previous single, "On the Road Again", the song was adapted from a 1920s blues song and sung in a countertenor-style by Alan Wilson.

pos: Going Up the Country Going Up the Country "Going Up the Country" (also Goin' Up the Country) is a song adapted and recorded by American blues rock band Canned Heat. Called a "rural hippie anthem", it became one of the band's biggest hits and best-known songs. As with their previous single, "On the Road Again", the song was adapted from a 1920s blues song and sung in a countertenor-style by Alan Wilson. Canned Heat, who were early blues enthusiasts, based "Going Up the Country" on "Bull Doze Blues", recorded in 1928 by Texas bluesman Henry Thomas. Thomas was from the songster tradition and had

pos: Going Up the Country ambiguous: "Going Up the Country" was first released on Canned Heat's third album, "Living the Blues", in October 1968. Liberty Records released the song as a single on November 22, 1968, which peaked at number 11 on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot 100 singles chart on January 25, 1969. "Going Up the Country" was Canned Heat's highest charting single in the US. In January 7, 1969, the song peaked at number 19 on the UK Singles Chart. The song appears on several Canned Heat compilation albums, including "Canned Heat Cookbook", "" (1989) and "Uncanned! The Best of Canned Heat" (1994). Canned

pos: Going Up the Country Heat performed "Going Up the Country" at the Woodstock music festival in August 1969. The song has been described as the "unofficial anthem" of the festival and is featured early. In the film, "Woodstock", Canned Heat's spoken introduction to their performance of the song is heard, but the movie then cuts to the studio recording played over a montage of festival attendees. The 1970 soundtrack album "" features the festival performance of the song, but without the spoken intro. The original Canned Heat version was featured in "Fishing", a 1992 episode of "The Wonder Years". It has also been used

neg: Sang Doo! Let's Go to School start off as rivals, vying for Eun-hwan's heart, but later end up as good friends. As everything seems to be going smoothly for Sang-doo and Eun-hwan, circumstances prevent them from staying together. Sang Doo! Let's Go to School Sang-doo! Let's Go to School! () is a 2003 South Korean television series starring Rain, Gong Hyo-jin, Lee Dong-gun, Hong Soo-hyun and Song Min-joo. It aired on KBS2 from September 15 to November 4, 2003 Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:50 for 16 episodes. Cha Sang-doo (Rain) and Chae Eun-hwan (Gong Hyo-jin) were best friends growing up, who secretly have crushes on each

neg: She's Going Home with Me She's Going Home with Me "She's Going Home with Me" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Travis Tritt. It was released in April 1997 as the third single from the album "The Restless Kind". The song reached number 24 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. Tritt said in an article with "Billboard" that the song was an example of his personal involvement in "The Restless Kind", as he co-produced it, played electric guitar on it, and sang his own harmony vocals. A review of the single in the same magazine was favorable,

neg: Carl Perkins Pacific ... I got up, I knew I had done the right thing." Perkins and Cash, who had his own problems with drugs, then gave each other support to stay sober. In 1968, Cash recorded the Perkins-written "Daddy Sang Bass" (which incorporates parts of the American standard "Will the Circle Be Unbroken") and scored No. 1 on the country music charts for six weeks. Glen Campbell also covered the song, as did the Statler Brothers and Carl Story. "Daddy Sang Bass" was a Country Music Association nominee for Song of the Year. Perkins also played lead guitar on Cash's single

neg: Andrew Garcia left side of his neck. Garcia auditioned for the ninth season in Pasadena, California. He sang "Sunday Morning" by Maroon 5 and was praised by all the judges, notably Simon Cowell, who called him a "genuinely good singer," as well as guest judge Katy Perry. He later appeared in Hollywood, where he sang Paula Abdul's song "Straight Up" and since has been particularly known for that performance. He performed "Sugar, We’re Going Down", but according to the judges, did not come up to par with the musicality of "Straight Up", resulting in all four judges calling it "strange" commenting on

neg: Travis Tritt noted that he sang most of the vocal harmony by himself, played guitar on "She's Going Home with Me", and helped with the album's art direction. It received positive reviews from Thom Owens of Allmusic, who said that it was the most country-sounding album of his career. Don Yates of "Country Standard Time" also praised it for having a more "organic" sound than Tritt's other albums. In 1998, he and several other artists contributed to Stuart's "Same Old Train," a cut from the collaborative album "Tribute to Tradition"; this song charted at number 59 on Hot Country Songs and won

neg: And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going a Broadway musical since Ethel Merman sang "Everything's Coming Up Roses" at the end of Act I of """ "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" remains Holliday's signature song. "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" was recorded in 2006 by former "American Idol" contestant Jennifer Hudson, who portrayed Effie White in the DreamWorks/Paramount motion picture adaptation of "Dreamgirls". Her recording of the song, the "Dreamgirls" film soundtrack's second single, peaked at number 60 on the US "Billboard" Hot 100 chart, and number 14 on the R&B chart. Hudson won the 2006 Academy Award for Best Supporting

neg: Changed (song) Gary LeVox, and presented him with some lyrics that he had written about it. He sang the lines to LeVox, who finished the song with him and Wendell Mobley at LeVox's farm. Billy Dukes of "Taste of Country" gave the song four and a half stars out of five, writing that "sonically, the soaring ballad has all of the hallmarks of a choice Rascal Flatts song." Matt Bjorke of "Roughstock" gave the song a favorable review, calling it "a lyrically strong song about giving up the past transgressions for a better path." Tara Seetharam of "Country Universe" gave the song

neg: Nostalgic (song) singer becomes nostalgic while finally acknowledging its culmination. The song is based primarily on Tranter's and Keyes's past relationships, with Tranter himself coming up with an idea of a song titled "Nostalgic", coming up with the main lyric "Even though we lost it, I still get nostalgic." Tranter sang the demo of the track and sent it to Clarkson who recorded it with Halbert in 2013. Upon hearing Clarkson's final version of the track, Tranter revealed that he was overwhelmed. He remarked, "having listened to my demo for over a year and then going to New York, where I used

neg: Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 Mary Synatsaki and Ntoretta Paparimitriou Rise Up, Thanos Kalliris sang his song Stop with the group Kings, Boys and Noise sang the 2001 entry (I Would) Die for You and Giannis Karagiannis performed the 2015 entry for Cyprus One Thing I Should Have Done. All countries except the "Big 5" (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom), guest-country Australia, and the host country Austria, are required to qualify from one of two semi-finals in order to compete for the final; the top ten countries from each semi-final progress to the final. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) split up the

neg: Alan Wilson (musician) "Going Up The Country" was featured in the Woodstock film. Wilson also wrote and sang the hit record "On the Road Again". In an interview with "Down Beat" magazine he remarked, "... on 'On The Road Again' [second LP] I appear in six different capacities – three tamboura parts, harmonica, vocal, and guitar, all recorded at different times." On the double album "Hooker 'N Heat" (1970), John Lee Hooker is heard wondering how Wilson is capable of following Hooker's guitar playing so well. Hooker was known to be a difficult performer to accompany, partly because of his disregard of song

neg: Marilyn Chambers this catchy disco tribute to an oriental loverman." The song is played in the background of one scene in the film "Rabid". In "Insatiable" she sang the theme song, "Shame On You," which plays over the opening credits. She did the same for the song "Still Insatiable", which was used in her comeback in the 1999 adult film of the same name. She also sang vocals in the 1983 X-rated film "Up 'n' Coming", in which she plays a rising country music star. In the early 1980s, she was the lead singer of a country and western band called Haywire.

neg: Mama Sang a Song Jesus" and "Rock of Ages." In addition to Anderson, several country and popular performers recorded their own versions of "Mama Sang a Song," including Walter Brennan, Stan Kenton, Jimmy Dean and Faron Young. Irish singer Crawford Bell also recorded a version of the song. Mama Sang a Song "Mama Sang a Song" is a country music song written and recorded by Bill Anderson. Released in 1962, this recitation — prominently featuring a backing choir singing Christian hymns — was Bill Anderson's first No. 1 hit on the "Billboard" Hot C&W Sides chart that fall. The song spent seven non-consecutive weeks

neg: Truck Drivin' Man Truck Drivin' Man "Truck Drivin' Man" is a popular country song written and recorded by Terry Fell in 1954. One of his band members, Buck Owens, sang harmony with him on the recording. In 1965, Owens recorded the song himself, omitting the fourth verse - "When I get my call up to glory, They will take me away from this land, I'll head this truck up to Heaven, 'Cause I'm a truck drivin' man." Others who have recorded the song include Ricky Nelson, Boxcar Willie, Charley Pride, Bill Anderson, Conway Twitty, Jimmy Martin, Dave Dudley, Red Simpson, Jim & Jesse,

neg: New Country Hits stating in the 1989 documentary "Same Ole Me", "I've always tried to be versatile. I've always tried to do up-tempos and novelties and ballads." The album is also noteworthy for its cover, which features the singer's backing band the Jones Boys. Like Buck Owens' Buckaroos and Merle Haggard's Strangers, Jones worked with many musicians who were great talents in their own right, including Johnny Paycheck, who played bass and sang harmony with Jones before going on to his own stardom in the 1970s. Paycheck is seated next to Jones on the cover of the album. Upon release, "New Country Hits"

neg: Behind Closed Doors (Charlie Rich song) the Academy of Country Music, and Rich also received a Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance. In 2003, it ranked #9 in CMT's "100 Greatest Songs in Country Music". Numerous other artists have covered the song "Behind Closed Doors", using the original or slightly modified lyrics. For example, Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton sang versions in which the genders were reversed and a few words changed or added, while Diana Ross sang a version with both gender change and added lines. Other artists who covered this song include Bettye LaVette, Ronnie Milsap, Hank Thompson, Cal Smith, Perry Como,

neg: Going Down to the River (album) to the top of Sverigetopplistan for an additional week on the chart dated 14 August 2014 and a third time on 2 October 2014. Going Down to the River (album) Going Down to the River is a debut album by American country music singer, songwriter and guitarist Doug Seegers. Seegers, a struggling street artist in Nashville, Tennessee, basically lived as a homeless musician, when he became known to the Swedish public. He sang the album's title song when appearing on a Swedish TV show hosted by Jill Johnson and called "Jills veranda" March 5, 2014. "Jills veranda" was a 6-episode

neg: The Late Late Toy Show to the lights. A boy, Anthony Malone from Tullamore, then switched on the lights which went all over the country. Anthony then picked up a present and passed it to the other kids in a pass the parcel like fashion, while a little girl (Lauren Norton, from Greystones, Co. Wicklow, aged 6) sang a rendition of Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas Is You. The show then proceeded to the main studio where kids dressed as elves and Santa's sang the song and passed the parcel to the audience who passed it on to Kenny who was standing at

neg: Going Down to the River (album) Going Down to the River (album) Going Down to the River is a debut album by American country music singer, songwriter and guitarist Doug Seegers. Seegers, a struggling street artist in Nashville, Tennessee, basically lived as a homeless musician, when he became known to the Swedish public. He sang the album's title song when appearing on a Swedish TV show hosted by Jill Johnson and called "Jills veranda" March 5, 2014. "Jills veranda" was a 6-episode SVT TV series recorded in Nashville, where Johnson and six altering Swedish artists were exploring the city. Johnson and one of her guest musicians

neg: Mama Sang a Song Mama Sang a Song "Mama Sang a Song" is a country music song written and recorded by Bill Anderson. Released in 1962, this recitation — prominently featuring a backing choir singing Christian hymns — was Bill Anderson's first No. 1 hit on the "Billboard" Hot C&W Sides chart that fall. The song spent seven non-consecutive weeks atop the chart, spanning from October 27 through December 22, and 27 weeks total in the country chart's top 40 from the summer of 1962 through early 1963. "Mama Sang a Song" is a sentimental reminiscence of a sharecropper's childhood, specifically about his mother.

neg: The Peace and the Panic a chorus that was simple and effective". "19 Seventy Sumthin'", which was written on the group's tour with A Day to Remember, details the story from how Barlow's parents got together until his father's death. Barlow, who was "having a moment", picked up a guitar and "As soon as I sang the first couple of lyrics, I knew it was going to be something special". Barlow said writing it felt like "the best therapy. That was the song I felt I had to write and it was going to come out of me at some point. I wanted to make

neg: All Mixed Up (311 song) "all mixed up" over his new-found fame. The band often performs a rearranged version of the song that appears on setlists as "All Re-Mixed Up." This song uses elements of the Stalag riddim and also begins with a sample from reggae artist Yellowman's song Mister Chin on the album Mister Yellowman. The music video is filmed in New York City, and it features the band going into all massage parlor, in a taxi cab, and even performing the song in front of a small audience in an apartment. Blake Lewis, the runner-up on the sixth season of "American Idol", sang

neg: The Chefs the band, who changed their name to the Smartees. In the Smartees, McCallum wrote and sang "Thrush", a song about the sexually transmitted disease. Her second song, written with singer Tracy Preston, was "Let's Make Up", about cosmetics. After the Smartees split in late 1978, McCallum and Evans began to write songs together. McCallum had drawn an illustration of a dancing chef, called Ken Wood, with an accompanying rhyme, "Food". This was a list of favourite foods, with the refrain "Food we eat to keep us going/ Food we eat to make us strong/ In our bellies we are stowing/

neg: Katherine Saltzberg the ABC sitcom, "Star of the Family", playing Jennie Lee Krebs, a 16-year-old singer who begins getting show business offers because of her talents in the country/pop genre. This scares her father, played by Brian Dennehy. Saltzberg sang the opening theme song and was nominated for Best Young Actress in a new TV series. The show was created by Stu Silver and produced by Jack Rollins, Charles Joffe, and Larry Brezner. On the 1990 worldwide Jimmy Buffett tour, "Jump Up!", Saltzberg sang backup as a member of his Coral Reefer Band. Under the name "Kate Mason," Saltzberg performed stand-up comedy

neg: Raimon surprising proposal: to sing at the Festival de la Canción Mediterránea with a song in Catalan. Initially reticent, Raimon eventually accepted ""per voluntat de servei al país i a la llengua"" (as an act of service to the country and the language). Raimon, without a guitar, sang, together with Salomé, who gave a feminine interpretation of the love song "Se'n va anar" by Josep Maria Andreu and Lleó Borrell. The song, voted by the public, won first prize. From that moment, Catalan song, considered up to then a minority phenomenon of little consequence, began to receive the attention of the

neg: Bill Shirley him. Verna Felton who played Flora would always creep up behind him with a pencil and act like it was a baton [wand]. She'd do some fairy work on him and say he was going to be the greatest, handsomest, and all of this." Shirley and Costa sang the iconic song of the film,"Once Upon a Dream". Besides the original, there is a version of the song that was unused and unpublished for the film. It contains rare vocals from both performers that differ slightly from those used in the finished product; this can easily be found on the Internet

neg: Ain't Goin' Down ('Til the Sun Comes Up) The Sun Comes Up)" debuted at number 37 on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of August 7, 1993. The song reached Number One on the "Billboard" Hot Country Songs chart for the week of September 18, 1993. The song then fell to No. 2 on September 25, 1993, when Tracy Byrd's "Holdin' Heaven" climbed to No. 1. However, on the chart week of October 2, 1993, "Ain't Going Down" returned to No. 1. Ain't Goin' Down ('Til the Sun Comes Up) "Ain't Going Down ('Til the Sun Comes Up)" is a song co-written and

neg: Lee Sang-min (singer) and "Hwangbo" and "Tak Jae-hoon" of "Country Kko Kko". On March 27, 2018, MBC Every1 announced that Lee would be joining the cast of Weekly Idol as a host, following a revamp to the series. On April 11, 2018, Mnet announces that Lee is going to joined the upcoming music TV program "The Call" as a host. In 1995, Lee, who was a member of Roo'ra at the time, attempted suicide following allegations that one of their songs plagiarized Ninja's debut song Omatsuri. On June 19, 2004, Lee married actress and singer Lee Hye-young, whom he met in the U.S.

neg: Karen Dalton a greater influence. She sang blues, folk, country, pop, Motown—making over each song in her own style. She played the twelve string guitar and a long neck banjo. Dalton's first album, "It's So Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love You the Best" (Capitol, 1969), was re-released by Koch Records on CD in 1996. Dalton's second album, "In My Own Time" (1971), was recorded at Bearsville Studios and originally released by Woodstock Festival promoter Michael Lang's label, Just Sunshine Records. The album was produced and arranged by Harvey Brooks, who played bass on it. Piano player Richard Bell guested on

neg: Kellie Pickler very slowly up the chart, but ended up becoming Pickler's first Top 10 hit on the Hot Country Songs chart. After nearly 40 weeks on the chart, the song peaked at number nine in August 2009. A music video was made by Roman White, featuring Taylor Swift, who co-wrote and sang background harmony vocals on the song. Pickler was nominated for "Female Video Of The Year" at the 2009 CMT Music Awards for "Don't You Know You're Beautiful". She lost once again to Swift. She also presented the award for "USA Weekend Breakthrough Video Of The Year" with "Idol" judge

neg: Bev Bevan The Move he sang lead on a remake of "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart" and the country and western spoof, "Ben Crawley Steel Co". He composed one Move song: "Don't Mess Me Up", an Elvis Presley spoof from the album "Message from the Country" that was also the B-side of The Move's single "Tonight". He is also, incorrectly, credited with writing the rock-blues "Turkish Tram Conductor Blues" on "Looking On"; Roy Wood who composed the song. On ELO records his voice can be heard most prominently on "Fire On High" and "Strange Magic", both from 1975's "Face the

neg: Oh Shenandoah Oneida Castle. He was a co-founder of the Oneida Academy, which became Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, and is buried on the campus grounds. The canoe-going fur-trading "voyageurs" were great singers, and songs were an important part of their culture. Also in the early 19th century, flatboatmen who plied the Missouri River were known for their shanties, including "Oh Shenandoah". Sailors heading down the Mississippi River picked up the song and made it a capstan shanty that they sang while hauling in the anchor. This boatmen's song found its way down the Mississippi River to American clipper ships, and

neg: The Window Up Above the theme of adultery, but adds a foreboding, voyeuristic twist to the typical country music "cheatin'" song, filled with jealous anger and a deep, irreconcilable sense of betrayal: The song signaled a new era for Jones as a vocalist; in his book "George Jones: The Life and Times of a Honky Tonk Legend", biographer Bob Allen writes that when Jones recorded "The Window Up Above," he sang it "in a taut, almost offhand manner that called to mind the style of one of his heroes, Lefty Frizzell. He sang in a manner which merely insinuated the presence of wild, barely

neg: Therapy (Infectious Grooves song) sang on it." And they're like, "Oh, give him a call." I'm like, "Dude, I don't know Ozzy." [...] And then two days later, I came in the studio, and he goes, "Guess who just came in the studio next door?" And I'm like, "Who?" And he goes, "Ozzy." I'm like, "You serious?" And he goes, "Yeah, go talk to him." I'm going, "I'm not going to talk to him!" We went to lunch and we came back later and there he was in there. He goes, "You have a song you want me to do?" I'm like, "Uhhhhddduuuhhh." And

neg: Sing Sang Song Sing Sang Song "Sing Sang Song" was the German entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1976, performed in German by the Les Humphries Singers. The Les Humphries Singers had had a series of hits Continental Europe and Scandinavia in the early 1970s, most notably "Mexico" (1972) and "Mama Loo" (1973). The group's usual line-ups consisted of 20 performers and up from all over the world. For their performance in Eurovision they were, however, reduced to six singers; two female and four male. "Sing Sang Song" was composed by Eurovision veteran Ralph Siegel, who had made his debut in the 1974

neg: Fall (Clay Walker song) us and ticket sales are already going up. As long as people want to hear us -- and I feel like they do -- we're going to get out and give it to them." Chuck Taylor of "Billboard" wrote "Walker's rich, confident baritone offers all the more reassurance, as does his self-assured smile". Kevin John Coyne of "Country Universe" gave the song a B+ rating and wrote, "This is another good single from an artist who has fully come into his own." Roman White directed the song's music video. Walker performed the song on "The Montel Williams Show" on April

neg: Josh James (singer) Country Needs You! with "That Sounds Good to Me". He said, "The minute I heard the song I thought it was a definite winner, I'm so happy I'm going to sing it in Oslo." and "I really believe I can go on to win the Eurovision Song Contest for us." He sang "Too Many Broken Hearts" by Jason Donovan to get into the final three chosen by Waterman, and he also took part in the ABBA medley with the others. After that performance Waterman described his voice as "perfect" while suggesting more "excitement" should be added to his dancing and

neg: Johnny Mercer as John Mercer). Holed up in a Greenwich Village apartment with plenty of time on his hands and a beat-up piano to play, Mercer soon returned to singing and lyric writing. He secured a day job at a brokerage house and sang at night. Pooling his meager income with that of his roommates, Mercer managed to keep going, sometimes on little more than oatmeal. One night he dropped in on Eddie Cantor backstage to offer a comic song, but although Cantor didn't use the song, he began encouraging Mercer's career. Mercer's first lyric, for the song "Out of Breath (and

neg: Nima Djama lives in Ottawa, Canada. Nima Djama Nima Djama () is a composer and singer from Djibouti. In the 1976, Nima Djama sang famous patriotic song for Djibouti independence. She is also heavily involved in Djiboutian politics. Nima Djama hails from the Issa, Somali ethnic group. She began her musical career early. In 1975, she sang against the French administration who will not give a fair referendum for her country become an independence nation. There was vote rigging in the referendum of 1967. After that (Gabdhayahow) song she became popular across the country. She then joined the cultural troupe as a

neg: Nima Djama Nima Djama Nima Djama () is a composer and singer from Djibouti. In the 1976, Nima Djama sang famous patriotic song for Djibouti independence. She is also heavily involved in Djiboutian politics. Nima Djama hails from the Issa, Somali ethnic group. She began her musical career early. In 1975, she sang against the French administration who will not give a fair referendum for her country become an independence nation. There was vote rigging in the referendum of 1967. After that (Gabdhayahow) song she became popular across the country. She then joined the cultural troupe as a Somali singer Now she

neg: It Ain't Me Babe It Ain't Me Babe "It Ain't Me Babe" is a song by Bob Dylan that originally appeared on his fourth album "Another Side of Bob Dylan", which was released in 1964 by Columbia Records. According to music critic Oliver Trager, this song, along with others on the album, marked a departure for Dylan as he began to explore the possibilities of language and deeper levels of the human experience. Within a year of its release, the song was picked up as a single by folk rock act the Turtles and country artist Johnny Cash (who sang it as a duet

neg: Margie Singleton a solo and duet star, she also sang as a back-up vocalist with The Jordanaires. Numerous performers recorded many of her songs, including Teresa Brewer, Tammy Wynette and Charley Pride. In 1964, Singleton teamed up with singer Faron Young. Together they recorded the song "Keeping Up with the Joneses". That year, the song reached the country top 5, and became Singleton's biggest hit. The flip side of the single, "No Thanks, I Just Had One", was a Top 40 country hit. They continued to release singles and record together. By 1965, Singleton was divorced from Shelby Singleton. That same year,

neg: Hello, I Must Be Going (song) song expresses Spaulding's contempt for this elaborate welcome. The song is very closely associated with Groucho. A biography of Groucho was titled, "Hello, I Must be Going!". He also sang the song, with Erin Fleming, as the opening number of his Carnegie Hall concert in 1972. In Oliver Stone's TV mini-series "Wild Palms (1993)", the title of the fifth and final episode, directed by Phil Joanou, was "Hello, I Must Be Going". The Marx Brothers song itself was sung by the character Senator Anton Kreutzer (played by Robert Loggia). Hello, I Must Be Going (song) "Hello, I Must Be Going"

neg: My Guy song would wind up in the trash can anyway". When Wells recorded her vocal she sang over the song's outro with a huskiness evoking the line delivery of Mae West: Wells would recall: "I was only joking but the producers said 'Keep it going, keep it going'." "My Guy" became the biggest hit ever for Wells, Motown's first female star, and reached the top of the "Billboard" Hot 100 pop singles chart on 16 May 1964. The song led the "Cashbox" magazine R&B chart for seven weeks. "My Guy" was also Wells' last hit single for Motown, except for duets

neg: Cornelia Froboess of children going swimming on a hot summer's day at Wannsee. The title of the song has become a set phrase and synonym for going swimming easily recognized even by speakers of German who have never heard of the song. As she grew she recorded as Conny then Conny Froboess In 1962, Froboess finished in sixth place at the Eurovision Song Contest, where she sang "" (Two little Italians) for Germany. It sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc. The same year she appeared as herself in Jean Renoir's comedy film "The Elusive Corporal". Later, Froboess

neg: Going Blind (The Go-Betweens song) Oregon. As the band's previous drummer, Glen Thompson, was unavailable they took up an offer from Sleater-Kinney's drummer, Janet Weiss, to fill in. Weiss' partner Sam Coomes (Quasi) was included on keyboards, together with the other members of Sleater-Kinney, Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker. Brownstein commenting "I played guitar on 'Going Blind' and Corrin sang on that song. I really had a good time but I was there so briefly that it was all work, I just went in and did it and left. My part on the records, which they loved - "Oh, that's perfect!" - that was so

neg: As If (song) is then shown performing the song while her new men do the house work in the background. Evans ends up going through three men before finding that the right guy for her is the UPS man (who delivers each of her men to her house) she has seen all along. The video was ranked #23 on the 2008 version of "CMT's 40 Sexiest Videos". "As If" debuted at number 52 on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot Country Songs chart in June 2007. As If (song) "As If" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Sara Evans. It

neg: Rouge Sang Rouge Sang Rouge Sang is a studio album by French singer Renaud released in 2006. It gained particular media attention for the song "Elle est facho" ("She's a fascist") which portrays a female Front National voter. The song brought about a controversy because of its last verse "à la facho... qui vote Sarko" (to the fascist... who votes Sarko); Sarko being a nickname for the then minister and candidate for presidential election Nicolas Sarkozy. Sarkozy's party, UMP considered the song an unreasonable attack on the run up to the elections, but Sarkozy still won while "Rouge Sang" went platinum on

neg: Mr. Happy Go Lucky here that hasn't happened.' So I just ran out and recorded 'Jackamo Road' in two minutes. I tried to sing it as country as I could, just to make it the opposite of the song I knew was going to come after it, 'Life Is Hard,' which is as urban-sounding a song as we've got. I'm still agonizing over 'Jackamo Road' because I wish I'd said another word. I think it says, 'I'd like to buy you a cabin cruiser/we could sail around.' You don't sail a cabin cruiser. When I sang it, it never dawned on me. But when

neg: Hunger Strike (song) how Chris [Cornell] was working, and watch Matt [Cameron] play drums. It got to "Hunger Strike" — I was sitting in the corner, putting duck tape on a little African drum. About two-thirds of the way though, he was having to cut off the one line, and start the other. I'm not now, and certainly wasn't then, self-assured or cocky, but I could hear what he was trying to do, so I walked up to the mic — which I'm really surprised I did - and sang the other part, ""Going hungry, going hungry"." The next time I was up,

neg: Flora Molton impairment complicated her search for a job and she found herself going back to street singing. Molton listened to blues singers like Blind Lemon Jefferson as a child. She said that she sang the blues in her early years on the streets, but her song lyrics became less secular in later years. Molton described her music as having a "country" sound, and her songs generally reflected her religious faith. She wrote at least one anti-war song, "Sun Gonna Shine in Vietnam One Day". Among the last well-known Washington street singers, Molton played slide guitar in open D tuning. Her guitar

neg: Cissy Houston session musician with some of the world's most successful recording artists. Houston, along with Dionne Warwick and Dee Dee Warwick, sang the background vocals on the original recording of "Time Is On My Side" by Kai Winding, released by Verve Records in October 1963. She was one of the backup singers on the Paul Simon song "Mother and Child Reunion" (1972) Houston sang back-up on Bette Midler's 1972 debut album, "The Divine Miss M". In 1974, Houston sang back-up on Linda Ronstadt's multi-Platinum "Heart Like A Wheel", a seminal album that topped "Billboard"′s Pop and Country Album Charts in early

neg: I'm My Own Grandpa on a talk show about strange families. The song was performed by American country music singer Ray Stevens, and can be heard on his 1987 album "Crackin' Up!". Willie Nelson performed the song on his 2001 album "The Rainbow Connection". This song was also performed by Grandpa Jones, who sang it both at the Grand Ole Opry and on the TV show "Hee Haw". It was also later recorded on the album "Home is Where the Heart Is" by David Grisman and on Michael Cooney's album of songs for children. Folk singer Steve Goodman included it in his live shows,

neg: Ain't Goin' Down ('Til the Sun Comes Up) Ain't Goin' Down ('Til the Sun Comes Up) "Ain't Going Down ('Til the Sun Comes Up)" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Garth Brooks. It was released in July 1993 as the lead single from his album "In Pieces". The song also appears on "The Hits", "The Limited Series", "The Ultimate Hits", and "Double Live". The spelling of the song has varied from album to album, and is also spelled "Ain't Going Down (Til the Sun Comes Up)." The song was written by Brooks, Kent Blazy and Kim Williams. It is in the key of

neg: Shiftwork (song) something, then this song captures the monotony of 'shiftwork,' but who in their right mind is going to want to be bored when they listen to a song?" Kevin John Coyne of "Country Universe", gave the song a B grade, saying that " the ’big ol’ pile of shiiiiiftwork” wordplay in the chorus is funny. It doesn’t hold up much on repeated listenings, however" and that the song "still manages to become a song about getting drunk in the islands". The song originally charted at number 42 from unsolicited airplay in September 2007, shortly after "" was released. Shiftwork (song)

neg: 50th Annual Country Music Association Awards next year's show with Beyoncé. Unfortunately, I've got a thing that night so no" before following with a quotation from Beyoncé's song Formation. She went on to say that she had "used" the CMA's in order to fulfil her dream to perform with Beyoncé "on their dime". Several country stars declared their support for Beyoncé, including Dierks Bentley who said that "Daddy Lessons" is undoubtedly a country song: "it's not just choruses and verses that could be intermixed anywhere as some pop songs are, it's a real story that she tells about what's going on in her life growing up".

neg: Canadian humour for political office as a candidate of the Rhinoceros Party — frequently releases pointedly satirical songs, such as "Official Theme Song for the 2010 Vancouver / Whistler Olympic Games (The Dead Children Were Worth It!)", as free downloads from his website. Don Ast, a stand-up comedian who performed in character as befuddled Ukrainian immigrant Nestor Pistor, had his greatest popular success with an album in which he sang country songs in character as Pistor. His single "Winestoned Plowboy", a parody of Glen Campbell's "Rhinestone Cowboy", was a hit on Canada's country music charts in 1977; Pistor returned to more conventional

neg: My Love (Little Texas song) My Love (Little Texas song) "My Love" is a song recorded by the American country music band Little Texas. It was co-written by the band's keyboardist Brady Seals (who also sang lead vocals on it) and lead guitarist Porter Howell along with Tommy Barnes. It was released in January 1994 as the third single from the album, "Big Time". The song reached the top of the "Billboard" country singles charts, becoming the band's only Number One country hit. The song features lead vocals from Brady Seals, then the band's keyboardist. "My Love" is a ballad where the narrator asks if

neg: On the Road Again (Willie Nelson song) Anne Kihlström on the album "Förgät mig ej" in 1984, and also by Paula Jarl on a single and by Bennys on an album in 1987. Graeme Allwright adapted the song in French as "Comme un vrai gamin" in his 1992 album "Lumière". The Kidsongs kids sang this song in their 1994 video "Country Sing-Along". Buckcherry recorded the song for the "NASCAR On Fox" compilation "Crank It Up". In 2006, the American punk band Me First and the Gimme Gimmes released a cover of this song on their album "Love Their Country". In 2007, Deana Carter released a new version

neg: Song of Freedom out and shouted to the witch doctor to support her husband. But that violated the taboo of not letting women join the ritual and the witch doctor feels perfectly justified to put Zinga's wife in the basement. Zinga, who tried to protect his wife, is also tied up by the army. They are going to execute both of them the next day. And by the moonlight, Zinga's wife sang miserably to him to show her dismay. Zinga's followers bring him his gun but he refuses it. He determines not to use force to hurt his people but convince them in

neg: Canned Heat the Country" and "On the Road Again" became international hits. "Going Up the Country" was a remake of the Henry Thomas song "Bull Doze Blues", recorded in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1927. "On the Road Again" was a remake of the 1953 Floyd Jones song of the same name, which is reportedly based on the Tommy Johnson song "Big Road Blues", recorded in 1928. Since the early 1970s, numerous personnel changes have occurred, although the current lineup includes all three surviving members of the classic lineup: de la Parra (who has remained in the band since first joining in 1967), Mandel,

neg: Danielle Bradbery the competition, sending home Beckham. During the Top 16 show, she sang "Maybe It Was Memphis" and was voted through by America into the next week. The following week, the country singer sang a rendition of Carrie Underwood's song "Wasted." During the Top 10 playoffs, Bradbery sang a rendition of "Heads Carolina, Tails California", which became the first song of the season, and only song of that round, to reach the iTunes top 10 charts. During the Top 8, Bradbery sang a rendition of "Grandpa (Tell Me 'Bout the Good Ol' Days)." In the Top 6, she sang Pam Tillis'

neg: Human Chain to solo kind of competitively, while she sat there quietly, like in a trance. Then when they finished she just got up and sang the song again. Something about that amused me and I was impressed by it. After that, I got more interested in having the power of the human voice in my music. Because people had always said, "Yeah, I like your stuff, but it's kind of complicated, anybody who isn't a musician isn't going to be able to bear to listen to it." Maybe I'm exaggerating, but I got the impression that what I did was perceived

neg: Birthday (Angel) the Powers. They come to an agreement: since the visions are going to kill her as a human, Skip turns her into a half-demon, so that she can keep the visions and not die. When Cordelia wakes up, she has another vision - and to everyone's astonishment she experiences no pain. The demon aspect becomes clear when Angel points out that Cordelia has accidentally begun levitating. The theme song to Cordelia's television show "Cordy!" was written and sung by executive producers Marti Noxon and David Greenwalt, who also sang in the "Buffy" musical episode "Once More, with Feeling". A 7-minute

neg: 16th Avenue (song) if he had any new material. A song plugger then took it to producer Billy Sherrill, who produced Dalton's recording of it. Dalton also sang it at the opening of the 1982 Country Music Association awards telecast. The location referred to in the song is Music Row in Nashville, which in the 1960s was being changed from residential homes to refurbished office space for the music industry. 16th Avenue (song) "16th Avenue" is a song written by Thom Schuyler, and recorded by American country music artist Lacy J. Dalton. It was released in September 1982 as the second single and

neg: Crying on a Suitcase that he was reluctant to record it because "the guy who sang the demo really sang it". Billy Dukes of Taste of Country gave the song 3 stars out of 5, saying that James' singing was "approrpiately urgent" but that the storyline made it "a difficult song to get into". He also criticized the melody as "choppy". The music video was directed by TK McKamy and premiered in August 2012. It became his first top fifteen hit in January 2013. Crying on a Suitcase "Crying on a Suitcase" is a song written by Neil Thrasher, Tom Shapiro and Lee Thomas

neg: Sydney Crooks The first song The Pioneers ever done was call "Good Nanny" and it was done by only him and his brother Derrick Crooks, which introduce The Pioneers singing group to Jamaica and the world of reggae. The first formation song the sang call "Good Nanny". The second formation song the sang call "I'll never come running back to you no more". The third formation song the sang call " Shake it up". The forth formation song the sang call "Give it to me". The fifth formation song the sang call" Give me little loving". The six formation song the sang

neg: Baby Blue (George Strait song) that her eyes matched in color. Though it has never been confirmed, it has long been thought that Strait sang this song for his daughter, Jennifer, who died at 13 in an automobile accident in San Marcos, Texas. Kevin John Coyne of Country Universe gave the song an A grade, calling it "another one of Strait’s smoothest pop performances, with just enough country touches in the production to keep his traditionalist credentials intact." Coyne states that "taken literally as a love gone wrong song, it’s a beautiful piece of work." Baby Blue (George Strait song) "Baby Blue" is a song

neg: Going Down to the River Going Down to the River "Going Down to the River" is a song written, composed and performed by American country music singer, songwriter and guitarist Doug Seegers. Seegers, a struggling street artist in Nashville, Tennessee lived as a homeless musician. On 17 December 2012, Aaron Espe an American singer-songwriter and record producer based in Nashville uploaded a live 1 minute 11 second rendition of Seegers singing "Going Down to the River" to his own YouTube account. Espe entitled his upload "Who Is Doug Seegers?". The video did not pick up much reaction though. Doug Seegers became known to the Swedish

neg: Bárbara Padilla she then moved on to the Top 48. During the quarterfinals, she sang "Time to Say Goodbye" by Francesco Sartori, with the judges stating she's the leader of the night. She then advanced to the semifinals, singing "Ave Maria". One of the judges claimed it was the best vocal performance in the history of the show, and she was clearly one of the favorites. During the finals, she sang the same song from her audition. She finished as runner-up, losing to country singer Kevin Skinner. After finishing as the runner up, Barbara performed in the "America's Got Talent Live" concert.

neg: Goodbye Toulouse so frenetic that Hugh agreed to sing. At the time, this was an oddity, as the pair usually sang their own individual lyrics. Burnel's lyrics were inspired by Nostradamus' predictions that there was going to be a cataclysmic event on Toulouse, and he wrote the song as a 'goodbye' to the town. The song begins with Dave Greenfield's signature organ effect, shifting up and down in tone until the drums, bass, guitar, and keyboards all eventually come in throughout the song. The song's guitar solo features heavy amounts of delay and multitracking, giving the effect of two guitar solos in

neg: Eurovision Song Contest 1979 themselves. At the close of the penultimate jury's votes, Israel were one point behind Spain, and only the Spanish jury had yet to give their votes. Spain ended up giving Israel 10 points, causing the crowd to erupt into enormous cheers. At one point before the contest Turkey was going to participate. The country would have appeared 11th on stage (between Israel and France), represented by Maria Rita Epik and 21. Peron with the song "" ("I'm Loving"). However Turkey was forced to retire from the contest under pressure from Arab states who objected to a predominantly Muslim country taking

neg: Denise McCann only played a few gigs before going their separate ways. Moving to Vancouver British Columbia's Kitsilano neighborhood, McCann became a fixture performing at local clubs such as "Rohan's Rockpile" (see music of Vancouver) and The Commodore Ballroom. In Vancouver McCann teamed up with Guy Sobell, who produced her first single, the country-tinged "It Still Hurts" and its proposed B side "Tattoo Man". But her record label, Polydor Records in Montreal, decided the second song was too rock and roll oriented to serve as the B side to this country song, and they asked Sobell to extend it by adding a

neg: Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 1976 Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 1976 Israel took part in the Eurovision Song Contest 1976. The country was represented by Chocolate, Menta, Mastik with the song "Emor Shalom" written by Ehud Manor and composed by Matti Caspi. they was selected by Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA) in an internal selection since then four years their début at the contest in 1973, the Israeli broadcaster, to represent the country at the contest, held in The Hague, Netherlands. Chocolate, Menta, Mastik, who had already been chosen to represent Israel, sang three songs in the final. A jury chose the best song. The

neg: You're Lookin' at Country describing how "Country" she is by saying she loves running through corn fields and singing a country hymn. She later goes on to say, "if you're lookin' at me, you're lookin' at country", which is the ultimate summary of the song. The song grew quite a response from listeners, and has been said to be one of Lynn's signature songs. In the 1980 motion picture biography of Lynn, "Coal Miner's Daughter", Sissy Spacek (who plays Loretta) sings "You're Lookin' At Country" during a concert twice in the film. Spacek sang Lynn's hits herself, and later won her an Academy Award

neg: All Fired Up (The Saturdays song) to gold outfits just by flipping their hair." The Saturdays debuted the track first at the Audley End Picnic Concert and on "Tonight's the Night" for the song's first televised performance. They then performed the track at V Festival. They also performed the song at a number of other festivals which they appeared at around the country. To help promote the single, they appeared on "This Morning" where they sang the song live. They are set to perform the song on "The Jonathan Ross Show". Due to the band's third headlining tour being titled "All Fired Up Tour", "All Fired

neg: I'm a Little Bit Country and eating it too". Both sides decide to use the boys to give their opinion about the war, but their plan backfires because their parents interfered with their assignment about the Founding Fathers, the boys don't know what's going on about the war, and Cartman ended up in the hospital; shortly after, Cartman wakes up and delivers his message to the town, who see the truth of that statement and then break out into song. In it, they celebrate their differences and their achievement (100 episodes); ending the song with the line, "For the war, against the war—who cares! 100

neg: Kimmy Dora and the Temple of Kiyeme see their loved one's soul with Sang Kang-kang and she says "They are all mine! Mine! Mine!" At the house Lolo and Manny are there for some ritual that will happen in their house and at night. After they call Sang Kang-kang's spirit Kimmy and Dora teams up with Gertrude, Elena, Manny and Lolo. Kimmy fighting Sang Kang-kang was a bad idea because Sang Kang-kang attacked all of them. They now go to South Korea where Kimmy going to marry Daniel Sang when Lolo cames and destroy the wedding because of his idea. Dora who has a Butchers Knife and

neg: Cleopatra (girl group) spokeswomen for cosmetics firm, Covergirl, they sang the theme tune for their new make-up line 'Triple Lipstick' television advertisement. The advert, narrated by Cleo, was filmed on Miami's South Beach in 2000 and saw the girls on stage performing the theme song. They then moved on to tour Japan and promoted their Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis produced Japanese single "Yes, The Party's Going Right". They were invited to perform a mini-concert for the Sultan of Brunei and his royal family. However, changes within Warner and everyone who was working on the Cleopatra project led to lack of promotion of

neg: Environmentalism in music amount of popular music inspired by the counterculture movement reflected anti-war sentiments of peace and harmony. "Big Yellow Taxi" by Joni Mitchell was a song about environmental degradation with lyrics such as "They paved Paradise, put up a parking lot". Her reference to DDT in the song is a reflection of the times as Rachel Carson's 1962 book "Silent Spring" had brought the dangers of DDT into the spotlight. John Denver, a country and folk singer often sang about the wilderness of Colorado with popular songs such as "Rocky Mountain High" and "Take Me Home, Country Roads". Black Sabbath's song

neg: Don't Rush (song) Jason Sellers who sang Gill's part. Clarkson also performed the song on the Academy of Country Music Awards on April 7, 2013, again with Sellers singing Gill's part. Source: Don't Rush (song) "Don't Rush" is a song by American pop recording artist Kelly Clarkson, from her first greatest hits album, "Greatest Hits – Chapter One" (2012). Written by Blu Sanders, Natalie Hemby, and Lindsay Chapman, and produced by Dann Huff, it features country music singer Vince Gill on backing vocals. The song premiered on WSIX-FM radio station on October 29, 2012, and was made available for purchase on iTunes store

neg: Wagon Wheel (song) its 10th chart week, March 20, 2013, Rucker's version made "a strong move" on Hot Country Songs, going from 11 to 5, and to 18 on Country Airplay (to 14.7 million, up 20%). Old Crow's original (from 2004) sold 15,000 and ranked 28 on Country Digital Songs the same week. The song reached number one on Hot Country Songs in its 12th week. It is his most successful song as a solo artist on the "Billboard" Hot 100, peaking at No. 15, as well as the Canadian Hot 100, where it peaked at number 23. By March 2014, the song

neg: Janie Fricke song's chorus, Fricke sang the line, "Shut out the light and lead me...". Listeners wondered who the mystery lady was singing those words in Duncan's song. Because of this, Fricke was able to gain a recording contract of her own from Columbia Records, where she remained over 10 years, beginning in 1977. Fricke teamed up with the Heart City Band, and her 1977 debut single, "What're You Doing Tonight," just missed the top 20. Collaborations with Charlie Rich (the number-one hit "On My Knees") and Duncan (the top-five "Come a Little Bit Closer") kept Fricke going strong through 1978, but

neg: Anna Abreu who sang exclusively in the heavy-metal genre. On 5 April 2007, Koivunen won the crown as the third "Finnish Idol" with 57% of the public vote, with Abreu declared as runner-up. Following her participation in "Idols", Abreu was signed to Sony BMG Finland and her Latino-inspired, debut single "End of Love" was released in July 2007. The song debuted and peaked at number eight on the singles chart and was accompanied by Abreu's first music video. Her self-titled debut album, "Anna Abreu", was released a month later on 22 August and was certified platinum within its first week after going

neg: Take It to the Limit (Eagles song) Take It to the Limit (Eagles song) "Take It to the Limit" is a song by the Eagles from their fourth album "One of These Nights" from which it was issued as the third single on November 15, 1975. It reached No. 4 on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot 100 and was also the Eagles' greatest success to that point in the UK, going to No. 12 on the charts. "Billboard" ranked it as the No. 25 song for 1976. The song was written by Eagles' members Randy Meisner, Don Henley and Glenn Frey. Meisner, who sang lead on it, says

neg: Up on Cripple Creek American South, American rock and roll, and bluegrass/country—the song is sung from the point of view of a truck driver who goes to Lake Charles, Louisiana, to stay with a local girl, Bessie, with whom he has a history. In the song, he gambles, drinks, listens to music, and spends time with "little Bessie," who takes an active role in the goings-on, while expressing her opinions, further endearing herself to the narrator. At the end of the song, after exhausting himself on the road, he talks about going home to his woman, "big mama," but is tempted to return to

neg: Everyone Says I Love You in some cases with unexpected dance routines. Most of the performers sing in their own voices, with two exceptions: Goldie Hawn, who was told by Allen to intentionally sing worse because she sang too well to be believable as a normal person just breaking into song, and Drew Barrymore, who convinced Woody Allen that her singing was too awful even for the "realistic singing voice" concept he was going for. Her voice was dubbed by Allen regular Olivia Hayman. The title song was written by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, and was used as a recurring theme song in the

neg: I Know Where I'm Going (The Judds song) 9, 1987. I Know Where I'm Going (The Judds song) "I Know Where I'm Going" is a song written by Craig Bickhardt, Don Schlitz and Brent Maher, and recorded by American country music duo The Judds. It was released in April 1987 as the second single from the album "Heartland". The song was The Judds' ninth number one on the country chart. The single went to number one for one week and spent a total of thirteen weeks on the country chart. "I Know Where I'm Going" debuted on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week

neg: I Know Where I'm Going (The Judds song) I Know Where I'm Going (The Judds song) "I Know Where I'm Going" is a song written by Craig Bickhardt, Don Schlitz and Brent Maher, and recorded by American country music duo The Judds. It was released in April 1987 as the second single from the album "Heartland". The song was The Judds' ninth number one on the country chart. The single went to number one for one week and spent a total of thirteen weeks on the country chart. "I Know Where I'm Going" debuted on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of May

neg: Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room is the third album by country singer Dwight Yoakam. The album contains Yoakam's first (and, as of 2017, only) two No. 1 Hot Country Singles singles. The first was "Streets of Bakersfield," a duet with country music veteran Buck Owens, who had originally released a version of the song in 1973. The second was an original composition of Yoakam's titled "I Sang Dixie." A third song on the album, "I Got You, also an original composition, peaked at No. 5. The title song, "Buenas Noches from a Lonely

neg: I'm Still a Guy them were live. The 1st version was from the 2008 CMT Music Awards. Hank Williams, Jr. sang the 2nd verse, & more afterwards here. The 2nd version, released to GAC, was an acoustic performance taken from his August 2007 GAC special, "Brad Paisley: 5th Gear." The GAC video for, "Ticks," was also taken from this special. In the special, he sings, "Ticks," right after this song. The song debuted at number 48 on the Hot Country Songs chart dated March 8, 2008, moving up to number 28 the next week. It climbed to Number One on the country chart dated

neg: Listen (Beyoncé song) people why I was bringing this show to America, it was because I hoped that we were going to find someone like you." She also sang "Listen" during the finals on December 21, 2011. A writer of Fox News Channel commented that the judges "didn't want to stop listening to Melanie Amaro" while she was singing a "soaring rendition" of the ballad. Simon Cowell said, "I brought this show to America because I believe some of the greatest singers in the world are from this country, and you just proved that. I think you, based on that performance tonight, to

neg: Bartender's Blues (album) in 1974. However, the singer was beginning to gain the attention from quarters that rarely paid much attention to country music, such as "Penthouse", which called him "the spirit of country music, plain and simple, its true Holy Ghost", and "The New York Times", which hailed the Texan "the finest, most riveting singer in country music." The song "Bartender's Blues" helped to further his reputation with these critics, primarily because it was written by pop star James Taylor, who also sang harmony on the track. The song, which contains the wistful ruminations of a bartender down on his luck, rose

neg: Kree Harrison Destin Music Festival. She also sang backup vocals on Kacey Musgraves' album, Same Trailer Different Park, and Eli Young Band's album, Life at Best. Harrison was friends with country singer Mindy McCready. McCready invited Harrison up to sing her song "Guys Do It All the Time" with her at a 2011 Country Music Association performance in Nashville. Harrison auditioned in Oklahoma City and performed an original song that she wrote to her mother. In the semi-finals, Harrison performed "Cry" by Faith Hill. On March 7, 2013, Harrison was voted into the Top 10. Her performance of "Crying" by Roy Orbison

neg: The Singer Sang His Song stage. It reached #25 in the UK. Maurice Gibb explained about this song: The only time Robert was wrong when he said to release "Jumbo" as the A-side instead of the flipside "The Singer Sang His Song. We thought that was going to be the A-side, but Atlantic convinced Robert, and Robert had been convinced by Vince and Colin 'cause they liked playing a bit more bluesy stuff, Robert said 'never again will I let anybody talk me into anything'. The band's manager Robert Stigwood also explained about this song: I also now realise it was a mistake to release

neg: Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 Greece participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 with the song "This Is Our Night" sung by Sakis Rouvas. The Greek national television broadcaster Ellinikí Radiofonía Tileórasi (ERT) announced that it had internally selected Rouvas to represent Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest on July 15, 2008, making Greece the first country to pick an artist for the 2009 edition. After choosing the artist, ERT set up a national final held on February 18, 2009 to select the song. Rouvas sang three candidate songs, all with music written by Dimitris Kontopoulos, and "This

neg: Ahmed Rushdi Mohammad Iqbal recorded two songs in Rushdi’s voice. "Hai kahan who kali" and a sad number "Mei tujhey Nazar kia doon". In the same year he sang for actor Shahid in film "Dharkan". He recorded a romantic number "Rangat gulabi chehra kitabi" for Shahid. In 1975, Ahmed Rushdi recorded "Dil ko jalana hum ne chor diya" (Film "Mohabbat Zindagi Hai"). This song was picturised on Waheed Murad and gained country wide popularity. He sang another song "Mashriqi rang ko chor ke" for the same film. He recorded many songs for Pakistan television including "Dil mei tu hai", "Han issi mor