USA

133 articles related to USA:

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Yakety Yak: teenager's answer to household chores in a hit song

USA
, Rock, 1950s
FILM

Hedwig’s Theme: magical mood cast by the celesta melody

USA
, Film Score, Soundtrack, 2000s, 2010s

Music Theory

Popular songs showing the submediant chord in all diatonic modes

England,
USA
, Rock, 1960s, 1970s
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Muskrat Love: the polarizing song of America

USA
, Popular Song, Rock, 1970s
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Makin' Whoopee: cautionary song warning against the trappings of marriage

USA
, Popular Song, 1920s, 1930s
Music Theory

6 songs combining harmonic minor and Aeolian mode

England, Germany, Puerto Rico,
USA
, Latin, Popular Song, Rock, 1960s, 1980s, 1990s

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Mexicali Blues: debut song by the Grateful Dead's psychedelic poet

USA
, Rock, 1970s
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Livin' la Vida Loca: why is Ricky Martin's best song so catchy?

Puerto Rico,
USA
, Latin, Popular Song, 1990s
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Three Little Fishies: origin of the cautionary children's song

USA
, Children's song, Popular Song, 1930s
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Pancho and Lefty: gangster song that saved Townes Van Zandt from a speeding ticket

USA
, Folk, 1970s
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Oye Como Va: meaning and origin of the best-known cha-cha-chá song

USA
, Latin, Popular Song, Rock, 1960s, 1970s
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La Bamba: meaning and tragedy behind the best-known son jarocho

Mexico,
USA
, Folk, Latin, Popular Song, 1960s, 1980s
Music Theory

6 songs to unpack Ionian mode and the major scale

England,
USA
, Blues, Folk, Popular Song, Rock, 1930s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s
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Sugaree: Jerry Garcia's song referencing his lyricist's criminal past

USA
, Rock, 1970s
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Lawdy Miss Clawdy: how Lloyd Price's first hit mixes blues and classics

USA
, Rock, 1950s
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Marie Laveau: ballad of the legendary Voodoo Queen

USA
, Folk, Rock, 1970s
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Caldonia: the song that spawned the term rock and roll

USA
, Popular Song, Rock, 1940s
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Statesboro Blues: no one can sing the blues like Blind Willie McTell

USA
, Blues, 1920s, 1930s
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Hushabye: folk roots of famous rock and roll lullaby

USA
, Lullaby, Rock, 1950s, 1960s
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Mairzy Doats lyrics inspired by 15th century nursery rhyme

USA
, Popular Song, 1940s
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Coal Miner's Daughter was forced to remove a third of the lyrics from her autobiographical song

USA
, Folk, 1960s, 1970s
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Incense and Peppermints: a tangled story of song production

USA
, Rock, 1960s
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Wabash Cannonball: the ballad of the railway Flying Dutchman

USA
, Folk, Popular Song, 1930s
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Last Train to Clarksville: a duo of songwriters behind the first Monkees hit

USA
, Rock, 1960s
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Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy: the reveille that defined a generation

USA
, Popular Song, 1940s
ORCHESTRA

Lully's Passacaglia of Armide revised by Bear McCreary in Outlander score

France,
USA
, Opera, Passacaglia, Soundtrack, Baroque, 2010s
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In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida: Iron Butterfly's longest song anticipated metal genres

USA
, Popular Song, Rock, 1960s 2 comments
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Minnie the Moocher: essential step in the history of scat singing by Cab Calloway

USA
, Jazz, Popular Song, 1930s
Music Theory

8 songs to introduce Aeolian mode and natural minor scale

England, Scotland,
USA
, Folk, Popular Song, Rock, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s
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Foxey Lady and the Hendrix chord

USA
, Popular Song, Rock, 1960s

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