One is the afflicted Moses confronting his glibly fluent brother Aaron in Arnold Schoenberg's Moses and Aaron, the other the Christ-like sailor Billy Budd, who, paralysed by his stammer, strikes dead his tormentor, the sadistic master-at-arms Claggart in Benjamin Britten's lyric version of Herman Melville's novella.
The song "Happy" has a "lyric version" — a video featuring the film's minions making mischief around the song's words in bold fonts.
TO the best of my knowledge, Frank Sinatra acknowledged the existence of rap music only once in his life: at the lavish 1995 tribute in honor of his 80th birthday, after the hip-hop trio Salt-n-Pepa performed a special-lyrics version of their hit "Whatta Man," he turned to his wife, Barbara, and said, "Marvelous".
One of the most common was satires recorded in Scotland in the 1840s among boys as a hobby horse game, with the lyrics: A version from the United States recorded in 1900 began:.
Subversive, politically-charged arena acts such as Bon Jovi and Maroon 5 have had gigs on the mainland canceled at short notice, with authorities presumably fearful that the latter could deviate from lyric-approved versions of Moves Like Jagger and incite a pro-democracy rally at Beijing's Mastercard Center.
Frank Sinatra changed the lyric on his version of Mrs Robinson from "Jesus" to "Jilly loves you more than you will know", didn't he?
The band accepted the offer and wrote lyrics for the song, but it was too late to use the lyrics in the version for the video game, as the game was near completion.
GEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSE "Hallelujah, Baby!" Premiere of new version, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, book by Arthur Laurents.
The orchestra played a sailor's hornpipe, whose lyrics, in one version, speak of a jaunty refusal to heed the weather.
"Autobahn" was the only song with lyrics, and the version of it that became an international hit single was edited down from a suitelike 22-minute track.
Landes gleaned the lyrics for her version from twelve favorites, and worked to channel a rendition from close to home — a recording that Jean Ritchie, from Viper, Kentucky, made for a Smithsonian Folkways project in 1960.
