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Several songs were written parodying the Salvation Army's hymns, [1] "The Preacher and the Slave" being the most successful. In this song, Joe Hill coined the phrase "pie in the sky". [4] [5] The song is often referred to as "Pie in the Sky", or as "Long Haired Preachers" (which was its original title).
The hymn was parodied by Joe Hill in 1911 as The Preacher and the Slave, in which the phrase "pie in the sky" was coined as a satirical comment on the Christian conception of heavenly reward. The parody In This Wheat By and By, written from the perspective of grasshoppers, was published in Beadle's Half-Dime Singer's Library in 1878. These ...
The song describes two scenarios where animals do seemingly impossible acts. First, an ant moves a rubber tree plant all by himself, then a ram single-handedly puts a hole in a "billion-kilowatt dam." The desires of these animals are described by the chorus as "high, apple pie in the sky, hopes," although the song implies they ultimately ...
The song, set in a self-service restaurant modeled on the Horn & Hardart Automat, is sung in the play by a group of once-wealthy citizens who were awaiting better times, as mirrored in the song's opening lyrics: Just around the corner, there's a rainbow in the sky, So let's have another cup of coffee, and let's have another piece of pie.
That's Amore. " That's Amore " is a 1953 song by composer Harry Warren [ 1] and lyricist Jack Brooks, [ 1] and became a major hit and signature song for Dean Martin, who first recorded and released it that year. Amore ( pronounced [aˈmoːre]) means "love" in Italian . The song was played in the 1954 film Rear Window, the 1987 film Moonstruck ...
"Eye in the Sky" is a song by British rock band the Alan Parsons Project, released as a single from their sixth studio album, Eye in the Sky (1982), in May 1982. It entered the US Billboard charts on 3 July and hit No. 3 in October 1982, [ 4 ] No. 1 in both Canada and Spain, and No. 6 in New Zealand, becoming their most successful release.
Send Me on My Way. " Send Me on My Way " is a song by American worldbeat rock band Rusted Root. Originally released as a rough version on 1992's Cruel Sun, it was re-recorded in 1994 for their second album, When I Woke, and released as the lead single. [ 2] Root's frontman, Michael Glabicki, wrote the lyrics, and its other members – Liz ...
"Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" is a song by Paul and Linda McCartney from the album Ram. Released in the United States as a single on 2 August 1971, [2] it reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on 4 September 1971, [3] [4] making it the first of a string of post-Beatles, Paul McCartney-penned singles to top the US pop chart during the 1970s and 1980s.