Sentence examples for song introductions from inspiring English sources

Mr. Byrne's wry song introductions were the best part, delivered wide-eyed with his boyish stammer.

Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images 6.56pm BST To add to Michael's comments on the 1975, they also win the award for most succinct song introductions.

But according to former Clear Channel employees, Mr. Daly spends several hours a week in a studio in his Manhattan apartment, reading scripts with short song introductions and longer segments of D. J. patter.

The idea came to the boys after they put together an hour-long mix called Introversy for Radio 1, made out of nothing but song introductions – about 500 of them.

But, perhaps anxious that he might be verbally short-changing his audiences, Waits has vastly expanded his song introductions into such a flood of patter that for this record of last year's Glitter & Doom tour, they're accorded their own separate CD, which plays like a surreal stand-up routine set to the desultory, abstract tinkling of his piano.

· The Ting Tings' album We Started Nothing is out on Monday Summer anthems 2008 Lykke Li, I'm Good I'm Gone If awards were given for song introductions alone, Lykke Li woud be stepping up for this year's Intro D'Or thanks to I'm Good I'm Gone's handclaps 'n' piano majesty.

You know you're not at the average charity rock concert when you hear "This one's called Mauled... to ... Fucking... DEATH!" as a song introduction.

My first podcast, Write Now, totally ripped its structure from Daniel J. Lewis Thee Audacity to Podcast — it features a brief cold open, theme song, introduction with a tagline, main content, and then a call-to-action before the closing thank-yous and exit theme.

Cohen's soothing segment was witnessed from the wings by co-headliners Joan Baez (to whom he dedicated "The Partisan" for her political endeavors) and Kris Kristofferson, then he later was joined onstage for a song introduction by his friend Judy Collins who previously covered many of the writer's classics.

As "Thin Line" provided a rousing conclusion to the opening four-song introduction punctuated by touring member Conor Meehan's drums, Santo's plucky banjo and some electric twang by Jaffe, the fast-talking, New York City-born guitarist was curious.

"See You Tonight" is a short mellow half-song introduction in the style of folk country rock, just a guitar and a melody with simple lyrics that sound like the song could have been a text message to a lover on his way out the door in anticipation of the party about to come.