And Vietnamese-language versions of popular western songs are nothing new—I once listened to an old Vietnamese cover of Tom Jones's "Delilah" for an hour at a senior citizens' ballroom dancing club but they make few English speakers clap with excitement.
In response to bad press regarding his somewhat raunchy stage persona, he attempted to assume a more-sophisticated tone in the late 1960s and found considerable success with his songs "Green, Green Grass of Home" (1966) and "Delilah" (1968).
In her Héroïnes (1925; "Heroines" [a complete English translation appears in the exhibition catalogue Inverted Odysseys: Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, Cindy Sherman]), Cahun reconceived the lives of a number of fictional, biblical, and mythological female characters, among them Delilah, Judith, Salome, Helen of Troy, Cinderella, and Sappho.
He is known best for his songs "It's Not Unusual," "What's New, Pussycat?," "Green, Green Grass of Home," and "Delilah" from the 1960s, but he enjoyed a steady string of hits throughout his half-century-long career.
Milton's dramatic poem, however, begins the story of Samson after his downfall after he has yielded his God-entrusted secret to Dalila (Delilah), suffered blindness, and become a captive of the Philistines.
Delilah cannot finish an exam, in a video entitled "when your mate got blazed but isn't blazing through the exam", while Jason is unable to pass the salt at dinner, in a video called "passing the salt...the struggle is real".
Dorrie's favorite pastimes are trapping muskrats and shooting rabbits with her Labrador, Delilah.
Delilah is killed chasing a car.
I like the new Delilah album, "From the Roots Up," especially the song "Never Be Another".
While a servant clips Samson's locks, the big lug sleeps with his head in the lap of his deceitful lover, Delilah.
In one scene, Dahlia, unable to get the family's R.V. out of the pound by straightforward means, quickly regroups, using her teen-age daughter, Delilah Shannon Woodwardd), as bait: she ties Delilah's shirttails in a knot, revealing her midriff, and sends her in.
